LEAVE WISCONSIN ALONE!!! LEAVE EM ALONE!!!

Feck that. They felt the need to run roughshod over their schedule. They locked up the West. Ohio State already has the East even if they... lose... to TTUN. They meet for that weird looking trophy. Afterwards, either way, we'll see how the playoff picture shakes out.

Big a Buckeye fan as I am, I wouldn't be entirely upset that Wisconsin goes undefeated and makes a legit beef for a playoff ranking in spite of that BS thing I heard earlier about them supposedly having "weakest strength of schedule" while Alabama enjoyed their bye week against Mercer, and Clemson "played" the freakin' Citadel.

Their best win is a 9 point win at home against my hopefully Holiday Bowl bound Northwestern.

This week of college football sucked balls. Everyone trying to play cupcakes prior to their rivalry games. When did that become a thing?

When everyone bitched about playing cupcakes at the beginning of the season and not having conference championship games.

(skip to 0:18)

As much as I enjoyed THE game (both teams left bodies laying; exactly as it should be in the rivalry)... that "War of I-4" should go down in history as one of the best college football games of all time. And I say that with the least amount of hyperbole as possible: it was that damn good.

Also, those UCF helmets had some of the most swag this side of Oregon getting Nike money.

Louisville managed to salvage the season after a slow start. Lamar looked too good vs Kentucky and I feel like he'll go Pro. Just hoping he doesn't land with the Giants if so. Also with the AD gone Bobby Patrinos buyout was lessened and he could take one of these high caliber jobs available. Hoping Louisville goes to the Pinstripe Bowl or Sun Bowl but looking like the Tax Slayer Bowl most likely.

Trying to figure out how my mbbal team (The mighty Bradley Braves) have a top 25 RPI. I know it's really early and these numbers are wacky at the start but goddamn.

Also, Northwestern should be the first three-loss team in the football playoffs. Fuck you all.

:D First time in 8 years Rams beat rivals PC in hoops.

YYYUUUSSSS. All is right in the world of college football.

And Fromm is only a freshman. And Swift is only a freshman.

On a side note, the #1 high school recruit in the country who switched commitment from Alabama to UGA is pretty beastly. He plays QB and his team eliminated my old high school in the state quarterfinals last week. He ate them alive. Looks promising for Georgia.

Really shocked Alabama got the #4. Ohio State just didn't beat Wisconsin bad enough I guess. If only they would have kept their foot on that throat instead of letting Wisconsin creep back.

Based on FPI they seem to think the national championship is going to end up being UGA vs Alabama. All SEC title game. I can't wait to hear the crying that ensues if that scenario plays out.

I don't think it will happen though. There was one team I didn't want UGA to get in the semis. Oklahoma. And look how it played out. That is going to be a tough game. Alabama and Clemson is a toss up, but Clemson has the momentum right now, especially after thrashing Miami the way they did. I think the final will be Clemson vs Oklahoma, personally, with Oklahoma going over in the end due to Baker Mayfield magic. He will win the Heisman for sure in that game.

Lame ass Wisconsin choked.

1) I'm actually not. The two factors here weren't so much the Buckeyes not hanging enough points on the Badgers, but the combination of letting a team that had no business beating them do so (Iowa), and the fact that OSU got a bump last time they were in this situation (albeit, there was more argument here than there was there - they didn't even play for the Big Ten championship and then played embarassingly to not even warrant that nod). Expanded playoffs would fix some of that, but that's not going to happen yet.

2) Assuming Alabama has always been the name of the game for like the last decade. I still hate all the "SEC IS ALWAYS TEH BEST IN PERPETUITY" nonsense, and some of those tears you speak of will be mine. But even worse than trying to milk that almighty SEC teat for ratings and dollars, (which is understandable from a buisiness standpoint even though college football is supposedly not a business that a bunch of suits make a ton of money on) is unilaterally trying to hand the Tide the championship every season.

On a side note, really wish the "playoff" games weren't rotating predesignated bowls. Something about the Big Ten/Pac Ten champs not playing Rose Bowl seems off to me.

Louisville/UK game being on a Friday at 1:00 is stupid. Usually they play on Saturday, I'll have to listen to the game on the radio.

