2024 College Football Thread

[CRA]

ACC Champions 8 of the last 10 years!  Clemson can’t help the CFP playoff is what it is and that they will be in….with a host of other teams that also don’t belong.

Tough to win games when you got no run game.   A hurt Phil Mafah on the field the last 2 games is just painful to watch.   It’s like watching a FB with heavy ankle weights on run.   And it put way too much on the shoulders of Clemson’s QB.  

Dabo tried to do the Lord’s work and knock Bama out.  The work should be done.   But you never know what the devil got cooked up.   

 

[Bama Panther]

My rankings, not that they mean anything:

1. Oregon
2. Georgia
3. Arizona State
4. Boise State
5. Penn State
6. Notre Dame
7. Texas
8. Ohio State
9. Tennessee
10. Clemson
11. Indiana
12. SMU

First Two Out: Bama, Ole Miss

[OldhamA]

Texas and SMU should be out. 

[ForJimmy]

4 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Texas and SMU should be out. 

Nah, you can punish them for playing in their conference championship games. 

[Shocker]

16 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

My rankings, not that they mean anything:

1. Oregon
2. Georgia
3. Arizona State
4. Boise State
5. Penn State
6. Notre Dame
7. Texas
8. Ohio State
9. Tennessee
10. Clemson
11. Indiana
12. SMU

First Two Out: Bama, Ole Miss

All but 1 ESPN analyst has SMU in over Bama.  Interesting.  I guess their showing last night was deemed impressive enough.  We will see

[Bama Panther]

8 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Nah, you can punish them for playing in their conference championship games. 

That’s my take as well. I know it’s been done in the past, but I don’t like punishing teams for losing in a conference championship game, especially games that come down to the wire. 

[CamWhoaaCam]

19 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

My rankings, not that they mean anything:

1. Oregon
2. Georgia
3. Arizona State
4. Boise State
5. Penn State
6. Notre Dame
7. Texas
8. Ohio State
9. Tennessee
10. Clemson
11. Indiana
12. SMU

First Two Out: Bama, Ole Miss

I think Alabama gets in and SMU is out. Everything else I agree with.

[Bama Panther]

Just now, Shocker said:

All but 1 ESPN analyst has SMU in over Bama.  Interesting.  I guess their showing last night was deemed impressive enough.  We will see

I wanted SMU to win before the game started. Once Clemson jumped out, I wanted them to throttle SMU, as I think a throttling would have allowed the committee to sneak Bama back in. Then, as SMU mounted their comeback, I wanted them to pull it out. 

The new system hasn’t changed anything, other than the amount of teams in the field. The arguments that folks used to have about the #4 seed are now just had at the #11/12 seeds (depending on where the fifth conference champ is ranked). 

[LinvilleGorge]

Missing the playoffs because of a last second 55 yard FG would be rough but you gotta play tighter D than that. You gave them an opportunity and they capitalized.

[Bama Panther]

Just now, CamWhoaaCam said:

I think Alabama gets in and SMU is out. Everything else I agree with.

Don’t get me wrong, I hope Bama sneaks in. I just don’t know that the committee will do it with the way SMU fought back. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, Bama Panther said:

I wanted SMU to win before the game started. Once Clemson jumped out, I wanted them to throttle SMU, as I think a throttling would have allowed the committee to sneak Bama back in. Then, as SMU mounted their comeback, I wanted them to pull it out. 

The new system hasn’t changed anything, other than the amount of teams in the field. The arguments that folks used to have about the #4 seed are now just had at the #11/12 seeds (depending on where the fifth conference champ is ranked). 

Hell, the same arguments are used for bubble teams in a 64 team field in the basketball tournament. There are always going to be teams barely in and barely out and folks squabbling over them.

[CamWhoaaCam]

These playoffs won't be fun without a team like Alabama in it. I just can't see how they would leave them out over a team like SMU.

 

We shall see tho.

[CRA]

23 minutes ago, Bama Panther said:

My rankings, not that they mean anything:

1. Oregon
2. Georgia
3. Arizona State
4. Boise State
5. Penn State
6. Notre Dame
7. Texas
8. Ohio State
9. Tennessee
10. Clemson
11. Indiana
12. SMU

First Two Out: Bama, Ole Miss

SMU vs Texas

Indiana vs Notre Dame 

I think they find a way to rank them to get that outcome.  

[Bama Panther]

As it sits in ESPN’s (see Heather Dinnich’s) projections, I see three fairly comfortable wins in the first round (ND over Indiana, Texas over SMU, and Penn State over Clemson).