Official 2024 College Football Thread

[Swaggs]

Big Ten legend O.J. Simpson...

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Swaggs

Big Ten legend O.J. Simpson...

I will never accept Bill Walton as part of the Big 10.

[Passacaglia]

I thought about not doing my playoff picture that I've been doing, since I've seen it around somewhere else, but I'm going to do mine a little differently than "the highest AP ranked team in each conference" I'm going to use the conference standings instead, with highest rank as a tiebreaker.

1. Oregon
2. LSU
3. Miami
4. Iowa State

5. Georgia
12. Boise State

6. Penn State
11. BYU

7. Ohio State
10. Clemson

8. Texas
9. Tennessee

First few out: 6-1 Notre Dame, 7-0 Indiana, 6-1 Texas A&M, 5-2 Alabama, 6-1 Kansas State

Changes: Alabama drops out, BYU jumps Notre Dame despite needing a comeback win to barely beat Oklahoma State and gets in. I think I saw a headline that someone "forgot" to rank Notre Dame, maybe that's why.

By Conference: SEC 4, B1G 3, ACC 2, B12 2, MW 1

In the SEC, LSU and Texas A&M are the only undefeated teams. I put LSU in since they're higher ranked of the two. If you assume Georgia is the strongest SEC team, LSU would still be in as an at-large. A&M is in a slightly more interesting spot since they're out of the top 12 now, but you have to assume they are in if they keep winning.

Army and Navy stayed at 23 and 25, but Boise State fell from 15 to 17, getting passed by Kansas State and Indiana. So they made progress. Liberty has maybe become a bit more of a threat, though, moving up to a tie for 30. Although, they actually went down from 2 points to 1 point, and the fact that they moved up is because there was more consolidation in the voting (i.e. less other teams received votes).

[Swaggs]

Originally Posted by Atocep

I will never accept Bill Walton as part of the Big 10.

It will be fun the next time the make the All-Time Big Ten team and it is Jerry Lucas and four players from UCLA.