The Pac 12 is always underrated. Wish there could be a Pac 12/SEC week before conference season begins. SEC will never agree.
Arizona St. is playing Texas A&M right now. St. looked like crap the first half, but are still in it (so far).
Week 1 thoughts:
- Up-and-down week for the B1G and the Pac12.
-Nebraska blew their game with what I thought was some poor coaching. Just because you have a couple TOs doesn’t mean you have to use them. Make the offense have to race the clock and make snap judgments.
-Michigan fans should understand that their team needs work, but I just know that they were nevertheless cautiously optimistic that they could beat Utah, which amuses me.
-PSU, your O-line…woof!
-Stanford played like it was 9 A.M. or something 
-Washington State lost to an FCS team, was immediately downgraded to an intramural squad.
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Speaking of bad coaching, what the hell was Louisville doing against Auburn? What was the point spread for this game? That game was fishy as hell.
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GO BUCKEYES!!!
Looks like Stanford risks dropping out of the AP Top 25. Mississippi State is next in.
What would you all think of the NCAA creating all Div 1 non-conference schedules? Make em balanced. Perhaps teams who think they can make the playoff can have an extra game against another tough team to bolster their case for inclusion in the playoff?
Good Lord no. Don’t give the NCAA anything else to fuck up.
What needs to happen - and maybe it will - is the selection committee needs to emphasize good games and penalize cupcake schedules. Openly and obviously. Two years after that the ADs would be trying to schedule Bama twice in a season.
Bizarre story about how the New Mexico State team bus was robbed at Gainesville during the game last night. Gainesville is a pretty small town outside of the university and this seems like a pretty serious crime. Not quite sure why the players had passports with them, though.
New Mexico State team bus robbed while losing at Florida - NBC Sports College Football
The problem is, if you send the message that there’s now a penalty for playing any cupcakes, then how many schools that pretty much depend on the money they make from a game like this (Louisiana-Monroe got $500,000 for the cancelled game against LSU) suddenly have to decide which programs to cut - assuming they can cut any without dropping below the Division 1 minimums (14 sports, including at least 6 mens’ sports and 7 women’s sports; when UAB dropped football, it had to create a men’s cross country team out of nowhere to make the limit)?
Besides, I think you underestimate the CFP committee’s ability. I don’t think that, everything else being equal, a win over an FCS team necessarily ranks higher than a loss to, say, Alabama.
Here’s a thought: each FBS team can schedule 1 FCS team without it counting against its 12-game limit, and the CFP committee just ignores those games.
Just curious since I remember reading an article (I think in SI), how much does state politics still have to do with a lot of the directional school games scheduled by major college football powers? Many state assemblies are dominated by legislators from rural areas and if the speaker of the assembly or budget committee chairman went to Eastern State U., it was always a good idea to make sure that Eastern State U showed up on the schedule often enough to rake up the money .
Which is ironically funny since USCe has pretty much sucked for all but about 10 years of their existence.
I was surprised to see my Bulldogs go unranked to start the season. Then I watched the first half of the game last night, and they did not look good. They really need to step it up when LSU comes to Starkville…
Speaking of LSU, what happened with their game? Lightning delay or something? when will they play? I would not mind them postponing that game, and let LSU play @ Mississippi State with no warm up game first…
The Tide rolled over Wisconsin, but I expected a closer game. That defensive line for Bama is awesome. Completely stonewalled Wisconsin all night long.
Not sure Ole Miss really needed to hang 76 on Tenn-Martin. I didn’t see the game, so I don’t know if they left the starters in too long, or if even the third stringers were blowing them out. Hope it was the latter…
Has California scored their season total in one game? Will they make a Bowl?
Oski Oski Oski!
Looks like the LSU-McNeese game was cancelled and won’t be rescheduled, so LSU will play an 11 game season this year. Wonder how that will factor in to playoff/bowl considerations?
Kansas State marching band has a few things to say about Kansas. And they weren’t even playing each other.
ninja’d by** Rick Kitchen**, and his link is better than mine.
The B10 has already nixed OOC games with FCS, it will be interesting to see if the other P5’s follow suit. The follow-the-money conflict I see is if the P5’s can’t schedule as many cupcakes and have to play each other OOC, there will be big stadiums sitting empty early in the season that could otherwise be filled and bringing in revenue. Maybe it would be offset by more tv viewers of the more interesting games, with accompanying advertising dollars.
This is an offense that can hang 50 on a mediocre P5 team; so 70 on a mediocre FCS team is not surprising, and I’m trying not to get excited about it.
Most of the pundits say yes – we’ll go 6-6, 7-5, thereabouts. We’ll need to upset somebody (Texas looks like a good candidate) for that to happen.
The OSU-VT game was a bust. VT was hanging in there until their QB went out with a broken collarbone.
OSU’s schedule is… Well… I’ll be nice… It’s a complete embarrassment. They have 10 or so game milk run before Michigan State. The VT game was the only other challenge.
Strength of schedule still plays a role in rankings, right? Or is it “as long as a given school doesn’t lose, they won’t drop in the polls?” Within reason, of course.
Florida State was a steaming pile of dog shit all last season. They did drop in the one poll that matters, but not enough to take them out of the playoff. It would be very hard to leave out an undefeated team from a P5 conference.