the new college futbol thread!

um, that's disturbing.

w/o doing more reading on the upcoming season, all i have to say is jasper and casper brinkley.

The thing is McFadden's to lose, I think.

do people use this thread w/ regular frequency during the season?

if so, i will be drumming up much conversation about my beloved miami hurricanes.

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that's all.

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maybe u guys prefer this
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plz do jordan there is not enuff ncaa talk on here! not that i am helping lol~

i am somehow in a pick'em pool even though the team i follow most closely(read: can name more than one player on) is the uconn football huskies...in other words, tell me whose gonna cover them spreads this week!--or, insert joek about phil fullmer being fat.

ok real talk time.

am i the only one wholly unsold on usc being a unanimous, runaway number 1? i have no logic (as of right now) to back this up, just a gut feeling that this may be the year something srsly funky goes down w/r/t the national title.

i mean lsu has managed to blow national title predictions every year since they last won it, and something about john david booty seems... off to me.

basically i'm saying, i'd bet my right foot that the national title won't be usc-lsu, which seems to be the general consensus of about 85% of college football writers/prognosticators.

Longhorns are a sleeping giant. Just wait. And I'm not even a Texas fan or anything.

Likewise, I think the strengths of West VA outnumber the weaknesses by a great deal.

This year, it's gonna be Big 12 vs. Big East for the trophy.

Florida won't repeat a national title win, but they might beat LSU in the SEC title game. Iffy defense (and loose cannon QB) will be the x-factor. There won't be an undefeated SEC team this year, though. The field's levelling off all over the conference.

The result of Saturday's Cal/Tennessee game will determine whether or not I pay attention to college football this year. I am a shameless "I only care about college football when my team is good" asshole.

LSU had some problems in last night's game. Probably nothing they can't overcome as the season progresses, but MSU (MSU!!!) held them to 3 points for almost all of the first half.

i was stoked about tech last year and, well, we know how that turned out. i just wanna see them beat GA :[

A bunch of analysis hacks have boners for GA this year, but I won't be convinced until I see proof.

yeah i think stafford's development is prob the most interesting thing happening there. i still root for GA against other teams, but i always liked tech more cuz they're actually in atlanta, uga always felt so distant 2 me~ (cooler unis tho)

(polyphonic i am exactly the same btw)

i mean LSU isn't typically an offensive juggernaut.

and tho it was against a DII team (or whatever), louisville looked mildly terrifying last night.

T-30 minutes til another terrible UW Huskies season. The line says +3 versus Syracuse tonight but I don't believe it.

Just so everyone's aware, I'm the annoying Tide fan that pisses in everyone's punch every year. Brace yourselves for a lot of "Saban is God" and "the countdown to a 2009 national title starts now" stuff.

nick saban is a v. wanted man in my hometown.

Fuck the Big Ten Network. So the only way to see Ohio State's non-conference schedule is to subscribe to Direct TV? unbelievable

oh, it's also available on AT&T's U-verse(?) . Why not just show it on Space Shuttle flights?

someone gimme the thoughts of an east carolina player today.

LOLZ xpost.

also huge lolz @ espnu for putting larry coker on the miami/marshall game.

this is almost unlistenable.

like, a miami drive just stalled in the redzone and coker goes "this is miami's problem. when they get into the redzone, they just have trouble scoring."

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE THE FUCKING COACH.

Whoa what if Appalachian State beats Michigan.

bombshell.

doesn't look like it's gonna happen though.

Let me turn on the Big Ten Network and I'll give you my opinion of App. State vs MI. ARRGHGHGRHRGHHRHGHRHGHRHGHRH

lolz i hope they switch it onto espn or something.
will chad henne survive the week if they end up losing?

OH MY FRICKIN GOD

wololverinez

seeing highlights for the first time on espnnews: last block FG was insane!! mich pass d looked godawful.

their wrs were beating mich's dbs by 40 yds on straight line runs. wwttff.

ahaha omg i wonder if rich eisen is weeping rn

ps. choice4heisman!

r.i.p. notre dame

Lose Like a Champion This Season

hooooly shit desean jackson.

#1 APP Beats Michigan Tee New!

Appalachian winning is a great excuse to re-post this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg

After watching the games on Saturday, I think Call has a shot at beating SC. Their offense is scary good.

