Recent content by Scottsdale Gopher

Follow the bouncing logic ball today: Alabama cannot be punished for losing in the conference championship, but BYU can Alabama and Notre Dame cannot be punished for losing a marquee non-conference game Miami cannot be rewarded for winning a marquee non-conference game SEC conference losses...

LMAO I’m sure none of the teams Texas beat “won the stat battle.”

As we've seen first-hand, facilities investments take time to be realized (additional fundraising and construction time) and only get you closer to the current standard which has typically moved by the time you complete your own project.

Koi's not above criticism, there were some bad run fits and some missed tackles this year. But the reason they stick out is the overall decline of the defense, something I believe he helped minimize. Jack Henderson was a bigger loss than I think a lot of people admit and his role was filled by...

Look, I'm not going to tell you anyone is at Tyrone Carter's level. But as a true sophomore, Koi greatly outperformed Antoine Winfield, Jr. (20 total tackles, 1 TFL, no turnovers)

I wonder if Jimbo would leave one of his ranches for the Penn State job.

Sincerely don't know the answer to this: Do JUCO players sign on NSD or are they technically part of the portal?

Who are the realistic candidates for Penn State at this point? Would they be willing to hire a coordinator from a P4 program? If not, the list of coaches that didn't just re-up and would be willing to leave is pretty short and unlikely to meet fan expectations. Matt Campbell was mentioned above...

This is the inevitable logic from SEC schools, fans, and media. The team in sixth place in the conference should be part of a 12 team tournament to crown a national champion: Maybe we're overlooking Michigan and USC!

McCarthy is in the concussion protocol per the team. It's now very likely Max will start the next game.

This is simultaneously the most strange and most believable aspect of college football.

I think that's right. There are ~20 power conference schools that win 10+ games in a season right now (after postseason). In a 12 game schedule against equally talented teams, the probability of winning 10+ games is around 2%. Obviously even a 20 team league would not have equally distributed...

I don't know which of the groups of schools would win or lose, but I would thoroughly enjoy the brawl amongst the schools to be included. I think ten posters on this board putting together a list of 20 teams to be in a super league would come up with ten different lists.

My concept is that the tiers are talent based, not record based. The distribution of talent in B1G is very condensed (as seen in annual recruiting rankings), such that there are not true thirds as you're suggesting. Here's the team talent rankings for the B1G from cfbdepth.com with their...

I think Iowa is roughly what most of this board wants/believes PJ provides: a half-step to a full-step above the middle with an opportunity every five years or so to be amongst the elite. But in a big conference with unbalanced schedules, you might find your "peers" to be lesser teams.