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!
Jeanty is going to clear his overs in the first half.
I was told the playoffs would ruin the regular season.
Sigh. Thank god we won the natty.
vandy was 0-60 against top-5 teams
1994: Bama is eliminated from national title race
2004: Bama needs everyone else to lose a game
2014 Bama no longer has a mulligan
2024: Bama's chances of getting 1st Rd bye went down 20%.
exactly what i was thinking in real-time
doesn't feel the same as earlier epic upsets as a result
a negative of the new format
Huskies have a kicklaaaaah problem
Arkansas went for it on 4th and 1 from the 20 and kicked a FG from 4th and 1 from the 1?
jfc
The clock management is so odd at the end of the first half of Arky-Tenn that even the refs want to partake in it.
thought Loveland was about to do the griddy
Never EVER underestimate the heart of a NATIONAL CHAMPION!!!!
Michigan literally switched from the worst QB in the Big Ten to the best QB in the same game.
Everyone is royally ****ED now.
I'll never get used to hearing a college player described as "well-traveled."
So glad I was at the gym during Bama game. I would have hammered them live at every juncture, including down 12 with 6 minutes to go. ESPN was showing a 97.8% win rate for Vandy from there, which brings up the question are those projections generic based on teams up 12 with 5 minutes, or is it factoring in who is playing at all. I guess it must be the first. It was pretty clear Vandy was going to have to keep scoring and keep getting first downs to win, and darned if they didn't do it.
Also brings up the stat of lowest ranked/rated teams to beat a #1. My brother went to Vandy and he said the Commodores rolled into Norman one year in the 70's and had #1 Oklahoma beat and the refs just started outright cheating. OU 25-23 over Vandy. I just looked at the box score and the wishboning Sooners had 11 fumbles with 7 lost. That's a problem.
When they hired DeBoar I said let's see what happens at the first totally unexpected loss. If he had lost that thing against UGA and then this, he was done. Not fired, of course, but done in terms of support and keeping the recruiting pipeline awesome. So he's close to done right now. The higher you sail the worse the fall. Saban must have been about 100-0 in spots like this over the last 15 seasons or so. This won't play. It isn't allowed. The Vandy win at Norman wasn't allowed, and the Bama loss to Vandy isn't allowed in a different sense. It was supposed to be one of the worst October lineup of games ever, but didn't turn out that way.
This thread is great.
That might be the record for biggest goalpost shift.
Michigan, what are you doing
