NCAA College Football 2019-20: Official Thread

WizardM0de wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:

Unfortunately, NC BBQ just didn't cut it for me as Austin and KC were great but either I just whiffed on my restaurants or pulled pork just isn't for me.

I just, I don't even know, I can't....I mean....neither Eastern style NOR Lexington/Piedmont (Western) style did it for you?? I'm flummoxed.

Eh, pork 'cue ain't for everyone. Just like some people have differences of opinion on whether 2-loss teams in certain conferences should make the CFB playoffs.

Also, too: BBQ Bowl would be a great bowl game concept - one team from the pork BBQ states (Va, NC, SC, maybe Ga) and one from the beef states (Texas, etc.)

OK, time for my games of the week:

App State at UNC for all the reasons WizardM0de said. I'm also taking the over.

Elon at Wake Forest, noon: Elon is a top 25 I-AA school, and Wake is actually not bad. Slim chance of an upset but you never know.

Auburn at Texas A&M, 3:30: Two ranked SEC teams in the 3:30 SEC game. I have no rooting interest, so I guess I'll pull for the home team (aka Team Fed)

W&M at East Carolina, 6: Upset alert. The Tribe got run over by UVA, but ECU is hot garbage again this year. If W&M gets a couple of breaks, they might pull it off.

Notre Dame at Georgia, 8: Gotta love a CBS doubleheader. I'll catch some of this game for sure.

Louisville at FSU, 330 ESPN.

Also, Pitt blog ranks Louisville 3rd in ACC power rankings.

After some embarrassing conference losses last weekend, and if we win Sat they might be right.

Stele wrote:

Also, Pitt blog ranks Louisville 3rd in ACC power rankings.

With Wake at 4 and Carolina at 5. Man, that's grim.

Texas v. OSU should be good. Texas can't stop anyone on offense, and OK State has one of the better RBs in the country. Should be a high scoring game.

bighoppa wrote:

Texas v. OSU should be good. Texas can't stop anyone on offense, and OK State has one of the better RBs in the country. Should be a high scoring game.

Usually a very good game. I do think this is the most interesting game other than the ones Enix mentioned.

And Enix, thanks for your support!

One lane?

No, no....

....Tulane.

Prederick wrote:

One lane?

No, no....

....Tulane.

Epic game.

So Michigan probably should have just lost to Army. Would be less embarrassing than the ass kicking today. Wow.

Wow Ole Miss blew the hell out of that.

Insane finish.

Good for you CarlBear.

Wow.

GO BEARS!!!!!!!

Well, 202 isn't bad. But we've beaten Liberty and Directional Michigan, and lost to Maryland and Clemson by a combined score of 104-26. So Syracuse isn't necessarily bad, they're just definitely not good.

I’m just watching the score go by, but, man Stele, it appears as though Louisville has some fight in them. When they go down 21-0 but come back to take the lead? After last year? I continue to be impressed.

Cal, picked 5th in the Pac-12 north and 8th overall in the PAC has more SEC conference wins than 6 SEC teams.

just sayin....

S-Easy?
Soft Eastern Conference?

GO BEARS!!!

Good thing some conferences have "quality losses"

Well, ND didn’t get blown out, but UGa completely dominated all but the last 5 min of the second half. ND has 18 yards of offense in the first 4 or 5 drives of the second half. The offense hung their defense out to dry.

Still, an entertaining, tense game.

Indeed, firesloth, great effort by the Domers. Your defense played great especially in the first half.

firesloth wrote:

I’m just watching the score go by, but, man Stele, it appears as though Louisville has some fight in them. When they go down 21-0 but come back to take the lead? After last year? I continue to be impressed.

Was a great game, mostly. 21-0 run then 24-0 run. Bad 3rd down INT by Louisville when they could have extended the lead to 6 at least, or 10 hopefully. Really changed momentum.

But then right after that FSU got away with 15 yard taunting that should have erased their TD to take the lead. Blatant, guy starts hand gesture inside the 10 at the defender that he beat. There are some pretty clear rules about that for the last 8 or 9 years. Not even a sniff of a flag from the ref that was standing there on the goaline watching the whole thing.

And then Louisville burned their timeouts and got a nice 3rd and goal stop. So should have had the ball down 7 with 2 minutes and at least today. But they called personal foul on what surely was running into the kicker and effectively ended the game.

