NCAAF 2023 - WEEK THREE

[EVA]

As much as people complain about the competitive nature (or lack thereof) in those types of P5 vs. Low-G5/non-FBS games, the way those game filter significant sums of money from the top of the sport down to the lower levels is actually vital to the CFB ecosystem, and it would be terrible for the overall health of the sport if they went away. Lots of small programs would fold without being able to collect a big check for doing a homecoming job. The SEC’s infamous “SoCon Saturday” in late November is like Christmas Day for those schools.

[Brian Fowler]

Nevermind my memory is broken

Edited September 14, 2023 by Brian Fowler

[hammerva]

So apparently the coach of Colorado State decided to choose violence on himself calling out Deion Sanders saying stuff like "take your hat and shades off inside like an adult.  Yeah that is a hell of a strategy.  

[DangerMark]

I don't know what he was hoping to achieve there other than outing himself as a fuddy-duddy.

[EVA]

It appears Tyler Buchner is getting the start for Bama tomorrow. He probably should’ve gotten a chance in the 2nd half vs. Texas. Interested to see what he does with the opportunity. Likely fewer spectacular plays but also not nearly as many boneheaded ones.

[EVA]

I think the result I’m most interested in this weekend is the rating for the Colorado game. If they pull 4 million for a G5 opponent at a 10pm eastern kick, I don’t think anyone is qualified to estimate the top for their games against Oregon and USC the next two weeks.

[EVA]

I didn’t include FSU @ BC in my ranked team on the road upset list, and yet…here they are, hanging on to a 2-point lead late in the 4th.

[Brian Fowler]

2 minutes ago, EVA said:

I didn’t include FSU @ BC in my ranked team on the road upset list, and yet…here they are, hanging on to a 2-point lead late in the 4th.

Yeah did the Seminoles forget that there's a fourth quarter?

Also Kansas State/Missouri...

[EVA]

Mizzou got K-State.

[hammerva]

The announcers are spending way too much about some yellow thing on the field that nobody can really see and was so after the kick anyway that it doesn't mean anything

 

[EVA]

18 penalties for BC today, including the game-deciding face mask. Talk about giving a game away.

[Brian Fowler]

Yeah brutal way to lose.

Well, Florida State is in prime position to fall a couple spots in the polls if the right teams have good showings.

[Brian Fowler]

If Illinois didn't commit five turnover, they might've been able to make a game of it with Penn State.

[hammerva]

Still pretty early and the weather is a huge factor so far but some strange early scores in the Alabama and Georgia games

[Brian Fowler]

CMU is hanging in against Notre Dame a lot better than I expected.

They aren't likely to win or anything, but they have a chance to cut it back to one score.

[Kevin Wilson]

So this Alabama/South Florida game reminds me of when I worked as a camera operator for the University of Richmond in 2005. They seem to only have a two camera setup and neither camera is overly useful. Not sure if the lightening knocked out cameras or South Florida doesn't have the budget for more than two cameras.

[Cobra Commander]

flashback to the end of Mizzou/K-State:

timeout to ice the kicker, I wonder "why would you need to ice a guy trying to kick a 61 yard field goal"... then he makes the kick easily

there was one miss in Dawgs/Cocks (Georgia/SC) that was one of those "hey why do top programs still struggle with field goal kicking" moments. Yeah there's a few solid theories in play

Edited September 16, 2023 by Cobra Commander

[Brian Fowler]

Whatever Kirby Smart said at halftime seems to have worked.

[Cobra Commander]

also Iowa State loses to Ohio, doesn't feel like it's gonna be a good season for the Clones

[hammerva]

6 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said:

So this Alabama/South Florida game reminds me of when I worked as a camera operator for the University of Richmond in 2005. They seem to only have a two camera setup and neither camera is overly useful. Not sure if the lightening knocked out cameras or South Florida doesn't have the budget for more than two cameras.

they had a camera shot from the top of the stadium and you needed binoculars to see the punt on TV.  

[Cobra Commander]

Okay, cool, I found a station on RadioGarden that's streaming Alabama/USF. I had to pull myself away from an Alabama oldies AM station that's playing Big Band era music right now.

Not sure how much of the CFB radio culture still exists since they actually started airing games on TV.

[BloodyChamp]

The Colorado St coach really isn’t doing anything Deion hasn’t done IMO. He’s just talking shit because nothing else is going to work. This won’t work either, but it’s hardly anything personal like they’re selling it. 

My Seminoles will be ok but we were incredibly stupid today. We tried to hard, going all the way back to our practice week, to reach a certain plateau that every national contender reaches. That plateau was treating a losable game like a “takin care a bidness game.” They repeated the phrase around here all week like the game didn’t even matter, but also like they were taking it sooooo seriously. We’re good…but we’re not 90s Seminoles good where conference opponents are meaningless games where we can have false modesty. 

So then came the game finally. They scored, we responded, got it together at halftime, then it was 31-10. That game should have been over right there. We should have ran it out and been done with it. Instead we kept trying for a knockout and fooled around and let them back into it. Then on defense that quarterback wasn’t that good. We just kept going for the knockout there too. We flew in for all these big hits and missed instead of wrapping up. 

 

Edited September 16, 2023 by BloodyChamp

[Cobra Commander]

somebody is gonna figure how to use the NIL money to get the 19 year olds who can kick footballs to go to the big schools

[Brian Fowler]

According to the ESPN stats department, Mizzou's game winner was the longest field goal by an SEC team ever (but not actually the longest in Missouri history. They hit a 62 yarder during the old Big 8 days.)

[Brian Fowler]

Oh and CMU ceased being competitive with Notre Dame right about the time they got to first and goal down 14 midway through the third. Irish held them to a field goal and nothing after that.