The OFFICIAL 2023 College Football RANDOM THOUGHTS Thread

[Professor Emeritus]

Yeah, Oregon going across the country to win a road game against TT's actual starting senior QB (who just happened to be a former Oregon starter looking for payback) is sure comparable to Texas hosting TT's backup sophomore who has spent half the season injured and now had to play in a hostile Austin environment for the first time.


Funny, why didn't you instead quote your 29-26 game against TCU and compare that to how Colorado fared against them? Or your 31-24 game against Houston as opposed to how Texas Tech, TCU, and even fukking Cincy whupped them?

 

[DropTopDoc]

Sounds like some malpractice chiropractic consultation . Screenshots for the New Orleans Health Dept

I told you I’m with the mob I’m Teflon

 

[Osmar]

OSU/Michigan could potentially play each other 3 times next season

They really bout to destroy rivalries. Next season, if Bana is undefeated going into the Iron Bowl, why even play starters?

The B1G needed a shakeup. the other conferences were fine if ND wouldve joined the ACC

we couldn’t stomach another B1G season in its current state

Maybe adding teams like Oregon, USC can shake it up. Also since their getting rid of divisions Penn State doesn't play Michigan and Ohio State every single year.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

12 team playoff would've been lit as shyt this season





I stand by it would have watered down the coming games though:

Ohio State vs Michigan
Bama vs Georgia
Oregon vs Washington II
Texas vs ? in the Big 12 title game



Those are all essentially playoff games.

They're not "essentially playoff games" though because the outcomes are confusing as fukk. What happens if Oregon wins? What happens if Bama wins? Does Florida State get in with a win or not? What if Texas wins and doesn't get in? What about Louisville?

Even an 8-team playoff would have worked out fantastic this year, assuming at least one out of Oregon, Texas, Alabama, or Louisville lose before the season is over (otherwise you'd sort of have 9 deserving teams in the mix).

 

[Silkk]

They're not "essentially playoff games" though because the outcomes are confusing as fukk. What happens if Oregon wins? What happens if Bama wins? Does Florida State get in with a win or not? What if Texas wins and doesn't get in? What about Louisville?

Even an 8-team playoff would have worked out fantastic this year, assuming at least one out of Oregon, Texas, Alabama, or Louisville lose before the season is over (otherwise you'd sort of have 9 deserving teams in the mix).

Lose now going forward and you should be out
Texas should be in over Bama with an identical record
FSU win out and they're in (Even though I really dont like their team this year)
fukk Louisville

 

[CrimsonTider]

Maybe adding teams like Oregon, USC can shake it up. Also since their getting rid of divisions Penn State doesn't play Michigan and Ohio State every single year.

It’s not the divisions, it’s that the offenses suck in the conference

 

[Silkk]

It’s not the divisions, it’s that the offenses suck in the conference

Yall put 17 on USF….

 

[CrimsonTider]

Yall put 17 on USF….

With our 2nd and 3rd strung QB and that’s still better than the fukking B1G

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Lose now going forward and you should be out
Texas should be in over Bama with an identical record
FSU win out and they're in (Even though I really dont like their team this year)
fukk Louisville

I'm an Oregon fan, but bullshyt for UW if they split the game with UO and don't get in just because they lost the 2nd one. Makes the first matchup and entire rest of the season completely irrelevant. UW has wins against Oregon, Arizona, Oregon State, Utah, USC....honestly, their resume is slightly better than Oregon even if Oregon wins the CCG (cause Oregon doesn't have that UA win).

And I talk shyt about SEC schedules, but fukking wild if 'Bama wins and that somehow leads to tOSU/UM winner, UW/UO winner, FSU, and Texas getting in but neither one-loss SEC team getting in. I'm not saying it wouldn't be justified, but that's the whole problem with a four-team playoff is that it leaves teams out who "might" deserve to be there.

Louisville if they win out has a HUGE case for the playoff. They'll have beaten 8 bowl teams (Florida State, Notre Dame, NC State, Miami, Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Duke, Boston College) with probably 3 of those being ranked, and one being a top-10 team. Plus they should be rewarded for scheduling one of the top OOC lineups in the country (played three Big-5 squads OOC with Notre Dame, Kentucky, and Indiana). Why should any other 1-loss team get in over them except for maybe UW?

 

[Silkk]

I'm an Oregon fan, but bullshyt for UW if they split the game with UO and don't get in just because they lost the 2nd one. Makes the first matchup and entire rest of the season completely irrelevant. UW has wins against Oregon, Arizona, Oregon State, Utah, USC....honestly, their resume is slightly better than Oregon even if Oregon wins the CCG (cause Oregon doesn't have that UA win).

And I talk shyt about SEC schedules, but fukking wild if 'Bama wins and that somehow leads to tOSU/UM winner, UW/UO winner, FSU, and Texas getting in but neither one-loss SEC team getting in. I'm not saying it wouldn't be justified, but that's the whole problem with a four-team playoff is that it leaves teams out who "might" deserve to be there.

Louisville if they win out has a HUGE case for the playoff. They'll have beaten 8 bowl teams (Florida State, Notre Dame, NC State, Miami, Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Duke, Boston College) with probably 3 of those being ranked, and one being a top-10 team. Plus they should be rewarded for scheduling one of the top OOC lineups in the country (played three Big-5 squads OOC with Notre Dame, Kentucky, and Indiana). Why should any other 1-loss team get in over them except for maybe UW?

Ehhh. Aside from this year and 2014 there’s never been more than 4 teams deserving to get in. In most years the #4 team completely gets their boots smoked anyway.



Louisville not a draw and they lost to Pitt. fukk em

 

[Numpsay]

A&M has 3 former head coaches on their staff but gave the interim coach title to Robinson who is their best recruiter on the staff. I imagine the new coach they hire will have to agree to keeping him on the staff as he in important in keeping the bulk of that DL in college station and out the portal.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

OSU/Michigan could potentially play each other 3 times next season

Conference championship games have been outdated and dumb for a while now. These conferences really just need to drop that shyt, schedule 9 in-conference matches (or even 10 if they want) and then call it a day.


Even better - since they've already tossed tradition and rivalries out the window, they need to realign this bullshyt to 6 evenly stacked 10-team conferences that make actual geographic sense. Then relegate the next 20 best teams to two feeder conferences.

Every season, you play all 9 opponents in your conference. Best record is conference winner, quality of OOC wins and/or head-to-head games break ties. All six conference winners and two wild cards proceed to an 8 team playoff. Controversy would drop dramatically.

The two squads with the worst cumulative performance over the previous two seasons (or you could make it three) are relegated out of the Big 6 each year, and replaced by the conference winners of the two feeder conferences.


Obviously you could tweak it with the #'s and sizes of feeder conferences and exactly how you handle relegation. It will never happen because of money, power, and control, of course. But it would be a way better product and really cement the idea of every game being meaningful but the playoffs still being fair too.

 

[KneeGrow.]

A&M has 3 former head coaches on their staff but gave the interim coach title to Robinson who is their best recruiter on the staff. I imagine the new coach they hire will have to agree to keeping him on the staff as he in important in keeping the bulk of that DL in college station and out the portal.

Preemptively dictating coaching staff hires wouldn't be the best way to entice a coach. The new coach would probably want to keep him anyway for the reasons you mentioned. They'll be a market for him.

 

[skyrunner1]

SMU (Preston Stone) has 275 yards passing 3 tds... IN THE FIRST QTR.

against navy tho

 

[KneeGrow.]

SMU (Preston Stone) has 275 yards passing 3 tds... IN THE FIRST QTR.

against navy tho

Rhett Lashlee hates our troops