2025-2026 College Football Thread

[walruswarrior]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

LSU was also down a lot of players today.

They weren’t down a star QB.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

I guess that's one way to look at it.

Outgained 2.5:1, Time of Possession 3:1.

I still have no idea how LSU didn't have a 5 TD lead in the 4th Quarter.

Sheer domination and still LSU nearly finds a way to blow it just like Miss St did (as usual) and Kentucky tried to (and surprisingly didn't). LSU has always been one of the most undisciplined teams I've ever watched and proved it again today. They have to lead the world in Personal Fouls and Unsportsmanlike calls for taunting and targeting every year

The only thing that matters is the final score. LSU won by one TD.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by Moviefan1203

LSU was also down a lot of players today.

All the more reason that the stupid player behavior issues needed to be avoided, but multiple ejections knowing you're already playing short. Taking a full out swing directly in front of the ref just so they don't have to play the rest of the game. Obviously either a truly stupid decision or conspiracy theory points toward being an intentional ploy to get thrown out so you don't have to appear to be a quitter like those who intentionally sat out.

Leonard Fournette started the LSU trend of players bailing on his teammates in big games. Me before Us still applies apparently given his behavior on the sideline last week. .

Originally Posted by ChadFL

The only thing that matters is the final score. LSU won by one TD.

Bottom line - the only thing that really matters is LSU won. It's a binary event
If you want to evaluate how well you played or the quality of the loss then score is actually one of the poorer ways to evaluate that

[Master X]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

They weren’t down a star QB.

Just 8 Starters on Defense. Plus the 2 that got ejected.... So 10 players.

Heck they had WRs playing CBs today.

[emac213]

It seems like it always happens, the team that complains the most doesn't show up in the bowl game.

[Eye Candy]

Bevo vs. Uga - The Georgia Bulldog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xehh...ature=youtu.be

[BizCat]

Was glad to see Texas win.

[walruswarrior]

Originally Posted by Master X

Just 8 Starters on Defense. Plus the 2 that got ejected.... So 10 players.

Heck they had WRs playing CBs today.

All of that still doesn’t equate to a star QB

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by Master X

Just 8 Starters on Defense. Plus the 2 that got ejected.... So 10 players.

Heck they had WRs playing CBs today.

Come on man. That's hardly an act of god. The guys got ejected because of their own stupidity.

[Eye Candy]

In 2004-05, Texas won the Rose Bowl vs Michigan, then returned in 2005-06 to the Rose Bowl for the National Championship. In 2018-19, Texas won the Sugar Bowl vs Georgia. Guess where the National Championship will be played for 2019-20? The Sugar Bowl.

[BamaDan3]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

All of that still doesn’t equate to a star QB

Unless Milton could play defense, it doesn't matter. UCF D got run through by "Average Joe" Burrow and a Steve Ensminger offense. The Pick 6 skews the score some, but LSU ran up and down the field on UCF.

Great run though. UCF should definitely take the deal with UF and see if they can get FSU on the schedule also.

[BizCat]

Ohio State has announced the hiring of Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich as passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach.

I love it.

[Rodney-2187]

UCF is a very good team. I hope they get better opponents, not so they lose, but so we can see exactly where they're at. Having better opponents also improves a team. They should just join another conference.

I was all for fans making shirts and banners claiming them to be National Champions. I even posted pics of them here in this thread. I'd probably have done the same thing if it had been my team. I think they went a little too far though when they permanently affixed the title inside their stadium.

A question for any UCF fans. I've only been to one UCF game, and every girl I saw had cut-off denim shorts and boots, thousands of them. Is that a UCF fan thing or was it just something special going on that day?

[MaCruz]

New Poll. Poll ends 1/7/19.

[BizCat]

QB Justin Fields to thee Ohio State University.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by BizCat

QB Justin Fields to thee Ohio State University.

Going to be interesting to see if he's eligible next season. Seems like he has a very good chance but you never know with the NCAA since there's no consistency in their decisions.

[walruswarrior]

Originally Posted by BamaDan3

Unless Milton could play defense, it doesn't matter. UCF D got run through by "Average Joe" Burrow and a Steve Ensminger offense. The Pick 6 skews the score some, but LSU ran up and down the field on UCF.

Great run though. UCF should definitely take the deal with UF and see if they can get FSU on the schedule also.

Yeah the defense was bad. But it didn’t matter since Milton could command the offense and push it down the field. Mack was not ready to do that.

UCF should not take the “deal” with UF. The deal should be a home and home scheduling.

[BamaDan3]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

Yeah the defense was bad. But it didn’t matter since Milton could command the offense and push it down the field. Mack was not ready to do that.

UCF should not take the “deal” with UF. The deal should be a home and home scheduling.

Biblically bad. Like Oklahoma, UCF found out that you can't win every shootout and every now and then you need to win a bar fight. Again, Milton may have scored faster, maybe more often, but there wasn't anyone on the defensive side of the ball that was going to stop anyone in an LSU uniform.

That's just never going to happen I'm afraid. Perhaps some of the mid-tier teams like Pitt and Syracuse and the like would be open to it. But UF, FSU, Texas, USC, Bama, etc. are not interested in making it seem "fair" when they can have a 75% full stadium and still keep millions at home. I have heard the defense that losing a home game means more to UCF than UF, but I don't think UF really cares nor should they. Two years of early fall hurricanes in the Carolinas have really hurt UCF also.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by walruswarrior

Yeah the defense was bad. But it didn’t matter since Milton could command the offense and push it down the field. Mack was not ready to do that.

UCF should not take the “deal” with UF. The deal should be a home and home scheduling.

Plus Milton probably wouldn't have committed 2 turnovers a day probably would have broken 100 yards passing.

[ChadFL]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

UCF is a very good team. I hope they get better opponents, not so they lose, but so we can see exactly where they're at. Having better opponents also improves a team. They should just join another conference.

I was all for fans making shirts and banners claiming them to be National Champions. I even posted pics of them here in this thread. I'd probably have done the same thing if it had been my team. I think they went a little too far though when they permanently affixed the title inside their stadium.

A question for any UCF fans. I've only been to one UCF game, and every girl I saw had cut-off denim shorts and boots, thousands of them. Is that a UCF fan thing or was it just something special going on that day?

The current system is a racket to protect the big 5 conference schools. Even if UCF had two ranked power 5 opponents on their schedule and beat both they would have been shutout of the playoff. The system also effectively prevents high quality programs like UCF from ever moving into a power conference, as the other schools in those conferences don't want to split the pie. Not much you can do with a rigged system.