Seems like Oregon used to be known for dynamic offense.
Yeah, Mario can sure recruit, but the offense looked like garbage this year. I really hope they fire Arroyo and get another offensive coordinator or next year will be brutal with the harder schedule they have.
My nephew is going to be playing in the Rose Bowl, I think he’s going to be starting. I’m nervous for him!
My nephew is going to be playing in the Rose Bowl, I think he’s going to be starting. I’m nervous for him!
Whelp the UW postseason win drought continues. If only we had played with the same intensity all 4 quarters.
On the plus side, UK won their bowl game. Yes, I’m not ashamed to root for my home state if Louisville is out of contention.
Apparently Texas found a defense in an old closet somewhere. Let's see if it holds up in the second half.
On the plus side, UK won their bowl game. Yes, I’m not ashamed to root for my home state if Louisville is out of contention.
Ew, no. I know too many Kentucky fans.
Was hoping they continued never having 10 wins in my lifetime. Oh well.
Apparently Texas found a defense in an old closet somewhere. Let's see if it holds up in the second half.
SUB IN BEVO HE ALREADY SHOWED US HE WANTS TO PLAY
I hope UGA plays like that when we play them this Fall.
Congrats, hoppa.
Whoo! Hook 'Em! Very impressed by the Longhorns going up against the Bulldogs. My usual skepticism protected my heart through this year, but I'm really happy right now and looking forward to next season!
I mean, the skepticism was fair after Maryland, but CFB is real-life chaos theory, so congrats!
bighoppa wrote:Apparently Texas found a defense in an old closet somewhere. Let's see if it holds up in the second half.
SUB IN BEVO HE ALREADY SHOWED US HE WANTS TO PLAY
Yeah, it was pretty much over after this:
Stupid cow.
Grats Hoppa, Texas definitely played like the better team.
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If you were watching this game in a bar or alongside thousands of your closest friends on Twitter, it wasn't just a game but a social event. Twenty years from now, you won't remember most things from the 2018 college football bowl season, but I guarantee you'll remember watching the Cheez-It Bowl. Just beautifully bad football. A cult classic. Five stars. If they ever make it into a movie, both The Rock and Jason Statham will be in it. (35)
Winning. GO BEARS
Justin Fields to OSU. Interesting battle between him and Tate Martell incoming. Wish him the best but unless he knows for sure that Fromm will be in Athens for two more years it seems like a real gamble.
Justin Fields to OSU. Interesting battle between him and Tate Martell incoming. Wish him the best but unless he knows for sure that Fromm will be in Athens for two more years it seems like a real gamble.
You catch the drama with Tate Martell (former A&M commit) subtweeting Fields and trying to warn him off of coming to tOSU?
Martell doesn't seem like a high-character guy. Before he switched his commitment to tOSU, there was some other drama where someone made public a message he sent to another recruit about how he liked the situation at A&M because the only guy ahead of him would be "Nick Starkel, and he's ass, my dude."
"He's ass, my dude" has permanently entered the TexAgs lexicon. 
I did, and I expect Fields to win the job if he gets the waiver to play this year. But Martell has talent, he's just small but he has been in their system, so does experience or measurables win out?
From everything that I have heard Fromm and Fields got along well. That doesn't seem likely in Columbus.
Yeah, if you watch the show QB1 Martell comes off as a complete douche. If you aren't familiar, the show follows Martell, Jake Fromm, and another kid as seniors in HS. I think it's on Netflix.
Anyway, I was aware of "ass, my dude" long before seeing the show, so I already had expectations of his douchiness. The show did nothing to assuage those expectations.
Ohio State is really the perfect place for him. Not sure why Fields would go there though.
Not only do I watch the show, I watch a number of them!
Tickets for the National Championship game in Santa Clara (do NOT say San Francisco) are down to $130 on stubhub. By contrast Gonzaga @ USF Basketball (which IS in San Francisco) lowest price is $145.
Maybe this is more of a datapoint rather than some sort of any real indicator, but clearly the demand in the Bay Area is not there, and few people from the South are willing to trek out here. Hotels in the area are average price ($300 / night in Silicon valley is a normal rate btw). During big conferences like Dreamforce, they are actually double and can get as high as $1,000 per night.
Yeah, I have seen several articles about it. You have two teams from the Southeast, neither of which is convenient to major airports. Airfare into San Jose is about $1,000 per ticket, plus the aforementioned $1,000 or so for a hotel.
On top of that, this is the fourth year in a row that these two teams have played in the playoff with three of them being for the title. On top of that is the fact that Bama murdered everyone this year and most people figure they are going to murder Clemson as well.
When you look at all of that, there's a lot of better ways to spend your money.
Oh, and the national championship game next year will be in New Orleans... so there's that.
So, all of UGA's juniors on offense who were considering going pro, went pro. I'm understanding why the offense looked so out of sorts against the Horns.
Time to see if Kirby has successfully modeled Bama's patented Reloading not Rebuilding. 
Tickets for the National Championship game in Santa Clara (do NOT say San Francisco) are down to $130 on stubhub.
Because no one cares all that much? It's the fourth straight year that Alabama has been in the title game and the third time in four years that Ala-Clemson are playing. That's a long way for Alabama Fan and Clemson Fan to go, and I can't believe either school has any fanbase out that way.
