ncaa 2017-18

shouts to kirk herbstreit

I can't believe that App State/Michigan game was 10 years ago. The revisit piece on Gameday was excellent, though, even if I knew the ending already.

I'm not sure who started that formation where they use 3 personal protectors back about 4-5 yards in front of the punter, but the more often I see it, I see teams getting punts blocked.

couple crazy upsets this wk, liberty beating baylor & howard beating unlv

According to FPI, Liberty had a 2.2 percent chance of beating Baylor, making it the second-biggest FPI upset in the past 10 years. The only bigger upset was Howard's 43-40 stunner over UNLV later Saturday. Howard, a 45-point underdog, had a 1.2 percent chance to win, according to FPI.

lol @ baylor losing to utsa currently

3rd & 93 upcoming...#HailState pic.twitter.com/ysNOd1QpmM

— MSU Football 🏈 (@HailStateFB) September 10, 2017

After Penn State got revenge on Pittsburgh with a 33-14 win on Saturday at Beaver Stadium, Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin threw some shade at his in-state rivals.

"For their win last year it was like winning the Super Bowl," he said, via Onward State. "For us this year, it was like beating Akron."

penn state was outgained at home and only had the ball for 21:40

i mean they're clearly better than pitt but it wasn't the sort of performance they should really be bragging about

lol tennessee

Florida receiver was much too speedy for the lone defender in his part of the field, but Tennessee should have had more defenders back and they should have been deeper. so, lol tennessee.

Someday, I'll tell someone's grandkids (not mine) about how LSU was once a winning football program. They might not believe me, but hey.

so we're on a collision course for Clemson-Bama part 3, how fun

Possibly, but Oklahoma might wiggle in.

i don't know any of these ppl, but this is kind of interesting

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/9/22/16348522/new-york-city-college-football-fans-bars

gameday in times sq is weird

Buddy of mine from college said there was an ex-pat bar in Taipei that would show all Michigan's football games.

^^ not surprising, we are everywhere

lolsu

(this sort of thing is indeed my only contribution to this thread; get used to it)

I texted my dad last night during the Bama game and said, "Do you know the last time Alabama topped 60 points in a game? Because I honestly can't."

He didn't know.

They came back from commercial on ESPN and said it hadn't happened since 1966...so, like, eight years before I was even born.

This team looks ferocious.

same old same old. the rich getting richer.

kyle kempt!

Possibly, but Oklahoma might wiggle in.

Welp.

eddie mcdoom

clem in srs trouble @ syracuse lmao

syr delay of game yikes

wow qb draw conversion on 3d & 8 omg

wau

acc is a fearsome gauntlet i guess

Watched IU play Michigan in person yesterday. IU played as hard as they could but could not pull off the upset in OT.

Looking at writing online after the game, there is all sorts of people dogging out the fact that the endzone part of the stadium wasn't full and that people don't care.

Criminy, keep in mind IU has had like 10 winning seasons since the Big Ten started in 1953. They only filled in that back part of the end zone expanding the capacity of the stadium to keep up with the Jones and have a huge "football office" like the big schools. Even still, back in the 90s you could still get a ticket for like $8 bucks and now most of them are over $20 to $50.

I'm kinda surprised they do as well as they do and the big reason is that the tailgate is just a fun party to see people you went to college at. There are shirts that are like "IU Football: Never Lost a Party".

To me, it almost seems like those huge football schools should just break off into some other 'semipro' league and let college football just be a different thing.

disarray in tallahassee

I still think Ohio State sucks.

all that Ohio State win accomplishes is put two effing SEC teams in the 1-2 poll positions.

wow bad int mayfield

need the supreme ct to sort this out rn bruv

wow prob the rt call

Been on a road trip for work, so I stayed in and watched the Georgia and Alabama games. Both look good. Georgia's got a pretty impressive o-line as they often really pushed South Carolina around. Georgia did some pretty stupid penalties at times, but their defense has some good speed. LSU didn't have enough offense to really challenge Alabama, but their defense looks decent. SEC championship game is probably going to be one of the big ones as it will probably eliminate one or the other.

This Terrapin Golden Ale I got down here in the ATL is good stuff. Went and did two loads of laundry and this old dude was hustlin' to get his stuff done as he was telling this fine lady he had to get back to the house to watch the Dawgs. Listening to 107.9 - they got car insurance commercials here that sound like Outkast.

This all led me to thinkin' I should get back and watch the Dawgs myself.

Buckeyes pretty much said f-'it seasons over the past couple weeks.

Dawgs got bit. Now someone has to take down the Tide.

Almost happened.

Watching Wisconsin and Michigan, don't think the Badgers have anywhere enough offense to hang with Georgia or Alabama.

hope clemson falls in the rankings for allowing the citadel to score

I hope the tide falls in the rankings for scheduling mercer for a game in late november

pitt!

tj vassar on ttech just made a sck as hell catch fyi

espn dot com is currently referring to michigan-ohio state as The Game

is that really a thing? isn't it enough that it was played in The Big House?

