OFFICIAL 2015-2016 College Football Season Thread

[Chopper]

 

 @Notre Dame. Remind me, who have they beat? 

Two 1 loss teams in the Top 5 is a joke. 

Notre Dame beat ranked Temple

Bama beat ranked A&M, UGA, and Wisconsin

Baylor and TCU haven't beat a single ranked team yet. It makes sense. If either of them win out I think they get in by default just cause everyone ahead of them still have to play each other. 

Committee looks to be emphasizing quality wins to this point. You listening Art Briles? Not that this inital poll really means much. 

…If we're talking rankings at the time of the game, how do you have Michigan State below ND? They beat a #7 Oregon and #12 Michigan… They also have 5 wins against teams over 500 (which these guys keep talking about). It's too early for this stuff to matter, but I'm just shocked ND is ranked that high. 

 

[airblaster503]

Notre Dame beat ranked Temple and GT
Bama beat ranked A&M, UGA, and Wisconsin

Baylor and TCU haven't beat a single ranked team yet. It makes sense. If either of them win out I think they get in by default just cause everyone ahead of them still have to play each other. 

Committee looks to be emphasizing quality wins to this point. You listening Art Briles? Not that this inital poll really means much. 

Only issue I have with that is these schedules are made years in advance. They cant change it to get harder. TCU, Baylor and MSU all deserve to be ranked ahead of ND and Alabama imo. They have handled the schedule that they have been delt. Especially how Baylor has blown teams out. Will see how it goes with their new QB but these playoff rankings at the moment are garbage

 

[MVP]

Yeah after looking at the respective schedules I don't see how ND is ranked ahead. Unless they think Temple is better than Michigan, but even that isn't reflected in this initial ranking. Brand name for that one I guess. A close loss to the #1 team apparently carries a lot of weight, but then I think we should be ranked a bit higher if that is the case as well. 

 

[statis22]

I'd prolly has Mighigan St or Florida ahead of Alabama but the rest is fine. A lot of these teams still have to play each other.

 

[MVP]

I'd have it like this:

1. Clemson

2. LSU

3. OSU

4. Bama

5. Baylor

6. Mich St.

7. UF

8. TCU

9. Notre Dame

10. Stanford

 

[nako xl]

My list since everyone else is doing it:

1. Clemson
2. Baylor
3. LSU
4. tO$U
5. Alabama
6. Michigan State
7. Notre Dame
8. TCU
9. Stanford
10. UF

Honorable mention(s): Memphis, Utah, Iowa


Baylor hasn't played anyone but they're still hanging 60 and winning by 30 against every team on their schedule. TCU has struggled against multiple teams and with their injuries it's basically just Boykin willing them to victory week after week.

Utah is on the outside looking in because one of their good wins (Oregon) doesn't look so great anymore and Stanford's resume looks more impressive at the moment.

Of course, none of this matters. Not even the real list.

 

[cash money 1999]

BUTCH , REED , DORSEY

.....

 

[nako xl]

Are we even sure Butch can still coach? Nostalgia's nice but I don't get the fervor.

Tennessee people aren't yelling bring back Phil.

 

[nako xl]

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If SC doesn't keep him Miami people should seriously consider giving him an interview.

 

[statis22]

Phil didn't exactly leave on good terms either.

 

[651akathepaul]

3rd and 39 for NIU?...No problem!

 

[mehoneydee]

Hot damb! Tigers baby!! [emoji]128047[/emoji]


...we dont need any more 41 point opponent scorinh games though! :\

 

[dacomeup]

Are we even sure Butch can still coach? Nostalgia's nice but I don't get the fervor.

Tennessee people aren't yelling bring back Phil.

Wasn't Fulmer not good his last few years? Butch literally went out on top, and turned North Carolina into a respectable program after being a joke. Had a bunch of guys drafted as well.

 

[dragicon]

Only issue I have with that is these schedules are made years in advance. They cant change it to get harder. TCU, Baylor and MSU all deserve to be ranked ahead of ND and Alabama imo. They have handled the schedule that they have been delt. Especially how Baylor has blown teams out. Will see how it goes with their new QB but these playoff rankings at the moment are garbage

teams wouldn't schedule hard teams anyways.  LSU is really the only SEC team that schedules difficult games.  While I agree that it is difficult to forecast how a team will be playing 7 years from now (TCU and Colorado just set up a home and home for 2022), I don't think any teams would change their philosophy as they know that most of the out of conference games are cupcakes.  Boise st tried to schedule hard teams for a long time, and nobody wanted to play them.  There is no incentive for a power 5 conf team to schedule a hard out of conference opponent, as now with the conf championships, you will likely get into the playoff if you win that.  

