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
#7 Notre Dame Vs #6 Penn St
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Saturday, January 11 @11:30AM
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
#8 Ohio St Vs #5 Texas
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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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[gaskin]

UGA student critically injured in the attack.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Mr Skattebo not happy there eh.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Need to change the DPI rule.

 

[aussiedude]

Much like the first round games. If your OL can't win everything falls apart fast

 

[Paul Kersey]

Texas’ offence been a bit meh the last few drivew. Ewers missed a pretty easy throw on that 2nd down.

 

[Brasher]

Is it just me? Watching the coverage via Foxtel and the crowd noise is muted to nothing.

Is that the same however you guys are watching it?

 

[nobbyiscool]

It has to be the big name target ND are after.

I don't know whether Ewers has already graduated, but can you imagine what an insane dynamic is being created on campus for these players?

Especially at private universities, imagine you're a lower-middle class kid, you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition with student loans that will take you lifetime to pay off...

For what? So this campaigner that you're sharing a campus with can be paid millions of dollars?

I don't begrudge players being paid given how much money is involved in this system, but I hope that dynamic is understood and players are helped through it.

 

[nobbyiscool]

And ESPN just confirm the Sugar Bowl's postponement until tomorrow.

 

[aussiedude]

Is it just me? Watching the coverage via Foxtel and the crowd noise is muted to nothing.

Is that the same however you guys are watching it?

I think a bunch of Texas tickets didn't sell.

First and QF games should be on campus. First round games were loud

 

[Paul Kersey]

Is it just me? Watching the coverage via Foxtel and the crowd noise is muted to nothing.

Is that the same however you guys are watching it?

Yep. Sounds bad.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Sort of shit Dallas falls for.

 

[Brasher]

I don't know whether Ewers has already graduated, but can you imagine what an insane dynamic is being created on campus for these players?

Especially at private universities, imagine you're a lower-middle class kid, you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition with student loans that will take you lifetime to pay off...

For what? So this campaigner that you're sharing a campus with can be paid millions of dollars?

I don't begrudge players being paid given how much money is involved in this system, but I hope that dynamic is understood and players are helped through it.

Yeah it's going to be interesting. Why bust your arse to make someone else rich with no reward for your own efforts.

Why not make a college match every dollar paid to a single player go to a team pool to be shared amongst the non paid players.

The team dynamics will be interesting where there is no established picking order of player payments like the NFL.

 

[aussiedude]

I don't know whether Ewers has already graduated, but can you imagine what an insane dynamic is being created on campus for these players?

Especially at private universities, imagine you're a lower-middle class kid, you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition with student loans that will take you lifetime to pay off...

For what? So this campaigner that you're sharing a campus with can be paid millions of dollars?

I don't begrudge players being paid given how much money is involved in this system, but I hope that dynamic is understood and players are helped through it.

The school isn't paying NIL it's boosters and collectives.

The biggest issues with NIL are the uncapped collectives, unlimited transfers without having yo sit out anymore and coaches tampering with players to get them to enter the portal

 

[Brasher]

How can they call that targeting? The Arizone rb was the one lowering his helmet.

 

[Brasher]

The school isn't paying NIL it's boosters and collectives.

The biggest issues with NIL are the uncapped collectives, unlimited transfers without having yo sit out anymore and coaches tampering with players to get them to enter the portal

Is there any cap on spending either for the whole roster or individuals?

 

[Paul Kersey]

Fair play Muhammad.

 

[aussiedude]

Is there any cap on spending either for the whole roster or individuals?

Nope. NIL was rushed and not well implemented with no real safeguards for caps or keeping shady agents or boosters away. If anything invited them back in

 

[Brasher]

Nope. NIL was rushed and not well implemented with no real safeguards for caps or keeping shady agents or boosters away. If anything invited them back in

So basically they have created an arms race.

Individuals can now buy teams and corporates can expense college payments alongside corporate jets and country club memberships.

 

[aussiedude]

Is there any cap on spending either for the whole roster or individuals?

Also it's not just football. All sports. I know Stanford had its softball pitcher poached after a playoff run. She got over a $1m offer. Basketball, volleyball, Olympic sports and everything else has players get big offers now to transfer.

And over 1/3 of the players in the transfer portal are repeat transfers. There were over 2500 college football players in there last month

 

[aussiedude]

So basically they have created an arms race.

Individuals can now buy teams and corporates can expense college payments alongside corporate jets and country club memberships.

College football and some basketball programs were already doing this. Just now its legal.

But it's the wild wild west. No real rules, bad faith agents and non binding agreements. Some kids are passing up on quality education for a slightly bigger one time payment and will never make it to the NFL anyway.

 

[Brasher]

College football and some basketball programs were already doing this. Just now its legal.

But it's the wild wild west. No real rules, bad faith agents and non binding agreements. Some kids are passing up on quality education for a slightly bigger one time payment and will never make it to the NFL anyway.

Yeah the under the table stuff has always been there but at least they had to be creative and any alma mater with integrity stayed away. Now it opens up untethered funding.

 

[aussiedude]

Yeah the under the table stuff has always been there but at least they had to be creative and any alma mater with integrity stayed away. Now it opens up untethered funding.

Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Ohio St and Oregon seeing this.

 

[Brasher]

Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Ohio St and Oregon seeing this.

So glad the SMC death sentence acted as a deterrent

 

[Paul Kersey]

What a clown. Got 3pts on the board and doing that.

 

[aussiedude]

How Texas haven't put this game away is insane.

It should be some backups in now if they kept up the momentum early