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2024 College Football Thread: Ohio State advances to play unbeaten hypothetical SEC team (10 Viewers)

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Moe. said:
NIL being what it is will put poorer states at a huge disadvantage. Places like Oklahoma and Alabama will not be able to compete - there just isn’t enough money in those states. “It Just Means More” was a dumb slogan but it was true. The reason the SEC has been so good this century is because college football is more important in that part of the country. Now that it’s a money thing, The Big 10 ought to be able to outpace the SEC.
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I mean... yes and no.

If you think about it and follow this through that means the ivy league schools should have the best teams because they are easily the most monied up alumni. But how many Harvard or Princeton grads give a crap about their football programs?

The well can't be dry but you still need someone willing to go pull the bucket up.
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Right, you need a balance between money and desire, and a willingness from the school to admit whoever. Not all of those are there for the Ivies. I’m mostly comparing the giant public schools in the South to the giant public schools in the rest of the country.

However - The Ivy League is going to play in the FCS tourney now I think. Wouldn’t shock me if a few rich Harvard alums decide they’d like to win that thing. I would assume Harvard doesn’t relax admission standards for athletes though, so might have an issue there.
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The admission standards are not much different from a ND, Stanford, Duke, etc.

One big reason for their lagging was that the Ivy League schools do not offer athletic scholarships. (Which is ridiculous since their endowments are huge)

If there was the desire then there is the money that "who cares about paying tuition when I am getting a million in NIL" but I just don’t think the alumni give a care much at all.
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FWIW Stanford slightly lowers for football and basically refused to lower for us in basketball. For the example, Justice Winslow went to Duke because Stanford wouldn't admit him.

I'd say the Ivies admission standards generally far exceed ND and Duke at the UG level. Or, at least, HYP certainly do.
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Two of my relatives played football for Harvard in the 80s and one was a captain. Both were top 5 academically in their HS class of about 450-500 kids. One was being recruited by bigger schools with great academics - Boston College, UVa, - but opted to for the Ivy League education.

Seem to recall convos with them regarding the academic standards at the time for some of the football players maybe being slightly below average vs the average Harvard student but just about all these kids got into any school they wanted to go to - other Ivies and Patriot League schools.
 
I was wondering how it wasn't a penalty when I saw it live. Guy knocks a dude down flat on his back then dives into his head as he's starting to sit up. But they saw it.
 
GregR said:
Kirby Smart addresses the substitutions made that caused the offside penalty against Georgia late in the game:

"It's really unfortunate because I've been told by our head officials in the SEC you can't do that... you can't run 11 on and 11 off."

Readers added context:

The NCAA rulebook states that you can't substitute more than 11 players "while the ball is in play". Replay shows the long snapper had not gotten set or touched the ball before the mass substitution, making it a dead ball and a legal play
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The NCAA rulebook does not say anything about subbing 11 players. It says players can not be substituted and then become a player again.

What he probably heard was you can't run 11 off then run the same 11 back on. The rule is once a player has come off as a sub, he can not go back in until another play or timeout has been called.
Since this play came after an officials time out for replay review. The team sent the punt team out, then subbed the offense in.

If this was in the regular game flow, it would have been a foul at the snap for illegal substitution if a player went off and then came back on.
 
Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said star running back Jeremiyah Love "will be good to go" against Penn State in the College Football Playoff semifinal in the Capital One Orange Bowl.

Speaking at a joint news conference Wednesday with Penn State coach James Franklin, Freeman noted that "nobody feels 100 percent" -- a nod to the long season both teams have played -- but added that Love will be in position to play Thursday night.
 
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