College Football 2024

[Spartanforlife4]

Didn’t take long for ESPN to start the “is the Big Ten really that good?” talk and bring up the SOS of the SEC. Hints of it in the 2nd quarter and the main talking point of the 2nd half. Did IU have an easy schedule? Yes, but 10 of the 11 wins were double digits and six were 30+, and it’s not like they were in the 130s of SOS like Army.

[Kepler]

Oh Kurtis. Too much too soon, man. Men should stay single into their 40s, and jocks... 50s.

[Kepler]

Looking good. Run that clock.

[Kepler]

LOL, that would have been good from 60.

[Kepler]

Why, yes, I am saying they're not student athletes.

[psych]

Well this game is already over. Indiana had chances early and like the OSU game, they blew them. This is headed for another blowout. Still a wonderful season though, and will probably stay the best one in my lifetime. But I have to say, I hurt Curt Cignetti. His “confidence” sickens me.

[SonofSouthie]

I see SMU/Penn St(at noon), and Clemson/Texas(at 4) are on TNT tomorrow afternoon. It'll be interesting to see the ratings of those games against Hou/KC(at 1), and Pit/Bal(at 4:30).

[Jimjamesak]

We’d probably look back at basketball or hockey in the 1900s and not view it as the same sport, but it’s surprising Rutgers and Princeton get credit for football in that 1869 game when it was literally soccer. The move towards rugby and then football didn’t happen until later iterations.

In all honesty, you could look at soccer from that era and not view it as the same as today’s game either.

[Spartanforlife4]

Yale.

National Champions in 1874, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1900, 1907, 1909, and 1927.

If you wondered, and I know you didn't, Cornell has 4: 1915, 1921, 1922, and 1923.

Not related really but I love it too much. The 1880 Centre football team, my favorite in history.

We’d probably look back at basketball or hockey in the 1900s and not view it as the same sport, but it’s surprising Rutgers and Princeton get credit for football in that 1869 game when it was literally soccer. The move towards rugby and then football didn’t happen until later iterations.

[Kepler]

The Ivy League will participate in the playoffs starting next year. Time for the Princeton dynasty to return.

Yale.

National Champions in 1874, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1900, 1907, 1909, and 1927.

If you wondered, and I know you didn't, Cornell has 4: 1915, 1921, 1922, and 1923.

Not related really but I love it too much. The 1880 Centre football team, my favorite in history.

On April 9, 1880, Transylvania University (then known as Kentucky University) and Centre College played against each other at Stoll Field in Lexington, Kentucky. Though it's incorrectly claimed to be the first intercollegiate game to be played in the south, as Washington & Lee and VMI played earlier games in 1871 and 1873, it was the first game in the state of Kentucky. ^[1][2] Said to have resembled a combination of soccer and rugby, the game was played by fifteen players on each team, wearing heavy shoes and heavily padded apparel. The entrance fee was 50 cents.^[3]

The game's fractional score was because Kentucky University and Centre College were playing with rules allowing for quarter points to be scored. In this old version of the rules, field goals counted as one point, and touchdowns counted as 1/4 of a point.

[Kepler]

The Ivy League will participate in the playoffs starting next year. Time for the Princeton dynasty to return.

Source? Oh: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...-playoffs.html

This is going to be very, very embarrassing.

[Russell Jaslow]

The Ivy League will participate in the playoffs starting next year. Time for the Princeton dynasty to return.

I wonder if that will get NESCAC to do the same in D3. Everyone has been saying they won't until the Ivy League does, because the NESCAC always emulates the Ivies.

[Spartanforlife4]

The Ivy League will participate in the playoffs starting next year. Time for the Princeton dynasty to return.

[mookie1995]

Originally it was reported as three years. Interesting. Why would UNC be stuck with a five-year contract when a) it might not work out and b) he's old.

Is part of this being his kid is hired as the ‘Mayo’ associate hc??

[bronconick]

Closest was 1996
Army 10-2
Navy 9-3