2019 NCAA Football thread : "Do More."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2019/08/20/college-football-recruiting-georgia-leads-pack-in-soaring-costs/2059273001/?utm_source=oembed&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=storylines&utm_content=news&utm_term=3054672002

Not surpised, UKY has spent a ton of money on facilities over the past few years pretty much across the board, not just on football though.

I'm sure it will probably be the usual suspects in the title race. Hope Jalen Hurts kicks butt for Oklahoma and would love to see him beat either Alabama or Clemson in a bowl game.

Kind of curious about this running back for Utah, had not heard of him.

I love to watch college games, but the sausage-making in that article is not pretty

I see Justin Fields, who was at Georgia last year, is starting for Ohio State this season -- good for him

I suspect we'll get another iteration of Bama vs Clemson before Kirby beats Bama

go blue

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go blue ???

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kJroZsoW4ZE/TfDt3_uwa1I/AAAAAAAAAao/RiVh1zCyG1I/s1600/boise-state-blue-field.jpg

getting through the first quarter scoreless in tuscaloosa is maybe the greatest accomplishment duke football has ever had

I guess sports talking heads can file that "TENNESSEE IS BACK" article/take again until next year.

That said, Georgia Southern looked pretty darn fast against the Vols. Would not be surprised there a couple of guys in there that will get a look by someone at the next level.

Miss u Jalen

don't let papa john embarrass you

please

papa runs right through you

look at all these louisville midwesterners in the stands

i'm in an appalachian state

this brand of football is not so yummy

jimi hendrix said that

hope we have a Tua in line for QB bc Brian Kelly has developed yet another junior transfer.

lol michigan

missed it by that much /maxwellsmart

the worst game i have ever seen lol

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2019/09/07/michigan-football-score/2247248001/

michigan kicker *almost* missed that extra point in OT, which would have been amazing

UL Monroe took Florida State to OT, but (sadly) lost 44-43. I will never not find the continuing exposure of and humiliation of Willie Taggert anything but hilarious.

down 17-10 with six minutes left, pitt has first and goal from the one

three plays go nowhere, now there are five minutes left

for some reason unbeknownst to god or man, they try a 19-yard field goal and miss it anyway. penn state ball on the 20

jfc

pitt

Pat Narduzzi on why he opted for a field goal with a fourth and one with five minutes left, down seven

‘Because you need two scores to win the football game.’

He added that he doesn’t question that decision ‘at all’

— Craig Meyer (@CraigMeyerPG) September 14, 2019

2 scores. But 1 score of one type you were 1 yd away from.

and if you were really all about winning you could have scored the TD and gone for two

BYU/USC and KY/Florida were both amazing crazy games.

BYU's QB is a wild one, he pulled off a couple of crazy plays. USC had a couple of mistakes but BYU was just playing out of their minds at home and nearly gave it up. The Cougars have some talent and could be an interesting bowl opponent for a big conference team at holiday time.

KY pretty much again grasped defeat out of the jaws of victory. They have had at least 10 just brutal losses over the past decade or so and last night was one for the slag pile. Worst yet is that they again did it against Florida, which at least is 3 or 4 times blowing it late against the Gators.

Michigan looks like what ND is supposed to look like later

could be a red day. not a blue day.

guess harbaugh failed to lay the proper wreaths on bo schembechler's grave

:(

Streaming the auburn vs a&m game and just saw a commercial for a place called "Zaxby's." There was a plate of fried chicken, slaw, and a 3-slice-thick slice of bread. To my amazement, the tv hands then tucked a giant egg roll onto the plate.

Frommulus

holding call on a touchback. the fix is in.

it's the hurty up offense

Absurd homer spot

UGA was better. Our OL will have some rough tape to look at.

Zaxby's is an entirely mediocre chain that Southerners swear by because of the unique "Zaxby's Sauce." The eggroll may seem a strange addition, but it's purely a different vehicle to deliver sauce to the customer's mouth hole.

pitt panthers tho

Thank you, JF. Even my Texas friend couldn't tell me what was up. Just said that it's "really southern. Not really a Texas thing."

xp lol ucf

JF explaining Zaxby's is an example of ilx at its finest.

lol true

fwiw the closest I can get to describing "Zaxby's Sauce" is to imagine ketchup and mustard mixed together with an obscene amount of black pepper added.

