Sports! 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 College Football Thread

[Sergeant Foley]

YYe

Here's an interesting idea for making CFB more competitive and watchable:


TL;DW:

• College football has become more boring due to conference consolidation, the transfer portal, and the college football playoff system.
• Conferences getting bigger makes going to lesser schools pointless in the transfer portal era, since the smart move is to enroll at a top tier team, use their resources to get really good, then go somewhere that needs a talented player to get good fast.
• Realign CFB into 9 conferences with 9 teams each.
• All conferences play 8 conference, 3 non-conference games.
• Top 2 teams from each conference proceed to conference championship.
• 12 team playoff - all 9 conference champs + 3 at large teams.

Honestly, I think this is super fun, but man, I fucking hate the name "Sunpeach Conference" for the Florida+Georgia regional conference. I know why it's that way (Sunshine State + Peach State), but it's fucking lame regardless.

Yet the Southeastern Conference is poised to win the national championship for the fourth consecutive year in a row.

Big question is whether we'll see 5.) Tennessee sneaking into the CFB Playoff?

 

[Sergeant Foley]

CFB scoreboard update:
*Tulsa up 38-35 over South Florida with 6:35 remaining in the 3rd Quarter.

*San Diego State up double digits over New Mexico 28-10 with 10:20 remaining in the 3rd Quarter on FS1.

 

[bullethead]

Yet the Southeastern Conference is poised to win the national championship for the fourth consecutive year in a row.

Well, yeah, but the whole thing that sucks is that there's less and less variety of teams in the playoff.

This year's probably going to be more interesting than the last 3-4, where it was Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State. AFAIK, it's going to be Georgia and 3 teams which haven't been in the playoff or only gotten or two shots before.

Having more conferences would make a larger playoff more interesting, for sure.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Well, yeah, but the whole thing that sucks is that there's less and less variety of teams in the playoff.

This year's probably going to be more interesting than the last 3-4, where it was Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State. AFAIK, it's going to be Georgia and 3 teams which haven't been in the playoff or only gotten or two shots before.

Having more conferences would make a larger playoff more interesting, for sure.

Mentioned this before: Southeastern Conference is poised to win the national championship again regardless.

They're unstoppable at this point

 

[LordSunhawk]

Other conferences have had their times of glory as well. I remember when Michigan was dominant, or Penn State, or Michigan State, or Ohio State, or UCLA or USC. SEC is dominant now, but that is mainly because they've won the coaching lottery for now. With the best coaches you get the best recruiting, and success feeds on success. Eventually that runs out, as we're seeing with Alabama currently, and somebody else moves to the top, eventually that somebody else will be outside the SEC.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Other conferences have had their times of glory as well. I remember when Michigan was dominant, or Penn State, or Michigan State, or Ohio State, or UCLA or USC. SEC is dominant now, but that is mainly because they've won the coaching lottery for now. With the best coaches you get the best recruiting, and success feeds on success. Eventually that runs out, as we're seeing with Alabama currently, and somebody else moves to the top, eventually that somebody else will be outside the SEC.

My Texas Longhorns blowing out Kansas 55-14 with 2:32 remaining in the game.

If we beat Baylor next week, we finish (8-4).

Sounds like the Big 12 Championship Game will feature 4.) TCU vs 15.) Kansas State

 

[49ersfootball]

Howdy from the Alamo City Sietch family. Here are some of the highlights from over the weekend:

*#18 Notre Dame blows out Boston College 44-0.
*#19 Florida St crushes Louisiana 49-17.
*#9 Clemson humiliated Miami 40-10; their 12th consecutive 10-win Season in a row.
*#13 North Carolina chokes to Georgia Tech 21-17.
*#12 Oregon survives a scare from #10 Utah 20-17; assuming the Ducks defeat #23 Oregon St next week, they'll punch their ticket to the Pac-12 Championship Game in Las Vegas, NV.
*Defending CFBP National Champion #1 Georgia won 16-6 over Kentucky.
*#2 OH St holds off upset-minded Maryland 43-30.
*#3 Michigan survives major scare from Illinois 19-17 in Ann Arbor.
*#4 TCU manages to avoid choking to Baylor at the last second 29-28.
*South Carolina blows out #5 Tennessee 63-38 last night, knocking the Vols out of the College Football Playoff hunt for good.
*#6 LSU keeps on winning with 41-10 blowout victory against UAB in Baton Rouge last night.
*#7 Southern Cal punches their ticket to the Pac-12 Championship Game in Las Vegas with a huge win over #16 UCLA.
*#8 Alabama shuts out Austin Peavy 34-0 in Tuscaloosa; they host Auburn next Saturday.
*Boise St holds off Wyoming 20-17.
*Air Force throttled CO St 24-6.
*#17 Washington crushes Colorado 54-7.

 

[bullethead]

The seething of the SEC is great to see:

 

[49ersfootball]

The seething of the SEC is great to see:

Looking more likely #7 Alabama Crimson Tide (10-2) will be playing in one of the New Years Six Bowls.

 

[bullethead]

Florida State versus Florida was a hell of a game last night. Went pretty good for the Noles, but they almost lost due to a BS pass interference call that helped give Florida's offense new life.

Defense came up big at the end though, so the Noles won 45-38, and the crowd stormed the field for the first winning season since Willie Taggart blighted us with the left overs of Jimbo's mess and his own incompetence.

 

[49ersfootball]

Florida State versus Florida was a hell of a game last night. Went pretty good for the Noles, but they almost lost due to a BS pass interference call that helped give Florida's offense new life.

Defense came up big at the end though, so the Noles won 45-38, and the crowd stormed the field for the first winning season since Willie Taggart blighted us with the left overs of Jimbo's mess and his own incompetence.

Watched the game last night on ABC 12 KSAT-TV San Antonio. It was spectacular!

Big question is which bowl game Florida St gets invited to ?

I'll be watching Auburn @ #7 Alabama this afternoon on CBS 5 KENS-TV San Antonio at 2:30 PM CST.

 

[49ersfootball]

@bullethead @WolfBear @Typhonis @Cherico @Airedale260 @Carrot of Truth @stevep @TheRomanSlayer @Zyobot @Buba @Tiamat @TerrificWarden @Circle of Willis @Morphic Tide

*Hugh Freeze of Liberty apparently expected to become the next Auburn University Tigers Football Head Coach.

*Matt Rhule named University of Nebraska Cornhuskers Football Head Coach.

*South Carolina (8-4) knocks out #8 Clemson (10-2) out of the College Football Playoff hunt.

*#3 Michigan (12-0) punks overrated #2 OH St (11-1) in Columbus by a score of 45-23. Wolverines' first victory in Columbus since 2000.

 

[bullethead]

*Hugh Freeze of Liberty apparently expected to become the next Auburn University Tigers Football Head Coach.

Well, that's awkward, because the CBS announcers opened the game talking about how Cadillac Williams was a pretty well liked coach.

 

[49ersfootball]

Well, that's awkward, because the CBS announcers opened the game talking about how Cadillac Williams was a pretty well liked coach.

Since Kiffin reportedly signed an extension with Ole Miss, sounds like Freeze is heading to the Plains.

 

[49ersfootball]

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[49ersfootball]

Wondering how long Rhule lasts in Lincoln ?
A.) 3 years
B.) 6 years
C.) TBD

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[49ersfootball]

@bullethead @bintananth

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[bullethead]

It's always nice to see Dabo eat some humble pie.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

It's always nice to see Dabo eat some humble pie.

5.) LSU getting throttled by Texas A&M, who leads 31-17 with 13:26 remaining in the game.

Plus LSU Quarterback Jayden Daniels gets injured.