2012 NCAA football thread

[transplant99]

Two players from last season's Auburn football team were shot to death late Saturday night at an apartment complex near the school's campus in Alabama while an offensive lineman who remains on the team was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
They were among three people who were killed and another three who were injured in the shooting, police said Sunday.

Ladarious Phillips, 20, the Tigers' only true fullback last season as a sophomore, and ex-lineman Ed Christian, 20, who was a redshirt freshman, were killed when a gunman opened fire after a fight started at the University Heights apartments in Auburn between 10 and 11 p.m. local time, police and a witness said

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...illed-shooting

[Drake]

CHICAGO -- The BCS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick on Wednesday endorsed a seeded four-team playoff model for college football that would begin for the 2014 season.

The commissioners' consensus must be approved by the BCS presidential oversight committee, which meets June 26 in Washington, D.C. If approved, the four-team playoff would replace the current BCS system, which has been in place since 1998.

Sources told ESPN.com that under the recommended model, four participating teams would be selected by a committee, which would consider certain criteria such as conference championships and strength of schedule.

The two national semifinal games would be played within the existing BCS bowl games (Fiesta, Orange, Rose and Sugar) on a rotating basis, with the host sites being predetermined before each season. The national championship game would be offered to the highest bidding city.
million to $500 million annually.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...otball-playoff

[transplant99]

Finally common sense prevails....

A four-team playoff for college football has been formally approved by a presidential oversight committee, a dramatic change for the sport that will begin in 2014 and continue through the 2025 season. The four teams will be chosen by a selection committee, the semifinals will be held at current bowl sites and the national championship game will be awarded to the highest bidder.


The 11 conference commissioners watched on Tuesday afternoon as Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick presented their proposal to a board of 12 university presidents at the Dupont Circle Hotel. In less than three hours, the group agreed upon a postseason that college football fans have been clamoring for years.

The group of presidents also endorsed a rotation of the semifinal games among six bowl sites and a rotation of the championship game among neutral sites. The semifinals either will be played on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, and the national title game will be played on "Championship Monday," the first Monday in January that is six or more days after the final semifinal game is played.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...beginning-2014

[GirlySports]

The Cialis Semi Bowl

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Interesting that they expanded the playoffs from 2 to 4 but got rid of the computers entirely. I don't think the polls or computers were a problem. The four teams will be chosen by a selection committee could be a new problem.

[Montana Moe]

Hopefully they'll make it an 8 team tournament in the future. Get the 8 best teams, no matter what conference, and hash it out through December.

4 teams is great, there are rarely more than 4 teams that should be considered for the title, and it still allows for some controversy. In the rare occasion that there are, the 8 team playoff would have it covered. Anyone ranked 9/10 would probably gripe, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

Teams like Boise State might even get a spot in the 8 team tourney, I doubt they ever get in to a 4 team scenario.

[GirlySports]

Why not? Wasn't Boise State considered for the National Championship Game some years if they had won out?

[Montana Moe]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Why not? Wasn't Boise State considered for the National Championship Game some years if they had won out?

Outwardly, yes.

In my opinion, if it remains at 4 teams and it were to come between them and a slightly lesser "big time" program, the big boys will keep the little guy out of their sandbox. Make it 8 teams and that would be pretty much impossible.

[KelVarnsen]

Nobody likes Boise State anyways.

[nfotiu]

Weird that they will have to have 2 kind of lame duck seasons without a playoff first.

Wish they had figured a way to have some bowl games decide the playoff participants. There already weren't enough out of conference games to fairly compare schools of different conferences. Now with the conferences getting bigger, everyone having championship games, there will probably be even less. Every year some conference's top teams get grossly over-rated until they're exposed by playing a tough out of conference game.

[nik-]

They won't be lame duck seasons, the controversy years are the exception, not the rule. The two best teams will be the next consecutive National Champions.

[PIMking]

This playoff does nothing except allow other schools like Texas, OSU, Oregon ect to make it into the playoffs. BSU will not get in over Texas, OU, Oregon, USC, Bama, Auburn, Florida, FSU, OSU ect. The playoff was suppose to be to get everyone on an even playing field and it wont. It just makes the season less important knowing that even before a one loss team made it to the title game that it will be easier now. Plus having the semi final games at bcs bowls is dumb, Bama lost money going to the title game last year now if they had to go to a bcs bowl first then a title game they will lose more. The bcs has done a better job before when it was #1 vs #5 in a bowl and #2 vs #3 in a bowl and they voted on the champion after that.

I say play all the bowls and take the best two teams and play them after the bowls.

in ten years this will go to a 10 team playoff and basically ruin college football. I will quit watching it after that.

