2021 Miscellaneous College Football Thread

[nodakfan17]

This is an interesting gossip piece:

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/greg-schiano-going-bring-joe-180816226.html

 

Apparently, had Greg Schiano been hired as head coach at Tennessee in 2017, he was going to bring Joe Burrow with him. At the time, Schiano was the DC at Ohio State and Joe Burrow was buried on the depth chart. Schiano allegedly knew what he had in Burrow, but Urban Meyer was enamored with Dwayne Haskins. However, Tennessee fans threw a fit and the school backed out of an agreement to hire Schiano. Burrow then winds up with rival LSU and wins a national championship.

[young guns]

What a crazy sequence of plays here in this penn st/Illinois game including some crazy late flags.

[PinaMadness]

Penn State and Oklahoma not exactly dominating weak competition. Illinois would be up if not for two touchdown canceling penalties.

 

Well, Oklahoma starting to pull away now, but keeping Kansas in the game for 3+ quarters still not very impressive.

[PinaMadness]

Down goes Penn State at home to lowly Illinois in 9OT. What a bananas overtime period.

[igor67]

9 OT later Penn state loses

[nodakfan17]

When I heard 9OT, I assumed the game ended with scores in the 70s. Wrong. 20-18.

[PinaMadness]

When I heard 9OT, I assumed the game ended with scores in the 70s. Wrong. 20-18.

Apparently they go to two point conversions exclusively after the second OT. They failed miserably in rounds 3-7.

[stoutdude04]

When I heard 9OT, I assumed the game ended with scores in the 70s. Wrong. 20-18.

Apparently they go to two point conversions exclusively after the second OT. They failed miserably in rounds 3-7.

 

My phone sent me an update that said Illinois 16-13 final 2ot. So I never went back and looked. I'm guessing it got messed up somehow. Shocked to see 9 OTs.

[tmwiese55]

I didn't know that rule changed until today either. IDK, I guess I'll get used to it but I think I liked the old way better. Maybe move the mandatory 2 pt attempt one round if you want to speed it up a bit.

 

To the Iowa talk. I guess I wouldn't say hate for them. But, they're our primary B1G West competitors the last 10ish years. Plus are good at hoops too so you have that to add in. Similar to MSU rivalry that was building before conf split, roughly equal level football teams and both good at hoops.

[PinaMadness]

Yeah, Clemson is back to just being another football team now that Trevor Lawrence is gone.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Illinois defense is super bad and Penn st mustered 227 yards in a full game plus 9 ot. wowsers.

[SomewhereInTime]

Illinois defense is super bad and Penn st mustered 227 yards in a full game plus 9 ot. wowsers.

 

In 7 of those OTs the maximum amount of yards that could be gained was 3 yards per OT. The one play shootout overtime rule is really dumb. I get what they were thinking in theory but watching that play out was painful. Football would not be a very good sport if it was always minutes between plays. You need game flow.

[SomewhereInTime]

Yeah, Clemson is back to just being another football team now that Trevor Lawrence is gone.

 

Those two things have little to do with each other. No college football offense is going from one of the best in the nation to one of the worst due to losing one player.

[nodakfan17]

Yeah, Clemson is back to just being another football team now that Trevor Lawrence is gone.

 

Those two things have little to do with each other. No college football offense is going from one of the best in the nation to one of the worst due to losing one player.

The truth is probably somewhere in between. From 2014-2020, either Deshaun Watson or Trevor Lawrence started at QB in 6 of those 7 seasons. That probably accounts for a good portion of their recent success.

[JosephC]

Illinois defense is super bad and Penn st mustered 227 yards in a full game plus 9 ot. wowsers.

 

In 7 of those OTs the maximum amount of yards that could be gained was 3 yards per OT. The one play shootout overtime rule is really dumb. I get what they were thinking in theory but watching that play out was painful. Football would not be a very good sport if it was always minutes between plays. You need game flow.

 

I had no idea they changed the OT rule until yesterday. I'm very surprised the media has been very critical of this because generally those boneheads are on board for every dumb decision that any sport's league makes.

 

Maybe they are all just mad because Pedophile State lost the game.

 

Have to go back now and think about the Penn State game, and how the Badgers would probably have one more win had Mertz not completely bungled that game away.

[SomewhereInTime]

Yeah, Clemson is back to just being another football team now that Trevor Lawrence is gone.

 

Those two things have little to do with each other. No college football offense is going from one of the best in the nation to one of the worst due to losing one player.

The truth is probably somewhere in between. From 2014-2020, either Deshaun Watson or Trevor Lawrence started at QB in 6 of those 7 seasons. That probably accounts for a good portion of their recent success.

