Red Wolf

I assumed Ohio State was dead when Georgia tied it up at 21, but nevermind. The CFP semis are often terrible, this has been a real treat. Most of bowl season has been a ton of fun, actually.

14 minutes ago, Seadragon76 said:

That was the appetizer, by the way

 

Ohio State vs. Georgia is the main event and if it even comes close to the insanity that the Fiesta Bowl had, then it will be fun to watch.

You say appetizer, I say show stealer. No way UGA-Ohio St comes close. Mostly because I assume UGA will strangle the Buckeyes. Then again, I thought Michigan would easily bowl over TCU, so I am often wrong.

This TCU season has been unreal. Been the most fun I've had watching a team I otherwise don't care about. This team was 5-7 last year and fired their coach. Sonny Dykes' last stint in the P5 was a disastrous run at Cal with one winning season out of four. None of this makes sense.

Nonsense. 2022 TCU is just pure lunacy. They're probably not the best team in college football, but they're easily the most exciting.

TCU would never allow a game to get boring. They specialize in nonsense.

Dabo is beyond parody.

4 hours ago, raysox said:

Could be a third American-based named conference! How about the Alliance of American Football!

America-based name that references the large geographic footprint and the fact that it's a football-only group? National Football Conference. There we go, we did it.

3 hours ago, Sport said:

Horrific and tragic. Read Grant for forever and I just watched Good Rivals in which he appears frequently. It’s surreal and almost difficult to believe. 

 

At best this was an unfortunate coincidence, at worst it was nefarious. Either way, I was already struggling with watching these games when the US was still in the tournament, but I’m fully out now. Whole thing feels incredibly gross. 

Coincidences happen all the time, but this is one where the conspiracy part of my brain will always spin up anytime it's mentioned.

3 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

Maybe I'll be a hypocrite and watch the finals, but I don't know...it's easy enough to opt out.

 

I just wish I didn't have to stop opting out of things because of the monsters in charge. You kind of find there's not much provided on a screen that isn't majorly compromised in one way or another.

I haven't watched a single second of this World Cup, And yeah, it's been easy because I can watch college football players get brain damaged instead.

I wrote several things here and I actually don't know where to go with this now. Everything being bad doesn't seem helpful.

I've had doubts about the most recent FCS call ups outside of James Madison (and maybe Jax State), and I have even bigger doubts about this crew making a move en masse.

Granted, the only school I have any real knowledge about is Central Arkansas (go figure), but the idea of them being an FBS school seems insane. Not because they've grown a bunch in a short time and have massive infrastructure projects going. It's because of the opposite. They play in a stadium that holds around 10K. I have doubts about where they would get the money needed to do basic expansion, and the stadium itself is surrounded by other buildings on campus that they would need to deal with.

But also maybe I'm just a hater. That's entirely possible.

20 minutes ago, 4_tattoos said:

I thought the ACC was going to switch from divisions to a pod model where each team has four ACC opponents they play every season, and rotate through the rest of the conference each season?

 

The podmates would generally be long time rivals. For example. North Carolina's pod would likely be NC State, Duke, Wake Forest & Virginia

This is indeed the last season of ACC divisions. These are the yearly matchups for reference.

Boston College: Miami, Pitt, Syracuse
Clemson: Florida State, Georgia Tech, NC State
Duke: North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest
Florida State: Clemson, Miami, Syracuse
Georgia Tech: Clemson, Louisville, Wake Forest
Louisville: Georgia Tech, Miami, Virginia
Miami: Boston College, Florida State, Louisville
North Carolina: Duke, NC State, Virginia
NC State: Clemson, Duke, North Carolina
Pitt: Boston College, Syracuse, Virginia Tech
Syracuse: Boston College, Florida State, Pitt
Virginia: Louisville, North Carolina, Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Pitt, Virginia, Wake Forest
Wake Forest: Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech

On 11/12/2022 at 11:06 PM, GoGreenGoWhite said:

Iowa went mono black too. Actually looks alright IMO but man I don't want to see every team doind this. How long til we see mono red or white bama?

 

Although white Bama throwback helmets would be sick.

This might be the one single good thing about Alabama dominance. The moment they slip, especially after Saban retires, they are definitely going to start using alternate uniforms. It's just a matter of time.

If you watch a Broncos game at this point, it's really your own fault.

At least the finish was kind of silly.

4 hours ago, heavybass said:

The Fighting Illini are Bowl Eligible.

Should be unbeaten if not for some dodgy officiating early in the season. Bert can coach in the Midwest.

Tennessee is back. For real though, not like the funny Texas meme.

James Madison and Coastal lose, meaning there are no more unbeaten G5's.

Colorado won, so no more winless teams. So that's neat.