Yeah, that OSU/Michigan game has been referred to that for a long time, even back to the Bo and Woody days.

So it’s OK if Greg Schiano is the defensive coordinator for Ohio State but it’s not OK for him to be the head coach at Tennessee?

correct

Herm Edwards to AZ State? Okay.

Is Jimbo Fisher really that much of an upgrade on Kevin Sumlin?

jimbo, dabo, sabo, harbo, urbo. it is important to have a 'b' in there somwhere.

This season aside, it seems like moving from the top tier of the ACC to the toilet of the SEC is a bad career plan. But Jimbo gonna Jimbo.

its surprising things soured so rapidly @ fsu, idk i wouldnt be too psyched if i repped a&m

UF and FSU programs are both rotten to the core. Jimbo may have amplified FSU's problems, where McElwain was too meek a man to confront them. I don't envy whoever takes over FSU, and I don't have much faith that Mullen can fix UF.

Its a pretty dirty sport on a good day.

Expectations are a bit unreasonable. I guess Texas A&M getting throttled by both LSU and Auburn both was the final straw.

That division is just tough to win. Arkansas is in same boat, Bielema got rolled there and he won a ton of games with the Badgers.

Tennessee's looking pretty desparate.

the dr pepper tuition giveaway halftime promotion > football as a sport imo

also love ppl being salty abt it

@JayDSarkar
2m2 minutes ago
Oh look, the Dr. Pepper tuition giveaway contestants are violating the sanctity of the contest by chest passing AGAIN

55-55 ucf/mem going 2ot

and... ucf squeaks it out!

Ohio State v Wisconsin is interesting to contemplate ahead of time, but it seems like either Wisconsin methodically imposes their will as they have on everyone else, or they get big-played into oblivion by the end of the third quarter. Neither outcome would be that interesting in reality.

osu has some athletes gdamn

yeah we're getting clowned hard, surprised we're only down 7

spoke too soon lol

kinda frustrating to see OSU make huge plays out of what should be 1-yard gains

this field repair delay is super bizarre

Glad OSU got kept out of the tourney. Those dudes lost to unranked Iowa by 30, that was the game that eliminated them to my mind.

cmu v wyomings color schemes on the blue field are something to see

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRrgYRxXkAAeefO.jpg

what is with wyoming's thigh rectangles -- are those supposed to be holsters?

that was a rocket

granderson is really gd also how did wyo lose 5 games

arcega-whiteside

Oklahoma's defense is terrible, but somehow Georgia is looking even worse so far.

that was like the best half of playcalling i've ever seen

SEC is delivering the goods today. Delivering losses, that is. Two down and two more to go.

entertaining game

yeah. OT!

go for it booo

That was a heck of a game. Even with OU's big lead at the half, I figured Georgia could get back into the game.

Mayfield definitely made some NFL passes in that game. I'd guess people might look at him hoping to be like Drew Brees or a bit less mobile Russell Wilson with his height. I'm not a QB guru, but his passing looked pretty balanced and not all over the place with his arm throwing the ball.

Yeah, I think Clemson is probably done now. I just don't think they are explosive enough like last year with Watson to come back with 2 TDs at this point. I'd think they would need a cheapy score on a turnover or return to get back into this one.

da'ron payne instantly every (non-clemson) football fan's favorite player

hmmm. 24-6. this is not one of those situations where the idea that 'there's still a lot of time left in the game' is especially reassuring for Clemson. with apologies to johnny fever, I'm well sick of SEC dominance and rabid SEC fans, so the thought of an all-SEC FBC championship game doesn't fill me with eager anticipation. I'll still root for Clemson until its all over.

who here

I'll be watching but I will mostly be smoking weed and playing ping pong

my hand eye coordination when high could not sustain such an activity

both these teams have some big play guys on offense but the defenses are fast as fuck and playing really confidently so it might be one of those 13-10 games

im watching, but would prefer to be smoking weed and playing ping pong def

Riley Ridley's real first name is "Cavin?!"

jalen hurts is basically a RB playing QB it's kind of amazing

i stared for like a good ten minutes at betting under 4.5 tds total at +160 but did not pull the trigger ~

georgia is gonna regret not scoring any TDs this half i bet......

or georgia is gonna win 6-0

bortles approves of this scramble

as always pretty much the only way to beat bama is having your WRs post up their CBs and make contested catches

After a careful observation of the available facts, I conclude that Georgia will win this game 19-3.

imagine the the super bowl featuring a kendrick lamar concert and a sneak peek at black panther

