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!
Billy getting the boys to 8 wins after that start is quite the feat. Looking forward to next year for the first time in a long time.
Would like to 2nd the notion that it was one of the worst QB performances I’ve ever seen from Tulane.
Tulane u17.5 team total is the non-sweatiest bet I've made all bowl season, yet the way bowl teams that were doing fine have just hit the off switch at times (lookin at you, Cal) I still didn't feel comfortable until the big fat guy got that first down.
Sigh
So Indiana's punter is as bad as they get huh
Big moment
Jeremiah Love has 4 carries for 91 yards, with a long of 98. By dinghy, that u88.5 is back in play!
Just a huge gap in talent. Nothing on IU.
punting there is hilarious
Indiana making the first college football playoff will be a hard trivia question in a decade or two.
IU talent about on par with Miami of Ohio.
Notre Dame will always be the first team to win a playoff game in the 12 team playoff era. That's a trivia question answer now.
What do you guys think the Sugar Bowl line opens at? UGA -3 maybe?
Beck’s health will be a big factor, but I’m seeing he’s supposed to miss the game. If that’s the case it’s probably a pick ‘em.
"There'll be a lot of analysis whether Indiana was worthy of this."
Bwa ha ha ha ha, so cute.
*Note to self; when in doubt, the eyes have it.
What do you guys think the Sugar Bowl line opens at? UGA -3 maybe?
Beck’s health will be a big factor, but I’m seeing he’s supposed to miss the game. If that’s the case it’s probably a pick ‘em.
FD had hypothetical at ND -1.5 before this game. I can't imagine it moves back to UGA on open.
Surprised CIG didn't punt there on fourth and one
Damn would like to have at least seen an onside kick in a one-score game.
