"You mean we get paid for this?" NCAA football 2024-25

I guess Florida State thought since they were playing in Ireland that it was a bowl game and they did not need to go.

I was surprised that Georgia Tech won that one.

florida state seminal vesicles

Georgia has not fell off it seems. What I watched, Clemsons offense could not do bupkus. D played ok in first half but it looks pretty obvious they ran out of gas against the Bulldogs. Whooping.

ND and A&M could be interesting match up.

utsa undefeated so far go runners

florida state seminal vesicles

― mookieproof, Saturday, August 24, 2024 10:56 PM (one week ago)

wow notre dame

(despite some extremely questionable late-game officiating in their favor)

reigning SI sportsman of the year coach prime making nebraska (!) look good

I was called names for saying Riley Leonard looked like Tyler Buchner against TAMU. That 15 yard underthrow INT looked like high school (and it likely cost us the game of course).

I did not particularly enjoy the week when it seemed he could stumble us to the CFP with an eye black crucifix on his face.

Te'o's religiosity was understated in comparison, and Te'o was actually good at football

I'm going to frame this. pic.twitter.com/ohEVUdZ9YB

— Adam Kramer (@KegsnEggs) September 14, 2024

looool florida state

ninth pre-season top-10 team since 1950 to start 0-3

Lol at FSU and the Gators.

This Michigan and USC game has been really good.

That was a heck of a game, best football game yet this season.

Last year, I think the Oregon/Washington 2nd game was the best.

james madison put up some remarkable numbers at north carolina (53 first-half points, among other things)

Their old coach took over Indiana and they have dropped 200+ points in their first 4 games, albeit though lesser teams.

rip dawgs

Lol Roll tide…

vandy time of possession: 42:08

The call everyone was waiting for... Legend has spoken https://t.co/3yBfrHCfBZ pic.twitter.com/mucC4qm8Mh

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) October 7, 2024

southern cal got thoroughly jobbed in overtime vs penn state

congrats to big 10 powerhouse oregon

pitt 6-0 for the first time since 1982

army and navy both now ranked

this has been your early monday morning ncaa football roundup

florida state now 1-6, still has games at miami and notre dame

IU whomped up on the Cornhuskers. James Madison is even a bit more impressive when you consider Cignetti brought 14 players with him to Indiana.

Hopefully the QBs injury is not that bad. He can toss it pretty good.

Don’t know if anyone else saw them but I thought the retro uniforms the Illini were wearing against Michigan were pretty cool.

They had the helmet painted to look like an old leather helmet.

They got good colors too, that was the reason Papa Bear brought them with him to the bears.

I am interested in watching a Thursday game between Syracuse and Pitt. This season is sick.

florida state now 1-6, still has games at miami and notre dame

― mookieproof, Friday, October 18, 2024 10:43 PM (three days ago)

one of the most important ongoing developments in america...

ohio state looks like by far the best team to me this year, but their QB isn't a stud so maybe they can be gotten. i'm looking forward to the playoff

Norvell's $64 million buyout leaching significant money away from Republican campaigns

i think even if they could afford to fire him they wouldn't because after last season the fanbase is too invested in him being the savior. they will have no choice to hit the portal hard again to be competitive bcuz their roster just isn't good, and that might work. but if it doesn't then i'll be very interested to see what happens

in spite of messy officiating, fans throwing bottles on the field, dropped balls, and interceptions, UGA/Texas was a lot of fun to watch

xp They improved each year under Norvell until this season, so he probably is a good coach. Their portal ranking has been fairly consistent, but it seems (at a glance) they took more proven players in '23 compared to '24 - more guys with T ranking > HS ranking.

Miami have been extremely entertaining this year. Every close game has at least one controversial late call. This most recent one with Louisville was clearly not a fumble, though. The hit on Fernando Mendoza was the definition of targeting, however. Cal were also screwed by the refs in South Bend two years ago, so I feel quite badly for them.

i definitely think norvell is a good coach, but he's at a school where they expect you to be better than just good. there's still a lot of evidence that you need to recruit HS at a really high level to compete for a national title, regardless of how well you portal, and norvell has never recruited high school well at FSU, even last year. recruiting people have been calling this out for years but he was able to paper over it w/ great portal additions covering the last two seasons. this year they struck out and there is no base talent level to fall back on and the result is the worst season in school history basically. i think his issue is that he's at a job that expects consistent excellence, but in order to be consistently excellent you very likely cannot be relying on the portal bringing in half your starting line up every season

This most recent one with Louisville was clearly not a fumble, though.

(as a miami fan) the thing that was annoying about this is that, in reality, a call wasn't even made. that was standard practice in these exact situations now -- the refs "call" it a touchdown bcuz the rules still stipulate that a call has to be made on the field, but in reality the refs are doing nothing and just waiting to consult the video. the call was always the correct one, which was an incomplete pass. nothing was actually "overturned"

yes, I agree they would have ruled it an incomplete pass in the moment if video review weren't an option.