Northwestern gonna tear UK a new asshole today. The sound of an anus tear will be Music (City) to my ears.

Well Louisville pretty much quit with 6 minutes to go in the first half. I don't think Padgett will last as the coach after this season.

Should be a good game, UK has a spotty defense and tends to leave WRs wide open.

This game is off the rails already. UK defender suplexes an NU wideout and gives him a concussion. NU loses starting QB with what looks like a torn ACL after he makes a catch on a halfback pass. Refs questionably eject the best player on UK (RB Bennie Snell) after he makes contact with an official.

Northwestern really going to win now after that Snell ejection. Craziest ejection I've ever seen.

That was one of the worst calls I've seen. I would be seething if I were a UK fan. Looked like there was miscommunication with the ref having his hands out looking like he may have wanted to help him up. Really strange.

Seemed like the ref reached out and grabbed Snell and he just reacted. Unless he said something to the ref its a very questionable ejection.

We'll see. The backup QB sucks. Alviti was a top recruit at one point but has always been bad. There's a reason Thorson was picked to start over him when Thorson was a true freshman. NU gonna run the ball alot now and become one-dimensional. Defense is gonna have to create turnovers.

Terrified that Thorson's injury will bleed into 2018. Kid has a chance to go pro. Prob would have been a 6th or 7th project pick if he left this year

There's a TO. W00t!!!

Wow this game is amazing.

lollllllllll....UK head coach going nuts arguing for a late hit, gets an unsportsmanlike conduct before his team could attempt a 45 yard FG, knocking them out of range.

UK starting QB hurt now.

Bananas

I thought he was going to eject him as well.

Glad UK fans aren't as passionate about Football as they are Basketball otherwise there would be trash on the field at the least.

That was a good tackle, but with this crew I can totally see NU's best defensive player getting tossed for shits and giggles.

OMFG

I hate targeting calls so much.

I've never seen a game officiated like this.

Yeah....it's really gotten out of hand this year. Feels like every hit gets reviewed.

On that play specifically I have no idea why thats targeting. Painfully obvious makeup call taking out NU's best defensive player after terribly ejecting UK's best offensive player.

If these refs did this in the playoffs they'd never ref another game at any level.

I feel like this is a basketball crew or something.

UofL/UK game probably kept alot from making the trip. Both fanbases might trash the field before this games over.

Matt Alviti take this energy

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

I've gotten my 2 TO's. Thank you very much!!!

This is the point where NU could just salt the game away with a couple of first downs. Whenever they're in this position, its always a 3 and out.

Wow. Thank god.

Maybe the worst officiated half of football I've ever seen leading to a crappy 2nd. I wanted an NU win, but more than anything, I wanted it to be over.

Go big ten and all that but while the announcers are saying "PENN STATE IZ BAK!!" I would just like to point out that the entire administration and community looked the other way while a coach molested children for a generation and still to this day think they did nothing wrong and stoke conspiracy theory fires all in the name of how much Football means to them and as a means of fending of the shame of doing what they did. To this day they continue to act as if nothing bad happened even though they've paid over $93 million in restitution to victims at last count.

The fact that something as unconscionable as that can happen and the punishment is a couple of years of postseason bans and a few scholarships lost is unreal. What would have to happen at a football powerhouse for them to have to shut down the program?

5 bucks says Michigan blows a cake game against a very "meh" South Carolina team to cost the Big Ten a perfect Bowl record.

I know they've got lots of injuries, but they're still better than that team.

Frank, do you post on the rivals forums?

Naw. This is the only place I post. Why? Someone post like me there?

pretty sure someone does with your Letterman avatar.

think they even said go BIG conf.

which, I'd agree with.

this one time..screw the SEC.

Boiler Up! ;)

Spoiler Alert: SEC wins the national title.

Central Florida already won it. Ask them.

Central Florida has been known to lie.

They did prove they had every right to be in the title picture though. They were shafted by the committee.

Get tattoos in exchange for autographs.

No seriously; remember when like 5 players did that at Ohio State and you had people screaming for the SMU "Death Penalty"? They wanted the Buckeyes burned at the stake to "send a message". Coach Tressel had to resign (to which he sat in the replay booth upstairs for the Colts for a couple of seasons before returning home to YSU to become the college president), a whole string of vacated wins, and Terelle Pryor had to slide to the NFL sooner than he should have 'lest his stock drop into the toilet. That was a "lack of institutional control", but a grown man playing grabass with kids for a couple decades has people scratching their heads and playing with kid gloves on the matter.

