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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Official 2022 College Football Thread
Ok, the coaches poll has been released. That means the start of the season is right around the corner!
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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I don't see Coastal Carolina in the top 25...
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The scorched Desert
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No BYU either and they are better than last year, lost Allgeier, but most everyone else back on Offense and they added transfer RB Chris Brooks who will do damage behind that line.
Defense is healthy with most key players back and some solid additions. They should be a 10-2 team |
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High School Varsity
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Cowtown, TX
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Tough schedule to get to 10 wins with Oregon, Baylor, Arkie, and ND. |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Yeah, we had the "okay, who is the non P5 team that has a shot" conversation here in the bat cave. Looking at schedules, etc. That BYU schedule makes life tough even though they might very well be the best non P5 team. fwiw, I sorta settled on "yeah, looks like the Houston vs Cincy winner is the most likely answer to the P5 hopeful question". Not because I think either is that good but rather because of the schedules of other possibles.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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I haven't looked yet - where is Kansas ranked? /s
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Hogs at #23 seems about right.
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Checkraising Tourists
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cocoa Beach, FL
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Who gave Texas a first-place vote? Saban or the head coach for Kansas?
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Big Ten's Reported New TV Rights Deal Has Major Implications For
More Big Ten expansion speculation. |
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Over $1 billion a year is insane. Unless there is something I'm missing, the SEC might have signed another bad TV contract. They are only getting $300 million it seems.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Giving NBC a slice means ND is in.
Add the 4 west coast schools, the B1G has to go to 24. Then you have 4 six team pods. These teams have to come from the East.
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Solecismic Software
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Canton, OH
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Why would NBC being in change Notre Dame's decision? It just adds inventory for NBC and they'd pair it with ND as a double-header.
All this conference bingo is simply rearranging deck chairs during this transitory phase. The idea is not to get left out. Notre Dame will never be left out. If this weren't a transition, the Big Ten and SEC would already have eaten all the edible meals out there. The big question is what happens when the whole FBS ship hits the iceberg of player union/revenue sharing. How do players get paid and distributed to teams? What brands are in and what brands are out? For three of the mid-major conferences (MAC, SB, CUSA), media rights are less than one million per school per season. The Mountain West and AAC are in the mid-single digits, with almost no hope of significant increases. The big question is what happens to the ACC/Pac 12/Big 12 with the next contracts. That will help determine the shape of things post-iceberg. How many schools get to compete in the organized league when major-league college football breaks away from the NCAA? We seem to be a long way from this happening, but this transitional phase is going to lead to a lot of unhappy schools and players and lawsuits. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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I believe Notre Dame and NBCs contract is up and they have to renegotiate. But if ND is in the B1G and the B1G has ND, I believe both make more money than being on their own.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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Money doesn't drive ND if it's similar, they want flexibility and feeling special, and they get it.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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Re the poll 5 seems high for an ND team that doesn't have a QB I'm sold on and a new coach who I love in theory, but had a 2nd half collapse in his only game as head coach. (Granted we were missing our best offensive & defensive players, but still.)
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Dont worry about that. After week 1, they will be mid teens which is probably more appropriate. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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I see another 8-4 or 9-3 season ahead.
The defense is going to be better this year than last. I am really excited to watch them play. Offense will suck again as we are the only school in the world that hangs on to their shitty OC whose offenses have ranked near the bottom of college football his entire tenure. Oh yeah, its the HCs son.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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Yep. Top 5 teams probably shouldn't be 14.5 point dogs in their opener. Not sure how smart scheduling that one was, though maybe they were hoping it was one of those offseasons Ohio State would need to suspend 8 starters for week 1.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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So thinking about best streaming service to get for SEC football? What do you guys use?
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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so an Alabama transfer to Texas (who was suspended at Bama and left the program) is now suspended from the Longhorns for damaging a parking boot that was placed on his car.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Dude has an angle to get a serious NIL.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Land O Lakes FL
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My favorite thing about college football right now are the videos of the players finding out they are now on full scholarship. Watching their teammates celebrate the player’s achievement will probably be better than anything I see on the field this year.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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Yeah, probably time for the news to put that in the rotation with "unexpected reunion with military parent" and "opposing team helps player score touchdown/basket/homerun." (And "little kid idolizes delivery guy.")
edit: forgot "underprivileged high-schooler gets accepted to all eight Ivys" edit2: and "brilliant toddler passes MENSA test"
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
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And the AP preseason poll has been released:
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Does this mean that the SEC is going to open their negotiations at $12 trillion?
