Board 8 > NCAA Covid Football 2020

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And Manti Teo got catfished

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Leonhart4 posted...

And Manti Teo got catfished

Did he get catfished or did he just make a girlfriend up?

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Corrik7 posted...

Did he get catfished or did he just make a girlfriend up?

It was 95% a catfish

The only part of the story that never fully came out was Manti saying he had never actually met the girl after all the catfishing stuff came out, but members of his family saying they had. By that point the story was done though so nothing came from it iirc. Popular theory is it was the catfishing guys female cousin pretending, but he claims to have done it all on his own.

who cares though, what a complete fall from grace. Heisman moment into laughing stock of football, getting bamas nuts dragged all over his face, and then nfl bust

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wait the Vols got a bowl bid?

good luck not getting killed by WVU in the Liberty Bowl guys

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there are already bowl games

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Tennessee out of their bowl game because of Corona-Chan.

ARMY gets the respect their record deserves and takes their place.

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yes we're better off not playing a bowl game this year

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In some somber and tragic NCAA news, freshman RB from Utah has passed away. His name was Ty Jordan. Apparently it was an accidental gunshot that killed him.

In some more positive NCAA news, D'eriq King of the Hurricanes will stay in Miami another year. Makes his 6th year of college football. Additionally, Javonte Williams, 1/2 of the phenomenal rushing attack of the NC Tarheels has declared for the draft. A team with good run blocking could certainly use him.

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Sucks javonte left

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R.I.P. Coastal Carolina

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LeonhartFour posted...

R.I.P. Coastal Carolina

Mid majors continue to prove they actually suck no matter their record.

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They lost to another mid major sooooo I don't think that's fair

Now if Georgia hammers Cincy, sure

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Liberty seems legit

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Mid-majors can't win either way. They lose and they are terrible. They win and the P5 team was unmotivated or wasn't one of the good teams.

It's never going to change though because money. TV want the big name teams and so do bowl games for money purposes. P5 don't want to let those teams into a P5 conference because they have to split the money pot more ways. And they don't want to schedule those teams because they don't want to risk the upset without having it be like a 2 and 1 or 2 and neutral.

For the most part P5 teams are better but the system is fucked up. We'll never be allowed to know if those teams could have hung with the Top 4 because they would have to go unbeaten for like 3 straight years and then still need upsets to get a chance. And by that point their players have cycled out into the pros so who knows if the unbeaten team in Y1 or Y2 was better than the current iteration.

And of course because college football is so political and the schedules are set up so far in advance, you can't even do something like a forced tie-in game to start the season so that we know off the bat whether a G5 team is any good.

ShatteredElysium posted...

Mid-majors can't win either way. They lose and they are terrible. They win and the P5 team was unmotivated or wasn't one of the good teams.

Yeah this is my issue with Georgia this year. Its a lose/lose situation for us. We beat Cincinnati - we were supposed to. We lose and lol uga

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apparently Tennessee fans want Hugh Freeze to be the next coach

Do we really want NCAA sanctions? Because that's how you get NCAA sanctions.

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LeonhartFour posted...

apparently Tennessee fans want Hugh Freeze to be the next coach

Do we really want NCAA sanctions? Because that's how you get NCAA sanction

Wow I can smell the scandal from here

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I think in an ideal world there would be a game early season in like week 1 or week 2 where the G5 winners and runners up got paired up with the P5 winners and runners up.

You went undefeated last season? Cool, your reward is a Week 1 or 2 match up with Alabama/Clemson/Ohio State. So you now have a route into consideration. Win that game (or keep it very close) and win out and you now can compare against the 1-2 loss P5 teams.

the problem is that the Power 5 teams don't want to do it because, again, there's no benefit for them to play these teams

this is why we need an 8 team playoff and set aside a spot for the highest ranking non-P5 team if they finish high enough like the BCS used to do

either way, they need to change something because the current system is broken when the 4 playoff teams every year are some combination of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Oklahoma taking up 3 of the slots

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LeonhartFour posted...

current system is broken when the 4 playoff teams every year are some combination of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Oklahoma taking up 3 of the slots

It's not broken if those are the best teams.

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it'll be broken when people stop wanting to watch the same four teams in the playoff every year

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LeonhartFour posted...

it'll be broken when people stop wanting to watch the same four teams in the playoff every year

That's like saying the NCAAB was broken because UCLA won the championship 11 years in a row. Or because UCONN won however many in a row. Or because whatever or so on team was too dominant.

The system is to have the best teams play. If those teams earn it every year, they should be there. It's flawed, but not for the reasoning you gave imo.

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the basketball tournaments are more inclusive so if UCLA and UConn still win at the end of the day, at least you can't complain teams didn't have a shot

the problem is that it feels like those four have an inherent advantage over everyone else and don't need to do as much to get in, as Ohio State demonstrated this year

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LeonhartFour posted...

the basketball tournaments are more inclusive so if UCLA and UConn still win at the end of the day, at least you can't complain teams didn't have a shot

the problem is that it feels like those four have an inherent advantage over everyone else and don't need to do as much to get in, as Ohio State demonstrated this year

I mean Oklahoma finished 6th this year ahead of Cincinnati and they sucked

You do have a shot. Schedule stronger opponents and win. The problem is that it's schedule stronger opponents and lose and not have a chance or not schedule better and not have a chance because others did better in conference.

Oklahoma would probably beat Cincinnati by 50.

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Corrik7 posted...

You do have a shot. Schedule stronger opponents and win. The problem is that it's schedule stronger opponents and lose and not have a chance or not schedule better and not have a chance because others did better in conference.

