2024 -25 College Football and College Football Playoff Thread

[The Sultan]

This headline is incredible. The article is pretty bad though.

"The Rose Bowl is dead, killed by our winner-take-all culture. Humanity may be up next."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Rose-Bowl-game-dead-17670394.php

[PointWarrior]

also got sucked in by the headline, stupid article and waste of time to read...

This headline is incredible. The article is pretty bad though.

"The Rose Bowl is dead, killed by our winner-take-all culture. Humanity may be up next."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Rose-Bowl-game-dead-17670394.php

[JWags85]

Graphic in the UW/OSU game showing active coaches with the most wins at one school cause Gundy has 156 at OSU.

Kirk Ferentz was second with 185.  Amusingly, Saran was ahead of him with 188 at Bama, even though he was still at MSU when Ferentz started at Iowa.  Didn't arrive in Tuscaloosa till 8 seasons later, then had a rough 2 win first year.

[WhiteTrash]

Graphic in the UW/OSU game showing active coaches with the most wins at one school cause Gundy has 156 at OSU.

Kirk Ferentz was second with 185.  Amusingly, Saran was ahead of him with 188 at Bama, even though he was still at MSU when Ferentz started at Iowa.  Didn't arrive in Tuscaloosa till 8 seasons later, then had a rough 2 win first year.

Saran with one of his championship rings (I think that is Ohio State in the background)



<sometimes spelled Sauron>

[tower912]

Saran has a greatest of his generation wrapped up.  Clearly.

[The Sultan]

Of all the options that could have taken place when Wisconsin fired Paul Chryst, hiring Luke Fickell as head coach, Phil Longo as offensive coordinator, and landing Tanner Moredecai in the transfer market would have been been near the bottom of my list. I am not sure how good they are going to be, but it will be different. And certainly they have ramped up expectations.

[Uncle Rico]

Of all the options that could have taken place when Wisconsin fired Paul Chryst, hiring Luke Fickell as head coach, Phil Longo as offensive coordinator, and landing Tanner Moredecai in the transfer market would have been been near the bottom of my list. I am not sure how good they are going to be, but it will be different. And certainly they have ramped up expectations.

Air raid offense in the Big Ten will be...interesting.  Going to have to change the entire conditioning approach on both sides of the ball.  I always felt that approach was best at a place looking for an identity or at a place that needed an approach to compete on a semi-regular basis, like Kentucky or Texas Tech.

The hope is Oklahoma offense with Wisconsin defenses but the problem has always been defenses with talent getting gassed when the offense plays that system.

[JWags85]

Of all the options that could have taken place when Wisconsin fired Paul Chryst, hiring Luke Fickell as head coach, Phil Longo as offensive coordinator, and landing Tanner Moredecai in the transfer market would have been been near the bottom of my list. I am not sure how good they are going to be, but it will be different. And certainly they have ramped up expectations.

While Fickell was a surprise, Longo is even more shocking to me.  Besides the fact that he is leaving perhaps the best QB in country at UNC, its both the Air Raid going to the B10 like Rico said and the fact that Fickell didn't really run that at Cincy, so its different for him.

Mordecai is what he is.  I don't think he's gonna be a revelation, but he's a good stop gap and he can sling it.

[WhiteTrash]

Who do we like today?

I'll go chalk; UM over TCU and UGA over OSU. Both 10+ point wins.

[lawdog77]

Big 10 doing Big 10 things

[wadesworld]

Was there a different angle on the overturned Michigan touchdown than the one from behind the receiver? His knee was definitely down ahead of the goal line, but he didn't catch it clean. To me it looked by the time he got control it looked like the ball was well into the end zone. The only angle I saw certainly didn't look like enough to overturn the call on the field.

[MuggsyB]

Harbaugh is getting schooled. 

[MuggsyB]

First to 55?

[tower912]

Exposed.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Bold call to run a fumblerooski on 4th and 10 out of the shotgun

[MuggsyB]

What a dumbass on TCU. 

[tower912]

UM gets hosed 2x.   And I don't like Michigan.

[PointWarrior]

Congrats to TCU on winning the 2nd place bowl. 

[wadesworld]

Eh. Michigan hosed themselves all game.

Just a casual 4 hour 5 minute non OT game.

[Uncle Rico]

Eh. Michigan hosed themselves all game.

Just a casual 4 hour 5 minute non OT game.

Yup.  Two pick-6's and getting zero inside the 5 twice.  How they only lost by 6 is sort of amazing.  2022 was supposed to be a bridge season.  They'll be the favorites in the Big 14 in 2023

[MuggsyB]

Ryan Day's Beard? 

[WhiteTrash]

Yup.  Two pick-6's and getting zero inside the 5 twice.  How they only lost by 6 is sort of amazing.  2022 was supposed to be a bridge season.  They'll be the favorites in the Big 14 in 2023

Agreed. I think TCU will be a contender too. They get thier 1st string QB back.

[Dish]

Ryan Day's Beard?

By cracky.

[Dickthedribbler]

Marquette wins on the road and Big 10 goes 0-2 in football playoffs. That's a very good day.

[The Sultan]

I really want TCU to win just so we can get one more of these.

https://twitter.com/tcufootball/status/1609365539121680384?s=46&t=dl0k9rBWFD9pNRIuyMxd9A