NCAA College Football 2019-20: Official Thread

YOU'RE F**KING IT UP CHEESEHEADS

Wisconsin doesn't really do "away from home" things very well most years.

Rat Boy wrote:

I can't decide which hafltime locker room speech I'm more curious about: Ohio State's to get them back in the game or the one in Wisconsin's that made them forget how to football.

WHAT THE ACTUAL EFF CHEESE PEOPLE!

Prederick wrote:

YOU BETTER NOT BLOW THIS NOW WISCONSIN, I DEMAND CHAOS

YOU DISAPPOINT ME

Prederick wrote:
Prederick wrote:

YOU BETTER NOT BLOW THIS NOW WISCONSIN, I DEMAND CHAOS

YOU DISAPPOINT ME

Ohio State disappointed too.

Spoiler:

They were giving 16 points & only won by 13. The Buckeyes did not cover.
and while I'm at it, OU can ESAD...twice.

Ohio State's win prevented the committee from keeping a one-loss and non-conference-champ Ohio State from staying in the playoffs at No. 4. Body of work and all that.

Anyhoo, we'll find out in about 40 mins who will be in the playoffs. I'm figuring it'll be Ohio State, LSU, Clemson and Oklahoma in that order.

Predictions have Louisville going to Music City bowl. And I'll be in Nashville visiting family anyway...

LSU, OSU, Clemson, Oklahoma

Where's that video of Ogeron yelling "Roll tide, what? f*ck you!"

Still curious how Clemson wins 28 in a row, starts #1, and drops to 3?

As much as Dabo annoys me, I hope they kick the sh*t out of 2 more teams.

Stele wrote:

Still curious how Clemson wins 28 in a row, starts #1, and drops to 3?

As much as Dabo annoys me, I hope they kick the sh*t out of 2 more teams.

The committee was unaware that this is a cumulative playoff and not just a measure of this year's contests.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Stele wrote:

Still curious how Clemson wins 28 in a row, starts #1, and drops to 3?

As much as Dabo annoys me, I hope they kick the sh*t out of 2 more teams.

The committee was unaware that this is a cumulative playoff and not just a measure of this year's contests.

If that were true, Alabama would have at least 1 less appearance.

Bowl games are dumb. Louisville vs Tenn was announced for Music City.

And Kentucky vs Indiana for Gator.

Then some behind the scenes sh*t goes down with the SEC. Now Tenn is in the Gator. Miss St in Music City. But UL vs MSU was the same matchup just 2 seasons ago. Nobody wanted this, except Tenn or Kentucky apparently?

Stele wrote:

Bowl games are dumb. Louisville vs Tenn was announced for Music City.

And Kentucky vs Indiana for Gator.

Then some behind the scenes sh*t goes down with the SEC. Now Tenn is in the Gator. Miss St in Music City. But UL vs MSU was the same matchup just 2 seasons ago. Nobody wanted this, except Tenn or Kentucky apparently?

Were they really announced, or was there just a rumor?

Yeah Music City announced, ACC announced. Satterfield was talking about Tennessee in the press conference.

Then SEC announced their bowls and everything changed. Satterfield switched to talking about Miss St mid conference. Weirdest sh*t ever.

App State is headed to New Orleans for its bowl game against UAB.

App State's coach, meanwhile, might be headed to Mizzou.

Enix wrote:

App State is headed to New Orleans for its bowl game against UAB.

App State's coach, meanwhile, might be headed to Mizzou.

Was hoping he'd stick around and keep what Satt had going for a few years at least. Their fans have been so nice the last year, I can't help but cheer for them.

Sigh Cal in the Redbox, formerly Emerald Bowl at the 49ers stadium in Santa Clara.

I know in the end its probably best, as its probably the best opportunity to get people to show up given its local, but Bowl games are an excuse to travel for me and going down to the 49ers totally generic and soulless (albeit new and clean) stadium is about as boring as it can get. I had a greater likelihood of going to El Paso on New Years Even just for the excuse to travel than just driving an hour down the peninsula.

Wondering if Mizzou fans feel 100% good about this hire...Drinkwitz going 12-1 with a loaded roster Satterfield gifted him on a silver platter doesn't imply success at the SEC level. Wouldn't they want to see if he recruit at all?

I was angry about this when it was first announced, especially considering his "this ain't no stepping stone" monologue in January, but now that I think about it, it might be the best thing to happen for App if he's not the real deal. He was a solid offensive mind as an interim head coach, and now maybe we can get a real family guy with roots in the spot (a la Shawn Clark, Mark Ivey, etc.).

