2025 NCAA Football Thread

[Motor City Sonics]

Notre Dame AD should be fired over this.    Just absolutely foolish.     Losing practices, bowl game experience and money over a temper tantrum.     You had your chance to prove you belong in the playoffs - and you blew it.     Possibly the biggest Cry Baby move of all time. 

 

Oregon over James Madison:  Nice story JMU, you made it to the Ball. 

Tulane over Ole Miss:   Sorry, I don't think they'll rally. Kifin screwed them

Texas A&M over Miami:   Texas A&M only had one stumble

Oklahoma over Alabama:  

 

Orange:  Texas Tech over Oregon

Rose  Indiana over Oklahoma

Sugar  Georgia over Tulane

Cotton.   Texas A&M over Ohio State

 

Peach:  Indiana over Texas Tech

Fiesta:  Georgia over Texas A&M

 

CHAMPIONSHIP:   Georgia over Indiana.   

 

I do think the Hoosiers are for real, even in a weak Big Ten, but I don't think they could top Georgia. 

[MichiganCardinal]

Birmingham Bowl can’t find an opponent to play Georgia Southern (6-6).

Rutgers, Florida State, Auburn, Baylor, and UCF (all 5-7) have all declined an invitation.

Crazy that bad teams have no interest in playing a meaningless exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama. Who will agree? Kansas? Mississippi State? Do they start asking Temple, Rice, Akron, and Kent State, or move to P4 4-8 teams?

[MichiganCardinal]

1 minute ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Birmingham Bowl can’t find an opponent to play Georgia Southern (6-6).

Rutgers, Florida State, Auburn, Baylor, and UCF (all 5-7) have all declined an invitation.

Crazy that bad teams have no interest in playing a meaningless exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama. Who will agree? Kansas? Mississippi State? Do they start asking Temple, Rice, Akron, and Kent State, or move to P4 4-8 teams?

Just kidding. Temple and Kansas have both declined invites. Still no opponent identified.

Edited 18 hours ago by MichiganCardinal

[casimir]

2 hours ago, buddha said:

notre dame will treat this like theyre making some moral statement about college football.

if you wanted to be in, you should have beaten miami.

They did hold Purdue to 30 points.  Did the committee ignore that?

[casimir]

7 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Birmingham Bowl can’t find an opponent to play Georgia Southern (6-6).

Rutgers, Florida State, Auburn, Baylor, and UCF (all 5-7) have all declined an invitation.

Crazy that bad teams have no interest in playing a meaningless exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama. Who will agree? Kansas? Mississippi State? Do they start asking Temple, Rice, Akron, and Kent State, or move to P4 4-8 teams?

Are there any Canadian universities that want a crack at it?

[MichiganCardinal]

3 minutes ago, casimir said:

Are there any Canadian universities that want a crack at it?

Does Fargo, North Dakota count?

[Tiger337]

38 minutes ago, buddha said:

byu has a better resume than either of them.

I think they are comparable and that BYU has as much right to complain as Notre Dame.  But they are BYU, so nobody cares.  

[buddha]

24 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Birmingham Bowl can’t find an opponent to play Georgia Southern (6-6).

Rutgers, Florida State, Auburn, Baylor, and UCF (all 5-7) have all declined an invitation.

Crazy that bad teams have no interest in playing a meaningless exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama. Who will agree? Kansas? Mississippi State? Do they start asking Temple, Rice, Akron, and Kent State, or move to P4 4-8 teams?

cant wait to see michigan state there!  biff will be really excited!

actually he wont care.  like any sparty fan, he's only interested in seeing michigan lose and doesnt actually care about anything else.

[casimir]

Have the Browns been extended an invite?

[GalagaGuy]

Tulane +16.5

James Madison +20.5

Not the kind of spreads you want to see in a 12 team playoff.  

[Deleterious]

 

[buddha]

28 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

such bull**** favortism for notre dame.  why should they be guaranteed anything?

join a conference or stfu.