I know it's been said, but ESPN's FPI rankings are insane

1. Ohio State (5-1, loss at #8)
2. Texas (6-1, loss to #4)
3. Alabama (5-2, loss at #6, loss at #42)
4. Georgia (6-1, loss at #3)
5. Ole Miss (5-2, loss to #41, loss at #12)
6. Tennessee (6-1, loss at #31)
7. Notre Dame (6-1, loss to #83)
8. Oregon (7-0, beat #1)
9. Penn State (6-0)
10. Miami (7-0)
11. IU (7-0)
12. LSU (6-1, beat #5)
13. Clemson (6-1, loss to #4)
14. TAMU (6-1)
15. USC (3-4)
...
19. Iowa State (7-0)
...
30. BYU (7-0)

i honestly love it

i think georgia and ohio state are still on a different level than anyone else in terms of talent and physical attributes of their players. but their QBs are not that great, or in the case of beck haven't been playing that great. teams like miami and oregon have lesser overall talent but still enough talent to beat them when combined w/ superior QB play. having to beat both ohio state and georgia would be tough for any team though.

I am interested in watching a Thursday game between Syracuse and Pitt. This season is sick.

― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, October 21, 2024 11:06 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

for surprising reasons, this was indeed an interesting game

worried that florida state might cover the 21.5-point spread

but not that worried

lol

duke actually hung with miami for 45 minutes and then . . . the smushing

yikes pitt

That new run punt option that Boise State is running with the Australian rules football guy is very fun. I hope that catches on.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/5082219/james-ferguson-reynolds

This is the guy.

god bless florida state (1-9) coach mike norvell for firing both of his coordinators after a 49-point loss #accountability

The Seminoles rank last among 134 FBS teams in scoring with 13.3 points per game and are 101st in scoring defense, surrendering 29.8 points per game.

After flirting with Alabama's vacancy once Nick Saban retired in January, Norvell agreed to a 10-year extension at Florida State that will pay him more than $84 million through the 2031 season.

do we believe in indiana y/n

I believe whatever Google tells me

love indiana and hope they succeed but their performance vs michigan doesn’t make me think much of their protection or run blocking. the osu dl might eat em up.

rourke is legit tho, ball placement is nearly perfect

I very badly want to see an ND vs IU playoff game in Bloomington

oops!

Four-star Florida State quarterback pledge Tramell Jones pulled his commitment from the Seminoles on Thursday morning, marking the sixth departure from Mike Norvell's 2025 class amid the program's 1-9 start this fall.

offensive plays run: LSU 92, FLA 43
first downs: LSU 25, FLA 13
time of possession: LSU 41:48, FLA 18:12

score: LSU 16, FLA 27

Michigan is a bit better than their record. Their QB play is really bad, that guy in the Indiana game couldn’t hit anything over like 8 yards.

Their O-line was great last year too.

Wisconsin up by 7 on #1 Oregon :o

i dunno, even an aussie rules guy is eventually gonna get murdered at that run-punt and it’ll be over?

Yeah it could happen, but this is a punter that grew up kicking on the run. Probably won’t work except for guys that can still somewhat bang it when kicking on the run.

It kinda just bamboozles teams a bit on how to handle it when he kicks it on the run.

bama on the brink

Yeah just saw the pick wtf is going on there

wow brutal call

that's a lot of overtimes

lol buckeyes

Et tu Brutus?

Buckeyes are useless nuts.

more like suckeyes imo

indiana narrowly missed putting up more points (66) than purdue had total yards of offense (67)

Definitely an all time a$$whooping in the Oak and Bucket game.

has this 'win a road rivalry game = planting a flag and starting a brawl' thing new or have i simply not been paying attention

acab, of course, but if you put cops in charge of security when dozens of large men in helmets and pads start fighting, them using pepper spray seems inevitable and conceivably even warranted

otoh if the home team wins the rivalry game, drunk kids storm the field and there's a fine line between 'overreacting/hating fun' and 'letting someone get injured by a falling upright'. seems like a bad gig all around

Baker Mayfield did it once at Oklahoma.

I also remember TO doing a td celebration on the Cowboys star when he was a 49er that almost started a brawl.

Jayden Maiava threw for 559 yards in the game, but 199 of them were to ND

meanwhile Riley Leonard only threw 155 yards to ND

the drives following ND scoring to go up 35-21:
* USC drive - 7 plays, 37 yards
* ND drive - 3 plays, 0 yards
* USC drive - 5 plays, 45 yards
* ND drive - 5 plays, 3 yards
* USC drive - 6 plays, 63 yards
* USC drive - 8 plays, 62 yards
* USC drive - 5 plays, 75 yards

re: flag planting, both texas and oregon did it in the big house after their wins this year and nobody started a fight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

that's a bit like beaning an Astro in 2020, though

seems inevitable that the Big 12 champion gets Pepper sprayed this Saturday

make this stop

Oregon completed the flip of five-star Ohio State cornerback pledge Na'eem Offord Wednesday afternoon, gaining a stunning commitment from the nation's top-ranked defender hours into the early signing period.

Offord, No. 4 in the ESPN 300, had been the highest-rated prospect in the Buckeyes' 2025 class since Feb. 4. But the defensive back from Birmingham, Alabama, spent the fall flirting with potential moves to Oregon and Auburn all the way into the early signing period before flipping his pledge to the Ducks on Wednesday in a ceremony at Alabama's A.H. Parker High School.

Offord is now the second-ranked member of Oregon's 2025 class, trailing only five-star wide receiver Darkorien Moore (No. 3 in the ESPN 300), who signed with the Ducks Wednesday morning, and follows Cal quarterback flip Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele (No. 18 pocket passer) as the program's second signing day addition.

