College football Week 15 thread

So, looks like Kirk Herbstreit was right about Michigan ...

 

As expected, Buckeye nation is responding with its normal logic and composure when it comes to Michigan, conveniently forgetting the Buckeye sat out a couple weeks ago against Illinois.

 

Guessing they'll blame Whitmer (Michigan State, BA Communications, 1993) for this one, too.

 

Since I can't find the running conference realignment thread:
Harsin urged Boise State leadership to leave Mountain West Conference, emails show

 

Indiana and Purdue have both paused team activities, per Nicole Auerbach.

 

Fuck Harsin and fuck Boise State. Unless they get into the Big 12, there's nowhere for them to go, and if the Big 12 wanted them it would have asked by now. The MWC should have told them to GFT when they wanted back in after bolting to the Big East.

 

I was thinking about this while watching the morning crew yammer on about the playoff rankings whilst at the gym...Literally the only thing that mattered in this season was that the playoff somehow happened. And no matter what happens, we're going to get what we were probably going to get at the beginning of the season: Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame and Ohio State. I mean, replace Notre Dame with a Big 12 team or second SEC team if you'd like, but those other three were always going to be in the playoff. If anything, it continues to further devalue the idea that the regular season means anything.

And for all of the Coastal Carolina complaints, if everyone is playing a full schedule, there's no damn chance the Chanticleers are near the top 10, even with that record. There's precedent for that in schools like App State or Navy or whoever that get to 12-0 or 12-1 and get a courtesy vote in the top 25. Coastal is a wonderful story. The Chants would also lose by four touchdowns to Clemson, best case scenario.

 

Among the many norms we've had to throw out this season, if they're like any other mid-major, Coastal Carolina likely had at least one body bag game scheduled, or perhaps a November date with the SEC. So, unless you get one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments like San Jose State knocking off Arkanpig last season, it's unlikely the Chants are undefeated at this stage of a season.

 

Now do Cincinnati, which just got bumped down a notch for a two-loss Iowa State.

I think its telling that the NFL, NBA, NHL and even stodgy-assed Major League Baseball expanded its playoffs after a shortened season while college football simply said, "nah. We're good." Really? So you have different schools playing different amounts of games with different starting times but we're going to grade these people like its any other season? Hell, they fuckin' waived win requirements for bowls this year but they won't tweak the playoff. You probably would have generated a lot of goodwill by expanding for one year to eight teams, given how scattered this season has been. But this has never been about goodwill; it's always been about fattening up the Power 5 with the same teams and the same shit excuses every year by Judge Smails on why they want Al Czervik to remain out. "Oh they'd get their ass kicked." You mean how Oklahoma beat the hell out of Boise State in 2006? Or how about when unworthy West Virginia got destroyed by Georgia in the 2005 Sugar Bowl. Oh that's right, neither of those things happened.

College football has been my primary love since I was in college but I have to say, it's become boring and egregious.

 

I wasn't defending the system, for what it's worth. But they're going to crow that this thing was a success because they got the four-team playoff in. (Maybe)

Undefeated Cincinnati wouldn't have sniffed it either in a normal season. I think they'd have a better chance to hang with an Ohio State or Notre Dame than Coastal Carolina does. UCF went 12-0 twice and didn't get in. I agree with you, BYM, they absolutely should have expanded it this year. But they're concerned that would open the barn door and they'd never get the horse back in. I'll give Gary Bettman credit on one thing, he absolutely said no way to expanding the playoffs in the NHL after the 24-team experiment in the bubble. CFP leaders don't have the sort of spine to try something different on fear that it will stick.

 

As we type about this the B1G announces its tweaking the criteria for number of games played because Ohio State. They're just nakedly showing who they're in bed with at this point. It's not a shock obviously, but it does go back to a word I used two posts up: egregious. At this point, Kevin Warren should just come out and say, "Fuck yes I favor this member school over that member school. Fuck you gonna do about it, bitch boys?"

 

Ohio State beat Indiana. Ohio State is better than Indiana. Ohio State would make the Big Ten championship game even if it lost to Michigan by a hundred points Saturday. Ohio State is the class of the Big Ten and everyone knows it.

If your argument against Ohio State not being allowed into the Big Ten championship game because of an arbitrary rule they made up a few weeks ago, I’ve got a spot on Rudy Giuliani’s team for you.