Yeah but the defense isn't that great. Tennessee didn't even try to throw it down the field. I'm happy about the win and feeling pretty optimistic, but USC is a much better team than Tennessee.

My guess is that the "Draft Gruden" signs are coming out again on campus today at Notre Dame.

app st. goosebumps

come on CLEMSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JPeJnRi6s

the radio call from the appalachian state win. i seriously still lose my shit when i hear it

ok the problem is that trying to prognosticate this season is obv pointless, so it really doesn't matter what you think. if you don't think that mizzou or wvu could beat any team in the country right now you're kind of crazy, especially w/ regards to missouri who's only loss is to oklahoma in norman by 10 points in a game in which they were leading in the 4th quarter.

ok btw when i said "it doesn't matter what you think" i mean that both in the proverbial universal you and you, earlnash. just as it really doesn't matter who i think the best teams are. my point is, i don't think anyone who has watched missouri play could honestly say that they couldn't beat any team in the country in the national title game.

I can believe that Mizzou is the best team in the country, yes ... especially after watching them Saturday night... West Virginia, not so much..

west virginia is unstoppable.

i believe their offense can't be stopped.

defense... shakey at times.

does anyone in the US besides college presidents not want a playoff system? I realize this is rehashed every year ad nausem but c'mon was it really necessary for Ohio State to add an extra game to their schedule so they can play another MAC team? There's one playoff game right there!

Anyway, both Mizzou and WVU looked good last weekend. I hope excluding the SEC from the National Championship will rile up their fans enough to demand a playoff.

get better, cankles ;_;

The weird thing about the SEC and the BCS this year? Georgia's #4, yet they're not playing in the conference championship game. Fucked, dudes.

clearly the real lesson of this college football season is always wear a rubber

Georgia's #4, yet they're not playing in the conference championship game. Fucked, dudes.

that tells you how arbitrary the poll system is. settle it on the field, LIKE EVERY OTHER LEVEL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL.

I do not want a playoff system. I love the Bowls. I will watch any random bowl, i don't care. BUT, what I think they should do is just add one extra game for the top two teams that come out of the bowl games. AND, they're basically ALREADY did that, time-wise, when they added that "extra" Bowl game -- the BCS championship game -- which plays a week after Jan 1. But of course they fucked it up by having the teams pre-scheduled and not making it like a playoff type thing. Which in my scenario would really just amount to a 4-team playoff system. But Anything more than that would be ridiculous anyway. You really just want to avoid situations like Auburn a couple years back or whatever.

re: wvu

did anyone see that promo package of noel devine a couple years ago when he was being marketed to recruiters? holy smokes. when slaton is gone, you will see what a phenomenal talent this dude is. in the interim, i sincerely hope you look it up on youtube or somesuch. it is quite a thing to behold.

so keep the bowls and name the playoff games "bowls". who cares? already more than half the teams playing 1A ball play in bowls at the end of the year. divisions 1AA, II, and III all have playoff systems, if the ncaa is so concerned about the well balance of "scholar" and "athlete" why is the playoff system allowable for everyone but 1A?

The NCAA basketball season runs almost 6 months so apparently they're not too concerned with their academics.

hell, baseball season goes past the end of the academic year at a lot of places.

Soo...OSU and LSU. Hmmm...

This is the craziest season EVAR!

it's funny tho that the national championship is just going to end up being lsu-ohio st.
1 loss is the new undefeated.

-- Jordan Sargent, Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:40 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

O_O

Hey P. Plains, what was the reaction in your area when the Tuberville-to-Arkansas rumor hit? (I haven't heard anything since T.T.'s denial, so I assume it isn't happening.)

Actually, Tuberville's denial is worthless. I just haven't heard anything else about it in several days.

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it's weird that the nfl network commentators are focusing so much on who's a pro prospect and the combine in the texas bowl game. its also weird that the tcu kicker is missing like half an arm. i did a major double take.

I think they the NCAA can keep the bowls and have a playoff. I don't see the problem with having the BCS Bowls be the tournament itself, they could have four of the bowls be the round of eight, two of the big ones be the round of four, then have a championship game on the off week before the Superbowl.

