2025 College Football Thread: Coach previously left at airport sparking bidding war amongst states with lowest SAT scores (23 Viewers)

[Chadstroma]

So the SEC is the clear best conference in football... but 6 of them go and play FCS teams this week.

Who did they play in week 2 when Ohio St played the Grambling Tigers? Or week 3 vs the Ohio Bobcats? This is a dumb argument. Why are we going to try and rehash it for the 100th time. Hell they get to play Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA...lol.

Not everyone can be like OU and play all but 3 games against teams that are or were ranked at some point in the season.

Any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team. If I was on the playoff committee, I would knock teams down for that.

 

[Moe.]

So the SEC is the clear best conference in football... but 6 of them go and play FCS teams this week.

You mean last week? Western Kentucky and Coastal are not FCS btw.

 

[Moe.]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

 

[Chadstroma]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

Let me say it again... any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team.

I can stomach group of 5 teams... sure, fine. FCS teams is just absolutely ridiculous and any fan of a team thay plays one should feel ashamed.

 

[Instinctive]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

Let me say it again... any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team.

I can stomach group of 5 teams... sure, fine. FCS teams is just absolutely ridiculous and any fan of a team thay plays one should feel ashamed.

Eh. Idk who's FCS and who's just a crappy FBS team.

Big state schools are always gonna play little guys in state or in the area I imagine. It's too useful politically for reasons beyond football.

ETA are temple or Kent State or illinois state an FCS school? I assume one or two are?

 

[WDIK2]

Nobody watches the bowl games.

Have we already forgotten the Beef O'Brady's Bowl!?! I watch bowl games.

 

[Moe.]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

Let me say it again... any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team.

I can stomach group of 5 teams... sure, fine. FCS teams is just absolutely ridiculous and any fan of a team thay plays one should feel ashamed.

Ok. Are you sure you know which schools are FCS schools? I’m just trying to figure out the issue - is it the timing of these games, the opponent, or both? Not sure why this is an SEC issue specifically, unless it’s just a timing thing. Every school that’s going to make the playoff (probably) except for ND played an FCS school this year. There were more of these than usual due to the conference reshuffling though.

I take it you’re good with LSU playing Western Kentucky (Western Kentucky is in Conference USA just so we’re on the same page) last week but not Clemson playing Furman. In your opinion Indiana should be the most ashamed of anyone since they played two FCS schools and the committee should take that into consideration when they place them in the bracket.

 

[Chadstroma]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

Let me say it again... any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team.

I can stomach group of 5 teams... sure, fine. FCS teams is just absolutely ridiculous and any fan of a team thay plays one should feel ashamed.

Eh. Idk who's FCS and who's just a crappy FBS team.

Big state schools are always gonna play little guys in state or in the area I imagine. It's too useful politically for reasons beyond football.

ETA are temple or Kent State or illinois state an FCS school? I assume one or two are?

Kent State is not, it is a MAC school. Illinois State is a FCS.

85 scholarships vs 63 scholarships makes a big difference.

 

[Chadstroma]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

Let me say it again... any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team.

I can stomach group of 5 teams... sure, fine. FCS teams is just absolutely ridiculous and any fan of a team thay plays one should feel ashamed.

Ok. Are you sure you know which schools are FCS schools? I’m just trying to figure out the issue - is it the timing of these games, the opponent, or both? Not sure why this is an SEC issue specifically, unless it’s just a timing thing. Every school that’s going to make the playoff (probably) except for ND played an FCS school this year. There were more of these than usual due to the conference reshuffling though.

I take it you’re good with LSU playing Western Kentucky (Western Kentucky is in Conference USA just so we’re on the same page) last week but not Clemson playing Furman. In your opinion Indiana should be the most ashamed of anyone since they played two FCS schools and the committee should take that into consideration when they place them in the bracket.

Yes, Indiana should be ashamed. But they also canceled their home and away series with Virginia so they could schedule more FCS. A big reason why it is hard for me to respect Cignetti. The playoff committee should come out and say that they would give any school trying to get into the playoffs a negative mark for scheduling FCS teams.

 

[bagger]

I'm already sick of the "The Game" commercials. They are on this game hard!

Biggest rivalry in sports. Those commercials do feel a little oSU* slanted though, but i like the counter, 2186 days as of today. That's a LONG time.

Slow down there.

 

[bagger]

College Football should scrap the Bowl Games for the teams that miss the playoffs and hold an NIT type tournament. Like a Toilet Bowl for the rest.

- Take say the next 18 teams that missed the cut. Invite only, determined by sponsors and the network that holds the tournament's.
- Teams that accept the invite have to pay an entry fee, say $1 million. This money goes into the kitty with the sponsorship money. Think like WSOP. You have to earn an invite but it ain't fee to play.
- Opening round winners secure a fraction of the pot for their NIL and play for a bigger slice the next week. Losers go home empty handed.
- Champion receives the bigger monetary prize for their NIL and the runner up does well too.

Nobody watches the bowl games. But people would watch this. Force teams to put some skin in the game if they participate. Not mandatory. Could create some solid momentum for winning teams going into the next season. Fans starved for more football have more to watch and the gamblers are happy too.

Make it happen.

Better than the Air Friar Bowl.

 

[General Malaise]

Nobody watches the bowl games.

Have we already forgotten the Beef O'Brady's Bowl!?! I watch bowl games.

What if that bowl game actually meant something like advancement to another bowl next week and a bigger paycheck for winning the Beef O Brady?

 

[WDIK2]

Nobody watches the bowl games.

Have we already forgotten the Beef O'Brady's Bowl!?! I watch bowl games.

