2017 College Football Season thread
 

Seems like we are not getting the posts to keep doing weekly threads at this point.

Week Zero results:

#14 Stanford 62, Rice 7 (in Sydney, Australia)
#19 S. Florida 42 @ San Jose St. 22
Colorado St. 58 v. Oregon St. 27
BYU 20 v. Portland St. 6
Hawaii 38 @ UMass 35

Week One ranked and notable matchups:
#10 Oklahoma St. v. Tulsa - Thurs. 7:30
#2 Ohio St. @ Indiana - Thurs. 8 PM
#8 Washington @ Rutgers - Fri. 8 PM
Colorado v. Colorado St. - Fri. 8 PM
#9 Wisconsin v. Utah St. - Fri. 9 PM

Saturday:
#5 Clemson v. Kent St.
#6 Penn St. v. Akron
#23 Texas v. Maryland
Cal @ N. Carolina
#18 Miami v. Bethune-Cookman
NC St. v. S. Carolina (in Charlotte, NC)
#7 Oklahoma v. UTEP
#11 Michigan v. #17 Florida (in Arlington, TX)
Temple @ Notre Dame
#19 S. Florida v. Stony Brook
#4 USC v. W. Michigan
#15 Georgia v. Appalachian St.
UMass @ Coastal Carolina
#20 Kansas St. v. Central Arkansas
#12 Auburn v. Georgia Southern
#16 Louisville v. Purdue (in Indianapolis, IN)
#1 Alabama v. #3 Florida St. (in Atlanta, GA)
#13 LSU v. BYU (in Houston, TX)
#24 Washington St. v. Montana St.

Sunday:
#21 Virginia Tech v. #22 W. Virginia (in Landover, MD)
UCLA v. Texas A&M

Monday:
#25 Tennessee @ Georgia Tech

IU to shock the college football world!

you're cute :)

Hope springs eternal. I have been an IU football fan since my freshman year in 1989. The last time we beat Ohio State? 1988.

Sometime before I die, we will win again. I am hoping OSU is coming in overconfident and looking ahead to Oklahoma. Throw in some first-game rust on offense for OSU, an improving defense for IU, and a win seems... possible.

Some days I think Texas will go 10-2, other days 5-7, before deciding on 8-4.

Exaclty how I feel about Iowa.

We have a great OL and a bunch of studs at RB. but a new QB and a terrible WR corp.
Great LBs. a really good DL and a suspect secondary.

4-8? 12-0? 6-6?

Who knows. This is the first season I really have no clue/

IU to cover the spread...that is a good bet. You should take it.
IU to win though isn't happening this year. Maybe in your lifetime though.

I'm just excited for college football season. Look forward to the discussions on here more than anything and wonder who will be the sleeper team everyone jumps on the bandwagon of.

A Winning season for the Deacs! That's the goal!

Well I mean we can rule out 12-0 if that'll help. :D

I'm hearing South Florida.

It's the best time of the year!

Love it. Cant wait. My life has kinda sucked the last month. Sucked in a good way, everyone is healthy just crazy crazy busy.

I cant wait for Saturday.

Ucla plays sunday vs TAMU. Of course the one concert my wife has been dying to see has a show that night. Hello phone!

Paul Johnson listed not one starter at QB, not two co-starters, but FOUR "OR" starters on the weekly depth chart release required by the ACC. There's the old saying that if you have two QBs, you have no QBs, but I'm not sure what it means if you have four.

Did he list Michigan's QBs on his depth chart? That would have been funny.

Go Knights. Semi optimistic for the season, but probably just setting myself up for dissapointment.

Maybe college football QB not for you

To be fair, PJ should have just listed 3 rbs and ignored qb

Cant believe you didnt put Wyoming at Iowa up there.

Wyoming has the potential #1 pick at QB going up against a power 5 program.

