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!
Has the portal always been this nuts? It seems like tons of people are not happy with their playing time (or anticipated playing time) and are jumping ship, often to programs with a lower profile.
Can't blame them, as I'd rather start on top 75 team than ride the pines on a top 25 team
Has the portal always been this nuts? It seems like tons of people are not happy with their playing time (or anticipated playing time) and are jumping ship, often to programs with a lower profile.
Can't blame them, as I'd rather start on top 75 team than ride the pines on a top 25 team
The Portal itself is only 6 years old. Add to that NIL, which is more recent, and the effect is basically as you say.
Years ago Bama could recruit 20 of the 100 best HS players every year and they'd ride the bench until they'd play their SR. Year and get drafted. If you transfered you had to sit out a year and weren't getting paid, so why bother.
Now you can be 2nd string for an SEC team or start for any number of others
Happy Christmas you filthy animals.
Hawaiʻi Bowl I guess the lines jumped on news that Byrum Brown was available for the game. You'd never know it from the first half playing time.
Has the portal always been this nuts? It seems like tons of people are not happy with their playing time (or anticipated playing time) and are jumping ship, often to programs with a lower profile.
Can't blame them, as I'd rather start on top 75 team than ride the pines on a top 25 team
The big thing that exploded the portal was when they got rid of the rule that made you sit out a year after you transferred
Then NIL just poured gas on the fire
Obvious not first down is obvious
Sigh, I had one path to losing and it started with USF punting before the 2:00 warning...
USF is aware they have no time left, right?
Just don't give up the bomb...
USF with the nail in their own coffin corner kick
It's insane to not take another shot at the end zone
...sigh, ok now I need not 2 touchdowns...
I hate overtime...so ****ing much...
Anybody got any numbers on the number of transfers annually pre-portal versus now??
Pitt down to walk-on qb4, star receiver opted out for draft, rb1 (who’s also receiver2) of questionable health, and rb2 & rb3 opt-outs.
Let’s go Mudhens, or whatever.
Toledo - Pitt is like a yard ball with refs.
Is Pitt’s coach dumb or something
This game is stupid lol
So, Alabama lost to Tennessee, who just lost to OSU by about 4 thousand points, and got annihilated by Oklahoma who just got beat up by Navy, and people thought they should've been in the playoffs because of their tOuGh SeC sChEdUle?
Will be hilarious if GT can beat Vandy and complete the trifecta
Don't make me defend Tennessee but Oklahoma did have 25 opt outs including ten starters, which is why it opened at -10 and closed as a pick 'em.
So, Alabama lost to Tennessee, who just lost to OSU by about 4 thousand points, and got annihilated by Oklahoma who just got beat up by Navy, and people thought they should've been in the playoffs because of their tOuGh SeC sChEdUle?
Will be hilarious if GT can beat Vandy and complete the trifecta
Any argument that involves a bowl result is invalid from the get-go unless you're just trolling. Then it's ok.
