2025 NCAA Football Thread

[gehringer_2]

5 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

nobody wants to watch, or carry, Indiana. Good team, no audience draw.

[Shelton]

On 11/19/2025 at 3:11 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Yup. We've talked about it before, the fans tend to be very short horizon, what the schools realize that fans don't is that you put together one conference of all the perennial top 20 teams, half of them will start losing half their games, and I don't think that's an appealing future for a Michigan or a Clemson. In the heyday of the Yankees being the Yankees, was when the Senators were being the Senators. Someone has to willing the be the Northwesterns of a new super league and I don't imagine any one is.

I think schools at the “top” of their conferences aren’t actually under the illusion that they are a contender just because they are at the top though. I think we might be surprised what fans/schools will tolerate. But I think it’s incredibly hard to know for sure unless you do it. 
 

Speaking only for myself, but I have become incredibly disinterested in college football. I don’t think it’s because of NIL or greed or whatever. I just find the games so boring now, and I think it’s mostly because there only a couple per year worth caring about for your team. 
 

Since when did it become necessary to pay 12 games and judge success by only losing once? It’s not fun or interesting to have close to 10 games already decided before the season even starts. I think the big matchups interest people because the teams are both good, not because they both happen to have gone 8-0 or 7-1 against scrubs.

I would love to see them try to create a 14 team super league and play a 13 week round robin and then have a small playoff at the end. Maybe we would even get an interesting matchup that kicks off before the sun goes down. 

[Tiger337]

I've re-developed a shallow interest in Notre Dame football.  Should I be ashamed of myself?  

[buddha]

43 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I've re-developed a shallow interest in Notre Dame football.  Should I be ashamed of myself?  

yes.  you are bad and should feel bad.

[4hzglory]

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

I've re-developed a shallow interest in Notre Dame football.  Should I be ashamed of myself?  

Welcome to the light 🤪. I was actually never a fan until my son went there.

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

yes.  you are bad and should feel bad.

What if I told you that we are going to the championship game again this year and this time we are going to kick THE Ohio States ass all over Hard Rock stadium? 

[Deleterious]

One of you rich guys send a private plane from Oxford to Happy Valley.

 

[Hongbit]

Ole Miss cant really believe that Lane Kiffin is going to be their coach next year for $9M.   I think he likes it there and would stay if they gave him a deal that pays him in the top 4 of coaches.  If not, they will absolutely be looking for a new coach next year.