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!
Congrats Texas and Penn State fans, you're going to make it after all.
We're doomed.
On the bright side, I love myself some trivia as long it's both true and misleading. On Thursday Freeman/Franklin will become the first coach to win two major bowls IN THE SAME SEASON!
My Playoff locks:
ND -2 (-110)
tOSU -6 (-110)
I have $550 on ND. There's just no way a sane person can bet Penn State in this spot given that James Franklin is one of the worst big game coaches of all time.
I just tried to bet $550 on Ohio State and my finger wouldn't move. I just can't do it. I can't root for Ohio State in any capacity even when I think Ohio State -6 is one of the great locks of our lifetime. Nobody is stopping Ohio State now. Michigan humiliating them plus all of the intern
Excellent Neverending Story reference.
Here’s how I feel after you said ND is a lock:
One of my all time favorites. Loved G'mork so much. One of the most badass characters in the history of movies:
[QUOTE=G'mork]
"Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger"
"It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it"
"Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control... has the power!"[/QUOTE]
Officially made the $550 Ohio State -6 (-110) bet. It's just too free. Still hope Buckeyes lose tho.
Michigan finished 10th in Sagarin predictor.
Carson Beck changed his mind on the nfl draft and has entered the portal, apparently
Tons of sharp money pouring in on PSU after it became known there's a flu ravaging the ND locker room allegedly.
We all know the money came in to fade ILP. Not even the Franklin mush can counteract ilps mushing.
that plus Love is prob worse off than expected from his injury
it don't look good for the Irish folks
Flu explains the line movement maybe. Otherwise I was very confused but could have just been wrong.
The line moved big around 3pm EST. The flu thing was fairly well known before that, so I'm thinking it must be Love << 100%.
And Warren is kinda unstoppable for most college Ds. Sure ND is good, but they are geared to stop the longer throws IMO.
I would be amenable to Pat MacAfee losing the ability to speak.
is this 'Annie' chick AI generated?
that's how you sing the ****ing anthem yo
I like it
LFG Irish
