The Official 2024 College Football Random Thoughts Thread

[Illin Degenerate]

I didn’t even realize it but yeah the fact that only Bama is ahead of Miami and not Ole Miss & SCAR says everything….

that was my main takeaway as well. bama has two losses worse than both of miami's losses. yes bama beats miami in number of quality wins and best quality win but thats the case for sc and ole miss as well. that and most ppl would say sc and ole miss have better losses than bama. its almost as if they made it solely a bama/miami debate then stuck miami right after bama so that there wouldnt be any discussion of bama vs sc vs ole miss.

clearly if bama jumps miami then sc and ole miss have to as well because they have essentially the same cases to be ranked ahead of miami.
after miami lost to ga tech, miami stayed ahead of bama by one spot, but after bama beat lsu 42-13 it was
7. bama
8. miami
9. ole miss
10. georgia
11. tennessee

it made no sense for bama to be the only sec team with more losses to jump miami then and it makes no sense now but at least theyre consistent.

 

[skyrunner1]

that was my main takeaway as well. bama has two losses worse than both of miami's losses. yes bama beats miami in number of quality wins and best quality win but thats the case for sc and ole miss as well. that and most ppl would say sc and ole miss have better losses than bama. its almost as if they made it solely a bama/miami debate then stuck miami right after bama so that there wouldnt be any discussion of bama vs sc vs ole miss.

clearly if bama jumps miami then sc and ole miss have to as well because they have essentially the same cases to be ranked ahead of miami.
after miami lost to ga tech, miami stayed ahead of bama by one spot, but after bama beat lsu 42-13 it was
7. bama
8. miami
9. ole miss
10. georgia
11. tennessee

it made no sense for bama to be the only sec team with more losses to jump miami then and it makes no sense now but at least theyre consistent.

Not really consistent, this article kinda shows how its bs but hey you lose you open yourself for the screwjob.. But we know what it is, they just try to tell a good lie to sooth the masses.

The article is all about how sos wasn't very important to the playoff committee this year. Instead teams with more wins but lower sos were consistently ranked higher than teams with less wins but higher sos. Except in one case: Miami. Here is an excerpt:

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www.nytimes.com

"No. 2 Texas (11-1, 7-1 SEC), with zero Top 25 wins, has been consistently ranked above Georgia (10-2, 6-2 SEC), which has three of them, including at Texas. No. 3 Penn State (11-1, 8-1 Big Ten) has one Top 25 win and is three spots above Ohio State (10-2, 7-2), which has two top-10 wins, including at Penn State. Heck, go all the way to the bottom of the rankings and you’ll find No. 20 UNLV (10-2, 6-1 MWC), with zero Top 25 wins, two spots ahead of Syracuse (9-3, 5-3 ACC), which has two Top 25 wins — including at UNLV.

In all three cases, the higher-ranked team has the lower strength of schedule evaluation on the major published ratings (Sagarin, FPI, etc.), but are still ordered by number of losses. Much like how No. 10 Boise State, 11-1, has the 89th-ranked schedule on Jeff Sagarin’s ratings but is five spots above 10-2 Arizona State (38th) and Iowa State (42nd).

Ironically, when the committee made its most important decision of the season Tuesday, ranking 9-3 Alabama ahead of 10-2 Miami for what could become the last at-large berth in the field — finally, numbers mattered. Manuel laid out several hard facts in the case for the Crimson Tide: a better Top 25 record (3-1 vs. 0-1) and a better record against winning opponents (5-1 vs. 4-2). And yes, Alabama’s schedule strength is superior to Miami’s per every major outlet.

“I just want consistency,” said Pollard, who got into a social media feud on X with SMU counterpart Rick Hart shortly after Tuesday’s rankings show. “What appears to me is strength of schedule wasn’t the determining factor for SMU, Indiana and Boise State; it was (being) 11-1. I don’t have to like that, but if that’s the case, then OK, be consistent. And if that’s the case, how do you justify Miami?”"

There are some really great points in here. Texas is 11-1 and has zero top 25 wins. Georgia is 10-2 but has 3 top 25 wins INCLUDING A HEAD TO HEAD ROAD WIN OVER TEXAS. If you put Texas over UGA then how in the world can you justify Bama over Miami?

