College Football 2024

Turtle84 said:
welcome to the B1G
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I think Indiana can win 8 or 9 games this year with the schedule they have. Cignetti was a great hire for them.

I don’t have faith UCLA will ever be much of a factor in the Big Ten. But I guess they have no longer being in debt to look forward to, at least.
 
FLRacingFan said:
I think Indiana can win 8 or 9 games this year with the schedule they have. Cignetti was a great hire for them.

I don’t have faith UCLA will ever be much of a factor in the Big Ten. But I guess they have no longer being in debt to look forward to, at least.
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The PAC12 teams that joined the Big 10 aren’t going to be factors for a while. Maybe Oregon. I think USC will get slapped around once they’re in the throughs of Big 10 conference matchups in October and November. What a colossal mistake the PAC10-12 as we knew it died, just an absolute face palming moment.
 
Jorge De Guzman said:
The PAC12 teams that joined the Big 10 aren’t going to be factors for a while. Maybe Oregon. I think USC will get slapped around once they’re in the throughs of Big 10 conference matchups in October and November. What a colossal mistake the PAC10-12 as we knew it died, just an absolute face palming moment.
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USC impressed me in their win over LSU, but I’m not quite sure how good LSU is anymore after the Carolina game. I think we’ll get a better idea after they play @ Michigan with Orji at QB this weekend. After that, the only conference games that stand out in their schedule are home against Penn State and Nebraska, so they might be able to make some noise

Oregon started out pretty slowly the first two games but seemed to wake up at Oregon State last weekend. I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up playing Ohio State twice, with a rematch in the Big Ten CG. I think Washington is in for a bit of a reloading season after Deboer left on short notice. There was a good amount of hype around Jedd Fisch using this one year at UW as a springboard to the Florida job in 2025, but I can’t see how anyone would be interested in that now unless the Huskies rebound in Big Ten play.

UCLA is honestly kinda useless and has been for at least a quarter of a century, but they were a package deal with USC. Maybe they’ll have the odd 10-win season once a decade or so.
 
Okay, the papers seem to be making a big deal of Wake Forest cancelling next year's game to Mississippi. For the benefit of someone who knows nothing about college football scheduling, is this actually a big deal or am I reading too much into it? If it is a big deal, why? Isn't this another one of those games the big schools schedule against a chump to buy an easy victory?

Thanks in advance!
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Okay, the papers seem to be making a big deal of Wake Forest cancelling next year's game to Mississippi. For the benefit of someone who knows nothing about college football scheduling, is this actually a big deal or am I reading too much into it? If it is a big deal, why? Isn't this another one of those games the big schools schedule against a chump to buy an easy victory?

Thanks in advance!
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It’s not a big deal, and happens all the time really. The buyout amounts are stipulated in each agreement so everyone knows what it’s going to cost ahead of time. Wake announced shortly after that they now have a series scheduled with Oregon State in 2025/2029, so that’s why they bought out next year’s game against Ole Miss.

I think why it’s become a bit of a thing is because they supposedly told Ole Miss earlier in the week, and so Lane Kiffin (Ole Miss HC) used that as motivation for the team. But the way it was reported also made it seem like the decision was made right after the game last weekend.
 
2 Sweet said:
It was a terrible call. Super conservative, and it cost them the game
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I take the L for white knighting a blue blood basketball school, but I don't think that call alone cost them the game, it's easy to say in theory with 3:02 on the clock they should go for it on 4th & 8 in Georgia territory except when you're staring at a Georgia Bulldog defense, agree it's probably the correct call to just go anyway, but it was a slog of a game as evidenced by the low score of 13-12, with a full bevy of timeouts if they pinned them into a 3 n out they would have been in a really good shape. Heck of a game played by Kentucky anyway I thought, they were able to actually run the ball on Georgia and relocate the line of scrimmage which I hadn't seen done on them in a long time, so I was impressed.
 
FLRacingFan said:
I think Indiana can win 8 or 9 games this year with the schedule they have. Cignetti was a great hire for them.

I don’t have faith UCLA will ever be much of a factor in the Big Ten. But I guess they have no longer being in debt to look forward to, at least.
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Indiana was firing on all cylinders from the drop of the green flag in that one. Great execution across the board, well coached team.

UCLA remains a true sports mystery without much of a home field advantage at the Rose Bowl.
 
Nebraska stats that seem statistically impossible:

- Have not scored in eight consecutive overtime games.

- Have lost twenty-five straight games against the AP Top 25

- (3-19) record in one-possession games since the start of 2021 season.
 
Mississippi State just got bailed out 4th and goal by a very soft PI call. With the new set of downs inside the 5, they were forced into 4th and goal again where they proceeded to lose a fumble on a pitch. If it wasn’t State I’d feel bad for them.
 
Colston Loveland is out for Michigan today. He's basically our only receiving threat. I'm not sure how we're only 4.5 underdogs
 
UCLA is not a particularly good football team, I'd actually argue they are pretty bad, however, they are beating LSU at LSU
 
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