2024 College Football Thread

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

What was he before?  5-7th round?  I saw him projected in the 2nd to the Broncos on tankathon.

Yeah, I think he was basically considered a late round flyer type of pick before. I don't think he'll climb all the way to the 2nd but I won't be shocked if he sneaks into the 3rd and I'll be pretty surprised if he falls past the 4th.

[Hoenheim]

Tuimoloau and Sawyer are really solid edge rushers man.  Judkins and Henderson are good RBs too.  Egbuka and Jeramiah Smith  at WR. Steady QB with Will Howard. Ohio State is just loaded with talent everywhere man!!

The maybe only X Factor that Notre Dame might have is their QB is really good at running the ball. I think Penn State forced him to throw two picks.

[LinvilleGorge]

19 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Yeah if you came into this with no media bate you would think Ewers was a backup and Howard was a raw prospect with a potentially high ceiling. 

And then you find out that Ewers was a #1 QB recruit and Howard is a super senior and you're like

 

[Hoenheim]

3 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

What was he before?  5-7th round?  I saw him projected in the 2nd to the Broncos on tankathon.

pretty much he was a late round flyer. After than insane game he had against Texas, with that much publicity and almost single handedly beating a team with far superior talent by himself??

pfffft. He's probably going R3 at the latest now. Unless he runs a glacial 40 time at the combine.

[PNW_PantherMan]

3 minutes ago, Hoenheim said:

Tuimoloau and Sawyer are really solid edge rushers man.  Judkins and Henderson are good RBs too.  Egbuka and Jeramiah Smith  at WR. Steady QB with Will Howard. Ohio State is just loaded with talent everywhere man!!

The maybe only X Factor that Notre Dame might have is their QB is really good at running the ball. I think Penn State forced him to throw two picks.

Marcus Freeman is probably the coach of the year, but now it feels like this is Ohio State's year to win the title. 

[LinvilleGorge]

I think Ewers needs to regrow the mullet. He's like Samson. Cutting the mullet stole his powers. He plays like a nice clean cut kid you'd want your daughter to bring home. He needs to bring back the mullet attitude. If UNC goes after him I want it to be a requirement. Bring back the mullet or get fuged.

[Hoenheim]

Best comment ive seen from Texas fan so far talking about Ewers: 

"He took the NIL cash and had some buckeyes drug across his face. Big nuts."

[Bama Panther]

18 minutes ago, Hoenheim said:

who is the next Alabama QB?

The battle will likely be between Ty Simpson, a former 5 star recruit and RS Sophomore, and Keelon Russell, an incoming 5 star. 

Simpson is a holdover from Saban’s time. Russell is a DeBoer recruit. I don’t know how, or if, that will factor into the equation at all. 

They could also keep an eye on the portal, I guess, but the pickings are getting slim there, and I definitely don’t want Ewers. 

[Jackie Lee]

34 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

And then you find out that Ewers was a #1 QB recruit and Howard is a super senior and you're like

 

Limit these guys to 4 college seasons no matter what!

[Bama Panther]

8 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

Limit these guys to 4 college seasons no matter what!

I read something this week that said the NCAA is considering going to a blanket 5 years of eligibility for all student (cough cough) athletes. 

[CRA]

11 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

Yeah if you came into this with no media bate you would think Ewers was a backup and Howard was a raw prospect with a potentially high ceiling. 

If all you know of college football is the playoffs….the QB rankings would look really different than the national narrative.  ASU and Clemson would have the dudes at QB.  SMU imploding is really the only reason you wouldn’t almost flip the rankings completely upside down vs what was sold.  Not saying that is reality either but everything does get skewed to the media darlings 

[LinvilleGorge]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/01/11/texas-steve-sarkisian-play-call-cotton-bowl-ohio-state/77480486007/#:~:text=Sarkisian earns acclaim for being,victory in the Cotton Bowl.

Stand up move by Sarkisian to blame his players for not blocking right. Yeah bro, every play ends up in the endzone if it works perfectly as designed. Meanwhile, the OSU players are saying you very predictable go to that play in key moments and they knew it was coming. If the D knows exactly what's coming you're cooked. That's on you not your players.

[CRA]

14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/01/11/texas-steve-sarkisian-play-call-cotton-bowl-ohio-state/77480486007/#:~:text=Sarkisian earns acclaim for being,victory in the Cotton Bowl.

Stand up move by Sarkisian to blame his players for not blocking right. Yeah bro, every play ends up in the endzone if it works perfectly as designed. Meanwhile, the OSU players are saying you very predictable go to that play in key moments and they knew it was coming. If the D knows exactly what's coming you're cooked. That's on you not your players.

If that was any other game he puts Arch in IMO to get that series of short yardage attempts done.  

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, CRA said:

If that was any other game he puts Arch in IMO to get that series of short yardage attempts done.  

I think Arch got knocked the fug out on his one snap he played. The announcers never picked up on it and talked about it but I'm not sure Arch was even available.