Fortunately, for the guy who dropped the pick 6 before getting to the end zone, the Huskies won. What a boneheaded end to an otherwise great play.
Yeah, he is very lucky. Coaches need to teach their players they are not allowed to drop the ball until they cross the back line of the end zone. And the guy that got the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for running from midfield to the end zone to celebrate his final interception? I think they should have penalized all of his teammates who joined him running half the length of the field.
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Brock Bowers will probably be a first round draft pick, and could be a top 15 pick even though picking a TE that high goes against the grain of recent drafts. When he went down with a bad ankle sprain last month and had âtightropeâ ankle surgery 10/16, many thought that was his last game for UGA. He already has 2 national championships, a first team all American, and an almost certain payday if he is healthy. Per his own reports, prospective agents were calling him and telling him he should sit out the season.
Unbelievable that he was able to play yesterday and was highly effective, even though he didnât log big numbers. Heâs a freak athlete.
College football networks need to fix their score bugs based on the uniforms they are playing in that day. On Thursday, Iâm out getting food and the UVA-Louisville game is playing. Well, UVA played in white, though the score bug showed black. Louisville played in Black, though the score bug showed red. Took me a few minutes to figure out which team was which (wasnât close enough to the screen to see helmets. Just fix the score bugs!!
Nice payday for Jimbo.
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ESPN does it wrong again:
Some of the voters are voting for both tOWH and UM. Well, they wonât both get in if there are other undefeated teams. Sure, U-Dub scheduled some shit teams (thanks MSU!)
Just declare âone of tOSU/UM.â As you would if you were doing ranking correctly, as we do here:
- SEC Undefeated Champion
- Big10 Undefeated Champion
- ACC Undefeated Champion
- Pac12 Undefeated Champion
- SEC Once-Defeated Champion
- Big10 Once-Defeated Champion
- Pac12 Once-Defeated Champion
- Big12 Once-Defeated Champion
Disclaimer: Iâve always liked your CFP ranking system, even if Iâd disagree with a particular order some week.
Obviously, 4 undefeated P5s make it, but where do you put the loser of tOSU/UM? The only way your #6 happens is a tOSU loss to Minnesota and/or a UM loss to Maryland, with a losing team winning out.
I feel like your #6 would be more realistic as Big10 once-defeated division runner-up, something thatâs existed in years past for the SEC with two playoff-level teams in the same division. I think losing to a top-3 team would get preference over most one-loss conference champions, but it would probably depend how close the losses were.
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Not sure why several weeks ago Pac 12 undefeated was ahead of ACC undefeated. Washington played more good teams in that stretch than FSU and the Pac 12 dropped.
Those game werenât on TV⌠before the east coast drunkenly passed out.
Itâs because FSU is now above U-Dub in the rankings, but, and I repeat myself over and over and over again, only the top 4 matter.
Maybe I should simply put âTop-4â in no order, then âteams-in-waitingâ in order?
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Was a pretty tight game there between double-U and W
Yeah, Iâd put it as:
- SEC Undefeated Champion (Georgia)
- Big10 Undefeated Champion (Mich/OSU)
- Pac12 Undefeated Champion (Washington)
- Pac12 Once-Defeated Champion (Oregon)
- SEC Once-Defeated Champion (Alabama)
- ACC Undefeated Champion (Florida St)
- Big10 Once-Defeated, Non-Champion, Non-Division Winner (Mich/OSU)
- Big12 Once-Defeated Champion (Texas)
- SEC Once-Defeated Non-Champion (Georgia)
- Pac12 Once-Defeated Champion (Washington)
1-6 control their own destiny
You can put it however you like, but if there are four undefeated Power-5 teams, they will get in. Otherwise there will be a huge conTROVersy.
Once we get down to only two or three undefeated teams, then there will be controversy, but less than this.
I can see an upsetted UM/tOSU this week winning The Game, then somehow losing the Big10 Championship game, and The Game loser jumping over. Maybe. Might need some flukiness here.
Heck, I havenât even added one-loss not-conference-champions to the list, cuz UGA losing to 'bama will really fuck this thing up.
If you canât win your own conference, you shouldnât be able to contend for the national title. So my rule of thumb is only one team per conference allowed. Rarely followed though.
Itâs a good start. Then teams start losing games and itâs a clusterfuck.
If we simply did pro/rel, we wouldnât have this issue. But that is a rational method, which will not fly in college fuh-baw, for coaches, players, nor fans.
IFYP
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I love the idea of promotion/relegation - it would make the end of season far more interesting/scary for bubble teams. It could probably work with the top conference having two divisions of 12 and then maybe playoffs to see who wins and is promoted/relegated.
1a v 2b, 1b v 2a to decide who plays in the national championship.
9a v 12b, 10a v 11b, 11a v 10b and 12a v 9b to decide the four losers who are to be relegated.
I agree it will probably not happen soon.
Relegation would make NCAA football even more of a joke than it is. I canât imagine how crazy NIL money would get for schools to follow the 2023 Colorado football business model to try to avoid relegation or to get promoted.
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IFYQ. There will be years where taking 2 teams from the same conference would make sense. That is, if the 4-team format stuck around.
Eh, the entire season is like a playoff from the start anyway. If you already lost to the team in your conference that is in the playoff series, then you had your chance already, and you blew it. I donât see a good reason to give you a second chance (especially if there are legitimate undefeated teams left)
I agree. Thatâs why I said there will be years where taking 2 (SEC) teams would make sense. It would not be such a year if there were other undefeated teams.