 

I'm not saying it doesn't matter but great programs lose their QB to the NFL every couple of years, you don't see Alabama or Ohio St all of the sudden rank as one of the worst offenses in all of college football. There's something bigger going on there.

[MrTPlush]

Penn State and Oklahoma not exactly dominating weak competition. Illinois would be up if not for two touchdown canceling penalties.

 

Well, Oklahoma starting to pull away now, but keeping Kansas in the game for 3+ quarters still not very impressive.

 

They never even really pulled away. Actually, Kansas just about got a 4th down stop to get the ball near the 50 down by (I think) 5 points with 4 or so minutes remaining. The Oklahoma QB ripped the ball out of the RBs hands and that was the only reason they made the first down. They reviewed that play and said the forward handoff was allowed because it was behind the line. However, people took to twitter pointing out the rule book says such a play isn't allowed if the runner has lost forward progress...which was pretty obvious as the RB was in the process of getting shoved yards backwards. I didn't care enough to figure out whether or not the refs blew that play. The refs in that game were really strange. That was at least the third play where a guy was getting stuffed or a guy was getting bulldozed backwards and the play was never stopped. I have never seen refs allow plays to go so dang long.

 

Oklahoma should fall in the rankings though and should honestly have just about zero shot of making the playoff...unless they go undefeated and there is no other undefeated team to overtake them. The amount of, honestly garbage, opponents they have struggled to beat is impossible to ignore at this point.

 

Kansas has the former UW-Whitewater coach...not sure he can totally turn around a program that was so bad when he got it...but man that guy has some fire and energy leading a team.

[PinaMadness]

MSU uses all three time outs to "ice" the Michigan kicker on a 35 yard field goal attempt at the end of the first half. Absolutely ridiculous.

[yourout]

MSU running back is pretty damn good.

[LouisEly]

Nebraska lost their 6th game of the year today and with their remaining games being against Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Iowa are pretty much guaranteed to have their 5th consecutive losing season and 6th losing season in their last seven. They haven't won 10 games in a season since 2012.

 

Have to think that this is the end for Scott Frost, and the only question is if he will make it to the end of the season. If they get blown out by Ohio State next week he might not make it to the Wisconsin game.

[DuWayne Steurer]

BYU/Virginia is 38- 42 ......at the half. The teams have combined for 832 yards of total offense in one half of football.

[owbc]

Cincinnati probably should join a better conference if they want to be in the playoff. LOL. The committee will probably put 2-loss teams ahead of them if they have to.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Cincinnati probably should join a better conference if they want to be in the playoff. LOL. The committee will probably put 2-loss teams ahead of them if they have to.

 

The initial ranking of putting a 1-loss Alabama team at #2 essentially guarantees two SEC teams in the CFP, regardless of who wins between Georgia and Bama in the SEC title game. It's pathetic

 

That's despite Bama only having one win against a team currently in the AP top 25 (#15 Ole Miss, who just lost to Auburn) and who likely only has one more game left on their regular slate against a top 25 program (Auburn)....but sure, rank them #2 ahead of 3 other power 5 conference unbeatens, an undefeated non-power 5 team ranked 2nd in the AP, and 6 other 1-loss power 5 schools that all have played tougher competition to date.

 

What.A.Joke...

[MrTPlush]

Cincinnati probably should join a better conference if they want to be in the playoff. LOL. The committee will probably put 2-loss teams ahead of them if they have to.

 

They are joining the Big 12. While that won’t be a nasty powerhouse with Oklahoma/Texas leaving, it will be really notable when they expand the playoff and a Power 5 is an autobid.

[stoutdude04]

Cincinnati probably should join a better conference if they want to be in the playoff. LOL. The committee will probably put 2-loss teams ahead of them if they have to.

 

The initial ranking of putting a 1-loss Alabama team at #2 essentially guarantees two SEC teams in the CFP, regardless of who wins between Georgia and Bama in the SEC title game. It's pathetic

 

That's despite Bama only having one win against a team currently in the AP top 25 (#15 Ole Miss, who just lost to Auburn) and who likely only has one more game left on their regular slate against a top 25 program (Auburn)....but sure, rank them #2 ahead of 3 other power 5 conference unbeatens, an undefeated non-power 5 team ranked 2nd in the AP, and 6 other 1-loss power 5 schools that all have played tougher competition to date.

 

What.A.Joke...

 

My thought as well. Are they probably one of the 4 best teams? Yea, but do they deserve to be top 4 currently? Probably not.