College Football Offseason 2015

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Everett Golson transferring from ND for his last year of eligibility.

 

Come on Texas!

Dear Lord, that would be awkward.

 

Yeah it would and I wouldn't even care if he sat the ND game and played the rest of the season.

[ConstableRabbit]

Nothing about a former Illinois starter blasting the football program for abuse?

 

[Guest]

Nothing about a former Illinois starter blasting the football program for abuse?

 

Not possible. We haven't played football for a while now.

[sneakypower]

i don't know Derrick Moncrief from Adam, but seems spectacularly shitty of Auburn to leverage his future simply to settle what seems like a petty personal beef (Michigan opening satellite camps in Alabama)

[Derwood]

i don't know Derrick Moncrief from Adam, but seems spectacularly [expletive] of Auburn to leverage his future simply to settle what seems like a petty personal beef (Michigan opening satellite camps in Alabama)

 

If SEC schools don't like the Big Ten doing satellites in the south, they should change their rules. It's not Harbaugh or Meyer or Franklin's problem that the SEC wont' allow its schools to travel very far from campus for satellites

[Andy]

Why would the SEC want to go anywhere else? All their players have been and will continue to be from the south. I think they're just irked that other conferences allow it more so than about their own not doing so.

[Derwood]

Why would the SEC want to go anywhere else? All their players have been and will continue to be from the south. I think they're just irked that other conferences allow it more so than about their own not doing so.

 

The northern schools are poaching talent from the south. Rather than the SEC changing their rules so they can go north and do the same, they want to shut out the northern schools. It's just two different ways of "solving" the problem

[OleMissCub]

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12999779/college-football-playoff-semifinals-start-4-pm-et-new-year-eve

 

The first College Football Playoff semifinal will begin at 4 p.m. ET on New Year's Eve.

 

The CFP on Tuesday announced the start times for the semifinals and four other marquee bowl games to be played on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

 

This year the semifinals will be played in the Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl. The order of the games will be announced on Dec. 6 when the pairings are set. The second game is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET.

 

What the hell are they doing that for?

 

Last year was absolutely perfect with both games on New Year's Day and it set rating records. Why would they mess with such a good thing? It seems like last year was the template for CFB owning New Year's Day.

 

I contend that when they go to 4 quarterfinal games (and they will eventually) that it would be a college football-gasm if they played all 4 games on New Year's Day. Start at noon on the East Coast and end it with a game on the West Coast. For example, for all of us central time zone people, you could have an Orange Bowl at noon, Sugar Bowl at 3, Fiesta Bowl at 6, and Rose Bowl at 9. 12 solid hours of playoff college football. Ratings would be ridiculous.

[Andy]

The reason the CFP semis will be on NYE is the Rose and Sugar bowls have contracts stipulating their games begin at 5 and 8:30 on NYD. Those contracts predate the playoff by a few months.

 

It's not ideal for sure, but I think it will be fine. Fans will adjust. People on the West Coast (1 p.m. semifinal) might not agree.

 

As for the quarterfinal thing, there's no way they'd wait all the way to NYD to play them. When the playoff goes to 8 (or 6, or whatever), I imagine they'll have the quarterfinals around the time the first bowls are currently.

[SouthSideRyan]

The reason the CFP semis will be on NYE is the Rose and Sugar bowls have contracts stipulating their games begin at 5 and 8:30 on NYD. Those contracts predate the playoff by a few months.

 

It's not ideal for sure, but I think it will be fine. Fans will adjust. People on the West Coast (1 p.m. semifinal) might not agree.

 

As for the quarterfinal thing, there's no way they'd wait all the way to NYD to play them. When the playoff goes to 8 (or 6, or whatever), I imagine they'll have the quarterfinals around the time the first bowls are currently.

 

I think the people on the East Coast watching a game until 10 to midnight NYE would have the bigger issue. 1 PM Bowls are great.

[OleMissCub]

The reason the CFP semis will be on NYE is the Rose and Sugar bowls have contracts stipulating their games begin at 5 and 8:30 on NYD. Those contracts predate the playoff by a few months.

