2022 College Football Season/Playoff Thread

Big Ten looking weak this year. Also, The U is indeed not back.

Pac 12 perhaps stronger at the top than they have been in a while? Big Ten might just really suck though.

Rich said:

Pac 12 perhaps stronger at the top than they have been in a while? Big Ten might just really suck though.

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Im sure the Big10 isn’t going to cut teams at this point, but would be all for getting rid of Nebraska and Rutgers and bringing in Washington and Oregon.

Iowa is absolutely unwatchable dude. I don’t know how anyone can sit throigh a game of theirs

Games of great import

Baylor @ Iowa St, noon, ESPN2: Baylor might be out of the CFP hunt with their loss to BYU. Running the table is their inly option. Iowa St is always feisty, and could wreck a lot of B12 plans. Or they could even win it.

Clemson @ Wake Forest, noon, ABC: Despite being down last year, Clemson beat eventual division Wake Forest last year. Clemson is a 7 point favorite, but their offense isn't noticeably better yet than last year. Wake is coming off a 1 pt win over Liberty. Winner gets an early leg up in the ACC Atlantic, but both still play NC State.

Maryland @ Michigan, BIG NOON FOX: Michigan is favored by 17, and that might be low. This game is here because it's the first team with a pulse Michigan has played. The non-conference schedule of Colorado St, Hawaii and Uconn is just the worst OOC schedule in the country....those might be the 3 worst individual teams in FBS. Only thing we really learned about Michigan is that JJ McCarthy is way better than Cade McNamara at this point, so he's been named the starter. Maryland does have a good passing game, so if Michigan sleepwalks, it could be a game.

Florida @ Tennessee, 3:30, CBS: Tennessee has beaten 2 MAC cupcakes and an impressive OT win @ Pitt. Florida beat Utah at home in a thriller to start the year, but then lost to Kentucky and barely beat South Florida. I kinda think Tennessee might be good again...finally. A big win by Tennessee here might make them seem like UGAs biggest threat in the SEC East, but they still have to play Kentucky.

Oregon @ Wazzu, 4, FOX: After losing by a billion to Georgia, Oregon rebounded by easily beating BYU. Wazzu beat Wisconsin on the road but somehow isn't ranked. Oregon has very favorable cross division games, so they have a real shot at 11-1 heading into the P12 title game.

Arkansas @Texas AM, 7, ESPN: Texas AM rebounded from pulling a Michigan vs App St to beat Miami in an ugly game. Arkansas beat Cincy in the opener but needed to rally to beat Missouri State last week. Loser of this game should not be ranked.

Wisconsin at The Ohio State University, 7:30, ESPN: Hopefully this is the last night game of the year. Wisky should be top 10 but very stupidly lost to Wazzu at home. I expect more of a ND type game. Low scoring, fewer possessions, since that's the best way for Wisky to win. OSU really hasn't had their full compliment of skill players for more than about 2 drives all year. If everyone is healthy, it will be interesting to see how they do against a good defense.

Defensively, I am interested to see how much 3 LB sets they go to. They did a little versus Toledo, but this is the team you do against if you are going to do it.

USC @ Oregon St, 9:30, P12 Network?: Jonathan Smith took over the Beavers in 2018 after Gary Andersen and an interim coach went 7-29 in 3 years. He's won 2,5,2* and 7 games, with the * being covid year. They are 3-0 and on track to make back to back bowls for the first time since the CFP started. USC is rolling with Lincoln Riley and a bunch of transfers. USC hasn't played much of a schedule, but they did beat Fresno by 28, a week after Oregon State needed a walk off TD to win by 3 (in fairness, Oregon St was @ Fresno whereas USC was at home). If USC had a big game next week I'd say this is the perfect trap game. At worst, it'll be interesting to see USC play their best opponent to date.

Maryland has nice perimeter skill and a fast running back; I have no confidence in them pulling it out but hopefully they can expose a few things against piss yellow.

I’ll take Arkansas; Josh Gaddis came away with 9 points in 5 red zone trips. Just pitiful. The 11,000 nationwide miami fans are probably pretty frustrated.

