Running CFB playoff thread

Yeah. The Ivies were a pain in the ass poll-wise.

I think they’ll be competitive. Probably not national title competitive, but they won’t get rolled. Depends on how seriously they want to take it. I think it’s great for FCS regardless.

 

A playoff game at Harvard Stadium, Palmer Stadium or the Yale Bowl would be awesome, all great venues. In a blizzard at Dartmouth or Cornell, maybe not.

 

Niche sport

CFP viewership topped by Saturday NFL games

 

Well, it is minor league football ....

 

When I was a kid, for a few years, both of my parents had to work on Christmas Day. My Dad, at the time, worked for a company that drove commuters to airports in vans. My Mom worked in Housekeeping at the local hospital. Since there was nobody around who could watch me, and my Dad couldn’t take me in his van, Mom would take me to her job at the hospital.

She had to be there at, like 7 or 7:30 a.m., so she would get me the rare treat of a McDonald’s hotcakes and sausage breakfast, bring me to the hospital, park me in the employee lounge, find and wheel in a portable TV for me to watch, and I’d have to spend most of the day either hoping there would be some cartoons on (only early in the morning), reading a book or magazine that I brought along, hoping there would be a stray SI in the employee reading stash, and flipping channels between church services and the Yule Log until magically, around noon, would be the real entertainment of the day, the Blue-Gray All-Star Game.

So many holidays have come and gone, but I still remember those 2-3 years that I had to spend Christmas at my mother’s job.

 

Can anyone see any of the Ivies playing in Baton Rouge or Tuscaloosa for a check?

 

Network TV vs pay cable. Not saying the NFL wouldn’t have won if reversed, but it wouldn’t have been by the same margin.

 

The last time I’m aware of that an Ivy Lwague school played one of the current power 4 was 1991, when Stanford hosted Cornell to commemorate its 100th anniversary as a school.

 

A Princeton-Rutgers game to celebrate the first college football game would be pretty cool for a body bag game.

 

The only place where college football is a niche sport is major metros that have pro sports and little to no major college footprint. I can only speak for the southeast, but in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, college sports are bigger than pro.

 

College football suffers in comparison to NFL ratings because every sport does here. It holds its own just fine against MLB or NBA.

 

they had a chance in 2019 and whiffed , 2044 would be 175 years