NCAA Football 2022/2023 Season Catch All!

Carlbear95 wrote:
Badferret wrote:

The Cal Golden Bears do not get either a bowl invite or an invite to the B10.

Water is wet and fire is hot.

Give it time, I am sure the B1G will want the nerdy school to raise the standards when they recruit Washington. (Or maybe they'll just make a run at Stanford).

Carlbear95 wrote:
Badferret wrote:

The Cal Golden Bears do not get either a bowl invite or an invite to the B10.

Water is wet and fire is hot.

Badferret wrote:

Alabama does not win the SEC West. Neither does Texas A&M.

So you're picking the team who has lost to the aforementioned Golden Bears twice in the last 5 years? Cal has more wins over Ole Miss in the last 5 years than Georgia in....10?

GO BEARS! We play mighty UC Davis this saturday... preview of a 2025 Pac-garbage-fire conference game.

Actually I think Arkansas or LSU win the West. With two league losses. I think the West eats each other this season.

Holy smokes there are a lot of games tonight!

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Holy smokes there are a lot of games tonight!

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Hot take, releasing your uniform schedule should be a fineable offense for everyone but Oregon.*

* - Oregon only avoids the fine if their uniforms are deemed sufficiently ridiculous.

Figured I'd watch Pitt-WVU for the hate.

Big East football: What is dead may never die

Prederick wrote:

Hot take, releasing your uniform schedule should be a fineable offense for everyone but Oregon.*

* - Oregon only avoids the fine if their uniforms are deemed sufficiently ridiculous.

I love most the Oregon uniform combos. The ones they are going to where against Georgia this weekend look awesome!

https://twitter.com/oregonfootball/s...

Prederick wrote:

Hot take, releasing your uniform schedule should be a fineable offense for everyone but Oregon.*

* - Oregon only avoids the fine if their uniforms are deemed sufficiently ridiculous.

Well, Florida has to have something for that large staff to do. They can't all be player personal valets, there aren't that many players.

MannishBoy wrote:
Prederick wrote:

Hot take, releasing your uniform schedule should be a fineable offense for everyone but Oregon.*

* - Oregon only avoids the fine if their uniforms are deemed sufficiently ridiculous.

Well, Florida has to have something for that large staff to do. They can't all be player personal valets, there aren't that many players.

It's early, but I'm getting Butch Jones vibes from Napier.

Badferret wrote:

I love that people use what is arguably one of the biggest rivalry games in the country as an example of a typical football game environment. Always pops up on reddit when someone wants to know what it's like. Poor exchange students then probably are very disappointed when they end up at a high school game up north somewhere and no one gives a sh*t.

High school? There's some kid from Turkey who's going to be at a Rutgers-Maryland game this year and be INCREDIBLY disappointed.

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Badferret wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:
Prederick wrote:

Hot take, releasing your uniform schedule should be a fineable offense for everyone but Oregon.*

* - Oregon only avoids the fine if their uniforms are deemed sufficiently ridiculous.

Well, Florida has to have something for that large staff to do. They can't all be player personal valets, there aren't that many players.

It's early, but I'm getting Butch Jones vibes from Napier.

As a Vol fan, I'm totally here for that.

From what I've seen, that Pitt v West Virginia game was a great game. Saw it from about the pick 6 on riding home from the UT game. JT Daniels looked like a pretty good get from Georgia for West Virginia, and gave them a very good chance to win, only to lose it on a pick through the hands of his receiver and a reversal of a called catch on the goal line with 22 seconds left.

May try to see if I can find the whole game to watch later, since UT plays Pitt next week.

That was definitely not a catch.

I watched most of it. Pitt dropped a wide open 70 yard TD in the 2nd. Hit WR in the hands with no one between him and the end zone.

Feels like Pitt could have won more easily between that and a couple other plays.

Watched the 4th quarter of Purdue vs Penn St after that game. Purdue was a first down from running out the clock. Instead they punted, PSU scored in less than a minute, and they ran out of downs/time at midfield.

Should have ran a better 3rd down play or maybe went for 4th to kill the clock instead of giving up the ball up 3. Getting one first down is better than having to go 75 yards in under a minute... At least when you can't trust your sorry prevent defense.

Stele wrote:

That was definitely not a catch.

I wasn't saying it was the wrong call, just that it was very close to the point it was originally called a catch.

