The OFFICIAL 2022 College Football RANDOM THOUGHTS thread

[Osmar]

First HBCU to play at Norte Dame

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

First HBCU to play at Norte Dame

Massacre

 

[RammerJammer]

First HBCU to play at Norte Dame

Peacock game

 

[DropTopDoc]

 

[DropTopDoc]

My face when i found out Arizona/Arizona st and North Arizona are all ran by the same board of regents

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

My face when i found out Arizona/Arizona st and North Arizona are all ran by the same board of regents

that's fukkin weird

 

[DropTopDoc]

Peacock game

they said regular tv

 

[DropTopDoc]

that's fukkin weird

Bruh the shyt wild but that’s why the u cal schools will forever have trouble trying to push for a chip, because of the same issue. That’s apparently how Arizona as a state gets down, yeah individuals put bread up accordingly to their favorite school, but it will never be one band one sound in their life

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Bruh the shyt wild but that’s why the u cal schools will forever have trouble trying to push for a chip, because of the same issue. That’s apparently how Arizona as a state gets down, yeah individuals put bread up accordingly to their favorite school, but it will never be one band one sound in their life

one reason of many reasons why ASU/UA and U cal isn’t winning a title in the modern era. Football just isn’t that big of a deal out west…

college football in particular is a southern and Midwest thing. It even extends to the pros too…take a look at the browns that haven’t ever won shyt and compare that fan base to any west coast teams.

 

[DropTopDoc]

one reason of many reasons why ASU/UA and U cal isn’t winning a title in the modern era. Football just isn’t that big of a deal out west…

college football in particular is a southern and Midwest thing. It even extends to the pros too…take a look at the browns that haven’t ever won shyt and compare that fan base to any west coast teams.

I mean, yes and no, it’s a lot of folks that are football hungry, but between transplants, people leaving, teams leaving and coming, it’s hard for them to get consistency, but if it’s a question, look at how usc just pulled an sec type move, and is trying to turn themselves into a Death Star program

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

I mean, yes and no, it’s a lot of folks that are football hungry, but between transplants, people leaving, teams leaving and coming, it’s hard for them to get consistency, but if it’s a question, look at how usc just pulled an sec type move, and is trying to turn themselves into a Death Star program

USC and Oregon would be the exceptions I’d say.

Oregon has Nike money and has used that to be more cutting edge than most CFB programs that rely more on tradition.

For USC part of it is ‘SC is private thus immune to the regent issues you mentioned. Also SC is a historical top 8 (at the very least) program that should be a title contender consistently. However, we’ve seen how fast USC can and has fallen from grace before and have stages of sustained mediocrity (1990 - 2001 had a lot of 6 win seasons…even a 3 win season…)

their fan bases are much more fickle. Take OSU in the 90s and some off years in the 2000s (‘04, 2011) or UM during the rich rod years or UTenn or UT-Austin as of late…Still packed the stadiums and sold hella merch. Texas has been very mediocre for 10+ years now and is still top 3 in revenue. UTenn has been trash since ~2006 still in the top 12 in revenue. Meanwhile only ONE pac 12 school cracks the top 15 (and it’s UW not SC or Oregon)…Wisconsin generates almost double what USC does without even 5% of the historical success.

The highest-grossing football programs in college football are... | Footballscoop


Edit:

this article is paints the Pac 12 in a more promising light, yet still USC is more comparable;
From a revenue standpoint, to Iowa than it is to its blue blood peers.

Texas Tied for Richest College Football Program

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[DropTopDoc]

USC and Oregon would be the exceptions I’d say.

Oregon has Nike money and has used that to be more cutting edge than most CFB programs that rely more on tradition.

For USC part of it is ‘SC is private thus immune to the regent issues you mentioned. Also SC is a historical top 8 (at the very least) program that should be a title contender consistently. However, we’ve seen how fast USC can and has fallen from grace before and have stages of sustained mediocrity (1990 - 2001 had a lot of 6 win seasons…even a 3 win season…)

their fan bases are much more fickle. Take OSU in the 90s and some off years in the 2000s (‘04, 2011) or UM during the rich rod years or UTenn or UT-Austin as of late…Still packed the stadiums and sold hella merch. Texas has been very mediocre for 10+ years now and is still top 3 in revenue. UTenn has been trash since ~2006 still in the top 12 in revenue. Meanwhile only ONE pac 12 school cracks the top 15 (and it’s UW not SC or Oregon)…Wisconsin generates almost double what USC does without even 5% of the historical success.

The highest-grossing football programs in college football are... | Footballscoop


Edit:

this article is paints the Pac 12 in a more promising light, yet still USC is more comparable;
From a revenue standpoint, to Iowa than it is to its blue blood peers.

Texas Tied for Richest College Football Program

well factor in the pac 12, sees it’s self as a west coast ivy so they happen to be good schools that offer football, so their alums while are rabid, can take or leave the team if they not that good, but keep in mind years of mediocrity, hard restrictions on admittance, and no direction of their powers to be limits how good these places can be, what Oregon and Washington do, is an anomaly more than anything, because you need southern talent to be good, and Washington has been decent to great with none, and Oregons money has allowed them to shop Nationally, but again hard to convince kids in Florida Ga and Bama to come up to the Pacific Northwest and it’s not even conventionally beautiful or full of dimes ( southern Oregon beaches and Portland is beautiful, but ain’t no 18-21yo worried bout that)

as for that sleeping giant in Compton, once the machine is rolling the money comes and everything picks up, it seems like they finally get it, so with more success will probably be more money and more eyes, and a lions share of the Cali and Arizona kids

 

[DropTopDoc]

8 teams with multiple 5 stars finished with a losing record
Unc
Florida
Texas
Tcu
Auburn
Washington
Lsu
Usc

4 of the teams in the top 10 composite had losing records

 

[Sauce Dab]

8 teams with multiple 5 stars finished with a losing record
Unc
Florida
Texas
Tcu
Auburn
Washington
Lsu
Usc

4 of the teams in the top 10 composite had losing records

When did Auburn, UNC, and TCU have multiple 5 stars?