NCAA Football 2023 Season Megathread
Figured I would get this thing started since a mod still hasn’t changed the title of the 2022 thread. Let’s just start o
lol Syracuse dodges FSU, Clemson, Louisville and UNC. They got McCord and a few UGA transfers along with their new coach
They play:
Ohio
Holy Cross
UConn
@ BC
@ Cal
@ NC State
@ Pitt
GT
Miami
Stanford
VT
That is a pretty cake schedule. If this new guy is any good, they could be a dark horse to make the playoffs where I am sure they will get dismantled very quickly
Rivals team recruiting rankings for the most recent 2024 class. How does Washington do this well on the field but this poorly recruiting?Granted it looks like they took a small class, but still…
Team recruiting rankings don't matter so much anymore because the portal is so important. A lot of teams have started focusing more on the portal and less on high schoolers. I bet they'll get some nice portal hauls when the portal window reopens in April after spring practices.
Team recruiting rankings don't matter so much anymore because the portal is so important. A lot of teams have started focusing more on the portal and less on high schoolers. I bet they'll get some nice portal hauls when the portal window reopens in April after spring practices.
I definitely disagree. HS recruiting and development will remain the foundation of most teams. Sure, the portal is going to be critical for filling needs and adding difference makers (QB and skill positions) but if your plan is to fill out your OL and DL primarily through the portal, then you are insane.
I'd argue it makes a ton more sense to fill out your OL and DL through the portal considering they're all older and have been in strength programs longer than high school seniors. But who is really to say whether you or I are right for sure, the point is that teams are relying on the portal way more than ever.
I definitely disagree. HS recruiting and development will remain the foundation of most teams. Sure, the portal is going to be critical for filling needs and adding difference makers (QB and skill positions) but if your plan is to fill out your OL and DL primarily through the portal, then you are insane.
Think you will see less of this foundation as the NIL demands for high school kids are becoming ridiculous. Eventually you will see a more NFL style where high school players have a strict maximum like the NFL rookie contract. but players with a proven college record get the big bucks. Hopefully it will destroy the myth these are college teams and real college teams get the glory while the rookie pro league gets the same respect as rookie leagues for the MLB and NBA.
What about Bowls paying kids to participate and paying them more to win? Is that on the horizon?
I'm ready to be hurt.
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What about Bowls paying kids to participate and paying them more to win? Is that on the horizon?
Why doesn’t the NIL deals cover the Bowls?
But the players today are getting compensated well due to sacrifices those that came before them made.
Keep on chitting on the bowls and that will hurt the product.
I mean if you think this is bad, just wait til nfl prospects on the 9-12 teams next year make business decisions and forgo the literal playoffs rather than expose themselves to 1-3 extra games
I definitely disagree. HS recruiting and development will remain the foundation of most teams. Sure, the portal is going to be critical for filling needs and adding difference makers (QB and skill positions) but if your plan is to fill out your OL and DL primarily through the portal, then you are insane.
I’d rather go grab 5 proven starters than 5 HS kids who may or may not develop. If you do develop a HS lineman you still have to try and keep him out of the portal. All of the money is going to the older proven guys, not HS players. Older teams win.
TV ratings yesterday were massive. Rose Bowl was most watched college game in 5 years and peaked at 32 million with 27 million average. Not sure why they started the Sugar Bowl so late with everyone going back to work today. It did 19 million which is still great.
I wonder if this post-Covid version of Michigan has played another team that could be described as "Winners with a clinic offense", maybe in the last game of every regular season.
Well I'm sorry it didn't sound like "rah rah Michigan" and thus triggered your rabbit ears. I picked Michigan to beat Bama and gut Washington already, but prefer not to lay so much against a legit heavyweight offense. By the way, OSU is barely a top 50 offense, and hardly comparable to this opponent. I thought it should come about 3 and maybe -160, not 4.5 and -200. Michigan to run it down their throat, pass efficiently and with big plays, and to destroy their pocket protection is the ticket for them. This is certainly a very different animal than Michigan has played this year, just no comparison at all between OSU/Bama and Washington, but it may play into their strengths of the pass rush.
This is amazing when framed this way. Talk about finding diamonds in the rough and coaching them up. Washington has always struck me as a Kansas State type program that’s never going to be shopping in the same high 4*/5* aisles as your Bama/LSU/GA/OSU types.
Who was the historical 2nd best team in the PAC? While most fans can name #1 they are generally lost on #2. I think it would be Washington even if only because they split 1991 with Miami.
Who was the historical 2nd best team in the PAC? While most fans can name #1 they are generally lost on #2. I think it would be Washington even if only because they split 1991 with Miami.
Harbaugh’s Stanford teams were fantastic, and Chip Kelly’s Oregon teams were offensive juggernauts. But those lasted, what, 4-5 years maybe? No other long term powers in the mold of USC.
Who was the historical 2nd best team in the PAC? While most fans can name #1 they are generally lost on #2. I think it would be Washington even if only because they split 1991 with Miami.
Over what time period? Over the last 100 years, USC is 1 and I guess Washington is 2
Over the BCS + Playoff era, Oregon has been consistently good. It might be 1 Oregon, 2 USC, although USC won titles and Oregon didn't.
Utah has been consistently good too and has almost no bad seasons. Over the last 10 years, Utah > USC, although if you're including the Pete Carroll run that was so high that it bumps them overall.
Stanford has some pretty high highs in the Luck / CMC / Gerhart era, but they've also been terrible a lot of the time.
Harbaugh’s Stanford teams were fantastic, and Chip Kelly’s Oregon teams were offensive juggernauts. But those lasted, what, 4-5 years maybe? No other long term powers in the mold of USC.
Since 2000, Oregon has:
13 10+ win seasons under 5 different coaches
5 top-5 finishes
16 top-25 finishes
only 2 losing seasons
Played for 9 Rose/Fiesta bowls and won 6, including a playoff game
Played for 2 national titles
Pete Carroll's USC teams dominated the sport from 2002-2008:
going 82-9
finishing in the top-4 all 7 years
Going 6-1 in Rose/Orange bowls
Playing for 3 titles and winning 2
Since then:
5 10-win seasons
1 top-5 finish
7 ranked finishes
So, since 2000, USC > Oregon, but most of that was concentrated in the 7 year Carroll run, and they've been worse than Oregon in the 15 years since
Watching the ESPN replay of the Wash/Texas game (since like most of America I wasn't up to see it).
It's 4th down with :47 left, clock should be running, but a Wash player has an injury.
Cut to commercial.
Come back from commercial, it's Texas Ball on the 31, 2nd and 10, :41 left.
How in the hell did the punt and first down only burn :06 off the clock?
Kinda would have been nice to see that ESPN. I guess they laid off the people who know how to condense games for replay.