I know we're still the new guy in the conference but it's been 5 years and it'd be nice to get a fair called game sometimes.

UCLA/Wazzu is peak #Pac12AfterDark and it's ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

That was awesome!

Only a Mike Leach team can throw for 9 TDs and lose.

God bless college football. It's so apocalyptically stupid.

Badferret wrote:

Indeed, firesloth, great effort by the Domers. Your defense played great especially in the first half.

Yeah, I love out defensive coordinator. It’s only his second year as a coordinator (anywhere!).

Aside from that stretch in the third where ND’s defense was gassed, I’ll second what the announcers said: both teams displayed some really great tackling.

ACC one great team, all others bad = Weak Conference
PAC-12, competitive league any team can beat the other = weak conference
SEC=ZOMG we should sent all 14 teams to the playoffs!!111!! We are the greatest ever. Losing to Bama and LSU every year is like winning any other conference championship!!

Meanwhile, SEC last year lost the championship game to the ACC, yesterday lost to the team picked 8th in the Pac12. Oh and also lost @home to a Bay Area team that hasn’t beat a power 5 team in like 5 years.o

App State - Carolina was about as fun a game as I've watched in a while. ROLL NEERS!

ESPN can go hell - "App State upsets UNC." The only surprise was that App didn't win by a helluva lot more. App was up 27-10 at one point, and Carolina made a ton of mistakes.

You learn so many fun things when rankings actually matter to you.

Today I present the "Colley Matrix" which was actually one of the computers used in the BCS system way back when.

http://www.colleyrankings.com/curran...

It is meant to present a rankings purely on wins/losses and SOS is determined purely by actual wins/losses, so it doesn't care anything about Quality Losses, mythology around domes, hedges, or some aura by association.

Yeah, of course I picked it because Cal is #3.. I think more interesting though is the conference rankings.

http://www.colleyrankings.com/foot20...

Instead of penalizing the Pac-12 for eating its own, it gives credit that beating Washington or Utah is actually a good thing. It also shows in a pretty good table every conferences record (and results) against other conferences. It's also pretty clear that the AAC and the MWC are the cream of the "Next 5" (is that what they are called?). Guess which conference scheduled the fewest teams from those two? This just reinforces that "best conference" should be the sum of all teams in that conference not just the 3-5 teams at the top. Note, that the Pac-12 is still 3rd in this so I'm not just cherry picking a favorable poll.. Of course that is still one ahead of the S-Easy.

With only 4 weeks of data its hardly complete and maybe at the end of the season the results will just be what our friends in the Soft Eastern Conference expect, but at least it will be because of results on the field and not just the sad perpetuation of the SEC myth.

Enix wrote:

App State - Carolina was about as fun a game as I've watched in a while. ROLL NEERS!

ESPN can go hell - "App State upsets UNC." The only surprise was that App didn't win by a helluva lot more. App was up 27-10 at one point, and Carolina made a ton of mistakes.

Great game, Go Apps!

It's why the only thing that makes sense is a playoff that includes all conference champs and some wild cards.

Carlbear95 wrote:

You learn so many fun things when rankings actually matter to you.

Today I present the "Colley Matrix" which was actually one of the computers used in the BCS system way back when.

http://www.colleyrankings.com/curran...

It seems like something that would be more useful to analyze at the end of the season vs. 4 games in. SMU ranked 5, really? They do have some impressive wins against TCU, Arkansas St, North Texas & Texas State.

On another note, if Cal doesn't blow it next weekend we could see College Gameday at Autzen the following week as Cal and Oregon should both be in the top 15.

pizzaddict wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:

You learn so many fun things when rankings actually matter to you.

Today I present the "Colley Matrix" which was actually one of the computers used in the BCS system way back when.

http://www.colleyrankings.com/curran...

It seems like something that would be more useful to analyze at the end of the season vs. 4 games in. SMU ranked 5, really? They do have some impressive wins against TCU, Arkansas St, North Texas & Texas State.

North Texas has a quality loss against Cal.

Hey this is kinda fun.

pizzaddict wrote:

On another note, if Cal doesn't blow it next weekend we could see College Gameday at Autzen the following week as Cal and Oregon should both be in the top 15.

Cal is playing ASU Friday night after a road trip across the country, the fan base is riding an unfamiliar high, we’re getting mentions in national sports news now, trust me this has all the makings of the horrific 2007 season all over again.