# College Football 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [August 27, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438 "2022-08-27T16:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/321 "2023-01-10T14:05:58Z")
Well, they play in the SEC, so they have to play somebody! Plus, the “have won national championships” is misleading because Auburn sucked this year, Vanderbilt is a joke, and Tennessee had their first good season in more than a decade, and their resurgence may not be for real. I do agree with the Ohio State reference, however. They played a grand total of one power team this year, Michigan, and lost to them at home. To be fair to Georgia, however, all the big powers schedule X-number of patsies to fill out their schedule. It allows the coaches to look at a lot of players that might not otherwise be able to play, and it helps them get through a long, physical season. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/322 "2023-01-10T14:33:29Z")
What I’d like to know is how does a guy named Stetson Bennett end up playing in Georgia? I mean it is the most ‘Texan’ sounding name since Colt McCoy. ---
**Author:** ![mattgg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mattgg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattgg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/323 "2023-01-10T17:51:28Z")
TCU has used a 3-3-5 defense all season and I think that was a big factor in this blowout. I’m guessing that they hadn’t practiced anything else so when it became clear that UGA could move the ball at will against the 3-3-5 they had no fallback plan. They just had to suffer through it. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/324 "2023-01-10T17:54:06Z")
Matchups are very important in CFB. And not very many teams can match NFL level talent that UGA and Alabama have. TCU was probably the least talented team to ever make the national championship game. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/325 "2023-01-10T18:06:44Z")
I completely forgot about this game being on. And after reading this, I’m okay with that. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/326 "2023-01-11T00:42:04Z")
50 years ago, many major schools did not schedule non Conference against Patsies Non Con Schedule for Nebraska who was in the Big 8 conference at the time Wake Forest USCw Army Minnesota [and KSU, Kansas, okie state, Sooners, Iowa St, Mizzou, Colorado] ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/327 "2023-01-11T00:53:08Z")
USCw played Nebraska, Iowa, Alabama, Notre Dame, out of Conference Bama played USC, Va Tech, Houston Miami, UGA played Tulane, Clemson, USCe, Ga Tech South Carolina was in the ACC at the time. Michigan played Arizona St, Washington, TAMU, ohio State played Duke, and TAMU ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438/328 "2023-01-11T06:49:49Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > 50 years ago, many major schools did not schedule non Conference against Patsies Maybe not 50 years ago, but 40 years ago, when I was in high school, most of them certainly did put one or two far weaker schools in their schedule. The top teams in 1982, based on the final AP poll, and “patsies” that they played that year (mostly from smaller conferences, or independents; I didn’t include any in-conference games in this list): [Penn State](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/penn-state/1982-schedule.html): Temple, Rutgers [SMU](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/southern-methodist/1982-schedule.html): UTEP, North Texas [Nebraska](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/nebraska/1982-schedule.html): New Mexico State [Georgia](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/georgia/1982-schedule.html): Memphis [UCLA](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/ucla/1982-schedule.html): Long Beach State [Arizona State](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/arizona-state/1982-schedule.html): UTEP [Washington](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/washington/1982-schedule.html): UTEP [Clemson](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/clemson/1982-schedule.html): Western Carolina [Arkansas](https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/arkansas/1982-schedule.html): Tulsa [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2022/970438.md?page=16)