The Rest of College Football

[Cody_Russell]

15-2 record, #25th place in ESPN’s confidence bowl picks pool among the hundreds of thousands of entries. Not too shabby.

Two misses:
- Georgia Southern over Ohio. Swapped picks at the last minute because I read Ga Southern has this amazing passing offense. NOPE. Clay Helton is a joke.
- Troy over Duke. National sports media did a terrible job reporting the Troy illness situation.

Go San Jose State!!! Their QB is from Hawaii. Surely they win the Hawaii Bowl. Also, I think Xerxes from the movie “300” is the commentator for the game. Can’t confirm.

[WingsFan]

Northwestern going 8-5 has to be up there for one of the all-time greatest single-season coaching jobs.

[WingsFan]

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[Mike]

Northwestern going 8-5 has to be up there for one of the all-time greatest single-season coaching jobs.

To keep all those guys from opting out so they’d play in the bowl game is truly astounding.

[AlabamAlum]

Northwestern doesn’t have a lot of talent that would opt out so that they could declare for the NFL (and expect to be taken in the first three rounds), or be paid millions to xfer in some NIL deal. Opting out without a place to go does happen on some teams, though and Northwestern is a nice story.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Northwestern going 8-5 has to be up there for one of the all-time greatest single-season coaching jobs.

Correct

[Mike]

AA, that was the joke re: NW.

[AlabamAlum]

Ahh. Sometimes sarcasm and other subtleties are hard to read.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Not only that...I can't tell when people are just kidding around...

[Mike]

I'm surprised you haven't been murdered. I kid, I kid!!

[THE_WIZARD_]

Such anger. Tsk tsk.

STFU

[THE_WIZARD_]

JFC...who at ESPN does Beth Mowens have pictures of...I cannot even watch games with her...

[AlabamAlum]

You know, Beth is knowledgeable. It’s just her voice. It has a fingernails on chalkboard kinda vibe.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Annoying voice and uber obvious takes...

[Cody_Russell]

Northwestern doesn’t have a lot of talent that would opt out so that they could declare for the NFL (and expect to be taken in the first three rounds), or be paid millions to xfer in some NIL deal. Opting out without a place to go does happen on some teams, though and Northwestern is a nice story.

I agree. Utah was significantly affected by opt outs when compared to Northwestern. The opt outs have had a major impact on bowl games this season and it will only get worse up until the CFP games. It’s why Virginia Tech is a 10.5 point favorite over Tulane today as an example.

The most hurtful will be Florida State after QB Tate Rodemaker decided to leave. They were likely going to lose regardless. This just ensures that Georgia steamrolls Florida State because their 3rd string QB can hardly throw a forward pass.