Ahh, the internet says it's ketchup, mayo, worcestershire, garlic, and black pepper. Whatever it is, it ain't much to write home about.

it always starts with ketchup and mayo

anyone watching ucla vs wash state???

this is what usc utah looked like it could be

There was some amazing games today. Alabama and Auburn was really nuts and the IU/Purdue game was really tightrope end.

Lynn Bowden deserves to get some national props and a big tip of the hat to UK offensive coordinator Eddie Grand (& head coach Mark Stoops) for completely re-doing their offense on the fly and moving Bowden a WR/KR into full time Wildcat QB (literally this time). UK went 5-2 with this crazy scheme, including a loss to Tennessee they could have won. In that time, Bowden has run for over 1100 yards and scored 11 TDs on the ground from QB. They had to do this as they lost their two top starting QBs at that point.

I'm sure some pro scouts have been paying attention and curious to see where Bowden is at the combine before the draft. If his 40 time comes out good, I bet he goes up the draft board quite a bit.

I'm sure FSU is going to back up the bank truck to try to hire Stoops away and I do think he is a good coach, but I kinda hope that he hangs around. UK will probably match the money and he has a shot to build something there that would be unique. Why work in Bobby Bowden's shadow when you can become Bobby Bowden.

The Iron Bowl was epic. It was delectable to see Saban so angry and helpless. Also, a great showing for the Key & Peele East West Bowl, with JaTarvious "Boobie" Whitlow and Smoke Monday making some great plays.

Jaylen Waddle presumably didn’t pay much attention to the postgame locker room speech from coach.

earlnash doing the lord's work in this thread w/r/t Lynn Bowden: 22 carries for 284 yards and 4 TDs yesterday

i won't delude myself into thinking Kentucky should be a centerpiece of any college football thread, but w/ Smoke, Rose and Rodriguez back next year, plus the return of Terry Wilson, things are looking bright in the LEX. (i'm assuming Bowden will leave after this season, which he should.)

as for non-UK content: as always, anyone but Ohio State, please. I'll be rooting for LSU (and Georgia, if available)

Given the dominance of a handful of perennial powerhouse teams, the only way to inject any real excitement into the college playoffs would be to expand it to at least eight teams, with extra preference given to conference champions. Ideally I'd drop one regular season non-conference game and hold a sixteen team tourney that included all the mid-major champions and more power five at-large seeds.

The only way to make this year's playoffs less exciting would be to replace LSU with Georgia or Alabama. (btw, ty Auburn, well done)

16 would be the ideal, but I doubt it would ever happen. I think really 8 would be feasible. They have one more round of games next week after the conference playoffs. Top 4 seeds get a home game. Winners and losers seed into Bowl games with 2 games being the final 4. Same deal on National title game. That would be easy to do. Football is tied to the owners of the Bowls and the power conferences they really have quite a bit of clout in this setup.

I'd think that 'bonus' home game would be tempting.

I think really 8 would be feasible.

Especially if college athletes can finally start to earn some monetary compensation connected to their athletics.

btw, ty Auburn, well done

Thank Mississippi State. They ended Tua's year.

spoken like a true Crimson Tide fan, JF. but thanking Mississippi State for Tua's injury implies that Mississippi State players were personally to blame for his injury, when all they were doing was playing a football game, same as the Tide. I'm pretty sure some players on teams opposing Bama got hurt this year, too. Auburn, otoh, scored more points and won the game.

It was a tackle in a football game (one he arguably shouldn't have still been playing in), but I place no blame on the Bulldogs players. I'm just saying Tua never made it out of Starkville to make it to Auburn, where the difference would have been significant.

Anyway, I don't care who wins as long as Clemson goes down.

No doubt there are several alternate realities in which the Tide beats Auburn and takes this year's championship. Along with alternate realities in which the Oregon Ducks... but wait, this is getting out of hand.

every game has a normal probability distribution for (team1_points - team2_points). for alabama or any school with the best players, the distribution is usually shifted +21 or so points with a sigma of 10 or fewer points. so alabama should really be asking that they play each team in a best of 2000 series each week, to be certain the brilliant median score difference shines through for the playoff committee.

or maybe the point of sports isn't to determine which team is better. perhaps the point is to tell stories. stories about a catfish'd linebacker or a coach named Derbis that really likes jesus. or maybe a catfish'd linebacker who also really likes jesus. maybe this is the point of sports.

