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!
Sounds about right that Brian Kelly would say "guys just aren't doing their jobs."
LOL Nussmeyer*
*not doing his job
"One toe over the line?"
LOL
This was the first game all year that IU didn't win by at least two touchdowns. They better get in at 11-1.
When GameDay went to IU, was it the first time ever?
Brian Kelly may be climbing up the observation tower himself after the game.
LOLSU
as someone who is almost never on the right side of crazy BS endings...can someone explain what is going on in the last few minutes of OU-MIZZ?
The game is on the SEC network so I am not able to view. And, as usual, ESPN's "in game" is worthless. Is it correct that MIZZ scored 2 ridiculous TD in the last minute, after giving up 2 ridiculous TD in the prior 2 minutes????
Mizzou scores TD, misses xp, up 16-9,
OU drives down and ties,
Mizzou fumbles, ou returns for touchdown
Mizzou drives down scores TD with 57 seconds left
Instead of taking a knee Burnt Vegetables puts it in Jackson Arnold's hands. Announcer even says "big risk of turnover here"
Arnold is sacked, fumbles, Mizzou returns for TD
OU gets ball, player almost killed, no targeting called.
Last play of game, instead of chunking it deep Arnold runs the ball down the middle, two shitty laterals later it goes out of bounds.
As a UT fan it was great. (not the hit, that should have been called targeting. Really feel bad for the guy)
the uncalled murder:
dude walked off the field looking like me after drinking 4 long island iced teas
Instead of taking a knee Burnt Vegetables puts it in Jackson Arnold's hands. Announcer even says "big risk of turnover here"
Arnold is sacked, fumbles, Mizzou returns for TD
thanks for the info. ESPN's "in game" just had the football going back and forth on the field display. I figured ESPN wouldn't lie...but never assume anything.
fwiw my one time was on MIZZ +130....the only good luck I had today it would seem.
BYU Utah is intense
I did when I was 21. I don't anymore.
the uncalled murder:
dude walked off the field looking like me after drinking 4 long island iced teas
A) I lean not targeting, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it’s considered a launch.
B) Last night I made my usual pitchers of margaritas for friends while just possibly distracted by the 8 games on. Best I can tell, I grabbed full bottles thinking they were half full. If it ever comes up, I strongly recommend not secretly mixing unlimited double margaritas with Alabama fans watching LSU get wrecked. GF passed out and friends mercifully took Ubers.
sorry fossilkid
Shame to be the team who lost to them
Looks like we could end up with 7 sec teams finish at 10-2 in the regular season? Though Missouri isn't going to do it.
can't help but pounce on an opportunity to twist the needle into a golden bear
consider this your seminal work, it fits you
It's like the tale of the scorpion and the frog
We are Cal Football. It's in our nature to lose these games. Can't fight nature
Looks like we could end up with 7 sec teams finish at 10-2 in the regular season? Though Missouri isn't going to do it.
44% that at least one of Bama / Tenn / Ole Miss ends with 3 losses
ATM only 16% to finish 10-2
UGA 23% to finish 10-2 but they also have a really strong resume at 9-3
SMU and Miami are now drawing pretty thin now even if they win out and lose the ACCCG. Not dead, but in the neighborhood of ~20% to make it in that case.
Pitt's dead. Clemson barely has any outs outside of winning the ACC
Think BYU is still often in if they win out and lose the B12CG, especially if K State and SMU keep winning.
K State is +800 to win the B12, but has the tiniest shred of at-large hope also. People are forgetting Tulane is favored in every game and might go 11-2, finish ranked and might even win the G5 bid, and K-State beat them on the road. They also beat Colorado H2H, which is important bc I think the committee will be loath to drop an 11-2 conference champ game loser in favor of a 10-2 conf champ non participant, but it's easier to do when the non participant beat the loser H2H
They'd have 2 ranked wins (possibly 3 if ASU or ISU finish ranked)
Anyway, there are only 7 at-large spots.
It's hard to see the B1G and SEC getting fewer than 3 of those each
OSU/Oregon, Indiana, Penn State are all almost locks. Some chance Penn State gets left out if they like lose badly to Maryland in the finale or something. They have the dreaded "lots of wins over solid teams that aren't ranked"
Then we've got Notre Dame 57% to win out, and that would probably fill it
Although I think 11-1 BYU that loses the B12 champ game would have to go over ND
