NCAA Football 2023 Season Megathread
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That was an iconic tip away. Up there with Richard Sherman in the Super .... against Harbaugh no less. Interestingly that play came up the other night when a poker dealer sat down looking dead on Sherman. I mentioned that he looked like him, he agreed. When I mentioned the play for the first time in a new way it dawned on me that the play call, seemingly inexplicable and terrible, a fade against Sherman, probably originated with the Sherman/Harbaugh feud and Harbaugh's hard on for the world and anybody who crosses him.
Well, ****
Hat's off to UW, they were the better team.
Penix is nuts. Those deep throws were unreal.
Ewers is so on and off. Was on last two games and bama game, was off for most of tonight.
Hopefully be back in the playoffs next year. Get to play Michigan and Georgia, should be a fun regular season.
I don't really understand the line. That's a bunch of winners and a clinic offense, the Huskies, with Steve Young at the helm. What Steve Young can't overcome is 300 yards rushing and sick pressure on the pocket. That's has to be the Wolverine plan but it doesn't mean they can pull it off effectively. I don't get the line Michigan -200.
I don't really understand the line. That's a bunch of winners and a clinic offense, the Huskies, with Steve Young at the helm. What Steve Young can't overcome is 300 yards rushing and sick pressure on the pocket. That's has to be the Wolverine plan but it doesn't mean they can pull it off effectively. I don't get the line Michigan -200.
I wonder if this post-Covid version of Michigan has played another team that could be described as "Winners with a clinic offense", maybe in the last game of every regular season.
Rivals team recruiting rankings for the most recent 2024 class. How does Washington do this well on the field but this poorly recruiting?Granted it looks like they took a small class, but still…
Your QB finishing #2 in the heisman voting can cover a lot of warts.
Damn Washington tried to give that way several times for no reason
Feel free to quote this when I inevitably get both of these wrong:
Michigan -2: This 2023 UM team is about as good as a Michigan team can possibly be, which is still significantly worse than a peak Bama/UGA/LSU team but luckily for them this is a down year for the elite programs with UGA not being in the playoffs and Bama fielding possibly their worst team in over a decade, a team that narrowly avoided losing to ark and that needed a miracle 4th and 26 to avoid losing to a horrific auburn
4/4 aint bad, nice lil +$2.5k to start the year
Michigan -2 [W]
Washington +4 [W]
Washington ML [W]
Washington O62 [W]
Also, their hit rate was remarkable. Their recruiting rankings were mediocre, but they still have NFL talent on the team:
Rome 4*
Penix 3*
Trice 3*
All are projected first rounders
Fautanu 3*/4*
Polk 3*
McMillan 4*
are like 2-4th rounders
ZTF probably a late rounder
Yeah the surest way to compensate for BCR that's under historical threshold is to just have a 1st round NFL QB, WR, and edge LOL. Having another handful of NFL caliber players doesn't hurt either.
Also, their hit rate was remarkable. Their recruiting rankings were mediocre, but they still have NFL talent on the team:
Rome 4*
Penix 3*
Trice 3*
All are projected first rounders
Fautanu 3*/4*
Polk 3*
McMillan 4*
are like 2-4th rounders
ZTF probably a late rounder
This is amazing when framed this way. Talk about finding diamonds in the rough and coaching them up. Washington has always struck me as a Kansas State type program that’s never going to be shopping in the same high 4*/5* aisles as your Bama/LSU/GA/OSU types.
Man, what a great night of football. The writers played it pretty obvious this season, giving us CFB's two biggest storylines (Connor Stallions and the Pac's last stand) in the championship, but it was still a great payoff.
I'm being greedy, but if there had ben a way to switch FSU and Oregon so we got Oregon/Georgia and FSU/Liberty instead of two massacres, that would've been even more fun.
If Washington can pull off just one more upset, this is going to be a season for the ages
Ward to the draft? And DJU to FSU a few days ago
What is Ohio State gonna do? Are there even any QBs better than McCord left?
Maiava maybe? McCloud?
2p2 Hero Diego Pavia?
Maybe Malachi Nelson?
I'm almost glad I'm not an Ohio State fan. The level of angst after an 11 win season with incredible 5 year title equity going forward is insane
fanduel has some 2024-25 lines up, but the limits are dust
Fired Ole Miss at 26-1, which seems crazy?
They play 4 cupcakes in the noncon then:
Georgia
Oklahoma
UK
Miss St
at home
and
LSU
Florida
Arkansas
South Carolina
on the road
That seems not horrible? Kiffin is doing his PORTAL KING thing, seems like this team has a great shot to playoff and make some noise
I don't hate Arizona and Utah (if Rising gets his 12th year of eligibility) at 100-1
I'm not sure what I would have done if the last muffed punt went for a safety.
I think at that point the entire Michigan fan base would just realize we're the tortured robots in Westworld and start going on massive drug and crime sprees because nothing matters.
Yeah, insane
Both games were among the most euphoric moments in program history for both teams, and both games were literally inches away form being not only losses, but the most unimaginably devastating losses possible
I think both their schedules are really bad
10 conference games, and going to be tons of solid teams in the 25-50 range that can beat you but you won't get a ton of credit for beating
Going 7-3 against the B12 would be pretty good, and I don't think 9-3 gets you into the playoff
Arizona / K-State and Utah / Baylor should've just broken their games and seen what they could find
WVU will return greene, both stud RBs, and most of their wrs and 3/5 linemen
losing a bunch on defense though
Sched is brutal though, 11 P5 teams plus Albany who made the FCS semis
Penn State at home is a chance for a marquee win though
Wouldn't be surprised to see Clemson back in the mix
they have two marquee games:
n UGA
@ FSU
then a couple solid games:
South Carolina
Louisville
NC State
@ VT
then:
@ Wake
@ Pitt
UVA
Stanford
App State
10-2 seems pretty reasonable
