2024 college football offseason thread

Did he just miss seeing corn?

 

He got tired explaining to his teammates what a touchdown was.

 

Still no nine-game schedule. This will be the last time they can protect so-called secondary rivalries like Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia on an annual basis without that change.

 

I refer you back to my comment from last June.

 

2-6 for bowl eligibility. And if you thought SEC scheduling was a joke before - I can see "the Committee" allowing more than one FCS win to count "since scheduling other P4 schools is so cumbersome.
I would love to be a member of Congress and have the ADs and conference heads come to the Hill asking for help with the NIL rules. I'd bring out my list of things they would need to fix first. I mean - given the drastic makeover the powers that be have done on the sport - is there anything preventing them from putting in a "salary cap" for players and coaches? Transparency with a public document on all NIL and endorsement monies earned by football personnel? All teams play the same number of league games? Surprised the Big10 signed off on it.

 

6-6 teams making bowls is about to solve itself when programs start opting out of the December bowls to get a jump on mining the portal. It will look like the NIT checkouts we saw this week.

 

First round games of the playoff are scheduled for the week after the conference championship games - so Army/Navy Game gets buried, correct? Or do they push that back another week? I have to think ESPN is going to cut at least six of the lowest-tier bowls loose (that featured G5 schools typically) widening the income divide further.

 

OK - but I do think ESPN is going to announce at least half a dozen bowl games are history pretty soon.

 

Last year there were two Saturdays between Army-Navy and Christmas. I count a dozen bowls on those two dates, not including the Celebration Bowl. Either a lot of weeknights are going to have to double up games or the likes of 68 Ventures and Famous Toastery will have to find other ways to grab attention.

But I’ll cut a bitch that messes with the Pop Tart Bowl.