And I was shocked the refs called it a catch to start. Looked like it drug the ground live to me. Then on replay it clearly bounced off his hand into the ground.

Didn't seem close to me, but it was week 1 for refs too hehe.

Stele wrote:

And I was shocked the refs called it a catch to start. Looked like it drug the ground live to me. Then on replay it clearly bounced off his hand into the ground.

Didn't seem close to me, but it was week 1 for refs too hehe.

I was streaming on a phone screen so didn't have an opinion initially. When they started the replays, I assumed it would be overturned. But it was still enough of a pass to get it close in a crucial spot.

Looks like CFB is skipping the eight-team playoff and going straight to 12 teams starting in 2026, assuming Pete Thamel's tweet is accurate.

12 teams in the playoffs made up of the six highest ranked conference champs + six at large bids.

Of the at large bids, in a typical year post conference expansion, how many will be carved out of the SEC and Big 10? Leaving how many for everybody else?

The team I could see in the worst spot here that's been a traditional playoff team is Clemson. Winners will be mid-tier Big 10 and SEC schools that will now have a shot.

And watch the ratings for the non-playoff bowls flounder.

This + NIL + transfer rules might level out talent some for the "have nots". Now many more teams will have a shot at playoffs, so it will be a bit harder to stockpile talent at Alabama, Clemson, OK, GA, Ohio State etc.

Agree with everything you say, it will be interesting to watch this play out.

MannishBoy wrote:

And watch the ratings for the non-playoff bowls to flounder.

Hasn't this been true since the playoffs started though? No real evidence on my part here, just a sense that the bowl glut + playoffs makes the non-CFP bowls seem quite superfluous unless you are invested in a team or conference. IDK. This certainly won't reverse that trend, if it had been a trend, though, for sure.

tboon wrote:

Agree with everything you say, it will be interesting to watch this play out.

MannishBoy wrote:

And watch the ratings for the non-playoff bowls flounder.

Hasn't this been true since the playoffs started though? No real evidence on my part here, just a sense that the bowl glut + playoffs makes the non-CFP bowls seem quite superfluous unless you are invested in a team or conference. IDK. This certainly won't reverse that trend, if it had been a trend, though, for sure.

Probably, but the playoffs were time limited. Go to 12 and you've got more dates and more games. I assume they'll absorb some of the better bowls into the 12 like the did with the three playoff games now, but outside of that group, where do the big sponsors come from?

tboon wrote:

Agree with everything you say, it will be interesting to watch this play out.

MannishBoy wrote:

And watch the ratings for the non-playoff bowls to flounder.

Hasn't this been true since the playoffs started though? No real evidence on my part here, just a sense that the bowl glut + playoffs makes the non-CFP bowls seem quite superfluous unless you are invested in a team or conference. IDK. This certainly won't reverse that trend, if it had been a trend, though, for sure.

Time will tell on the ratings, but personally, I cherish college football season, and bowls will still be the last chance to enjoy it until the next year. No one should schedule them up against playoff games, though.

Bowls are live TV programing that some amount of people actually tune into, a scarce commodity these days. We might all collectively yawn at the Poulan Weed Eater Rid X Mentos Bowl, but people actually do watch those games, which is why they keep adding new bowl games every year even if out of the 26 people in the stands 5 of them are probably there just to have sex in public.

MannishBoy wrote:

Of the at large bids, in a typical year post conference expansion, how many will be carved out of the SEC and Big 10? Leaving how many for everybody else?

Since 2014.

Chris Hummer
@chris_hummer
The breakdown by conference (prior to any pending expansion) is pretty interesting. The SEC and Big Ten still dominate:

Big Ten: 23
SEC: 22
Big 12: 15
ACC: 13
Pac-12: 12
AAC: 6
Independent: 3*
M-West: 1
MAC: 1
Sun Belt: 1

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Glad you're back, College Football.

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(Please note, Iowa has not scored a touchdown.)

A&M in a permanent lightning delay. Any chance they just call it good after a certain number of hours?

Go App State!

Fedaykin98 wrote:

A&M in a permanent lightning delay. Any chance they just call it good after a certain number of hours?

Go App State!

App State has tied it!

UNC v App St game is insane.

Poor ECU kicker missed XP wide left to tie NC St. Then they got the ball back, and ran it down and he missed a game winning FG wide right.

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