What about Mini Soda @ Green at the dirty 2:30? Does Green recover from a double digit loss from the west coast? Minnesota has a chance to develop some nice momentum as they could conceivably take the western crown. For some reason I want MSU to lose because Mel Tucker is making stupid money and I like seeing chaos/negative results when schools fork on colossal dollars like that. 9.5 m per year for 16-14 woot.

Also, is USC going to be favored in the rest of their games? The only game I see on their schedule that could be a compromise is Utah and mayyyyybe Wazzy Moto. The conference title game against a likely Oregon would be fascinating.

MGMT said:

What about Mini Soda @ Green at the dirty 2:30? Does Green recover from a double digit loss from the west coast? Minnesota has a chance to develop some nice momentum as they could conceivably take the western crown. For some reason I want MSU to lose because Mel Tucker is making stupid money and I like seeing chaos/negative results when schools fork on colossal dollars like that. 9.5 m per year for 16-14 woot.

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So I only searched top 25 games, and I guess neither are ranked (however, I'd argue both over a some teams that are already ranked).

But yes. Minnesota looks like they might be Wisconsin's biggest threat in the awful West. Both Minny and Wisconsin play MSU in crossovers, while Minny also plays PSU and Rutger and Wisconsin obviously plays OSU (and Maryland). So this could be a big weekend for Minnesota.

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BYU gets Oregon by 10. Bo Nix is one of the worst starters in FBS.

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Yeah no

Stark said:

Week 3 (with no trolling this time):

1. Alabama W 63-7 vs UL Monroe
2. Ohio State W 77-21 vs Toledo
3. Georgia W 48-7 @ South Carolina
4. Clemson W 48-20 vs LA Tech
5. Michigan W 59-0 vs UCONN
6. Oklahoma W 49-14 @ Nebraska
7. USC W 45-17 vs Fresno State
8. Michigan State L 39-28 @ Washington
9. Utah W 35-7 vs SDSU
10. NC State W 27-14 vs Texas Tech
11. Oklahoma State W 63-7 vs Arkansas Pine Bluff
12. Texas A&M W 17-9 vs 14 Miami FL
13. Wake Forest W 37-36 vs Liberty
14. Miami (FL) L 17-9 @ 12 Texas AM
15. Arkansas W 38-27 vs Missouri State
16. Kentucky W 31-0 vs Youngstown ST
17. Oregon W 41-20 vs 21 BYU
18. Texas W 41-20 vs UTSA
19. Baylor W 42-7 vs Texas St
20. Tennessee W 63-6 vs Akron
21. BYU L 41-20 @ 17 Oregon
22. Iowa State W 43-10 vs Ohio
23. Penn State W 41-12 @ Auburn
24. Washington State W 38-7 vs Colorado State
25. Marshall L 34-31 OT @ Bowling Green

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Week 4

1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Georgia
4. Clemson
5. Michigan
6. Oklahoma
7. USC
8. Utah
9. NC State
10. Oklahoma State
11. Texas A&M
12. Wake Forest
13. Kentucky
14. Arkansas
15. Oregon
16. Texas
17. Miami (FL)
18. Baylor
19. Tennessee
20. Penn State
21. Michigan State
22. Washington
23. Iowa State
24. Washington State
25. Minnesota

In: Washington (#22), Minnesota (#25)
Out: BYU, Marshall

Ranked Games for this week:
#4 Clemson @ #12 Wake Forest
#19 Baylor @ #23 Iowa State
#25 Minnesota @ #21 Michigan State
#15 Oregon @ #24 Washington State
#14 Arkansas @ #11 Texas A&M

Conference play starts in-earnest this weekend. Week 5's rankings will be the first time I start heavily taking SOS and Offensive/Defensive ratings into account. Expect some teams to shift relatively significantly, even if the top-10 all win out.

Maryland up 13-10 early 2nd

Kent State putting up same amount of points against Georgia in 2 quarters compared to two full games against Oregon and South Carolina.

N7RobBob said:

Kent State putting up same amount of points against Georgia in 2 quarters compared to two full games against Oregon and South Carolina.

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13 pts now. more than those big schools combined. haha

Sooooo… michigan…. Isn’t that great after all?

Chris said:

Sooooo… michigan…. Isn’t that great after all?

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Their first time playing against a D1 team and it shows.

They're lucky as hell Maryland fumbled the opening kickoff and the refs gifted them an interception in that redzone that was obviously incomplete.