Week 1 Other Games Thread

Ok what happens after this game. I think we all agree Flordia State is a better team!! Does Alabama fall to 12 place and an unranked Florida team moves up to 23. Does that seam right! Does it take three losses or four to get Alabama out of the top 25. No rankings until 3rd week would be much better but tv wants an 11th ranked team on tv even if it is a joke.And no I don't think Alabama is a top 25 team but we will find out but it might take 4 losses to get them out of the rankings.
Iowa St is ranked 22 and think the tide would destroy them. I do agree it takes a few weeks to sort itself out. Have no idea how high Florida St jumps.
 

I always said once saban leaves, bama will come down to earth and be mediocre for a while. Many coaches passed on that opening and only Debo took it. Debo should have stayed, but someone had to lead bama. The coach after Debo will be a crossroads hire for bama.

In today’s times, a blue blood could get left behind quick and take years to come back, (ie: Texas, USC)
 

Note that Lee Corso was the only panelist during Gameday to pick FSU :D
Be better have - his alma mater. Had the school record for INTs for two decades, starting Quarterback in Blue-Gray game, Burt Reynolds’s roommate and a GA there as well.

From his Wikipedia page -

At age 10, he moved with his family to Miami and later attended Miami Jackson High School, where he played quarterback.

A baseball prospect, he was offered a $5,000 bonus to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers as a shortstop.[5] However, he chose college, playing football and baseball at Florida State University(FSU), where he was a roommate of football player and actor Burt Reynolds and future University of Miamibaseball coach Ron Fraser.

While at FSU, Corso earned the nickname "Sunshine Scooter" for his speed on the football field.[6] As a defensive player, he set the school record for most career interceptions (14), a record that stood for more than two decades until it was broken by Monk Bonasorte.[7] Corso was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omegafraternity.

He was the starting quarterback for the South in the 1956 Blue-Gray Game, though his squad lost to the Len Dawson-led North team, 14–0.
 

I always said once saban leaves, bama will come down to earth and be mediocre for a while. Many coaches passed on that opening and only Debo took it. Debo should have stayed, but someone had to lead bama. The coach after Debo will be a crossroads hire for bama.

In today’s times, a blue blood could get left behind quick and take years to come back, (ie: Texas, USC)
Good post.

Or never make it back, ala Nebby and Miami.
 



Someone about to be fired at Alabama if they lose this game to Florida State. down 2 touchdown. I know I know it won't happen.
 

PJ deserves criticism for his conservative strategies sometimes but he would never have his team snapping the ball with 20-30 seconds left on the play clock up one score midway through the 4th. Florida St did it at least twice. One was with a good 30 seconds left after an injury.
 







That the ballgame. Florida State can kneel down and run out the clock. Alabama with no timeouts.
 




They’re athletic but incredibly undisciplined both in terms of eyes and after the whistle
DeBoer came into a lose/lose environment. Saban is likely the greatest coach of all time and had a stranglehold on every aspect of that program. If you screwed up/loafed/took plays off you suffered, and the players knew it. DeBoer isn't Saban and will eventually be sacrificed but it's ultimately not his fault, how do you follow that guy.
 


DeBoer came into a lose/lose environment. Saban is likely the greatest coach of all time and had a stranglehold on every aspect of that program. If you screwed up/loafed/took plays off you suffered, and the players knew it. DeBoer isn't Saban and will eventually be sacrificed but it's ultimately not his fault, how do you follow that guy.
He’ll have enough cash to retire, go to the booth for a while or wait for the next, right opportunity.
 

DeBoer came into a lose/lose environment. Saban is likely the greatest coach of all time and had a stranglehold on every aspect of that program. If you screwed up/loafed/took plays off you suffered, and the players knew it. DeBoer isn't Saban and will eventually be sacrificed but it's ultimately not his fault, how do you follow that guy.
Only three more losses to make them a bubble team.
 


DeBoer came into a lose/lose environment. Saban is likely the greatest coach of all time and had a stranglehold on every aspect of that program. If you screwed up/loafed/took plays off you suffered, and the players knew it. DeBoer isn't Saban and will eventually be sacrificed but it's ultimately not his fault, how do you follow that guy.

Stew and Bruce were discussing USCs struggles the last many years and opined teams with loads of talent still may struggle with outside distractions, NIL, contract negotiations more than any time in CFB history. Of course in the old days players were distracted by other things eg dying of strep throat like George Gipp. But anyway. I wonder if good team chemistry and leadership is more the secret sauce for team success in 2025. Some teams will get better, some worse over the season. Maybe it’s not the coach.

Then again, maybe it really is just subpar coaching. Bad player evals. Injuries. Bad luck. Or the other guy is just better this year.
 






Iowa has a QB who won a Walter Payton award two years ago and are somehow making him look like a third stringer- while playing an FCS team. The Hawkeye effect on QBs should be studied for science.
The guy is a running quarterback. More I Tebow or Joe kapp.
 









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