Whats the buzz on UCLA this year? Is Rosen going to step up? Is the o-line going to be any better than last season? We lost our 2 biggest pass rushers (1.1 was one of them) so I dont know if it will matter. Have no idea what to think about this game. A&M listed 3 "co-starters" at QB too :banghead:

Not entirely sure who those are gonna be either most likely.

Though at this point I fear any of them might be just as good an option at QB.

For the record, only one of the QBs listed has lined up at RB during his GT career.

UCLA always had more talent than their record last year, which was affected by terrible offensive playcalling (that OC has since been fired) and the loss of Josh Rosen in Game 6.

That said, your guess is as good as mine. The OL "looks" to be better, but probably not too much. Pretty much the rest of the offense returns, including Rosen, along with yet another new OC/system (although I like Jedd Fisch so far). The offense will probably be better.

Defense can't sure yet. There is a lot of talent on the D side of the ball, but UCLA lost 6 starters, including 5 NFL draft picks and 1st rounder Takk McKinley. Run defense seems likely to be an issue, at least early on.

I expect a close game, so home field advantage may be the difference here. But going into this season, UCLA has as many questions as they have had since Mora took over.

... yet.

:D

Because you actually have a job? ;)

GT pbp guy Andy Demetra having fun with it

Georgia Tech, the institute of innovation, breaking new ground with the revolutionary "triple-or" at starting QB. pic.twitter.com/lGVqDr0SGf

— Andy Demetra (@AndyDemetra) August 29, 2017

Rutgers will be installing a temporary jacuzzi in the student section for the Friday night game against Washington:

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/201...uzi-washington

KirVonte Benson, Quaide Weimerskirch, and Jordan Ponchez-Mason are some Key & Peele-level names.

Book it. Iowa to the college playoffs.

the hits keep on coming.
i can always count on you to make me chuckle :)

They won't even win their own division! :lol:

They won't even beat Wyoming.

But watch out Iowa State!

Wiscy is OVER-RATED.

I wish we had Indiana on our schedule. The more gimmes the better.

Wyoming is a mess with the suspensions.

Let the smack talk begin.

Games start for real tomorrow night fella. Tighten your seat belt.

Iowa might beat IU, but it'd be no gimme.

Guys, this is the college football thread. Can you all who keep posting about Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and the rest of the Big Ten schools start a different thread maybe?

Like about Pop Warner ball or something?

Hey now! Starting Saturday I will officially (pun intended) have 2 jobs.

How many teams does the B1G have ranked in the top 11?
The SEC?
The ACC?

I guess if the B1G is Pop Warner, the rest of the nation is Ultimate Frisbee

i thought MBBF left

College Football: Big Ten Week 1 projected final scores revealed - SportsLine.com

Indiana are 21-point dogs to OSU. I don't think OSU will cover.

I will dog on B1G teams, but am in the B1Gs corner.
It is being called the best conference in the land this year. I saw some talking heads say they didnt think there would be a double digit win team out of the SEC besides Alabama.
And the same goes for the ACC outsde of FSU and Clemson.
The B1G on the other hand could have 4 or 5 double digit win teams.

Not hyperbole, but reality.

My favorite season of the year, college football.

Would that make it the best, or the most top-heavy?

Did he? I'm guessing if Missouri figured thinks out again, he will be back

You sound like a Minnesota fan.

Wisconsin will lose to Northwestern or Nebraska or something like that. But they will win the division.

Dola

Every year before the season starts I keep hearing from Minnesota, Iowa, and now Nebraska fans, how Wisconsin will finally regress back to mediocrity.

Wishful thinking!

Whoa, I never said Wiscy would regress. I know better. Iowa and Wiscy are one in the same, but Wiscy has been doing it better lately.

I said Overrated. As in picked to win the division, when Iowa will.

Minnesota sucks.

And Nebraska is living in the 90s.

Compared to the others? The best.

When the other conferences only sport one or 2 teams with double digit wins, the B1G is the top league.

Parity does not mean best.