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College Football 2025

SonofSouthie said:
Might as well start off with the AP preseason Top 25 again.

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NCAA College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Football Poll

The official page for the AP Top 25 college football poll, a tradition since 1936. Keep up to date and view the latest ranking updates each week.
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Which is reasonably meaningless for the first 6 weeks of the season. Especially if any of the top teams really suck- and someone gets credit for a "Top X" win for it.
 
Texas, fresh off the first No. 1 ranking in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll in program history, finds itself a 2.5-point underdog to No. 3 Ohio St for their Week 1 showdown in Columbus, according to ESPN BET lines.

Barring significant line movement, this would make the Longhorns the first top-ranked team to be an underdog in Week 1, according to ESPN Research data dating back to 1978.
 
Currentism. Scrape away all but about 5 players since 2000.

44 players from 156 seasons = 3 players per decade.

My top 22:

QB: Sammy Baugh, Texas Christian, 1936
HB: Red Grange, Illinois, 1925
FB: Jim Brown, Syracuse, 1956
WR: Jerry Rice, Mississippi Valley State, 1984
WR: Johnny Rogers, Nebraska, 1972
C: Chuck Bednarik, Penn, 1948
G: Pudge Heffelfinger, Yale, 1891
G: Jim Parker, Ohio State, 1956
T: Orlando Pace, Ohio State, 1996
T: Charles Gill, Yale, 1889
TE: Ozzie Newsome, Alabama, 1977

K: Alex Moffat, Princeton, 1884
P: Reggie Roby, Iowa, 1982

DT: Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota, 1929
DT: Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska, 2009
DE: Hector Cowan, Princeton, 1888
DE: Hugh Green, Pitt, 1980
LB: Dick Butkus, Illinois, 1964
LB: Lawrence Taylor, North Carolina, 1980
LB: Tommy Nobis, Texas, 1965
CB: Jim Thorpe, Carlisle, 1912
CB: Deion Sanders, Florida State, 1988
S: Ronnie Lott, 1980
S: Ed Reed, Miami, 2002

Coach: Walter Camp, Yale and Stanford
 
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MissThundercat said:
Michigan football: big fine and a 3 game suspension for Coach Moore. Not penalized worse because Harbaugh and others are no longer with the program.

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NCAA fines Michigan football, bans Sherrone Moore a third game for sign stealing scandal

The NCAA sanctioned the Wolverines with a $20-million fine and an additional one-game suspension for Sherrone Moore for the sign stealing scandal.
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The good outcome of that whole thing is that college football got rid of the sign system and went to the better radio based system. I think that was a very positive step for college football.
 
The Big Ten has considered an idea of a massive expansion of the College Football Playoff that would grow the postseason to 24 or 28 teams, sources told ESPN.

While the idea is in the very early stages, the proposal eliminates conference title games and offers a large number of auto bids for all four power leagues, sources said.

For example, in the 28-team model, the Big Ten and SEC would each get seven auto bids while the ACC and Big 12 would each receive five. There would be two auto bids for the non-Power 4 conferences and two at-large teams.

The 28-team format would put 20 playoff games on campus, which would accentuate the success of that from last year's CFP. The CFP committee would seed the field and pick the at-large teams.
 
SonofSouthie said:
The Big Ten has considered an idea of a massive expansion of the College Football Playoff that would grow the postseason to 24 or 28 teams, sources told ESPN.

While the idea is in the very early stages, the proposal eliminates conference title games and offers a large number of auto bids for all four power leagues, sources said.

For example, in the 28-team model, the Big Ten and SEC would each get seven auto bids while the ACC and Big 12 would each receive five. There would be two auto bids for the non-Power 4 conferences and two at-large teams.

The 28-team format would put 20 playoff games on campus, which would accentuate the success of that from last year's CFP. The CFP committee would seed the field and pick the at-large teams.
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I wish we had emojis- that needs a roll eyes one.

Before you know it, all of the conferences will be back, but as part of either the Big 10 or the SEC. And since conferences won't matter, then having the Big East, ACC, Big 8, Pac10, etc... ugh.

And I shudder to think of the timing of all of these games.

Lastly, the casinos in Detroit must have a lot of money influence to make the B10 want to add so many game. Either that, or Disney's casino is printing money. Probably the latter.
 
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