Alabama was not looking all the dominant this year before they lost Tua. LSU beat them very very easily. And let's not forget how badly Clemson beat Bama last year in title game. Fuck Saban.

i will never forget

i'm glad ND could actually get 11 wins, but at what cost: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z9iv8

They're playing my alma mater in Orlando and I already hate ND with the fire of 1,000 suns

I like how that video extolling Ames, Iowa mentions its city water supply as one of its many fabulous local wonders. Twice! It also wants us to know that the weather is good in the springtime, without saying that spring is sandwiched in between a wretched winter and a torrid summer and only lasts about six weeks.

No argument here. Alabama was average this year, and there's not a Tua Tagovailoa or Jalen Hurts in the pipeline right now. We'll see how Tua's brother does, but I suspect the game plan will no longer revolve around a superman qb.

dandy, cyclones' chances have improved (not saying they weren't already good). chip long has left.

We have a good team this year and will be even better next year. But I don't see the Clones beating ND.

I can't wait to watch Saban run up the score on Ole Miss next year. He hates Kiffin as much as I hate ND.

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army and navy, combined passing in the first half: 2-for-2, 11 yards

From its inception to 2017, the game was sponsored by the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurant franchise and officially known as the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.[8] After Restaurant Brands International acquired Popeyes in 2017, they declined to renew sponsorship. Elk Grove Village, Illinois — "home to the largest industrial park in the United States" — picked up the sponsorship in 2018, renaming the bowl as the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl.[9]

mercy rule in a national semifinal

^^

lawrence is getting brutalized

Clemson O-line is not winning consistently, but the OSU O-line has had consistent success.

football move indicator that lights up when football moves are happening

These two teams are pretty even. OSU has better athletes on defense.

Oklahoma could not beat Auburn, they looked slow as usual on defense by comparison to LSU.

I think that targeting penalty is a bit extreme. I could see that being the result on a second play by same player or maybe a total across a season, but it does seem a bit like 'get out of jail free' card in football and seems to make impact in a bunch of games.

headhunting used to be an integral part of the game, but permanent brain damage has long been an integral part of the game, too, so... which is more important in the long run: affecting game outcomes, or reducing the prevalence of traumatic brain injury?

good game, impressed by clem to come back

nothing quite like MAC and Sunbelt also-rans doing battle in the mobile alabama/GMAC/go daddy/dollar general/lendingtree bowl on a random monday night in january

It was dumb of the NCAA to schedule the championship game so late, right after divisional weekend, the most exciting weekend of NFL football

Joe Brady in the box with a headset, looks like he should be a dude in a madden tournament

I'm picking the Tigers to win.

this whole game is one big zaxby's commercial

with a fanboat drive-thru

this game, if late, is still very good

James Skalski could be called for targeting while standing still

this LSU team is one we're gonna remember forever.

jamarr chase is just a sophomore, jeez. my chief rooting interest is for him to get to 300 yds.

head ref has david byrne vibes

like this is his first game, and he'll go home to journal about how profoundly strange american football is

enjoying this new trend of 'sure, our coach is a racist abuser, but look at all the money we saved by making him take a paycut'

"I don't think we can take this away from our players, take this away from our state and our country," Orgeron said. "We need football. Football is the lifeblood of our country."

It's definitely the life blood of his bank account.

https://www.si.com/college/bostoncollege/football/betting-odds-on-college-football-return

His bank account is going to take a hit, I assume.

washington state is apparently cutting players who signed *or retweeted* the pac-12 players list of demands. amazing

Am told multiple other #WSU players who shared the "#WeAreUnited" graphics have been released from the team, as well. https://t.co/OA0Hg3aroo

— Theo Lawson (@TheoLawson_SR) August 2, 2020

Among complaints from Colorado State athletes staffers: Coaches have told players not to report COVID-19 symptoms, threatened players with reduced playing time if they quarantine and claim CSU is altering contact tracing reports to keep players practicing https://t.co/OMjaq7GFsK

— Kevin Lytle (@Kevin_Lytle) August 4, 2020