And to top it off, a couple of years later, Manziel was down in Texas blatantly doing exactly what the Ohio State players were "caught" doing, and suddenly it became an issue of "Well, why shouldn't players be able to reap benefits from their fame and/or get paid?"

My heart is not built for this uuuuhhhhgggg

Sorry, Seph.

Alabama weren't even able to qualify for their conference title game, they got an extra week to rest their players and took no additional risk while the teams that were in their conference title games all ran the risk of not even making the playoff if they lost.

Straight up bullshit. The committee went out of their way to coddle Alabama.

And yes, I realize that there is a difference between best teams vs. winners of the big conferences. But it just feels flawed.

If the NFL was like this we would've seen Brady vs. Manning in the Super Bowl every year because the committee would've decided the NFC shouldn't get a Super Bowl team.

Pretty sure it'll eventually expand to 8 teams though with the Power 5 conference winners and 3 Wild Cards.

NCAA is a fucking joke.

UCF should have been in the playoffs. NCAA is full of bastards and some are even rat bastards. Fuck the NCAA. They should drink bleach or ammonia or something. Amirite owenbrown?

I agree with both NCAA being a joke and UCF being in the playoff but the NCAA had nothing to with UCF. CFP selection committee is full of a bunch of AD's and former coaches with only 1 former NCAA employee on it. Pretty much told every Group of 5 school they have no shot at ever competing for a national championship.

UCF should have gotten Alabamas spot in the final 4 tbh.

I feel like UCF vs Clemson in the quarters would have been a high scoring shoot out of epic proportions.

I don't see that as I feel Alabama deserved to be in and proved so by winning it all. I think UCF should have gotten Oklahoma's spot though.

Northwestern should have been in the playoffs.

Alabama was the outlier when they picked playoff teams. Didn't even make the conference championship game. No way in hell UCF gets Oklahomas spot.

Now I'm going to be a cry baby and point out that the only reason Alabama won it all was because the refs gave them the second half. Called UGA offsides on a blocked punt when they weren't offsides. Didn't call a blatant face mask penalty on Alabama on Nick Chubb. The game tying touchdown play had an Alabama guy false start and was easily 5 feet offside when the ball was snapped and was literally standing RIGHT IN FRONT of the official who was supposed to be watching him. It was bullshit.

Officiating is so bad at all levels of football that it is ridiculous. And I should know; I officiate football. We intentionally ignore calls on nearly every play. Unless you make it outrageous, holding is basically allowed at this point. We're basically encouraged to do it this way to keep the game moving. But when you're playing for all the marbles it shouldn't be like that.

Officials are corrupt in many sports.

Ice skating?

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Some of the teams that could be i n trouble from the investigation.

Story about Miles Bridges proved to be a load of shit. His mom improperly accepted $400, but he had nothing to do with it.

Nonetheless, a judge ordered that $40 of a $70 dinner in which an agent met with Bridges' family without him knowing of it, go to a charity of Bridges' choosing, as that's still a violation of NCAA rules and a judge ruled that was what was needed to clear the violation. The donation was made Monday.

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-bas...ncaa-violation

Dirty program. Hopefully the flooding at MSU can wash away the corruption there

UConn and Kevin Ollie part ways. The ongoing NCAA investigation is the big reason, along with bad seasons after that championship season.

New A.D. gotta bring in a big name to bring that program back to prominence.

Go whatever teams are playing tomorrow for the NCAA men's toruney championship. I have no clue who even. I kinda lost interest once Ohio State got bounced, and even continued involvement by KU/KState/Wichita State didn't ring any bells.

Mostly because of the whole rotating network thing. If shit was just on regular-ass TV like back in the day, I'd have watched a bunch more. Or, at least on a fixed channel. There's too much other shit at my fingertips to be assed to go hunting for basketball in a different spot every game.

Hope it's a couple of someones who came out of nowhere, and not a Duke/Kentucky/UNC type matchup.

Villanova vs Michigan. I'd rather see Villanova win.

