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!
Washington being actually good is extremely bad for B1G playoffs. They've already lost 2 games and have murderer's row so they are never making the playoffs themselves, but their whole schedule is potential chances to add a loss to playoff contenders:
Michigan (53%)
@ Iowa (38%)
@ Indiana (33%)
USC (46%)
@ Penn State (13%)
@ Oregon (13%)
and then UCLA, who doesn't matter.
At least they're all road games.
If they managed to win three of those games and finish 8-4, it's just a huge blow to the B1G.
Really interested to see how the committee treats Ole Miss. If they lose to UGA, they'll finish 10-2 with the following slate of wins:
v Furman
v Middle Tennessee State
v Georgia Southern
v Mississippi State
@ Wake Forest
@ Florida
@ Arkansas
v Oklahoma
@ South Carolina
@ LSU
Is that gonna be playoff worthy? I have LSU and OU both finishing around 7-5, so a decent chance that they end up with 0 top-25 wins
I will be saying this refrain until reality proves me wrong: A 10-2 SEC/Big Ten team is always getting in.
I will be saying this refrain until reality proves me wrong: A 10-2 SEC/Big Ten team is always getting in.
W Howard
W akron
W a virginiatech
W washington
a nebraska
wisconsin
ucla
a usc
minnesota
a maryland
illinois
a michiganst
Not to nitpick, but 10-2 Rutgers is almost definitely not getting in. They're not even ranked, and they would lose 2 games the rest of the way
W fiu
W western ill
W a ucla
W charlotte
W maryland
a northwestern
nebraska
washington
a michiganst
michigan
a ohiost
purdue
10-2 Indiana also not getting in assuming one of those losses is to Ohio State. If they lose to Nebraska and Washington and hten somehow win @ Ohio State, they are definitely live. But that OOC is absolutely putrid.
Missouri
W murrayst
W buffalo
W bostoncoll
W vanderbilt
a texasa&m
a umass
auburn
a alabama
oklahoma
a scarolina
a missst
arkansas
10-2 Mizzou might make it, but they're definitely not > 80% to make it. Assuming one of the losses is to Bama.
Aside from those... yeah, probably right
15:30:00 Virginia Tech -9.5
15:30:00 Stanford 9.5
stat that kinda blew my mind:
stanford is 2-17 S/U vs. FBS competition at home in the 2020's.
love this UNLV team so much
unlv settles for a 20 yd FG smh
disappointed in u barry odom....FGs ain't winning this
NOOOO YOU CANNOT KICK A FG FROM THE 3 YARD LINE, MUCH LESS WHEN YOU ARE DOWN 10 COME ON
Special teams FTW! Wow
two weeks in a row!
1. UNLV PUNT BLOCK TEAM
ugh these effing major penalties extending these syracuse drives. 3rd one tonight now. the last 2 lead to TDs.
tyvm
that interception was as bad as the one unlv threw in the 3rd qtr
HAJJ 4 HEISMAN
Bye, Sluka on deez nuts.
wrap up u idiot...they should never pick that 1st down up
lol at the roughing penalty afterwards...gtfo ref
and now 2 dropped interceptions on this drive GRRRRRRRRRRR
UNLV secondary has to stay on the bus while the rest of the team gets Blizzards at DQ.
worst beat is that cuse won’t have to punt in OT
in other news, michigan st. just kicked a FG down 31-7 with 20 seconds left to backdoor cover.
...and unlv kicks another FG smh...game over
these refs f**king blow
just what everybody loves to see
hard fought game decided by the refs throwing a garbage flag for no reason