Offord visited Oregon early in the regular season and returned to Ohio State in Week 14. But Offord visited no school more frequently in his recruitment than Auburn -- most recently on Nov. 23 -- and the Tigers entered the early signing period appearing to be the most likely flip destination for the 6-foot-2, defensive back before Offord's Wednesday commitment.

here comes the judge

Tuning into the SEC championship game, under two minutes

Three point game

Disney used Steely Dan, not going into the break but coming out of it

OT

3 vs 5

game has been undeniably entertaining

Good reverse call there

crazy finish

2 goes down

That hit on the backup Georgia Qb his eyes looked like the old cartoons where their eyes would be too Xs after getting hit with like an anvil.

Oregon is just so fast, love it

after all that georgia is gonna get a bye. really too bad

7 - 7 - 7

Wow

Outstanding

Jesus

^ good summary of Dabo's postgame interview

thrilled to get the IU/ND matchup. Oregon might swap spots with Penn State if given the choice.

Tide AD to reevaluate scheduling after CFP snub

lol at this smokescreen after losing to vanderbilt and oklahoma

yeah, seems they maybe forgot that oklahoma is now in the SEC

Western Kentucky, South Florida, Wisconsin, and Mercer is not exactly a gauntlet outside schedule. They also played 4 of the bottom 8 SEC teams.

I gave up college football a few seasons ago, but I learned from my dad last weekend that the SEC doesn't even have divisions anymore? It's just one giant amorphous blob of schools that play each other whenever.

I was a Tide fan all my life, but it seems perfectly fine to me that they've come back down to earth post-Saban. Most schools don't even get one era like that, and Alabama's had two. That's plenty.

it's only a matter of time until college football fully becomes SEC + BIG10 + randoms like clemson and florida state and notre dame (and UNC, particularly if they get belichick)

this is a drake-level response

If an Ohio lawmaker gets his way, teams attempting to plant their flags in the middle of Ohio Stadium during Ohio State games will be dealing with more than just pepper spray.

Ohio state Rep. Josh Williams introduced a bill Tuesday that would classify flag planting at Ohio Stadium around Buckeyes football games as a felony.

*the* saddest losers in football

congrats to miami (OH) for crushing colorado state in the inaugural Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl Presented by Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop

unreal peach bowl

I don’t know a lot about the college game but I did think Oregon would go all the way. Instead this was a brutal first half.

Odds a moment ago were Ohio -10000. Unreal

oregon rushing: 25 carries for -11 yards

ND/PS has been an old school slobber knocker game, it is very throwback in style.

Probably the college game of the year for me. I’d say that crazy Bills and Lions game was best in NFL.

So far…

Beano Cook smiles from the beyond.

That game was wild. I still can't believe Allar threw that last ball to the middle of the field.

having watched a lot of allar…i can

14 - 14

4th quarter less than 8 and a half minutes

This is it

those were not good play calls from the 1-yard line by Texas

a good goal-line stand is one of the cooler things in football

This game started early

caveman football

that was a hilarious drive, as a michigan fan i wasn’t even gonna watch but the caveman ball has won me over

hard not to root for the shiny helmets, but on the other hand the sticker helmets are pretty nice too

Yeah, I don’t really care who wins but think I'm rooting for the Buckeyes

gross

This is a beat down

Great catch

OK, this could be a fun ending

i think it's cool that players get a cut now but watching the whole thing turn into every single player being on a one-year contract is both incredible to watch and not ultimately sustainable

idk, maybe if they all go to the SEC it will be briefly sustainable

blue chippers are leaving the sec to (they think) get a bigger bag these days

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/06/06/house-ncaa-settlement/

“The agreement resolves three antitrust suits against the NCAA — House, Carter and Hubbard — all of which challenged restrictions on athlete compensation. It was hashed out by attorneys for the plaintiffs and six defendants: the NCAA, SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 and Pac 12. The settlement includes almost $2.8 billion in back damages for former and current athletes (and their lawyers). It also creates a new economic model for top-tier college sports, permitting any Division I school to pay their athletes up to about $20.5 million this coming academic year. That cap will rise incrementally throughout the 10-year life of the settlement.”

lol belichick

lol kalen deboer and his incredible buyout

48-14

Semi-randomly tuned into the Vols-Bulldogs this afternoon and am jealous that the bands all have way cooler setlists now than back when I was a trombonist for the Pride of the Southland a million years ago

still too much "Rocky Top"

Lol

that is a tough loss for the vols

also, lol clemson

almost 1000 yards of offense in that georgia-tennessee game

btw no shade at all but how does one become a trombonist (as opposed to playing other instruments)?

You try out for the other ones and the band teacher in middle school decides you get to play trombone.

Presumably this is similar to how one becomes an interior offensive lineman? Idk

lol ty

There was an outside chance I could have become a drummer but that’s a bit like punter/kicker, there are very few slots

Red Sox had Buckner. ND has Buchner.

Well, ND and Nick Saban.

ha they tackled our DL from behind on the winning play

lol there is so much crazy shit going on i wasn't even aware of TAM-ND

The hold on the final play really must be seen. However, we had many chances to ice that game and blew it. Every year with a new D coordinator must start with 2 losses it seems.

But that hold will haunt me. TAMU's Bisontis does a full-body-extension, touchdown-saving shoestring tackle of Hinish, only Bistontis is on offense and that is not allowed at all.

Man that Georgia game. Good stuff

Gut punch for Vols fans, they had them beat and let them off the hook. Georgia does not look anywhere close as physically dominating as they did a couple years back. They are still good, but their d-line is nowhere close this year- and that was a big part of why they won it all.

