College Football 2025

FLRacingFan said:
It’s the cost of being a member in all other sponsored sports, but playing five ACC games a year just doesn’t help them these days. It usually ends up giving only one or two quality opponents.

USC and Lincoln Riley are also actively trying to bail on the ND series, which would be terrible for everyone.
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I am not a Notre Dame hater AT ALL, but their refusal to join the Big Ten is nothing but arrogance. It is not the money. That was true a loooong time ago.
 
Bill Belichick will make the needed adjustments and turn UNC into a powerhouse long before the freshman class graduates in 2029. The improved conditioning and all of the available talent of the college portal will be a gamechanger.

The schedule will be improved to ensure that most of the games start at 12 noon. They will make sure that Bill will gets a short four hour nap before any of the big TV night games.

Belichick's field presence will also improve on the collegiate level. He will learn to simplify the playbook into more functional X and Os. The portal will help him to find younger Heels with skills....
 
Dudley said:
I am not a Notre Dame hater AT ALL, but their refusal to join the Big Ten is nothing but arrogance. It is not the money. That was true a loooong time ago.
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I actually respect the hell out of Notre Dame holding grudges for stuff that happened over a century ago. That they are one of the few programs who’ve had the opportunity to sell out and haven’t, out of spite, is admirable imo. That’s what college football is all about.
 
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FLRacingFan said:
I actually respect the hell out of Notre Dame holding grudges for stuff that happened over a century ago. That they are one of the few programs who’ve had the opportunity to sell out and haven’t, out of spite, is admirable imo. That’s what college football is all about.
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Do you consider it selling out to join a conference?
 
Good to see the South Carolina Gamecocks back in the top 10 for the first time in about 12 years. I think going back to the Spurrier days.

But it still early in the season and a long way to go before counting any of the chips.
 
Dudley said:
Do you consider it selling out to join a conference?
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If there’s no compelling academic, cultural, or marketing component, no perceived existential threat from not joining a conference, and a little extra money is all that’s really to gain, then yes.

Just looking at it from a football perspective, playing five ACC games per year gives more scheduling flexibility than having a full-fledged conference schedule, and there’s no guarantee that joining a conference would make their schedule any better. You don’t need to look any further than Indiana’s schedule last year for that - schedule luck is as big a crapshoot as ever with how big conferences are right now.
 
FLRacingFan said:
If there’s no compelling academic, cultural, or marketing component, no perceived existential threat from not joining a conference, and a little extra money is all that’s really to gain, then yes.

Just looking at it from a football perspective, playing five ACC games per year gives more scheduling flexibility than having a full-fledged conference schedule, and there’s no guarantee that joining a conference would make their schedule any better. You don’t need to look any further than Indiana’s schedule last year for that - schedule luck is as big a crapshoot as ever with how big conferences are right now.
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Increased competition is 100% of the reason they should do it. The extra millions are just gravy.
 
Dudley said:
Increased competition is 100% of the reason they should do it. The extra millions are just gravy.
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I think it would be one thing if they were joining the Big Ten as it was twenty years ago than if they were to do so now. Like I said, with as big as conferences are now it’s a real crapshoot as to how your conference slate shakes out. Look at how weak of a schedule Texas, Penn State, and Indiana played in the “super leagues” last year. Illinois this season is another good example of a contending team who’ll probably have one or two good league games and a bunch of mid beyond that.

Notre Dame just got unlucky in their ACC rotation this season, missing FSU and Clemson. They’re turning Clemson into an annual opponent starting in 2027 and have upcoming series with Texas, Michigan, Florida, and Alabama on the books as well. I think they place a lot of value on having more flexibility to schedule those types of games across the country.
 
Game I’m excited to see back today: Kansas @ Mizzou. Border War. First meeting since MU joined the SEC after meeting every season but one from 1891-2011. Jalon Daniels and Beau Pribula. Hell yes.
 
Hearing Rick Allen doing anything that isn’t NASCAR is so weird
 
Still a lot time left for # 8 Clemson, but Troy is currently beating them 16-3 late in the 2nd quarter.
 
Georgia looking like they definitely will win. But this team isn't a top 5 team and should probably drop. Being in the 4th and only winning 28-6 against Austin Peay is unacceptable.
 
South Florida might have just committed one of the dumbest penalties I've ever seen. Punt Returner was 5 yards out of bounds 3 seconds after the play was over and the defender pushes him....so much dumb football
 
Blaze said:
Georgia looking like they definitely will win. But this team isn't a top 5 team and should probably drop. Being in the 4th and only winning 28-6 against Austin Peay is unacceptable.
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Eh. They’ll be fine once they start playing actual competition.
 
If we don’t win this I might kill myself. Haven’t been this nervous about anything in God knows how long.
 
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