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!
Tonight should be fun
Louisville drew the short end of the ACC stick, somehow playing all four undefeated ACC teams as well as ND
They've lost to Miami, ND and SMU by a touchdown each and still have Pitt and Clemson coming up. Not sure whether they'd end ranked at 8-4
BC has had a pretty solid season so far, beating FSU, a rapidly improving Michigan State team, and WKU who is now the favorite to win CUSA
They lost by 6 at Mizzou, and lost to both Virginia schools. SMU and Pitt loom for them as well
Boise State / UNLV is likely to be a MWC tile game preview. The main thing at stake here is the relative ranking of the MWC champ and the AAC champ. I believe the order is thus:
12-0 Navy (wins over Notre Dame, Tulane, Memphis and probably Army in the AACCG)
12-1 Boise (wins over UNLV, UNLV, Wazzu, Oregon State, lost by 3 at Oregon) // 12-1 UNLV (wins over Boise, Boise, Houston, Kansas, Oregon State, loss in OT to Cuse)
12-0 Army (wins over ND and AACCG) // 11-2 Tulane // 12-1 Memphis
11-2 Boise // 11-2 UNLV
12-1 Navy // 12-1 Army // 11-2 Memphis // 10-3 Tulane
12-1 Louisiana / 12-1 ULM
Games by time slot:
NOON
Nebraska @ 4 Ohio State
12 Notre Dame n 24 Navy
Washington @ 13 Indiana
3:30
20 Illinois @ 1 Oregon
21 Mizzou @ 15 Alabama
11 BYU @ UCF
5 Texas @ 25 Vandy (4:15)
7
8 LSU @ 14 ATM
3 Penn State @ Wisconsin
Sparty @ Michigan
Kansas @ K-State
22 SMU @ Duke
10
Cincy @ Colorado
Wazzu @ SDSU
this wknd is gonna be lit
def gonna enjoy the off wk before the WLOCP
Shough looks like me when I forget to take my ADD meds
Open tryouts for BC punter on Monday, I assume.
effing UNLV...terrible 2nd qtr. get it together ffs
Well thats one way to stop a drive. IU picks 6s a screen lol
lol "squirrel delay" in Oxford
Ole miss getting mad over fake injuries is ****ing rich
LOL Ole Miss and OK swapping fumbles on the same play.
eta: and fumble lost on next play. LOLOL
Kiffin is a ****ing moron.
Undefeated Army/Navy may be off the table fellas...
sick effort by the big man in the Ole Miss game
Head coach power rankings:
1. CIG
Columbus... we have a problem.
Nebraska lmao
Apologies to RedYes, I drastically underestimated how bad Washington's coaching staff is. Woof.
In other news, get shucked OSU
Lane getting a bit short with the on-field reporter between quarters. LOL!
ruh raiola
Good lord, what a punt by Ole Miss. 62 yds oob at the 2.