Alabama probably feels a bit more redeemed pummeling a lesser Wisconsin team again. Then again, the Badgers are not what they once were either.

I got a feeling that Florida is going to go o-fer in their ranked running of the gauntlet. Already have losses to South Florida and LSU with Miami, Texas & AM to go. 1-5 looking pretty possible.

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I feel very weirdly conflicted seeing my alma mater pummel the in-state small school 77-0. It is nice to get a win and all, but it makes me think of Barry Switzer in coaches shorts wearing way too much hair gel and that shit is gross.

CLEM
SON

I still feel very weirdly conflicted seeing my alma mater pummel the next door state school 63-10. It is nice to get a win and all, but it makes me think of Barry Switzer in coaches shorts wearing way too much hair gel and that shit is gross.

classic hangover game from syracuse

ND crushed the Razorbacks at home. I like seeing SEC teams get beat bad by Notre Dame, rare as it is.

IU was not on TV around here, but glad they hung on and got the win at Iowa. That can be a tough place to play, Hoosiers have not won very often there (Really anywhere usually).

Been a while since the Rambling Wreck was undefeated this late in the season. Georgia Tech is weird as they used to be solid in both BBall and Football all the time for years and they have not been that good for a while in either. Got to figure that Atlanta talent goes to GA all now or out of town for college?

Michigan looked pretty good today. QB play is much improved this year it seems.

That Diego Pavia is fun to watch play for Vanderbilt. Seeing that short guy in #2, you kinda get a bit of Doug Flutie vibes out of him as he scrambles around. Does not have that kind of arm though, Flutie could really chuck it.

nico iamaleava is personally wrecking penn state

lmao https://bsky.app/profile/awfulannouncing.bsky.social/post/3m2f43tvkrk2m

omg penn state

The Nittany Lions became the first FBS team since 1978 to lose back-to-back games as 20-point favorites

congrats, earlnash and all IU Hoosiers! that was incredible.

Well Carson Beck has officially disappointed another fan base.

U went PU. Louisvlle played a good game. Big win for Jeff Brohm.

There was a few good trickery plays in this one, worth checking out the high lights.

Lots of references to those couple amazing games that Louisville played against Clemson with Jackson. Those were some classics.

college football is absolutely broken in a way that i cannot imagine is sustainable?

every single player is a free agent every single year!

schools keep signing coaches to decade-long contracts with insane buyouts!

i'll admit to enjoying the chaos on the field though -- and maybe the sheer wealth and greed of everyone involved will continue to heighten the contradictions unto armageddon

Microcosm of the nation. Cal playing for the title of the Atlantic Coast...

Louisville is so tricky

another classic entry in the historic oregon-rutgers rivalry

vandy!

also put a fork in clemson

He went to BK and had it his way

coaching carousel is absolutely insane

there are 136 teams in the FBS! only one can win each year!

matt rhule is 2-22 against top-25 teams in his career! why is nebraska giving him $12m a year through 2032!

also incredible that LSU fired its AD because of the fucking louisiana governor

Curt Cignetti is the only good coach

pittsburgh kid, love him

also never won a bowl game

feel like the new paradigm will involve -- *after* NIL money, of course -- coaches who are great guys whom players really want to play for

e.g. not belichick

clemson now 1-4 at home

only one of those opponents was ranked (and no longer is)

Dabo might want to check out this transfer portal thing

The not yet pros that yet are pros had a good day today. I was kinda under the weather and watched it on and off all day.

Nostradamus award to Joel Klatt for talking up something like "got to watch the Buckeyes between the two 40 yard markers, they like to take a deep shot in those situations" and then the Buckeyes bomb a 50 yard TD in the next snap. Baller move.

IU looked pretty darn good. Their backs are very fast. QB Fernando is very accurate and I kinda get a Chad Pennington vibe off him, the dude is just on the money on anything under 15 yards. Mac Jones was that way at Alabama.
Got to love the one DB who broke up the TD attempt on 4th down in the end zone against Maryland, who then mimes taking the ref's flag and putting in his pocket. That was a pretty original one.

They must have put the good sh!t in the Gator AID today as they were throwing down on Georgia. There was some nasty hitting, no penalty happening there. Going to take alot of Jelloshots to make that game go away.

UK winning like it is 1952 out there. Winning ugly is still winning.

I slept through and did not see much of the Texas/Vanderbilt game, but that is definitely a highlight one worth checking out. I got to wonder if Pavia can make it work at the next level, I kinda hope so, he is fun to watch.

kid from indiana just made an absurd catch to put them in the lead vs zombie penn state

that ending was amazing

there was another incredible catch along the sideline just before that

also the penn state punter is 6'6" 292, never seen anything like it

Yeah, he has 50 pounds on James Rendell (who is also 6'6")

gus is out of control

https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.xyz/post/3m55gmdenys2t

That IU catch was a bit like the Dwight Clark play. Incredible play, easily the craziest end to an IU game since Dave Schnell led the upset of Michigan back in '87.

Diego Pavia is a f-n legend. Definitely an athlete that seems to be totally maxing out what he can do with his physical abilities.

Oregon and Iowa was a good fugly game, a slobberknocker to use one of Madden's terms. Probably did not play too many games of that style in the PAC10 over the last few years.

just amazing how he kept his right foot up

You can watch football on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, Friday and Saturdays.

