Official 2015 College Football Week 6 thread

[cartman]

Here's the match-ups between Top 25 teams this week:

Northwestern at Michigan
California at Utah

[Kodos]

Let's take down PSU, Hoosiers!

[Honolulu_Blue]

I would definitely take the under in the Northwestern/Michigan game.

[CU Tiger]

Coming off a huge win Clemson get GT.

GT is ALWAYS a thorn in Clemson's side with the Tiger's basking in the media glow this week and GT coming off 3 straight losses and looking like a wounded animal...this game bothers me.

Hopefully it dries out.

[digamma]

Nah. I was looking this morning, and out of the 12 skill positions on offense in the GT two deep (six positions x 2 players) coming out of spring practice 7 have been lost for the year. Four of the other five had no significant playing time coming into the season. Two DL, one OL and now a starting CB also down.

It's a literal MASH unit right now and the other parts of the team are pressing to make up for it (not in good ways). The Jackets will show up and play tough, but it could be ugly, just because of the situation.

[tarcone]

Iowa hosts Illinois. Could be a trap game for the Hawks. Gotta stay focused.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Maty Mauk suspension has been extended to this week. Methinks Maty has started his last game.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

C looking like wounded animal

More like roadkill.

[MacroGuru]

ECU @ BYU this weekend.

I am very concerned with this game. I don't think we can win a shootout, but I think we can stop their offense.

[CU Tiger]

Jon's Three Cents | Because two cents worth isn't always enough

I can only imagine how much it pains you to list 2 B1G teams atop your poll.

[dawgfan]

Washington heads down to LA for a Thursday night game against Sark & USC. First time the Huskies have faced Sark since he bailed. Washington's defense and special teams give them a chance, but when Sark loses games he's not supposed to it's usually on the road, not at home.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Jon's Three Cents | Because two cents worth isn't always enough

I can only imagine how much it pains you to list 2 B1G teams atop your poll.

Eh, I'm pretty emotionally detached from my list honestly.
Learned that trick a long time ago, it's kinda stuck with me.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

25 years ago today. Still remember watching it happen.

25th anniversary of infamous Colorado-Missouri Fifth Down Game - College Football Nation Blog - ESPN

[larrymcg421]

Saturday night will be Al Golden's last chance to save his job.

[Vince, Pt. II]

Oregon's new uniforms may be my favorite alternate jerseys ever.

[MrBug708]

Myles Jack declares for the draft

[BillJasper]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Myles Jack declares for the draft

I don't understand the upside to declaring now? He could go to school for the rest of this year, still and then declare in February. Plus, how does this work now for his rehabilitation expenses? Why would UCLA continue to pay when he's no longer in school?

[Atocep]

There's rumors of a video showing Butch Jones getting into a fight with a player during fall practice.

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by BillJasper

I don't understand the upside to declaring now? He could go to school for the rest of this year, still and then declare in February. Plus, how does this work now for his rehabilitation expenses? Why would UCLA continue to pay when he's no longer in school?

UCLA won't pay for his rehab now. The only benefit to Jack that I can see is that he won't have to go to class and he can focus strictly on rehab and getting ready for the draft.

[MrBug708]

I'd imagine they'll pay for some of it considering it happened at UCLA, but he'll better care by not having distractions and focusing on football.

A 5 million dollar policy makes it worth it

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by BillJasper

I don't understand the upside to declaring now? He could go to school for the rest of this year, still and then declare in February. Plus, how does this work now for his rehabilitation expenses? Why would UCLA continue to pay when he's no longer in school?

He can leave school. Sign with an agent. Get probably $500,000 cash advance now and live like a baller for 6 months until the draft.

I mean...uh... he can work out more without the distractions of study hall and rehab more focused.

[miked]

Visiting friends in Tallahassee this weekend and they got us tickets to FSU-UM. Not a fan of FSU, but would love to watch Miami get destroyed.

[cartman]

The LSU-South Carolina game is moving to Baton Rouge.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by cartman

The LSU-South Carolina game is moving to Baton Rouge.

A $4m dollar hit to SC on ticket sales alone, another $6m-$10m in lost revenue to the community (based on an 2013 article giving estimated spending during a football weekend in/around Columbia)

Looked at the schedules for both teams, I'm not sure what they could really do here to save the situation. Their off dates don't match up (10/24 for SC, 10/31 for LSU) and LSU has a non-conference game with WKU on 10/24 I don't think you can move that around and discomfit LSU for something that isn't a problem of their making.

What a crappy scenario on top of everything else though.

