College Football 2015 season

[nate]

Clemson took on the mighty Wofford Terriers last week.  They have a total of just over 1k students and a 70% acceptance rate.

[nando714]

Ohio state is good

[Vegas Halo Fan]

wow indeed. my niece is a nebraska alum. gonna have to say hello to her about this.

 

My brother-in-law is a huge Husker fan, family is from Nebraska. Wouldn't have wanted to be at my sister's house on Saturday.

 

Watched the New Mexico State-Florida game. Good to see the Gators finally put the ball in the air again after Will Muschamp's 1950 Wisconsin offense of the past four years.

Edited September 8, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

[HeavenlyHalos]

Ohio State is likely to repeat, which sucks. I hate Urban Meyer. Does anyone else find it annoying that ESPN puts Lebron tweets up during the game? I don't give a flying **** what he thinks about football. ESPN is truly awful and has turned into TMZ.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Yeah, i think it's time for some people to drop the "but the sec east sucks" mantra when comparing the conferences.

 

The SEC East has been pretty bad since Urban Meyer left Florida. Georgia has been good and Missouri a nice addition, but not a whole lot there and no team has been a late-season contender for a title. Maybe sucks is too strong of a word, but I view that division as average at best and probably more like below average over the past 5 or so seasons. Also, SEC teams only play 8 in-conference with the East only playing 2 teams in the West, usually gaining an extra win against an FCS school along the way which helps them become bowl eligible. Granted, the Pac12 North does look terrible this year. The Pac 12 is odd in that the two teams that have been title contenders late in the season have been in the North, whereas the South provides all the depth.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Speaking of only playing 8 conference games. The Big ten apparently does this now? When did that start? Weird that the two conferences with the most teams play the least amount of games against each other. Not a bad strategy though as this has worked wonders in garnering extra wins for the SEC. Maybe the Pac-12 should go down to 7?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I am encouraged that the SEC and Pac-12 are beginning to schedule some games against one another.

 

Future SEC vs. Pac-12 games: Keep 'em coming

Edited September 8, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Tank]

enjoyed watching ohio state tonight. Was concerned about the turnovers and the lack of joey bossa on defense, but JT Barrett, Braxton Miller, and Cardale Jones more than made up for it on offense. Things looked good tonight for a proper defense of their title this season.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

The game was close early on, but then it became the game that most of us expected.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

The SEC East has been pretty bad since Urban Meyer left Florida.

 

To extend that further, the SEC East has been pretty bad since Florida hired Will Muschamp. While no coach that I know of could have continued the level of success that Urban Meyer had in Gainesville, to go from Meyer to a defensive coordinator with no head coaching experience, who was an uncontrollable hothead, and who saw offense as a way to rest his defense, quickly undid everything that Meyer had built after the catastrophe that was Ron Zook.

 

To everyone who dubs Jeremy Foley as the "Best athletic director in America", I point out that he got lucky with Billy Donovan (who stayed for almost 20 years), and he hired the two worst football coaches in the history of the University of Florida. By his own admission, he was prepared to keep Muschamp for another season had Florida beaten South Carolina - which with 90 seconds left in the game, looked to be virtually certain. It seemed that the Gators under Muschamp were constantly setting negative records - most yardage surrendered in a game, first losing season in 35 years, first home loss to Vanderbilt since 1945, consecutive Homecoming losses for the first time since the early 1940s, first loss to an FCS team, three losses to teams who had less than 120 yards of total offense...the hits just kept on coming. Yet Florida's AD was prepared to totally obliterate the football program to prevent having to admit being wrong on the Muschamp hire. That is not what the "Best AD in America" does.

[stevestevens]

nothing like getting Vegas going and commenting on Florida athletics.  

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Yes indeed.

[nando714]

I actually really admire urbz as a football coach. He has killed it everyone he has been from BGSU to OSU.

[Lou]

Clemson took on the mighty Wofford Terriers last week.  They have a total of just over 1k students and a 70% acceptance rate.

southern cal lucks out again. They get Idaho when The Vandals will be looking ahead to their big game vs Wofford the following week

[Lou]

I am encouraged that the SEC and Pac-12 are beginning to schedule some games against one another.

 

Future SEC vs. Pac-12 games: Keep 'em coming

Add Oregon vs Auburn in 2019 in Arlington

[Lou]

Speaking of only playing 8 conference games. The Big ten apparently does this now? When did that start? Weird that the two conferences with the most teams play the least amount of games against each other. Not a bad strategy though as this has worked wonders in garnering extra wins for the SEC. Maybe the Pac-12 should go down to 7?

Right, because the PAC 12 rolled over their non-conference opponents last Saturday

[Tank]

i've seen the name wofford more times this week than i can ever remember.

[HeavenlyHalos]

Right, because the PAC 12 rolled over their non-conference opponents last Saturday

 

They were pretty much all bad performances outside of Cal and and USC, which could be the conference champ game matchup.

[nando714]

i've seen the name wofford more times this week than i can ever remember.

Even more than March madness time

[halobob]

Add Oregon vs Auburn in 2019 in Arlington

I wonder if that will have more or less than the 35,000+ empty seats Bama vs. Wiscy had.  

[halobob]

Have an aunt from Nebraska and right before the short pass on thr 2nd to the last play i texted him that BYU was going to win. His response :

" ya right. The Huskers have won 29 straight openers. Make that 30 now !"

Way to use the proper pronouns for your transgender aunt IE, very progressive of you.  

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I actually really admire urbz as a football coach. He has killed it everyone he has been from BGSU to OSU.

He has won and won quickly everywhere he has coached. It's fair to say that without his stop in Salt Lake City, Utah wouldn't be in the Pac 12.

[RallyMo]

They were pretty much all bad performances outside of Cal and and USC, which could be the conference champ game matchup.

Look, I'd love this to be the case more than anybody here, but you're clearly insane. Our defense hasn't improved enough to make that happen. I'm nervous that we'll get smacked by Texas. The Football Bear in me thinks SDSU can beat us.

[nando714]

I was watching "inside pac 12 football" on the p12 network last night and they brought up a good question

Who is Oregon's biggest threat in the north? Cal or Stanford ?

I think it's cal.

[nando714]

Look, I'd love this to be the case more than anybody here, but you're clearly insane. Our defense hasn't improved enough to make that happen. I'm nervous that we'll get smacked by Texas. The Football Bear in me thinks SDSU can beat us.

I think you guys can beat texas. They were awful at nd.