US College Football thread

[werty]

Really hope A&M can hold out against Bama.

Manziel has been very good, is tonight his 'Heisman' moment?

And they have! That's really thrown a spanner in the works.

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

As long as they remain undefeated Oregon will go to the BCS Championship Game simply because they are in one of the two best conferences in college football. The Ducks still have to play ranked teams in Oregon State and Stanford and will possibly face a ranked UCLA in the Pac 12 title game. That will give them a huge boost in the computers and among the voters as Notre Dame and Kansas State both only have one ranked opponent left to play.



The ranking system is pretty bad but the state of college football before that was even worse. The BCS system is supposed to stop teams with weak schedules from being declared the national champion - without the ranking system USC would have been declared national champions in '03 (which they were by the Associated Press) despite the fact that they went 12-1, only played 3 ranked teams & lost to a team that were never ranked while LSU went 13-1, defeated 5 ranked teams and lost to a team that finished the season ranked 17th.

However, from 2014 there is going to be a four team playoff.

Good news on the play-off. Its always gutting when you lose a game early doors and you know your season cannot end as champions before its barely started (didn't ducks lose to lsu last year?)

Getting very excited now Alabama lost.

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

Ducks losing caps off one of the worst weekends of sport for a long time.

 

[werty]

Ducks losing caps off one of the worst weekends of sport for a long time.

Not sure what was more surprising. Them losing or them scoring only 14 points. Kansas State losing too was another shocker. Notre Dame have it in their hands now.

 

[LSUY]

So happy that Kansas State and Oregon lost, now we might get to play in a decent bowl game (I really don't want to end up in the Chick-fil-a bowl) or even the National Championship game (though that requires a shit-ton of luck - 'Bama would have to lose to Auburn, which would mean LSU win the SEC West, then LSU would need to beat Georgia in the SEC championship game, Florida St would have to beat Florida but lose the ACC championship game, Texas would need to beat Kansas State & Notre Dame would have to lose to USC).

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

Not sure what was more surprising. Them losing or them scoring only 14 points. Kansas State losing too was another shocker. Notre Dame have it in their hands now.

Only scoring 14 is definately the surprise! I was worried about the defense going into the match.

What needs to happen for the Ducks to have a crack at the BCS? Is it still possible?

 

[LSUY]

Oregon's best chance is with ND slipping up against USC. If ND stays undefeated, chances are whoever wins the SEC championship game between 'Bama and Georgia will go to the BCS game.

Maryland and Rutgers have fired the starters gun on conference expansion by transferring to the Big Ten. Boise State, San Diego State and BYU are looking into moving back to the Mountain West Conference as the future of college football in the Big East Conference isn't looking too good as Pitt, Syracuse and Rutgers have left.

 

[ealingspur]

SEC reigns supreme again.

I dont understand why people think Oregon should be back in the frame - they bottled their one big game. Look at Florida's schedule: beat 3 out of top 12, lost to one and will play another this week. Name me one team that had a harder schedule. And the game UF lost was after they played LSU and SCAR one after the other. Sure they havent been winning pretty, but neither did the 2006 gators and they trounced Ohio State.

 

[ealingspur]

FSU = GatorBait

 

[ealingspur]

And whoever it is between Bama or UGa will manhandle ND.

 

[cwy21]

Notre Dame v Ohio State would have been great from a rivalry perspective. If its Bama it could get ugly. Give a guy like Saban 5 weeks to prepare for a team and watch out.

 

[ealingspur]

Even if Ohio State was in consideration for a BCS bowl, they probably would still be 5th or 6th. Their schedule was piss poor, and even then they never seemed dominant. I think the computers would have had a one loss SEC team ahead of OSU.

But you're right in one thing, if it's bama, it's going to be tremendously one-sided.

 

[ealingspur]

Both great games last night. Stanford in the Rose Bowl for the first time since the 90s!! Something that Andrew Luck could never do. Amazing stuff. I have a soft spot for the Cardinal.

 

[ealingspur]

It's baaaaaaaack. College Football is upon in, in just one week. Georgia v Clemson in Week 1 - what a way to kick of the season. My beloved Gators have been hit by a few late injuries to key players - Debose (ACL), Driskel (Appendicitus), Matt Jones (Viral infection) and we got Miami week 2.

College Football, the sport with the most tradition, history, pagentry and passion out of them all. In case you forgot, here it is, in a 5 minute nutshell...

 

[ravo]

Yep, I love it! Go Noles!

 

[HobokenSpur]

The 'U'. Go Canes...

 

[LSUY]

Geaux Tigers!

Looking forward to our game against TCU.

 

[kr1978]

Roll tide again!!

(May I just add I'm not a glory hunter!! Lived in alabama in 2002 to 2003 and was introduced to them by friends and family- love it there )

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

Glad its back - go Ducks!

Schedule looks a bit strange for the Ducks though? Now its the PAC12 does that mean we don't play every team? No USC this year. Basically playing none of the top teams this year.

 

[LSUY]

First week and already a lot of talking points.

Clemson-Georgia was epic, though imagine what Murray could have done if his top receiver, Malcolm Mitchell didn't injure himself celebrating Georgia's first TD.

LSU has an offense at long last. This is the first time since '06 that we've started the season with our top two WR's returning.

Johnny Football proved that he is an utter prick. I'm looking forward to the beat down he's going to get when he comes to Baton Rouge.

And I can't decide what I enjoyed more: McNeese's owning of South Florida, North Dakota edging Kansas State or Eastern Washington's offense owning Oregon State's defense all day long.

Schedule looks a bit strange for the Ducks though? Now its the PAC12 does that mean we don't play every team? No USC this year. Basically playing none of the top teams this year.

The PAC 12 have a rotation system. For example you'll play at Colorado this year, then Colorado will play at Oregon next year and after that they won't play each other for another two years.

Aren't Oregon in the same division as Stanford? They are a top team.