2025 College Football Thread

[PNW_PantherMan]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Props to Kentucky. They hung in there with a much more talented team. Questionable play calling down on the goal line. Running up the middle in short yardage hadn't worked for them all night and they pounded their heads against the wall over and over anyway 

Coach was just sick of losing SEC games and went all in.  I don’t hate it.  I didn’t like the call to have the RB jump on the pile for the 2nd straight play though.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Kentucky deserved to lose. Playcalling got scared with the game on the line 

Yeah, they hadn't been able to run up the middle in short yardage situations all night long and that's all they tried to do down there.

[LinvilleGorge]

4 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Coach was just sick of losing SEC games and went all in.  I don’t hate it.  I didn’t like the call to have the RB jump on the pile for the 2nd straight play though.

The QB had been as effective running as anyone they had. I would've rolled him out on an RPO on at least one of those downs.

[PNW_PantherMan]

Just now, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, they hadn't been able to run up the middle in short yardage situations all night long and that's all they tried to do down there.

That’s probably the one thing you can bet on not working.  You have to think that Texas straight up dwarfs Kentucky head to head in the trenches.

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, PNW_PantherMan said:

That’s probably the one thing you can bet on not working.  You have to think that Texas straight up dwarfs Kentucky head to head in the trenches.

Yeah, you're basically talking a bunch of 5* recruits vs. a bunch of 2* and 3* recruits. It's the difference in talent in the trenches that really separates the blue bloods from the pack in the college game.

[LinvilleGorge]

FSU is having the weirdest season. Beat Bama comfortably in week one then hit the ACC schedule at 3-0 and have gone 0-3 in the ACC but every game has been close.

[PNW_PantherMan]

Frank Reich is gonna beat FSU?  Lol

[45catfan]

I hope Mendoza goes back to school, but chances are he's going to be QB1 in this class. If the Jets are #1, he might pull an Andrew Luck.  The dude just gets it and I would hate to see a QB with so much potential go to a complete dumpster fire organization like that.

[CarolinaLivin]

On 10/7/2025 at 3:22 PM, CPcavedweller said:

Beck will be a Top 5 pick and it's not really even debatable at this point. Allar will be a Top 5 pick as well. Based on what I've seen out of UGA, the issues with Beck's play last year were not all his fault. He clearly took a lot of heat for it but I watch a lot of college football, and there isn't a better draft eligible QB in the country than Beck right now. That's a hill I'll die on. 

 

 

[kungfoodude]

Weekly reminder that FSU is now 5-15 since Mike Norvell and FSU's crybaby tirade about how they got screwed out of a shot at a national title. 

Please FSU, remind us of how you deserve so much more money than the rest of the ACC and you are the team every conference pines to have(also 1-11 in the ACC since then).

[hepcat]

9 hours ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

Coach was just sick of losing SEC games and went all in.  I don’t hate it.  I didn’t like the call to have the RB jump on the pile for the 2nd straight play though.

I mean the announcers were just saying how huge Texas’s DTs are, and lo and behold here goes Kentucky trying to run up the middle which hasn’t worked all game over and over. They would have scored if they did a play action bootleg and let their QB have the option to try to run it in. Bad playcalling and Kentucky deserved the L. The game was theirs for the taking. 

[hepcat]

9 hours ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

That’s probably the one thing you can bet on not working.  You have to think that Texas straight up dwarfs Kentucky head to head in the trenches.

Texas’s biggest problem is Arch Manning. Get even average level QB play and Texas is back in the top 5. There’s receivers schemes wide open and Arch is out there throwing balls into the dirt and over their heads. Aside from when he’s played bottom dweller teams, Arch doesn’t look the part. I defended him after the OSU loss because it was a hard game to start with, but I can’t anymore. He’s holding the team back. Maybe he will get better but I’m not seeing it. 

[kungfoodude]

6 minutes ago, hepcat said:

Texas’s biggest problem is Arch Manning. Get even average level QB play and Texas is back in the top 5. There’s receivers schemes wide open and Arch is out there throwing balls into the dirt and over their heads. Aside from when he’s played bottom dweller teams, Arch doesn’t look the part. I defended him after the OSU loss because it was a hard game to start with, but I can’t anymore. He’s holding the team back. Maybe he will get better but I’m not seeing it. 

Yeah, it is so obvious Arch is the thing dragging the entire offense down. I wouldn't give the flyingest of flying fugs about that NIL money if I were the HC there. That dude....straight to bench.

Now, this is assuming they didn't clear the entire roster of any meaningful threat to his job. If so.....

[DaveThePanther2008]

16 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Hot take incoming, but Diego Pavia is a better version of Bryce. Probably not an NFL starter but I would not be mad about throwing a 5th at him if the option was there.

Super impressed with this guy.  If he were 6ft he'd be a first round pick.  I loved watching him play. Competitiveness through the roof.  Kind of reminds me a bit of Doug Flutie.