NCAA Football 2023 (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

Great win for Texas and Sark.

It won’t change anything when it comes to the “playoff”.

Here is how it will play out:

Texas will fade and lose a few games but when the final “votes” are tallied Alabama’s lose will be noted as a them losing to one of the all-time great teams as they are voted into the CFP.

Alabama is done, finished after one game.

Even if they run the table (they won't), they'll lose to UGA in the SEC Championship game and have two losses.

One of Michigan/tOSU will have at least one loss as they play each other.

Texas might go undefeated, we'll see.

 

[tdubel]

Two words. Hook ‘em. Nuff said. Sweet revenge from last year. I will be in Austin Tuesday. My son said 6th street was rockin last night. Sark deserves a lot of credit as does Quinn Ewers on this one. On another note, Go Noles. Another good weekend, I can get used to this again!

 

[Combat]

Great win for the Horns. I had complete confidence in Sark! No easy task winning in Bama. The story this year, though, is the PAC. They are 21-4 with one of the losses coming in an interconference game. And these are not just cupcake wins but wins over Florida, TCU, Boise St. and Wisconsin. My Trojans put an old school beatdown on Stanford. John McKay would have been proud.

 

[tdubel]

Lot of this thread is why I like college football, it is always exciting and full of surprises every week, nobody predicted the PAC 12 success thus far for sure. I don't think the pundits gave Texas much stock either until last night. I think the same could be said of FSU until the LSU Beating. It is nice to see the predictable turned on its head each week! I can also say I honestly want to see Deion and the Buffalos win as I saw where the "experts" (prior to the first game at TCU) predicted Colorado would win 2.57 games.............well, they are almost there after 2 weeks!

Should be a fun season to watch regardless of who you root for. Oh and I am no Miami fan, but geez they beat down Jimbo and TA&M!

Tom

 

[Combat]

Endless hype about Deion. He seems like a good guy, but you have to wonder at how disciplined his team is off the field. It reminds me of the 1980s Miami program where they brought in a bunch of semi-pros to turn the football program around. In these woke days, that is not going to work when the first allegations of misconduct arise. Look at the coach at Mich. St. He brings in a person to educate his team on sexual assault and he gets accused of sexually harassing the woman giving the speech. Unreal.

 

[tdubel]

Endless hype about Deion. He seems like a good guy, but you have to wonder at how disciplined his team is off the field. It reminds me of the 1980s Miami program where they brought in a bunch of semi-pros to turn the football program around. In these woke days, that is not going to work when the first allegations of misconduct arise. Look at the coach at Mich. St. He brings in a person to educate his team on sexual assault and he gets accused of sexually harassing the woman giving the speech. Unreal.

I think on the MSU front, it is now revealed or claimed there was a relationship between them. Holy crap, if that is true, it is a wild world. Rome is burning and Nero is laughing and playing the fiddle IMO.
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[Combat]

I don't know all the details on the MSU story. At a minimum, the coach certainly exercised bad judgement. This apparently involved a phone call. My spidey senses lead me to believe there is more to the story. Nevertheless, he has got himself in a mess. Likely will be fired. I doubt he will ever coach at a major program again. Mich. State is the same school that had the scandal with the doctor and the gymnasts. So they will show no mercy regardless of the facts.

 

[Panzer ace]

Until Deion Sanders actually beats a true power this year I will refer to him as Deion Sanders.

If he beats USC then goes onto a CFP playoff birth I can start seeing him as Coach Prime.

Until then he is just another coach, beating the likes of Colorado State is meaningless.

 

[Panzer ace]

Nice to see Duke win this year’s SAT Bowl against Northwestern.

Two great academic schools who are sill playing sports while maintaining difficult admission standards as they define what “college” athletics should be.

 

[lancer]

Until Deion Sanders actually beats a true power this year I will refer to him as Deion Sanders.

If he beats USC then goes onto a CFP playoff birth I can start seeing him as Coach Prime.

Until then he is just another coach, beating the likes of Colorado State is meaningless.

Boy, talk about over-hyped. I was watching one of the afternoon games, and during a break, one of the commentators started praising Colorado, practically annoiting them as the best ever, because of Sanders at QB, but also Deion as coach. The commentator got so carried away he said Deion was already headed for the Coaching Hall of Fame. In regards to Deion, he did hedge his bet by saying "If he can keep this up." I still haven't stopped laughing. Thankfully, the game restarted so Deion got dropped from the conversation. -- Al

 

[tdubel]

Ok, stayed up to wee hours of morning and observations of yesterday on teams I watched:

A. FSU - Noles are lucky, no idea what they were thinking, but they took the last quarter off and almost blew it. Fortunately Boston College are really not a disciplined football team or else they would have been had. Hope they wake up on this.

B. Tennessee - they are cursed in the swamp, no other explanation as I think they had probably 80% of the best talent on the field and they got blown out. That was an ugly game for Vols fans.

C. Ole Miss - they are quietly a very good football talent in my opinion. They have spurts due to that talent. Time will tell when they play better teams, but Lane Kiffin has built a competitive team - they need to figure out how to refine it to elite. Talent is there, the full plan is not IMO.

D. Texas Longhorns - thank goodness they woke up second half. Again, talent is there, full performance is yet to be seen, have to play more consistently against all caliber teams to be elite.

