bruh ... the body isn't even cold yet.
[NCAAF] College football 2025 open thread
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bruh ... the body isn't even cold yet.
Until one of the bye-week teams wins a game tomorrow, the narrative is going to be fire
I think at least two will. There's only been one genuine upset in all the bye-week defeats thus far. Notre Dame was also the underdog last year but only by a point.
I think the real thing is that the Big 12 and ACC deserve two teams minimum. Figure it out. 2 per power conference, put every other conference winner in. No more losers in championship week, if they want do a play in with each conference top 4. More money that way.
Ref mode bailing out Georgia. Ignore a blatant face mask that could have helped Ole Miss seal it and then multiple penalties to put them 1st and goal. cool, cool.
From adding a second to play following safety, after coaches had shook hands and the trophy stage was on the field, to letting the kicking team that was 5 points behind have a free onside kick recovery where no time comes off the clock, that was maybe the silliest finish I've seen that amounted to absolutely nothing.
Kind of crazy but between the bizarre way Miami got into the playoffs with no path to their own championship game despite being the clear best team in their conference, Ole Miss and Kiffin bolting, and Indiana basically being a college football laughing stock for 138 years ... Oregon winning their first championship would now be the most boring/predictable outcome possible.
I'd seen reports elsewhere that if they weren't allowed to coach through the final they would stay at Ole Miss.
Lane's a real piece of work.
Lane's a real piece of work.
Tetsujin
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Starting to think Al Davis was justified in firing the man after all haha
I was really looking forward to the Holiday Bowl and like an hour before kickoff the exciting Wildcat secondary/turnover machines just collectively announced they've opted out. Now SMU QB picking apart a bunch of second and third stringers.
Hey at least I root for a basketball school...
Hey at least I root for a basketball school...
This story is wild. Hard to believe an overhyped undersized QB is the one that might break the unlimited transfer money train by trying to enter the portal a mere four days after signing a seven figure deal.
This seems horrible for their locker room but fantastic that we may be on our way to ending the non-stop transfer nonsense if some of these deals have teeth.
I'm very neutral but all I wanted was a good game tonight.
I guess Mendoza proved his doubters wrong though.
I guess Mendoza proved his doubters wrong though.
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Fernando Mendoza, YOU are a Las Vegas Raider!!!
Well I can root for him next week at least.
Ok if I couldn't dislike this little turd any more...
Somewhere out there Diego Pavia is watching this game and thinking he still deserved the Heisman.
Miami now needs to score a TD down 6. Partial test of my 4 pt lead theory with 1:42 on the clock as FGs are out of the equation. I hope Indiana holds them. Even though it will make Mark Cuban happy.
I feel like Indiana did basically nothing right after the 2-minute warning. The false start to blow an easy 2nd and 1 that would have won the game. Running the ball on third down when you have the Heisman Trophy winner at QB and a first down ends the game. Roughing the passer to change a third and 15 to a first down. And yes, the interception - the ONE thing that went right for them - sealed the game, but #22 made it as hard as possible by not only running the ball *backwards* to the 5 before going down, but THEN committing an unsportsmanlike conduct to move the ball back to the 2.5, so that Mendoza couldn't take two knees, and actually had to run the ball into the line on the second play. So many huge mistakes there. If Indiana hadn't held on, the articles written about the Indiana collapse would have been Modern-Freaking-Iliad epic.
They never lead by more than 10, so I don't know what the narrative would have been. Miami deserves all the credit for actually making it a game. Not a Ducks fan but that game was an embarrassment.
Shower thought but how do you think Phil Knight is doing tonight knowing it only took Mark Cuban two years to buy a Natty?
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