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Coaching Carousels
Bob Chesney will try to Bruin up wins in Westwood. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ucla-hires-bob-chesney-head-coach-james-madison/
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Coaching Carousels
Will our Will fill his Stein with Bourbon? Wildcat Blue NationKentucky will fire Mark Stoops and there's a potential re...After so much speculation, the Mark Stoops era has finally come to an end. With yet another disappointing regular season getting wrapped up, the news arrived on
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Critical CFP questions
Florida weighs in, we're still waiting on the Mayor of South Bend. Canes WarningGov. Ron DeSantis weighs in on Miami-Notre Dame CFP debateFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis has officially jumped into the Miami-Notre Dame playoff debate, backing the Hurricanes' head-to-head argument after fresh betting odds
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What if....
GP, I entirely agree, except in my case, at least one drunk will be sitting on my couch.😁😁😁
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What if....
With the game being played in Oxford, Pelican State Governor Jeff Landry likely promised Lane that the entire Louisiana National Guard would be deployed to guard Lane on the way, with a platoon or three stationed on the visitor sideline. 🤪 Throw out the records, GameDay will be there.
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It's Easy to ACC that Champ Games Should Disappear
Finish the Power 4 No Bowl 4 You - ACC - 2-10 Boston College, 3-9 Syracuse, and Virginia Tech, 4-8 Stanford, UNC, 5-7 FSU. 6 out of 17 teams. Two Coaches fired. B12 - 1-11 Oklahoma State (!), 3-9 Colorado, 4-8 West Virginia, 5-7 Baylor, Kansas, UCF. 6 out of 16 teams. One Coach Fired. FWIW, 33% of B1G teams not bowling is the best percentage in the Power 4. The SEC leads with four coaches fired, plus one deciding to drive in another Lane. Did the Rebels Miss? Or has Ole Miss found a Golden replacement?
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It's Easy to ACC that Champ Games Should Disappear
Mike, when considering the B1G and the SEC from top to bottom, I took a look at how many teams are not bowl eligible this season. Big Ten - 2-10 Purdue, 3-9 UCLA, 4-8 Maryland, Michigan State, Wisconsin, and 5-7 Rutgers. Six out of 18 teams. Two coaches fired. SEC - 2-10 Arkansas, 4-8 Florida, and South Carolina, 5-7 Auburn, Kentucky, Mississippi State. Six out of 16 teams in a conference that played eight conference games this season. Four coaches fired. How much of - 'Every game in the SEC is a battle like no other, Just Means More, and other conference champions would have three or more losses if they had to run this gauntlet!' - is myth compared to the reality we see played out. In these mega-conferences, SOS varies significantly. Compare A&M's 2025 schedule with Florida's. Compare Wisconsin's 2025 schedule to Michigan's. The B1G was superior to the SEC in the 2024 postseason, including 3-loss Illinois defeating 'PO screwed over 3-loss South Carolina', and 5-loss Michigan defeating 'PO screwed over 3-loss Alabama.' The two PO screwed SEC teams had all hands on deck for their bowl game. Half of the starters on the Michigan D skipped the bowl game. Bama had a 1st round draft pick at QB. Michigan had Thin and Air at QB. Compare the rosters of the six no-bowl B1G and SEC teams, and the SEC has better rosters. No doubt. But this does not ipso facto mean better results on the field of play. Coaching matters. Fun to ponder all of these issues, especially during this mini offseason.
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Critical CFP questions
Mike, great post. I think playoff expansion discussions are ongoing that will lead to at least a 16-team field or, more likely, a 24-team PO field with automatic qualifiers. Too much like the NFL? Other than for guardrails agreed upon by the NFL and the Players Union, what in CFB today does not resemble the NFL? Money rules the CFB roost, but unlike the NFL, the CFB billionaires have not learned to coexist. Better than a Super Conference would be a 24-team field with 6 at-large teams, which keeps a 4-PO-team ACC and the 4-PO-team B12 in existence. I don't believe a 3-loss USC, and Michigan, a 3-loss Georgia Tech and SMU, a 3-loss Arizona and 2-loss Utah, and two G6 teams in the field will destroy the foundation of CFB and CFB's regular season. I'd even be OK with 3-loss Texas and 2-loss Vandy being in the field.😁 A PO with AQs would likely lead to a B1G/SEC football challenge. I believe it could also lead to 10-game conference schedules (five home and five away games), which makes sense in this era of mega-conferences. Give the 'lesser conferences' four teams in the field and the G6 two teams in the field, and guardrails in CFB, as we see in the NFL, may be allowed with Congress giving CFB much-needed relief from litigation. BTW, A&M's conference schedule this season was putrid.🤮 Thanks again for the great take.
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It's Easy to ACC that Champ Games Should Disappear
Indy, preferably in the Cotton Bowl, but more likely in the Orange Bowl, with OBD coming off a win and the Hoosiers coming off a long bye. Make no mistake, Indy is darn good (DUH!), but watching the Hoosiers vs. Iowa and Penn State, I think it was The Perfect Storm Day for the Cigs in Autzen. I do not want to play Texas Tech in Dallas or an SEC team in New Orleans. After defeating Indy in the Orange Bowl, knock wood, how about a semifinal game in Arizona in more friendly territory in the Fiesta Bowl?
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It's Easy to ACC that Champ Games Should Disappear
JMU. SEE: Liberty in the Fiesta Bowl in Autzen. 😁
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2025 CFB Playoff Information, Rankings Show Results
USA Today is PO benching the ACC - 😁 CFP rankings prediction, updated College Football Playoff bracket
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Coaching Carousels
More axes than a Cal vs Stanford game. Is Mark Stoops next? ESPN.comKentucky expected to fire Stoops, sources sayKentucky is expected to fire football coach Mark Stoops, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Sunday, with the process set to formally play out Monday.
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So, Which Do You Prefer, a Home Playoff Game or a Bye into the Quarter Finals?
HOME PO game! One of Ohio State/Indiana will host the Rose Bowl, with the other hosting the Cotton or Orange Bowl, with the Sugar Bowl reserved for the SEC champ. Get a win under the belt in Autzen and advance at least one step further in the PO than last season. This is a young football team that will have a tough bowl matchup in the 2nd round in Dallas, Miami, or New Orleans. I want the team to experience at least one PO win. The semifinal sites this season will be played in the Fiesta and Peach bowls. Teams from Dixie reap the reward of this so-called PO, a front for a bowl extravaganza.