College football week 14 thread: ATLiens

And preseason poll rankings. Teams start in the top ten who have not played a single down and have done nothing to earn it. Reputation, previous results,, recruiting, that's all great but every year teams who were ranked high in all that stuff wind up ranked twenty or below. If you start out in the top ten, even if you lose you just drop a few spots.

Don't rank a damn soul until week four, when teams have played somebody and there is an actual record of this season's accomplishments.

 

Beat my deadline by an hour

 

I got to poking around the FCS bracket this weekend. Five of the top six seeds are from the MVFC and Big Sky. Breathlessly awaiting the congressional hearings on the blatant Lower Canuckistan bias.

 

I've always been for this. The preseason crapola is just that, crapola. Meaningless balderdash and poppycock. Shouldn't be any rankings until after the first month and anyone playing Cupcake U, Sisters of the Poor, Vanderbilt and College State U that first month probably shouldn't be in the T25, either.

 

Skip that stuff and try "If you ain't SEC, you ain't shit".

 

I'm posting this for nothing more than historical context, not to plead Florida State's case. But they are the first Power Five unbeaten to be left out.

 

Liberty is undefeated against the worst schedule in D1. Oregon is gonna truck them.

 

Same. Was considering making it a Christmas/graduation present for our daughter, who is a senior at Mizzou. Got the "secure your bowl tickets!" email from the school last week, and the cheapest ticket for the Cotton Bowl was something like $450 (face value).

I'd rather be bent over by scalpers. Fuck-nuts.

 

If it didn't affect your daughter I'd say roll the dice and buy tickets from a desperate scalper fifteen minutes before kickoff.

 

I can get an in-the-door price for about $150 a ticket. I can stomach that. Shitty seats, but it's about the experience.

 

With the four-team playoff, most bowls are just exhibitions, especially with opt-outs and the transfer portal.

Bowls used to be a reward. Now they are a consolation prize.

Teams such as Ohio State, Georgia and Oregon this season basically have nothing to gain.
If top players don't see the bowls worthy to play in, why should donors and fans?

It will be a little better next season with 12 teams in the playoffs.

A true 24- or 32-team playoff could come some day or maybe there will be another division added (Group of 5 teams).