Oregon is looking good

ACC in utter disarray lol

at this rate it won't be a 'power' conference much longer

It's like the SEC, but if Arkansas and Mississippi State actually won some of those close games.

Alabama is going down

pitt deals a further blow to the ACC

i don't think pitt really had a chance against miami, but taking multiple unsportsmanlike penalties on defense sure didn't help

congrats to bill belichick for going 4-8 (2-6) in the weakest power four conference

50 minutes left for lane kiffin to make everyone but LSU fans hate him

Duke in the acc football championship game

it is absurd

Notre Dame lost to Miami, which lost to two teams that lost to Cal this year

i don't want the playoff to be entirely vibes-based -- because it would be like seven SEC teams + plus three B1G 10 teams + notre dame + one lucky cannon-fodder team -- but that duke is even theoretically in play at this point is a failure

Bama has zero points in the SEC Championship game into the fourth quarter?

Over

i assume bama will still make the playoff? but if they don't -- meaning they'd have been better off missing/skipping the SEC title game -- that will have massive repercussions

Do the Hoosier have a chance in hell?

No

How was he that wide open?

First field goal miss of the year

No

Maybe

Yeah, this game is interesting

Going for it?

Hmm

You have to take the points, smh.

Make the play 3rd and 8

Made

Too much

To make that call

...

No good!

Lmaooooo

No way

Welp

Unbelievable

Hell froze over

All credit to Mendoza but that kid is a DORK

I wish him all the best

And I really feel bad for the Buckeyes’ kicker

lol buckeyes

not that it really matters

*the* big ten runners-up

I sincerely didn't think what IU has done was possible. Congrats to all of them.

Bama should not be in after that title game. They played an extra game, but you can also consider UL Monroe the extra game.

Cig has his transfer portal teams talking about god like Dabo, which makes me think he could be TP era Dabo.

Someone needs to check in hell, I think it might be freezing over.

IU winning the Big 10 is about like a comet return.

1945
1967
2025

it is inconceivable and amazing.

One of the biggest sport moments of my lifetime. And for mookie, that was quite an ending to the acc championship, congrats!

lol i wasn't even paying attention! they're 8-5 ffs!

ha, it was inspiring stuff!

I saw a couple people breaking down IU tape online including Urban Meyer and they seem to be universally impressed by how disciplined they are at doing their job and plan on the play. They were showing plays and showing how players just setting contain set them up to for success as it was working like it should on the chalk board.

That one guy that had the big catches has been like their 3rd down wideout, so it was pretty impressive coming off to replace their best guy and playing like that.

I've seen ALOT of IU football and they always seemed a bit slower and smaller than who they play, this is not the case today. They would have some individual players of quality, but not good or at least average across the board.

The score is a bit closer than you might think, considering the Hoosiers dominated the clock.

Star on the 1945 Hoosiers. Big Klu!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Ted_Kluszewski_1954.png

pretty amazing that cignetti turned indiana into a wagon. probably the single best coaching job i've ever seen. bill snyder might've been able to achieve his turnaround at kansas state (a program that was even more moribund than indiana before he arrived) if he had the portal and nil, but still, cignetti turning the hoosiers from the worst power five program to the literal best team in the country is just completely absurd

Bama's blow out loss goes unpunished.

lol at duke's coach complaining about missing the playoff. you lost five games!

ha, he did give the team the day off. Didn't gather everyone around espn at 12p EST.

nd people will always wonder if the committee would have still put in miami if UVA won. I still think alabama, the 5th sec seed with 3 losses, including a loss to a horrible FSU team and a 21 point loss last night, is the weirdest inclusion. Particularly when the committee dropped byu for losing in a game where they at least had a lead for awhile.

feel like that was the committee stepping in to make sure teams don't simply boycott their conference championship games

Well they shouldn't play them. They made a big deal about the extra game like it was military service. But the game only had possible upside for Bama, and Bama tuned up an fbs team in the first week.

Sorry, got tuned up by FSU in the first week. Played the fbs team after.

It is just an incredibly weak look for the end of their great dynasty. Come back and start a new one that is real. When you can end the new IU dynasty.

Notre Dame’s opt-out crosses a new line — and college football is worse off for it

this is true but misses the point

having pretended otherwise for decades, college football is now very clearly all about chasing money; why should anyone expect notre dame players to risk their bodies playing BYU in a meaningless game that gains them nothing

oh no, the sanctity of three dozen meaningless [ridiculous sponsor] bowl games

(as one of the first, i still have a soft spot for you, poulan weed-eater bowl)

I'm sure they would have played a bowl game if espn hadn't strung them along for 2 months. They are treating disney poorly because they were treated poorly by disney. Yes, it is a pro-player move. Last week, a Stanford player gave Love a cheap knee to the ribs that ended his Heisman hopes. They could make millions for disney by playing in a game. They could play Love for one series so that he breaks an ND rushing record, and then he could disappear from the game without comment. But why extend the money making farce? It's a protest not a pity party, and football needs more of this to become something better more quickly.

oh no, the sanctity of three dozen meaningless [ridiculous sponsor] bowl games

― mookieproof, Monday, December 8, 2025 1:17 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Otm. And you have also been otm about the conference championship games. They have lost their traditional significance when the conferences are so huge that the fifth best team from the conference or worse is in them.

nd preserves indie cred by being characteristically douchebag.

delenda est man burn the ncaa to the ground. let farm teams be farm teams. “no no i’m addicted to gambling and i’d much rather bet on my fake memories of college yrs than on terrible aaa football it gives my youth meaning

I just want to say I’m loving the commentary on this thread. Would be so awesome to see y’all on a set in suits and ties from the waist up just delivering on this shit

we'll need to sell ads, of course, to buy the suit tops

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I just met the kindest fella, "Colonel Graves." He's interested in donating the suit tops.

