# College Football 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [September 10, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861 "2023-09-10T02:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/1 "2023-09-10T02:38:35Z")
I didn’t see a thread for this season. Here’s a thread to discuss week to week action in college football. There’s another thread for all the conference realignment stuff. Watching FSU vs Southern Miss now but keeping an eye on Texas vs Alabama. Texas up ten. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/2 "2023-09-10T05:49:41Z")
TEXAS BEATS BAMA!!! Revenge for last year. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/3 "2023-09-10T17:51:47Z")
My Spartans are off to a decent start but beware- Mel Tucker accused of unwanted phone sex. We’ll see how that goes. Plus Washington comes calling this week, could be a tough game. Love that Alabama and Clemson have both lost a game. Pac 12 looking solid in its farewell season. Sucks that the powers that be have stripped conferences of their regional identities and old rivalries are being diluted. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/4 "2023-09-10T18:31:33Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Plus Washington comes calling this week, could be a tough game. Time for Penix to show off his Heisman cred. If Washington goes undefeated that means they beat USC and Utah in successive weeks late in the season. I don’t see how they don’t make the playoffs if that happens. Then again would anyone be shocked if Georgia, Alabama and Texas all make it in from the SEC? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/5 "2023-09-10T20:43:52Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Georgia, Alabama and Texas all make it in from the SEC? Texas is still in the Big 12. Last season. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/6 "2023-09-11T14:33:53Z")
MSU has suspended Mel Tucker without pay. Nobody around here thinks this is anything but a formality on the way to his being fired. There is no way he coaches again, anywhere. What a tragic figure- he got an insanely lucrative contract and had it all, but he had to piss it all away by being a horndog. Giving gifts to this woman, calling her, asking if she’d date him if he wasn’t married, masturbating while on the phone with her. Once again MSU will have to search for a new coach, in my opinion just give the job to acting coach Harlan Barnett. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/7 "2023-09-11T19:00:36Z")
My Cornhuskers are still relevant. We were the underdogs, off to an 0-2 start, and had 6 straight losing seasons. Yet we’re still important enough for Deion’s team to storm the field! Somewhat encouraging to this long-suffering Nebraska fan. Not much else is. I “trusted the process” 5 years ago when I was super-excited to get Scott Frost. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/8 "2023-09-11T20:59:20Z")
I’m FSU alum, but I’m way over Deion and have had enough of him and Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/9 "2023-09-11T21:05:27Z")
_Sigh_. Of course the Badgers lost. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/10 "2023-09-11T21:33:13Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > …I’m way over Deion and have had enough of him and Colorado. They are playing well, but yeah, they really seem to have an unsavory ‘attitude’. Save it for the Pro’s. Oh, wait… ---
**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:** [September 11, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/11 "2023-09-11T21:57:45Z")
I haven’t seen anything close to resembling an ‘attitude’ from the Colorado players so far that is out of the ordinary in college football. I think personal dislike for the coach is clouding people’s opinions here. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/12 "2023-09-12T01:01:47Z")
After the game, I joked with a buddy “Watch CU complain about respect” despite being the favored home team getting all the attention after TCU. Sure enough, we somehow disrespected them [when NU’s coach stood on the logo](https://clutchpoints.com/colorado-football-news-shedeur-sanders-matt-rhule-nebraska-logo). The horror! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/13 "2023-09-12T01:44:50Z")
> **[Judge bars Pac-12 from having board meeting](https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38380648/judge-grants-temporary-restraining-order-prevent-pac-12-meeting)** > > A state judge in Washington granted a temporary restraining order Monday to prevent the Pac-12 conference from meeting as a board later this week. > Judge Gary Libey ruled in favor of Oregon State and Washington State in Whitman County Superior Court after they jointly filed a complaint Friday that saw the potential of the Pac-12 meeting as a board and voting as an “imminent and existential threat” to the future of the conference. > > The ruling for the temporary restraining order prevents a Pac-12 board meeting scheduled for Wednesday and sets up a preliminary injunction hearing that is expected to determine who makes up the voting members of the Pac-12 board of directors. > … > Oregon State and Washington State have argued that they should be the only voting members remaining in the conference, citing precedent that previous members who’ve notified the Pac-12 of their withdrawal from the league have lost voting rights. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/14 "2023-09-12T02:26:52Z")
On the Bright Side, it’ll be trivially easy to fix the new conference Logo. Just White-Out the 1. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/15 "2023-09-12T18:57:27Z")
You know what would be funny? I took a look at Georgia’s non-conference schedule, and it’s crazy! UT-Martin Ball State UAB Georgia Tech I wonder if the playoff committee could reject them based on their schedule, like Central Florida in 2017. Now with LSU and Bama losing, they won’t be able to move too much in the SEC title game. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/16 "2023-09-12T19:17:45Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > I think personal dislike for the coach is clouding people’s opinions here. Bingo. I am personally hoping that Sanders succeeds at Colorado. My opinion is of the decided minority among my group of friends, most of whom dislike him because he’s a successful black man who dares to speak his mind. Same reason they dislike Kaepernick and LeBron. I was actually hoping that Sanders would stay at Jackson State and build a powerhouse by recruiting many of the stud black athletes away from the top D-1 programs. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/17 "2023-09-16T20:06:02Z")
'Noles really struggled today to close out a surprisingly tough Boston College team. A team which committed 18 (not a typo) penalties. This game should have been over in the 3rd, but the defense came up woefully short on QB contain, downfield coverage, and run defense in the 2nd half. Either BC is a lot better than they showed in the first 2 games or FSU has got some serious work to do. I expect we will drop to at least 4 in the polls and could go as low as 6 depending on how the 4 (Texas hosting Wyoming) and 6 (OSU v. W. Kentucky) teams do, but that seems overly harsh given that we did, in fact, win the game in the end. Clemson up next on the road. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/18 "2023-09-16T20:30:59Z")
Classic FSU trap game and I’m glad we survived. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/19 "2023-09-17T13:14:14Z")
UCF is probably the second best team in the Big XII. Texas’ win over 'Bama doesn’t look nearly as impressive after the latter struggled to beat USF. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861/20 "2023-09-17T14:52:23Z")
I stayed up late to watch the Colorado/Colorado State game. One helluva game, in which Colorado State led most of the way and should have won the game. CSU had 182 yards in penalties and sent a CU player to the hospital. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2023/989861.md?page=2)