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!
that's from a practice son
notice how gabriel has the target jersey on
no worries
he will still be communicating the message of knight lanning
I'm sorry my visual representation didn't live up to your lofty expectations dad
So I re-did my homework so hopefully I won't get grounded
I took this pic myself from their most recent game against the stinking badgers
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I was hopeful the committee would be reasonable, but I'm not super shocked that they are doing stupid things
I am VERY shocked at the particular stupid things they happen to be doing
How the **** is Georgia ranked so low???
I have their resume at 50%, and Ole Miss at 73%. Miami is at 68%. Notre Dame's is 82% Indiana is at 68%. Penn State is at 60%
They have a better resume and would be favored than all those teams, and yet they are ranked lower. So stupid.
And I have no idea how boise is getting such incredible benefit of the doubt.
BYU's resume is 61%, Boise's 78%, SMU's 80%
Power rating is SMU > Boise > BYU, but not by a ton
Ranking Boise first among those is not insane, but I'm just shocked that they are somehow getting more respect than the B12
And, picking nits here, but I don't see why Tulane should be ranked ahead of ASU. ASU has 5 wins against top 60 teams. Tulane has zero
If Ohio State beats Indiana, Oregon and Ohio State are very likely to be locked in to the 1 and 5 spots
13-0 Oregon is obviously 1, and 11-2 Ohio State with two losses to Oregon but wins over otherwise undefeated Penn State and Indiana is likely to be ahead of whatever 10-3 (or possibly 11-2 Texas) team that loses the SECCG
12-1 Ohio State with wins over Oregon, Penn State and Indiana is obviously #1 ahead of whoever wins the SECCG (even 12-1 Texas), and 12-1 Oregon is almost definitely #5
It's not implausible that 5 ends up being a better spot than 1:
5 will almost certainly play Boise then the Big-12 champ, or the Big-12 champ then Boise, the first of which is a home game. Oregon or Ohio State would be 70-90% to win those games.
Whereas the 1 seed gets a bye, then plays the winner of the 8/9 game. Notre Dame is likely 7 (or out) and Indiana is likely to fall to 10 or 11 if they lose to OSU. So you're looking at 10-2 Ole Miss, 9-3 Alabama, 10-2 Georgia, 11-2 Texas as the most likely candidates there.
Playing at home vs Boise then neutral vs Colorado is actually easier than bye and neutral vs one of those teams
I don’t usually get involved in “choose your own number” games because how do I know if they’ll “feel like” covering…but after Bama hopped bye-Miami on the strength of crushing Mercer (note; a top ten FCS team!)…I…would not want to be UMass (UGA), UTEP (Tenn), Wofford(SCar), or the Citadel (Clem) this week.
I am expecting the favorites to win by roughly the total in each of those games, and a little surprised if at least one of them doesn’t put up 70.
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How the **** is Georgia ranked so low???
I have their resume at 50%, and Ole Miss at 73%. Miami is at 68%. Notre Dame's is 82% Indiana is at 68%. Penn State is at 60%
They have a better resume and would be favored than all those teams, and yet they are ranked lower. So stupid.
Ole Miss 28, Georgia 10 is why they are behind Ole Miss
I'm sorry my visual representation didn't live up to your lofty expectations dad
So I re-did my homework so hopefully I won't get grounded
I took this pic myself from their most recent game against the stinking badgers
Spoiler
here's the keys to the car son
just be sure you're home before church sunday morning and you bring it back with a full tank
Helpful suggestion to NC State; Stop calling stupid close-up gimmick plays, run your normal offense against a secondary that struggles with coverage beyond 10 yards, and then go **** your own face!
Michigan is ****ING BACK!!!!!!
Seriously this. Michigan is FINALLY playing the game. Michigan is finally institutionally committed to winning at football. I've been waiting for this moment my whole life. It's finally here.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Harbaugh finding a way to win it all at a university that doesn't come close to caring about football as much as other institutions (Ohio State, Bama, Georgia, most of the SEC, etc) is probably the greatest accomplishment in college football history.
12 million damn
Best games by time slot:
NOON
5 Indiana @ 2 Ohio St
9 Ole Miss @ Florida
13 SMU @ Virginia
Wake @ 8 Miami
3:30
14 BYU @ 21 ASU
Kentucky @ 3 Texas
4 Penn State @ Minnesota
16 Colorado @ Kansas
Stanford @ Cal
Pitt @ Louisville
Wisconsin @ Nebraska
7
19 Army n 6 Notre Dame
7 Alabama @ Oklahoma
15 ATM @ Auburn
22 Iowa State @ Utah
Late
USC @ UCLA
Colorado State @ Fresno State (CSU playing to be 1 win away from MWC bid. UNLV hangs in the balance)
"shoulder" injury
unlv gave up a safety from their own 47 yard line lol. long snapper snapped the ball over the punter's head by like 30 feet and the punter ended up kicking the ball out of the back of the end zone. and that was after unlv requested a dry ball before the snap.
unlv also gave up a pick 6 and had a long TD called back on a penalty. they are trying their best to give this game to san jose st....they should be up a lot more than 4 pts. in the 4th qtr
I'm in Lincoln Nebraska for the game. Nothing quite like a big college town on game day.
What's the line on total British people in Memorial Stadium today?
I've been to exactly 2 Huskers games in my life and Nebraska have lost by an average of 26.5 pts across both. Both vs Wisconsin too.
Go Big Red....
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I'm in Lincoln Nebraska for the game. Nothing quite like a big college town on game day.
I've been to exactly 2 Huskers games in my life and Nebraska have lost by an average of 26.5 pts across both. Both vs Wisconsin too.
as someone who has a bet on Wisconsin today, I appreciate your appearance at the game.
I kind of want Indiana to lose close so I can bet more money on them but I think they just win. Better coach being the difference.
A completed pass for Ole Miss???
Probably not targeting either.
Go I.U.
Fight!
Fight!
Fight!
lol Kiffin
fps