 

Well then next year maybe they'll get it back to normal and in the future tell the Rose Bowl to suck it up and play whenever CFB tells them to.

 

It's not ideal for sure, but I think it will be fine. Fans will adjust. People on the West Coast (1 p.m. semifinal) might not agree.

 

People on the East Coast are the ones who won't like it. New Years night people are out appeasing the females in their lives who want to go out to eat and then to parties and what not. That's why New Years Day for football is perfect since you can reasonably get away with just being a bum all day sitting in a recliner and watching football.

 

As for the quarterfinal thing, there's no way they'd wait all the way to NYD to play them. When the playoff goes to 8 (or 6, or whatever), I imagine they'll have the quarterfinals around the time the first bowls are currently.

 

Why? The day that they would get the most viewers is New Year's Day. Having 4 meaningful CFB games back to back to back to back would be obscenely popular. It would be an epic tradition to start. Also (and this is their primary objective afterall), think of how much money they would get from all of the "my dick don't work no more" commercials that would be shown that day. Are you concerned about the fact that it would add an extra week onto the CFB season? Who cares?

[mul21]

It's just generally not going to be practical to have all 4 games in one day. You need to block off 4 hours for each game when you take into account all the extra commercials and extended halftimes plus being able to have a short preview for each game. I'd bet when it get's there, they have 2 on NYE and 2 on NYD to get the biggest available audience (unless you get Jan 2nd as a weekend day and that would be the 2nd day of games).

[jersey cubs fan]

I would bet they play 4 games well before New Years, leaving the 2 games semis where they are and the championship a week later. College football will get trounced if they end up going against nfl January. The only place to fit more college football is mid December Saturdays.

[OleMissCub]

Why would they be going up against the NFL in January? What days would they conflict?

[jersey cubs fan]

Why would they be going up against the NFL in January? What days would they conflict?

They would be pushed out of saturdays and will have to spread the semis out over a couple week nights which would severely lessen the "we own this block of time" aspect.

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[SpongeWorthy]

Top 5 most underachieving CFB programs of all time

 

I'd put Illinois over Maryland and Arizona State.

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When I first saw that, I thought it was going to come with a story about how when he was a kid he always wanted to play for IU. The logo is doing the Kanye shrug.

 

HOOSIRS!

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When I first saw that, I thought it was going to come with a story about how when he was a kid he always wanted to play for IU. The logo is doing the Kanye shrug.

 

HOOSIRS!

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Top 5 most underachieving CFB programs of all time

 

I'd put Illinois over Maryland and Arizona State.

 

I would put Maryland over them only cause they blew their chances in an easier conference for all of those years compared to the Big 10.

 

UCLA is an easy #1.

[Andy]

Florida State has some real problems right now.

 

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This incident reportedly happened one day after DeAndre Johnson's that got him thrown out.

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FSU = Female Striking University.

[SRQCub]

Florida fans will soon be wistfully remembering the Ron Zook years, as McElwain begins his trainwreck tenure in Gainesville. The Gators appear to be on the verge of disappearing from any relevant CFB conversation for the foreseeable future.

 

These could be dark days for CFB in the Sunshine State. FSU is going to take a big step back, Miami hasn't been relevant for a while, and Florida could finish behind Kentucky in the SECE.

 

They have two scholarship QB's on the roster, and both have major questions.

[OleMissCub]

Florida fans will soon be wistfully remembering the Ron Zook years, as McElwain begins his trainwreck tenure in Gainesville. The Gators appear to be on the verge of disappearing from any relevant CFB conversation for the foreseeable future.

 

These could be dark days for CFB in the Sunshine State. FSU is going to take a big step back, Miami hasn't been relevant for a while, and Florida could finish behind Kentucky in the SECE.

 

They have two scholarship QB's on the roster, and both have major questions.

 

Florida, like Texas, should have ZERO excuses for ever being bad in any of the major sports.

[Andy]

Why is McElwain going to be a train wreck? I quite like him and think he was a good pickup for Florida.