Recent content by GopherTheJugular

My concern would be more of like a Joe Burrow going down against South Florida, where clearly the team that was the best during the regular season now can't even sniff the NC game because of an injury in a game they were 99.99999% likely to win. And people bring up the NFL, but look back at...

First off, nice post. You have good points. I'll try to respond in a good manner. I'm more arguing that the point differential would be worse. There were two G5 teams right? (You left out the 38-10 game). I think this is just a matter of perspective. You might be looking at it from the...

In good nature debate (versus some of the arguing on other threads lol) I'd like to respond. Just because other leagues do it doesn't mean it's the best way - it might be the best way, or most profitable way, for other leagues, but college football was unique in this regard. I think a lot of...

Great point.

The idea was that they didn't want some schools having dozens of "walk ons" who are really just scholarshipped athletes but would be using NIL instead of the scholly to pay for tuition.

Respectfully, the counter to this is that you care more about some fans of an underdog school enjoying their invite more than having a competitive game on TV. I think an easy compromise would be to have these teams play the top dogs in the OOC games. If JMU or South Florida can start beating...

Nope. Never will happen. Not to bring politics into this, but there is a better chance of a 3rd party winning the White House.

You forgot Northwestern State. Even though they didn't look so hot against our mighty Gophs, who knows how they'd do if they felt they had a shot at competing for the national championship? They would certainly be more focused, and in football anything can happen, right? Expand to 128 teams...

What scale are you "weighing" with? How does the "excitement" at the campus of JMU or South Florida outweigh all the TVs that will turn off when the game is 28-0 in the first quarter? Now I can't give a concrete example since a G5 team hasn't made the NC but how about TCU from a few years ago...

And lots of teams and fans were happy ending their season with a win, even if it wasn't the NC game.

What was the point then? Every year people were bitchin' about the #3 team not making it; they weren't upset the #13 team or where ever a G5 team ended up didn't make it. Looking back from the time the BCS came along (late 90's) to when this 12 team playoff started, there is one time I can...

I'm at the point of wondering, if the NCAA or whoever even tried to deem someone "ineligible" for some reason and the team just played him anyways, would anyone even care?

Gotta admit, your recap is pretty funny, especially the bolded.

From ESPN: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/47025472/college-sports-commission-moves-bolster-nil-policing-power The College Sports Commission -- the new enforcement agency of college sports -- has asked all schools under its purview to agree to waive their right to challenge...

You've got a good point here. I would say I was kind of part of that, but not a "bandwagon" fan. Like, I enjoyed watching Alabama try and run the table during Saban's tenue and I'd enjoy seeing if anyone could knock them off - but I wasn't an Alabama fan per se. I just liked that the game had...