2022-2023 College Football Thread

[willeyeam]

[count2infinity]

Yesssssssssss

[RonnieFranchise]

It does, but there are no games that really pump my nads on Saturday. You'd think they'd lead off with at least one interesting matchup. Shot for Hawai'i to beat an SEC team (in name only) maybe?

[willeyeam]

[MR25]

Duquesne managed to beat the spread against FSU (42.5, lost by 40)

[Dickie Dunn]

So happy to see Bad Davis outside the Super Panthers topic.

Edit: 10 yards on 6 carries. That's some vintage Bad Davis right there.

[RonnieFranchise]

Shot for Hawai'i to beat an SEC team (in name only) maybe?

nah

[meow]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb ... skbarhover

H2P

[willeyeam]

LFG

[robbiestoupe]

Idiot and his homer picks. No way Michigan goes

[RonnieFranchise]

NOW only three days stand between us and college football.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Good read on the state of college football economics:

The dollar amounts attached to this one football game — North Carolina’s gate receipts at Kenan Stadium, the percentage of FAMU’s athletic budget UNC’s guarantee represents and the $450,000 FAMU would have had to pay to cancel — made not playing it financially impossible.

FAMU’s players reportedly had to be talked into playing by the school president, explaining Friday’s delay, because the monetary consequences of not playing shorthanded were too grim to contemplate. The fiscal health of the entire athletic department took precedence over the actual health of its football players. “They made the decision initially not to play the game and then after some internal discussion among themselves decided to go and play the game,” Simmons said. “I’m proud of them for advocating for themselves and bringing awareness to an issue that we have. That’s what we coach them to do.” Quarterback Jeremy Moussa, a Vanderbilt transfer, said the players felt like their protest called attention to what he said were persistent issues like players not being able to be on campus during the summer, “little things that wouldn’t cross my mind at Vanderbilt.”

“We’re not awarded any of the things even close what to schools like this can,” Moussa said, referring to UNC. “Once we got to the point where we felt like we couldn’t do anything else to help our teammates, ultimately this game was going to help us. We need these reps next week when it counts.”

And UNC, likewise, couldn’t afford to let FAMU off the hook. It only has six home games this season. This single August evening represented a significant portion of its annual football revenue, even after paying FAMU $450,000 to show up. Neither side can be faulted for their decision. They were both prisoners of the larger economics, backed into a gilded corner. College football has become too big to fail. The money involved has gotten so enormous, it warps time and space and reason to its own purpose.

Heck, it’s “Week 0.” Technically speaking, the season hasn’t started yet, a wonderful new iteration of college sports doublespeak, but once set in motion, it must remain in motion. These games are a necessary evil under the best of circumstances, power programs looking for an easy win and smaller schools funding their entire departments with the payout. There’s a reason these are called “buy games” — you’re essentially buying a win, and everyone gets something out of it. For the visitor, it’s still a charter flight for players used to long bus trips, a chance to play on television under the lights in stadiums that dwarf their own and the often futile but not impossible pursuit of the very rare Appalachian State moment. But these were not the best of circumstances. FAMU’s depleted roster — with half as many scholarship players available as UNC — was fed into the maw of the college-athletic-industrial complex, human fodder for ticket sales and television ratings, everyone making money off the risks they were asked to take except the players themselves.

https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt ... 95514.html

[Orlando Penguin]

Even with the shorthanded situation, FAMU played them tough for the first half.

The economics of college athletics is pretty broken. And yet, we’ll be looking at USC-Rutgers in women’s volleyball and Maryland-UCLA in softball soon.

[RonnieFranchise]

I guess I don’t really understand why they don’t do mega conferences for football and basketball and keep the non revenue sports more regional. Can’t wait for the annual UCLA/ Purdue track meet and USC/Iowa tennis match. Money well spent on travel right there.

[shafnutz05]

Let's go Red Flash!

[RonnieFranchise]

Let's go Red Flash!

[Orlando Penguin]

Two I-AA teams took their road games to OT tonight only to lose in heartbreaking fashion -- St. Francis at Akron and Bryant at FIU.

[shafnutz05]

Yeah, noble efforts. Kinda wish they would have went for two in regulation.

[willeyeam]

Go Zips

[RonnieFranchise]

Damn it, if SFU had pulled that off this thread would have been epic.

[willeyeam]

But they didn't. Winners win

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

I think a 6 team playoff with 2 byes would have been ideal. An 8 team playoff, I would have been fine with. But 12 is way too much.

[mikey]

Like...1v12 start...? Play-in with the bottom teams to get to an 8 teamer...? I feel like it can't be the former, too many games, right?

[willeyeam]

1v12 wouldn't work have you ever made a bracket

[mikey]

Too busy......winning...them?

**** you man