College Football Thread

[68Hoosier 1,374]

18 hours ago, IUCrazy2 said:

https://x.com/Lane_Kiffin/status/1988249103424164230

In other news, Lane Kiffin is still a sissy little *****.

What was the purpose of the post?  I don't have access to any other posts.

[go iu bb 10,217]

The $EC and its sports writers are all so arrogant.

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2025/11/goodman-we-found-the-biggest-fraud-in-college-football.html

[AZ Hoosier 11,430]

The $EC and its sports writers are all so arrogant.
https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2025/11/goodman-we-found-the-biggest-fraud-in-college-football.html

Can you say “butt hurt”?

[sirhoosierlot 4,093]

25 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

The $EC and its sports writers are all so arrogant.

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2025/11/goodman-we-found-the-biggest-fraud-in-college-football.html

This guy has just replaced Jeff as the worst Goodman, which is an accomplishment! 

[Hoosierfan2017 25,430]

“Vandy has wins against South Carolina, LSU, Missouri and Auburn. Those are all quality teams.”

These SEC guys are all grade A clowns. Worshiping a conference the way that they do is just pathetic. The best team in the SEC got dominated by one of the worst teams in the ACC, but sure tell us more about how they’re all unbeatable juggernauts. I’d love nothing more than IU putting BTA against an SEC team in the playoff like OSU did to Tennessee last year.

[realTomCrean 2,863]

54 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

The $EC and its sports writers are all so arrogant.

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2025/11/goodman-we-found-the-biggest-fraud-in-college-football.html

Wow that’s awful 

[Brass Cannon 26,440]

12 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

Wow that’s awful 

Yeah should have tried to lose against FSU like a real program 

[LIHoosier 28,846]

This has to be Chat GPT cuz no one from Alabama can write multiple legible sentences.

[TheWatShot 15,941]

A team coached by Curt Cignetti is NOT getting destroyed by Vanderbilt. 

[Hovadipo 63,330]

Michigan State got kinda thumped on recruiting violations from the Tucker days. All of that missed recruiting time adds up pretty quickly.

[Pagoda 6,429]

Eli lost me on this one.  Late in the season like 25 teams have playoff hopes (including those who are likely in).  To start the season I don't know, maybe 40 to 45 teams have playoff hopes.  That's a lot of teams in the mix.  And this is a cut throat competition at the end of the day.

And I get this is probably just cope from getting eliminated, QB injury, etc.

[Home Jersey 17,475]

7 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Eli lost me on this one.  Late in the season like 25 teams have playoff hopes (including those who are likely in).  To start the season I don't know, maybe 40 to 45 teams have playoff hopes.  That's a lot of teams in the mix.  And this is a cut throat competition at the end of the day.

And I get this is probably just cope from getting eliminated, QB injury, etc.



Meh, I don't disagree with his quote here... To me it just sounds like a coach advocating for his peers.

I don't take his point as too few teams are in the mix but that it's unsustainable to unceremoniously can a guy like James Franklin or Mike Gundy mid-season because of this "championship or bust" mentality schools have. PSU and Ok St. haven't won a game since firing them and there's a ton of other big jobs opening this cycle... no guarantee they end up with better coaches.

And that's to say nothing of the $$ aspect with how big these contracts/buyouts are and how valuable making the CFP is. 

It's all so situational though... in some cases it's time for a change anyway (Gundy, for sure) or the school is chomping at the bit for an excuse to get rid of em (LSU / Kelly). 

Some places will just always have that "championship or bust" approach - LSU, UF, Auburn have been that way. But... 

PSU hasn't won a title since 1986. Has their performance warranted that same approach? I don't think so, and I'm sure Franklin's peers all think he got a raw deal in the end. And they're much better positioned than other P4 openings like Ok St., Ark, VaTech, UCLA, etc.

I love the playoff format and think it's great for CFB... but do think the shorter leash for coaches is a natural byproduct of it. Some schools will probably shoot themselves in the foot chasing short-term results.

Luckily, for a change, we have a coach/admin that understands focusing on process will lead to the desired result...

[go iu bb 10,217]

1 hour ago, Pagoda said:

Eli lost me on this one.  Late in the season like 25 teams have playoff hopes (including those who are likely in).  To start the season I don't know, maybe 40 to 45 teams have playoff hopes.  That's a lot of teams in the mix.  And this is a cut throat competition at the end of the day.

And I get this is probably just cope from getting eliminated, QB injury, etc.

I agree with him less now than when the playoff was only 4 teams. The playoffs now consist of 12 of 127 teams, just a bit under 10%.  For schools to really be in the mix to make the playoffs, they just have to be top 15 or so. Places like PSU, LSU, and Florida expect to be top 15 every year. 

Those 3 schools I think wanted a change anyways. PSU made the playoffs last year but Franklin has a history of just not getting it done in big games. He'd been there for quite a while and it looked like they had peaked and were on the way back down or at best had plateaued.

I don't think most of the schools in D1 have that mentality. Before Cignetti, IU and its fans would have been happy just making bowl games more years than not.

[Brass Cannon 26,440]

Learned today there are 7 million reasons why it’s in the big tens interest for Michigan to beat OSU on the 29th