College Football Thread

[Brass Cannon 26,749]

22 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

At least 7 schools (including teams with a 5-7 record) have turned down a Birmingham Bowl bid. Watching bowl season die before our eyes. Was a heck of a run. 

If bowls die you will 100% see an expansion of the playoffs sooner than later.  Possibly up to 32 teams 

[AZ Hoosier 11,581]

38 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

At least 7 schools (including teams with a 5-7 record) have turned down a Birmingham Bowl bid. Watching bowl season die before our eyes. Was a heck of a run. 

This is just strange. NCAA says that you need 6 Div 1 wins to be bowl eligible. 5 win teams can play if there aren't enough 6 win teams. But this is not that. All of the butt-hurt teams that didn't make the playoffs are throwing their own special hissy fit and declining the bowl bids. The NCAA needs to grow a pair and force the issue (suspend their membership in the NCAA?) or fine the hell out of them ($1M or more).

 

[LIHoosier 29,233]

50 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

At least 7 schools (including teams with a 5-7 record) have turned down a Birmingham Bowl bid. Watching bowl season die before our eyes. Was a heck of a run. 

If you think about it for awhile, do we really need a Birmingham Bowl? A few of these games that play at 2:30 on a Tuesday in a Walmart parking lot really need to go.

[HinnyHoosier 6,731]

11 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

If you think about it for awhile, do we really need a Birmingham Bowl? A few of these games that play at 2:30 on a Tuesday in a Walmart parking lot really need to go.

I'm sitting in a Walmart parking lot right now. I'll play.

[BtownStrength 1,825]

31 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

If you think about it for awhile, do we really need a Birmingham Bowl? A few of these games that play at 2:30 on a Tuesday in a Walmart parking lot really need to go.

Exactly how I feel. Bowl season is entirely too inflated with bowls that mean absolutely nothing. Let these games rot. Teams declining because they dont give a **** and I don't blame them 

[str8baller 8,321]

11 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

The NCAA needs to grow a pair and force the issue (suspend their membership in the NCAA?) or fine the hell out of them ($1M or more).

NCAA has nothing to do with it. And any encroachment they make into college football will just hasten their demise. As soon as the big two confs figure out what to do about basketball and a new governing body the NCAA is dead anyways. I think the latter is something the big 2 doesn’t want to mess with right now. 

[jermhoosierfan 598]

16 hours ago, Pagoda said:

ND is taking their ball and going home.

If they would have joined the ACC a few years ago in football like they did in all the other sports, they would've played Virginia in the conference championship game and would've kept their spot.  It's time for them to join a conference in football because this makes them look very childish and elitist.  Did the "team" actually vote on this or was the "team" the AD and a few people around him?

[AZ Hoosier 11,581]

If they would have joined the ACC a few years ago in football like they did in all the other sports, they would've played Virginia in the conference championship game and would've kept their spot.  It's time for them to join a conference in football because this makes them look very childish and elitist.  Did the "team" actually vote on this or was the "team" the AD and a few people around him?

Doesn’t matter who decided… they’re all wussies with a capital P.

[Rico 4,009]

Just caught the Notre Dame AD on Dan Patrick.  He stated that ND's relationship with the ACC is strained.

[AZ Hoosier 11,581]

11 minutes ago, Rico said:

Just caught the Notre Dame AD on Dan Patrick.  He stated that ND's relationship with the ACC is strained.

Seems like ND's relationship with everyone is strained.

Dakich was on Fox News this morning suggesting that the ND athletic department agreed to pay coaching/player "bowl bonuses" to all in exchange for a NO vote on the question whether to play in a non-playoff bowl. Can't prove that either way, and it is Dakich's take, but knowing ND, seems incredibly believable.

[Rico 4,009]

22 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Seems like ND's relationship with everyone is strained.

Dakich was on Fox News this morning suggesting that the ND athletic department agreed to pay coaching/player "bowl bonuses" to all in exchange for a NO vote on the question whether to play in a non-playoff bowl. Can't prove that either way, and it is Dakich's take, but knowing ND, seems incredibly believable.

