NCAA 2022 - NCAA - Week 1

[AJ_2000]

Things starting to get interesting at East Lansing.

Michigan State in contol just before the half 21-3 and on the march for points to close out the half, but throw a pick when Thorn could have kept running for the first down (and maybe more).

Their first drive of a second get bailed out with a generous PI call that should have been a pick, but a few snaps later lose a fumble.

WM go on a drive for a TD. 21-10. Big drive here

 

[AJ_2000]

Scrubbed the kick on the FG.... Game is on if WM get a score here.

 

[AJ_2000]

21-13 at the end of 3. Turnovers swing games. That one before half time seemed careless, but got WM going

 

[drd23]

 

[juddy_Like]

I'm for expansion. Best teams avoid each other like the plague with their scheduling, even teams in the same conference (Georgia and Bama play twice every 12 years) are guilty of this.

Teams won't end their chance at the playoff with a single loss.

How are the best teams avoiding each other? Noting the 'best teams' are ever-changing and hard to determine with these games often schedule years in advance but assuming you mean the big names, this year you have:

• ND v OSU
• Texas v Bama
• FSU v LSU

This is all before conferences start to move to Pods when the SEC & B10 go to 16 teams, meaning you will play everyone in the conference within 4 years.

Teams chances end with a loss really only applies to the smaller conferences but again most of them play schedules the better teams will win by 50 every week anyways. My gripe again is, are these teams in with a realistic chance of the National Championship or we just rewarding them to participate?
For the bigger teams, a lot of one losses can be forgiven by winning your conference game. Look at Michigan and Bama as examples last year.

 

[aussiedude]

How are the best teams avoiding each other? Noting the 'best teams' are ever-changing and hard to determine with these games often schedule years in advance but assuming you mean the big names, this year you have:

• ND v OSU
• Texas v Bama
• FSU v LSU

This is all before conferences start to move to Pods when the SEC & B10 go to 16 teams, meaning you will play everyone in the conference within 4 years.

Teams chances end with a loss really only applies to the smaller conferences but again most of them play schedules the better teams will win by 50 every week anyways. My gripe again is, are these teams in with a realistic chance of the National Championship or we just rewarding them to participate?
For the bigger teams, a lot of one losses can be forgiven by winning your conference game. Look at Michigan and Bama as examples last year.

Its more about the SEC and Big10 playing 9 game conference schedules. and the 2 cupcake games. especially when they always schedule a cupcake game before a rivalry game. but thats mostly just a SEC issue.

 

[Shade]

Oregon are woeful

 

[AJ_2000]

SEC schedules 4 out of conference games each season. Most consist of 2 against schools you've never heard of from the fcs, 1 against a terrible FBS program,. The final opponent will be a trash tyo decent FBS side.

On the list this year are likely to be top 25 would include Utah, Oregon, Cinci, Pitt, Texas. So of 54 possible OOC opponents, 6 look like reasonable, bh(ut hardly a murders row.

 

[Shade]

This is what worries me about a 12 team playoff.

This is david vs goliath oregon stink

 

[Dirty Bird]

Expanded playoffs opens up recruitment.

No longer can Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma pitch a near certain path to playoffs which other teams cant. Now a school like Penn State can make a pitch better. A school like Washington can make a pitch better. The higher end schools of Gof5 like Boise State, San Diego State, Memphis etc. (Had to ignore UCF/Cincy who are going BigXII) can pitch better.

It'll create more parity on recruiting, Though, it's still a few years away.

Such a restrictive playoff ruined this sport. We either had to go back a step to the BCS model (those schools can't make a near guarantee so can't recruit that well) or take a leap forward and expand.
Unfortunately, we probably wont see all 10 champs (Which would imo, fix the balance) until it gets to 24 teams. And that's just too much. Hopefully it stays at 12 for at least 20 years. Because I do truly believe it'll make the sport better. Especially in time with more parity in recruiting.

 

[Shade]

Have a feeling Ohio State will demolish the Irish - New young coach, New QB starting.

Oregon style.

 

[AJ_2000]

Have a feeling Ohio State will demolish the Irish - New young coach, New QB starting.

Oregon style.

They're like 22 point favourites. But Ohio State layed an egg last year at home against Oregon.... But super unlikely today

 

[Constantgin]

Notre dame should cover the spread atleast but i am hoping for a surprise victory.

Let's go Irish

 

[AJ_2000]

Week One always throws up a few strange results.

Iowa taking on FCS South Dakota State and won 7-3.



Yep 2 safeties and 1 FG

 

[Shade]

Irish have come to play

 

[BuddysBuddy23]

Irish have come to play

Sure have. Flying around on defence early. Smith-Njigba on the sidelines with a leg injury too

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Nice, Packers ST's should try and pull this off aussiedude

 

[rumply]

lol Utah, I could have scored there...

 

[aussiedude]

 

[drd23]

WTF was that defensive play call by ND? Cover 0 with the safeties blitzing way too late to influence anything is suicide

 

[juddy_Like]

Expanded playoffs opens up recruitment.

No longer can Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma pitch a near certain path to playoffs which other teams cant. Now a school like Penn State can make a pitch better. A school like Washington can make a pitch better. The higher end schools of Gof5 like Boise State, San Diego State, Memphis etc. (Had to ignore UCF/Cincy who are going BigXII) can pitch better.

It'll create more parity on recruiting, Though, it's still a few years away.

Such a restrictive playoff ruined this sport. We either had to go back a step to the BCS model (those schools can't make a near guarantee so can't recruit that well) or take a leap forward and expand.
Unfortunately, we probably wont see all 10 champs (Which would imo, fix the balance) until it gets to 24 teams. And that's just too much. Hopefully it stays at 12 for at least 20 years. Because I do truly believe it'll make the sport better. Especially in time with more parity in recruiting.

I could not disagree with this any more.

If you ask the recruits, they say the biggest priority is getting to the NFL and the millions there. That's why the Georgias/Bamas/OSU/Clemson of the world dominate the recruiting as they dominate the first two rounds of the draft. They will still continue do this with and oh you've gone from 'near certain path' to 'dead certain path' to the playoffs. A player is not going to pick Boise State over Georgia because the Broncos are now in the playoffs as a 12th seed. Washington FWIW have made the playoffs.

What you're going to have now is players sitting out more meaningless games as the less important ones are a risk to injury but also don't matter as you can still lose and make the playoffs. I also can't see why fans would turn out to the early season games when you now have:

• Rivalry game
• Conference championship game
• Playoff game
• Bowl game
• National championship game

Say you make three of them (which is really the minimum), that's a lot to ask especially when you have travel, flights, leave, etc to consider.

What the sport requires is the big boys that have been a joke for the last 10-20 years... the Texas, USC, Miami, Tennessee of the world to start playing up the level that they are meant to be which is equal to the big boys. Remember Alabama were just a big of a joke before Saban got there. What this does in turn is close off the recruiting to Florida, Texas, Cal which the big boys have been taking at ease from.

 

[drd23]

 

[drd23]

Rising throws the game away for Utah with an INT in the end zone

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

 

[Dirty Bird]

College ball sucks