2025 College Football Playoff Talk

goFurman said:
THIS. FIFTY TOP 4/5 star guys at
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goFurman said:
THIS. FIFTY TOP 4/5 star guys at Oregon. EIGHT top rated 4/5 guys at Indiana

Really is amazing
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If you’ve listened to Nick Saban wrt to Indiana over the last few weeks, he has repeatedly made the point that HS star ratings are much less important than how players actually perform at the college level. And that Indiana’s talent level is vastly underrated as a result, because their roster is full of guys who’ve shown they can play. And per the WSJ story I linked thread, Cignetti has been an exceptional talent evaluator with a distinctive approach.

4 and 5 star recruits of course have a higher chance of success in CFB but many wind up being eclipsed by players who were not rated as highly coming out of high school. Plenty of former 3 (and sometimes fewer) star recruits are drafted by the NFL every year.
 
luvdahops said:
If you’ve listened to Nick Saban wrt to Indiana over the last few weeks, he has repeatedly made the point that HS star ratings are much less important than how players actually perform at the college level. And that Indiana’s talent level is vastly underrated as a result, because their roster is full of guys who’ve shown they can play. And per the WSJ story I linked thread, Cignetti has been an exceptional talent evaluator with a distinctive approach.

4 and 5 star recruits of course have a higher chance of success in CFB but many wind up being eclipsed by players who were not rated as highly coming out of high school. Plenty of former 3 (and sometimes fewer) star recruits are drafted by the NFL every year.
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Yeah my Furman dudes had a ZERO star guy make NFL and last 8 years. ZERO STAR. 6’7 330 OL. how he went 0 star I will never know … that size in High School should get 2 stars regardless
 
luvdahops said:
If you’ve listened to Nick Saban wrt to Indiana over the last few weeks, he has repeatedly made the point that HS star ratings are much less important than how players actually perform at the college level. And that Indiana’s talent level is vastly underrated as a result, because their roster is full of guys who’ve shown they can play. And per the WSJ story I linked thread, Cignetti has been an exceptional talent evaluator with a distinctive approach.

4 and 5 star recruits of course have a higher chance of success in CFB but many wind up being eclipsed by players who were not rated as highly coming out of high school. Plenty of former 3 (and sometimes fewer) star recruits are drafted by the NFL every year.
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Exactly. People love to throw out the shocking 4/5 star recruit discrepancies but IU has talent. A ton of it.
 
I really feel for Oregon fans. I think they have it very rough on a year to year basis. Never good enough to get over the hump but also so close that it raises your hopes that this might be the year. Soul crushing.
 
LasVegas said:
I really feel for Oregon fans. I think they have it very rough on a year to year basis. Never good enough to get over the hump but also so close that it raises your hopes that this might be the year. Soul crushing.
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Especially to lose as decisively as they have the last 2 years after otherwise very successful seasons.
 
luvdahops said:
If you’ve listened to Nick Saban wrt to Indiana over the last few weeks, he has repeatedly made the point that HS star ratings are much less important than how players actually perform at the college level. And that Indiana’s talent level is vastly underrated as a result, because their roster is full of guys who’ve shown they can play. And per the WSJ story I linked thread, Cignetti has been an exceptional talent evaluator with a distinctive approach.

4 and 5 star recruits of course have a higher chance of success in CFB but many wind up being eclipsed by players who were not rated as highly coming out of high school. Plenty of former 3 (and sometimes fewer) star recruits are drafted by the NFL every year.
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I think there’s some element of this for the Duke football team — a lot of players from the portal who weren’t that highly rated coming out of HS but who have demonstrated on the college stage that they can play. Evaluating transfer players based upon their HS rating three years earlier is nuts.
 
LasVegas said:
I really feel for Oregon fans. I think they have it very rough on a year to year basis. Never good enough to get over the hump but also so close that it raises your hopes that this might be the year. Soul crushing.
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They're the Penn State of the West. Without Penn State's 1980s. And far, far, far, far uglier uniforms.
 
hallcity said:
I think there’s some element of this for the Duke football team — a lot of players from the portal who weren’t that highly rated coming out of HS but who have demonstrated on the college stage that they can play. Evaluating transfer players based upon their HS rating three years earlier is nuts.
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Darian Mensah -- 3-star recruit, rated #113 national QB prospect, this as 2023 Tulane recruit
Nate Sheppard -- consensus high 3-star (4-star by Rivals and On3), consensus #35 national RB prospect as 2025 Duke recruit
 
arnie said:
Current line: Indy -7.5. Checked before game yesterday and it was Indy -5.5.

Miami will need to play mistake free and not sure they are equipped to do that.
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It almost seems impossible the way Indiana is steamrolling teams...I would imagine quite a few people at this point would give Miami 7.5 points...some of Mendoza's throws last night were just ridiculously good.
 
Indiana has the Little 500 and the Cutters and is immortalized in "Breaking Away." Notre Dame has "Knute Rockne" and "Rudy". Duke has season 3 of "The White Lotus" (ducks). Harvard has "Love Story" and "The Social Network" and "The Paper Chase" and no doubt others. VMI has "Brother Rat." What other school + movie/show ties are there?
 
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