[Clever_Iggy]

Originally Posted by PIMking

This playoff does nothing except allow other schools like Texas, OSU, Oregon ect to make it into the playoffs. BSU will not get in over Texas, OU, Oregon, USC, Bama, Auburn, Florida, FSU, OSU ect. The playoff was suppose to be to get everyone on an even playing field and it wont. It just makes the season less important knowing that even before a one loss team made it to the title game that it will be easier now. Plus having the semi final games at bcs bowls is dumb, Bama lost money going to the title game last year now if they had to go to a bcs bowl first then a title game they will lose more. The bcs has done a better job before when it was #1 vs #5 in a bowl and #2 vs #3 in a bowl and they voted on the champion after that.

I say play all the bowls and take the best two teams and play them after the bowls.

in ten years this will go to a 10 team playoff and basically ruin college football. I will quit watching it after that.

Couldn't agree more. I don't think this changes anything. College football just isn't built for playoffs. 4, 8, 12, +1s, etc will all result in controversy for the last team left out. Unlike college basketball with its 64-68 schedule which includes everyone with a reasonable (and unreasonable) shot at winning the NC, football can't handle that schedule.

I blame this crap on Boise State and their blue field. If they weren't a one-trick pony, they could join a legit conference.

[GirlySports]

But using your example.. the +1 system means two games for Alabama as well which means they lose more money.

[transplant99]

Penn St. star running back Silas Redd is strongly leaning toward transferring to USC, sources told ESPN's Joe Schad.
Redd left Los Angeles on Monday after spending lots of time with Trojans quarterback Matt Barkley and wide receiver Robert Woods over the weekend, according to the sources.

Awesome.

[Stay Golden]

Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary

Stanford had a monster day...and Washington basically kneecapped Cal when they signed that DLine coach...never seen that many top rated kids follow a position coach before...

Michigan is my team, and they did well...5th on Scout...8th on Rivals...unfortunately, O$U managed a huge late season surge (feeding off the corpse of PSU) to finish 4th and 6th (i think)...

'Bama will be stacked as usual...I am fearful Michigan will not be able to move the ball against them at the season opener...

That opener has me worried as well. Tough opener vs Alabama, at least Michigan doesn't have as many freshman and sophmores as these past few season. Those past teams would have gotten wiped out by the Tide, Go Blue!

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by PIMking

This playoff does nothing except allow other schools like Texas, OSU, Oregon ect to make it into the playoffs. BSU will not get in over Texas, OU, Oregon, USC, Bama, Auburn, Florida, FSU, OSU ect. The playoff was suppose to be to get everyone on an even playing field and it wont. It just makes the season less important knowing that even before a one loss team made it to the title game that it will be easier now. Plus having the semi final games at bcs bowls is dumb, Bama lost money going to the title game last year now if they had to go to a bcs bowl first then a title game they will lose more. The bcs has done a better job before when it was #1 vs #5 in a bowl and #2 vs #3 in a bowl and they voted on the champion after that.

I say play all the bowls and take the best two teams and play them after the bowls.

in ten years this will go to a 10 team playoff and basically ruin college football. I will quit watching it after that.

No its not, and the reality is that its impossible to have a level playing field. The reality is that there are too many different teams with such a massive range in SOS, and so little games that can be played it will never be totally fair and no matter what you do, there will always be 'ya, but' arguments no matter the system.

The only difference being, which I have said for years, the larger the playoff system the more irrelevant the regular season is. Just play the bowls and enjoy them, if they want to dream up a 1 vs 2 fine, but anything more starts to tait the system that has made college football great.

[Flames in 07]

Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy

Couldn't agree more. I don't think this changes anything. College football just isn't built for playoffs. 4, 8, 12, +1s, etc will all result in controversy for the last team left out. Unlike college basketball with its 64-68 schedule which includes everyone with a reasonable (and unreasonable) shot at winning the NC, football can't handle that schedule.

I blame this crap on Boise State and their blue field. If they weren't a one-trick pony, they could join a legit conference.

BSU, TCU, Utah etc knew that the BCS was the best thing that ever happened to them. Relatively speaking a nice cushy ride to a massive payday, and all kinds of public sentiment to boot.

At least the TCU head coach came out and admitted as much.

[transplant99]

And its now official....

"We welcome Silas Redd to the Trojan Family," USC athletic director Pat Haden said in a statement. "He is an outstanding student and athlete. When the NCAA presented the option to transfer, Silas and his family put a lot of thought and research into making this decision.

"At USC, we've seen both sides of this issue, having lost a number of players to transfer due to our NCAA sanctions in 2010. But Lane Kiffin and his coaches would not be doing their job if they did not try to improve our team every single day. There is a specific need here for a player like Silas Redd, so Lane and our coaches recruited him within the guidelines set up in this instance by the NCAA."

[wpgflamesfan]

Originally Posted by transplant99

And its now official....

So which poor kid losses his scholarship?

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan

So which poor kid losses his scholarship?

There are a couple guys who are going to be academically ineligible apparently.