[Atocep]

WVU loses one of the top 2-3 safeties in the country for the season with Karl Joseph tearing his ACL in a non-contact drill at practice.

[Butter]

Nothing made me as angry over the weekend as the Nick Saban rant about Alabama being written off.

Are you fucking kidding me? The team that has gotten the most benefit of the doubt in the conference that gets cut the most slack ever really is pulling the "disrespected" card?

That seems to me to be a sign of desperation.

If nothing else, it pissed me off to no end.

[tarcone]

Well, there was a discussion on ESECPN talking about does a 2 loss Alabama team make the playoff.
What other team would that even be considered?

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Well, there was a discussion on ESECPN talking about does a 2 loss Alabama team make the playoff.
What other team would that even be considered?

Given the way a lot of teams have looked thus far, I think at least one two-loss team is a possibility. Whether that team turns out to be Bama, I dunno.

It's a conversation I suppose but the Ole Miss loss last weekend hurts that possibility I think.

[BillJasper]

Report: Maryland to fire coach Randy Edsall as soon as this week - CBSSports.com

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

A $4m dollar hit to SC on ticket sales alone, another $6m-$10m in lost revenue to the community (based on an 2013 article giving estimated spending during a football weekend in/around Columbia)

I assume LSU would at least give SC a portion of the money from their ticket sales. Not really sure though - plus do you honor SC tickets already sold, or just refund everyone and have them buy new tickets if they can make it down to.Baton Rouge? Time for the AD's to earn their paycheck I guess.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

I assume LSU would at least give SC a portion of the money from their ticket sales.

That was not expected based on the coverage yesterday but today nola.com says "The game will technically remain a home game for South Carolina, which will get the gate receipts".

LSU opted to keep the home game on the 2020 schedule for themselves (another option that was on the table was to simply flip the games in 2015 and 2020 ... but there were already concerns about a team getting an extra conference home game so I figure that squashed that route.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

That was not expected based on the coverage yesterday but today nola.com says "The game will technically remain a home game for South Carolina, which will get the gate receipts".

LSU opted to keep the home game on the 2020 schedule for themselves (another option that was on the table was to simply flip the games in 2015 and 2020 ... but there were already concerns about a team getting an extra conference home game so I figure that squashed that route.

Yeah, I thought at first that simply switching who hosted the next time the teams played made the most sense, but if I'm LSU I wouldn't give up the difference in potential home-field advantage (I assume they'd have more of one when fans have been preparing for months to tailgate, instead of 3 days). Plus I imagine that would piss off some very powerful alums or season ticket holders, and cost LSU some revenue. They do have a very rabid fan base, but it'll be interesting to see the crowd they get. Very much doubt a sell out.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by BishopMVP

Yeah, I thought at first that simply switching who hosted the next time the teams played made the most sense, but if I'm LSU I wouldn't give up the difference in potential home-field advantage (I assume they'd have more of one when fans have been preparing for months to tailgate, instead of 3 days). Plus I imagine that would piss off some very powerful alums or season ticket holders, and cost LSU some revenue. They do have a very rabid fan base, but it'll be interesting to see the crowd they get. Very much doubt a sell out.

Seems like a great chance to do lower price tickets & give fans who otherwise wouldn't see a game in person the opportunity to do so. And down in those final 24 hours I suspect a LOT of freebies could end up being distributed if things are indeed slow.

[MrBug708]

This UW-USC game is like watching low level high school game.

[bronconick]

Tom Fornelli ‏@TomFornelli 5m5 minutes ago
Sark finally gonna get Washington that win over USC.

[Eaglesfan27]

USC is missing Turek (who was hurt early in the game.) Way too many low snaps tonight. Cody is doing a great job fielding them but they are throwing off the rhythm.

[BishopMVP]

Just put a yellow jersey on Kessler at this point.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by bronconick

Tom Fornelli ‏@TomFornelli 5m5 minutes ago
Sark finally gonna get Washington that win over USC.

Haha ouch.

[CU Tiger]

Sark has now been a double digit favorite 6 times at USC against a P5 opponent. He has lost 4 of those.

Wonder is SC wishes they'd pursued Petersen instead now?

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Sark has now been a double digit favorite 6 times at USC against a P5 opponent. He has lost 4 of those.

Wonder is SC wishes they'd pursued Petersen instead now?

Petersen is a better coach than Sark, but he hasn't exactly lit the world on fire so far at Washington either. No way USC would have hired a guy straight out of Boise who didn't have the experience coaching under the kind of scrutiny USC brings.

It's pretty clear, though, that Sark is in way over his head.

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

No way USC would have hired a guy straight out of Boise who didn't have the experience coaching under the kind of scrutiny USC brings.

