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 B1G championship game is awesome
While focused on the main event (Sun Belt Championship Game brought to you by FREE MONEY), I'm also watching my first B1g game of the season.
Just gonna' come right out and ask; this "#3 Penn State" is because of a lucky 7 point loss to tOSU and little else, right?
The "only one top-25 win" does them an injustice though
@ Minnesota
@ West Virginia
@ USC
@ Wisconsin
v Illinois
v Washington
v UCLA
that's seven pretty decent wins
and then their only loss is by 7 to OSU.
That's a pretty good resume
These are the greatest helmets of all time though, which elevates the overall uni to top-5 status
SMU has more yards and more first downs lol
Both these games are good. Smu running a bit bad but could get back in it.
she whipped that fool from dook
ULL has 4th and 2
announcer is aghast
ESPN analytics pops up "4th and 8 or less, go for it"
Have we had Clempsoning this season? I didn't really watch after the UGA blowout.
Tez is having an absolutely monster game
Didn't realize so many college offenses just had qb barrel forward on option read
wasn't UL Lafayette supposed to be somewhat competitive in the Sun Belt Championship considering they are playing at home?
this has been absolute domination by Marshall (!) from start to finish.
also in B4 Charles Huff rides the Marshall HC hot streak to a higher paying gig
PSU D getting exposed, but they're also getting absolutely hosed by the refs
Small live box and big replay box sucks.
SMU finally catches a break!
obvious facemask miss by the refs
The "only one top-25 win" does them an injustice though
@ Minnesota
@ West Virginia
@ USC
@ Wisconsin
v Illinois
v Washington
v UCLA
that's seven pretty decent wins
and then their only loss is by 7 to OSU.
That's a pretty good resume
I suppose, though I know very little about any of them except "winning at Wisconsin is a really big deal regardless of circumstances"
Uncalled holding #7
Oregon also got a free TD on an illegal play
my god, they have 7 drops all year and 5 tonight
edit: apparently it's six all year!
alabama fans gotta be real nervous right now
wasn't UL Lafayette supposed to be somewhat competitive in the Sun Belt Championship considering they are playing at home?
this has been absolute domination by Marshall (!) from start to finish.
also in B4 Charles Huff rides the Marshall HC hot streak to a higher paying gig
LaLa was favored by 5.5 but as strictly an offensive team. Lost their (actually 2nd string) QB early and were quickly in catch-up position so couldn't even use their normally-good run game.
I had o57 but immediately hit u51.5 when that happened.
Huff thing has been weird all week and part of the reason the spread went up. Allegedly was being announced as "Southern Miss" (wtf) new coach this past Monday according to "sources inside Marshall's athletic department". I mean, as weird as it can be with a coach who's just...riding out the last year of his contract because who doesn't want to be known as the school that doesn't pay up for success...
The thing is in the past I could see how this would be a bummer and distraction for the players, but at this point isn't it just, "Hooray I get a raise"?
LFG smu
