NCAA GDT: Week 2

[Live in the Now]

Tennessee won the national championship the first year I watched college football in earnest, which I guess shows my age, that was 21 years ago

Florida for me. So just a few years before.

It’s also easy to pinpoint exactly what’s wrong with Tennessee and why it’s over for them. You get a few cracks to stop the downward spiral and they whiffed on all of them. Now they have weak talent and a weak coach. Usually when a team is headed downward they have good talent with a bad coach that can be replaced by a good coach, but the chance for that passed a while ago. The other teams in Their conference are now so much more powerful and have sway on the trail. So it’s over. There is basically nothing they can do because a good coach won’t go there.

USC has the same problem, but they continue to recruit very well while having weak coaches. If Helton lucked into another great QB, he won’t lose his job and they’ll have a strong team again even though he sucks.

 

[GKJ]

Florida for me. So just a few years before.

It’s also easy to pinpoint exactly what’s wrong with Tennessee and why it’s over for them. You get a few cracks to stop the downward spiral and they whiffed on all of them. Now they have weak talent and a weak coach. Usually when a team is headed downward they have good talent with a bad coach that can be replaced by a good coach, but the chance for that passed a while ago. The other teams in Their conference are now so much more powerful and have sway on the trail. So it’s over. There is basically nothing they can do because a good coach won’t go there,

USC has the same problem, but they continue to recruit very well while having weak coaches. If Helton lucked into another great QB, he won’t lose his job and they’ll have a strong team again even though he sucks.

That was like the third year I knew what college football was, I think the first game I ever watched was the Penn State-Oregon Rose Bowl.

USC is always going to have deep talent pools because enough California kids are willing to stay home. It’s what made the UCLA job appealing to Chip, he doesn’t have to convince these kids was recruiting to leave anymore. Although he also doesn’t want to recruit, so that could be a problem.

 

[Live in the Now]

USC is always going to have deep talent pools because enough California kids are willing to stay home. It’s what made the UCLA job appealing to Chip, he doesn’t have to convince these kids was recruiting to leave anymore. Although he also doesn’t want to recruit, so that could be a problem.

Chip also seems to not have realized that defenses have caught up to his innovations. Kids here play against that offense their whole time through high school.

 

[GKJ]

Chip also seems to not have realized that defenses have caught up to his innovations. Kids here play against that offense their whole time through high school.

I think the NFL made him soft quite frankly. He wanted to make it there. If this doesn’t work out at UCLA, I don’t see him moving down a level and coaching at Arizona like RichRod and Sumlin

 

[GKJ]

6 minutes left, Washington gets the ball down 1

 

[Live in the Now]

I think the NFL made him soft quite frankly. He wanted to make it there. If this doesn’t work out at UCLA, I don’t see him moving down a level and coaching at Arizona like RichRod and Sumlin

I also don't see him moving down a level. The fire is gone. He took the easiest job that he could possibly take because nobody really cares all that much about UCLA football to begin with. Very low pressure job where he could get a big paycheck. The position coaches and coordinators he picked up also had very little to no experience or success in any of the roles they were hired for. I also feel like pointing out he didn't even recruit their damn QB, who was their highest rated recruit over the last two years. Jim Mora did that and the QB decided not to leave.

Programs that fall like UCLA and Tennessee, those falls are probably best reflected in the position coaches that those schools hire.

 

[GKJ]

Cal upsets Washington 20-19. Both teams traded late field goals. Let’s go until sunrise next week.

 

[GKJ]

I also don't see him moving down a level. The fire is gone. He took the easiest job that he could possibly take because nobody really cares all that much about UCLA football to begin with. Very low pressure job where he could get a big paycheck. The position coaches and coordinators he picked up also had very little to no experience or success in any of the roles they were hired for. I also feel like pointing out he didn't even recruit their damn QB, who was their highest rated recruit over the last two years. Jim Mora did that and the QB decided not to leave.

Programs that fall like UCLA and Tennessee, those falls are probably best reflected in the position coaches that those schools hire.

After his NFL run he probably lost all his contacts. When he left the Eagles, he wanted to bring every last assistant with him to the 49ers

 

[rangerssharks414]

Not a betting man, but...


Under 53.5 for Tulsa at San Jose State (o/u dropped three points since it opened)

Colorado +4 at home against Nebraska (line has moved 3.5 points in Colorado's favor)

SMU -3.5 at home against North Texas

I actually had Colorado straight up. 3 for 3!

 

[John Price]

Army hasn't beaten a top 10 team since knocking off No. 9 Penn State in 1963.

 

[John Price]

Remember that Pruitt wasn't even their first choice for coach.

Imagine Mike leach at Tennessee

 

[Scotty Pucks]

One kinda funny thing about these early season games between cupcakes and blue blood/P5 teams is when things are ugly early but then all make sense in the end.

Had a buddy try to give me some crap because PSU was down 10-7 at the half to Buffalo. Ended up winning 45-13, lmao.

 

[Alex Jones]

Cal upsets Washington 20-19. Both teams traded late field goals. Let’s go until sunrise next week.

Took all of 2 weeks for the Pac-12 playoff hopefuls to lose. Lol. I guess Utah could still make a run.

 

[GKJ]

Took all of 2 weeks for the Pac-12 playoff hopefuls to lose. Lol. I guess Utah could still make a run.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

3-1 after this tough loss. Taking LSU -6 1/2 tonite

4-1 here, LSU/Bama is going to be EPIC.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

I have Carolina outright over Miami to finish up a little parlay

5-1 for the year, had a Colorado/Carolina money line parlay at 6-1.

 

[sigma six]

Utah will end up losing to both Oregon and UW just to keep the waters muddy. That's how the Pac rolls.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Utah will end up losing to both Oregon and UW just to keep the waters muddy. That's how the Pac rolls.

The nine conference games really screws the Pac-12.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

We had our first Pac-12 early morning I guess. Saw the final score of the Cal/Washington game and was surprised. Well done California.

 

[ecemleafs]

Why does the pac 12 start so many games at like 9-10pm pacific time?

 

[cupcrazyman]

Why does the pac 12 start so many games at like 9-10pm pacific time?

So they can show 4 football games in a row starting at noon

 

[ecemleafs]

So they can show 4 football games in a row starting at noon

why does that need to be a thing? the other conferences dont do 4 games. the pac 12 complains about the late games hurting them, but then start a game thats even late for pacific time.

 

[sigma six]

By the time play resumed in Seattle last night, the stands looked about 75% empty. Definitely to Cal's advantage.

 

[Kyle McMahon]

0-2 against 2 of the worst teams in FBS
both L's at home

Feel bad for Vols fans.
They're now fondly reminiscing the Butch Jones days

If only they had hired Mike Leach :/

Not that it changes your overall point, but BYU might be a top 40 team, they're not even close to one of the worst.

Tennessee looks like the third-best team in their own state right now. And Middle Tennessee might have something to say about that, Lol.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

why does that need to be a thing? the other conferences dont do 4 games. the pac 12 complains about the late games hurting them, but then start a game thats even late for pacific time.

That Cal/UW game was delayed by weather. It was scheduled for 7.30 Pacific. I honestly don't recall a Pac-12 game starting at 9 Pacific which is midnight Eastern. 7.45 Pacific is about as late as they'll go. The problem is that a game starting at 10.30/10.45 Eastern won't be over before like 2 am Eastern by which time most folks are in bed. For example, I suspect few people in the Eastern time zone without a rooting interest watched USC demolish Stanford in quite impressive fashion after a sluggish start.