NCAA Football 2020-21 Season

Carlbear95 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:

Former Pac-12 coach with former Pac-12 QB beats SEC defending national champion. I guess that one won't count as a quality loss? Lucky that LSU doesn't play in the Pac-12, they'd probably be .500 at best.

Ags love the Pirate! Hate that we have to play against him every year once again, though. Especially after our opening week horrorshow.

Cal has held WSU to 42 points total over the last 3 games played (2-1). Maybe if there was more defensive talent in the SEC, they could figure it out.

Scrolling through the thread, this didn't age well

Neither did my Vols.

MannishBoy wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Carlbear95 wrote:

Former Pac-12 coach with former Pac-12 QB beats SEC defending national champion. I guess that one won't count as a quality loss? Lucky that LSU doesn't play in the Pac-12, they'd probably be .500 at best.

Ags love the Pirate! Hate that we have to play against him every year once again, though. Especially after our opening week horrorshow.

Cal has held WSU to 42 points total over the last 3 games played (2-1). Maybe if there was more defensive talent in the SEC, they could figure it out.

Scrolling through the thread, this didn't age well

Neither did my Vols. :(

Everyone in this quote chain was wrong! I gave way too much credit to Mississippi State!

Louisville game with Virginia was postponed too. Not much for me here.

I did watch the big Clemson-ND game. And wow, maybe Dabo should have tried for a FG instead of taking a knee with 16 seconds and 2 timeouts? Overtime on the road didn't work out so well did it?

They'll still get in the playoffs though, if they beat ND in the ACCCG in Charlotte with Trevor back healthy.

I'll chime in – really great to see ND beat Clemson. Clemson didn't have all of their players (who does at this point?), but three things stood out:

1) ND went down, had the ball at their own 9 yard line needing a TD to send the game to OT. A few years ago, this would never happen. This year it did.

2) Clemson had 34 yards rushing.

3) Watching ND this year, they are finally strong enough across the board to be the physical bullies in a game. Over the course of this season, you could just see how much their physicality wore down the opponents. As the game wore on Saturday, the number of Clemson players injured or just slow to get up grew and grew. I finally feel like ND is a physical match for some of the top-notch teams (even if their WRs don't largely include the level of speed that one would want).

Stele wrote:

They'll still get in the playoffs though, if they beat ND in the ACCCG in Charlotte with Trevor back healthy.

Yup. But, man: their backup is pretty damned good. More passing yards against ND than anyone in history. Must be nice.

Wakes from dream about Justin Fields.

Remembers current QB room.

Goes back to sleep.
Stele wrote:

I did watch the big Clemson-ND game. And wow, maybe Dabo should have tried for a FG instead of taking a knee with 16 seconds and 2 timeouts? Overtime on the road didn't work out so well did it?

Absolute coaching malpractice. Lots of coaches make similar moves, but this one was exceptionally galling. Totally the wrong decision. Stupid. Deserved to lose after that, and did.

Down goes Bama!

........to COVID.

Prederick wrote:

Down goes Bama!

........to COVID.

Hey, watch the friendly fire! Lotta Goodjers losing their teams' games this weekend, too.

Another week another Cal game cancelled! This time its the other team's fault as ASU has had their own outbreak.

With half the SEC looking like its cancelled, and the whole country in tailspin maybe its time to shut it down? I'm not sure if I'm saying that out of a general desire for safety of a "if I can't play then one should" attitude.. but either way...

We never should have played. It was always silly and dangerous.

Was hoping that "if you want to watch sports wear a mask" would get through to a certain segment of the population. But apparently it didn't and things are worse than ever.

Who was messaging that, though? It might have worked if anyone with a voice was messaging the need for sacrifice. Instead a sizable chunk of the population acts like they're entitled to have everything be normal without any changes on their part.

I keep coming back to this, some of the wisest words on the subject.

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I'm just going to say again that everywhere I go, I see zero people not wearing masks.

Also, fans are not causing outbreaks on teams. Fans are not close enough to athletes to give them coronavirus.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Also, fans are not causing outbreaks on teams. Fans are not close enough to athletes to give them coronavirus.

