NCAA College Football 2018-19: Official Thread

I believe we should mention Penn State as well.

Agreed.

Although, at this point, I thin there is a strong case to be made that football is bad for everyone involved. From CTE to toxic masculinity, society would be better off if athletes found a different sport to play.

I've already admitted that I'm a hypocrite for even following the NFL this season. It's all because we have a great young QB, and that is fun. But everything else but this racist and sexist sport is turning me off in a major way. The NFL threads are a shell of themselves for pretty much this reason.

But shuttering programs like those would be a nice start.

Agreed that I am finding football, the only sport I really watch regularly, just not so much fun anymore. Not only for the obvious reasons already mentioned, but also because both of my teams are not that good, my NFL team is owned by a sanctimonious old jackass, and the "discourse" around the sport is so very toxic. Not only that, but the game has become something I don't really understand anymore. You have this copycat culture of "Turnover Bling" which is stupid, ignorant talking heads who bloviate about the importance and sanctity of the regular season then call each game a "data point", the stupidity of the polls... sigh.

Is anything fun anymore?

Abu5217 wrote:

Is anything fun anymore?

The NBA is killing it right now.

Stele wrote:
Abu5217 wrote:

Is anything fun anymore?

The NBA is killing it right now.

Truth.

Georgia playing a really sloppy game today.

So, on the one hand, FSU is obviously the hottest of garbage this year.

On the other hand:

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I take it all back! Woohhoo!!!

Kansas destroys Rutgers in college football’s GAME OF THE CENTURY

The Kansas Jayhawks football team beat the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team on Saturday in Lawrence, 55-14. KU’s rout was the first time the program eclipsed 50 points in a game since 2010 and the first time it won a second game in a row against an FBS team (having first beaten Central Michigan last weekend) since 2009.

Time will tell if this was anything more significant than Rutgers being a special kind of terrible. It probably wasn’t. But the Jayhawks looked genuinely impressive in powdering their sad Big Ten foes, who were overmatched all game. The Jayhawks possessed the ball for 34 of 60 minutes and out-gained their visitors 544-274 (7.5 to 4.3 per play).

Spoiler:

And no, I really don't take it all back. I'd still be okay with football being shuttered as a major college sport.

Abu5217 wrote:

Not only that, but the game has become something I don't really understand anymore.

Your coach doesn't seem to understand it either.

Down goes #6 Wisconsin! BYU doing work.

WTF Kansas.

I find myself wanting to know what it was like for Coach O to live and work in Los Angeles with that accent of his.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Down goes #6 Wisconsin! BYU doing work.

So what does that make the team that beat BYU in Provo?

GO BEARS!!!!

Carlbear95 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Down goes #6 Wisconsin! BYU doing work.

So what does that make the team that beat BYU in Provo?

GO BEARS!!!!

Congrats on being their one loss so far!

And people were saying this sport isn't entertaining anymore, and/or this week's slate was boring.

The Ol'Miss fans were so hopeful after the first play.... Now not so much.....

manta173 wrote:

The Ol'Miss fans were so hopeful after the first play.... Now not so much.....

Feeling a lot better about the Louisville-Alabama score right now.

I haven't played football in nearly 20 years, but I feel so bad for the Arkansas special teams kids, because the coaches are literally going to murder them at practice on Monday.

HAHAHA suck it Taggart.

With that said, Oregon looked like garbage today and didn't deserve to beat San Jose State. If they play like that next week against Stanford they will get blown out for the 3rd straight year. Not sure what was wrong with Herbert but he was off all game, it reminded me of the bowl game last year.

Stele wrote:
manta173 wrote:

The Ol'Miss fans were so hopeful after the first play.... Now not so much.....

Feeling a lot better about the Louisville-Alabama score right now.

Quality loss.

Prederick wrote:

I haven't played football in nearly 20 years, but I feel so bad for the Arkansas special teams kids, because the coaches are literally going to murder them at practice on Monday.

It rubs me wrong that this trick play is basically designed to take advantage of rules meant to protect the defenseless returner. It was very clever and all, but this annoys me.

Still not as bad as UConn's Larry Taylor who waved an incorrect fair catch on purpose against Louisville back in 2007.

Rules changed because of that crap but it still burns.

Whew. Louisville survives WKU. That was bad.

