College Football Discussion

[MickeyDavis]

ACC communications sound like NASA talking to the astronauts on the moon in 1969.

[MikeIsGood]

Completely blursed. What the hell did we just watch lol.

[Mags FTW]

Letting people listen in on replay is idiotic. They know they people are listening so they talk like teachers explaining things to 5 year olds instead of just giving the ruling.

[BUCKnation]

Love watching the refs do their thing

[RubberSoul]

Seattle refs in 2012 think that’s a FSU TD.


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[MickeyDavis]

Up 8 BYU tries a fake punt from their own 32 on 4th and 5 and didn't come close. If they lose its on Kalani's stupid decision

[ReasonablySober]

Today isn't even done.

[trwi7]

Announcers are all too willing to go along with "offensive lineman put pass rusher on the ground, therefore it is holding" when 95% of the time it's the pass rusher trying to drive through the offensive lineman and losing their balance as they're being blocked and being put on the ground that way. Not holding, just a very large person getting in the way of a smaller person who lost all momentum and can't get around the larger person. It's insane how often that's called holding.

[ReasonablySober]

ND sends the house and leaves single coverage everywhere, totally backfires.

[MickeyDavis]

Sweet

[ReasonablySober]

Blood. Week.

[ReasonablySober]

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[MickeyDavis]

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[ReasonablySober]

Mandel wrote a good piece (a couple good pieces, really) about the 24 team playoff. I'd assumed that ESPN was driving all of this, but I was wrong. The TV networks don't want it and didn't want to write a $325 million dollar check.

What's driving all of this are the teams who feel like they need expanded playoffs so they can go to donors and ask for the money to compete. It's one thing if you're a blue blood and/or backed by one of the rare megadonors who can spill $30 million from their couch cushions. It's another if you're Wisconsin and you need something to show for your $30 million at the end of the season.

Except Mandel kills that argument:

In the age of both $50 million rosters and $50 million coaching buyouts, presidents and athletic directors now serve at the whim of impatient boosters and overzealous politicians. They’re stuck on a hamster wheel of desperation, begging for donations to fund a championship roster, then begging for more to fire their coach for falling short, then begging for even more to give the next guy a guaranteed contract and an even richer championship roster.

So they’ve convinced themselves that if twice as many schools get to say they made the Playoff, their fan bases will stand down and they’ll hand over more donations.

They’re watering down the best regular season in major sports so that P.J. Fleck can go to the Playoff once every five years instead of getting Duke’s Mayo doused on his head.

Except that’s not the way it works in any other major sport. The preseason Super Bowl favorite only makes it to the divisional round? Fire everybody. Kentucky loses in the NCAA first round again? Bye, bye Coach Cal.

Lincoln Riley going 9-3 at USC but losing in the first round of a 24-team CFP will be just as fireable an offense as Lincoln Riley going 9-3 and losing in the Alamo Bowl.

[ReasonablySober]

Tommy Carr takes over for Underwood, and Sayin is out for the season at Ohio State. Oof.

[Finn]

Too bad we can't do trades in the NCAA - Underwood to the Badgers for a pound of cheese curds. Who says no?

[ReasonablySober]

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[MickeyDavis]

Opposite of last week, this week is pretty much crap. Obviously some games will turn out to be good but there's nothing other than Badgers (on a smaller screen opposite WS) that I'll bother watching.

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To each their own. I prefer getting rid of meaningless opt out bowl games and having 16 on campus playoff games.

[Mags FTW]

Playoff games are definitely better than meaningless bowl games. The question is if ESPN is overpaying for those games because what will be the audience for the 16 vs 17? Will it draw a lot of viewers, or will it be similar to the audience that a 16 vs 17 gets in the regular season?