College Football Discussion

[ReasonablySober]

You guys are speaking as fans of one team, not a sport. I get it, and now maybe the Badgers might be able to sneak back into a meaningful post-season game. But for people who actually care about the entire sport, 24 teams is a legit abomination that misses why we love the sport in the first place. You won't find a single defender of it anywhere.

That is the vast majority of the fan base for team sports though. Very few people start watching a team sport if they do not have a specific team they follow.

Well yea. Everyone has a favorite team. Even the national writers and podcasters have the schools they root for. Not disputing that. What everyone is lamenting now is the loss of big games. There aren’t any in a 24 team team playoff.

[MVP2110]

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[ReasonablySober]

"Hey, we hear you fans. We know you don't want it. **** you, we're doing it anyway."

[Mags FTW]

So the 16/17 would essentially be the Outback Bowl, but with actual stakes.

[ReasonablySober]

So the 16/17 would essentially be the Outback Bowl, but with actual stakes.

What stakes? The glory of being curb-stomped by Georgia a week later?

Glad we're eliminating conference championship games so Dan Lanning's **** coaching can job look better for a week.

[MVP2110]

So the 16/17 would essentially be the Outback Bowl, but with actual stakes.

Essentially yes. I know RS and many fans are against this but give me Oregon/South Carolina in an elimination game over them in the Outback Bowl where LaNorris Sellers doesnt play against an Oregon team who doesnt care at all

[MikeIsGood]

I think it probably makes sense for where we are now, but I just lament what it's all become. And I suspect that's where some of the angst is coming from - or maybe I'm alone. The days of a meaningful, successful regular season with the chance at a fulfilling NY6 game win feels so far away. Could one of these games be the equivalent? Maybe. But it doesn't feel as good when you get the **** kicked out of you the next week. Winning the Orange Bowl over Miami wouldn't have felt as good if we had to have played Alabama the next week at the height of their powers.

[Mags FTW]

This is where the divide is with many of us on this board. When it comes to basketball, some here are very excited about winning the B10 regular season title and/or tournament, and mildly disappointed if UW/MU doesn't make it out of the first weekend of the tournament. Others would rather make deep runs in the tournament every few years with the hopes that the stars align one of those times and you win it all.

[MVP2110]

I think it probably makes sense for where we are now, but I just lament what it's all become. And I suspect that's where some of the angst is coming from - or maybe I'm alone. The days of a meaningful, successful regular season with the chance at a fulfilling NY6 game win feels so far away. Could one of these games be the equivalent? Maybe. But it doesn't feel as good when you get the **** kicked out of you the next week. Winning the Orange Bowl over Miami wouldn't have felt as good if we had to have played Alabama the next week at the height of their powers.

Even using the Orange Bowl example, that was a great win, but I remember many Badger fans being disappointed that that season didnt end with a CFP berth after going undefeated in the regular season and then losing by 1 TD to Ohio St in the Big Ten Title game. Same with the Russell Wilson team that was so good

[MikeIsGood]

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I think it probably makes sense for where we are now, but I just lament what it's all become. And I suspect that's where some of the angst is coming from - or maybe I'm alone. The days of a meaningful, successful regular season with the chance at a fulfilling NY6 game win feels so far away. Could one of these games be the equivalent? Maybe. But it doesn't feel as good when you get the **** kicked out of you the next week. Winning the Orange Bowl over Miami wouldn't have felt as good if we had to have played Alabama the next week at the height of their powers.

Even using the Orange Bowl example, that was a great win, but I remember many Badger fans being disappointed that that season didnt end with a CFP berth after going undefeated in the regular season and then losing by 1 TD to Ohio St in the Big Ten Title game. Same with the Russell Wilson team that was so good

If only we'd known.

This is where the divide is with many of us on this board. When it comes to basketball, some here are very excited about winning the B10 regular season title and/or tournament, and mildly disappointed if UW/MU doesn't make it out of the first weekend of the tournament. Others would rather make deep runs in the tournament every few years with the hopes that the stars align one of those times and you win it all.