Or, in the evil parallel universe, App State will just be a stepping stone as long as they remain in the Sun Belt.

Only until we get automatic bids for 16 playoff spots. Then App is an easy way to postseason.

On one hand, happy for Drink. He got the Power 5 job he wanted. Congrats to him.

On the other hand, the hell with him. Don't let the door hit ya, etc. etc. etc.

On the third hand (because I'm a circus freak), this seems like a desperation hire from Mizzou. Drink inherited a good roster and ran the table with it (except for the the Georgia Southern game, grrr). But I don't think anyone he recruited cracked the starting lineup, and most of those signees were already in the pipeline because he didn't get to Boone until Dec.

This year's class? Who knows how they'll shake out. App will lose a *ton* of talent after this season and next, and I don't know what's in the cupboard except for maybe some stale saltines and half a jar of peanut butter.

For App State's sake, I hope they find someone who would like to stay in Boone for more than 51.5 weeks. Nope, Drink didn't even make it a calendar year.

Stele wrote:

Bowl games are dumb. Louisville vs Tenn was announced for Music City.

And Kentucky vs Indiana for Gator.

Then some behind the scenes sh*t goes down with the SEC. Now Tenn is in the Gator. Miss St in Music City. But UL vs MSU was the same matchup just 2 seasons ago. Nobody wanted this, except Tenn or Kentucky apparently?

TN screwed over KY :). They apparently pulled rank for the warmer bowl on their SEC and head to head records.

Stele wrote:

Bowl games are dumb.

I don't know what you're talking about, as I root for my alma mater in the... [checks notes]

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Cal's offensive coordinator Beau Baldwin expected to become HC of Cal Poly (FCS team).

I'm split on this. On one hand, our offense has looked inept at times, especially when starting QB Chase Garbers was out for an extended period.

However, when Chase has played and particularly against stanfurd, ucla and Ole Miss the offense actually looked pretty good. Add to that the fact that next years Pac-12 could be completely up in the air with new coach at UW, new QB at Oregon, stanfurd on the downward slide, and the south (other than Utah) is a mess, Cal had a chance next year especially if Baldwin could continue to develop his offense. Baldwin's history at Eastern Washington is also a strong selling point, and maybe he was just on the cusp of adjusting to P5 football.

Now we will likely need to find a new OC. That could be a great thing as our D is good enough to keep us in most games (even if DeReuyter leaves) and we just need a B grade offense to get us to 9-10 wins. Will be curious to see how we show up in our Bowl Game. If we light it up, maybe we try to keep him around.

So, Saban getting his first taste of missing the playoffs is facing the real possibility of having players headed to the NFL sit out the bowl because players only care about the CFB.

I think this is actually a sneaky good reason for a 16 team playoff.

Personally, I could give a flying flip about the Dawgs playing Baylor but I would be excited about a Georgia/Utah match up in the first round of a playoff.

Enix wrote:

On the third hand (because I'm a circus freak), this seems like a desperation hire from Mizzou. Drink inherited a good roster and ran the table with it (except for the the Georgia Southern game, grrr). But I don't think anyone he recruited cracked the starting lineup, and most of those signees were already in the pipeline because he didn't get to Boone until Dec.

Missouri fired a coach at a horrible time for them. Bowl sanctions, scholarship limitations, second or third lowest budget in the SEC, meh facilities on TV (stadium doesn't look like most teams in the SEC), etc. They experienced what TN did in our coaching search a couple of years ago, they valued their job higher than a lot of the coaches they wanted did.

I think after the mess TN started, they landed OK after the adults took back over, but time will tell how well Missouri actually did.

More App State news: Shawn Clark, the current O-line coach, will be the interim coach. And App's AD might be following Drink out the door. Apparently he's a candidate for the AD's job at Cincinnati.

To square this circle, Doug Gillin* came to App State in 2015 from ... Mizzou.

* EDIT - spelling

Enix wrote:

More App State news: Shawn Clark, the current O-line coach, will be the interim coach. And App's AD might be following Drink out the door. Apparently he's a candidate for the AD's job at Cincinnati.

To square this circle, Doug Gillan came to App State in 2015 from ... Mizzou.

Ugh.

Enix wrote:

More App State news: Shawn Clark, the current O-line coach, will be the interim coach. And App's AD might be following Drink out the door. Apparently he's a candidate for the AD's job at Cincinnati.

wHy DoN't MiD-mAjOrS jUsT wIn ThEiR wAy In?

Enix wrote:

More App State news: Shawn Clark, the current O-line coach, will be the interim coach.

Sounds like this won't be "interim" for much longer (like, tomorrow).