NCAA College Football 2018-19: Official Thread

Badferret wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Condolences of the day go to badferret, whose team was robbed.

chromebison wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

That game nearly made me fall asleep.

ND had no business there. Vandy almost beat them goodness sake.

I like you, grinder. Stick around.

They were never going to put us in over ND.

Now if OU get's blown out....

Then Georgia can claim their third What If National Title in seven years.

(Assuming we beat Texas, and it's hard to get a read on our psyche for the game.)

Ugh. Heading for another boring game.

Why does Oklahoma keep going from 21 to 18 down? Seem like worthless FGs.

...I had Alabama vs. Not Alabama for months now.l

Saw in Deadspin comments a proposal for 8 conferences made of 8 teams. Each team plays one game against their conference brethren, then reseed everyone into a 64 team tourney, higher seeds get home games. The ultimate CFB champ goes 13-0 (losers play each other to play out the season).

I love this idea and have been thinking about how the conferences would be constructed (I'd want geographic consistency). I'd add in relegation to provide incentives for competing late in the season and ALSO for lower tier teams to be rewarded to come up to "Super" Division I.

I think it'd be amazing.

Hey, it's a message board, so post whatever you like, but we aren't getting that kind of conference overhaul. The schools form the conferences, and if they didn't like having these conferences, they could change it. In this scenario they have the power.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Hey, it's a message board, so post whatever you like, but we aren't getting that kind of conference overhaul. The schools form the conferences, and if they didn't like having these conferences, they could change it. In this scenario they have the power.

Yeah, boils down to money. There is way too much money for the power five schools right now for them to want to mess that up.

Lets be honest, aside from the game with "your team" in it, has there actually been a more entertaining bowl game than the Cheez It bowl?

Mark Richt has lost control...... of himself.

Five little yards and his career would have been viewed very differently, but watching Kirby the last three years, it's pretty clear that Richt didn't have the drive anymore that is probably required in today's CFB.

Phew, almost had to go through Willie Taggart part 2 but Cristobal decided to stay at Oregon. Sounds like he might be getting a revised contract after the bowl game too. I'm not sure how good of a coach he is but the dude can sure recruit.

The Manny Diaz era at Temple lasted all of almost three weeks. Hope he didn't sell his house in Miami!

Yeah, that situation is weird. Was Miami planning on keeping Richt 3 weeks ago? Were they banking on getting Cristobal from Oregon? Otherwise, once they found out Diaz was being considered for the Temple job why didn't they fire Richt then or at least but the "coach in waiting" tag on Diaz?

I suspect Richt's decision was last-minute and surprising (to Diaz, to the U) and gummed up the works. That's the only scenario that makes any sense to me.

Sorry, I didn't realize he has "retired" instead of being fired so like you said, likely they weren't really prepared for it.

pizzaddict wrote:

Sorry, I didn't realize he has "retired" instead of being fired so like you said, likely they weren't really prepared for it.

Many firings are called retiring. Hard to say which this was.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
pizzaddict wrote:

Sorry, I didn't realize he has "retired" instead of being fired so like you said, likely they weren't really prepared for it.

Many firings are called retiring. Hard to say which this was.

I'm pretty sure this was just a straight up retiring. Richt's son was the QB coach, and the AD wanted Richt to show him the door and Richt retired rather than firing his son. Nepotism laws/rules are our friends.

Wait we could have told Petrino to fire his 3 sons and he might have quit and saved the buyout?

Enix wrote:

The Manny Diaz era at Temple lasted all of almost three weeks. Hope he didn't sell his house in Miami!

I am sure the pundits who were VERY displeased about players transferring schools were absolutely livid about this.

Prederick wrote:
Enix wrote:

The Manny Diaz era at Temple lasted all of almost three weeks. Hope he didn't sell his house in Miami!

I am sure the pundits who were VERY displeased about players transferring schools were absolutely livid about this.

Yeah, this is just brutal for all of those former Miami commits that followed Diaz to Temple in the early signing period.

If one of the early signees at Temple want out I'm sure the school would release them. If not then I believe the kids can make an appeal to the NCAA and most likely be allowed to transfer without penalty given the circumstances.

Prederick wrote:
Enix wrote:

The Manny Diaz era at Temple lasted all of almost three weeks. Hope he didn't sell his house in Miami!

I am sure the pundits who were VERY displeased about players transferring schools were absolutely livid about this.

Same ones are mad about guys sitting out the bowl games, too.

Unrelated: Major Applewhite is out after two seasons at Houston, where the president recently bragged about going 8-4 being a fireable offense.

Now you see why tenure for faculty is such a great idea.

Note to UH: You ain't so great, but, your coat, er, coach, was kind of a prick, too.

The surprise to me is that Houston is apparently targeting Dana Holgerson for the job, which... from the Power 5 to the American Conference seems like a weird choice?

Prederick wrote:

The surprise to me is that Houston is apparently targeting Dana Holgerson for the job, which... from the Power 5 to the American Conference seems like a weird choice?

Worked for Charlie Strong. Sort of.

Alright! Oregon dominates Michigan State to get win #9 in the season.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

pizzaddict wrote:

Alright! Oregon dominates Michigan State to get win #9 in the season.

Wait 7-6 and only 1 INT? booooorrring

No it was great defense! Totally not really, really, bad offense.

Seems like Oregon used to be known for dynamic offense.

Good showing from the Aggies, Fed.

Badferret wrote:

Good showing from the Aggies, Fed.

It's your turn tomorrow. See if you can beat our margin of victory!

Pretty remarkable that we scored 7, then they scored 13 unanswered, and then they never scored again.