All I say to the people, quit yer bitchin' go make some money and just add some more games goofballs. It is what they want.

Drop off one game playing the sisters of blind nobody add another week between the conference games with some play in games.

My life is so lame, I sat around a couple evenings listening to tunes and kinda sketched out a 64 team NCAA football super league.

8 divisions of 8 teams

12 game schedule
7 games - play each team once in yer division. Divisions totally by region
2 bye weeks
Move season to start Labor day weekend.
Allow teams to have 2 games with 'rivals' not in division (instate or like ND/USC- that might not be in same division.
Rest of the schedule is based off strength of previous opponents.

24 team playoffs - 8 division champions get bye
16 teams play in first round for right to play.

Round of 16- winning division advantage YOU GET HOME GAME

Gawd I'm a nerd.

Northeast PA, NY, NJ, MA, CT
Penn State, Syracuse, Rutgers, Boston College, Pitt, UConn, Temple, Army

Mid-Atlantic VA, NC, SC
Clemson, UNC, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, South Carolina, Duke

Southeast GA, FL, AL
Georgia, Florida, Florida State, Miami, Auburn, Alabama, UCF, USF

Great Lakes OH, MI, IN, IL
Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Northwestern

Central KY, TN, MS, LA, AR
Kentucky, Louisville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, LSU, Arkansas

Plains MO, KS, NE, IA, MN, WI
Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin

Southwest TX, OK
Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, TCU, Texas Tech, Houston

Pacific-Mountain CA, OR, WA, AZ, CO, UT
USC, UCLA, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah

West Virginia, BYU, Air Force, Navy...be closer to go to 72 one would suppose.

move colorado to midwest it is our proper home. also abandon all hope etc. destroy this whole ncaa griftathon.

hey i am sorry for this post, and also it makes it sound as tho i think this plan is a bad one— i do not— and i am so pickled by my opinions of ncaa generally that i’m being a real ass. (still think buffs rams and afa should be plains i guess). peace—

amd here I wanted ND to (quasi) join the big 12, but now their guy got all salty

there should be no conferences so large that everyone, each year, can't play everyone else (football)/can't play everyone home-and-home (basketball)

ND should obviously, if anything at all, be in the B1G 10 (although i'd grant them big east for hoops)

but college football, and maybe sports, is irretrievably broken

I think top level college football is basically a professional sport and really should be split off from all other athletics.

Then let the conferences go back to regional set up for everything else.

The games are often fantastic entertainment and the athletic skill and range of skills in football is really amazing.

Everything else around all football is the greasiest nasty world and a microcosm of our sick and corrupt society. I get it. I get a bit of shame at the whole thing but it is this goofball thing I have literally followed since I was 8 years old.

What the FUCK at the Sherrone Moore situation

yeah that all sucks

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47286996/fired-michigan-coach-sherrone-moore-charged-three-crimes

Prosecutors said Friday that Moore forced entry into the woman staff member's apartment and said, "I'm going to kill myself. I'm going to make you watch. My blood is on your hands. You ruined my life."

Moore appeared by videoconference at the arraignment, stating his name and clearly answering two questions with, "Yes, your honor." He wore a white jumpsuit, his expression sullen and his hands folded on his lap. He appeared to wince as the prosecutor went through the timeline of his actions.

First assistant prosecutor Kati Rezmierski detailed the timeline of Moore's actions after the firing, as he "barged his way" into the woman's apartment. He went to a drawer in the kitchen and "grabbed several butter knives and a pair of kitchen scissors" before threatening to take his own life.

The prosecutor also detailed that Moore had an "intimate relationship" with the woman he worked with for "a number of years" before she ended the relationship Monday.

The split prompted a flurry of calls and texts from Moore that the woman did not return. Moore is married to another woman, and they have three children.

Moore's actions in the wake of his former lover breaking up with him led her to go to officials at Michigan and detail their relationship. The school had previously investigated a tip about the situation, sources have told ESPN but could not prove it occurred.

The woman's admission and supporting evidence led the school to quickly dismiss Moore for cause, saying he violated both his contract and university policy. Michigan will not have to pay Moore the nearly $12.3 million remaining on his deal because he was fired for cause.

The woman called police after Moore barged into her apartment.

Rezmierski called Moore's behavior "a series of very, very threatening and intimidating and terrifying statements and behaviors."

Some of the conditions that are part of Moore's $25,000 bond include GPS tether monitoring, no contact with the woman, and orders to not go to the woman's residence. There is a probable cause conference set for Jan. 22.

was not expecting two road wins

definitely not expecting any more tho

Fuck the Hurricanes

I'm not sure Tulane and JMU are very good

yeah probably not

but it's not like they lost to *both* miami and texas a&m

(sorry man)

hey, I can now just state that we ended the season way better than those teams, and we'll never know if I'm right.

