NCAA Football 2014 Thread

[HailtotheYo]

There's simply no justification for Kansas having a legitimate shot at the national title in D1 football but not Colorado State.

Not the way Kansas is currently playing, no. But if Kansas were to go 11-1 and be the Baylor or TCU in a playoff schedule, then they would have earned that by beating a very difficult schedule. If Colorado State goes 11-1 and is this year's Boise State, then they better have lost to another team in the playoff, or their best chance is to play in the Fiesta Bowl.

You're right when you say there's hot garbage at the bottom of a lot of these Power 5 conferences, but to say that schedules are created sufficiently equal because the worst of the Power of 5 is worse than the top of the Group of 5 ignores that the bottom of the Group of 5 is diabolical. I still think Kansas wipes the floor with UNLV. The bottom of the Mountain West, AAC etc is not close to a Kansas, for my money. Except the MAC, The MACtion is hot from top to bottom

I'm not really saying that the schedules are "equal enough" ... I'm saying that the puff about the "power 5" is greatly overdone. Is the separation between the top 5% of the D1 football teams that big ? Sure, always has been going back to the 4 Horseman and even before that. It's more to the point that the Oregon's and Bama's and FSU's of the world are only truly winning 3-5 "big" games a year while shuffling over 6-7 "eh" teams each season. The entire knock on the "other" conference big shots each season is that they're only truly winning 2-3 at most "real" games each season and that it doesn't stack up to what the other guys are doing. Except, if you actually look at it ... the separation really isn't what it's made out to be. Everything (based on voting patterns, historical rankings, etc) is based on what you do at your top end ... so how bad the bottom end is (as has been proven by voting patterns, rankings, etc) is almost irrelevant.

Case in point is FSU this season. GT, UL, Clemson .... that's it. The rest is a bunch of "ok" teams or worse.

Your Boise ST did that a couple of times but couldn't sniff the NT picture. They even did it with 1 loss a couple of times just like say Oregon this year.

In other news, in the "Barry Alvarez is a bad ass AD" department. It looks like he's getting (Wisconsin guy) Paul Chryst to be the new HC for the Badgers. That's three in a row .... if he could just get the University to pay the freaking assistants this program would skyrocket.

Looks like Tulsa is getting Baylor OC Phil Montgomery to be their HC

[munky]

Marcus Mariotta has won the Heisman, which I guess was pretty much expected? I don't follow the college game close enough to know.

[gunnar hendershow]

Yeah he was a virtual lock.

[HailtotheYo]

This has been the least worth a shit Heisman season I can remember

[HailtotheYo]

So a class move from Oregon State, ad was in the Oregonian:

[HailtotheYo]

First of all, I'd like to congratulate my old coach Tom Herman on winning the Broyles Award as the top asst coach in D1 college football. I'd further like to congratulate him on being the new head coach at the University of Houston. The high powered cougs will be a thing once again. Hell yes !

*go bulldogs*

[Mofoticon]

Bo Pelini hired as the new coach of Youngstown State....surprising they landed such a big name but he's from here and with Tressel as YSU President, it shouldn't be a huge surprise.

[GhostMachine]

Has there been any word at all on who Florida is considering to replace Muschamp?

[Maxx]

Rumor is they are leaning towards the guy they hired two weeks ago.

[DMN in the House]

Josh McCown?

[Plubby]

Rumor is they are leaning towards the guy they hired two weeks ago.

Scandalous.

[The Buscher]

Is anybody going to sign Jim McElwain?

[gunnar hendershow]

Really ridiculous that Jim McElwain is still not hired by any team.

[HailtotheYo]

So, a 5yr old from Ohio showed just how shitty it was for Bama to shut down UAB's football program: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/105755/a-5-year-olds-letter-and-1-donation-to-help-save-uab-football-touches-those-at-school

[Plubby]

I think there's some dust in my eye...

[HailtotheYo]

Really ? Only one other taker for the Bowl Mania ?

COME ON PEOPLE

[munky]

Really ? Only one other taker for the Bowl Mania ?

COME ON PEOPLE

I tried to find your league but couldn't. I searched 'ewb' and the group id - nothing.

[HailtotheYo]

http://games.espn.go.com/college-bowl-mania/2014/en/group?groupID=20798

Direct link to the group. Should prompt you for the password.

[HC]

Memphis is doing pretty damn well here. Referees have given BYU every break, however, including taking back a 60 yard TD (that would've been the nail in the coffin) on a phantom holding call.

[HC]

Well, I spoke too soon. Everything that could have gone wrong has and these referees are awful.