6 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Bad call is a bad call. Doesn’t make it not bad if it doesn’t affect the final score.

If anything, I respect the complaint more if it comes in a win.

Regardless, didn't this new rule that you can't tackle QB's good start like a year or two ago? Football is a bad sport and if an elderly Tom Brady wants to ruin his marriage because he loves 25-year-old freaks turning his bones to dust, then who are we to stop him?

On 10/8/2022 at 3:09 PM, nickp91 said:

I think Kennesaw State in C-USA is a good move it would match Georgia State in the Sun belt conference in the Atlanta market

I don't see why that's a good idea. Atlanta is already saturated with FBS schools between GSU and Ga Tech in the city and UGA not far away. Kind of feels like the ill-advised markets-based expansion that doomed C-USA in the first place.

11 hours ago, McCall said:

Hell, before the early 2010's mass realignment, CUSA was probably the top G5 conference along with the Mountain West (Big East being considered a power 5 conference at that point). Then their best schools moved to the ashes of the Big East (American) and CUSA was forced to replenish with FCS schools pretending to be FBS.

C-USA made a bad bet by going after schools in major markets. It sort of made sense as a lot of their old schools were Metro Conference schools previously. They just didn't necessarily consider whether those schools were committed to the nightmare that is major college football and then topped it off with a dreadful media deal that shoved them off onto CBSSN, Stadium, and Facebook. Kind of hard to leverage the big markets when nobody can find your games. See also: Pac-12.

Kennesaw plays at an 8k stadium in an already crowded Atlanta FBS market. Seems like a move up would be rough for them, but C-USA is rough right now too.

The Broncos are actually doing the world a favor by scaring kids away from football, thus saving thousands of young brains from future trauma. 

Northwestern played Purdue at Wrigley last season and the offenses went in both directions, so I don't think it was a specific failing of Wrigley as a venue as much as it was poor planning. But also some of it was Wrigley's dimensions.

I think the alignment they used for the infamous game from a decade ago was done to try and maximize valuable seating, but didn't gel with the actual dimensions of the stadium. Baseball stadiums probably don't make for great football viewing experiences in most cases.

Y'know, it's one thing to be against all-white uniforms. I'm definitely bored and annoyed by them. But to think that white tigers aren't real? I don't even know.

10 hours ago, BBTV said:

 

Rich Kotite was an idiot, but at least won a playoff game.  Chip Kelly was worse than Rich Kotite, as was Marion Campbell.

Chip Kelly went 10-6 both seasons he was there. Nick Foles tied the NFL record for single game TD passes at 7 during that time. So obviously Chip knew that the future MVP of Super Bowl LII could ball, and therefore can't be the worst coach in Eagles history.

12 hours ago, FSUViking said:

Next weekend the WORST uniform match-up of the year, every year....Alabama vs Arkansas. (insert Spiderman pointing meme here)

Don't worry, there's a worse conference matchup for Arkansas in the near future.

2 hours ago, Sport said:

The NFL never fails to amaze me in the "Needlessly Complicated and Pointless Rules You Didn't Know Existed" department.

 

They said this wasn't a TD on the field and then upheld the call after a challenge. How's this not a touchdown? 

 

 

 

Two feet clearly in with control of the ball, right? Nobody could dispute that. Not a TD because of one of the weirder and dumber rules in the sport. 

 

WHY IS THAT THE RULE? Why is there a higher standard for if your feet are pointing up as opposed to down? My whole life I've seen catches stand because guys got two toes in and now you need both heels in too if your feet are pointing into the field? I feel like I'm being Mandela Effected here. 

 

The Bengals scored a TD on the next play so it didn't end up mattering (save for Higgins getting the old slippery salmon there from the Jets' DB and the Bengals losing their first half challenge and Timeout), but still. WHY IS THAT THE RULE?????

This actually happened last year to the Titans. Maybe now that I've seen it happen twice in my life they'll consider changing it. Probably not since they were regular season games involving Tennessee and Cincinnati.

1 minute ago, GDAWG said:

11-10 in Baseball....a super fun game with possibly a lot of homers.

11-10 in football.....total boredom.

You take that back! I for one live for the release that comes with seeing the Iowa Broncos' one TD per game. The rest of you are spoiled with your expectations of anything ever happening ever. Such an entitled generation that expects to be entertained by their entertainment. What a joke.

The Broncos are basically the NFL equivalent of Iowa right now. Which wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if the QB wasn't just signed to a 5-year $245 million contract.

32 minutes ago, DEAD! said:

Jerry Jones witnesses, yet, another heartbreaking loss at his stadium 

A tradition we can all support.

Kansas State lost to Tulane last week and then beats Oklahoma. I swear half these games are randomized.