I think we might have score more than 14 points today, though

However, I saw videos of Jake Paul and Andrew Tate getting punched today, and that helped me heal.

and now the Bears beat the packers to win the division!

lol

perhaps the SEC and Big10 are overrated

battle of THEs

Man fuck the Hurricanes.

Mouthiest do nothings.

I don't particularly care for OSU but the enemy of my enemy etc

Also no idea how he didn't see the DB sitting on the screen when ge turned his head. Ju Sayin

As long as we can all agree that ND's loss was good and they should have been in over Tulane

and Alabama

I hate ND more probably so yessss

We should share hurricane st Bernardi during next year's game

neanderthal pls walk me through your rooting interests? iirc you live in central florida

miami DOLPHINS but not HURRICANES . . . and then . . . what?

Lol you are correct.

Ok...football = Miami Dolphins because my grandpa moved to Ft Myers from New York in the 70s and switched allegiances from Jets to Dolphins (but continued to be a Giants fan).

So i joined him.

However I was a Florida state fan growing up and went to FSU one year, UCF the rest, but never rooted for UCF, still a Nole.

Basketball i don't watch but I was an Orlando Magic fan

Baseball i no longer watch but was a Braves fan for years.

Soccer i root Orlando City, Wolverhampton Wanderers

Hockey if I did root it'd be Lightning.

I'm a bit over the map

This drive will end at the goal line. Calling it

Why does anybody listen to me

Meanderthal

I can't understand giving up on baseball but I'm bias. It has the most investment year after year but those highs are like nothing else. I do get why football is king tho.

Xpisra

Lol, @ Xpisra

I'm a bit over the map

love it -- this stuff is endlessly interesting to me, particularly now that i live in brooklyn. like how did the (sadly now closed) esposito's pork store guys become hardcore yankees/jets fans?

fwiw i'm from pittsburgh and went to duke. both my parents went to penn state, so i mostly supported them up until the sandusky situation. (my dad actually rooted for pitt all along because he thought joepa was a phony; he was right). also my next-door neighbor mike lenosky lost his starting linebacker job at pitt to hugh green.

as a kid, big east basketball was huge to me. three teams in the 1985 final four, and also i'd just seen the villanova squad in the pittsburgh airport after getting smoked by pitt in late february.

later, acc basketball was huge to me. i was in indianapolis for duke's first ncaa title in 1991, beating previously undefeated UNLV in the semifinal

now i only vaguely root for these teams. duke's basketball players have been one-and-done for 15 years; it's nice if they do well, i suppose, but i don't care enough to follow the entire roster turning over each year

i'd like to think that this ridiculous turnover might impact fans' support of college sports, but branding is branding, especially if you're an alum

Prime Big East basketball was amazing

also all these (football-related) conference concentration shenanigans have fucking wrecked college hoops

if you can't play everyone else once each year in football and home-and-home in basketball, gtfo

We have a game

Good game now

Huge play

And then another in the other direction

Refs

3rd and 20 and lose yards, smh

IU > ACC >>> everyone else

Upset alert

Wow

It is over

nice

ND out was a crime

clearly should have been ACC champion duke in place of miami amirite

Probably better than Bama and Ohio state

The acc is ridiculous with a system that did not put miami, the obvious best team, in its championship. But the assumption going into the cfb playoff committee was that the acc and Miami suck.

amidst the angst regarding, well, literally everything

perhaps we should just concentrate on the magnificence of ohio state losing

because that is awesome

Oh, I am not missing that

It is wonderful. But also ND would have won it all, and the other teams are cowards.

no doubt

Oregon needs to win one of these.

Thank god alabama got their chance

LMAO

Wish I had watched that

if only the committee had been given any clue that alabama might be this team

not actually rooting for ole miss but enough with the red-and-white vs. red-and-white games

Good fake

come the fuck on dawgs

That all happened very fast

the ole miss qb is on an absolute heater right now

I absolutely hate this camera angle on everything all the time.

Gunner Stockton looks like the Fyre Festival guy

It should be an occasional treatment for passing highlights or turnovers, not every single down

I am trying to teach my daughter how to manifest a decent southern accent based on the commentators

e.g. there is no L in BAW

Got that ball out, big play

Wiw

praying for a doink

Welp

Ended up being a good game

some giant highlight plays for both teams. and a blatant uncalled facemask by Georgia

i don't know anything about college football beyond basic headlines but ole miss doing this after kiffin bailed on them is cool

Lane Kiffin just got more money

Wtf?

that lateral lasted for an eternity

Jesus H

The refs really f'ed up the end of that game.

I figured they were over the over, but I was laughing about that safety might be a huge suicide bad beat if it was the 2 points that pushed the line one way or another.

IU putting the total decimation on the Crimson Tide is a sports fan moment I will cherish for a long time. Everything from here out is just Gravy as crushing both Buckeye and Alabama fans souls in the same year feels nice after never being good at any of this BS.

Mendoza's got that huge goofy grin going and got to be like going through a WTF time going from relative obscurity to Heisman winner and all this...

That smile is like inbetween Eddie Haskell and the Joker (f'k that is an old as dirt reference)...

Ah well the Edgar Allen Poe turn around that he will probably get sent to play for the Raiders or Browns next is enough payback on the wheel.

I guarantee some NFL scouts are making some notes about a bunch of dudes on that Hoosiers teams. All those wide outs and running backs look like pro talent guys.

DId not watch the game, but that stat line that Arch Manning threw down was pretty impressive.

I think he got more rushing yards in that game than both his uncles did in their careers.