On a related topic because it just occurred to me: Are there any national college football fan bases? Duke basketball has one (MSG in NYC is a home game for them, for instance), and Carolina basketball used to (maybe because of Jordan?). I guess Notre Dame for historical reasons is the only one, and maybe the service academies (but only once a year)?
On a related topic because it just occurred to me: Are there any national college football fan bases?
Fresno.
On a related topic because it just occurred to me: Are there any national college football fan bases? Duke basketball has one (MSG in NYC is a home game for them, for instance), and Carolina basketball used to (maybe because of Jordan?). I guess Notre Dame for historical reasons is the only one, and maybe the service academies (but only once a year)?
I blame the crappy history of Bowls catering to specific conferences, therefore regions, made national fan bases harder to build. Not really Dame is the exception.
So when the best team in the country is in the Big 10, they only play some PAC 12 team, regardless of how they are ranked, and vice versa. Same with most bowls. The Orange Bowl at least only had the Big 8 champion, so f Nebraska or Oklahoma were #1 or #2, there was a chance of a NCG, as long as the other wasn’t obligated to another bowl.
The NCAA basketball tournament creates far more match-ups that exposes to teams to everyone in the nation.
Why would there ever be a national fanbase for a college football team? NBC tried to create one with Notre Dame, but I don't know anyone who is a fan of a college who either didn't go to that college, or have a family member go to that college, or of course grew up in that city. Why would anyone who grew up in Los Angeles with no affiliation with the South become an Alabama football fan.. or someone in Atlanta become a UCLA basketball fan?
You may be a fan of players.. or a specific year of a college team (ie. Fab 5 for example), but as much as I'd love everyone here to be tuning in to Cal football every Saturday, that doesn't make much sense to me.
Well, people are fans of whoever they are fans of. There is nothing rational about choosing to root for one team over another, even if it is your own school. The winners and losers of sporting events means nothing.
But we participate in this fantasy for a variety of reasons. Hometown teams is one of the biggest. For many, it was the first dominant team in a sport when they started watching. And playing in big meaningful games increases the odds that teams build those fan bases.
I like college basketball, and Kansas is one of those blue blood schools that draws viewers no matter what. Works out for me because I'm in St. Louis, but easily get most all of their games. If I were a K-state alum, my opportunity to watch them would be much less. So, the more fans that like Kansas, the more I get to watch them in St. Louis.
This has become less of a big deal in the age of a million sports channels, and ways to watch, and that has been Notre Dame's undoing. When the choices were few, networks could turn a program like Notre Dame into a national team.
But for me, New Year's Day bowls were just this thing you spent the day watching while you recovered from NYE hangovers with friends all day. Who was in each bowl hardly mattered. And if it wasn't #1 vs #2, it never really mattered so much. The BCS began to change that. Every expansion of the playoffs will change that even more because every year the top teams will have multiple big games that matter.
Why would there ever be a national fanbase for a college football team? NBC tried to create one with Notre Dame, but I don't know anyone who is a fan of a college who either didn't go to that college, or have a family member go to that college, or of course grew up in that city.
Wait, what?
The vast majority of Notre Dame fans have never stepped foot on campus, never had even a family member attend. There is a huge following from especially Catholics nationwide. There are ND fans on both coasts and everywhere in between.
Hell, a guy from Kentucky once told me he went to a Catholic elementary school and that “for 4 days of the week we prayed for the poor; on the fifth, we prayed for Notre Dame football.”
So, I would argue against your anecdotal sample of college football fans as necessarily representative.
Given I live in heathen California, the only Notre Dame fan I ever met had a parent who went there. That being said, I've met a number catholics that have attended tOSU, and just by nature of the number of catholics I assume a number attended Cal or USC or stanfurd or UCLA and I don't think they are skipping the home team game to catch ND on NBC.
Yeah, outside of Notre Dame (because of the Catholic Connection) I don't see a college team with any sort of national draw. First of all, outside the South and the Midwest, it's been my experience that college football takes a back seat, and it's wayyyy back, to the NFL. So you are starting with a thing that's not as big on the national stage.
Add to that the connections that fans make to a school. Most college teams develop their fanbase first from Alumni then from people in close geographic proximity to the school. Even in today's crazy media landscape, you don't hear all that much about college programs from other parts of the country unless you specifically search it out. Kids up here in Connecticut don't hear about, or care about, Florida State, Alabama, etc. Heck, they are far more interested in baseball (pro) and basketball (college) anyway.
Finally, the transient nature of the teams probably has something to do with it. Players are only around a program for 4 years, max (unless you are Hunter Renfrow or JT Barrett, then it's 25 years) so the rosters are always churning. While you do see players move around in the NFL, it's not wholesale change every 4 years. You don't have the Drew Brees', Tom Bradys, Phillip Rivers', etc., signature players who are with the same team for years. Even coaches, with the exception of a very select few, are rarely at a school for very long. This dilutes the potential fan base, as all but the most die hard fans won't be around for the inevitable success/failure cycles that hit most programs. When Tim Tebow was a thing you saw the Gators become something of a national draw, but he's been gone for almost 10 years and most of those fans are gone too.
That's a lot of text that may make sense to noone but me, but I figured I could throw in on this.
Game tonight. I'm going to need a nap
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