College Football Thread

[Doomsday]

Brrrr.....we made it to the frozen tundra lol. The first College Football Playoff game at Beaver Stadium. dbair1967, notify Jim Nagy it's a White Out!
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SMU QB got greedy and it cost them.

 

[Doomsday]

The linebackers of Linebacker U are dominating this game. 3 picks, two of which were housed.

 

[dbair1967]

CFP Committee now 0 for 2

 

[dbair1967]

The linebackers of Linebacker U are dominating this game. 3 picks, two of which were housed.

playing a high school level football team

 

[Doomsday]

CFP Committee now 0 for 2

It's unreasonable to expect any of these first bracket games to be all that competitive. It's the lowest seeds against the highest ones.

 

[Doomsday]

Get thee foot^baaal back!

 

[dbair1967]

It's unreasonable to expect any of these first bracket games to be all that competitive. It's the lowest seeds against the highest ones.

This is BS

First, it isnt mandated that the game be "competitive" but you could easily see none of these 4 teams that lost Friday and yesterday even belonged on the field with the other team. THAT'S the issue.

Clemson made at least somewhat of a game of it, but it was only because of a couple Texas fuckups and getting disinterested.

And it wasn't "the lowest seeds against the highest ones" either. The highest seeds didn't play. On another note, if those 9-12 teams are THIS uncompetitive against the 5-8 teams, it proves my point below that there's no way in hell 12 teams belong in this.

They picked the wrong 12 teams (which is par for the course for these fucking idiots, they do it every yr, even when there were only 4 to pick). South Carolina, Ole Miss and Alabama all had legit arguments to be there over Indiana and SMU, and probably over Clemson and Tennessee too. One of my dumbass friends tried to argue that none of those teams belonged because "they had 3 losses" but Clemson had 3 losses and just got beat at home by South Carolina a couple weeks ago.

What we saw yesterday was 100% proof that there really arn't 12 playoff worthy teams and that's almost assuredly going to be the case every year. I think they are moving to 16 in another year or so, which is going to make this even more laughable. 8 should be the absolute max, and even that might be a stretch.

College football was a product I didn't think was capable of being ruined, but they have successfully ruined it. Mega conferences, NIL, transfer portal and ridiculous playoff format have sucked almost all the awesome out of college football.

 

[Doomsday]

College football was a product I didn't think was capable of being ruined, but they have successfully ruined it. Mega conferences, NIL, transfer portal and ridiculous playoff format have sucked almost all the awesome out of college football

And yet ratings attendance and revenue continue to mushroom.

 

[dbair1967]

And yet ratings attendance and revenue continue to mushroom.

it's a shit product on the field and these 4 "playoff games" were the icing on the cake

As for your attendance comment, turn on any of these regular bowl games and get back to me on that...nobody goes and nobody cares...the TV ratings for them are also shit

 

[dbair1967]

Announced attendances for various bowl games so far. Again these were "announced" numbers, when you turned on shots of the games, the actual crowds were clearly nowhere near some of these numbers.

Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, Tulane v Florida. 41,472 (game in Florida)
Scooters Coffee Frisco Bowl, Memphis v West Virgina. 12,022
Art of Sport LA Bowl, Cal v UNLV. 24,240 (game in California)
Boca Raton Bowl, James Madison v Western Kentucky. 15,808
Staff DNA Cure Bowl, Ohio v Jacksonville St. 10,518
IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl, South Alabama v Western Michigan. 12,021

People can hardly contain their excitement.