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
Old man Harbaugh saying **** on national tv. Good man
I thought I'd feel like doing an endless multiquote of the haters
but nah, this feels too good as is.
Michigan deserves this, Michigan fans deserve this, Harbaugh does not deserve this
It would have been interesting to see if they could have handled Georgia the same way. Very possibly they could have, but we'll never know or never get the joy of watching the spectacle. Because Cinderella was there instead of Godzilla.
Hard disagree. He's obviously a god at building programs ... San Diego, Stanford, Michigan ... and also had great success in the pros. He's on the shortlist of excelling at both. Walsh, Jimmy Johnson, Carroll, Harbaugh ... who else, I'm sure a few more?? The spectacular flame outs attempting both are legion.
As to bending rules, something just short of 100% of them do that. I don't get it.
Hard disagree. He's obviously a god at building programs ... San Diego, Stanford, Michigan ... and also had great success in the pros. He's on the shortlist of excelling at both. Walsh, Jimmy Johnson, Carroll, Harbaugh ... who else, I'm sure a few more?? The spectacular flame outs attempting both are legion.
As to bending rules, something just short of 100% of them do that. I don't get it.
After winning THIS game Harbaugh is officially and unequivocally the greatest coach in Michigan history. And JJ is the greatest QB in Michigan history.
It would have been interesting to see if they could have handled Georgia the same way. Very possibly they could have, but we'll never know or never get the joy of watching the spectacle. Because Cinderella was there instead of Godzilla.
Nobody cares about some loser team that got bounced from the first round. This is like wondering if the 2007 Spurs would've won it all if they had to face the Mavs. Who cares.
So what happens if Michigan gets stripped of the title? Does that mean I wasted my time with this game? Am I supposed to pretend this game didn’t happen?
Checking in on this forum once or twice a year is usually a depressing experience. All the great posters who have moved on, this place looks like a ghost town compared to its prime. But I guess thatÂ’s life.
Cheers to all the Michigan fans, and especially to all the Michigan haters. What a ride.
Also, unban GREEAR10. HeÂ’s served many years of imprisonment. He might be the only thing that can save this place from becoming a fossil on the internet.
Nobody cares about some loser team that got bounced from the first round. This is like wondering if the 2007 Spurs would've won it all if they had to face the Mavs. Who cares.
Most of the Michigan homer posts are so partisan and irrational as to be caricatures. For those genuinely handicapping the games, it's a combination of frivolous and ridiculous.
Wash/ FSU/ TCU
Three peas in a pod
Birds of a smilier feather stick together
Most of the Michigan homer posts are so partisan and irrational as to be caricatures. For those genuinely handicapping the games, it's a combination of frivolous and ridiculous.
Aren’t you the one that sht on Michigan all year? Their defense wasn’t that good and they would lose 3-4 games in the Sec this year?
Yeah there were a bunch of people that didn’t give Michigan and B1G respect since they were playing “ugly” games. But that’s what football looks like when you play defense.
Penix look scared and at end of game could hardly walk off field. Guys like Golden Bears probably scratching their head, whut happened?
Now Washington being conveniently repackaged as a Cinderella and Georgia being trotted out but I thought the entire SEC was supposed to be good thus Alabama should be adequate
West Virginia, Boise State, TCU, Oklahoma State or Stanford from 2005-2015 would've won at least one title between them if not two
More access is almost certainly going to lead to more cinderellas winning it, not fewer. There is just so much more access - instead of getting 1 cinderella in the final 4 every 2-3 years, we will have a couple in the final 12 every single year. Eventually the stars will align for one of them and they'll win.
The chaos can compound, same way it does in march madness. J
I think this playoffs was actually a great example of this, as this year was closer to a 12 team playoff than a 4 teamer.
Taking UM out of it, Georgia and Oregon were the two best teams, and both of them got knocked out in the de-facto quarterfinals. The chaos will compound.
Take the second tier of teams like Missouri or Kansas State or Arizona or whatever - the 10-15 "really good but not great" teams. In the 4 team playoff system their odds are basically zero since the ceiling is either 10-2 team that finishes like #10 or an 11-1 team that doesn't garner enough respect and finishes like #5-#7, and so they don't get in. Now, at least a couple of those teams will get in every year, so their odds are not zero.
And, even when such a team did catch lightning in a bottle (Michigan State, Cincinnati) they had to face Georgia and death star Bama and they got smoked. Sometimes that will still happen in the 12 team system , but sometimes they will continue to run hot and other underdogs will clear the way for them.
Like K-State might make it and face a gauntlet of Texas, Oregon Georgia and the sportswriters are like "they just don't have enough talent to win those 3 games in a row" but once in a while, they upset Texas, then get to face Washington instead of Oregon and then Bama knocks out Georgia who gets knocked out by Michigan and boom, they have tangible equity.
Not to mention all the times over the past decade where the #5-6 team that barely missed the cut (TCU, Stanford, Ok State, Boise State) might genuinely just have been the best team in the country that year
Next year is going to be sick. My only complaint is that the last minute conference realignment has really given us a dearth of big OOC games, and the schedules are crazy unbalanced. Like, Iowa going 10-2 will probably be less impressive than if Florida somehow manages to go 8-4. And, I really, really wish we could break up the K-State/Arizona and Utah/Baylor games and get some B1G/SEC opponents for the Big-12
Like, LSU is already playing USC
Let's break up LSU/UCLA and get UCLA/K-State and LSU/Arizona instead
And Mizzou's OOC is Murry State, Buffalo, BC and UMass. Come on.
Ole Miss plays Furman, MTSU, Wake and Georgia Southern. Come on!
Drop one of those buy-games and play Baylor and Utah instead
Fake OOC games should not count as wins and should also trigger penalties for ducking opponents.
Michigan plays Texas at home next season in OOC play. Someone explain why?