[MichiganCardinal]

It’s the committee so they’ll just do whatever they want in the end anyway. A 10-2 Notre Dame will be ranked #13 if they don’t want them in.

They’ll craft the narrative to suit their outcome, just like taking Alabama over Florida State in 2024 despite it defying everything they’d claimed to that point. It’s not the best teams, or the most deserving, or who played quality non-conference opponents, or who shouldn’t be punished for playing in a conference championship, or who shouldn’t be punished for believing they’re better than to be in a conference... It’s just vibes.

[Hongbit]

Kalshi has Marcus Freeman as favorite for the Giants job.   That would be great if they lost their coach too.  

[Deleterious]

Virginia Tech hired Brent Pry as their defensive coordinator.  You may remember Brent Pry from former jobs, such as head coach at Virginia Tech the past 3 seasons.

[buddha]

6 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

It’s the committee so they’ll just do whatever they want in the end anyway. A 10-2 Notre Dame will be ranked #13 if they don’t want them in.

They’ll craft the narrative to suit their outcome, just like taking Alabama over Florida State in 2024 despite it defying everything they’d claimed to that point. It’s not the best teams, or the most deserving, or who played quality non-conference opponents, or who shouldn’t be punished for playing in a conference championship, or who shouldn’t be punished for believing they’re better than to be in a conference... It’s just vibes.

yup.  there is no science to it.  no mathematical formula.  its all about vibes.

[Biff Mayhem]

19 hours ago, buddha said:

and as a michigan fan, were not just laughing at ohio state, were also laughing at notre dame.

were equal opportunity haters.

We’re. 

[MichiganCardinal]

4 hours ago, buddha said:

yup.  there is no science to it.  no mathematical formula.  its all about vibes.

D3 football (and other D3 sports) don’t rely on a subjective analysis at all. Their 40-team playoff is entirely based on conference champions and at-large bids determined by the NCAA Power Index, which allows the playing committee to set “dials” of importance preseason, rather than just manufacturing the equation after you know what you want as an answer. So if you want to prioritize scheduling difficult non-conference opponents, or playing in a conference championship, you just increase that “dial.”

Of course the problem with that is that it allows a three-loss Alabama to get bounced for an objectively better team, and of course it takes away the “fun” (and $$$) of a Selection Show where we see what games a random committee of biased and unqualified ADs and fired coaches want to see next. And who would want to take away that?

[CMRivdogs]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Virginia Tech hired Brent Pry as their defensive coordinator.  You may remember Brent Pry from former jobs, such as head coach at Virginia Tech the past 3 seasons.

Was a bit of a weird move from ten thousand feet out. Pry and Franklin are close friends going back about 30 years. They worked together at Vanderbilt and Pen State. Franklin worked under Pry's father as well. They've both been strong recruiters in the fertile Hampton Roads market and other regions across the stata.

Tech will never be the powerhouse they'd love to be and rank with the Alabama's and Ohio State's etc

If they can beat UVa and at least JMU and upstart ODU, the alumni will be happt

[Hongbit]

It’s not as bad as sending a kid onto a scissor lift in a windstorm but skipping a major bowl game over this is a very bad decision from the Irish.   That is quality practice and development time that is wasted.  There are early entry Freshman they won’t get a chance to practice early with the team.  

[Hongbit]

[Deleterious]

Touchdown Jesus is entering the portal. 

 

[RedTeamGo!]

On 12/7/2025 at 12:05 AM, buddha said:

lol ohio state.

meh, better team won. The story of the game was the Indiana DL destroyed the OSU OL. I ain't mad, happy for IU. 

[buddha]

1 minute ago, RedTeamGo! said:

meh, better team won. The story of the game was the Indiana DL destroyed the OSU OL. I ain't mad, happy for IU. 

i wouldnt be surprised if you won the natty again this year.

[RedTeamGo!]

Possible, but I have a feeling Georgia runs over everyone like OSU did last year.