Watching Miami get ready to run it up on Florida, and I’m being constantly reminded that pass defense is woefully coached in football.
If [when] the major conferences break away from the NCAA and form their own structure, hopefully one of the first rules they pass is “in football, you’re prohibited from scheduling a I-AA FCS team.”
What, you didn’t like Miami scheduling a bye week with Florida?
That’s what Kansas had with Lindenwood, Missouri had with Murray State, Auburn had with Alabama A&M, Ole Miss had with Furman, Alabama with Western Kentucky (an FBS school), …
Florida has a hellish schedule, 3-9 feels right for a final record if not a tad optimistic, and I might take certain I-AA schools over them, but there’s hope there that they’ll get their shit together again. Unless Will Muschamp takes over the Rebels and runs it into the ground like he has schools on other stops, Furman is never beating Ole Miss.
USC beats LSU late, and Brian Kelly got angry. I would have been more impressed if he’d have done his rant in a fake Cajun accent.
Subtleties to be aware of:
Covid mucked everything up and the NCAA did a whole lot to give athletes an extra season because of the pandemic.
That aside, an athlete normally gets 4 seasons of eligibility to be taken over a consecutive 5 year period. The redshirt season does not have to be taken in year 1 as a freshman, but it is most common to give 18 year olds a chance to grow, practice, add strength and weight with college level conditioning and nutrition programs. But any whole season that may be missed entirely due to injury is considered a redshirt season.
There is an appeals process with the NCAA that allows players to ask for an extra redshirt season due to injury
Usually, my understanding is that showing adequate academic progress is part of that appeal.
Cam Mccormick played the 2017 season for Oregon, but missed 2019, 2019, 2020, and 2021 entirely or nearly entirely due to injuries, but has successfully appealed to get his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year of playing in 2022 (Oregon), 2023 (Miami) and 2024(Miami). I guess the NCAA felt ok about giving a player a true 4th year when it was already handing out 5th year eligibilities to many players due to Covid.
What I disagree with was adding an automatic right to a 5th year of playing to players that had redshirted the 2020 season. If you had chosen to redshirt a year, then you did not miss anything with the pandemic year.
Some schools use what is called a gray shirt. Where they get a player to not enroll in college the fall after their senior year in HS and enroll the following January. So they technically skip their “freshman” year. So instead of being in the incoming class in 2024, they would be in the incoming class of 2025.
Then there is the fairly unique situation with LDS players, both at BYU and other schools. It used to be that they could leave on their mission at 19, so often they would enroll the fall after HS graduation play one year, often call that a redshirt though not always, go on a church mission and not be enrolled for 2 years which I don’t think counted toward the 5 year limit, then return and have 3 or 4 years of eligibility left. Some would do the gray shirt method and not enroll the fall after HS graduation, go on their 2 year missions then return and enroll and have the full 5 years for 4 playing years with the possibility of a medical redshirt.
Now they can leave at 18 so they will often not enroll after HS graduation, go on their church mission and enroll when they come back and have the 5 years for 4 playing years.
Cam McCormick redshirted his freshman year (2016), played in 2017, then had a season ending injury in the first game of 2018, missed all of 2019 and 2020 and tried to play in 2021 but was unable to go because of injury. He then played in 2022, transferred to Miami in 2023 and is now finishing his 4th playing year in 2024.
Texas dominates an emaciated Mich.
Borefest made boringer by McConneghy and Brady at halftime.
Notre Dame fan is thinking about how to explain the Fighting Irish really are serious threats to win a national title as they struggle at home against a Northern Illinois team that limped to a 7-6 record last season that culminated with a bowl win over Arkansas State.
Eh, win all their games and no problem.
Same as every other team ever.
Ok, win the rest of their games, which will be hard to do, based on today’s result.
Wait, you watch half-time?
I went to my grand daughter’s soccer game so recorded it and was able to skip most of the talking and the entire half-time. (40 30-second skips from the end of the last play of the first half usually puts me right at the 2nd half kickoff.)
Was it the let down after beating A&M?
Wait, they lost? Oh My. That’s not good.
Had to. I caught up.
Terrible sport to watch live on TV. Unless with a group of folks with which you can socialize.
I agree. I changed from DirecTV to Dish and while I like that Dish allows more simultaneous recordings not as much a fan of their live vs recorded way their player works. With DTV it allowed you to have 2 live feeds going on the same tv. So I could bounce back and forth between 2 games or go to a recorded one if I got too caught up.
Though, kinda glad I don’t have DTV right now with the Disney/ESPN/ABC blackout.
I ended up having to go into the ESPN app to watch the end of the Arkansas/OkSt overtime game. It automatically adds 1 hour but the recording ended at the beginning of the 2nd OT.
THis was a glorious week in NCAA FB.
Notre Dame loses to NIU
Iowa State has a huge comeback on the road in Iowa City, winning the Cy-Hawk Trophy.
Michigan loses.
Illinois beats a ranked Kansas team.
Miami rolls.
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My YouTubeTV allows pretty much as many games are being shown at the same time. I have not tried it on a Saturday afternoon, but I’d like to see just how many it will show and whether I can hone that down to whatever I’m thinking at the moment. Downside is they have to be on live. And, really, no thanks.
Not sure how YouTubeTV does it, but its “library” system “knows” how long the games eventually were. No adding three hours + to a Stanley Cup Playoff game.
Pretty nice setup. In my “library,” all UW Huskies Football games will be in there, all SEA games will be in there, all LA Kings games on TBS or ESPN will be in there (downside: I don’t get the bankrupt Regional Sports Channel that long time ago was FoxSports), all USMNT, USWNT matches. I even have it “recording” all broadcasted EPL matches (though I have Peacock at the mo’).
So, no searching for which channel will have the games I want to record. All automatic.
I captured this graphic on ESPN late night Saturday night. Even the commentators laughed at it.
All I could think, being a BYU fan, is “so you’re telling me there’s a chance.”
Was that the third or fourth set of teams?
Too early for me to break out the GoA Predictornator, and I have to tweak it for 12 instead of 4, and for whatever rules there are for getting in, especially the final 2 or 3.
I mean, there are 1200 percentages to add up, and this is only 141 or them.
I hope the AllState Actuaries are not working on this.
I assume it was just the Big 12 teams, by the graphic in the upper right. I guess they’re projected to get 1.41 of the 12 playoff teams.
I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader if that’s the third or fourth set of teams…