2025 College Football Thread

[UnluckyforSome]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Boom. Walk off 55 yarder for GT right down the middle.

I think both Clemson and GT are likely low level top 25 teams but at 1-2 and struggling for much of their win over Troy you gotta drop Clemson from the rankings for now.

If they stay, which is a big if, it will be based on name and maybe they hold on at 24 or 25.

[CRA]

On 9/8/2025 at 4:58 PM, CRA said:

 if I was looking to bet on some upsets this week....the state of South Carolina got two teams that look ripe to get beat pending some big changes ain't coming.

Thats one down.  Think their neighbor remains on upset alert 

[Stumpy]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Boom. Walk off 55 yarder for GT right down the middle.

I think both Clemson and GT are likely low level top 25 teams but at 1-2 and struggling for much of their win over Troy you gotta drop Clemson from the rankings for now.

Idk... Dabo might be washed.

Going home with 2 timeouts in your pocket when you could have given your offense ~1 minute to drive for the win or the tie.

You love to see it!

[CRA]

23 minutes ago, Stumpy said:

Idk... Dabo might be washed.

Going home with 2 timeouts in your pocket when you could have given your offense ~1 minute to drive for the win or the tie.

You love to see it!

I don’t think he could use those timeouts.   I think not using them was the right coaching move.  GT got their guys on and on top of that he made a career kick.  Thats football.  Putting them in that tight spot was the right call.  

[LinvilleGorge]

Gio Lopez is fuging atrocious. Why in the hell did Belichick and company give this guy $2M? He's not a D1 starter. He was at South Alabama for a reason. It's not like he was putting up big numbers there. He was a JAG at that level.

[Panthers Fan 69]

Joey Aguilar from App state now TN would great in Panthers blue next year. That kid can ball. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Panthers Fan 69

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

6 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Gio Lopez is fuging atrocious. Why in the hell did Belichick and company give this guy $2M? He's not a D1 starter. He was at South Alabama for a reason. It's not like he was putting up big numbers there. He was a JAG at that level.

Agree.  6-6 record his last season at South Alabama, barely 200 yards passing per game and for a guy who is supposedly mobile, he only rushed for like 40 yards per game. 

Those would be subpar numbers for a true freshman starting at a power school, much less a veteran playing in a conference where the talent is barely D1.

Also doesn't help that Freddie Kitchens' play calling is equally atrocious. 

[Panthers Fan 69]

TD Joey Dimes!

[LinvilleGorge]

28 minutes ago, CRA said:

I don’t think he could use those timeouts.   I think not using them was the right coaching move.  GT got their guys on and on top of that he made a career kick.  Thats football.  Putting them in that tight spot was the right call.  

Yeah, I agree with letting it play out like that. Make them scramble to get out there and get setup. Now once they were able to accomplish that comfortably and we're able to settle in I might've called a timeout at that point. But whatever. The kid nailed his career long as time expired. Sometimes football just goes like that.

[Stumpy]

34 minutes ago, CRA said:

I don’t think he could use those timeouts.

It's actually pretty simple. You just place one hand perpendicular over the other.

And, no, they lost the game directly because they had no time to answer GTs score. Patently obvious it was the wrong choice. 

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

Nothing like getting a gift short field to watch your short QB short arm a short throw and have the drive come up short. 

 

[Davidson Deac II]

39 minutes ago, CRA said:

I don’t think he could use those timeouts.   I think not using them was the right coaching move.  GT got their guys on and on top of that he made a career kick.  Thats football.  Putting them in that tight spot was the right call.  

I am with you.  Almost any coach would accept that situation where the kicker had to beat his career best (by 4 yards), with the clock running out, to beat you.  

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

Nothing like getting a gift short field to watch your short QB short arm a short throw and have the drive come up short. 

 

Yeah, Lopez ain't it. What else do we have over there on the bench? Let's see somebody else.

[Stumpy]

10 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, I agree with letting it play out like that. Make them scramble to get out there and get setup. Now once they were able to accomplish that comfortably and we're able to settle in I might've called a timeout at that point. But whatever. The kid nailed his career long as time expired. Sometimes football just goes like that.

If you're defense makes the same stops, kid has to make the same kick except with more pressure. Knowing that if you miss a career long kick, you give the other team the ball back, basically already in FG range with the game in hand.

The caping for Dabo is hilarious. I always forget how many UNC-CH BBall/Clemp football fans there are around these parts.