This “Week 1” schedule is gutter trash
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Agree. I think that's one big reason we see this consolidation and big money into bigger conferences. People want matchups. Then - in Week 1, they spread the good matchups out from Thursday to Monday. The 'college football Saturday' is what makes it great. TV execs don't understand this.
I do think one thing that needs to happen is to get rid of the FCS matchups. Those suck for everybody, and they are auto-wins for everybody. We need more FBS cross pollination, to find out with G5 teams truly are any good. I think Week 1 gets a lot better if we just do that.
I do think one thing that needs to happen is to get rid of the FCS matchups. Those suck for everybody, and they are auto-wins for everybody. We need more FBS cross pollination, to find out with G5 teams truly are any good. I think Week 1 gets a lot better if we just do that.
So #13 in the SEC at a Pac12 favorite. It shouldn't be a great game just because Florida is a "name" school.
Complete failure by college football for this to be the opening weekend Labor Day slate. It really is inexcusable
Florida did win last year so it will probably be a good game. Usually these games show how deep the SEC really is.
Utah is going to be without their starting QB so I expect it to be close and Florida might win.
Clemson at Duke is actually an underrated game on Monday. Duke had a really nice year last season. That has upset potential.
All that said, no, it’s not a very good Week 1 slate. But there is enough there to be semi-interesting.
What do you mean “#13 in the SEC”?
You think Florida is the 2nd worst SEC team? Surely not.
I am excited about tonight's game. I am pulling for Utah. I like their coach. I have a feeling Florida pulls it off. I am also excited for the LSU game. I hope a lot of injuries on the LSU side of the field.
My guess is most schools don’t necessarily want to play a big game in Week 1 and would rather start off with somebody they should beat.
We at least get an interesting Week 2:
Texas at Bama
Texas A&M at Miami
Ole Miss at Tulane
Utah at Baylor
Oregon at Texas Tech
Wisconsin at Washington State
Auburn at Cal
Notre Dame at NC State
Among others.
We at least get an interesting Week 2:
Texas at Bama
Texas A&M at Miami
Ole Miss at Tulane
Utah at Baylor
Oregon at Texas Tech
Wisconsin at Washington State
Auburn at Cal
Notre Dame at NC State
Among others.
TV execs are a lot richer than you and they don't care what you think or what your emotional attachment to Saturday afternoons is.
The reality is that Utah-Florida tonight, LSU-FSU on Sunday, and Clemson-Duke on Monday will all have significantly higher ratings than if they were all played on Saturday.
I get what you’re saying re: FCS, but those road game paydays are keeping some of those programs afloat. You cut those off entirely and you cut a major revenue stream. One other issue with cutting out FCS is that means you cut out HBCU’s and the next question is “why won’t power teams schedule HBCU’s?”
For any other fault he had, Deion brought a lot of attention to HBCU’s and their financial/institutional realities. Notre Dame is playing TSU this week (ND’s first ever FCS opponent) in large part because of that attention. Yeah, it’s one bad football game, but it means Tennessee State gets to play on a national broadcast along with a $1 million payday. I wouldn’t want to take that away from TSU so Notre Dame can play Marshall, UNLV, Toledo, or New Mexico.
The important question to me is how do we feel about these games? In the pick em for this week there is no choice but to pretty much take all paint correct? The only real one I have been back and forth on is USC/ UNC. I
***** ***** ***** ***** *****. We have football. We have State football. If you have a problem you can go to some other board and talk economics, or beer cancellation, or EVs. Or MLB or however you spent your time over the summer. I do think with the 12 game playoffs you’ll more likely see better matchups because teams won’t fear one loss as bad. Playing your first game against a quality opponent is dicey.
That’s literally the premise to the convicts vs guards game in The Longest Yard.
We have 12 games now in the regular season. There was a time they only played 8 then later 10 with only a few post season games. Now? 12 plus anyone worth a crap gets a bowl with the playoff it can be as many as 15.
I have no problem with most teams having an easy game one or even 3 or 4. They count. You better not suck and let these FCS teams play you close or you could be in a long year.
This week is about getting introduced to this years' version of each team. It's opening weekend, that alone should get people started.
Just enjoy getting to know your team a little bit this week. Anything less than an easy win and you can start to worry.
I have no problem with most teams having an easy game one or even 3 or 4. They count. You better not suck and let these FCS teams play you close or you could be in a long year.
This week is about getting introduced to this years' version of each team. It's opening weekend, that alone should get people started.
Just enjoy getting to know your team a little bit this week. Anything less than an easy win and you can start to worry.
