2025-26 College Football Thread

[jterrell]

glad i pointed out kiffin was sort of an overrated dbag when he first started his job fair tour.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Just waiting for another championship.

 

[jterrell]

 

[jterrell]

Just waiting for another championship.

The only team that I want Texas Tech to avoid til the Final.

 

[big dog cowboy]

The only team that I want Texas Tech to avoid til the Final.

I'm down with that!

 

[gtb1943]

it is a football fact that if you want to find a violation on any play, you can.

 

[DFWJC]

Longhorn heads will explode but sorry, they should not get in.

Could be 3 teams from Texas though

Also, I'll stay with AM ending up in the 6-9 range this week...maybe even 5-9 range

 

[DFWJC]

My gut says if Duke wins and is somehow below 2 G6 leagues than Committee puts Miami in.
ACC was awful but wildly held up versus the SEC this year head-to-head.

Love it.

I forgot about that scenario. Duke could easily end up below JMU and the American winner.

They have ZERO business being in the discussion at all.
No wins against even 1 good team all year. Lost to the only 2 teams in the league they faced in the top 6 and they have 5 losses.

Virginia already routed them and now has to play them again--which can be a disadvantage.

 

[jterrell]

 

[jterrell]

Longhorn heads will explode but sorry, they should not get in.

Could be 3 teams from Texas though

Also, I'll stay with AM ending up in the 6-9 range this week...maybe even 5-9 range

UT doesn't just have 3 losses, they also have really bad games throughout.
OT wins against Kentucky and Miss St.
Scored all of 27 points on powerful UTEP.
Lost by 25 points 3 weeks ago.

They never should have been in the discussion.
They should shut up go play a Bowl game and then sit back and watch ESPN rank them top 5 entering next season.

 

[viman96]

Oregon moves up to #4 in both the AP and Coaches polls. Not surprised, though it does not matter. Only the CFP rankings matter at this point.

 

[Robbieac]

Oregon moves up to #4 in both the AP and Coaches polls. Not surprised, though it does not matter. Only the CFP rankings matter at this point.

LoL at Oregon being ranked higher than Texas Tech.

 

[gtb1943]

LoL at Oregon being ranked higher than Texas Tech.

TAM was always over rated as was finally shown but TT is not

 

[DFWJC]

The American continues to be the "bridge" conference between G5 and P4.
Not only do they always lose their teams to P4 and never other G5, but they lose their coaches, too

So far this year......

Sumrall (Tulane) is going to Florida.
Golesh (USF) is going to Auburn.
Silverfield (Memphis) is going to Arkansas.
Morris (UNT) is going to Oklahoma State.

 

[DFWJC]

LoL at Oregon being ranked higher than Texas Tech.

I predict Miami will jump BYU this week. Or maybe they'll just be conservative and see if BYU can beat TT the Big12 title game (doubt that)

 

[reddyuta]

I predict Miami will jump BYU this week. Or maybe they'll just be conservative and see if BYU can beat TT the Big12 title game (doubt that)

i still shouldnt matter as Miami is outside the top 10,no 11 and 12 are for remaining 2 Conference Champs The Committee has set a precedent where they can ignore head to head if they feel one team is clearly better than the other in case of ND and Miami predict a 24 team playoff next season..

 

[atlantacowboy]

I'm sure Kiffin is complaining about lack of NIL funds relative to his SEC opponents. Kiffin was an early adopter of the portal even before NIL bc it's faster to build a program with transfers than with freshman. But he's not using real numbers in these interviews. He just knows he has less now than Texas and many other major programs. And it's become such a disparity that he can't pull these guys out of the transfer portals like he could in the past. While NIL was made legal in 2021, the money didn't start pouring into these schools on day 1 at the levels they are at now. Given time, the bigger schools with bigger fan bases are going to surpass smaller schools like Ole Miss. Ole Miss is at a competitive disadvantage and he knows it.

I think Kiffin is coaching his last season at Ole Miss. He will either go back to the NFL or trade up to a larger program like LSU or PSU than can give him the funds he needs to get the players he wants.

Called it 2 weeks ago.

 

[atlantacowboy]

I could see this coming. Ole Miss can have whatever budget it wants but it's still not a big boy program. It will never be LSU, Bama, Texas, UGA. etc They had a great year and should flame out quickly in the playoff.

 

[atlantacowboy]

UT's OL has been bad a lot of the season. When facing really bad DL they've cooked but that is not the case most nights in the SEC and certainly wasn't versus tOSU.
Arch is a solid QB but his athleticism was woefully oversold.
He needs to win the pre-snap read with this OL and he isn't.

He's plenty athletic. He needs a better OL and WRs. He doesn't have elite NFL prospects at WR or TE. Texas needs a much better group. A better OL wouldn't hurt either.

 

[DFWJC]

i still shouldnt matter as Miami is outside the top 10,no 11 and 12 are for remaining 2 Conference Champs The Committee has set a precedent where they can ignore head to head if they feel one team is clearly better than the other in case of ND and Miami predict a 24 team playoff next season..

Yep. 24 teams no later than 2027

As for this year, if Georgia destroys #10 Bama, Miami could take their spot. But I suspect it'll be a good game.