Having trouble? That's why the NFL is doomed. /hottake

two really brutal non-calls against uga

damn tua

tua :)

honestly i don't really understand why jalen hurts can't throw a slant pattern but this is fun

bama has so many good players smh

henry ruggs is a baller

that was sick

bama can't rush the passer

lmao the replay zooming in on the sideline and shit looks like it was painted by a 4 year old

im worried if tua takes a squared up hit

doinking it off the helmet of yr center is some next level interceptioning

if uga had just gotten a FG out of that drive i think the game would have been over

i think bama can score 2 more times but the margin for error is so thin

they got over a whole damn quarter here

they can't get off the field

btw what was that sideline interference penalty im watching this on espn.coms "sounds of the game stream" which has no tv guys

one that big georgia pass play

i think it means players/coaches came onto the field before the play was over

ah

saban punting from 4th and 2 and midfield might have been fatal

raekwon davis is enormous, jesus

i cannot imagine getting run over by a guy as big as that georga DL jesus christ

Bama RB corps so deep I'd forgotten about Najee Harris. UGA did too, apparently.

i didn't even think he was playing this year

he's a weird runner, really upright but they can't tackle him

tua, najee, devonta smith, jeudy, ruggs all true freshmen...

It's starting to look like the SEC champions may lose the national championship this year.

um that was one of the most insane throws i've ever seen what the hell

yea tua is amazing & poised as all fuck

fun for the title game to be tied w 3 mins left

bama shd not try misdirection stuff

as so often, it's the damn o-line that wins these things

ahhh yessss i love sport

lol

yikes

that might enhearten the dawgs a bit. but bama o-line has pushed them around with impunity in the 4th

woww

overtime shd be an entire whole new football game imo

damn they shdve had that glasses guy kick the other one

this game is crazy

fuucck

lol i hope the bama kicker misses another one

god damn

Wauuuuuuuuuuuuu

o goddamn it

the sequence of bamas sack > rodrigos fg > uga sack > 42 yd title winning td pass was insane

it all happened very fast

ugas last 1st down was this btw --2nd and 5 at UGA 28
(13:54 - 4th) Sony Michel run for 13 yds to the Geo 41 for a 1ST down

thats not good

lol @ saban trying to act playful in post game interview and being ignored

I kinda love goofy Saban.

that was such a beautiful pass

georgia really turtled in the second half

qb battle for Bama in the spring should be an interesting one

tbh, every time Tua's gotten to play mop up in a game, he's looked great. I'd wondered if he'd ever see actual competitive game time this season. Now that he has, he feels like the qb I've been waiting for for a long time.

there's no way hurts can start next year. every time the bama offense had two straight punts everyone would be like TUUUUUAAAA. it wouldn't be sustainable.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/01/16/washington-state-tyler-hilinski-dies-suicide

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24255877/courtney-smith-people-urban-meyer-knew-15-case

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Urban Meyer assistant Zach Smith's ex-wife, Courtney Smith, opens up about reported domestic violence and what she believes Meyer knew. pic.twitter.com/dNWA9x2F4y

— Stadium (@WatchStadium) August 1, 2018

The ex-wife of former Ohio State assistant football coach Zach Smith, who was fired in July, says several people close to Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer, including his wife, knew of a 2015 allegation of domestic violence against Smith.

"All the [coaches'] wives knew," Courtney Smith told college football reporter Brett McMurphy in a story posted on his Facebook page. "They all did. Every single one."

Smith told Stadium that she believes that Meyer also knew at the time.

"I do believe he knew and instead he chose to help the abuser and enable the abuser and believe whatever story Zach was telling everybody," Smith said.

would be hard to look past stealing crab legs tho huh

Eat your heart out #fsutwitter... Urban is a fake pic.twitter.com/nvhjEUsuEm

— FSUJunkie (@fsujunkie) October 27, 2015

THE* paid adminstrative leave https://t.co/mz7MbOcMI6

— PFTCommenter (@PFTCommenter) August 1, 2018

urbs has a long history of looking the other way when it comes to transgressions of players, not sure why it would be any different when it came to his staff

Urban is cooked, most likely.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-51d4457d/turbine/os-pictures-aaron-hernandez-through-the-years-at-florida-20130703

everyone chill; he has a papal name

xp a few years ago, when I still followed the NFL, I can't remember who it was, but some commentator talked about how good Belichick was at keeping his players out of trouble and I was like YOU DIDN'T EVEN MENTION THE ONE WHO MURDERED PEOPLE.

is there an institution in america as rotten as college football? i mean, i know there's a lot of competition. im gonna keep watching the wolverines until i die 'cause i'm brainwashed, but i feel like the day that the rest of the nation decides 'enough is enough' is fast approaching

College football die hards are the blind Trump supporters of the sports world (I say this with great shame, acknowledging my own complicity).

After all that BS with the team doctors, those two cray cray things that went down at Baylor and that shite that went down at Penn State, it kinda hard to say that amateur sports in the US are greasy as hell.