This is interesting. I mean I'm saying what I'm saying here, lamenting the loss of meaningful seasons culminating in big bowl wins, but eight months ago after yet another first weekend exit for the basketball team, I was part of an argument that was so obtuse and stupid to me from my POV that I think I've probably still got a poster on ignore lol. And I was arguing how unacceptable Gard's record has been for tournament success. So it feels like I'm on both sides of the divide?

You may be right here largely, and it's an interesting thing to think about. But I don't think it's very black and white. There's something intrinsically different between college football and college basketball; their seasons and post seasons are just so different. At the end of it, maybe I hate that we're trying to force football into the basketball model. It feels like square-peg-round-hole to me.

[ReasonablySober]

The cliche is that no one pays attention to college basketball until March. The coaches and ADs of the SEC and Big Ten are driving us to a future where nobody pays attention to college football until December.

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Awesome news. He's gonna end up being the #1 overall in 2028.

[MVP2110]

You know whose probably going to enjoy their regular season next year with a top QB and a shot at making the 24 team CFP? Mississippi St fans

[ReasonablySober]

You know whose probably going to enjoy their regular season next year with a top QB and a shot at making the 24 team CFP? Mississippi St fans

He's the best QB in the country and they should do well in the portal. They were 4-1 with him healthy this season. They wouldn't need 24 teams to make the playoffs next season.

[MVP2110]

You know whose probably going to enjoy their regular season next year with a top QB and a shot at making the 24 team CFP? Mississippi St fans

He's the best QB in the country and they should do well in the portal. They were 4-1 with him healthy this season. They wouldn't need 24 teams to make the playoffs next season.

Seems bold to say for a team who would have only made a 12 team CFP once, back in 2014

[ReasonablySober]

You know whose probably going to enjoy their regular season next year with a top QB and a shot at making the 24 team CFP? Mississippi St fans

He's the best QB in the country and they should do well in the portal. They were 4-1 with him healthy this season. They wouldn't need 24 teams to make the playoffs next season.

Seems bold to say for a team who would have only made a 12 team CFP once, back in 2014

Taylor's that awesome.

[MVP2110]

He's the best QB in the country and they should do well in the portal. They were 4-1 with him healthy this season. They wouldn't need 24 teams to make the playoffs next season.

Seems bold to say for a team who would have only made a 12 team CFP once, back in 2014

Taylor's that awesome.

Maybe? He's quite talented. But also Mississippi St is no lock to make a 12 team CFP even with him

[Ron Swanson]

Yeah, college football playoff = good. Expanding the college football playoff to include an absurd number of lower level programs that have zero business competing against the top-tier teams = stupid. What's next? They gonna throw in a wildcard "at large bid" for some D-II program who gets the honor of being clowned by Georgia or Ohio State in the first round on national TV? Sometimes when you arrive at a good thing, you don't need to keep tinkering with it (we all know the real rea$on why though).

[Mags FTW]

He's the best QB in the country and they should do well in the portal. They were 4-1 with him healthy this season. They wouldn't need 24 teams to make the playoffs next season.

Seems bold to say for a team who would have only made a 12 team CFP once, back in 2014

Taylor's that awesome.

He lost at home to Bama by 33. Even if they are able to lure some recruits with him as the bait, that is still quite the gap.

[ReasonablySober]

Seems bold to say for a team who would have only made a 12 team CFP once, back in 2014

Taylor's that awesome.

He lost at home to Bama by 33. Even if they are able to lure some recruits with him as the bait, that is still quite the gap.

Bama's really good, though. Minnesota, South Carolina, and Mizzu were good wins.

Taylor is a Cam Newton level talent. He's got the ability to carry a mediocre team if he stays healthy, and given the investment MSU is making in him you'd think that they're about to attract guys who want to play with him.