College Football Thread

[dbair1967]

Yep, Ohio State v Penn State it's gonna be.

Notre Dame has a solid team and they play hard and physical, but they also have a couple of their better players out/banged up. Penn State is the 2nd most talented team in the country. The Franklin factor will probably ensure this is a fairly close game (from pure talent perspective, Penn State should probably win rather easily) but I do think PSU wins.

Ohio St will roll Texas.

 

[daboyz]

Sorry about your dawgs. UGA was out coached/outplayed. Gunner played well enough to win, but the Bulldogs did not have it yesterday. Defense didn't show up. This was not UGA’s strongest team by any means. IMO, they had the hardest schedule in the nation & played tough to the end. It just wasn't their year.

 

[dbair1967]

Sorry about your dawgs. UGA was out coached/outplayed. Gunner played well enough to win, but the Bulldogs did not have it yesterday. Defense didn't show up. This was not UGA’s strongest team by any means. IMO, they had the hardest schedule in the nation & played tough to the end. It just wasn't their year.

Just not our year. WR talent is pathetically bad and stone handed receivers reared their ugly heads again yesterday.

They also had a completely inept LT and gave the dude no help.

Lastly, it's been a two yr problem now but Mike Bobo is just a completely inept. Kirby loves him personally (they are friends) but he has to go. Terrible game planner and lousy play caller.

 

[yimyammer]

 

[Doomsday]

Deep fake AI. Humor.

 

[yimyammer]

Deep fake AI. Humor.

lol, I know, I posted for the lulz

 

[yimyammer]

something I found interesting about this years playoff.

Seats 1-4 are all eliminated, had it still be a 4 seed playoff, 2 would still be in. I know its been a while since there were only 4 teams but it certainly justifies having at least 8. Personally, the more the better. Like the NCAA Bball tourney, teams just love making the tournament even if they are hellacious long shots to win, its far more meaningful than these random bowl games imo

 

[dbair1967]

Kriby's father had a ball fall on NYE and underwent hip surgery, he died from complications of it Friday evening after midnight.

 

[dbair1967]

something I found interesting about this years playoff.

Seats 1-4 are all eliminated, had it still be a 4 seed playoff, 2 would still be in. I know its been a while since there were only 4 teams but it certainly justifies having at least 8. Personally, the more the better. Like the NCAA Bball tourney, teams just love making the tournament even if they are hellacious long shots to win, its far more meaningful than these random bowl games imo

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Actually all it shows is they put too much weight onto conference championship games. It also shows the teams with byes were probably at a disadvantage because they went so long without playing.

And it definitely doesnt show evidence that MORE teams should get in. The 9-12 teams all got blown out and clearly didnt belong in this. Clemson, SMU and Indiana for sure didnt belong in this.

You could make the case for 8, but they need to stack the teams correctly.

 

[Doomsday]

Ohio St will roll Texas

Gimme the 1940s Split-T all day. It's a part of what Texas will be facing.
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[touchdown]

The College Football Playoff, scourge of bowl games? If anything, viewership has never been higher

Viewership is high but attendance is down for college football bowl games. Is change on the horizon?

www.nytimes.com

But while bowl viewership is trending upward, in-person attendance at many games has gone in the opposite direction.

The Gator Bowl, which attracted crowds of 50,000-plus for decades, had 31,290 in the stands for last week’s Ole Miss-Duke matchup. And the Holiday Bowl, which downsized this season to San Diego State’s Snapdragon Stadium, drew the smallest crowd (23,920) in the bowl’s 46-year history for a Syracuse-Washington State matchup.

“To make ends meet, you need to have respectable crowds, and every now and then a crowd like the Alamo Bowl (64,261) had,” said Gator Bowl President/CEO Greg McGarity. “If you don’t have at least one team within a six-hour drive, you’re going to struggle in attendance.”

Going forward, though, that might not affect bowls to the extent it does now.

All parties recognize that most non-CFP bowls are primarily television programs now, which may eventually require a different business model. All 41 bowls’ current contracts align with the CFP’s, which terminates with the 2025 season. ESPN has already reached a six-year extension with the CFP, but the other bowls’ deals will come up for renewal in the coming year. All but the Sun Bowl (CBS) and Holiday Bowl (Fox) have ESPN as a partner.

That network will have to decide how much it values the non-CFP bowls, which generally produce larger audiences than any of its non-NFL programming that airs over the holidays.

 

[daboyz]

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dbair1967 whats up w/Beck entering transfer portal decision? At least he's smart enough changing his mind by not entering the NFL draft this year. He needs to show the scouts a healthy Beck!

 

[dbair1967]

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dbair1967 whats up w/Beck entering transfer portal decision? At least he's smart enough changing his mind by not entering the NFL draft this year. He needs to show the scouts a healthy Beck!

He is making a good decision, he's having major elbow surgery and needs to prove he is 100%. I suspect he probably heard from draft gurus and personnel people that he wouldn't be selected until day three, which is a huge drop from where he was before the season.

He didn't have a great yr, it wasn't all his fault (Georgia had arguably the worst WR group in major college football) but he is probably betting on himself to have a great yr elsewhere and bump his drat stock back up for 2026.

 

[yimyammer]

Finally! A fun, competitive game

 

[yimyammer]

 

[touchdown]

The better team won.

 

[dbair1967]

James Franklin, a black, college version of Jason Garrett

One of the worst coaches ever for a major program. Guy is a total clown.

Penn State had eons more talent on the field last night and played just like the Dallas Cowboys always do.

 

[dbair1967]

And a huge, massive FUCK YOU to ESPN for their postgame interview with Coach Freeman.

They just can't help themselves with the leftist "everything is about racism" garbage.

Marcus Freeman handled it with total class.

 

[dbair1967]

FUCK YOU ESPN

 

[yimyammer]

James Franklin, a black, college version of Jason Garrett

ha, I thought he was Italian