College football teams don't seem to have any problems giving the Covid to themselves. Looks like we're up to 13 postponed games this weekend, and the ESPN list doesn't include the Charlotte-Gardner Webb game that was scratched today.

It might be easier (or maybe impossible) to name the teams that haven't had a Covid outbreak this season.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Also, fans are not causing outbreaks on teams. Fans are not close enough to athletes to give them coronavirus.

But the general spread in the community makes it easier for an athlete to become infected, especially college athletes. They're still going to grocery stores, bars, etc., like the rest of the population in general. Once one member of a team is infected, they work / study / practice / live in close enough proximity that it's not surprising there are outbreaks even when people are careful.

And while you and I largely don't see people without masks in our daily lives, they're definitely out there. Our Farmer's Market is one laughable case – I'd say 25% of the vendors are not wearing masks. The health department lacks the teeth and political support to do anything about it. (This is an indoor market, too, which is why it's a real problem.) And then there are the Dakotas...

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I'm just going to say again that everywhere I go, I see zero people not wearing masks.

Also, fans are not causing outbreaks on teams. Fans are not close enough to athletes to give them coronavirus.

It's not about whether or not fans are getting students sick. It's about the fact that even holding college football games means we're gathering together people who could make each other sick.

Hah, Cal literally turned the truck around and instead of the cancelled ASU game, Cal will now be playing @fUCLA on Sunday morning at 9am!

Cal going to the Rose Bowl!!!

Don't teams generally require a week of prep to play another team? Isn't this just crazy? What are we even doing?

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Don't teams generally require a week of prep to play another team? Isn't this just crazy? What are we even doing?

Good question.

Carlbear95 wrote:

Cal going to the Rose Bowl!!!

Your dream has finally come true, Carl, and it only took a once-in-a-century pandemic to make it happen.

PS: ESPN now lists 15 games as either canceled or postponed.

We actually play in the physical rose bowl every other year as we have a permanent home-and-home with UCLA. Because of the Pandemic, we actually didn't have UCLA on the schedule at all due to the shortened schedule, but because their game against Utah was also cancelled, the powers that be said "what the heck?!"

Others can obviously judge whether this is a good idea or not. It's happening, and I'm going to be cheering.. unfortunately I have a prior commitment that morning which I really don't want to cancel. Due to weather it may get cancelled anyways, in which case I'll be watching, but either way, for the first "official" time of the season..

GO BEARS!

Is the Pac-12 winner going to finish with a 2-1 record?

What a silly thing to do.

DSGamer wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

I'm just going to say again that everywhere I go, I see zero people not wearing masks.

Also, fans are not causing outbreaks on teams. Fans are not close enough to athletes to give them coronavirus.

It's not about whether or not fans are getting students sick. It's about the fact that even holding college football games means we're gathering together people who could make each other sick.

Stele's post, and kind of your quote from that pitcher, talked about how people should be motivated to mask up by getting to watch sports. Those are fans.

Firesloth also mentioned players going to bars, like everyone else is. But they shouldn't be - they're supposed to be distancing/ quarantining at least as hard as the average person, and imho no one should be going to bars. I'm not, and I really enjoy hitting cool cocktail spots in non-pandemic times.

Silly question: When did Indiana University get good at football?

yeah, College football is stupid. Why are we playing this season?

Because America is deeply, fundamentally stupid.

And greedy. Don’t forget greedy.

Louisville starting RB javian Hawkins didn't play Saturday. Now we find out he's opting out of the rest of the season to prepare for draft.

Makes sense for players without any chance of playoffs to not risk injury or covid at this point. 2020 season is a big old asterisk. Probably shouldn't have played at all.

Stele wrote:

Louisville starting RB javian Hawkins didn't play Saturday. Now we find out he's opting out of the rest of the season to prepare for draft.

Makes sense for players without any chance of playoffs to not risk injury or covid at this point. 2020 season is a big old asterisk. Probably shouldn't have played at all.

FSU lost Terry and Wilson to the draft and Blackmon to graduate transfer. I expect more to come