Terry, I really hope you are wrong. If transferring from one top ranked program to another top ranked program because you think that will give you the best chance at success at the other place becomes widespread, then once again, that will be the nail in the coffin for college football for me. Of course, transferring for more money will also be a nail in the same coffin. I can almost understand transferring because you don't think you will start. Oh well, Alabama and Ohio State now will both have highly rated quarterbacks with no experience and a lot of talent around them, so I guess it worked out ok.
It’s not going away but it’s not so prevalent that it totally rewrites rosters yet. This is kind of like the draftee that refuses to play for a team that is not a Super Bowl contender. Hopefully there are still a lot of kids who aren’t ready to transfer someplace just because they have a better team. Maybe I’m just being naive.
Coach Day has been very specific that he wants to be able to pick his starting QB by the end of this week. That leaves the pick two weeks to face Texas in our opening game here at home. I am in complete agreement with that objective. Opening games with a new QB can be very testy as history dictates. dating back to Art Schlichter when he was just a freshmen vs Penn State. That one was a rude awaking for Woody!
Longhorns are #1 in the AP poll, first time they've started the season as #1. Penn State is #2, no doubt on the strength of Drew Allar's experience at QB compared to #3 Ohio State with a first time starter in Sayin (assuming that is who wins the job)
Texas, fresh off the first No. 1 ranking in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll in program history, finds itself a 2.5-point underdog to No. 3 Ohio State for their Week 1 showdown in Columbus, according to ESPN BET lines. Barring significant line movement, this would make the Longhorns the first top-ranked team to be an underdog in Week 1, according to ESPN Research data dating back to 1978.
Alabama named Ty Simspon as its starting quarterback. He is a redshirt junior who has backed up both Bryce Young and Jalen Milroe. He has limited experience with 50 completions in 3 years. Always a question mark with a new qb, but he has been here a long time and is as more familiar with the current offensive scheme than any of the other candidates.
Not quite sure how we can be favored is even a remote possibility. All of our best players have moved on to the NFL, we've lost what would have been a meaningful home field advantage with a prime-time game under the lights due to the God-fearing and dutiful Texas AD's need to get to church on time. In light of the fact that he already has the second-coming of the messiah lining up behind center seems as if he's got that base already covered?? What am I missing here? Woe be to us.....
BuckeyeT, always difficult to address how any team will open the season with new players and some new coaches at key positions. Like you I have no problems with Texas being favored here in a noon a game. mistakes on both sides of the ball, will have an immeasurable impact on the game for sure!
Don, actually if you end up with the fewest losses you will be in the playoffs. It doesn’t matter where you are ranked now. Also I’ll bet the winner of your first game will be ranked #1 the next week, so y’all are really #1 and #1A.
Are there 12 or 16 teams this year. If it's 16 hard to imagine there not being 4 from the B1O and SEC Are we still doing the bye week. If so then in theory. You just need to make it as last year none of the teams getting a bye made it to the Championship game.
12 teams, Terry. No change from last year. The Big 10 wants 16 with 4 each guaranteed from B10 and SEC (2 each for ACC and B12 and one for a Group of 5 and 3 at large bids). The SEC wants 5 guaranteed slots (4 power conferences get only 1 guaranteed plus highest ranked Group of 5) and the rest go to the highest ranked 11 teams. I think the SEC thinks they will get more than 4 in that way. Part of the Big 10's reasoning is that the Big 10 plays 9 conference games and the SEC only 8, thus giving the SEC the better hand for at large bids.
He's going to win, and it's a shame, nothing against the kid but it won't be long till guys who don't like their NFL destination or their round selection will elect to come back to college. A judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order allowing Indiana safety Louis Moore to practice with the Hoosiers for the next 14 days, a significant win for the 24-year-old challenging the NCAA's five-year eligibility rule. Moore, who started games at both Ole Miss and Indiana, recently filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in district court in Dallas County, Texas, arguing his three years at Navarro Junior College in Texas should not count against his eligibility. Moore also cited potential losses in earnings of around $400,000 from NIL deals.
My team(s) have done this and I don't like it when we do it either. Officials will be cracking down on college football players who feign injuries, the number of overtime timeouts will be reduced and referees will use different verbiage when announcing the results of video reviews. Those are among the changes for the 2025 season, the National Football Foundation announced Wednesday in its annual summary of rules changes. Combatting the practice of players faking injuries to stop the game clock was an offseason priority for the NCAA Football Rules Committee. Beginning this season, if a player on the field presents as injured after the ball is spotted for the next play, that player's team will be charged a timeout. If the team does not have timeouts remaining, a 5-yard delay-of-game penalty will be assessed. The player also must remain out of the game for at least one down, even if that team is granted a timeout, and may not return until receiving the approval of a medical professional.
They will no doubt give Harbaugh and Stallions "show cause" penalties but who cares. The critical will be what about Sherrone Moore and will there be scholarship losses? Of course if we are going to more scholarships (some say 105) then that's not much of a penalty.
Harbaugh is 61 and unlikely to return to college football so a show cause penalty for him is not much of a penalty. I suspect Michigan will face a multi million dollar fine and Stallions will be hit with a show cause. The big question marks are scholarship reductions, a post season ban, and additional penalties for Moore. I think the entire episode is a major embarrassment for the university but my view is held by only a small minority of Michigan fans. The majority view deems it an NCAA witch hunt and are living in an echo chamber that is intolerant of self reflection.