NCAA: 2020 College Football Thread Part 2

[GKJ]

This is.....something

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[GKJ]

Gus Malzahn has been fired.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Gus Malzahn has been fired.

He is owed $21.7 million, 50% of which is due in the first 30 days. They must have really wanted him out.

Candidates who might be considered for the vacancy include Steele, Indiana's Tom Allen, Liberty's Hugh Freeze, Oregon's Mario Cristobal, Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin, Louisiana's Billy Napier, Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, former Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn and Clemson offensive coordinator Tony Elliott and defensive coordinator Brent Venables.

Auburn can't win without paying people and breaking rules, which means Freeze is the obvious choice. Kiffin could be an early leader as well, having gotten the requisite one season in at Ole' Miss and what appears to be a better opportunity available.

For train wreck purposes, please put Quinn in there.

 

[DaveG]

Ha, didn’t realize Mack Brown once fired Manny Diaz at Texas

To be fair, he was right to. Texas's defenses under Diaz were shit at the time. I know his first year as UT's DC was impressive but the next year they fell off the cliff hard. They gave up 30+ 5 consecutive weeks, 45+ for 3 straight in that stretch, mind you two of those opponents were a good Oklahoma team and a WVU offense that was putting up Tecmo Bowl numbers at the time. But you don't have your defense give up 42 to a Bill Snyder K-State team and get to keep your job for much longer.

 

[John Price]

FSU actually has a good QB for once

Not sure how effective he'll be

 

[GKJ]

Sounds like Blackshirt disciples were expecting/hoping Milton would go to Nebraska and reunite with Scott Frost. I think his family moved to Florida so it made sense.

 

[John Price]

Kid hasn't played in like 2 years

Whoknows if he'll even be effective

Is he really that much better than who FSU has now?

 

[DaveG]

Starting to sound like Art Briles is going to take over for Freeze at Liberty soon as he signs elsewhere, which is a matter of when, no if. Won't shock me if Freeze takes the Auburn job given they clearly give zero shits about NCAA sanctions with what's going on with their basketball program.

 

[Cush]

 

[PanthersPens62]

Sounds like the Rose Bowl is in danger of being canceled & having the Cotton Bowl replace it as one of the CFP semifinal games this year.

Mandel: Rose Bowl CFP semifinal in danger if ACC, SEC get their wish

 

[GKJ]

In reality, they probably should if USC won't be in it.

May be an excuse to put them in.

 

[GKJ]

Florida giving up 34 and losing to a sub-.500 LSU and only dropping to 7 is absolute hot bullshit.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Florida giving up 34 and losing to a sub-.500 LSU and only dropping to 7 is absolute hot bullshit.

they will have 3 losses after Alabama runs them out of the building Saturday night

 

[GKJ]

they will have 3 losses after Alabama runs them out of the building Saturday night

This will happen but I also don’t think Alabama can be out now in any scenario. If they lose they won’t fall past 4. Big question is what happens with USC if they beat Oregon, bc even though they’re 13, are they really going to leave out an undefeated Power-5 champion even though they only will have played 6 games?

 

[Ted Hoffman]

This will happen but I also don’t think Alabama can be out now in any scenario. If they lose they won’t fall past 4. Big question is what happens with USC if they beat Oregon, bc even though they’re 13, are they really going to leave out an undefeated Power-5 champion even though they only will have played 6 games?

I'm waiting for the semis to get picked, then someone has to bail out because of 'ronies and they go bring in someone as a replacement.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[Tryamw]

Florida's ranking is a joke even by CFP committee standards. Iowa St. Jumping Cincinnati Coastal Carolina still screwed with 2-3 top 25 wins. 11-0 and if they go 12-0 they still may not get a NY 6 bowl...

 

[John Price]

@GKJ VT opted out of the bowl game so the streak comes to an end.

typical

osu has dominated b10 recruiting for years

this is no surprise

 

[PhillyWings]

Please delete if this was already posted somewhere.

SCOTUS to review NCAA athlete payment case

 

[GKJ]

@GKJ VT opted out of the bowl game so the streak comes to an end.


typical

osu has dominated b10 recruiting for years

this is no surprise

They didn’t really deserve to be at a bowl anyways.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

This will happen but I also don’t think Alabama can be out now in any scenario. If they lose they won’t fall past 4. Big question is what happens with USC if they beat Oregon, bc even though they’re 13, are they really going to leave out an undefeated Power-5 champion even though they only will have played 6 games?

How is their schedule strength? Ohio State has to lose and I think the ND/Clemson game has to be a blowout. But I think in that scenario Iowa State would get in provided they win on Saturday.
They really need to expand the field. Lower division football has 16 team or more tournaments. Not saying they should jump to 16 teams but the field definitely needs to be expanded

 

[Mr Misunderstood]

Based on the most recent CFP rankings, realistically there are only a few teams that can make the playoff.
Alabama
ND
Clemson
Ohio St.
Texas A&M
Iowa St.
Oklahoma
Florida

Say ALL of the higher seeds lose in their championship games - Bama, OSU, ND, Iowa St. - then the top 4 would be:
1 Clemson
2 ND
3 Alabama
4 Florida / A&M (argue away)

If ALL of the higher seeds lose in their championship games except ND - Bama, OSU, Clemson, Iowa St. - then the top 4 would be:
1 ND
2 Alabama
3 A&M
4 Florida / Oklahoma (argue away)

G5 should flip the bird to the CFP and have a 4 team playoff with semis on 1/2/21 and the G5 final at noon on 1/9/21 before the NFL wild card games start.
1 Cincy
2 Coastal
3 BYU
4 Louisiana

 

[Ted Hoffman]

G5 should flip the bird to the CFP and have a 4 team playoff with semis on 1/2/21 and the G5 final at noon on 1/9/21 before the NFL wild card games start.
1 Cincy
2 Coastal
3 BYU
4 Louisiana

This would be significantly more entertaining, especially since there's no feeling of oh yeah, of course I'd expect Alabama and Clemson to win and play for the national title yet again.

 

[Mr Misunderstood]

This would be significantly more entertaining, especially since there's no feeling of oh yeah, of course I'd expect Alabama and Clemson to win and play for the national title yet again.

More playoff football is better than less.

 

[Odie Cleghorn]

Florida was probably ranked 7th because the committee is not worried about them beating Alabama. If they lose they will be dropped out of the top 25. And if they win the committee can crow that the ranking was correct (of course that may contribute to a difficult final ranking)