CFB offseason thread 2025

[TigerVols]

Nebraska opts out of home-and-home with Tennessee in 2026-27.

Don't blame the Vols if some non-power 5 school lands on their schedule instead.

Been on the books since 2006. But remember SEC OOC is always weak.

 

[TigerVols]

Nebraska bailed because they wanted an eighth home game in 2027 to offset the revenue lost from fewer seats during stadium renovations.

Insert Sure, Jan emoji.

 

[dixiehack]

I am literally going off the AD's quotes from the ESPN.com article. My belief is he is being genuine and also it is a chickenship decision.

 

[Twirling Time]

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Is he done at UMash or is he now free to unleash mayhem on Gotham?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Nebraska opts out of home-and-home with Tennessee in 2026-27.

Don't blame the Vols if some non-power 5 school lands on their schedule instead.

Big paydays for Bowling Green and Miami (Ohio) as Nebraska's new opponents. Makes for an easier path to bowl eligibility at 6-6. These games have 11 a.m. local time Big Ten Network content written all over them.

I think if the SEC gets four automatic berths in the upcoming playoffs, it will be protected enough to go to nine league games so that an otherwise undeserving 9-3 or 8-4 team can make it as the league's fourth auto qualifier.

Yes, the SEC is very good, but it's also 1-4 in the last two playoffs and very likely would have been 0-4 had the officials not thrown Texas a lifeline by not calling a targeting penalty that would have moved ASU into FG position to win that game in regulation.

 

[BTExpress]

Large part of it is matchups.

Give Tennessee or Georgia SMU or Boise State or Indiana instead of Ohio State and Notre Dame as their opponents, and they each likely pick off a game.

 

[swingline]

After watching the playoff this past season, I'm not really for it. Mostly because it's too big and takes too long. By the time the title game comes, I'm checked out of college football mode and switched to hoops. I like the football regular season, but the month and a half denouement is too much.

 

[John]

I love college football through the first 10 weeks or so of the season. After that, I'm ready to move on to something else. That feeling gets stronger every year.

 

[I Should Coco]

I love college football through the first 10 weeks or so of the season. After that, I'm ready to move on to something else. That feeling gets stronger every year.

Maybe it's because I am getting older and am set in my ways, but as much as I enjoy watching college football, after New Year's Day I am done.

 

[dixiehack]

I adore college football and basketball and will watch both to the end of their seasons. From April-August I pause the YouTube TV subscription and try to make up for all the couch time.

 

[TigerVols]

I love college football through the first 10 weeks or so of the season. After that, I'm ready to move on to something else. That feeling gets stronger every year.

I love college football through the third Saturday in October then I'm ready to move on, with the exception of two of the last three years.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

I love college football through the first 10 weeks or so of the season. After that, I'm ready to move on to something else. That feeling gets stronger every year.

The separation between the good 20 teams, the awful 40 teams and the other 70 just playing out the string is so defined by November. It isn't a college basketball type of situation where a mid-level team might take a magical run in the second half of conference play, roll into the conference tournament on fire and be a completely different team than they were in the first 12-14 games.

Plus the upsets are happening at lesser pace and with all the movement and the further separation between the haves and have nots, it feels like those upsets are going to continue to become more rare. And then the tournament was kind of a flop. First round there was nothing. Arizona State-Texas was fun. Notre Dame-Penn State was a really good game. But if all the seedings change around you might not get an Arizona State-Texas type of situation again.

CFB coaches want to blame everything from the stability of the game to the price of eggs on NIL and the transfer portal, but the structure of the game isn't good and two conferences deciding that they want to completely deck every deck in their favor doesn't bode well for the future.