What's it matter if it is true?  You disappointed they won't be playing in a bowl?

[Hoosierfan2017 25,484]

[AZ Hoosier 11,581]

4 minutes ago, Rico said:

What's it matter if it is true?  You disappointed they won't be playing in a bowl?

Not at all. It's kind of funny to see ND all butt-hurt. But it's also somewhat disingenuous on their part - that the players chose not to play, when in fact, they may have been paid to choose not to play.

[Rico 4,009]

8 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Not at all. It's kind of funny to see ND all butt-hurt. But it's also somewhat disingenuous on their part - that the players chose not to play, when in fact, they may have been paid to choose not to play.

If that had happened to my Hoosiers I would be butt-hurt too.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy 848]

18 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

At least 7 schools (including teams with a 5-7 record) have turned down a Birmingham Bowl bid. Watching bowl season die before our eyes. Was a heck of a run. 

Back when Indiana was shitty, this probably would've been a chance for us to sneak into a bowl game, but I'm kinda seeing why teams are skipping bowls, and it's not because of the elite schools with that CFP or Bust mentality.

A lot of the lower tier bowl games have smaller payouts, and in some cases, end up costing the schools just for visiting.  I recall a long time ago the old bowl game that used to be in Houston that was quite delinquent in payouts.  If you're a Group of Five school, that could set your athletic department back big.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy 848]

2 hours ago, Rico said:

Just caught the Notre Dame AD on Dan Patrick.  He stated that ND's relationship with the ACC is strained.

Oh, goodie; they're going to bail on them on other sports, too?

[Lebowski 4,285]

FCS format of FBS

 

[TTT 1,573]

To many bowl games;  ridiculously?  Schools walking away from bowl games….Problem Solved.

(Will result in expansion of college playoff, hopefully not to the extent of Ty D bowl).  
If you don’t want to be left out Win don’t lose even though 3 loss Alabama plus getting trounced by Georgia is aTy D bowl in itself.

[Brass Cannon 26,749]

26 minutes ago, IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy said:

Oh, goodie; they're going to bail on them on other sports, too?

I doubt any conference helps ND out.  Freezing them out increases the chances of them getting another spot 

[str8baller 8,321]

45 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

I doubt any conference helps ND out.  Freezing them out increases the chances of them getting another spot 

Opposite, imo. Big Ten and SEC run the show. ACC and B12 aren’t getting any favors or extra teams unless the committees hand is forced.  But like this year the CFP (ie B1G and SEC) will guarantee them a single spot for legitimacy reasons plus basketball. I’m pretty sure they could bring one conf into the fold and tell the other one to go kick rocks if push really came to shove. But the playoffs aren’t going to freeze anyone out or ND ( the team that was runner up last year) for legitimacy reasons except as a last resort. Last thing they want is a competing splinter group. 
 

If that were to happen this year and TT beat ND in a B12/ACC/whatever playoff and anybody but undefeated Indiana won the B1G/SEC playoff all of a sudden you have a real issue on your hands. Good forbid a 3 loss Alabama wins and TT or ND won theirs you’d have a majority of the media claiming the other group is the “real” CFP championship.  Fox/CBS/NBC would be all over that. 
 

B1G/SEC just has to keep everyone happy until they can take over the basketball side and consolidate the whole thing into the top 75 programs or whatever for all sports. The committee wanted both the ACC champ and ND in but got their bluff called when the ACC title game went sideways. That’s why the rankings were the way they were. Push comes to shove they had to take Miami for the ACC. ND can cry about it but that’s the politics of the situation. 
 

Really ND f’d over the Big Ten by beating USC. There’s zero reason a 3 loss, 5th SEC team should get in when the B1G is only getting 3 teams in. Obviously I want IU to win the title but if we don’t I hope it is Oregon. There should never be another year where the B1G gets 3 teams and the SEC gets 5. The other 4/12 spots are just place holders to keep everybody happy.