Actually 4-0! TT, KU, WVU and OSU have all won so far.
***2023-24 College Football Thread***
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That's why I'm not sure that a G5 team should automatically get into the Playoff. Sure the CFP threw the G5 that bone though so they didn't get sued.
I agree but to be fair with Tulane they lost their coach and a ton of players.
Tulane beat USC last year but so far these smaller conference teams are faring very poorly against middling Power 5 competition.
It's a name given to the eight remaining Big Xii teams after OUT and before the new additions. So, the Big Xii is 4-1, the Hateful 8 subset is 4-0 and the old Big 8 subset is 2-0 so far this Bowl season!
So did Troy and Boise State. It was just last year Tulane beat Caleb Williams and USC in a NY6. This year seems like an anamoly.
Overall this year, there has just been a limited number of traditional upsets across the entire sport.
The snowmaggedon game will go down in Cyclone lore. IMO it was the most fun game of the season to watch.
Trying to come to some grand conclusion about teams/conferences based on how they play in a bowl game is a fool's errand. Staffs and rosters aren't the same from the regular season.
Bowls are silly fun and that's perfectly okay. Just enjoy them for what they are.
Bowls are silly fun and that's perfectly okay. Just enjoy them for what they are.
I don’t trust any QB that had a significant WR advantage over opponents in college. I know that there are some that end up being successful, but it just seems that guys that needed to throw WRs open and had to go through progressions have so much more success in the NFL. When USC (and Williams) were successful, the USC WRs were running free. If they weren’t, USC struggled.
Only thing sillier than using bowls for the strength of a team or conference is trying to bet on these games. It’s all been a crap shoot. Between opt outs and weather, these games have been fun but there is not rhyme or reason to who’s winning these games.
I wasn't necessarily making some grand statement or meant to draw any conclusions l. It was more of an observation that some teams are cruising through their leagues at 10-2 then looked overmatched against some very average teams from larger conferences.
And this is why I said there are some that don’t follow this. But I still stand by the statement regardless of the outliers.
For 95% of fans AND the talking heads and reporters, the bowl game is probably the only thing they remember about the team. Especially for all but the bluest of blue bloods.
Best to destroy the opponent and have their last memory be "they were pretty good weren't they?"
More and more there's almost no way to compare teams inter-conference.
Everyone says bowl games are meaningless.
So we're reduced to most teams only playing 3 non conf total.
Lots or most teams play an FCS game...now you're reduced to only 2 non conf games to compare.
Of those two games most teams only play a power conference team in one game, some two, but others zero.
So 70 power conference teams playing an average of one meaningful inter power conference game...all of them at the very beginning of the year, and 11 playoff games at the end of the year. 81 games total that give any idea of how to compare teams across the sport.
Difference between being emotional after a game and going over to sit in Mommy's lap and cry. Especially after making fun of Duggan.
