2025 College Football Thread

[Bama Panther]

Just now, kungfoodude said:

INB4 that clown says "BuT, BuT, BuT, wE bEaT fSu. VeRy QuAlItY wIn!!! ThEy LoSt!!!"

Despite the fact that Miami would get drug by just about every non-G5 opponent in this playoffs, including Alabama.

This is just FSU crybaby poo 2.0, minus the actual logic of being undefeated. You don't get bonus points for losing games you should have won against vs. Louisville and SMU. 

I get that Bama should take a hit for losing to FSU. That’s why they dropped after at loss and had to work their way back up. However, why are we arguing about losses instead of who teams best. That’s insane to me. 

[kungfoodude]

1 minute ago, Bama Panther said:

I get that Bama should take a hit for losing to FSU. That’s why they dropped after at loss and had to work their way back up. However, why are we arguing about losses instead of who teams best. That’s insane to me. 

It's all on the table when crybaby time comes around during college football/basketball season.

It's funny that this rarely happens in professional sports because they all know the rules and follow them.

The NFL has some wild tiebreaker rules too once you get deep into them, down to a literal coin toss(not making this up). Yet....rarely crybaby poo like this annual cycle that whatever form of the BCS/Playoffs/Newspaper national champion there is.

It's genuinely why I hate college football fans so much. Lowest common denominator in major US sports. Anything doesn't go their way and it's a parade of crying and excuses.

[csx]

19 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

It's all on the table when crybaby time comes around during college football/basketball season.

It's funny that this rarely happens in professional sports because they all know the rules and follow them.

The NFL has some wild tiebreaker rules too once you get deep into them, down to a literal coin toss(not making this up). Yet....rarely crybaby poo like this annual cycle that whatever form of the BCS/Playoffs/Newspaper national champion there is.

It's genuinely why I hate college football fans so much. Lowest common denominator in major US sports. Anything doesn't go their way and it's a parade of crying and excuses.

It's beyond pathetic. 

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, csx said:

It's beyond pathetic. 

And then if the ACC were to change the rules to suit the "aggrieved" parties, a couple of years from now they would be crying about those same changes that now went against them again.

It will be fun to see one of the Notre Dame, Alabama and Miami fanbases absolutely losing their poo by this afternoon.

There is no logic behind Miami suddenly jumping Notre Dame, so they seem pretty safe. It's going to come down to how far Alabama falls in the rankings. 

Anything is possible with the rampant corruption in college football.

[HPPantherzfan]

33 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

It's all on the table when crybaby time comes around during college football/basketball season.

It's funny that this rarely happens in professional sports because they all know the rules and follow them.

The NFL has some wild tiebreaker rules too once you get deep into them, down to a literal coin toss(not making this up). Yet....rarely crybaby poo like this annual cycle that whatever form of the BCS/Playoffs/Newspaper national champion there is.

It's genuinely why I hate college football fans so much. Lowest common denominator in major US sports. Anything doesn't go their way and it's a parade of crying and excuses.

Well part of that is the fact that it’s a bunch of old guys in a room with opinions that the rest of us have to live with.  The playoffs are supposed to be the best teams.  Is JMU one of the best 12 teams?  No.  Is Tulane one of the best 12 teams?  No.  ND, Miami and Vandy should be in it.  They have to get a system where it’s not opinions.

[kungfoodude]

Just now, HPPantherzfan said:

Well part of that is the fact that it’s a bunch of old guys in a room with opinions that the rest of us have to live with.  The playoffs are supposed to be the best teams.  Is JMU one of the best 12 teams?  No.  Is Tulane one of the best 12 teams?  No.  ND, Miami and Vandy should be in it.  They have to get a system where it’s not opinions.

The rules are the rules. Is it fair that a 7-9 Panthers team gets in the playoffs over other NFC teams with winning records??

I mean...we still won the division, right?

Random old men didn't decide that the five top ranked conference champions would get automatic bids....the fuging conferences agreed to that format.

Also, I am gonna point out that 100% of ALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS are 100% OPINION BASED. 

There has never been anything but opinions that dictate college football champions. It's has been that way since it's literal inception.

