***2023-24 College Football Thread***

[cyspy]

Any idea why there wont be any bowl games Saturday night?

NFL game between Detroit and Dallas. There is no NFL game on Monday night due to the college football playoff games that day.

 

[BigJCy]

Raining hard at the Military Bowl. Tied up at 17 in 3rd Qtr. between Va Tech & Tulane.

 

[ISU_Guy]

Not sure why this bothers me so much, but we are in unchartered waters right now with conference realignment and perception. If OSU loses to A&M tonight, its going to look really bad.
I think A&M has a limited staff and 30 scholarship players are gone.

and yes, that military bowl looks miserable right now.

 

[NoCreativity]

Not sure why this bothers me so much, but we are in unchartered waters right now with conference realignment and perception. If OSU loses to A&M tonight, its going to look really bad.
I think A&M has a limited staff and 30 scholarship players are gone.

and yes, that military bowl looks miserable right now.

It seems like these 6-6 type teams from power conferences are alot better than the 10-2 type teams from the lower conferences so far.

 

[JP4CY]

WV with a TD on the first play.

 

[JM4CY]

What’s WV roster look like for bowl sit outs etc?

 

[Yellow Snow]

It seems like these 6-6 type teams from power conferences are alot better than the 10-2 type teams from the lower conferences so far.

6-6 power conference teams get a bunch of players from the 10-2 type lower level teams.

Transfer portal baby.

 

[JM4CY]

Nice break there for WV

 

[madguy30]

Not sure why this bothers me so much, but we are in unchartered waters right now with conference realignment and perception. If OSU loses to A&M tonight, its going to look really bad.
I think A&M has a limited staff and 30 scholarship players are gone.

and yes, that military bowl looks miserable right now.

What's OSU's situation?

Weren't a bunch of players quitting after like week 3?

My wants for the future of bowl games:
1. Make extra financial incentives to stick with a team and play in the game. No idea how this works vs. transfer portal other than move it to January 10th or something.

2. Get rid of conference ties, matchup by what should be just good matchups.

 

[BigJCy]

Punt return TD for WVU, now lead 14-3.

 

[BigJCy]

Holy push-off.

 

[HouClone]

Nice field goal at end of the half for West Virginia.

 

[Die4Cy]

The community shared Duke's mayo jar?

That was ******* disgusting.

 

[Jer]

The community shared Duke's mayo jar?

That was ******* disgusting.

As if our food safety protocols aren’t bad enough, let’s double dip with 100 random people in a stadium.

 

[theshadow]

The ESPN broadcast technical crews must be spread pretty thin during bowl season.

Just assume that there's some level of remote production for every ESPN bowl game outside the CFP/NY6.

No different than the regular season for FB or MBB.

 

[Kinch]

The ESPN broadcast technical crews must be spread pretty thin during bowl season. Just now at the Guaranteed Rate bowl:

- Kansas completes a long pass. It looked pretty clear to me the receiver pushed off the UNLV defender; in fact the defender was motioning to the officials to indicate that.

- Not only was there no call from the refs, there was no mention of the move by the ESPN crew in the booth. I was looking forward to the replay to confirm what I had seen.

- No replay appeared to be upcoming, as Kansas lined up and was about to snap the ball … and then, and only then, suddenly a replay takes over the screen. Bold move, I think - the director must have a hunch Kansas isn’t going to run a play so fast.

- And then the replay is cut short, well before the ball or the camera gets to the receiver, taking us back to live action … which is the teams sorting themselves out after a play was run and we, the viewers, missed it entirely. Beth Mowins made a quick mention of Kansas trying a “quick hitter,” but no idea of who/yardage/anything regarding an entire play that was just - ignored.

- Not only did we miss an actual play, we also never got a replay of the big catch before it - a big catch that set up a Kansas TD on the play immediately following the play that was missed, and since Kansas actually scored ESPN decided the push-off/big catch was “old news” and didn‘t get a replay at all.

I’m just saying this ESPN director isn’t getting any Emmy nominations for Best Live Broadcast Of A Sports Event.

And when the USC kicker hooked a field goal attempt, the FOX announcer said “the kick was incomplete.”

 

[Die4Cy]

The announcer making exclusively mayonnaise puns deserves to be dragged out of the booth and given a wedgie.

 

[Nolaeer]

WVU does the Big 12 proud on the field and off.

30-10 0ver UNC. WVU fans took over the stadium and made it a home game for WVU in UNC's backyard.

 

[Kinch]

How long do you think it before the first player opts out of a college football playoff game when they expand to 12 teams?

 

[NoCreativity]

Yikes, that looked like a broken arm on the A&M Qb.