 

[Chopper]

^... Dantonio is doing just that... He scheduled Boise St a couple years ago, then home and home with Oregon, also had Bama on there until Saban backed out (I think it was supposed to start next year). Good thing we got Notre Dame back for a home and home, but would have loved to have them and Bama in '16 and '17.

 

[herbshuttles15]

Walker about to flip

 

[swendro]

Michigan's class could finish very, very, strong.

 

[witnesskb24]

teams wouldn't schedule hard teams anyways.  LSU is really the only SEC team that schedules difficult games.  While I agree that it is difficult to forecast how a team will be playing 7 years from now (TCU and Colorado just set up a home and home for 2022), I don't think any teams would change their philosophy as they know that most of the out of conference games are cupcakes.  Boise st tried to schedule hard teams for a long time, and nobody wanted to play them.  There is no incentive for a power 5 conf team to schedule a hard out of conference opponent, as now with the conf championships, you will likely get into the playoff if you win that.  

I would add bama to that list as well. They typically have one marquee OOC game as well

 

[Trey Bantz]

Are we even sure Butch can still coach? Nostalgia's nice but I don't get the fervor.


Tennessee people aren't yelling bring back Phil.

Wasn't Fulmer not good his last few years? Butch literally went out on top, and turned North Carolina into a respectable program after being a joke. Had a bunch of guys drafted as well.

Ehh sort of, had a losing season the year he got fired but played in the SEC title game the year before that. The fact that Tennessee has been down for this long baffles me. They have all the tools to be great: history, facilities, location, fanbase; you name it and Tennessee has it.

 

[Trey Bantz]

I remember the last time Miami and Tennessee played in 2003. Brock Berlin was our QB and we were ranked #6 in the country at the time. Tennessee was also ranked but no one expected them to beat us in the Orange Bowl. Long story short, they upset us in what was a very tight match. I still remember the disdain I had for Phil Fulmer and his fat face at the time . Those were some good football games though man.

 

[MVP]

 
teams wouldn't schedule hard teams anyways.  LSU is really the only SEC team that schedules difficult games.  While I agree that it is difficult to forecast how a team will be playing 7 years from now (TCU and Colorado just set up a home and home for 2022), I don't think any teams would change their philosophy as they know that most of the out of conference games are cupcakes.  Boise st tried to schedule hard teams for a long time, and nobody wanted to play them.  There is no incentive for a power 5 conf team to schedule a hard out of conference opponent, as now with the conf championships, you will likely get into the playoff if you win that.  

This is the exact opposite of what's actually going on in every power 5 conference except the Big 12. Coincidentally it's why they got left out last year, luckily it's not a two team conference so that may not happen this year, but still. 

UF added Michigan to their schedule just last season to open in 2017, Art Briles specifically is a douche about it and wonders why his team gets no respect, playing just one of the big boys OOC in addition to your conference schedule is the way of the future. 

 

[nako xl]

This Colorado 30 for 30 is comedy. Dudes got jokes

 

[dacomeup]

Michigan's class could finish very, very, strong.

Fuller, Gary, Walker alone is crazy. If he pulls one of Elliot, Daniels or Camp, plus Bush Jr. Pretty scary. That's without even thinking about the WRs that Harbaugh is after.

 

[nako xl]

I remember the last time Miami and Tennessee played in 2003. Brock Berlin was our QB and we were ranked #6 in the country at the time. Tennessee was also ranked but no one expected them to beat us in the Orange Bowl. Long story short, they upset us in what was a very tight match. I still remember the disdain I had for Phil Fulmer and his fat face at the time

. Those were some good football games though man.

Kellen Winslow was my favorite player on that Miami team. The hit he laid on those two Tennessee dbacks was

I remember Meth banned me from the thread for a week for going at a couple of dudes who were HEATED at K2 for this tirade/what they called a dirty block 

 

 

[CP1708]

I've told this before, but that rant got play all the way out here in homer land. Local radio was crushing Winslow/Miami for comparing football to war, soldier, etc etc.

I called them up, got on air, "yeah, uh, you guys are clowning Winslow and saying he's despicable for comparing himself to soldiers and all that, but, uh, what do y'all call the Oregon-Oregon St game?"

*click*

They hung up on me quick as **** and went to commercial, came back talkin Blazers after the break.


*They call it The Civil War in case anyone didn't get what I was referring too.