LinvilleGorge

Just let Drake Maye cook. We've gone way too safe on offense recently and it's cost us. Dial up some easy early completions to get these kids' confidence back. Our WRs have developed the dropsies big time and Drake is overthinking things right now. Just let that kid cook. Let him go down there and take a helicopter dive again. That's when he looked like the best player in college football. Take the leash back off and let 'er rip.

Kansas State takes the lead. Will we see two likely playoff teams go down and exit the playoffs? That's why I hate teams that don't go to a conference championship game qualifying. You shouldn't get a bye week.

The Kansas State kids need to catch the damn ball.

That was a tough throw. I can't knock him on a miss there. At least the miss was safe. You can miss high or outside there. But if you miss short or to the inside it's a pick.

Probably so. He could've potentially bounced back in a better situation but our Carolina Panthers aren't a bounce back type situation.

Tied ballgame. TCU bit hard on that play action. Great play call.

Yep. Already in the redzone.

Not sure I would've tried that FG. You're pretty much dominating this game but now you've given them the ball with great field position. Might be the spark they need.

We saw last night how quickly a team can go from dominating early to getting blown out.

Duggan left that one hanging. That should've been a TD. Receiver had to wait for it and try to come back for it.

Uh... that was a horse collar. Where's the flag?

I think so too. I don't know that he's a starter but I get Ryan Fitzpatrick type vibes.

Duggan dropping dimes early. That should've been a TD.

TCU with an early bomb. Already close to FG range.

TCU's punt returner just fielded a punt at the 2 in a crowd. That could've been disastrous but luckily for them just amounted to a run of the mill dumb decision. They'll start on the 7.

It wasn't bad at all.

TCU vs. Kansas State about to kickoff. I had no idea who Ashanti was prior to a couple of minutes ago, but now I know that she's wish.com Mariah Carey.

This thread is fandom Stockholm Syndrome.

A lot of it comes down to idiotic match making too. The conference tie-ins need to stop. I mean, you end up with matchups like Wake Forest vs. South Carolina in say El Paso, TX. Who in the fug is going to that game? That makes no sense. But put that game in Charlotte and it's a different story.

I don't think it'll be an issue. You don't see guys sitting out of playoff games or conference championship games, just the also ran bowls. They just let the bowl system grow so massive that going to a bowl game lost all prestige. You have to flat out suck now to not qualify for a bowl. It doesn't mean anything anymore. Then they changed the names of most of the bowls to corporate sponsors and people kind of lost track of the "real" bowl games. So now you have the playoffs and then to a much lesser extent the New Year's Eve six bowls and nothing else matters. That's just the real truth. Some of these bowls look like they're attended at the level of a local HS game.

When I started digging into his college background and saw that he'd only ever beaten two ranked teams, those being ECU and Navy.

Because they didn't qualify for their conference championship game. So just like Bama a few years ago, they essentially get an unearned bye week.

Earlier in the week the weather in Charlotte for tonight looked dicey but it looks like all the rain should be cleared out well before kickoff at 8pm. Looks like perfect football weather to me.

Honestly, by and large college games have been a lot more entertaining than the NFL this year and I'm not just saying that because the Heels have been pretty good and the Panthers have sucked per usual. There's just been a lot of bad football played in the NFL this season.

I don't understand why we have to wait until '24-25 to get the expansion to 12 teams. Just fuging do it already. I'd give all five P5 champs automatic bids and then 7 wildcard spots.