Better than a loss. But we are not good.

Longhorns looked not as crap this week vs. the Trojans. Cautiously optimistic for the rest of the season, but I don't see them beating TCU next week.

The uncalled safety was bullsh*t, but the Horns did enough in the second half that it wasn't really the deciding factor. Sure theres probably an argument to be made about momentum or morale or whatever, but if you're a superior team you don't give up 37 unanswered points.

Stele wrote:

Whew. Louisville survives WKU. That was bad.

Better than a loss. But we are not good.

Let me guess — if nothing else, the defense was awful and looked lost? Just a guess about the fighting van Gorders. Petrino should be tired for even thinking about BvG, let alone hiring him.

Petrino should have been fired for hiring Sirmon last year.

Defense was actually ok and only gave up one real TD. The 2nd TD was on Bobby for going for it on 4th down at his own 30, which ended up being a turnover that was returned to the 7. And we lost 4 guys to injury during the game. One carried out on a stretcher.

The disaster was on offense, where Petrino used to be a genius but Bobby 2.0 as we call him is a joke.

First two drives were 2 fumbles (recovered) and 2 drops and 2 3 and outs. After leading the damn country in turnovers last year, nothing has improved with ball security. This is a coaching problem.

Another WR drop that was so comical it was batted right to a defender for an INT.

And maybe the worst drop I've ever seen with our supposed best WR, All-ACC Jalen Smith. Maybe 45 yard bomb that hit him in stride 5 yards behind the safety, should have been an easy 75 yard TD... it just went right through his hands. Unbelievable.

Stele wrote:

Petrino should have been fired for hiring Sirmon last year.

Sirmon doing great work here at Cal coaching LB on what could be the best defense in the Pac-12 and maybe one of the top in the country. After years of watching awful LB play it is amazing to watch LB's not only being in the right spot but actually making tackles. I'm sure he gets no run outside of the Pac but read up on Evan Weaver here at Cal. Dude looks like Butkus out there.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

And people were saying this sport isn't entertaining anymore, and/or this week's slate was boring.

That might have been me, and I stand by it!

I would never willingly watch a Big 10 game, a lot of the ACC games were canceled and I mostly skipped UT-USC because I got my college football fill from a very entertaining LSU-Auburn game.

I pre-grade the week based on depth and quality from noon to midnight, and there was only one game (LSU-Auburn) that really stood out to me. By now, however, all of y'all know that a college football Saturday will produce one or more upsets. Had I know ahead of that Troy was going to beat Nebraska, I would have given Week 3 an advance grade of A++++++++infinity.

Nebraska is the Cleveland Browns of college football: dumb (they paid Troy $900,000 to come beat them, winless (they've lost six straight) and unloved except by those who have nothing better to do on game day and/or can't find their way out of the stadium. Had I known to hate-watch it, I would have loved every second.

Fun fact: Since Kentucky ended Florida's win streak over them at 31 two weeks ago, the longest active streak is Texas A&M's 24 wins in a row vs TCU!

23 were as part of the Southwest Conference, and the most recent was a win in 2001 in the GalleryFurniture.com Bowl.

Sidebar: All Houstonians love Gallery Furniture. Mattress Mac opened his stores to house flood victims last year and gave them all free mattresses after. In 2002 he sold me the couches that we lost in the flood, and in June of this year I got my replacements from him.

Enix wrote:

I would never willingly watch a Big 10 game

Savage! (Some flame emojis would go here if this forum supported them!)

Although I'll certainly concede the B1G isn't exactly lighting anyone up so far this year...

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Fun fact: Since Kentucky ended Florida's win streak over them at 31 two weeks ago, the longest active streak is Texas A&M's 24 wins in a row vs TCU!

23 were as part of the Southwest Conference, and the most recent was a win in 2001 in the GalleryFurniture.com Bowl.

Sidebar: All Houstonians love Gallery Furniture. Mattress Mac opened his stores to house flood victims last year and gave them all free mattresses after. In 2002 he sold me the couches that we lost in the flood, and in June of this year I got my replacements from him.

Mack is indeed a local legend. I remember watching his commercials during late night airings of Great Southwest Wrestling in the late 70's and early 80's. Back before he hurt himself doing commercials when he could still jump up and down.