The Ivy League doesn’t participate at all. The MEAC and SWAC champions play in a bowl game about the same weekend as the I-AA FCS semis but other teams in the two conferences can be selected as at-large entries. The other 10 conference champions get automatic bids.
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Did you see that the NCAA changed the rules for illegal substitution in the last 2 minutes of each half after Oregon used the tactic to run time off the clock? Teams can choose to put the time back on the clock in that situation.
Thanks for sharing.
I had similar thoughts about the end game in the NFL when there is only time for 2-3 plays. I would instruct my secondary to hold the receivers at the line and give up the 5 yards in exchange for the time the play took. One specific example is the KC/BUF playoff game (Jan 2022) when KC was down 3 at their own 25 with 13 seconds remaining and had all 3 timeouts. There were also other strategies I would have considered, but I can’t disclose everything!
12 (or more) men on the field would also work. However, the referees do have discretion to call an unsportsmanlike penalty if it is thought that the offending team is obviously gaming the rules.
That is true about the unsportsmanlike penalty but I’d bet the refs would not call it without some pretty obvious offense. I would think if the refs were to see all receivers being held/tackled at the line of scrimmage that they could also call unsportsmanlike as well. Maybe even in addition to the holding. So march the offense 20 yards down the field. I have yet to see an unsportsmanlike called for acting like an injury occurred to slow down the offense. And I have seen situations where it was pretty obvious that the player went down because he was told to.
I recall Belichick doing this once. On 4th down with a lead but needing to punt with very little time on the clock, he just had a guy intentionally move before the snap, they took a 5 yard false start penalty and a 10 second runoff, and they did it again.
I wouldn’t doubt it. The clock rules inside the last 2 minutes have been tweaked over the years
Putting this here because it applies to major college football as well
moved my comment to the NCAA basketball thread
Perhaps the origin of the Hail Mary in football
prodding Mr DTNF… … …
I think this is a moot point now with Boise State losing. The 4 byes now go simply to the winners of ACC, B10, B12, SEC. I don’t think any other conference can or will have a conference winner that can match up now to whomever the top 8 conference finals participants are from these 4 conferences.
So now it comes down to These
4 power conference champions
1 sacrificial champ of some mid-major conference.
7 best available which look to be in alphabetical order:
ACC #2
B10 #2
B10 #3
SEC #2
SEC #3
SEC #4
Best-of-the-rest-to-be-played-out: B12 #3 or Big 10 #4 or ND or SEC #5
As always, don’t sleep on Indiana.
And additionally, with all the surprises this year in college football, don’t be surprised when Illinois rolls into Eugene and quacks the Ducks right up their tail feathers
And 2 potential losses, I hope
Important to do this while you can still think straight and not be addled by the cult in your own head:
But the cult still calls:
McCall wrote that he is hoping to get into coaching now that his playing career is over.
“I look forward to taking my passion and love for the game into the coaching space to serve and lead the next group of kids with a dream,” he said in his post.
It takes some maturity to make that decision at his age.
If I were Tua, I would definitely not play again. If I were Tua at his age, I am not as certain about whether I would make that same decision.
If i were Tua with the big contract, i’d make them retire me.
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0-6 Kennesaw State beats 5-0 Liberty.
Any given Wednesday, I guess.
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College football score bugs just might be the worst.
After Week 9:
Three Big 10 (three in the top 11)
Three SEC (four in the top 11)
One ACC (two in top 11)
One Big 12 (two in the top 11)
One ND, now at #8 and a pretty easy schedule the rest of the way.
Highest not Power 4 team/champion (BSU at the moment – fixed)
Two other highest-ranked Power 4 teams.
Why the last entry?
Why not just list those two as your predictions from B10, B12, SEC, &ACC?
This is what you wrote on 9/10…
If you consider ND is ACCish, then it’s pretty much the same.
I’m kinda scratching my head on how Iowa State got leap frogged on a bye week by BYU, seemingly because BYU beat CFU by 13 when ISU beat them by only 3. I guess it doesn’t really matter if they end up playing for the B12 championship, but it may mean the loser doesn’t make the CFP
Kinda/sorta.
But ND is not eligible for a bye.
ND is a special case, as always. If it gets in, it is likely to drop an ACC team out, simply because they will have done well versus the several ACC teams they play.
Also, the point of this whole exercise is that it makes no difference who the teams are, as you note from my 9/10 entry. It is the Conference count that is predictable.
Undefeated Pitt will be an ACC entry should it win out. Along the way, it will have beaten Clem and SMU. they are one ACC team, and any team currently projected (Clem at 11) would drop.
Scratch all you want. One team from the Big 12 will make it and it doesn’t really matter how they are ranked right now.
Polls are still heavily biased by pre-season assumptions stuck in the voters’ heads.
Even computerized rankings like Sagarin’s are biased by this. tOSU over Oregon? Two-loss Alabama at #5? They should simply stop trying if there is no predictive value or whatever the goal is.
I think they need to implement the fighting rule in Football like they have in Basketball.
If they did that, MI and MSU probably just forfeit their next games.