Official 2022 College Football Thread

[bob]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

A special meeting of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association board has been called for Monday afternoon, a school spokesman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday morning.

Supposedly Collins was already told he was out and all team activities were cancelled for today.

TStan will either be fired or reassigned. Key will be interim coach.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by bob

Supposedly Collins was already told he was out and all team activities were cancelled for today.

TStan will either be fired or reassigned. Key will be interim coach.

I'd have much preferred TStan get this shit right but, alas, that didn't happen.

[bob]

Right. I take no glee in the situation but it’s clear it wasn’t ever gonna work.

I didn’t like his methods or style, but would have much preferred Collins work out. If nothing else, at least he wanted to be here.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by bob

Right. I take no glee in the situation but it’s clear it wasn’t ever gonna work.

I didn’t like his methods or style, but would have much preferred Collins work out. If nothing else, at least he wanted to be here.

Tell you what I wish I knew: I wish I knew whether Key was the interim choice due to his time spent (and presumably lessons learned) at Alabama or if it's more about alum/connections/UCF experience.

Then again, truth be told, I'm almost more worried that the choice of a new AD will be bungled. At this point, that might make the current ills permanent and irreversable.

[bob]

I just assume it’s Key because he was assistant head coach and Long is need to call plays. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t think it really matter because they are all gone come the end of the UGA game.

[tarcone]

Iowa targeted their WRs 2 times last night.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Boise OC is out

College football offensive coordinator fired after team's brutal loss

Does Iowa know you can do this?

[bob]

Collins is officially out.

[Brian Swartz]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Iowa targeted their WRs 2 times last night.

Gotta keep that defense honest, ya know?!?

Michigan starts out favored by 9.5, ESPN says 77% chance of a win vs. Iowa. Only a few days left to explain why that's wrong :P

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Brian Swartz

Gotta keep that defense honest, ya know?!?

Michigan starts out favored by 9.5, ESPN says 77% chance of a win vs. Iowa. Only a few days left to explain why that's wrong :P

Brian Ferentz has been running vanilla offense since 2018 waiting for this day to unleash Iowa's high octane offense on Michigan.

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

A special meeting of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association board has been called for Monday afternoon, a school spokesman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday morning.

Sources - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets fire AD Todd Stansbury, football coach Geoff Collins

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

A special meeting of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association board has been called for Monday afternoon, a school spokesman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday morning.

Please take Barry Odom.

[miami_fan]

At some point, teams have to stop hiring the Temple head coach two or three years into running the Temple program to run their own program. I'm sorry Stan Drayton. I know it sucks but you might have to be at Temple for 8-10 years before you can make the step up to a bigger program. There is now significant history that suggest that being the HC of Temple is not a predictor of success at other schools.

[Lathum]

Draftkings has Penix at 40-1 to win the Heisman. I doubt he does but that's great value.

[HomerSimpson98]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Not looking good for OU.

Also, this year is a disaster for Northwestern. Is this the year they make a change at HC or does he have a job for life?

I'm in the camp of Job For Life unless they go back to the pre-Fitzgerald as a player days

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Solecismic

Kansas is 4-0, with consecutive wins over Houston and Duke, and basketball season hasn't even started.

The resume looks pretty but history says this is our last shot at being ranked all season.

SI

[HerRealName]

The Big 12 won't get any credit in the national media but it's really an awesome, competitive conference. You have to bring it every week, there's no weak teams with the ascendence of Kansas and TCU looking better than expected.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson98

I'm in the camp of Job For Life unless they go back to the pre-Fitzgerald as a player days

I was in the job for life camp but they're really bad now. I think if there aren't some improvements next season, the seat could get hot. It's one thing to be at the bottom of the conference, but losing to MAC and FCS schools should not be happening.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson98

I'm in the camp of Job For Life unless they go back to the pre-Fitzgerald as a player days

Well, the two decades prior were around 2.5 wins a season (with 11 game seasons)

Aside from the Covid year, two of the last three have been 3-9 and this year ain't looking great.

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Well, the two decades prior were around 2.5 wins a season (with 11 game seasons)

Aside from the Covid year, two of the last three have been 3-9 and this year ain't looking great.

Fitzgerald is their for life. The NW community doesnt care that much for athletics. And Fitz has done some pretty impressive stuff.

[GrantDawg]

What do Tech fans think of Bill O'Brien coming back to Atlanta?

[bob]

I've heard his name come up, and its been mixed reactions online. That being said, I've also read that he isn't interested so probably won't matter.

I expect GT to be cheap and hire the current Kennesaw St coach.

[HomerSimpson98]

Bill O'Brien - LOL

[tarcone]

Saw a tik tok today where the person asked for a hot take in CFB. Dude says USC will win a B1G football title before Iowa. Guy stitches in and says Mars will be colonized before Iowa wins a B1G title and KF will still be the coach.

The truth really hurts.

[tarcone]

Iowa has beaten 5 off the last 6 top 5 teams at Kinnick.

Michigan hasnt won since 2005 at Kinnick.