E. Colorado - ..................what a game is all I can say. Colorado did just about everything wrong an overhyped team can do, BUT the last 5 mins and 2 OT's, their world class talent rose to the occasion. Serious ability won that game along with determination. They are lucky it clicked in the end. Couple of observations, I am not going to lie, seeing #21 get a pick six brought back some fine memories (Like Father like son). Sorry to see Travis Hunter take that uncalled for dirty hit. There was no doubt it was dirty and targeted, in my opinion, the guy from Colorado State should be suspended, no reason for something like that in football. Hunter is in the hospital with undisclosed injury and the way he was hit in the chest, and delayed reaction, you have to wonder. Just uncalled for. Bottom line, this team found a way to win an ugly game. Their talent is worth the hype, question is can talented players continue to coexist as a team, that is always a question. On another note, as brash as Deion is, I think the Colorado State coach is a complete classless *******. I don't know how else to describe the behavior and coaching. Again, just not necessary in any sport. Even his press conference, he acted like a jerk. Deion was actually funny about it and you could tell Deion was not happy with the team performance. If they had played like they played the last 5 mins of the game, they beat State by 30 points.

Well, as usual, a very interesting and enjoyable college weekend, now onto the overrated, overhyped crap league of pros. My wife and I are going to find a fall festival to go to so I don't have to watch the drek of the NFL!
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[Combat]

Yes, a great game last night. Colorado did the thing that good teams do. They stepped up when it looked like the game was slipping away. One mistake in accessing college football, though, is making too much of games against middling opponents. The Buffs will get the real test next week on the road against Oregon. I think they get run out of that game and embarrassed which it not good for my USC Trojans since they play the Buffs next in Bolder. You never, ever want to play at team in the home stadium after they get spanked.

In terms of the SEC, color me not impressed. I don't think Bama, Georgia, or LSU is as good as they were in previous years. Bama in particular looks strangely mediocre. That doesn't mean that they are not still capable of winning it all. They just don't look as dominant like they could compete in the NFL. And the rest of the conference stinks. Arkansas blew a 14-0 lead at home yesterday to BYU. TN got rolled. And so on down the line.

 

[Combat]

Hunter will apparently be out for "weeks" after the late hit. That's a huge blow at the wrong time. The Buffs have a road game against the Oregon and then play USC. Definitely should be a suspension. I'm not a huge fan of that, but it was a dirty hit with real implications for the team.

 

[sammy719]

I'm not jumping on the Colorado bandwagon but man that was a crazy win for them last night and coach Saunders, congrats to the Buffalos sitting at 3-0

 

[tdubel]

I'm not jumping on the Colorado bandwagon but man that was a crazy win for them last night and coach Saunders, congrats to the Buffalos sitting at 3-0

I thought a classy moment last night was the Dad moment Deion shared with Shilo after the Pick 6 return. As a Dad, he had to be proud, like I said as a fan, it looked like Deion of old, so imagine being a Dad and seeing your kid literally follow in your footsteps.

One thing I thought was funny in the first half was the CState WR on a nice nice touchdown do the Deion dance and the prime time move. Imitation is the finest form of flattery and you have to laugh, if you dish it out, gotta take it too!
Tom

 

[Combat]

Some huge games this upcoming weekend. Jumping the gun but my predicts:

Ohio St. 27 ND 20: The Irish are much better than last year and the Bucks don't look great, but they take care of business.

Clemson 34 FSU 31: Should be a good game. FSU was flat last weekend. Clemson is smarting from an early spanking. They win a close one at home.

Oregon 53 Colorado 24: Reality comes crashing down on the Buffs. They get rolled on the road. The Ducks will show no mercy.

Utah 24 UCLA 17: The Utes are tough at home. They win ugly.

 

[tdubel]

Not sure if you saw update - Hunter has a lacerated liver due to the dirty hit. That CState player should be suspended. Just no room in football for crap like that. I just watched ESPN and they ran the entire play back, you can see the CState player track hunter, ball is clearly on ground incomplete, play is over for nearly 3 seconds plus and he targets and delivers that hit. Just uncalled for.
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[Panzer ace]

Not sure if you saw update - Hunter has a lacerated liver due to the dirty hit. That CState player should be suspended. Just no room in football for crap like that. I just watched ESPN and they ran the entire play back, you can see the CState player track hunter, ball is clearly on ground incomplete, play is over for nearly 3 seconds plus and he targets and delivers that hit. Just uncalled for.
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Tom:

Agreed it was uncalled for and should require a suspension, however the death threats against the CState player and his family are beyond cowardly.

Everyone involved should disavow these threats.

Deion Sanders loves to talk about everything and anything, let’s see him stand up and speak out against these threats.

-Jason

 

[Combat]

The genius who scheduled the USC-Colorado game as a 10AM local time kickoff should be canned. No wonder the PAC is going down the tubes. Imagine the fans having to be at the game at the crack of dawn. This has something to do with the TV coverage but that is unreal. Most of the players will still be asleep. Still I would rather play while them at dawn than dusk. Night games on the road are ugly after the crowd has gotten liquored up all day.

 

[tdubel]

Tom:

Agreed it was uncalled for and should require a suspension, however the death threats against the CState player and his family are beyond cowardly.

Everyone involved should disavow these threats.

Deion Sanders loves to talk about everything and anything, let’s see him stand up and speak out against these threats.

-Jason

Don't disagree, people are nuts. I still do not see how that player was not ejected. It was a pure definition of targeting in some ways, kid literally took 4 steps after the play was over, Hunter never saw him coming. I think the Colorado State coach is also to blame. He is either a complete idiot or a diabolical genius based on his comments about this hit. I usually never look into something like this in such detail, but I have to tell you I am convinced this was not an accident after reviewing the footage over again. It is blatant, also the actions of this player the entire game looks like he is on a witchunt, it is several attempts at dirty plays. I would like to think the kid is not the guilty party here and it is coaching, but who knows, people are nuts. One last further comment - if I was the coach and it was all the player, I would suspend my own player, that is how blatant this was.
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