Me too. Even aside from the obvious reason.

Nice avatar man

Rough way to start the season, but a win's a win.

Also, LOL @Shisen calling out MSU losing to CMU whenever that was, as if it was somehow worse than losing to App State. :lol:

Can't wait until Northwestern torches those overrated Spartans again.

LOL Purdue.

Lol we didn't do much better last night unfortunately.

The 'guins aren't likely to make a great showing this year. Lost a heartbreaker to Butler in the opener at home, and put up a good fight in the first half against West Virginia to ultimately get their asses waxed in the second half by a Top 25 team that clearly outclassed them. No matter how "good" the team is, two losses to start is quite the hole to rebound from, even in 1-AA.

But those Buckeyes look pretty good thus far...

... and now, weeks later, they don't look as good. Mighty struggle against Penn State, even without the whack-ass, inconsistently called penalties. It's a good thing their coach helped us out with dumb calls that played right into our hands.

Well Louisville has one of the worst teams they've had in years. Like Kragthorpe era bad. Had the game won against Florida St. and for some reason decided to throw the ball inside 2 minutes which got picked off. FSU went on the score and win.

Nobody mentioning the fact that Kentucky is 5-0?

im in the press box goin nuts waiting for the a&m game @owen

Snell is a beast and they run the wildcat better than anyone.

Ahhhhhhaaaa... I see what you did there!

Huge Northwestern comeback win. Down 10 with 4 mins left. Scott Frost and the Huskers are 0-6.

Northwestern has basement dweller Rutgers next week, then will play Wisconsin likely with the division on the line.

Go Michigan tonight.

How's it feel knowing the same team you "torched" did the same to soon to be exact-#8 Penn State?

Like we can Penn State.

"The Boy King" has a lot of rebuilding to do. Should have stayed at UCF. He'll get more leeway and patience because of his history in Lincoln, but it's fucking Nebraska. In the Big Ten. Ever since joining the conference, they've had delusions of just running roughshod and having success to rival the current version of Alabama. Instead, they're the western conference Rutgers. Nobody really worth a damn wants to go to Nebraska; be it the school or the state. Even just counting the conference, Wisconsin and Iowa have the talent pedigree consistently be competitive and dangerous, Xichigan and Sparty have name recognition (which was a slow build over time for Little Brother), and Northwestern is a wildcard that is either full of exeptional talent or... not. The fact that Nebraska sucks worse than Illinois and Minnesota is telling. Keeping Frost as a fixed point *might* help, and they have nowhere to go but up now, but they have fired coaches for far less (one of which was because they didn't win a national championship... wow, how quaint that thought is now).

That school should be *allowed* some leeway for illegal recruiting. Aside from the "prestige" of saying you were one of the Blackshirts on the D-line, there is really nothing appealing for a potential athlete.


*addendum: you know, I actually forgot TTUN is in the East now? I was thinking of the whole Leaders/Legends shit still, where both teams could potentially play one another twice in a row if both schools had winning records... but that never worked out. My bad. I also fucked up with State, and was under the assumption that Purdon't was still on schedule to get annually anally waxed by Ohio State. Doesn't matter, because Purdue doesn't matter.

Frost also had like 20 players transfer so this shouldn't be too surprising. I think they expected to beat Troy at home at least.

I'll give you that Neb has been seriously broken for a while now. Like, not even contending for anything past a low tier bowl game.

Unenviable positon. Frost could either stay at a school flooded with talent and perpetually get the Boise State treatment (never breaking into the top 5 no matter how good they got because they don't make money), or go to a historic school that sucks copious amounts of ass and try to rebuild it from the ground up to be the best team in the Big Ten before the boosters fire him.

And therein is the rub. If he succeeds at Nebraska, he's gonna get paid right up there with Saban (11 mil) or at least Dabo (8). For doing nothing he's already getting 5 mil a year for 7 years. He was making 1.7 at UCF.

Speaking of rub... fuck.

This is just disrespectful. Did the defence of both teams switch fucking jerseys tonight?

I liked the Boilermakers better when they didn't play like they're Wisconsin all of a sudden. It isn't helped by the other side of the ball shitting the bed with miscued throws all night.

Maybe Urban should've stayed suspended...