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!
UNLV can't really be that fraudulent because no one had any legit expectations for them, but still, what laughable frauds they are.
Army going for it on 4th and 1 from their own 25, up 28-7 in the 4th
absolutely relentless
On the edge of my seat to see if Tulane can get that second stop of the day...
Boise qb looks not great. Also they've punted on two 4th and short they maybe should have gone for.
revising my projections
I still think that if PSU loses, they will be behind OSU, but rather than a flip, I am now more convinced that they will be ahead of Tennessee
I also had UGA dropping past OSU, Tennessee and Bama with a loss. Vegas seems to think they'll stay ahead of all 3
I now think the most likely is actually that they drop past OSU, but stay in front of Tennessee (with H2H) and therefore also stay in front of Indiana
This essentially locks Indiana into the 10 seed, arguably the worst see
They aren't supposed to try to avoid rematches. Why do you think they will?
Can someone help me understand, I know very little ncaa. But every now and then a gamble on Sat football is fun. Bet texas when they played georgia. So I lost, which is normal for me. It wasnt even close, georgia just looked bigger on the line. They play again and texas favored again?? Is this injuries?
Can someone help me understand, I know very little ncaa. But every now and then a gamble on Sat football is fun. Bet texas when they played georgia. So I lost, which is normal for me. It wasnt even close, georgia just looked bigger on the line. They play again and texas favored again?? Is this injuries?
This is not uncommon in betting. One game is a small sample size and there have been tons of cases where team A has beaten team B, and the oddsmakers note that if the same two teams played again the next week on a neutral field, that team B would be a favorite to win.
Washington beat Oregon twice last year, and if there was a third game Oregon would have been the favorite.
Nevermind. Read something about one Georgia lineman out, bad day vs gtech against the run. Sure.... Since we are clueless we go parlay. Gimmie... Georgia ML and Oregon -3.5.
This probably confirms a Texas win.
Oops I just posted this and saw articKnight respsonded. Thx man, put my bet in tho. Small bet, Used to losing, here we go. It was the physical dline against texas, I mean they really... just tossed texas around. If this changes today I am going to be so confused. The game was like men vs boys. So I do not understand. I felt robbed by taking Texas and giving away points.
Time for some final MACtion!
Question. Does the B12 vs MWC debate change depending on whether Arizona State wins or Iowa State wins?
I was wondering if, for example, a blowout Arizona State win might bump the B12 ahead of Boise, but a blowout Iowa State win may not?
Or, considering that Boise St has one loss by 4 points on the road at Oregon, and the committee has Boise St 5 and 6 spots ahead in the rankings, could anything bump Iowa St or Arizona St past Boise? It seems the committee made the decision last week by leaving too many spots for the B12 to jump??
Am hoping Boise secures/keeps a spot ahead of B12 champ.
Just my opinion, but I don't think it makes any difference if ASU or ISU wins. They're only one slot apart in the ratings.
Also don't think it matters how they win. I have a hard time coming up with a scenario where the committee would jump the B12 champ over Boise, they (over-)rate Boise too high for that. They had Boise ahead, Boise took care of business versus UNLV, and the B12 contenders are ranked below three 3-loss SEC teams and Miami. Too far to jump.
thx Booker
What the **** was Iowa State doing at the end of the half? Don't call any of your timeouts either when ASU was at the goal line, or when you have the ball and you're down 14. So there's literally no chance of scoring, but still throw the ball over the middle and risk fumbles or interceptions. And of course the announcers are completely oblivious.
Was shocked ISU didnt call timeout from 50 for hail mary
I hope Cam at least gets invited to New York, I realize he should be third at an optimistic best
Looks like the BIG12 Championship game was ASU / BYU.
ISU is not that good.
Question. Does the B12 vs MWC debate change depending on whether Arizona State wins or Iowa State wins?
I was wondering if, for example, a blowout Arizona State win might bump the B12 ahead of Boise, but a blowout Iowa State win may not?
Or, considering that Boise St has one loss by 4 points on the road at Oregon, and the committee has Boise St 5 and 6 spots ahead in the rankings, could anything bump Iowa St or Arizona St past Boise? It seems the committee made the decision last week by leaving t
They've definitely boxed themselves in, particularly with Boise winning by 2 tds. If they do bump them, I'm really looking forward to how they use their words to explain it.
Personally I'd accept, "When push came to shove...we realized that was just lol dumb."
Getting yourself kicked out of half of a playoff game for targeting in a 35-point blowout seems less than ideal
Pretty weak call and wouldnt have been called if the QB didnt fake it laying on the ground for 30 seconds.
FG down 35 from the 5 is something
