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!
Clemson is currently +220 to be the 12 seed on FD which seems absolutely batshit. Decent limits.
A little worried since it seems like something may have leaked, SMU is now -1000 to be in the playoff and texas is -1600 to be the 5 seed which seems extraordinarily high
I maxed it out regardless, +220 for something I think should be a lock (minus the fact that I'm worried about a leak) seems crazy
it def got leaked, its like how the market always makes a big move right before the CPI report comes out and the move is always in the right direction. cant believe the books are still taking big $$$ on an event thats already been decided
There’s precedent for rat****ing teams who make a CCG to let Bama in. Why would they about face now?
We've not had 12 teams until now. This format is going to change soon anyway, but if SMU is held out, ranked teams will just refuse their invites if close loses in extra games suddenly matter more than loses to Vandy/OU
BAMA leads SMU by a single point in today's AP poll. Lol
Can't get on seeds in my state unless I'm missing something
Here we go… boring 1 hour show only to have the bracket revealed at the end of the ****ing thing
Bama is out and smu is in according to Brett McMurphy.
Not sure how’d he know already so take that with a grain of salt
Boise gets a bye!
Indiana got the best possible draw for a 1st round game. Still a dog, but i love it.
So they did rig it to avoid rematches
Or conference games
Lol Saban. "Who will schedule tough games now???"
I dunno, just win your games Dawgs.
Just eliminate the conf champs getting byes but give them auto bids then rank them 1 thru 12. Ez
1 Oregon
8 Ohio State / 9 Tennessee
4 ASU
5 Texas / 12 Clemson
2 Georgia
7 Notre Dame / 10 Indiana
3 Boise State
6 Penn State / 11 SMU
Clemson is currently +220 to be the 12 seed on FD which seems absolutely batshit. Decent limits.
A little worried since it seems like something may have leaked, SMU is now -1000 to be in the playoff and texas is -1600 to be the 5 seed which seems extraordinarily high
I maxed it out regardless, +220 for something I think should be a lock (minus the fact that I'm worried about a leak) seems crazy
You're welcome
Not reseeding after Rd1 is also a mistake. That should be obvious.
GoldenBears nailed it. Nice job!!
They need to go top 12 next year.
Surprised that nobody really tackled the question that if you are arguing between team 12 and 13, that you had all year not to put yourself in that position, and that you now have to let the committee decide your fate.
That Tennessee/OSU/Oregon slot is nasty.
