2024 College Football Thread

[LinvilleGorge]

27 minutes ago, HPPantherzfan said:

I’m curious as to why you say this?  You know the ACC won the head to head last year…right?  7-5.  You think that because you’ve been feed that for years.  I wouldn’t be surprised if the ACC wins head to head again this year.  Not to mention, the SEC hasn’t been the top conference in bowl games for a few years now, they are not what we’ve all been told.  It’s easy to win a bunch of nattys when fat guys smoking cigars in a room, paid for by the SEC committee puts you in the championship game ever year.  Just look at last year, and Alabama was 1 and done…but money talks

And what were those matchups? I know I for one put a lot of weight into games like UNC vs. Minnesota in week one to gauge overall conference strength.

[OldhamA]

2 hours ago, CRA said:

Sure it is. But you aren’t a great team if you are having to pull away from ACC teams late in the 4th essentially every single week.   

Again, neutral field, they aren’t really even going to be favored over both SMU and Clemson IMO.   So what are you then?  

Miami might win the ACC. If you do, it’s the power of the QB spot. You got the best QB in likely the nation.  So congrats.   

Good teams win, great teams cover the spread. We've covered the spread A LOT this year.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

https://collegefootballnetwork.com/college-football-playoff-predictor

Fun little predictor. You can pick every game for the rest of the season. Right now my 12 are:

1. Ohio St. (bye)

2. Miami (bye)

3. Georgia (bye)

4. Arizona St. (bye)

5. Oregon VS 12. BYU

6. Boise St. VS 11. SMU

7. Notre Dame VS 10. Texas

8. Penn St. VS 9. Indiana

 

That gives me:

Oregon/OSU for the third time this year (Oregon)

Miami lucking out once again VS Indiana

SMU playing cinderella VS ASU

Texas/Georgia one more time (Texas)

 

That gives me:

SMU/Miami again (Miami)

Oregon/Texas (Oregon)

 

Oregon then trashes Miami in the finals.

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Brooklyn 3.0

[CRA]

1 hour ago, OldhamA said:

Good teams win, great teams cover the spread. We've covered the spread A LOT this year.

I mean that’s not an argument I go with…

But in ACC play, both Clemson and SMU covered the spread more than Miami. 

Miami didn’t cover in 3 games.  

[Davidson Deac II]

5 hours ago, CRA said:

If you don’t punish teams for losing in a title game then how would you keep Miami out if they win this weekend and then lose to SMU?   They would have to get an at large in that scenario. 
 

They would be punishing them for losing to GT. 

[HPPantherzfan]

9 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

And what were those matchups? I know I for one put a lot of weight into games like UNC vs. Minnesota in week one to gauge overall conference strength.

I’m not sure I’ll have to look that up but honestly, to me, it does t matter.  You have to play the games on the field and on your schedule.  Doesn’t matter if it’s week one or week 12, a conference that is light years behind another conference shouldn’t be in the conversation of any wins against them, again week one or week 12

Edited 2 hours ago by HPPantherzfan

[CRA]

6 hours ago, Davidson Deac II said:

They would be punishing them for losing to GT. 

That’s already baked in to a degree with their poll that has been out.  Miami will be #6 going into that weekend. 

the college football gods already helped prop Miami up and got them through VT, Cal.   CFP Committee isn’t bumping Cam Ward out of the playoffs once they put them up at 6.   The teams don’t exist to leapfrog them out at that point.  

it would take a Cam Ward injury to knock Miami out.  It he got hurt and they lost…Miami should be knocked out like a FSU IMO