Sports! 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 College Football Thread

[49ersfootball]

So, they'll become Big 16 now?

From what I've heard, BYU will join the Big 12 in 2023 while Central FL, Cincinnati & Houston will follow in 2024.

This will put heavy pressure on the American Athletic Conference to expand their conference ASAP.

 

[49ersfootball]

College Football updates:

* #12 Oregon upset #3 OH St 35-28 in Columbus earlier this afternoon.

*#1 Alabama blew out Mercer 48-14, but it felt underwhelming in my personal opinion because the defense commited stupid penalties.

*#2 Georgia blew out UAB 56-0.

*#5 Texas A&M survives scare from Colorado 10-7 in Denver, CO.

*#10 Iowa putting overrated #9 IA St in their place & last I checked: Iowa was blowing them out 27-10.

*#7 Cincinnati blew out Murray St 42-7.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

*#5 Texas A&M survives scare from Colorado 10-7 in Denver, CO.

Aggie starting QB is out for the season with an apparent leg fracture.

 

[49ersfootball]

Aggie starting QB is out for the season with an apparent leg fracture.

Not shocked about Arkansas beating the SHIT out of #15 Texas in Fayetteville last night.

 

[49ersfootball]

Associated Press Poll:
#1 Alabama: (#ROLLTIDEROLL #QUESTFOR19)
#2 Georgia
#3 OU
#4 Oregon
#5 Iowa
#6 Clemson
#7 Texas A&M
#8 Cincinnati
#9 OH St
#10 Penn St
#11 Florida
#12 Notre Dame
#13 UCLA
#14 IA St
#15 VA Tech
#16 Coastal Carolina
#17 Ole Miss
#18 Wisconsin
#19 Arizona St
#20 Arkansas
#21 North Carolina
#22 Auburn
#23 Brigham Young
#24 Miami
#25 Michigan

 

[Husky_Khan]

Fan catches a falling cat in the AMERICAN FLAG at a Miami vs. Appalachian State Football game.

 

[49ersfootball]

BREAKING NEWS: Southern Cal Trojans Football Coach Clay Helton has been fired.


Clay Helton - Wikipedia

 

[bintananth]

I forgot it was football season already.

Chicago beat WUSTL 31-21. That's NCAA Division III and the only game my wife or I care about.

She has bragging rights until next year.

 

[bintananth]

There is history behind that game.

Washington University in Saint Louis's home stadium (Francis Olympic Field) was the main venue for the 1904 Olympics. The University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big 10 way back in 1896.

I went to WashU (WUSTL in sports reports), she went to UChicago.

(Sorry for the double post. Thought some clarification/elaboration was necessary.)

 

[49ersfootball]

There is history behind that game.

Washington University in Saint Louis's home stadium (Francis Olympic Field) was the main venue for the 1904 Olympics. The University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big 10 way back in 1896.

I went to WashU (WUSTL in sports reports), she went to UChicago.

(Sorry for the double post. Thought some clarification/elaboration was necessary.)

Assuming you've heard about Helton getting fired ?

 

[bintananth]

Assuming you've heard about Helton getting fired ?

He was fired after losing to Stanford. That's worse than getting fired after losing to Notre Dame* for a USC or Stanford coach because both have Notre Dame as a rival in addition to each other.

* My parents' alumnus

 

[49ersfootball]

He was fired after losing to Stanford. That's worse than getting fired after losing to Notre Dame* for a USC or Stanford coach because both have Notre Dame as a rival in addition to each other.

* My parents' alumnus

Despite the fact Helton had won the Pac-12 Championship in 2017 & taking the Trojans to back-to-back New Years Six Bowls in 2016 (winning the 2016 Rose Bowl against Penn St) & 2017 (losing the Cotton Bowl to OH St). I guess that wasn't good enough to save his job...

 

[bintananth]

Despite the fact Helton had won the Pac-12 Championship in 2017 & taking the Trojans to back-to-back New Years Six Bowls in 2016 (winning the 2016 Rose Bowl against Penn St) & 2017 (losing the Cotton Bowl to OH St). I guess that wasn't good enough to save his job...

I'll let Michael Jackson's little sis Janet explain the reason ...

 

[49ersfootball]

I'll let Michael Jackson's little sis Janet explain the reason ...

Rumors swirling that Cincinnati Bearcats Football Coach Luke Fickel might get the Southern Cal job including several others who might be interested.

 

[bintananth]

Rumors swirling that Cincinnati Bearcats Football Coach Luke Fickel might get the Southern Cal job including several others who might be interested.

It's like a roulette wheel. Where the ball lands is anyone's guess.

 

[49ersfootball]

It's like a roulette wheel. Where the ball lands is anyone's guess.

Something tells me Fickel is not going to stick around in Cincinnati & neither will IA St Hawkeyes Football Coach Matt Campbell.

 

[bintananth]

Something tells me Fickel is not going to stick around in Cincinnati & neither will IA St Hawkeyes Football Coach Matt Campbell.

The players are the ones who usually lose.

Aside: know I guy who played DI basketball. When his first coach jumped to greener pastures the new coach wanted to drop his scholarship to get another kid fresh out of HS he wanted instead. School said NOPE! to that idea*. Had it been a powerhouse basketball school the coach probably would have gotten away with it.

* Mechanical Engineering Department wasn't going to lose a senior with good grades.

Note: I'm not naming the school or the coaches because that would be enough to get the guy's phone number and TS has a No Doxxing rule.

 

[49ersfootball]

*Central FL chokes to Louisville 42-35 last night.

*Maryland defeated Illinois 20-17 last night.

 

[49ersfootball]

Scoring updates in College Football:

*#3 OU up 14-3 over Nebraska. The Scott Frost Watch is on!

*West Virginia up 24-7 over #15 VA Tech.

*#16 Coastal Carolina up 21-17 with 6:08 remaining in the 3rd QTR.

*#25 Michigan blowing out Northern IL 42-3.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

And A&M currently up 34 - 0 over New Mexico.

Interesting point: 1st play for NM in Aggie territory came in the middle of the 3rd quarter and was a False Start.