College Football 2024-25

[1995hoo]

FSU remains in sole possession of 17th place. Word is they’ll amend their complaint to allege that the ACC hasn’t assigned them easy enough opponents (never mind that today’s game was out-of-conference).

[Natsinpwc]

Georgia is in a struggle.

[Count Walewski]

Two weeks ago, Northern Illinois beat Notre Dame, now regular Illinois beat Nebraska. I haven't been this proud to be from Illinois in years. Bret Bielema is building a respectable program in Urbana-Champaign.

I looked this up last night: Illinois produces about 600 million more bushels of corn each year than Nebraska. And more skilled position players too.

[Count Walewski]

What an awful day for North Carolina. NC State getting smoked by Clemson, UNC getting dominated at home by JMU.

[1995hoo]

People who took the over in that JMU game have to be enjoying this.

[Natsinpwc]

Temple wins its first game. Could be the last this year so I will celebrate.

[HalfSmokes]

So much for Alabama taking a step back without Saban

[varoadking]

So much for Alabama taking a step back without Saban

I would think the vast majority of the Alabama players on the field are Saban recruits...

[GataNats]

I would think the vast majority of the Alabama players on the field are Saban recruits...

You will never see this many fifth and sixth year guys, plus mediocre transfers play for Alabama again.   

thUGA is done

[Count Walewski]

Remember Florida State? They got blown out by SMU and are now 1-4. The only rational explanation I can think of is that when that FSU fan on Twitter promised to post a video of himself eating dog doo-doo if FSU lost to Boston College and then deleted his account instead, it put a curse on FSU that won't be broken until he posts the video.

I watched most of Georgia at Alabama and there was this great moment where Alabama ran two trick plays in a row and then they cut to Nick Saban in the audience who was clearly looking uncomfortable. I think it's a good sign for DeBoer that he isn't trying to be Nick Saban, he is bringing his own playbook, his own style of football and is just trying to be the best DeBoer he can be. Milroe looked great - his deep balls are accurate this year whereas last year he was constantly overthrowing guys by a mile.

BTW, keeping Saban's recruits around in an era of NIL and unlimited transfers is itself a recruiting accomplishment.

[Natsinpwc]

I will bet on Georgia to win any rematch.

[GataNats]

I will bet on Georgia to win any rematch.

Insane.  They are slow on defense and have no playmakers.   They have been living on their extremely weak schedule the past 5 years

[imref]

Vandy!!!  Gotta be among the biggest upsets in history, right?

[HalfSmokes]

I can’t wait for the next episode of SEC shorts

[1995hoo]

Some people would call me crazy, but I think the school that benefitted the most from this latest round of conference realignment is SMU. They’ve been trying to get back to one of the power conferences since the old Southwest Conference broke up almost 30 years ago. Now that they’ve made it, they’re getting mega donations (to the point where they aren’t taking any ACC media revenue for something like nine years) and they’ve got a pretty darn favorable schedule the rest of the way. At this point, Clemson, Miami, and SMU have to be considered the three favorites to make the ACC championship game this season.

[HalfSmokes]

I can’t wait for the next episode of SEC shorts

Not disappointed. One of the best videos I've seen in a long time

[Count Walewski]

I only had time to watch one college football game today and I picked Ohio State at Oregon. Top 5 matchup of unbeaten teams, likely a preview of a conference championship game, final score with Oregon winning by just one point...you'd think I had a great time watching it, but no it was full of big mistakes by both teams. Ohio State's QB will be crucified for not knowing the clock on the final drive and allowing time to expire with the team in field goal range but make no mistake it was just the last of many mental errors. I should have watched Florida and Tennessee instead.