2025 NCAA Football Thread

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Dan Gilmore]

2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

One of the great traditions in all of college football will continue with Oregon fans using their hands to show how many national titles they’ve won.  

This is only true is you are talking football. The basketball team won the natty back in the late 1930s.

[Deleterious]

 

[buddha]

2 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

The regents at Michigan are wondering how Indiana could do this.

Notre Dame's priests are wondering what it takes to be the best team in the State of Indiana or the ACC, much less a national champion...

[MichiganCardinal]

14 hours ago, Hongbit said:

I think they made the right call.  It was a desperation play and it should be completely undeniable of a penalty to let something like that decide the spot in the title.  The WR was still able to make a play on the ball so it wasn’t so blatant to as to take him right out of the play.  

Finally got a chance to see it tonight.

The play is called a Hail Mary for a reason. It’s not the officials’ job to answer the prayer. Could they have called it pass interference? Would it have been a supportable call? Sure. But I bet you their bosses are perfectly okay with a no call and I’m not sure if there is a single semifinal official in college football  who would make that call.

It deserves not 5% of the media attention it’s getting. Ole Miss lost fair and square. Complaining about a no call on a last second heave to the end zone is sour grapes.

[Deleterious]

Indiana opened as 7.5 point favorites over Miami.

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Deleterious]

That was pretty nice

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Motor City Sonics]

21 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Wonder when we're going to find out how Indiana cheated.    

Turns out it's a day LOL

 

They all cheat

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/indiana-football-accused-of-cheating-as-wild-social-media-rumor-spreads/ar-AA1TXO64

[romad1]

What is up with this?

What NFL team wants Day? 

[Tigeraholic1]

18 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

Maybe it was the FanDuel Detroit app. 

[casimir]

10 hours ago, romad1 said:

What is up with this?

What NFL team wants Day? 

Jim Harbaugh to Baltimore Ravens, John Harbaugh to the UofM, Ryan Day to San Diego Chargers?

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

The cheapest ticket for the NC on Seat Geek is $3,477.  They couldn't ask for a much better matchup for ticket prices.  Being in Miami and having the rabid IU fans all trying to go 

Edited Monday at 03:43 AM by Deleterious

[Deleterious]

Raiola is transferring to the Dan Lanning QB rehabilitation program.

[Tigeraholic1]

Another weapon for CJ

 

 

[buddha]

Did Marcus Freeman use a weapon when he assaulted that guy?  lol.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[buddha]

33 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

joke.

[Shelton]

13 hours ago, buddha said:

joke.

Relative to the current 12-team system that includes conference championship games, a 24-team system without auto bids or conference championship games feels like an improvement. I would assume 8 byes and 16 teams playing in the first round at campus sites during the first week of December in place of conference championship games. A 9-24 matchup is likely to be more interesting than the current 5-12 (who is a true 20ish ranked team).

A second set of campus site games in the round of 16, giving the top 8 seeds all a home game and a true 1-16 matchup feels ok. 
 

The toothpaste is out of the tube with the current system. Eliminating auto bids (which won’t eliminate the good group of five teams), and replacing meaningless conference championship games in the first week of December doesn’t seem so bad. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Shelton

[buddha]

3 minutes ago, Shelton said:

Relative to the current 12-team system that includes conference championship games, a 24-team system without auto bids or conference championship games feels like an improvement. I would assume 8 byes and 16 teams playing in the first round at campus sites during the first week of December in place of conference championship games. A 9-24 matchup is likely to be more interesting than the current 5-12 (who is a true 20ish ranked team).

A second set of campus site games in the round of 16, giving the top 8 seeds all a home game and a true 1-16 matchup feels ok. 
 

The toothpaste is out of the tube with the current system. Eliminating auto bids (which won’t eliminate the good group of five teams), and replacing meaningless conference championship games in the first week of December doesn’t seem so bad. 

if were af the point where we can all admit this is minor league football designed to make a profit for the supposed non-profit academic institutions, then i suppose its an improvement.  it further waters down an already watered down regular season, but that ship has passed.

in a world where their labor must be paid OVER the table, the universities need cash.  more product for television is the easiest way to do that.

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, buddha said:

designed to make a profit for the supposed non-profit academic institutions, 

It's been raised before, but oddly enough this morning I just came across a news story about how non-profits in North Dakota have a special federal carve out from paying taxes on gambling income (so called rifle shot legislation aimed at a single case) that noted that under federal tax law, income to tax exempt organizations from profitable activities not connected to their core non-profit mission are fully taxable. When does the shoe drop on that? 

Maybe when someone finally actually makes money out of this mess?