What if that bowl game actually meant something like advancement to another bowl next week and a bigger paycheck for winning the Beef O Brady?

Oh, I'm not saying your idea is a bad one, just the no one watches bowl games comment.

Pretty sure Nebraska won a basketball tournament like this last year.

 

[Capella]

The bowls are fine. Have we not ruined this sport enough.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

The bowls are fine. Have we not ruined this sport enough.

I wish we could get the top 10 ranked non-playoff teams to play each other in five bowl games and create better matchups instead of having conferences aligned to bowl games.

 

[Instinctive]

Indiana played Kennesaw State, Indiana State, and Old Dominion OOC. In the Big Ten they’ve played two teams with a winning record in the conference. Are you knocking them down as well?

I think 8 conference games is lame - I’m glad the SEC fixed that next year. These late season patsy games are still gonna happen for some of these schools though. Clemson, with their 9 conference games this year, decided to play Furman last week. Do you have an issue there?

Let me say it again... any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team.

I can stomach group of 5 teams... sure, fine. FCS teams is just absolutely ridiculous and any fan of a team thay plays one should feel ashamed.

Eh. Idk who's FCS and who's just a crappy FBS team.

Big state schools are always gonna play little guys in state or in the area I imagine. It's too useful politically for reasons beyond football.

ETA are temple or Kent State or illinois state an FCS school? I assume one or two are?

Kent State is not, it is a MAC school. Illinois State is a FCS.

85 scholarships vs 63 scholarships makes a big difference.

Does it though? Any real school should absolutely beat the crap out of a MAC school. You're drawing the line at some scholarship number? North Dakota State would whoop quite a few group of five schools I think...if people schedule them it's abominable but it's fine to just beat the **** out of temple?

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

So the SEC is the clear best conference in football... but 6 of them go and play FCS teams this week.

Who did they play in week 2 when Ohio St played the Grambling Tigers? Or week 3 vs the Ohio Bobcats? This is a dumb argument. Why are we going to try and rehash it for the 100th time. Hell they get to play Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA...lol.

Not everyone can be like OU and play all but 3 games against teams that are or were ranked at some point in the season.

Any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team. If I was on the playoff committee, I would knock teams down for that.

I would eliminate teams that are too scared to play in a conference.

 

[General Malaise]

Nobody watches the bowl games.

Have we already forgotten the Beef O'Brady's Bowl!?! I watch bowl games.

What if that bowl game actually meant something like advancement to another bowl next week and a bigger paycheck for winning the Beef O Brady?

Oh, I'm not saying your idea is a bad one, just the no one watches bowl games comment.

Pretty sure Nebraska won a basketball tournament like this last year.

Make Beef O Brady or Pop Tart the championship host for this toilet bowl!

 

[Chadstroma]

So the SEC is the clear best conference in football... but 6 of them go and play FCS teams this week.

Who did they play in week 2 when Ohio St played the Grambling Tigers? Or week 3 vs the Ohio Bobcats? This is a dumb argument. Why are we going to try and rehash it for the 100th time. Hell they get to play Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA...lol.

Not everyone can be like OU and play all but 3 games against teams that are or were ranked at some point in the season.

Any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team. If I was on the playoff committee, I would knock teams down for that.

I would eliminate teams that are too scared to play in a conference.

Never scared. Asked a couple of times to join but Catholic hate kept them out... now there is zero reason to join a conference but at least ND has never scheduled an FCS school.

 

[bagger]

The bowls are fine. Have we not ruined this sport enough.

I won’t rest until the Poulon Weedeater Bowl is dead in the ground.

 

[bigbottom]

So the SEC is the clear best conference in football... but 6 of them go and play FCS teams this week.

Who did they play in week 2 when Ohio St played the Grambling Tigers? Or week 3 vs the Ohio Bobcats? This is a dumb argument. Why are we going to try and rehash it for the 100th time. Hell they get to play Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA...lol.

Not everyone can be like OU and play all but 3 games against teams that are or were ranked at some point in the season.

Any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team. If I was on the playoff committee, I would knock teams down for that.

I would eliminate teams that are too scared to play in a conference.

Never scared. Asked a couple of times to join but Catholic hate kept them out... now there is zero reason to join a conference but at least ND has never scheduled an FCS school.

Didn’t Notre Dame play Tennessee State all the way back in . . . 2023?

But I can see why you’d have so much respect for an FBS football program who has never scheduled an FCS opponent. I couldn’t agree more. There is only one such FBS school who can make this claim. I’ll give you one guess who it is.

 

[Chadstroma]

So the SEC is the clear best conference in football... but 6 of them go and play FCS teams this week.

Who did they play in week 2 when Ohio St played the Grambling Tigers? Or week 3 vs the Ohio Bobcats? This is a dumb argument. Why are we going to try and rehash it for the 100th time. Hell they get to play Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA...lol.

Not everyone can be like OU and play all but 3 games against teams that are or were ranked at some point in the season.

Any serious FBS team should never play an FCS team. If I was on the playoff committee, I would knock teams down for that.

I would eliminate teams that are too scared to play in a conference.

Never scared. Asked a couple of times to join but Catholic hate kept them out... now there is zero reason to join a conference but at least ND has never scheduled an FCS school.

Didn’t Notre Dame play Tennessee State all the way back in . . . 2023?

But I can see why you’d have so much respect for an FBS football program who has never scheduled an FCS opponent. I couldn’t agree more. There is only one such FBS school who can make this claim. I’ll give you one guess who it is.

Ah yes, forgot about that... the whole HBCU angle thing.