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World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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SEC already has a new TV deal. There's probably so many little things in these deals that it can be tough to compare, but it seems like the Big 10 did incredibly well in comparision. SEC leaving CBS for ESPN in US$3bn deal from 2024 - SportsPro |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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B1G is a money machine. Any school that doesnt realize this is a fool. Alabama would make teice as much mponey if they were in the B1G.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Land O Lakes FL
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasnt. I have a voice on the radio, he hasnt. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I havent the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I dont own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946 |
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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I didn't even realize FSU played today until an alert came up on my phone. I had to look up Duquesne, never heard of the school. It's in Pittsburgh apparently. FSU is favored by 41. I wouldn't put money on FSU to beat our middle school team by 41 at this point.
I can't imagine Norvell surviving this season if they win 6 or fewer games. I'm taking the under in hopes that I'll be pleasantly surprised. If they struggle against Duquesne at all, I invite LSU fans to take him out blindfolded to a swamp in the middle of nowhere next Sunday and leave him. It might be kinder than what Tallahassee will do.
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Checkraising Tourists
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cocoa Beach, FL
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If Nebraska ends up losing this game, they'll be the best 0-1 team in the country.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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I'm not sure about that. After seeing about a quarter of this one I've come to the conclusion that these are both pretty crappy teams. Might improve as the year goes on but, in late August, these are not good teams.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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Scott Frost should get in touch with his realtor. Don't want to wait too long and have to sell at a loss.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Twitter has delivered
Aces of Bases @westcoastcash #NebraskaFootball going to be playing in the @BigSkyConf soon Big Sky Conference @BigSkyConf Nah we good
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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The University of Nebraska.
The N stands for nowledge.
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Solecismic Software
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Canton, OH
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On paper, they're seemingly always the best (insert losing record here) team in the country. How in the world can you add up all that talent on defense and do absolutely nothing to stop Northwestern? Quips aside, they'd probably win double digits anywhere other than the SEC or Big Ten. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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Nebraska give up 530 yards of offense to one of the worst Big 10 offenses from a year ago and blames his offensive staff for the loss in the post game.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Watching that game, I'm not sure the blame doesn't fall on recruiting as much as coaching. It looked like the cupboard was/is almost bare still. There are a few athletes in evidence but not much in the way of football players that I could see.
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Solecismic Software
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Canton, OH
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I didn't watch, but it's a mystery how Frost made it to this season. Their defense *should* be able to put enough pressure on the quarterback and the running game to simply out-talent a team like Northwestern. I wouldn't bet on Frost lasting the entire year, if this is what they've come up with. |
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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It looked like a team with athletes but not much football talent against a team that was primarily D-II grade talent. And the D-II team WON. Northwestern outcoached 'em, aside from the stupid onside kick, the key to the outcome was the decision to "make Nebraska beat us". And as the second half wore on, you could see Nebraska remembering who they've become, even players who weren't on the roster looked like they knew they were fucked.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Oh, I forgot to comment on this part Their only effective offense was having Thompson throw the ball as hard as he could and hope for the best. The OL did basically nothing, the run game was non existent. Officially 110 yards on 31 carries, 3.5 ypc but if you take away a 46 yard run & 2 sacks the numbers for the other 28 carries go down to 83 yards, just 2.96 ypc.
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College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
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Frost is 5-21 in one score games at Nebraska.
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Frost for life!
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Frost will turn it around. Maybe next year.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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I figured Frost would be left in Ireland.
There were something like 25000 Nebby fans at this game. That hot seat is blazing right now. Nebbys defense is terrible. NW ran on them at will in the 2nd half. It was almost like the ran out of steam, but we all know that couldnt be true. Shoot players were puking 18-20 times during practice.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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The onside kick was incredibly weird because the one thing Northwestern is known for is how prepared they are. Especially on special teams. They have the least amount of talent in the Big 10 just about every year. But they're well coached and don't make dumb mistakes. I don't even know where Nebraska goes to from here. This isn't even supposed to be a plucky Northwestern squad with a few NFL talents on the roster. It's one of their worst rosters in a long time and they still won. |
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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NE has to be a tough sell. Lincoln is larger than I thought it was, but how many recruits are thinking out of the gate "oh, yeah -- I want to go to Nebraska?" I don't know that you pull much from the surrounding states, save for maybe Kansas -- if you live in Iowa I'd say Iowa is a better choice; heck, if you're in the Dakotas you might rather opt for UND. You're 37th in state population.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I remember they used to recruit NJ pretty hard. Then Rutgers got not terrible and BC started coming down here. Plus all the REALLY good guys went to Penn state. |
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Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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Yeah, makes sense in their heyday. If you're in the championship mix you can draw from anywhere. But once you lose that momentum, you may not get it back.
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