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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.

It's been mentioned elsewhere that the size of the conferences now creates a vast middle that frequently will include teams that do not consider themselves part of the middle. But the other thing the vast middle creates is a lot of games between teams of similar levels of talent. I think the...

The Gophers have hit that range two other times under Fleck: The bowl game against Georgia Tech in 2018 (+30) and the Maryland beatdown in 2019 (+27.5). They've had two other games of +24: @Michigan State in 2022 and this year against Nebraska. A quick search for a moneyline said Gophers +1100...

This post by @bleedsmaroonandgold made me wonder how Minnesota has fared ATS during PJ Fleck’s tenure. While gambling markets are by no means a perfect measure of performance, they are one to evaluate the program against expectations. I was interested in how the Gophers have performed against...

More matchup details.... Oregon's offense doesn't suffer many negative plays, but has a lot of explosives. Can the Gophers defense break that trend? The Gopher offense continues to struggle to generate explosives (water is wet) and the Oregon defense also does not surrender them. Can the...

Big time contrast in defensive styles coming up. As we've seen, the Gophers have been able to create negative plays. Oregon, by contrast, gives up very few explosive plays. The Gophers will probably need to be +2 (or better) in TO to come away with the win.