NCAA Football 2024 (national discussion)

[budwom]

I lost the one minute over under, it only took Saban two minutes into the CFP show to start whining about Alabama possibly being left out. Herbstreit had the audacity to point out that he called the Bama game when they got whupped by a not good at all Oklahoma team...

 

[budwom]

On K’s satellite radio show, Manny was sorta pushing for what they have at the lower level — 24 teams, with the top 8 getting a bye.

cool, already part way to my scintillating notion of having 64 teams

 

[Bob Green]

No bye for ACC Champions Clemson. Tigers travel to Austin to play the Texas Longhorns.

 

[mike88]

ACC about to be screwed over

 

[J4Kop99]

No shot smu is making it right?

 

[budwom]

gotta head for The Chair and check this out.

 

[Bob Green]

ACC about to be screwed over

Nope. ACC gets two teams in the CFP.

 

[arnie]

No shot smu is making it right?

Maybe they will

 

[mike88]

wow! very surprised they took SMU - not sure how they are seeded above Clemson!

 

[SouthernDukie]

What bullcrap. No way the Big 10 should have four teams. Alabama should have gone in over Indiana. Big miscarriage of justice there. And I still think Miami is one of the twelve best teams in the nation as well.

 

[TheDevilMadeMeDoIt]

No bye for ACC Champions Clemson. Tigers travel to Austin to play the Texas Longhorns.

At least gives Texas a chance for a top 25 win.

 

[kshepinthehouse]

They had to put SMU in. Can’t penalize SMU for playing in a championship game while Bama sat at home.

 

[J4Kop99]

Shocked they didn’t get bama in. The real killers are Indiana and to an extent penn state. Indianas resume is putrid

 

[DBKilby]

What bullcrap. No way the Big 10 should have four teams. Alabama should have gone in over Indiana. Big miscarriage of justice there. And I still think Miami is one of the twelve best teams in the nation as well.

Yep. Indiana's best win is a 5 pt win against Michigan? which would be Alabama's 7th best win. I don't get it.

 

[DBKilby]

Opening lines:

Texas -10.5
Notre Dame -8.5
Ohio St. -7
Penn. St. -8.5

Hard not to take all the favorites. Tennessee has the best chance of an upset although some might not consider it one.

 

[Luke102452]

My picks:
Texas over Clemson
SMU over Penn State
Ohio State over Tennessee
Notre Dame over Indiana

 

[TywinBlue]

Nope. ACC gets two teams in the CFP.

Good for the Ponies, but GREAT for the ACC !

 

[UrinalCake]

I'm just enjoying Duke being listed under "good wins" for SMU

 

[cbarry]

They had to put SMU in. Can’t penalize SMU for playing in a championship game while Bama sat at home.

I was surprised SMU even had a choice to “opt out”. Can a team refuse to play in the conference championship game??? Seems like they should have to play.

 

[UrinalCake]

If you leave out SMU... but keep in Indiana... then no one is going to ever play in their conference title games.... Teams will literally just not show up

I don't believe you can just choose not to play a game without it being a forfeit and a loss. That's like saying we could have chosen not to play SMU, Miami or GT and then we would be undefeated. Oregon had no reason to play Penn State since they went in as the #1 overall, so why wouldnt they choose to skip the game if that was an option? Someone please correct me if I am wrong.