College football 2018 Week 3 thread

Guilford was scoring 60 points per game the first two weeks of the season against D-III competition. So the Davidson defense didn't exactly step up.

 

Nah. It's great. San Jose funds half its athletic programs with those payouts, I'm sure.

 

For all the talk about making the game safer, having teams trek across the country to be human tackling dummies for nothing more than a payout seems kind of odd. Anyone think a high school association would allow a small school to play a state power that clearly outclassed it just for a check?

 

Is Rutgers allowed to do that to another team in a power league?

 

Those are pretty different things though. San Jose State is still a group of Division I scholarship football players. Not exactly the same as kids who show up for high school football in August without having lifted weights or knowing how to tackle.

But, yes, there are high school mismatches and bloodbaths all the time. It isn't small school/big school so much as public/private. A public school with 2,000 kids might have 40 on the football team, and they go play the private high school with 75 on the roster.

 

The Pioneer League is essentially DIII level football, save for Jacksonville and occasionally Dayton.

EDIT: Meant to say San Diego, not Jacksonville

 

I’m too lazy to look it up, but I think I remember that Jacksonville got busted by the Pioneer League for operating outside of the scholarship rules a few years back.

 

And the small schools use those big games in recruiting all the time — play for us and you'll play Alabama and Georgia, games with loads of NFL scouts in the press box. I've covered those small schools and I know how important the money games are, beyond just the money. And that national exposure is worth a fortune to them.

 

They did. They won the league but were ineligible for the Pioneer FCS bid because of it.

 

Ah, Kerwin Bell.

 

I don't deny it. You start banning P5 schools from playing FCS schools and the entire economic model of the FCS goes to hell. FBS too since a few schools need those wins to get bowl eligible. (though you could easily make the argument that those teams burn more cash with a low-tier bowl game than they make between coach bonuses, travel costs and unsold tickets).

 

Good ballpark estimate.