2019 NCAA Football thread : "Do More."

and ian book is bad now

good opportunity for a tears in rain monologue from brian kelly.

golden gophers still undefeated. how nice for them.

I'm pinching myself

yikes ND

Lyn Bowden Jr. has been really amazing playing QB moving from WR for UK. Losing their starting QB in game 3 and then their backup a game and a half later, pretty much led them to doing their wildcat package as the offense. It has worked pretty well and Bowden has been playing out of his mind.

I'm sure some NFL scouts are going to look at these tapes and figure Bowden could be a nice weapon for some of these NFL matchup passing games.

IU is now 6-2 and bowl eligible this early in the season for the first time in probably a couple decades with their first win ever against Nebraska. It would be pretty hilarious for Harbaugh to get some reprise by beating ND to only turn around and lose to Indiana.

would be sweeter than the red sauce on a Greek's pizza

i want to forget college football exists now, but the damn ALGORITHMS won't allow it.

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Holy shit that Minnesota win was good tv

Go Golden Gophers!

minn over penn was a very happy win

tide getting rolled

Damn, onside kick time.

LSU/Alabama was game of the year for me so far.

Ed Orgeron has the best sounding voice in all of American sport. They should get him to do the voice of a frog in a cartoon.

I do kinda like the whole "we finally made it mama" aspect of college sports when one team finally gets over on another or wins the big game.

You see it in the players all the time, but not as much in the coaches as your pro coaches are either corporate stooges or so cutthroat, they got bodies buried all over NJ swamps.

I would buy Ed Orgeron audiobooks in a heartbeat

Ed Orgeron has the best sounding voice in all of American sport

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ED ORGERON READING THE STORY OF O.

This thought made me chuckle.

already hyped for the Gophers/Hawkeyes if we can get this win we are set up pretty good

"we"

Fire Saban.

tough gophers loss

poor tua

tua will be ok. even if he never takes another snap he will be venerated as a hero by alabama fans forever. they will see to it he gets a nice, soft job somewhere if he wants it. it's the expendable players who permanently ruin their bodies just to get into the rotation on a power-five also-ran team who deserve our pity.

Indiana University ranked in the top #25 for the first time in 25 years. Well at least for a week until they play Michigan next week.

Seahawks 16/1 odds to win Super Bowl, I'm too scared to gamble but that's not a bad bet

oops sorry

guessing it's been a while since michigan gave up 56 points/577 yards at home

:(

There was some amazing games today. Alabama and Auburn was really nuts and the IU/Purdue game was really tightrope end.

Lynn Bowden deserves to get some national props and a big tip of the hat to UK offensive coordinator Eddie Grand (& head coach Mark Stoops) for completely re-doing their offense on the fly and moving Bowden a WR/KR into full time Wildcat QB (literally this time). UK went 5-2 with this crazy scheme, including a loss to Tennessee they could have won. In that time, Bowden has run for over 1100 yards and scored 11 TDs on the ground from QB. They had to do this as they lost their two top starting QBs at that point.

I'm sure some pro scouts have been paying attention and curious to see where Bowden is at the combine before the draft. If his 40 time comes out good, I bet he goes up the draft board quite a bit.

I'm sure FSU is going to back up the bank truck to try to hire Stoops away and I do think he is a good coach, but I kinda hope that he hangs around. UK will probably match the money and he has a shot to build something there that would be unique. Why work in Bobby Bowden's shadow when you can become Bobby Bowden.

The Iron Bowl was epic. It was delectable to see Saban so angry and helpless. Also, a great showing for the Key & Peele East West Bowl, with JaTarvious "Boobie" Whitlow and Smoke Monday making some great plays.

Jaylen Waddle presumably didn’t pay much attention to the postgame locker room speech from coach.

earlnash doing the lord's work in this thread w/r/t Lynn Bowden: 22 carries for 284 yards and 4 TDs yesterday

i won't delude myself into thinking Kentucky should be a centerpiece of any college football thread, but w/ Smoke, Rose and Rodriguez back next year, plus the return of Terry Wilson, things are looking bright in the LEX. (i'm assuming Bowden will leave after this season, which he should.)

as for non-UK content: as always, anyone but Ohio State, please. I'll be rooting for LSU (and Georgia, if available)

Given the dominance of a handful of perennial powerhouse teams, the only way to inject any real excitement into the college playoffs would be to expand it to at least eight teams, with extra preference given to conference champions. Ideally I'd drop one regular season non-conference game and hold a sixteen team tourney that included all the mid-major champions and more power five at-large seeds.

The only way to make this year's playoffs less exciting would be to replace LSU with Georgia or Alabama. (btw, ty Auburn, well done)

16 would be the ideal, but I doubt it would ever happen. I think really 8 would be feasible. They have one more round of games next week after the conference playoffs. Top 4 seeds get a home game. Winners and losers seed into Bowl games with 2 games being the final 4. Same deal on National title game. That would be easy to do. Football is tied to the owners of the Bowls and the power conferences they really have quite a bit of clout in this setup.

I'd think that 'bonus' home game would be tempting.

I think really 8 would be feasible.

Especially if college athletes can finally start to earn some monetary compensation connected to their athletics.

btw, ty Auburn, well done

Thank Mississippi State. They ended Tua's year.

spoken like a true Crimson Tide fan, JF. but thanking Mississippi State for Tua's injury implies that Mississippi State players were personally to blame for his injury, when all they were doing was playing a football game, same as the Tide. I'm pretty sure some players on teams opposing Bama got hurt this year, too. Auburn, otoh, scored more points and won the game.

It was a tackle in a football game (one he arguably shouldn't have still been playing in), but I place no blame on the Bulldogs players. I'm just saying Tua never made it out of Starkville to make it to Auburn, where the difference would have been significant.

Anyway, I don't care who wins as long as Clemson goes down.

No doubt there are several alternate realities in which the Tide beats Auburn and takes this year's championship. Along with alternate realities in which the Oregon Ducks... but wait, this is getting out of hand.

every game has a normal probability distribution for (team1_points - team2_points). for alabama or any school with the best players, the distribution is usually shifted +21 or so points with a sigma of 10 or fewer points. so alabama should really be asking that they play each team in a best of 2000 series each week, to be certain the brilliant median score difference shines through for the playoff committee.

or maybe the point of sports isn't to determine which team is better. perhaps the point is to tell stories. stories about a catfish'd linebacker or a coach named Derbis that really likes jesus. or maybe a catfish'd linebacker who also really likes jesus. maybe this is the point of sports.

Alabama was not looking all the dominant this year before they lost Tua. LSU beat them very very easily. And let's not forget how badly Clemson beat Bama last year in title game. Fuck Saban.

i will never forget

i'm glad ND could actually get 11 wins, but at what cost: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z9iv8

They're playing my alma mater in Orlando and I already hate ND with the fire of 1,000 suns

I like how that video extolling Ames, Iowa mentions its city water supply as one of its many fabulous local wonders. Twice! It also wants us to know that the weather is good in the springtime, without saying that spring is sandwiched in between a wretched winter and a torrid summer and only lasts about six weeks.

No argument here. Alabama was average this year, and there's not a Tua Tagovailoa or Jalen Hurts in the pipeline right now. We'll see how Tua's brother does, but I suspect the game plan will no longer revolve around a superman qb.