Again, it's why it is so criminally stupid as a "sport."

[LinvilleGorge]

It doesn't matter if you have 4 teams, 16, 100, whatever. There are going to be teams with a decent argument to be included that get left out and feel snubbed. It just is what it is. Happens every year in the basketball tournament too with a much larger field. What I like about the 12 team field is that I feel like it's going to include every team with a legit shot to win it all. Will there be teams with a decent argument to be included that get left out every year? Yeah. There still would be if you expanded to 16 teams too. Do those teams have a legit chances to win three games in a row against top 12 competition? Honestly, no. Miami, Bama, and ND all have decent arguments of why they should be included but at the end of the day I'm not gonna cry for any of them being left out because I honestly just don't care because none of the three have the chops to win it all so I'm not gonna cry about the schedule fodder. I completely understand the fans of those teams really wanting their team in and I would too. But you gotta be honest and realize that your team has put themselves in a position of being a bubble team by losing games. It is what it is. Somebody with a decent argument to be in is always gonna be out no matter what.

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

Va Tech fires Brent Pry in September and then Franklin hires him back as DC this weekend. 

What a weird, ironic, confusing situation.  

[LinvilleGorge]

15 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

Va Tech fires Brent Pry in September and then Franklin hires him back as DC this weekend. 

What a weird, ironic, confusing situation.  

That is pretty wild but I guess it does speak pretty highly of him that VT welcomed him back in a lesser role shortly after firing him. He was Franklin's DC at Penn State for years prior to taking the VT job so it makes sense on that front. Says a lot about Frankin too to keep the former HC around, the prior working relationship no doubt plays a big role there. Can't imagine keeping the fired HC around in a lesser role unless he'd already worked under you in the past.

Being a really good coordinator doesn't always translate to being a good HC. I guess credit to VT for not losing a good coordinator because he failed as a HC.

[LinvilleGorge]

Okay Miami stans, you can calm down. You're in. Now take your ass whooping and STFU. LOL

Kinda bullshit that OSU stays at #2 over UGA at #3 but whatever.

JMU and Tulane both in. Tukane is playing Ole Miss going through the whole Lane Kiffin fiasco so maybe they have a chance? JMU is gonna lose by 4+ scores to Oregon in Oregon though. 

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

Dear Oregon and Ole Miss, 

Please beat the dogpiss out of James Madison and Tulane (again for Ole Miss), so the CFP can change this rule and stop this mockery of letting these junior varsity teams in the CFP. 

Sincerely Yours, 

Football Fans

[LinvilleGorge]

3 minutes ago, HeelsPanthersCanes said:

Dear Oregon and Ole Miss, 

Please beat the dogpiss out of James Madison and Tulane (again for Ole Miss), so the CFP can change this rule and stop this mockery of letting these junior varsity teams in the CFP. 

Sincerely Yours, 

Football Fans

Yeah, Saban was basically just saying without outright saying it that the group of five needs to be a different division and honestly he's right. 

[HeelsPanthersCanes]

3 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Kinda bullshit that OSU stays at #2 over UGA at #3 but whatever.

The whole process is bullshit.  

Notre Dame was "better" than Miami 6 days ago, nothing change for those two teams, and now Miami is "better".

Alabama gets whipped in the conference title game, stays put.  Ohio State barely loses their conference title game, drops a spot and now gets Georgia in the semis instead of Texas Tech.  Wouldn't have mattered, but BYU also dropped a spot after losing in the same fashion Alabama did.  Bama is lucky Saban works for ESPN. 

Ole Miss already beat the brakes off of Tulane.  James Madison's team watch party looks like a scene from Wolf Of Wall Street with all the 5'10 white guys in there.  I'll set the combined spread for Oregon and Ole Miss at -62.5.

 

[LinvilleGorge]

I really don't get this whole Miami/ND "controversy". Both two loss teams, both weak schedules, and Miami beat ND head to head. 

Honestly, if anyone has an argument for being snubbed it's BYU. They have better wins than Miami and ND and only two losses, both to the #4 playoff team Texas Tech. Yeah, both losses were lopsided but so was Bama's ass whipping yesterday and they're still in as a three loss team.