2026 NCAA Football Thread

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Hongbit]

29 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

What a joke.  A Judge with a law degree from Ole Miss rules in their favor.   Meanwhile the same situation in another state gets a different outcome.    

That would be great if judges from Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana all ruled that he was ineligible and he couldn’t play in any games in those states.  

We can’t have each state able to make their own rules.   The NCAA needs to figure out how to get control of its own sport back.  

They should be able to set their own rules to be eligible for the CFP.   Let a judge say a kid can play but force the university to hold him out or chance losing the right to be in the playoff.  

Edited Friday at 12:32 AM by Hongbit

[buddha]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47917988/big-ten-eyes-24-team-cfp-no-league-championship-games

why not just go to 64 teams?

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, buddha said:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47917988/big-ten-eyes-24-team-cfp-no-league-championship-games

why not just go to 64 teams?

If reports are to be believed, player salary costs for teams are reaching $40M/yr. The only way to cover that is more games. 

Edited Friday at 08:45 PM by gehringer_2

[casimir]

Sacramento State, newest football member of the MAC?  Sure, why not.

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

19 hours ago, casimir said:

Sacramento State, newest football member of the MAC?  Sure, why not.

The best part is that they are joining the Mid American Conference because Northern Illinois is leaving for the Mountain West. 🤣

[Deleterious]

Which wealthy alum is bankrolling this? 

 

[MichiganCardinal]

34 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Which wealthy alum is bankrolling this? 

 

Gotta be, or the department would be bankrupting itself. You would think the PAC-12 would be happy to have a warm body.

Does the agreement include baseball? Sac State has a very good baseball program that competes in the WAC. They would probably immediately become the best baseball team in the MAC.

ETA: I see now it's football only. I can only imagine this is Sac State wanting to break into the FBS, but trying to be smarter about it than App State and Georgia State. They likely figure if they go to the Mountain West, or have to schedule their own opponents as an independent, they'll get creamed and eventually relegated to perpetual 3-9. But if they have Akron, Bowling Green, and UMass on their schedule every year, maybe they can manage to get the program to a respectable 8-4 by the end of the five years, in a position to compete in the MWC or PAC-12?

And if you're the MAC, you have nothing to lose. Maybe the NorCal games will even give the smaller schools a shot at kids from the area who would otherwise go to FCS or D2.

Edited 16 hours ago by MichiganCardinal

[romad1]

On 2/15/2026 at 12:54 PM, casimir said:

Sacramento State, newest football member of the MAC?  Sure, why not.

If it means a few midwesterners visit Sacramento and see the real California...

(sarcasm)

[casimir]

3 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Gotta be, or the department would be bankrupting itself. You would think the PAC-12 would be happy to have a warm body.

Does the agreement include baseball? Sac State has a very good baseball program that competes in the WAC. They would probably immediately become the best baseball team in the MAC.

ETA: I see now it's football only. I can only imagine this is Sac State wanting to break into the FBS, but trying to be smarter about it than App State and Georgia State. They likely figure if they go to the Mountain West, or have to schedule their own opponents as an independent, they'll get creamed and eventually relegated to perpetual 3-9. But if they have Akron, Bowling Green, and UMass on their schedule every year, maybe they can manage to get the program to a respectable 8-4 by the end of the five years, in a position to compete in the MWC or PAC-12?

And if you're the MAC, you have nothing to lose. Maybe the NorCal games will even give the smaller schools a shot at kids from the area who would otherwise go to FCS or D2.

Notice that they waited to join the MAC until after Pudge the Cat graduated from BGSU.

Edited 13 hours ago by casimir

[Deleterious]

Good luck getting the conference commissioners to give up power.

 

[MichiganCardinal]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Good luck getting the conference commissioners to give up power.

 

The NCAA is completely powerless. Anytime they try to flex any power they get brought to court and lose. He might as well be shaking a fist at a cloud.