Arena 2023-24 NCAA Football Discussion

I think it's more that it hasn't really been competitive recently- it's been pretty clear who was going to win beforehand.

 

The Heisman flipped a few years back to just an extension of the ESPN hype machine. ESPN decides who will win, and it gets funneled appropriately. Factor in that College Football fans are getting smarter, recognizing quite often that the best player in the game is found in the trenches, while the Heisman is almost exclusively a quarterback award, with a random running back winning every once in a while, and you have a disconnect. When a Clowney or a Pace or a Te'o wins the award, I think you'll see interest increase again.

 

Yeah - highly doubtful he stays that long. But FAU likely just earned themselves a nice buyout if he continues to do well and moves on for positive reasons.

 

LOL @ Florida State

LOL @ NCAA

LOL @ Random dude on Reddit with too much free time

 

As a Gator fan, I would prefer FSU play the game so they can lose and end up with a losing record.

 

I just like the "this should have been caught at three levels. Florida State should have caught it, the ACC should have caught it, and the NCAA should have caught it."

But, no one did. And so F$U goes to their bowl.

 

Or maybe major schools should stop scheduling the FCS patsies.

 

You know. I'd say I'm on board with that solution. But then we wouldn't get this:

 

That's true, and I would be willing to modify my statement: teams shouldn't schedule them as part of the regular season. Maybe for pre-season type games (wins or losses don't count on the record ala NFL?).

 

Anyone who hates on Bowl Season or thinks there are too many Bowls or any of that nonsense.

Go talk to a Purdue fan today.

 

My parents were so excited watching the game last night! Boiler up!


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Am I crazy, or do we have a USC fan on here? Friendly bet, if so?

 

Thinking of seeing TLJ in IMAX tomorrow and then watching the Fiesta Bowl with the family!! Aye Aye Aye!

 

Sam Darnold’s hair deserves its own show.


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Well. I wouldn't call it a fun game to watch, but I'm very glad J T Barrett gets to go out with a win, and that Ohio State has snapped their losing streak to USC.

The Defense was phenomenal. I think there's a very good chance that Nick Bosa is the best player in college football next season. The defensive line was just fantastic all game in whole, but it's clearly Bosa who is the engine driving that machine. That the Silver Bullets were able to make it look like Sam Darnold had already been drafted by the Browns was a nice highlight - did Ohio State end up naming him their MVP?

I'm sad to see JT go. A lot of Ohio State fans are outright spoiled and don't realize what they have in JT. The constant complaining about him is just ridiculous. He's the winning quarterback in school history, owns, I believe, 37 Big Ten or School Records, was part of our National Championship winning team, was part of two Big Ten championship winning teams, went 4-0 against That Team Up North ... and far too many Ohio State fans want to complain about him.

 

Did anybody watch the Music City Bowl and those thieves...I mean refs?

Kentucky's running back gets tangled. The referee looks to make physical contact with him to help him up; the running back refuses and pushes his hands off him; he gets flagged and ejected for contacting an official. So, they were without their best RB for the rest of the game.

Then Kentucky's QB gets hit late out of bounds, no flag. Stoops has a conversation about the late hit, apparently calm, with an official, but gets flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. That penalty pushes them out of field goal range.

Oh, and to make things "fair," replay officials "see" a targeting foul by Northwestern.

I'm not a Kentucky fan, and I know the talk about them having plenty of opportunities to win, but in a 1 point win, you can't tell me those two calls (especially the latter) didn't have a detrimental effect on the game? For one, the running back shouldn't have been ejected for the football equivalent of entrapment (which appeared to be the case), and as long as Stoops wasn't screaming, the other official should have turned the other cheek. It was like Joey Crawford had started officiating football last night...

 

On Wisconsin! The Big X is 7-0 in bowl games.


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Play of the game: Paul Chryst dodges the Gatorade bath.

 

Nice win Wisconsin.
Some pretty bad calls that didn't go Miami's way, but a very entertaining game.

 

I think a lot of people (read: national media peeps who kept being baffled during playoff time) forget that it was a tie game in Iowa when Bosa got tossed on a kinda-ticky-tacky targeting call. What was a turnover on downs became a quick 7 points and Nick removed for the rest of the game-- doesn't make JT throw all those picks, but I don't think they notch 55 points if he's still in.

Excited for him AND some Dwayne next year-- that dude fires missiles and gives us a downfield element we might not have seen since the Cardale/Devin Smith magic. That said, echo your thoughts on JT b/c damn that was a career, and damn he gave us some memories.

DAMN STRAIGHT THEY ARE, I'm okay if they go 7-1 tho