2018 College Football thread

[GhostMachine]

I like the format, but I'd like to see one big change: If you don't win your conference's championship game, you're done. No playoffs for you. Alabama losing the SEC but winning the national makes no sense whatsoever. Logic dictates that you can't really say you're the best team in the country, when you can't even win your own conference. So why should you be allowed to play for the national championship under that circumstance?

(And I'm not just saying that because my two favorite teams are the Tennessee Vounteers and whoever is playing against Alabama. I'm saying it because it makes perfect sense.)

 

[Meacon Keaton]

I've argued, ad nausem, why I think that's a stupid rule. Say you have an 11-1 Alabama, who loses a close game to a 10-2 Auburn. Auburn goes to the SEC championship game, since only one loss was in the SEC (let's say it was to Tennessee, because fiction, right?). Meanwhile you have a 10-2 Washington who lost to Alabama and let's say USC. But USC lost two conference games, so Washington gets to go to the PAC-12 championship. You're telling me that an 11-2 PAC-12 Champion Washington deserves to go over an 11-1 Alabama team that they lost to earlier in the year? Bull crap. The conferences aren't even. The divisions aren't even. While conference championships can and should be taken into consideration, there should never be a written in stone fule pertaining to an automatic qualification or disqualification. That's just fucking stupid. It's not like the NFL, where every team in the division play each other twice and you get to know for absolute sure who the best team in the AFC North is. 

[Meacon Keaton]

I've got money on TCU to win by more than 15.5 tonight. Weather better clear up and they better poop on SMU as much as they would've if the grass was dry.  

[Maxx]

Holy fuck that was a lot of rain.  I think it should be clear for most of the game, that’s what the forecast says.  

[Meacon Keaton]

Just now, Maxx said:

Holy fuck that was a lot of rain.  I think it should be clear for most of the game, that’s what the forecast says.  

Are you there? Or did you ever decide which game you are going to?

[Maxx]

No I just was driving home through it, navigating flooded roads and all that.  This one is at SMU, and ehhh I don’t feel like driving to Dallas.  Or seeing SMU.

[The Buscher]

Colorado/Nebraska has been so much fun.

Laviska Shenault Jr is gonna be doing some serious work on Sundays.

[Meacon Keaton]

One of the most frustrating games I’ve ever watched as an Irish fan. If we had played that way against Michigan, they would have beaten us 56-0.

[Meacon Keaton]

A&M scores with 46 seconds left. They have to go for two point conversion since it's 28-26.

Intercepted. So close, but game is over. 

[Meacon Keaton]

And Kentucky is 5 minutes away from beating Florida for the first time in 32 years. 

[gunnar hendershow]

Dan Mullen comes back to Gainesville, loses to Kentucky.

Scott Frost comes back to Lincoln, blows it against Colorado and loses his QB.

Herm Edwards comes to Tempe and gets laughed at, wins against Michigan State.

College football is wild.

[Meacon Keaton]

Florida cost me some money. I was 7-out-of-8 yesterday.

[GhostMachine]

I'm glad Florida lost. Now I'm not so worried about the Vols playing them. 

Texas A&M should have beaten Clemson, but had some bad calls that went against them. It wasn't just that failed two point conversion that did them in.

 

 

[Meacon Keaton]

That's good analysis, GM. It was not that one play that lost them the whole game. :p 

I want to see the replay again of the near touchdown/called touchback that they had earlier. In real time it looked like a touchdown, I took my dog out to pee, and when I came back in it was Clemson's ball on the 20. 

[The Buscher]

LSU/Auburn was fun.  It’s funny hearing these idiot Auburn fans booing multiple correct pass interference calls.

[Meacon Keaton]

Down goes Wisconsin!

Down goes Auburn!

[DMN in the House]

The last time UCLA started 0-3, we went 7-1-1 the rest of the way, and won the Rose Bowl, so, like, watch out!

[Meacon Keaton]

I mean, you could probably take USC. And the rest of the South looks awful, so it's not completely out of the realm of possibility.

[gunnar hendershow]

LSU is not to be counted out this year. Orgeron might not be the best coach but my goodness does that team have talent everywhere.

[Meacon Keaton]

They’re incredibly talented but Joe Burrow and/or Oregeron’s coaching will cost them at least two or three games. 10-2 at best me thinks. 

I like Coach O though. I’d love for them to knock off Alabama.