NCAA FOOTBALL 2024 MEGA THREAD - WELCOME TO THE PLAYOFF ERA
Just 8 days until Florida State plays Georgia Tech!
A lot happened while you were away:
Texas and Oklahoma joined the SEC
The Pac-12 went out in a blaze of glory:
Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA are headed to the B1G
Utah, Arizona, Arizona State and Colorado are headed to the B12
Cal and Stanford along with SMU are somehow headed to the ACC
Poor old Wazzu and Oregon State are now aligned with the MWC in some sort of in-flux relationship
The conferences are huge now, and the schedules are wildly imbalanced. Florida might have the hardest schedule in the history of the sport, while Missouri's playing a sun-belt slate.
FSU and Clemson play each other, but then play ZERO common ACC opponents
Utah/Baylor and Arizona/Kansas State play non-conference games against conference opponents
LSU and USC play in Vegas!
Boise goes to Oregon, a team they've never lost to!
Texas at Michigan!
Alabama at Wisconsin!
Notre Dame at ATM!
Clemson vs Georgia!
And there are some incredibly juicy new conference matchups:
Texas @ ATM is back!
Texas vs Georgia
Oregon vs Ohio State
USC @ Michigan
USC vs Penn State
And then the bizarre:
UCLA @ Rutgers is now a conference game
Syracuse plays home and away against Cal and Stanford for some reason
Half the teams have new coaches, transferred quarterbacks, or both!
Let's get it on!
Last week I loaded up on Memphis over pass/receive props since they were facing UTSA missing 3 star dbs in a game I thought would be a shootout (kinda like with the Cal props now). This week they've got a lot of injured skill players and (it's time to acknowledge this, sigh) are facing the best defense they've seen all season. So it's all unders!
Let's see how *that* jinx works!
ridiculous play by the UCLA LB
straight up took the ball from him
Like Jerry Seinfeld taking a marble rye!
annnnd just like that UCLA has another turnover inside the 5 yard line :(
It basically makes no sense to keep all 3 timeouts before the 2 minute warning, right? Like after the 2:00 it's back to the old rules of essentially you have to be an idiot to not stop the clock whenever you need, right?
Cal / Wake is a real David vs. David matchup
Note to self; never, ever, let Mendoza speak for me. Just straight up nails on the chalkboard.
Good game though.
ANY/A in SEC play:
Dart: 10.96 (tied for first w Reed)
Beck: 6.43 (12th)
gonna be a good one in Oxford
I was told that Miami was good....
As a Gators fan I've never wanted to see them get routed more than today.
But not sure that'll happen with Texas continuing to believe in Ewwwwwers for whatever reason.
Ok GaTech might be bad too. On pace for a 56-52 game
UT going to take UF behind the woodshed
that was some awful defense
This might not be the hottest take but doesn't this Miami team just get taken to pieces when they play anyone good
wtf
Gators down 14-0 on 3rd and 3 at Texas 8
Run play gains a yard.
4th and 2. Sends out the FG unit.
How they can come out and say they aren't firing Napier is beyond comprehension.
Oh, and they missed the FG.
Can they change their minds and fire Napier after this game?
What a brutal 1-2 on that GT rb. Facemask by one defender had the helmet coming off and another defender drilled him in the chin.
eta: targeting on the second defender for crown of the helmet.
ruh ranes
