NCAA FOOTBALL 2024 MEGA THREAD - WELCOME TO THE PLAYOFF ERA

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back to my self-flagellation

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Idiot wanted to taunt so bad. Thankfully his teammates yanked him away.

Lol punting on 4th and 4 at midfield.

The teams I'm rooting for in the playoffs so far are 0-7

:/

So Matthew McConaughey lets a restaurant's' booking app order his meal for him, blind?

Overplayed commercials that gave me a genuine chuckle (the FIRST 200 times I saw them):

“We really needed this rain”

“There’s a really nice barbecue outside, but don’t touch that.”

My playoff locks are also 0-7. Goddamn.

It's like that scene where Darth Vader strikes down Obi-Wan. We just made them stronger. Sigh.

True. Getting to the final 4 definitely secures his job assuming it was ever at stake.

When you dont know who you are you can beat yourself. They know who they are now. They understand what kindve team theyre meant to be. They are finally the juggernaut I feared they would be all off-season.

Ppl said this about Kirby after 2017-2019.

I do not understand how oregon went 13-0 only to get their **** pushed in this bad

I realize tOSU is an elite roster coached by, by all accounts, a real ****ing clown but still

this is probably his 2nd worst team.

Ohio St -4.5 over Texas? That's my line at least.

The best part of it is that it does not matter how. They did. AGAIN.

LOL.

If only.

fav misquote of the week: Imagine if Bama had to play in the SEC.

I think we see a slow, grind it out game from both ND and UGA. Not tons of chunk plays. Under 45.5 looks pretty attractive.

Ohio State -6 vs Texas

ND is roughly -1 vs UGA although the line keeps bopping back and forth

BOL has -2.5 -2.5 for ND/UGA vs PSU and DK has -1/-1

DK is usually off on these, and I think is making their typical mistake of taking the line that it would be RIGHT NOW, whereas the ND/UGA winner will on average see their rating increase after they win - in particular, UGA has slightly more to gain bc of the uncertainty around Stockton, so I think ND being a slight favorite now, but those teams ratings conditional on winning being the same makes sense.

My lines basically line up exactly with Vegas, I have OSU at +31, Texas at +25, ND/UGA at +23.5 and PSU at +21.5

I think on average, the UGA/ND/PSU winner gains slightly more than OSU if OSU wins, so I have the final odds as roughly:

OSU 47%
Texas 18%

UGA 10%
ND 10%
PSU 15%

Because I can't help myself, 2025 OOC games:

B12 vs B12 (lol):
Arizona v K-State

B12 vs ACC:
Baylor @ SMU
BYU v Stanford
Colorado v GT
TCU v SMU
TCU @ UNC
UCF v UNC
WVU v Pitt

B12 vs SEC:
ASU @ Mississippi State
Baylor v Auburn
Kansas @ Mizzou

B12 vs B1G:
Cincy n Nebraska
Iowa St v Iowa
OK State @ Oregon
Utah @ UCLA

B12 v tricky G5
BYU @ ECU
ASU v Texas State
Houston @ Oregon State
Kansas v Fresno
K-State vs Army
Texas Tech v Oregon State
WVU @ Ohio

ACC vs ACC
NC State v UVA

ACC vs SEC:
Clemson v LSU
Clemson @ USCe
FSU v Alabama
FSU @ Florida
GT v UGA
Louisville v Kentucky
Miami v Florida
Syracuse n Tennessee
VT n South Carolina
VT v Vanderbilt

ACC vs B1G:
BC @ Sparty
Cal v Minnesota
Duke v Illinois

ACC vs Tricky G5:
BC v ND
Miami n ND
NC State @ ND
Pitt v ND
Syracuse @ ND
Cal @ Oregon State
Cal @ SDSU
Duke @ Tulane
UVA v Wazzu
Wake @ Oregon St

B1G vs SEC:
Michigan @ Oklahoma
Wisconsin @ Alabama
Ohio St v Texas

B1G vs Tricky G5:
Northwestern @ Tulane
Washington @ Wazzu
USC @ ND
UCLA @ UNLV
Purdue @ ND
Oregon v Oregon St

SEC vs Tricky G5:
Arkansas @ Memphis
Ole Miss v Tulane
Ole Miss v Wazzu

G5 contenders:

Memphis:
Chattanooga
@ Georgia St
@ Troy
Arkansas

Tulane, three P4s, including two home game where they could be favored:
Northwestern
@ South Alabama
Duke
@ Ole Miss

Liberty, no P4s again:
Maine
@ BGSU
JMU
@ ODU

Boise St:
@ USF
EWU
App St
@ Notre Dame

UNLV:
@ SHSU
UCLA
Idaho St
@ Miami OH

Louisiana:
Rice
Mcneese
@ Mizzou
@ EWU

LFG

ruh ruga

ND defense looking excellent first series.

I'll take Notre Dame over Ohio State in the title game.

#30 for the Irish just did a dumb dumb