2025-26 College Football

[Foxbat]

The last six seconds of the Sugar Bowl will be right up there with the Cal State v. Stanford Band (thanks, Bobby!) Game in chaotic endings.

Can't wait to see the SEC Shorts take on the Playoffs so far…

 

[Jimbo]

The last six seconds of the Sugar Bowl will be right up there with the Cal State v. Stanford Band (thanks, Bobby!) Game in chaotic endings.

Can't wait to see the SEC Shorts take on the Playoffs so far…

Which game was the Sugar Bowl ... I really don't like all the Names they give them.

Are you talking about the ending of the Georgia / Ole Miss game ?

It was bizarre that 1 second was able to have 2 plays involved ... that said, on a Kick Off, time doesn't run until a player touches the ball ... the fact that Georgia covered the onside kick, SHOULD have taken Something off the clock.

 

[Yespage]

Wow, that was a wild finish, kickoff turn safety turn onside kick.

Why didn't Ole Miss go for the onside kick? There seemed more risk in allowing Georgia uncontested possession.

 

[Bobby]

The last six seconds of the Sugar Bowl will be right up there with the Cal State v. Stanford Band (thanks, Bobby!) Game in chaotic endings.

Can't wait to see the SEC Shorts take on the Playoffs so far…

Um, that was Cal Berkeley as in University of California Berkeley, not Cal St. There are many Cal Sts including one right here in Rohnert Park, Sonoma St.

 

[Foxbat]

Um, that was Cal Berkeley as in University of California Berkeley, not Cal St. There are many Cal Sts including one right here in Rohnert Park, Sonoma St.

I still got it wrong! D'oh!

 

[dfergie]

Texas Tech went out with a whimper...

 

[cpalmer2k]

Several things need to change ...
If they are going to continue with the Bye week for the Top 4, they need to have a bye week and PLAY the next week.
They really should change to the first 2 rounds to being at the Home teams field.

They can't have the Portal opening in the middle of the playoffs.
They currently have the Portal open when the Top teams are playing in thier Playoffs

They should make it so coaches can't change teams until a week after the Championship game.

The lull has always been a problem in college football though. If you think back to the old days if the top two teams in the polls faced off in a bowl game it usually was on New Years Day. The BCS system did the same, so it's really nothing new. I do agree though that they should let the schools host the first and second rounds, and that they should play them sooner just to keep teams in a rhythm, but the huge gap has always been there. They just need to eliminate the conference championship games, and award however many automatic bids they're going to give each conference based on regular season records or allot X number of teams based on CFP rankings for each conference. The Conference Championships are pointless. Georgia was going to get in anyway, and Alabama got in primarily because they weren't going to "punish" them for playing a conference championship game. Miami got in, and didn't even play the ACC Championship game because of their hair brained system.

Personally I think they need to take a hard look at their ranking process and figure out whether they're buying into Conference hype, or really ranking the teams correctly too. The fact that 7 of the top seeded teams have lost over the past two years tells me that some of the teams with the bye games are over ranked to begin with.

The expansion plans would fix that though anyway- no more byes if they go to 16 teams.

 

[cpalmer2k]

They can't have the Portal opening in the middle of the playoffs.
They currently have the Portal open when the Top teams are playing in thier Playoffs

They should make it so coaches can't change teams until a week after the Championship game.

I agree 100% on the portal issue. They've got to find a way to fix that mess. It's destroying college sports. You shouldn't be able to "declare" you're going into the portal until it opens, and the NCAA needs to enforce a strict ban against coach tampering like the NFL does. If a school wants to allow a coach to talk sooner they could just like the NFL does, but it should be 100% up to the school they're under contract with. Assistant coaches should have to follow the same rules too.

Most of these NIL kids have "contracts" now like the pros. I personally think they should start eliminating opt outs from bowl games in those agreements too. If you're signing on to be a member of the team you're a member of the team until the season is final. If a kid needs surgery or something like that it's understandable, but just saying I'm going into the portal when it opens or I don't want to show up for a bowl game shouldn't be allowed in this pay to play era.

