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College Football 2022: “Here’s a twenty, bury two.”

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French Rage said:
No, have as many consolation brackets as you need to rank the teams all the way from #1 to #256. I want to see Cornell play MTSU in week 5 to see who gets to the #145-#160 mini-bracket.
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God that's even better. And all the teams *still* only play 8 games so more "studying." (Narrator: there was not more studying.)
 
Maybe we can pump the brakes on college football being ruined because Georgia won in a blowout.

Were they the best team this year? Yes. And they looked to be the best team by far this season through 13 games save for, funny enough, the Missouri game. But it was only ten days ago they were a field goal away from getting knocked out by Ohio State. The same Ohio State team that had just lost to Michigan. The Michigan team that got beat by TCU.

Football can be weird. Last year MSU beat Michigan. Then OSU beat MSU by like 42. Then UM goes and beats OSU.

But just for a second let's look at what the playoff would look like under the proposed 2024 format.

First round:
12. Tulane (aq) at 5 TCU
11 Penn State at 6 Ohio State
10 USC at 7 Bama
9 Kansas State (aq) at 8 Tennessee

If favorites win, we get quarterfinals between:
1. Georgia vs 8. Tennessee
2. Michigan vs 7. Bama
3. Clemson vs 6. Ohio State
4. Utah vs 5. TCU

Those all look like good matchups to me. The downside to all of this is they're making the quarterfinals bowl games, so the championship game will be even later now, going all the way to January 20 in 2025.

Things would get weird if a team like Purdue were to upset Michigan, but many conferences are doing away with divisions so the days of an undefeated team meeting a four or five loss team in a conference championship game are likely gone.
 
Back to the binkey and blankey of Ann Arbor.

Jim Harbaugh will return as Michigan coach for the 2023 season after talking with teams about a potential return to the NFL for the second straight year.

University president Santa Ono tweeted Monday that he spoke to Harbaugh, who confirmed he would return for a ninth season at his alma mater. Ono, who took over as president in October, said he communicated the news to athletic director Warde Manuel.
 
Texas and Oklahoma are going to the SEC in 2024 now. After talks stalled last week, things were able to get done in part because Texas and Michigan flipped who was hosting their home and home series, ensuring Fox gets Texas-Michigan in 2024.

But now there are rumors already swirling about the Big 12’s next move. They’re supposedly targeting Utah, Colorado, and the Arizona schools. Meanwhile Pac 12 media talks are reportedly not going well. This while the conference is rumored to be courting SMU and San Diego State.
 
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Texas and Oklahoma are going to the SEC in 2024 now. After talks stalled last week, things were able to get done in part because Texas and Michigan flipped who was hosting their home and home series, ensuring Fox gets Texas-Michigan in 2024.

But now there are rumors already swirling about the Big 12’s next move. They’re supposedly targeting Utah, Colorado, and the Arizona schools. Meanwhile Pac 12 media talks are reportedly not going well. This while the conference is rumored to be courting SMU and San Diego State.
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One will note the P12 isn't going after BSU. My brother is keeping me kind of abreast on that- and it's really the school part of BSU that's the problem with them. I also would not be shocked if they suggested to some of the smaller schools to think about expanding- like Portland State of Sacramento State- as they are very within the P12 area. Although both of those would be rather shocking, since they are both former DII schools.
 
Me thinks that aggie school down in Fargo may have just bitten off a bit more than even their big mouths can chew. They’ve scheduled a home and home series with Alabama.
 
SJHovey said:
Me thinks that aggie school down in Fargo may have just bitten off a bit more than even their big mouths can chew. They’ve scheduled a home and home series with Alabama.
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Home and home? I can't see 'Bama coming north to a small stadium- none of those SEC schools came to Moscow when we were fodder for them. But it's a pretty easy way to generate a huge payday for the school.
 
The Elon Musk of college football.

When a new head coach and coaching staff takes over a college football program these days, it’s certainly not uncommon to see many current players transfer out of the program. But what’s happening with Deion Sanders with the Colorado Buffaloes is certainly taking that to the extreme.

Sanders has now lost over 40 players to the transfer portal – nearly half of his total number of scholarship players since schools are capped at 85 scholarships. And as college football analyst Bill Connelly of ESPN points out, the exodus to the transfer portal is leaving Colorado’s roster pretty barren.

“By my count, Colorado’s now lost all 4 QBs who threw >20 passes, 3 of 5 RBs, all 9 players targeted >8 times, 5 of 8 OLs and 7 of 8 DLs with >100 snaps, all 4 LBs with >200 snaps, and 12 of 17 DBs with ANY snaps.
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Big Ten will be unveiling their new scheduling model today. Called “flex protect”, it’s going to allow between 1-3 protected games per school.

It will be interesting to see how important some of these rivalries are viewed as worth protecting by the schools. Do Michigan and Minnesota try to protect the Little Brown Jug? Just how important does the MSU-PSU game become? Did anyone reach out to try to make USC or UCLA a permanent rival?
 
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