
It's why the only thing that makes sense is a playoff that includes all conference champs and some wild cards.
Yep. 10+6 is the only fair way.
There's a reason basketball has 68 teams, and even though the extra 4 are awkward, you have to keep automatic bids. All 351 teams have a path to the championship. Sure, some would need a lot of luck, but it's possible.
Right now, half of the 129 football teams could go undefeated and still not get in the playoff. See UCF for proof. It's bullshit.
Games I'm eyeballin' this week ...
Coastal Carolina at App State. Fun Belt season starts. Hope App isn't hung over after last week's bender in Chapel Hill. ROLL 'NEERS
UVA-Notre Dame. Wonder if the Hoos are for real? They nearly choked against ODU last week.
Ohio State at Nebraska, ABC prime-time game. Nothing's funnier than watching Nebraska getting pantsed on national TV.
Otherwise, meh. Rugby World Cup is on, and I'm going to catch up on the matches I've DVR'd.
Go App!
Cards on bye this week.
Also might check out Friday night PAC action with Cal.
Hell if you just win tomorrow, you at least have a shot at participating in a GameDay game vs Oregon next week. That environment is fun from both sides.
Louisville hosted our first to beat down FSU and then Clemson hosted a few weeks later back in 2016.
Good lord, Virginia Tech. Losing at home? To Duke?!
I'm going to go out on a (very thick and stable) limb and say that UVa will win the Commonwealth Cup for the first time since 2003.
VT barely beat Furman.. not surprised.
Upset alert: Carolina* and Clemson are tied 14-all going into the fourth.
* the same team that App State beat up on last week
I'm not feeling great about our season thus far, but the Ags have now beaten Arky eight years in a row.
Have y'all seen this before? Visualized, your favorite team's chances of getting to X number of wins this year, based on results up to this point.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comment...
It was new to me.
Depressing, but in line with re-adjusted expectations, that Michigan's most likely outcomes are 7 wins or 8 wins, with a whole entire 0.6% chance of winning out.
So what games are of interest this week? Ags are off, and the best game I'm seeing is #10 Florida vs #7 Auburn.
Of course, the Astros are playing Saturday night.
Louisville is favored in a conference game for the first time in a while. If we can't beat the Boston College team that lost to Kansas, it's going to be a longer rebuild than I thought.
Hey we won! 41-39, crazy shootout, 1200+ yards of combined offense. But I'll take it.
Hey all, quick question re NCAAF. Manage to get to watch quite a bit over here in the UK. Can anyone explain why there are State Troopers there when both head coaches shake hands at the end of the game. Is it more a tradition thing than out of necessity?
Hey all, quick question re NCAAF. Manage to get to watch quite a bit over here in the UK. Can anyone explain why there are State Troopers there when both head coaches shake hands at the end of the game. Is it more a tradition thing than out of necessity?
Crowd control and protection for the head coaches. The troopers are assigned to the HC for the entire game, they are just a little more visible at the end of the game
Thanks, @Ego Man
Good and bad weekend for the ducks. They beat Cal but didn’t really look impressive doing so. Both Auburn and Washington lost which is going to make it difficult to get to the playoffs even if they do end up winning out.
App State* plays at UL on Wednesday night. Turns out it's the only D-1 college football being played Wednesday. The MAC can have Tuesday, but the Fun Belt has claimed Hump Day.
* Undefeated and ranked 28th in both polls, mind you
Good news for Louisville at Wake: Dave Clawson 0-6 after bye week.
App State* plays at UL on Wednesday night. Turns out it's the only D-1 college football being played Wednesday. The MAC can have Tuesday, but the Fun Belt has claimed Hump Day.
* Undefeated and ranked 28th in both polls, mind you
Way more of a nail-biter than I wanted, but we'll take the W to stay undefeated. I'm not smart enough to understand why we needed to run on nearly every play in quarters 2, 3, and 4 with them stacking the box most of the game and squashing our efforts, maybe it had something to do with the looks/play of their secondary? A frustrating game to watch, but impressed with our defense.
Go Apps.
Yeah, the App State D was terrific. I guess maybe the Fire Ted Roof crowd will STFU for a second.
The O? Eh, I dunno. Not many fireworks. But that 58-play drive, 6* quarter drive at the end of the game was pretty epic.
My only concern is that App had Wed night all to itself -- lots of folks on my twitter were paying attention -- and a 17-7 win against a directional school** probably isn't sexy enough to vault App into the top 25. 35-10 would have helped the cause a little more.
* Might have been 8 quarters. Might still be going on, in fact.
** In any other state, UL would be the flagship state U But LSU is much bigger and much better known, and the "hyphen Lafayette" after the UL is the tell. No one cares about the directional schools unless they come to your campus and beat the hell out of you, like App did to one Carolina already this year and is poised to do to another Carolina in about a month.
I guess maybe the Fire Ted Roof crowd will STFU for a second.
I'll own up to being one of them. We were a Top D last year and the first 2 games they couldn't stop a flea. We're better now, clearly, but while the line/linebacker play has been tremendous, our DBs are still Swiss cheese with bad technique.
If the line doesn't get home or they run west-coast O, teams could seemingly throw on us all day long. Miracle we didn't have a PI called on Davis-Gaither on their promising drive toward the end.
I love the results but hoo boy I hope the secondary makes some strides the rest of the way.
After shutting down Carolina (more or less), I thought App State's D had made a breakthrough. Then came the Coastal game and 37 more points. UL had been putting up some huge numbers on offense, so, no, I wasn't expecting App to hold UL to 7 (!) on their home field.
I'm figuring App is going through the usual growing pains on both sides of the ball -- Drink and Roof, etc., are putting their systems in place with the guys Satterfield recruited. Most coaches are wedded to their schemes and their systems -- it's what got 'em there, after all -- and there's usually a lot of square peg/round hole kind of stuff for a season or two.
Calling for someone's head after two games is weird. But if App is giving up 40+ points to Fun Belt teams in 2021, clear me a space on the Fire Ted Roof Bandwagon!
OK, now to talk about some other schools. I'll start.
Apparently Kyle Field at Texas A&M is overrun with bats.
Also, too, Google says this is a long-running issue. C'mon, Fed, explain this thing.
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