2023-2024 College Football Thread

[Dickie Dunn]

Get your RB injured because you're too dumb to take a knee. **** idiot.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Really feel for that kid

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Well it’s stupidly late but that was entertaining

[Orlando Penguin]

Amazing for how much money these coaches make that their decisions in easy situations are so awful. Thankfully, they’re deciding football games and not whether to launch nuclear weapons. Had it not been for Texas’s final four play calls, Deboer would have joined Cristobal in the Bonehead Hall of Fame. With his RB getting hurt, he may have at least earned free admission.

[LITT]

Why not bootleg milroe out with an RPO there? Terrible call

It was an RPO. Low snap botched it

ah that would make sense. i was watching on my phone while trying to put my son to bed and couldnt make that out. just a huge cluster ****

[willeyeam]

Why not bootleg milroe out with an RPO there? Terrible call

It was an RPO. Low snap botched it

ah that would make sense. i was watching on my phone while trying to put my son to bed and couldnt make that out. just a huge cluster ****

I didn't realize it til I saw a tweet with a better view. He had a swing pass option that ended up not being a real option. Still though, I think getting him on the move rolling out would have been a better option

[LITT]

Why not bootleg milroe out with an RPO there? Terrible call

It was an RPO. Low snap botched it

ah that would make sense. i was watching on my phone while trying to put my son to bed and couldnt make that out. just a huge cluster ****

I didn't realize it til I saw a tweet with a better view. He had a swing pass option that ended up not being a real option. Still though, I think getting him on the move rolling out would have been a better option

100% they were getting blown up up the middle all game

[Troy Loney]

So, Georgia is the best college football team, right?

I pay zero attention, placed a vibes based parlay on Michigan and Washington, and won

[Beveridge]

Would have been interesting had this been the year for 12 teams. The right 4 teams were in based on normal stuff, but I feel there were half a dozen good teams this year that could have won it.

[willeyeam]

it would be hard for me to say the Michigan/Washington winner isn't the best team in the country

[shoeshine boy]

it would be hard for me to say the Michigan/Washington winner isn't the best team in the country

except that Michigan are big, fat cheaters?

next season will be interesting for UGA. their schedule for 2024 is pretty much the exact opposite of 2023.

[dodint]

Would have been interesting had this been the year for 12 teams. The right 4 teams were in based on normal stuff, but I feel there were half a dozen good teams this year that could have won it.

Not directed at you specifically but it's something I've been thinking about over the long weekend. I think your sentiment is the 'hope' of the 12-team playoff, specifically that it will fix the problem with transfers and opt-outs and extend competitive football into January.

I think it's the other way around. There are only ~3 teams truly capable of winning the national championship. And the players on teams 4-12 know this. I predict a ton of clickbait articles expressing outrage that player ______ opted out of their mid to low-ranked playoff game because it's ultimately meaningless to their college career and they already got paid.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out but I don't think adding a bunch of meaningless playoff games will fix the current issue. It will be more like the first round of the NBA playoffs than NFL wildcard weekend because college football doesn't have the parity to support a 12-team field.

[willeyeam]

I mostly agree with you @dodint, but if Travis doesn't get hurt, I think there were 6 pretty close teams this year. An aberration though, most years it's a 2-3 team race. 6 would have been my ideal playoff, but I'd bet a good amount of money a 7-12 team will never win

[LITT]

it would be hard for me to say the Michigan/Washington winner isn't the best team in the country

except that Michigan are big, fat cheaters?

next season will be interesting for UGA. their schedule for 2024 is pretty much the exact opposite of 2023.

michigan wont win

[MR25]

IMO I think they need to move the transfer portal requests until after bowl season. I feel like that was a rather large portion of the players sitting out (with the rest trying to save their draft stock).

[RonnieFranchise]

It's a lot of ifs, but Georgia was pretty clearly deserving, IF Travis hadn't been injured FSU would have been deserving, and IF they had at won the PAC 12 championship for a season split with Washington, Oregon would have actually made the field.

Who knows what would have happened in the Mizzou/OSU and Ole Miss/PSU games without transfers and opt outs although even so it's hard to see the winners getting to the Final Four, but imagine that Liberty debacle vs Oregon being passed off as a playoff game? Jesus.

[Beveridge]

Would have been interesting had this been the year for 12 teams. The right 4 teams were in based on normal stuff, but I feel there were half a dozen good teams this year that could have won it.

Not directed at you specifically but it's something I've been thinking about over the long weekend. I think your sentiment is the 'hope' of the 12-team playoff, specifically that it will fix the problem with transfers and opt-outs and extend competitive football into January.

I think it's the other way around. There are only ~3 teams truly capable of winning the national championship. And the players on teams 4-12 know this. I predict a ton of clickbait articles expressing outrage that player ______ opted out of their mid to low-ranked playoff game because it's ultimately meaningless to their college career and they already got paid.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out but I don't think adding a bunch of meaningless playoff games will fix the current issue. It will be more like the first round of the NBA playoffs than NFL wildcard weekend because college football doesn't have the parity to support a 12-team field.

I wouldn't say I have hope that 12 teams will fix the transfers and opt-outs. To be honest I don't care about those. Those transfer floodgates opened due to the don't have to sit a year rule change. It will be very interesting to see if any players opt out despite getting into the playoffs. I feel that says a lot about the player and would possibly impact draft status.

I kind of disagree about the parity. Do I think we'll see a lot of low seeds in the final 4 - no, but you don't really get a ton in the NCAA tourney either. I think we will see more than people thinking. Oregon would have been an 8 seed and I think a legit shot at making the semis using this year as an example. I would be shocked if at least one 9-12 seed doesn't win round 1 next year despite being a true road game.

[dodint]

I would have put Georgia in over Texas. Texas might be on their way to serious contention but they're not there yet and Georgia is. Texas didn't embarrass themselves but I never thought Washington was going to lose, regardless of the score at any given moment.

[dodint]

I wouldn't say I have hope that 12 teams will fix the transfers and opt-outs. To be honest I don't care about those. Those transfer floodgates opened due to the don't have to sit a year rule change. It will be very interesting to see if any players opt out despite getting into the playoffs. I feel that says a lot about the player and would possibly impact draft status.

I kind of disagree about the parity. Do I think we'll see a lot of low seeds in the final 4 - no, but you don't really get a ton in the NCAA tourney either. I think we will see more than people thinking. Oregon would have been an 8 seed and I think a legit shot at making the semis using this year as an example. I would be shocked if at least one 9-12 seed doesn't win round 1 next year despite being a true road game.

Yeah, I'm open to it turning out either way, I'm just memorializing my thoughts now so I can go back and see how close I was.

I was supportive of an 8 team field. I just think that 12 is a bridge too far.

[Orlando Penguin]

IMO I think they need to move the transfer portal requests until after bowl season. I feel like that was a rather large portion of the players sitting out (with the rest trying to save their draft stock).

Good idea in theory but the academic calendar makes that difficult since players will want to be enrolled for spring semester in new school.

[willeyeam]

even if the portal opened in March, these players that are entering would still opt out and enter then imo

[MR25]

IMO I think they need to move the transfer portal requests until after bowl season. I feel like that was a rather large portion of the players sitting out (with the rest trying to save their draft stock).

Good idea in theory but the academic calendar makes that difficult since players will want to be enrolled for spring semester in new school.

Ah I was under the impression the transferring was for the next academic year

[Joegap]

This is why I hate sports fans on Reddit

[nocera]

GG, Bama. Ya'll are gonna be scary next year.

[willeyeam]

That sht is the worst