Hopefully the days of an AD apologizing to the fanbase about scheduling a “too hard” opener are going to be behind us.
Agree. That being said, how do we feel about those games? Is Utah the pick for tonight? Clemson over Duke? And I have honestly been back and forth with both LSU/NOLES and UNC/USC. I guess give me the fighting Kelly's and then the fighting Beamers. I mean that swag does not take a day off.
I miss the big week 1 matchups. Some sneaky good matchups though like Houston/UTSA and Coastal/UCLA that should at least be entertaining games
I like Utah -4.5 even without Rising. I have no faith in Mertz. I think Duke keeps it close but loses to Clemson. I like both the ACC teams to win in the other matchups you mentioned.
So, that’d put them in that 3-9 / 4-8 territory? I’m gonna call BS.
Vandy is obviously worse. Mizzou, A&M, Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina, and very possibly OM / MSU / Ark could all potentially finish below Florida also. Besides Bama, UGA, LSU, and maybe UT….its a pretty wide open year.
No way would I ever bet on UF to be that bad. Even in Muschamp’s 4-8 year and the year McElwain got fired midseason, they were only 9th or 10th in the SEC at year’s end. Mullen did finish 13th after a fairly strong start in 2021, but that was a complete lost-lockerroom tailspin after a decent start that I really don’t see in the cards for Napier in year 2.
That excuse has just never done much for me. I personally would rather see Notre Dame play those 4 teams you listed. They at least have a whole number percentage chance of winning. TSU has 0.0001%.
Collectively, the whole product would be better playing at one time, throughout the day, like the NCAA tournament. That's why they do this most weeks. Playing individually like that is a short-term money grab by the school, conference and network involved in those games. That's why the bowls play one at a time, they don't give a damn about the whole, they care about their own game.
I don't expect a guy such as yourself to understand long-term and idealistic thinking across a whole sport like that. Your generation's leadership (and greed) is what got us into this mess to begin with, thinking about only yourself.
I ready for millenials to get into power, they'll fix most of your mess.
You won't even get your *** off the couch to show up and support your team this saturday, so you forfeit any real opinion on this subject anyway. But if you can't see the benefit to spreading out college games across a holiday weekend for TV networks, you can't be helped.
Why you so mad this week? It's the opening week of college football. Did your travel ball team lose last weekend or something?
I mean, Marshall did actually beat Notre Dame last year. That happened.
Probably closer to 5-7 because there's more parity in the East, but yeah, they very well could be the second worst team in the SEC this year and there's plenty of polls out there who place them as such.
I'm not mad. I'm not the one bitching about all the games not being on Saturday afternoon for your convenience.
Hey GenXers are the quiet doers. I identify with both GenX and millenial. I mean this is America, I can choose, right?Me being a Gen Xer watching.
The polls don’t matter at all, but if they did, and Florida does suck, it sure wouldn’t be great for old MSU, either. We have 50 fewer votes than they do in the Coaches poll and the same number in the AP.
Seriously? You're telling me there is a noticeable difference in the chance that you would watch Saturday's 2:30 pm Notre Dame game if they were playing New Mexico over Tennessee State? I kind of feel like, unless you're a New Mexico fan, the difference in interest is going to be pretty low. If you're a Notre Dame fan, you're probably watching either way and if you're a casual fan, you're probably watching Ohio State/Indiana.
Of course, most of us on this board will be tuned in to our own FCS opponent because that's who our team is playing and it's not like anybody is going to watch that game and think "wow, you know... Louisiana-Monroe or FIU would have been a much more compelling matchup."
I'm a Gen Xer too. Jump in, the water's fine.Me being a Gen Xer watching.
Not for nothing, but the first round of the NCAA Tournament takes place over 4 days.
The second round takes place over 2 days.
The Sweet 16 takes place over 2 days.
The Elite 8 takes place over 2 days.
You don't get to all games being in one singular day until the Final 4.
Also, I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm 43 and college football games being played on days other than Saturday have occurred for most of my life (and almost all of my sports watching life). Here's an article from 2001 (22 years ago) talking about Southern Miss and Louisville playing on a Tuesday night. They mentioned that ESPN has had Thursday night games since 1991 (32 years ago) and started on Friday nights in 2001 because the NCAA lifted restrictions on Friday games.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL; Any Day Is Now a Game Day as TV Schedules Expand (Published 2001)
ESPN, which began carrying regular-season college football games on Thursday nights in 1991 and on Friday nights earlier this year, to begin broadcasting Tuesday night games; teams, hungry for greater national exposure, are shifting away from traditional Saturday games; schedule of week night...
Why wouldn't you want more games to be more accessible?
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