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!
Congrats Texas and Penn State fans, you're going to make it after all.
We're doomed.
On the bright side, I love myself some trivia as long it's both true and misleading. On Thursday Freeman/Franklin will become the first coach to win two major bowls IN THE SAME SEASON!
My Playoff locks:
ND -2 (-110)
tOSU -6 (-110)
I have $550 on ND. There's just no way a sane person can bet Penn State in this spot given that James Franklin is one of the worst big game coaches of all time.
I just tried to bet $550 on Ohio State and my finger wouldn't move. I just can't do it. I can't root for Ohio State in any capacity even when I think Ohio State -6 is one of the great locks of our lifetime. Nobody is stopping Ohio State now. Michigan humiliating them plus all of the intern
Excellent Neverending Story reference.
Here’s how I feel after you said ND is a lock:
