In basketball its a 68 team field. And teams play 3 times as many games. Huge conferences are just broken. Iowa plays neither OSU nor Michigan. Wisconsin plays Michigan. Nebraska plays both. This is obviously unfair. I understand that in the 21st century its only about the money but can we at least pretend there is some integrity in the process?
As for what if the 2 best teams are in the same conference, so what? Unless the NCAA starts mandating/making balanced nonconference schedules this argument doesnt hold much water for me. Winner take all worked in baseball for decades.
I think Norvell is a good coach but always felt like that was a standby hire - until they get the coach of their dreams. Maybe Urban Meyer flames out and gets tired of Jacksonville.
I’ll see if I can find the article, but FSU doesn’t have the deep pockets that most other football schools have. Taggert was a real expensive buyout, so FSU is basically stuck with Norvell for the time being.
I gotta say, I’ve never seen an FSU team look this bad. Not trying to rub it in, but just bein real. Usually a “bad” FSU team is 5-6 or 4-7 but they’re going to struggle in every game. I don’t think Norvell’s an elite coach but the guy can coach - but he probably had no idea what kind of shit sandwich he had ordered when he took the job at FSU.
Man, Fresno St. scored the big upset over UCLA. Not sure how much of it is really an upset though. Fresno St. took Oregon deep into their game and can probably hang with most teams in the country.
Some of the unbeatens to date (Alabama, Notre Dame, Oregon) aren’t blowing teams out of the water like you would expect. It looks like this year may be a little more unpredictable than most and we’re in for a fun ride. Hope the upsets continue (except for my team, of course).
Alabama played a very solid Florida team, though, so no blowout was expected. Bryce Young has not demonstrated the ability to stretch defenses with consistently accurate long passes, which might be a problem as they get deeper into the schedule.
Oregon has also played pretty solid teams in Fresno St and Ohio St so I wouldn’t have expected blowouts in these games either.
Could this be the year that Harbaugh gets over the hump? Will he silence the chatter and become their forever coach?
The road ahead is not an easy one, with ranked conference opponents Wisconsin, Michigan State, Penn State, and the mighty but weakened Ohio State. Thankfully they don’t have Iowa in there too!
Mr Sarkisian will be waiting for you outside.