2025-2026 College Football Thread

[ChadFL]

Ohio St. wins the national title every time the college football playoff expands.

[JDub1]

I'll take Notre Dame over Penn St. & give a toss up between Ohio State and Texas. OSU is hot right now, but they are playing in the Cotton Bowl in Texas, home game/crowd for the Horns.

How in the world did this N. Dame team lose at home to Northern Illinois earlier this year?!?

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by JDub1

I'll take Notre Dame over Penn St. & give a toss up between Ohio State and Texas. OSU is hot right now, but they are playing in the Cotton Bowl in Texas, home game/crowd for the Horns.

How in the world did this N. Dame team lose at home to Northern Illinois earlier this year?!?

I'll bet the Cotton Bowl is at most a 60/40 Texas crowd. Ohio State fans are all over and they travel well.

[BizCat]

Go Bucks!

Rooting for Penn State over ND.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by BizCat

Go Bucks!

Rooting for Penn State over ND.

Why? Would you rather not play Notre Dame, or just want to beat Penn State in the title game?

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by JDub1

How in the world did this N. Dame team lose at home to Northern Illinois earlier this year?!?

Early season fluke. Also, ND starting QB Riley Leonard transferred to Notre Dame just this season from Duke. He played like crap the first few games, probably getting used to the new team, but progressed a lot at the year wore on.

[The Lizard King]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Why? Would you rather not play Notre Dame, or just want to beat Penn State in the title game?

All-B1G final.

[JDub1]

Originally Posted by The Lizard King

All-B1G final.

No all Big 10 final, & I am a Big 10 guy. That is just lame & boring. I'd rather have PSU vs Texas or OSU vs. Notre Dame.

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by JDub1

No all Big 10 final, & I am a Big 10 guy. That is just lame & boring. I'd rather have PSU vs Texas or OSU vs. Notre Dame.

Fellow BIG fan here, not sure why youd be against BIG final. If it comes down to that you know what this does for recruiting after 30 years of SEC supremacy. BIG has to work 2x as hard as SEC schools to get these great recruits. All BIG would help them in the recruiting department. Granted OSU Just gonna keep tossing 30-40 million a year to do this now.

I see Michigan getting in on the action now as well. I imagine PSU USC and Oregon will follow soon.

Lets also not forget when BIG and SEC both expand to 25 schools each they will probably drop NCAA.

[JDub1]

Originally Posted by R3P0

Fellow BIG fan here, not sure why youd be against BIG final. If it comes down to that you know what this does for recruiting after 30 years of SEC supremacy. BIG has to work 2x as hard as SEC schools to get these great recruits. All BIG would help them in the recruiting department. Granted OSU Just gonna keep tossing 30-40 million a year to do this now.

I see Michigan getting in on the action now as well. I imagine PSU USC and Oregon will follow soon.

Lets also not forget when BIG and SEC both expand to 25 schools each they will probably drop NCAA.

To me, having two teams from the same conference playing for a national title just doesn't excite me at all. When Georgia and Alabama played each other in football for it all not to long ago, I didn't even watch the game. Same goes for basketball. I dont remember when Indiana beat Michigan for the national title in hoops in the 70's, but I wouldn't have had much intrest in it if I would have been old enoug to see it.

[BizCat]

Originally Posted by ChadFL

Why? Would you rather not play Notre Dame, or just want to beat Penn State in the title game?

I just know too many Penn State fans given my location.

[JDub1]

Do you think that Notre Dame is missing Biran Kelly right now?!?

[Eye Candy]

The College Football Playoff, scourge of bowl games? If anything, viewership has never been higher

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/604...es-viewership/

But while bowl viewership is trending upward, in-person attendance at many games has gone in the opposite direction.

The Gator Bowl, which attracted crowds of 50,000-plus for decades, had 31,290 in the stands for last week’s Ole Miss-Duke matchup. And the Holiday Bowl, which downsized this season to San Diego State’s Snapdragon Stadium, drew the smallest crowd (23,920) in the bowl’s 46-year history for a Syracuse-Washington State matchup.

“To make ends meet, you need to have respectable crowds, and every now and then a crowd like the Alamo Bowl (64,261) had,” said Gator Bowl President/CEO Greg McGarity. “If you don’t have at least one team within a six-hour drive, you’re going to struggle in attendance.”

Going forward, though, that might not affect bowls to the extent it does now.

All parties recognize that most non-CFP bowls are primarily television programs now, which may eventually require a different business model. All 41 bowls’ current contracts align with the CFP’s, which terminates with the 2025 season. ESPN has already reached a six-year extension with the CFP, but the other bowls’ deals will come up for renewal in the coming year. All but the Sun Bowl (CBS) and Holiday Bowl (Fox) have ESPN as a partner.

That network will have to decide how much it values the non-CFP bowls, which generally produce larger audiences than any of its non-NFL programming that airs over the holidays.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by Eye Candy

The College Football Playoff, scourge of bowl games? If anything, viewership has never been higher

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/604...es-viewership/

But while bowl viewership is trending upward, in-person attendance at many games has gone in the opposite direction.

The Gator Bowl, which attracted crowds of 50,000-plus for decades, had 31,290 in the stands for last week’s Ole Miss-Duke matchup. And the Holiday Bowl, which downsized this season to San Diego State’s Snapdragon Stadium, drew the smallest crowd (23,920) in the bowl’s 46-year history for a Syracuse-Washington State matchup.

“To make ends meet, you need to have respectable crowds, and every now and then a crowd like the Alamo Bowl (64,261) had,” said Gator Bowl President/CEO Greg McGarity. “If you don’t have at least one team within a six-hour drive, you’re going to struggle in attendance.”

Going forward, though, that might not affect bowls to the extent it does now.

All parties recognize that most non-CFP bowls are primarily television programs now, which may eventually require a different business model. All 41 bowls’ current contracts align with the CFP’s, which terminates with the 2025 season. ESPN has already reached a six-year extension with the CFP, but the other bowls’ deals will come up for renewal in the coming year. All but the Sun Bowl (CBS) and Holiday Bowl (Fox) have ESPN as a partner.

That network will have to decide how much it values the non-CFP bowls, which generally produce larger audiences than any of its non-NFL programming that airs over the holidays.

Kinda figured it wouldn't have a negative impact on smaller bowl games. The same groups of people who watched the whocares.com types of bowl games aren't going to suddenly stop watching just because there's a playoff.

I'm actually a little surprised there isn't some sort of proposal for a secondary playoff being floated for teams that just missed the playoff. Something like an 8 or 12 team version of the NIT. Plenty of people would still tune in to see teams like Alabama, Miami, Colorado, etc. in a lesser tournament.

[rick88]

Go Nittany Lions!!

[JDub1]

I read online today that some Notre Dame players have the flu.

[rick88]

Apparently the gun-like motions aren't illegal in CFB, because I've seen 3 already tonight? Not that I care, just curious.

[The Lizard King]

Originally Posted by rick88

Apparently the gun-like motions aren't illegal in CFB, because I've seen 3 already tonight? Not that I care, just curious.

If pointed downfield to indicate a first down, that is allowed.

If pointed at an opposing player after a play, that is not allowed.

[BizCat]

Good win last night by Notre Dame. I had no dog in the fight last night. But it ends now, ND.

Go Bucks!

[traths]

There’s an arrest warrant for LSU receiver Kyren Lacy. He was involved in a car accident in which he killed someone.

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...atal-car-crash