Arena 2023-24 NCAA Football Discussion

Clemson beat Troy by 4 points today, at home.

This is two bad performances in a row for a preseason shoo-in for the playoff.

 

Oh yeah that was a screw up. But like I posted before, CMU's defense actually held the potent OSU offens to 58 yards rushing and 288 passing. Total offense of 346. That is actually pretty darn good if I may say. So you can look at it 2 ways really. 1. Oklahoma State is way overrated, or 2. Central Michigan is better than folks thought?

I'm going with number 2.

 

Big news here in Normal....Illinois State upset Northwestern today! First time our football team has beaten a Big 10 team!

 

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man, I bet Fitzgerald's seat has just got way warmer.

 

Vols played two and a half quarters of beautiful ball tonight. That's good progress. Offensive line problems seemed to get better after the putrid first quarter, but I suspect bigger changes are coming, and are needed.

Florida concerns me, and of course we get Alabama every year. I hope we can clear the rest of the schedule.

Finally, great effort from my Terriers against Ole Miss today in a 13-38 loss. We've run the triple option for all 28 of Mike Ayers' seasons at the helm, but probably haven't faced too many better teams in that time period than the one we played today. Racking up 305 yards on what is likely to be a Top 10 team by season's end is a great accomplishment. Well done.

 

heels, how many teams do you root for?

 

2/7ths of the SEC East? Wofford is in the SEC East?

Tennessee and Wofford, which is the tiny school I attended in the SoCon.

I grew up watching the Gamecocks, because geography, and I wish them well - just not my team. That's my Carolina brother Rew's team.

 

It's not a good day to be an App State fan. They seem to be so nervous about how high-profile the Miami game has become that they keep making careless mistakes.

And Marcus Cox hurt his quad in a 79-yard run that ended up getting flagged.

 

This is a weird, weird week.

Georgia State came a hair away from, and should have beaten, a lethargic Wisconsin team in Madison, I-AA NDSU knocks off #13 Iowa, Clemson agrees to a mercy rule in the second half, shortens by 6 minutes against SC State.

And yeah, FSU is losing by 7 touchdowns.

 

I'd be happy to see Carolina hold on in that one. Wasn't sure they could beat ECU, but they need to in order to try to get 6 wins and a bowl berth.

Ole Miss hanging with Alabama, and Nebraska out ahead of Oregon. Some great games today.

 

A perfect example in the Carolina game of the importance of turnovers.

ECU QB throws for 400 yards, Carolina's doesn't clear 200 - each team rushes for 120 yards. ECU turned the ball over 4 times, Carolina zero. Carolina wins.