Here in SC they've essentially given high school kids a "portal" per say now. They're allowed one transfer during their high school career with no penalty. If they switch schools again after that they have to sit a year. They had to do this because kids were "moving" every year to new school districts. I personally think college should be the same type of situation. You've got kids playing for a different school every year of their careers. Some of them are older than starting quarterbacks in the NFL who didn't leave early, and they're still shopping in the portal.

 

[Jimbo]

The lull has always been a problem in college football though. If you think back to the old days if the top two teams in the polls faced off in a bowl game it usually was on New Years Day. The BCS system did the same, so it's really nothing new. I do agree though that they should let the schools host the first and second rounds, and that they should play them sooner just to keep teams in a rhythm, but the huge gap has always been there. They just need to eliminate the conference championship games, and award however many automatic bids they're going to give each conference based on regular season records or allot X number of teams based on CFP rankings for each conference. The Conference Championships are pointless. Georgia was going to get in anyway, and Alabama got in primarily because they weren't going to "punish" them for playing a conference championship game. Miami got in, and didn't even play the ACC Championship game because of their hair brained system.

Personally I think they need to take a hard look at their ranking process and figure out whether they're buying into Conference hype, or really ranking the teams correctly too. The fact that 7 of the top seeded teams have lost over the past two years tells me that some of the teams with the bye games are over ranked to begin with.

The expansion plans would fix that though anyway- no more byes if they go to 16 teams.

Personally, I wouldn't have gone to 12 teams ... I would have done 8, 10 tops, but your never going to go Back ...
Keep expanding and keep diluting the season.
Pretty soon, you'll have 4-5 loss teams playing for it all (ala Duke).

I don't necessarily like the idea of Automatic bids either, Big Ten doesn't always have 4 teams good enough to win it all ... SEC and Big Ten typically have 2-3 REAL good team each year.

I'd say 2 Auto bids, the rest get in on record.

 

[Jimbo]

I agree 100% on the portal issue. They've got to find a way to fix that mess. It's destroying college sports. You shouldn't be able to "declare" you're going into the portal until it opens, and the NCAA needs to enforce a strict ban against coach tampering like the NFL does. If a school wants to allow a coach to talk sooner they could just like the NFL does, but it should be 100% up to the school they're under contract with. Assistant coaches should have to follow the same rules too.

Most of these NIL kids have "contracts" now like the pros. I personally think they should start eliminating opt outs from bowl games in those agreements too. If you're signing on to be a member of the team you're a member of the team until the season is final. If a kid needs surgery or something like that it's understandable, but just saying I'm going into the portal when it opens or I don't want to show up for a bowl game shouldn't be allowed in this pay to play era.

Here in SC they've essentially given high school kids a "portal" per say now. They're allowed one transfer during their high school career with no penalty. If they switch schools again after that they have to sit a year. They had to do this because kids were "moving" every year to new school districts. I personally think college should be the same type of situation. You've got kids playing for a different school every year of their careers. Some of them are older than starting quarterbacks in the NFL who didn't leave early, and they're still shopping in the portal.

Up here in Ohio, I think they Just now allowed them to have the 7 on 7 tournaments ...
I'm not sure If the have an NIL agreement in place or not ... that also screws with the system, when some of the country can have it one way and the rest not, thats a clear disadvantage.

 

[cpalmer2k]

Personally, I wouldn't have gone to 12 teams ... I would have done 8, 10 tops, but your never going to go Back ...
Keep expanding and keep diluting the season.
Pretty soon, you'll have 4-5 loss teams playing for it all (ala Duke).

I don't necessarily like the idea of Automatic bids either, Big Ten doesn't always have 4 teams good enough to win it all ... SEC and Big Ten typically have 2-3 REAL good team each year.

I'd say 2 Auto bids, the rest get in on record.

Expansion is inevitable, just for the money grab they're going to get out of it. I agree with you on the automatic bids. That's why I say I would do away with the Conference Championship games. The two teams that are atop each of the major conferences should be in, then the rest should be at large bids.

It won't be long until we're going to have 72 or even 84 teams in the NCAA Basketball tournament...