NCAA 2024/25 - NCAA - Bowl Season

[aussiedude]

Saturday, December 21 @ 12PM
College Football Playoff First Round
#10 Indiana @ #7 Notre Dame
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Sunday, December 22 @ 4AM
College Football Playoff First Round
#11 SMU @ #6 Penn State
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Sunday, December 22 @ 8AM
College Football Playoff First Round
#12 Clemson @ #5 Texas
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Sunday, December 22 @ 12PM
College Football Playoff First Round
#9 Tennessee @ #8 Ohio State
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Wednesday, January 1 @ 11:30AM
College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl
State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
#6 Penn St Vs #3 Boise State
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Thursday, January 2 @ 4AM
College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia
#5 Texas Vs #4 Arizona State
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Thursday, January 2 @ 9AM
College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Presented by Prudential
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
#8 Ohio St Vs #1 Oregon
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Thursday, January 2 @ 12:45PM
College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the AllState Sugar bowl
Caesars Stadium, New Orleans Louisiana
#7 Notre Dame Vs #2 Georgia
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Friday, January 10 @ 11:30AM
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl
Hard Rock Stadium, Miami, Florida
XXX Vs XXX
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Saturday, January 11 @11:30AM
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
XXX Vs XXX
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Tuesday, January 21 @ 11:30AM
College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia
XXX Vs XXX
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[aussiedude]

when it becomes a business it loses what made it special. Like McGee said i like my Saturday football on a Saturday and my Sunday football on a Sunday. if the college game becomes NFL lite and a business it will die and its heading that way with the Big10/SEC super conferences and all about the money and TV stuff. We need still have it with MACtion and stuff thats pure CFB and fun like pop tarts bowl or Dukes mayo bowl.

but the top is what worries me. if the B1G and SEC break away CFB as we know will die not that the leftovers wont still be fun but there will be a NFL jr between it and the Sunday game where its college but run like the NFL. and i hope that never happens. and i hope the Big10/SEC dont get their 3-4 guaranteed playoff spots they want

 

[aussiedude]

Its a funny one, you can make all sorts of arguments about strength of conference etc, but the one benefit of the growth has seen moves away from divisions which almost seamed to stop certain match ups from ever happening - like Georgia and Alabama only met in the regular season for the 3rd time this season since 2008.

There will be hard years, and easier ones - but teams that deserve to be there (genuine top 10) need to put together a good resume and not sook that they hard a harder path as their division is strong. The rhetoric coming out of Alabama is embarrassing and just plain wrong

and the idea used with expanded playoffs was make wins matter and it will lead to more big games between powerhouses in season.

but as soon as the season ended and SMU got in over Alabama. the Alabama fans and school [especially the AD] were crying about non conference and if they scheduled FCS teams it would be better. I think they forgot Oklahoma is now in the SEC because all 3 losses were in SEC play.

 

[aussiedude]

 

[gaskin]

Will a team be flagged because the fans throw snowballs at the other team in any of the games?

and great point by Pate at the end about what makes CFB so great. and how the players generally were loyal to the school who recruited them, but NIL and stuff they are free agents and mercenaries and the same with coaches. it is slowly turning fans off and will do so for more. its not just a CFB issue its all college sports. it sucks ive felt it, in the offseason it can be doom and gloom watching all the transfers or NIL buying players. but when the games start im back in.

I hate what NIL is doing, i love that players are getting paid. but hate the unregulated nature and unlimited transfers. dont like that players quit and transfer if they are not starting, dont like boosters buying players. I wish there was a middle ground with players getting paid and there still being loyalty. but now a salary cap wont work because it will lead to under the table stuff again. and like Alabama are learning its all about the rich.

Pate has been banging that drum since the talk of NIL coming in got serious.

 

[AJ_2000]

 

[flamethrower]

Will a team be flagged because the fans throw snowballs at the other team in any of the games?

and great point by Pate at the end about what makes CFB so great. and how the players generally were loyal to the school who recruited them, but NIL and stuff they are free agents and mercenaries and the same with coaches. it is slowly turning fans off and will do so for more. its not just a CFB issue its all college sports. it sucks ive felt it, in the offseason it can be doom and gloom watching all the transfers or NIL buying players. but when the games start im back in.

I hate what NIL is doing, i love that players are getting paid. but hate the unregulated nature and unlimited transfers. dont like that players quit and transfer if they are not starting, dont like boosters buying players. I wish there was a middle ground with players getting paid and there still being loyalty. but now a salary cap wont work because it will lead to under the table stuff again. and like Alabama are learning its all about the rich.

For mine, college football is on the fast track to extinction as a "pure" sport by embracing everything that makes both sport, and society bad - financial greed.

I grew up as a big fan of the Pac 10 (which became the Pac 12) in general, and of the California Golden Bears in particular (due to a work-based friendship with a professor in molecular biology from Cal back when I was starting my career). The demise of that conference is devastating along with the transfer of most of the schools' football programs to other conferences. Cal and Stanford in the Atlantic Coast Conference is just plain wrong.

Now the NIL is fast tracking the death of college football for me. It will mean an elite few schools with billionaire boosters will dominate the sport at the expense of everyone else, just like soccer overseas.

College football will probably end up with 2 super conferences in the SEC and the Big10 with the winner of each conference meeting to decide the "national champion", with the other conferences excluded and relegated to irrelevancy.

 

[AJ_2000]

 

[drd23]

 

[aussiedude]

Not sure where he goes in the draft. feel day 2, could be a top WR if we gave him better QB play.
Whoever gets him will get a good one.

 

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[aussiedude]

great play for Indiana.

 

[drd23]

What a catch by #13

 

[drd23]

And immediately followed up by a poor throw for an INT...

 

[aussiedude]

great catch by Indiana followed up with a bad INT. i just dont know what he saw throw was never open

 

[aussiedude]

and that makes it even worse for Indiana.

 

[Borough Blood]

Boom!

 

[drd23]

hahaha what an insane start to the game by Indiana

 

[aussiedude]

that was a easy TD

 

[aussiedude]

the Indiana OL is getting killed

 

[AmericanCrow]

Indiana providing further evidence that a marshmallow soft schedule in a “power” conference is best way to get a cheap bid.

Zero business being in the playoff

 

[ams4crows]

the Indiana OL is getting killed

Left tackle getting obliterated

 

[aussiedude]

Indiana providing further evidence that a marshmallow soft schedule in a “power” conference is best way to get a cheap bid.

Zero business being in the playoff

Both teams have a SOS in the 60s.

Indiana are just struggling, they are better then this. The offence has no time and the defense hasnt been bad other then the 98yd TD run

 

[aussiedude]

with ND killing the Indiana run game try a flea flicker

 

[AmericanCrow]

Both teams have a SOS in the 60s.

Indiana are just struggling, they are better then this. The offence has no time and the defense hasnt been bad other then the 98yd TD run

Indiana has no business in the playoff

I watched plenty of their games to understand that

Played 2 good teams all season

Got blasted by both

52-15 and counting

 

[aussiedude]

Indiana has no business in the playoff

I watched plenty of their games to understand that

Played 2 good teams all season

Got blasted by both

would you rather reward a bad 3 loss Alabama or Ole Miss.

I think the best team on the outside was South Carolina.

Texas also had a soft schedule, Ducks was also easy with the only hard games well placed for them.

ND are a good team and should of been ranked higher.