College football week 11 thread: Lion Eyes

I’d rather have that than an undefeated team locked out at no 5 because there’s not enough spots based on an arbitrary number of slots and a committee deciding which undefeated team should be left out

 

As much atmosphere as the on-campus college shows bring to the table, they could probably both use studio segments with four or so journos/analysts/former coaches and players doing a "RealTalk" segment - cutting through all of the BS in college football. It would be stunning to watch the crowd reaction. Sure, McAfee tries to be the heel on occasion - but having a few people who know the sport, know where the bodies are buried and don't carry pompons in their back pockets would be refreshing.

 

We check in on very stable Michigan fans…

 

Former national cable news host David Schuster who bounced between MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, AlJazeera, man talk about a media person who keeps finding new career low-points.

 

Cool. Then just go ahead and separate P5 and G5 and be done with it, let the G5s play for their own national championship much like the FCS does. But if there's just one FBS, I'm going to be a proponent for at least giving the little guy a shot, because otherwise, what's the point of them being there. Does anyone think Toledo could beat Ohio State or Liberty could beat Georgia on the road? Of course not. For the record, I'd watch the shit out of a dedicated G5 playoff. There's good football being played in the non P5 leagues.

 

I do wish the bowls were structured in a way to find out how good a team like Madison or Liberty is - that they would play a third place Big 10 or SEC team. All of CUSAs bowl games are against other G5 schools - I'd settle for a Liberty-Clemson match-up somewhere. At least it looks like JMU might get one of the NY6 - So SEC or Big 10 2 is a possibility.

 

Michigan: “GO FORTH, MY LAWYER ALUMNI!”

Sign Stealing and the Antitrust Laws - Yale Journal on Regulation

 

Because what is left of C-USA is dogshit nobody watches. I say this lovingly as an alum of a future member.

 

When the Fox pregame show was in studio it was s far superior product to College Gameday, especially when Urban was explaining how certain plays work (go look up on YouTube his breakdown of the creation of Utah's RPO offense under Alex Smith). They, of course, couldn't help themselves, went on the road and leaned into every stupid thing College Gameday is and now they're equally awful.

 

The hysterics of Michigan fans are pretty funny. But as a Buckeye hater living in Ohio, I can tell you it’s far more hilarious watching Ohio State fans react to all this.

On their worst day, Buckeye fans are obsessed with a Michigan. They are the little brothers in this relationship, which is insane. They are like 24-2 against Michigan in recent times and you’d think it was the other way around. They act like Harbaugh is a serial killer. He may or may not have participated in stealing game signals, which probably didn’t help his team anyway. And Ohio State fans are completely up in arms.

All this coming from a state that continues to elect a congressman who participated in an institutional cover-up of sexual abuse against athletes as an Ohio State coach. Nothing to see there. And a school that names buildings and roads after a football coach whose career ended when he punched an opposing player. And a football program that covered up an assistant coach’s spousal abuse. Yeah …

O-H!

 

I've said this many times but the SECN pregame show is really well done and keeps the morning-show-hijinx to a minimum.

 

I'm the product of TWO Big Ten parents and Good God Almighty, the only thing worse than a Wolverine fan is a Buckeye fan. Get them in the same room and it's like listening to your grandparents argue over the price of milk in 1931. Based on their fanaticism, you'd think they were winning national titles every other season and nobody else in the country can play football at the level of UM and OSU.

But that's hardly the case. Combined they have three championships since 1970. Ohio State has two, in 2002 and 2014. Michigan over the same time period has one: 1997. Together they claim something like 19, most of those before the invention of the facemask. Ancient history is down the hall, thank you.

At least the winner used to go out to Pasadena and get crushed by the likes of USC, Washington, UCLA and Stanford every January.

Cal and Stanford have national championships, too, but those came before Pearl Harbor. And the last interesting thing in that rivalry was a trombone player getting flattened 41 years ago.

However, Wolverine and Buckeye fans are nowhere near the level of Notre Dame-USC-Texas obnoxiousness,