The College Football Thread

[JM1776]

Wow ... the Messiah one year, and Pope Urban the next. What will the Florida faithful do?

 

[Starbreaker]

Wow ... the Messiah one year, and Pope Urban the next. What will the Florida faithful do?

Most of those people were fair weather fans anyway.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm cheering on the Delaware Blue Hens tonight to support my fighting poultry brethren.

Joe Biden is at the game. Cool.

Question: Who is that announcer that calls games on ESPN that sounds like a woman? He gets on my nerves.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Joe Biden is at the game. Cool.

This may be the first time anyone has ever said that.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I'm cheering on the Delaware Blue Hens tonight to support my fighting poultry brethren.

Joe Biden is at the game. Cool.

Question: Who is that announcer that calls games on ESPN that sounds like a woman? He gets on my nerves.

I have no idea

Really cool game. Definitely a defensive matchup, though. The announcers said that UD has the number one defense in FCS and is second overall in Division I (although the competition is a bit easier ).

 

[Starbreaker]

That was a really boring game. I can't believe I sat through the whole thing. Congrats.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, it wasn't exciting. There was one nice drive where Pat Devlin looked sharp, but had to settle for a field goal. Then there were a couple of plays that broke through. That's about it.

The problem with defensive matchups is there are really only two adjectives to describe them, boring (nobody scores) or sloppy (lots of interceptions). Neither implies a good game of football.

 

[JM1776]

The problem with defensive matchups is there are really only two adjectives to describe them, boring (nobody scores) or sloppy (lots of interceptions).

I fundamentally disagree, but ... to each his own.

I'd much rather watch a 16-13 game that includes great plays made on both sides of the ball than a 49-42 shootout in which both teams play the olé defense.

 

[Adm. Bonz]

Wow ... the Messiah one year, and Pope Urban the next. What will the Florida faithful do?

We get another coach and win some more games. That's what we'll do.

 

[Adm. Bonz]

The Urban Era is done.

I've been wondering if you'd pipe up in about this.

I've been expecting it, after last years retirement. He just didn't look like he was having any fun anymore.

 

[Starbreaker]

"We decided to look to our history and our future," Delany said of deciding on division title names.

The Leaders division will feature Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin.

The Legends division will have Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern.

The league announced alignments in early September. They will exist in football only.

In addition to playing other division members, each school will play three crossover games against teams from the other division. Guaranteed cross-division matchups are Illinois-Northwestern, Indiana-Michigan State, Ohio State-Michigan, Penn State-Nebraska, Purdue-Iowa and Wisconsin-Minnesota.

Next season the winner of each division will meet in the league's first championship game Dec. 3 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. That will determine the Big Ten champion and the conference's participant in the Rose Bowl or Bowl Championship Series national championship game.

 

[ToddPence]

both[/I] sides of the ball than a 49-42 shootout in which both teams play the olé defense.

To underscore this, Michigan's 67-65 victory over Illinois last month is categorically one of the absolute WORST football games I've ever seen in some time.

 

[JM1776]

...Michigan's 67-65 victory over Illinois last month is categorically one of the absolute WORST football games I've ever seen in some time.

Yeah. It was a shame one team had to win that one.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

 

[Dorian Thompson]

 

[Aragorn]

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany is singing a new tune today:

"We've had enough experience with names and expansion and development of divisions that we know that you rarely get a 90 percent approval rating," Delany said during the interview. "But to get a 90 percent non-approval rating was really surprising. It showed that we didn't connect with our fans in a way that we wanted to. It's humbling, to say the least, because we're trying to build fan bases, not push them away.

"I've been around this business a long time, and I would say it's one of the more surprising things. There's a sensibility there that we did not connect with, did not read well."

I'm guessing when they came up with Legends and Leaders, everyone at the table thought it was an excellent and unique idea that would be a massive success.

 

[Starbreaker]

Yeah, that was a bad idea...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The Delaware Blue Hens are going to the national championship to face the Eastern Washington Eagles!

 

[JM1776]

More importantly, the Carroll College Fighting Saints won their sixth—that's right, sixth—national championship since 2002, defeating Sioux Falls this afternoon 10-7 to further establish themselves as the most formidable college football team (in its division) of the millennium. Since (and counting) the 2001 season, Florida, Southern California and LSU each have two titles, while Appalachian State managed the hat trick. Grand Valley State ups the ante with four, and Mount Union's grabbed five, which is quite impressive.

But not quite impressive enough.

 

[mimic]

Not football related, but college athletics, so...

Penn State wins 4th consecutive W. Volleyball title

This quote shows how dominant the team has been over the past few years:

Penn State's six seniors finished their careers 142-7 and having never finished a season without winning the national championship.