It would be worth a gazillion dollars. However much college football's new year orgy makes, a national championship tournament would be even bigger. Football multiplied by March Madness would be insane for making cash, especially if they got buck wild and made it a 16 team bracket free for all.

However in another way, the NCAA and the media are already earning enough fatback cash off of college football and basketball athletes, so it would just be another screw job to the players. College football players, especially the un-heralded masses that fill up squads sometimes get screwed by their schools if they get hurt. People working at fast food joints have better coverage if they get hurt "on the job".

I'm a little tired of the excuse that a playoff would mean the athletes would miss more class and that it could force them to have to reschedule exams.

didn't seem to stop them from extending the length of the regular season.

it's weird that the nfl network commentators are focusing so much on who's a pro prospect and the combine in the texas bowl game.

mike mayock was one of the commentators iirc, and his big 'thing' is as a draft analyst/scout... his combine coverage on NFLN is pretty intense~

^^oh i know mayock is a bro, i didnt actually mind...there wasnt a lot going on in that game drama-wise until the last drive actually.

anyone hear in the uconn-wake game when the commentator (think it was the other dude not andre ware, im blankin on his name) said "you keep pounding that meat long enough and it'll soon become tender?" after a wake td run...? o_O!!!!!

i didn't catch that. i hadn't previously noticed wake's skip prosser pacthes, though. those were kind of cool.

Mich-Fla barn burner in progress...

Mich/Fla was a good game. I hope Hawaii can pull off an upset or at least make it more interesting than the Illini in the Rose Bowl.

lol hawaii will be KRUSHED

USC favored by 14. I would've thought more, Illinois is one of the worst Rose Bowl teams in recent memory.

jesus, did anyone in the goddamn world really want to see this illi-sc game? a ga-sc rosebowl would've been TYTE, better than the national championship imo~~~

also, rainbow warriors get off my mainland and my tv.

The only good that can come from this game is if Fox decides the whole Boise State thing was an aberration, and decides not to renew its BCS contract.

And Georgia's halftime salute to Journey.

florida v. michigan was the best bowl game i've watched. there've been a lot of snoozers this year, though i missed navy!

If they would have matched it up Georgia vs. USC and Hawaii vs. Illinois, we would have had some games.

I think Georgia and USC could have been an excellent matchup.

Hawaii vs. Illinois would've made a nice Holiday Bowl, I guess.

GA vs USC, Missouri, OK, or OSU in any bowl game would've been nice

Can't say I'm excited about this WV/OK game tonight.

oh but u get KU/VT tomorrow to be fired up abt!

it took me a minute to figure out who kansas was playing because i knew my initial reaction of "vermont" wasn't correct. for starters, last time i checked they don't even have a football team at uvm.

even w/o slaton wvu is kicking oklahoma's ass. this is only gonna get worse for the sooners.

i know i've mentioned it before, but...

NOEL DEVINE!

seeing those hawaii kids get humiliated like that kinda made me mad. who comes up with these match-ups? georgia should've been matched against a more competetive team like missou, who also got screwed, and hawaii should be playing a team closer to its own level. the players AND fans had their time wasted by dickbags hoping for boise state magic and going for the storylines, instead of putting together appropriate matchups.

Do you really not know how the matchups work? Basically, the BCS creates a pool of eligible teams (anyone in the top 16 of the final BCS rankings, I think); the championship game gets the first two picks, and then the rest of the teams are basically drafted between the various bowls. So that means you'll never see the 3rd best team vs. the 4th best team in a game. The third, fourth, and fifth best teams each get their own bowls, and each get their own inferior competition (unless it's Oklahoma, haha).

seeing those hawaii kids get humiliated like that kinda made me mad. who comes up with these match-ups? georgia should've been matched against a more competetive team like missou, who also got screwed, and hawaii should be playing a team closer to its own level. the players AND fans had their time wasted by dickbags hoping for boise state magic and going for the storylines, instead of putting together appropriate matchups.

a playoff would've allowed water to find it's own level so to speak.

Ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqsTYjqGido

lol i just realized phil fulmer is giving birth to a donut up there

chris myers just said that jim tressle told his squad at halftime "we had the lead, we're capable, let's get back to basics."

if you're team needs to be reminded that they conceivably could win the game while you're playing for a national championship then that team is not going to win.

this game is, for 48 combined points, has been pretty unsensational