 

[HNIC973]

wtf

Family like fukk where you want to go

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

i see a coach who loses at least 3 games every year 9-3 regular seasons on deck plus random 6 loss seasons. at some point you have to decide 'okay this is who we've been for twenty years maybe we should switch it up as the landscape of college football continues to change.


some might disagree

I have to respect Iowa for their approach.

Outside of TEs and some linemen, they're in a difficult position geographically for recruiting. It's obviously not a "sexy" destination for out of state recruits either. (Yet they have as many NFL players as Texas and Florida and Oregon, and more than schools like Miami, USC, and Auburn)

They have money, and at least 1 billionaire alum, but apparently he's stingy with donations, and doesn't seem at all interested in athletics.

Iowa sees a program like MSU, who can win 12+ games but can also be a 4 win team, and says "we got it pretty good with 6 wins being our floor, and 10 being our ceiling with a random 11/12 win season sprinkled in every 10-15 years." They average exactly 8 wins per year for the last 20 years. While MSU has had years of 2, 3 and 4 wins over that span.

Unless their next coach is a generational coaching talent, they can easily become a lower tier B1G team.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

wtf

LSU better treat him like royalty and hope FSU doesn't win like 8 games next year... he'll be a constant portal risk

 

[HNIC973]

LSU better treat him like royalty and hope FSU doesn't win like 8 games next year... he'll be a constant portal risk

All these dudes portal risk at this point no one is safe, with the amount of money being thrown around.

 

[mozichrome]

so Conner Weigman going into the portal
i see the spots they listing as where he can go

if you Syracuse you roll the dice again hoping portal qb has the success that McCord had this year
Mizzou could use a qb
Iowa hoping xfer qb work out
dont know much about Wisky and Louisville

 

[HNIC973]

reducing these fakkits to tears

Just a reminder

 

[HNIC973]

so Conner Weigman going into the portal
i see the spots they listing as where he can go

if you Syracuse you roll the dice again hoping portal qb has the success that McCord had this year
Mizzou could use a qb
Iowa hoping xfer qb work out
dont know much about Wisky and Louisville

No QB should go to Iowa

 

[Bigwhite2498]

Not really consistent, this article kinda shows how its bs but hey you lose you open yourself for the screwjob.. But we know what it is, they just try to tell a good lie to sooth the masses.

The article is all about how sos wasn't very important to the playoff committee this year. Instead teams with more wins but lower sos were consistently ranked higher than teams with less wins but higher sos. Except in one case: Miami. Here is an excerpt:

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Because Texas beat the most bowl eligible teams and didn’t lose to trash schools. Bama is boosted by the Georgia win which is boosted by the Texas win

 

[CrimsonTider]

that was my main takeaway as well. bama has two losses worse than both of miami's losses. yes bama beats miami in number of quality wins and best quality win but thats the case for sc and ole miss as well. that and most ppl would say sc and ole miss have better losses than bama. its almost as if they made it solely a bama/miami debate then stuck miami right after bama so that there wouldnt be any discussion of bama vs sc vs ole miss.

clearly if bama jumps miami then sc and ole miss have to as well because they have essentially the same cases to be ranked ahead of miami.
after miami lost to ga tech, miami stayed ahead of bama by one spot, but after bama beat lsu 42-13 it was
7. bama
8. miami
9. ole miss
10. georgia
11. tennessee

it made no sense for bama to be the only sec team with more losses to jump miami then and it makes no sense now but at least theyre consistent.

There’s no reason for SMU to be ranked that high, that’s what the convo should be

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

There’s no reason for SMU to be ranked that high, that’s what the convo should be

Anything to deflect from your fraudulent ass ranking I guess

 

[DropTopDoc]

 

[DropTopDoc]

tough week for those OSU bums

fukk’em

Will never understand why some of these dumbass schools don’t just straight up hire a coach with proven success from lower levels instead of always making MFs jump through hoops and run around the nation first.

Because much like recruits they just know one way

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

The Mason Graham / Jack Sawyer beef in the NFL is gonna be fun to watch....