It's pretty clear, though, that Sark is in way over his head.

They might wouldn't have, but I'd suggest they should have.

A good read here and that is surprising coming from my disdain of ESecPN and Mark Shchalaughuagh. However somehow they combined to produce a good read.

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[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Sark has now been a double digit favorite 6 times at USC against a P5 opponent. He has lost 4 of those.

Wonder is SC wishes they'd pursued Petersen instead now?

I wish they had.

[Wolfpack]

Speaking of coaches who seem to be in over their heads (and offensive coordinators and quarterbacks)... I don't think I've ever hopped off a coach bandwagon quite so quickly as I have with Dave Doeren. Six games into year three and I think I've seen enough at this point. 3-15 in 18 conference games. That is Tom Reed levels of awful. It's not like the ACC has been a murderer's row either. Clemson and FSU are the only teams where State would be totally outclassed, but that still only accounts for four of the 15 losses. Looking ahead, Clemson and FSU are sure losses and the biannual road loss at Wake Forest is pretty well expected also. That leaves Syracuse, BC, and UNC as toss-ups to get wins out of at this point. We might get to six wins and get shipped to some cold-weather bowl to meet the last slot obligations of the ACC, but this is not where things should be in year 3.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Wonder is SC wishes they'd pursued Petersen instead now?

They sniffed around each other, but my understanding is it was mutually agreed to not be a great match. Petersen wasn't going to be the media-friendly/booster-glad-handing guy USC wanted. And Petersen confirmed that he really wasn't interested in the media fishbowl atmosphere that is L.A.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by bronconick

Tom Fornelli ‏@TomFornelli 5m5 minutes ago
Sark finally gonna get Washington that win over USC.

I get the humorous intent, but perhaps Fornelli has forgotten that Sark went 2-2 vs. USC while he was at Washington?

[CU Tiger]

Originally Posted by Wolfpack

Speaking of coaches who seem to be in over their heads (and offensive coordinators and quarterbacks)... I don't think I've ever hopped off a coach bandwagon quite so quickly as I have with Dave Doeren. Six games into year three and I think I've seen enough at this point. 3-15 in 18 conference games. That is Tom Reed levels of awful. It's not like the ACC has been a murderer's row either. Clemson and FSU are the only teams where State would be totally outclassed, but that still only accounts for four of the 15 losses. Looking ahead, Clemson and FSU are sure losses and the biannual road loss at Wake Forest is pretty well expected also. That leaves Syracuse, BC, and UNC as toss-ups to get wins out of at this point. We might get to six wins and get shipped to some cold-weather bowl to meet the last slot obligations of the ACC, but this is not where things should be in year 3.

Yeah Ive been really surprised by Doeren, I thought he was going to really turn things around there. And there have been flashes where you think...and then stumble.

Signing my (and several others) National #1 Dexter Lawrence this year will help him though.

[cartman]

You heard it here first:

Texas will win the game against Oklahoma today, as long as Oklahoma doesn't score more points.

In all seriousness, I'm expecting another beat down. But this series is strange. Often, when one of the teams is a big underdog, surprises happen. Look at the game two years ago.

[Thomkal]

Coastal Carolina opens Big South play today as they host Presbyterian. Not expecting any problems with the "Surf Turf" after all that rain, but we are under a flash flood watch today as we are expected to get more rain today. We've pretty much walked all over Presbyterian past few seasons, so expecting more of the same this year.

[Wolfpack]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

Yeah Ive been really surprised by Doeren, I thought he was going to really turn things around there. And there have been flashes where you think...and then stumble.

Signing my (and several others) National #1 Dexter Lawrence this year will help him though.

I think the debate at this point is whether it's Doeren or whether its his coodinators. Huxtable is doing a passable job at this point on defense I think, but Canada is getting most of the hate right now with how dreadful the offense has looked so far. The running game is ok, but that's due to the sheer volume of talent (at least until Thornton got kicked off the team) that's available to carry the ball. The receivers are lousy (and any decent ones we've had since Doeren came all seem to transfer out at the first chance) and Brissett is just not a good quarterback. He may be a talent, but there's something missing, an "it" quality that you know if you needed him to carry the team, he could do it. A senior quarterback of a major college program should have that ability and I just don't think he's got it in him. Yes, he's got poor receivers, but good QBs find a way to overcome at least some of that and produce better than 12-for-25 for 113 yards and 1 TD/1 int. It also doesn't help that he lost a game last night to a second-string QB who gimped around on a bad leg for half a game and still threw three touchdowns.

[cartman]

YES!!!!!!!!