Go Hawks!

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Fitzgerald is their for life. The NW community doesnt care that much for athletics. And Fitz has done some pretty impressive stuff.

There's a lot of money being floated around that athletic department. Built a new basketball arena and training facility. And they just announced this today. The people putting out nearly a billion for a new stadium are not doing it to lose to Southern Illinois.

NEW: Northwestern plans to tear down Ryan Field and build a modern, smaller-capacity stadium on the site. The $800M project would be privately-funded and set up the venue to host concerts, among other non-football events. https://t.co/OrzqSneDHo pic.twitter.com/4oq6zbDvnb

— Danny Ecker (@DannyEcker) September 28, 2022

[tarcone]

The stadium is 12k less capacity, some say to keep out opposing fans.

[Bobble]

Originally Posted by tarcone

The stadium is 12k less capacity, some say to keep out opposing fans.

Let's have less ticket revenue. That'll show 'em!

[Edward64]

Hard to get excited for the Hogs vs Tide game after the big letdown from the Aggie game. I wasn't expecting to beat the Alabama but would have been happy with a good, solid showing.

I'm not convinced the Hogs can do that. Suspect it'll be painful tomorrow, expecting to be taken to the woodshed.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

There's a lot of money being floated around that athletic department. Built a new basketball arena and training facility. And they just announced this today. The people putting out nearly a billion for a new stadium are not doing it to lose to Southern Illinois.

If they don't want to lose to Southern Illinois, maybe instead of buying a stadium Northwestern should spend $800 million to buy some elite players and/or an elite coaching staff.

[Thomkal]

Everything else in town cancelled but Coastal just moved its game against GA Southern tomorrow back a few hours

[Solecismic]

Hard to know what to expect for the Michigan/Iowa game. On paper, Iowa's best offensive weapon is its veteran secondary. Plus, McCarthy looked a little shaky against a much worse defense last week with Maryland in his first real collegiate start. He'll probably start working the run options in that we've been waiting for, but then you worry about injury and Iowa never gets caught blitzing anyway.

It's too bad the first road game has to be against this Frankenstein combination of playoff-quality defense and FCS-quality offense (and not the good kind with speedy undersized guys who occasionally break off big plays). This game could be 3-3 headed into overtime and I wouldn't be surprised. Iowa won't let Corum go off for 200 yards like he did last week - they'll sit back in their zone and won't get caught out of position. At least Michigan has the advantage of the top kicker in the nation while Iowa's already had to replace theirs. One could always hope of a repeat of last year's Big Ten championship game, but Ferentz has had a long time to think about that and make the necessary adjustments.

[tarcone]

Iowa 14 Michigan 10

[sovereignstar v2]

Lol

[Brian Swartz]

My favorite fact of the week is this: the most points the Iowa Hawkeyes scored in September was 32.

Not bad really. Until you realize that was done by their baseball team.

Other facts: 22% of Iowa fans think they will beat Michigan (per SBNation). Iowa let Rutgers have the ball enough times that, while they were definitely not as efficient, they gained almost exactly the same amount of yards they averaged against stalwarts Boston College, Wagner, and Temple in their previous three games.

[sovereignstar v2]

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[JPhillips]

Looks like an insurmountable lead for UM.

[HerRealName]

Some rough officiating on the Iowa offense here. That first hold wasn't bad and that clipping is brutal.

[HerRealName]

There's entirely too many good games on at the same time. TCU is looking good against Oklahoma. I didn't see that coming at all.

[HerRealName]

Iowa fans may be rioting here in a few minutes.

[Ksyrup]

TCU is destroying OU despite getting screwed on 2 calls. One was a PI where an OU safety laid out a WR clearly before the ball arrived. Then when they forced an OU punt a few minutes later, they blew the play dead claiming the punt returner signalled fair catch when he didn't do anything but catch the ball and had a wide open lane for a huge gain. Those officials should sit a week.

[Atocep]

I don't think Venables is a good head coach. He was on WVU's short list when Neal Brown was hired and I wasn't too impressed then and I'm not impressed with him at OU so far.

[Atocep]

I'm not sold on this Michigan team being a top 5 team, but I'm firm on Iowa not being a good football team. They're a definite bowl team because that BIG division is so terrible, but this team is painful to watch.

[Ksyrup]

As poorly as UK has played and the kicking game has been a disaster, I can't believe they've tied this game up.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

As poorly as UK has played and the kicking game has been a disaster, I can't believe they've tied this game up.

Ole Miss 2nd halves haven't been pretty this year

[Lathum]

Tarcone is 100% gonna blame this loss on the female ref.

[GrantDawg]

"We have swapped the Oklahoma defense with 11 guys we found hanging out in the parking lot. Let's see if anyone notices."

[bob]

Nothing like signing up for Sling and then having them pull ESPN channels the next day without any warning.

[bronconick]

TCU is going to reach 62 before Judge today

[HerRealName]

Is Bert going to win the West. He's seems like a jerk but a hell of a coach.