This U and Ole Miss game is f'n crazy. Players are just laying out hard core, it's like the closest I have seen to a 'march madness' kinda thing in a college playoff game.

The college football business is stupid to just not go to a 11 game season then have a 32 team tournament.

Usually the prize fighter setup the way these bowls have been made and the BCS made pretty shitty games. Exceptions of course like that Texas/USC game, which still might be the best football game I ever saw.

This one is a classic.

One more play

so close...

Very

I've actually got a bit of butterflies thinking about both the IU and Bears games this week. It's been a while since I have watched a game and REALLY REALLY want to win.

With IU, it would be disappointment if it ends tomorrow, but it's all gravy really after what they have done.

With the Bears, I have watched them for 30 years get the shit beat out of them by Green Bay. When I was in college in the all time win/loss they were like 20+ over and now they are like 20 down to those cheeseheads.

*almost* wanted ole miss to win, just to make kiffin look even more like the asshole that he is

but not really

On that latter point, I blame Don Majowski. It all started with him throwing that damn TD to Sterling Sharp.

I don't know that the world needs the U back to prominence.

They were the ultimate heels for a over a couple decades.

That said, I thought it was pretty dope when they merged two of the city schools in Lexington into Fredrick Douglas high school, they adopted the U colors for their school.

https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/536/921/9921536.JPG

That said on the U, they were in a LOT of huge games that are some of the best college football games ever. You can add this one into the list.

Nebraska Fumblerooski
Catholics vs. Cons
Flutie miracle

Miami/OSU

Well Carson Beck has officially disappointed another fan base.

― earlnash, Friday, October 17, 2025 10:23 PM

He's probably made up for this one.

What a horrible start time

Is this game already over?

I think they have greased up the football. Weird start.

The announcers really like Indiana ot sounds like we are listening to their home broadcast.

They are looking like a juggernaut right now. That pass rush is like Bears 52 hitting the tar out of the QB play after play.

Long way to go, Oregon needs to slow down. They were killing it running the ball in that first drive.

Oregon gave away 21 points in the first half on three turnoves, you can't win that way.

This is so cool

However, I am now invested and will be crushed if they don't win it all.

IU is also now causing real problems for ND in the transfer portal by throwing Cuban's money around and being serious all of the time.

If they start offering crazy money to unproven recruits out of hs, it will truly be over until a cap is put in place.

And I am not saying the money is it. They stole an ND center in the portal and made him better.

I suspect "Dabo Jesus Magic Culture" is at play

I watched the Cal vs Miami game last season when Mendoza was QB at Cal. Mendoza was brilliant and had Cal in winning position, but they got screwed by not getting the most obvious targeting call ever on a brutal hit from Miami during a QB scramble. I hope Heismendoza gets his revenge.

this entire sport is insane

Lawyers for QB Chambliss sue NCAA in Mississippi court demanding a sixth year of eligibility

they need to move to a "you can play 1 second in x seasons" rule or just give up

Miami out there targeting again

That was pretty easy

Hard Rock field should have rock memorabilia scattered throughout

Football replaced with a mold of Joe Perry's penis

Donk

non call on Mendoza hit echoes the disgraceful non call when Cal should have beaten Miami

One run

Big Ones

You can't go for it

What?

Here to say "fuck the Canes"

We have a game

How many coupons for free One Night in Bangkok Spicy Shrimp appetizers did Miami give these refs?

wow

They have been letting them play, no doubt

No amount of Tupelo Dippers could deny them

Really?

Take the points

Holy shit

oh my god Mendoza

Fuck yes

Oh they took em alright

What do I know

Target that

maybe should have given him an offer

instead of several cheap shots

hey don't feel bad Cane fans, your trip home will be a short one tonight

god as soon as he took off running I thought it was gonna be a hilarious failure one of the all time "why tf would you go for it only to run THAT play" moments

Mendoza must've sworn on his funko pops he'd get the first at least

Hmm

That was fairly easy

Yea generally not good to give up 91 yards in under 3 minutes

Cignetti must have smiled a little

players saw it and let up

no worries

Becker is so grumpy...but he's good at what he does

Cristobal not gonna have to kiss anybody tonight

might need to still kiss Dana White's ass per their contract

We still have a game

Man that false start

brutal

Beck hasn't thrown a pick in a while

a flinching left arm

the endzone cam view of Mendoza's TD run is insane, he gets violently whipped around and just pops back up like its nothing

Lmao what is he even arguing

How does a delay happen there

Beck makin nothing outta nothing there

Oh come on

Landino you dumb ass

Huge penalty

Miami gets the roughing

thought they were letting them play

he might've been roughing

OPE

Ahhaahahahahahahaha

Beck hasn't thrown a pick in a while

― Bertolt Blecch (Neanderthal), Monday, January 19, 2026 11:09 PM bookmarkflaglink

2 turnovers and a trophy gone

The there you go

Neanderthal called it

awwww he looks so happy

He's about to throw it to Mo

Fernando got his revenge

can't help but think Ryan Day should be fired for this

Tyrique Tucker all on social media clowning Mark Fletcher for throwing a punch at him after the natty ended and turns out he was taunting Fletcher about his deceased father.

classy.

We might never know for sure, but that seems a bit too evil to be what Tucker intended.

talked to a buddy who was on a staff w cignetti 20 some odd years ago & said he was a grumpy gus then !

spending too much time at IUP won't help