Oklahoma would probably beat Cincinnati by 50.

literally impossible this year and very unlikely most years because the biggest programs don't want to schedule the best mid-majors because there's nothing to be gained from it

and the schedules are made so far in advance that what you think is a good game when you schedule it now isn't a good game when that team sucks 5+ years from now

and very unlikely this year but the fact that you assume it and the committee probably assumes it too is part of the issue here

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LeonhartFour posted...

literally impossible this year and very unlikely most years because the biggest programs don't want to schedule the best mid-majors because there's nothing to be gained from it

and the schedules are made so far in advance that what you think is a good game when you schedule it now isn't a good game when that team sucks 5+ years from now

"Most don't want to schedule the best because nothing to be gained from it"
"Schedules are made so far in advance you don't know what a good game is"

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they can't schedule Alabama or Ohio State so they schedule Tennessee

turns out Tennessee sucks now and the game doesn't help them

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For the record, Cincy isnt the best example in this argument because they have semi regularly played top tier teams like Ohio St and Oklahoma over the past dozen years

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Dr_Football posted...

For the record, Cincy isnt the best example in this argument because they have semi regularly played top tier teams like Ohio St and Oklahoma over the past dozen years

Yeah, Cincy actually has scheduled good teams in the past.

I don't know who they were supposed to play this year before Covid rearranged the schedule.

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LeonhartFour posted...

they can't schedule Alabama or Ohio State so they schedule Tennessee

turns out Tennessee sucks now and the game doesn't help them

They can try and schedule whoever they want. The kicker is that these schools purposely don't try to schedule the supposed top dogs. And, if they were to beat the top dogs, they probably aren't that year precisely due to the fact they could beat them.

You forget when Boise St and TCU used to schedule powerhouses when they were in 2nd tier conferences. UCF the year they went like 12-1 played Penn State (who they beat) and lost to South Carolina. The year before that they played Ohio State. Then the year after the 12-1 season they lost to Penn State, NC State, and Missouri from scheduling hard. Thus, they stopped for awhile. Which led to years later them going 13-0 with a weak non-conference due to scaling back their opponents. They played Maryland in the big ten. Florida International and a sub Div 1AA opponent. Again... its the chicken and the egg scenario above. If they scheduled harder they would have made it but if they scheduled harder they likely would have had losses.


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Because the P5 make it difficult to schedule the better G5 teams. Like how can you fault UCF when shit like this happens

UCF tries to schedule Florida
Florida will only agree to a 2 and neutral
UCF offer 1 and 1, 1 and neutral or a one off game at Florida or neutral
Florida won't agree to it
Florida then go agree 1 and 1s or home games with weaker G5 schools

Like come on. And that happens all the time. UCF tries to schedule the P5 teams, P5 teams only offer them really shitty deals before then scheduling other G5 teams with way more favorable deals because those teams are shit and there's zero risk of losing

Accept what Florida offered. If you want to play them, you do on their terms. Beggars can't be choosers.

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The point is the big teams won't play them. They offer ridiculous terms of they even engage in discussions at all and then agree to far lesser terms with worse, less lucrative G5 teams so you know it isn't about money, it's that they are scared of losing to them so won't offer a reasonable deal.

The only reason Cincinnati has been able to schedule good teams is because all those fixtures were agreed when Cincinnati was bad. It will be a lot harder to get good teams to play them now

Wow Michael Carter also opted out to go to the draft. UNC might not even have RBs in their best bowl game in probably over a decade.

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Cincy being ranked as low as they are this year is just another reminder that the current playoff is Power 5-only. At the very least they could expand it to 6, and say the top 4 P5 champs get in + 1 at-large + highest Group of 5/independent. I don't think anyone would cry about Oregon being left out, and there's almost always at least one P5 champ outside the Top 10.

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Corrik7 posted...

That's like saying the NCAAB was broken because UCLA won the championship 11 years in a row

I mean, you might have noticed that the NCAA postseason has changed a lot since then. Presumably because they thought it would be better!
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jcgamer107 posted...

Cincy being ranked as low as they are this year is just another reminder that the current playoff is Power 5-only. At the very least they could expand it to 6, and say the top 4 P5 champs get in + 1 at-large + highest Group of 5/independent. I don't think anyone would cry about Oregon being left out, and there's almost always at least one P5 champ outside the Top 10.

Should be top 8, done by old bcs standards. No personal input. Each major conference gets an AQ, top non major gets a bid, and the rest are done by bcs computers.

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Looks like D'Eriq King blew out his knee

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With how many players are missing for Florida we need to win this game by 20+

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Sigh

nothing can be easy

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I was going to make a Kyle Trask joke but I might be too late

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Dr_Football posted...

Sigh

nothing can be easy

You're good

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Ok I feel good again. Would have been nice to see a full strength Florida but its nice to end our year with a win for a change

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Well our backups are scoring

400 rushing yards lol

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Also theres Notre Dame fans out there who are ready to believe this result gives them a chance against Bama.

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Dr_Football posted...

Also theres Notre Dame fans out there who are ready to believe this result gives them a chance against Bama.

Sec is overrated. Clemson ND championship.

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3-7 Miss St beats 6-2 Tulsa. But can you please think of the mid majors! Sob.

And they brawled after for good measure. Coaches didn't seem entirely concerned lol

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Corrik7 posted...

3-7 Miss St beats 6-2 Tulsa. But can you please think of the mid majors! Sob.

And they brawled after for good measure. Coaches didn't seem entirely concerned lol

Getting ready for the "Georgia didn't care" post

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Leonhart4 posted...

Getting ready for the "Georgia didn't care" post

Georgia didn't care while this is Cincinnati's super bowl, including having opts out. And they will still win.

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Told ya.

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