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!
This was the final score of a Penn State v. Oklahoma national title game, I think ... 25-10. Yup.
Turn out the lights in Oxpatch.
It's a rainy night in Oxford.
Indiana kicks a FG to stay up one score!!
(The way Mich is playing though not sure they can score a TD)
Sorry guys Michigan's got this. Nobody is stopping Davis Warren when you give him 4 downs.
they gave TT coach a microphone to yell at the home fans to stop throwing shiz on the field lol
Here for the ILP meltdown.
Why is Michigan not calling their timeout?
WHAT IN THE ****?
YES
outro song for buffs game: CRAZY TRAIN
perfect
how not to coach by Michigan's head coach
Michigan's time management is really something
gg IU. The dream probably ends next game though.
Kick another fg, Lane.
If you can get the field cleared.
What's wrong with Michigan coach
So coach Cignetti what are your thoughts on the game?
- Yeah, Wapner's on in 16 minutes.
Ok, your team played with tremendous effort, how do you keep up the pace?
- Yeah, of course there's 246 toothpicks, yeah
Well, congrats on being 10-0 coach
- Yeah.... one for bad two for good.
CIG still smokin these hoes
This. The biggest game of the year for IU was today. Beat Michigan and you're in. The Ohio State game is whatev. Thinking otherwise is being trapped into old thinking. Times are different now.
But but what about IU winning the Big Ten Championship!?!? Doesn't that make the Ohio State game meaningful. Not really. It's playoffs or bust now. IU is in. That's all that matters. Getting a bye only matters for true national title contenders like Ohio State. So the IU game is important from OSUs perspective or to OSU haters like me.
The only way IU misses the playoffs is if they lose to Purdue too. Other than that they’re a lock
The only way IU misses the playoffs is if they lose to Purdue too. Other than that they’re a lock
Yea I'm assuming IU has 100% equity vs Purdue which obviously isn't true but close enough. I'm also assuming they screw over a 10-2 IU team but that counterfactual will be irrelevant.
Jeanty has a mere 92 rushing yards with 4m left in the first quarter.
I can't read lips, but I caught about two-thirds of the Bama coach's rant.
Brian Kelly may drive to New Orleans just to jump off the Puey H Long Bridge after this game.
