October 19th, 2014 at 1:28 AM ^
It's your argument, it's odd you'd find it ridiculous.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:19 AM ^
Auburn's victory AT Kansas St looks better and better each week.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:03 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 12:08 AM ^
Hawaii just got a hail mary
October 19th, 2014 at 12:09 AM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 12:10 AM ^
jim mcelwain wins again. 6-1
October 19th, 2014 at 12:17 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 12:22 AM ^
It's Colorado State. They can't be paying him more than 1.5 million dollars a year to coach there even with a buyout. Their stadium seats 33K and they just had their first sellout in 10 years.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:27 AM ^
Well that settles it. We can't afford that.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:51 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 12:10 AM ^
We need to hire Jim McElwain from CSU if we don't get Harbaugh. They're 6-1 in 2014, were 8-6 in 2013 after being 4-8 in 2012.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:12 AM ^
All these great teams make me wonder how stupid the College Football playoff committee is by only making 4 spots available for a playoff... 8 would have been perfect. 5 conference winners plus 3 allowing for Bowl Crashers like BYU and Boise to come in too...
Instead we get this garbage... I guess they get better ratings from constant bickering among fan bases and on networks like ESPN...
Meanwhile teams who hold other teams to 120 yards or less in the last decade are 147-2
The only 2 teams that lost are both Florida Will Muschamp teams! WOW.. NOW THAT... well ... DAMN... lol
October 19th, 2014 at 12:19 AM ^
So you're saying Muschamp is available?
October 19th, 2014 at 12:23 AM ^
I bet he can at least outcoach Hoke... oh god... that's how bad we are...
Meanwhile... If Stanford is supposed to be the epitome of manball offense... geeze is it boring to watch , doesn't seem too effective either without a Heisman caliber QB like Luck
October 19th, 2014 at 12:40 AM ^
I don't want to be Stanford Jr. I just don't.
Leave that for them and Wisconsin. Even Alabama is trying to modernize.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:41 AM ^
I mean...Michigan State seems to do just fine.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:57 AM ^
I don't care about style of play. Run whatever - just win.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:41 AM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 12:22 AM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 12:29 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 12:41 AM ^
The point of having a selective playoff is that it puts extra importance on the regular season. You can't afford to lose twice to make a four-team playoff. I like that.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:57 AM ^
Eight teams will still do that. No more than that though.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:09 AM ^
Eight would be pushing it. You could easily lose twice then and still get in. I don't like that. At that point you might have an undefeated team start to rest guys at the end of the regular season.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:08 AM ^
winning your conference should mean you play for the NC. I do think there should be a limit when it eventually goes to 8 teams that no more than 3 teams from a conference...
Right now it is...
-Ole Miss;
-Miss. St.
-FSU
-TCU
I think both Mississippi teams are locks. It would take one team blowing out the other when they met or one or both teams to crumble down the stretch to be out. FSU is in as an undefeated team. The 4th spot is going to be like musical chairs. Right now I have TCU n as the best one loss non-SEC team. They have more quality wins than Michigan State, Oregon, Baylor, or Notre Dame.
If it was an 8 team playoff I would add: Alabama, Baylor, Oregon, and Notre Dame.
Personally, I wish they would have run the BCS through the bowl games and held the NC game as a seperate bowl. It would have been the perfect blend of the old and new. By using the BCS bowl games as a playoff I think it would have led to a lot more excitement. Applying it to last season the NC game could have been...
Team A= Winner of the Orange Bowl (FSU or Bama) versus
Team B= Auburn (if they beat Clemson in the Sugar Bowl), Michigan State (if Auburn lost and they beat Missouri), Stanford (if Auburn and Michigan State lost and they beat Ohio State), or Ohio Stae (if Auburn and Michigan State lost and they beat Stanford)...Baylor would have had a very slim chance since they would have played a much lower ranked team in a bowl game and the ability to earn enough points would have been too difficult.
Forgpt to mention that bowl games would be reformatted in my version...not really going to get into great deal since it doesn't matter.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:15 AM ^
There's still way to much football to be played. Auburn and Alabama still only have one loss each. Any of those 4 schools could still win the West.
October 19th, 2014 at 5:40 AM ^
No one is a lock, though FSU is probably the closest. Firs Georgia is looking better each week and if they win the SEC the SEC obviously isn't getting 3 teams. So that's one Mississipi team gone right there.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:45 AM ^
There's nothing wrong with prostyle. Like anything else you need good playcalling balancing between passing and running. Everyone's against it because that's what we do now and we suck at it just like everybody hated the spread when we went 13-22 trying that from 08-10.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:47 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 12:58 AM ^
is such a broad term. A lot of spread offenses play 10 on 11 - they're passing spreads who don't use the legs of their QB as a main point of their offense.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:03 AM ^
I don't necessarily equate Prostyle with Manball. Manball is a philosophy that tries to rely on ball control and time of possesion, then punt and play defense and hope to win games 14-10. The Manball world has been passed by.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:10 AM ^
ND and FSU both play what I would consider pro-style offenses but neither of them are the 'manball' style of offense.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:31 AM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 9:14 AM ^
does everyone classify MSU's offense? That works pretty damn well.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:19 AM ^
Odds the Jim Harbaugh coattails are finally gone at Stanford and they start going downhill?
October 19th, 2014 at 1:25 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 1:25 AM ^
That was about as soft as you can be in the face of contact.
October 19th, 2014 at 1:37 AM ^
God watching this Stanford game... reminds me of the Carr days where we just WASTED talent running offenses like this... With talent like Edwards Avant Breaston Manningham Henne Hart Minor etc... if we ever just opened up the playbook and had Henne sling it around ala Okie State ... just imagine...
October 19th, 2014 at 10:55 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^
Yet you could still call it a Pro style offense. It was not a calssic "spread" offense, ala Oregon or Clemson.
October 19th, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^
to be running that type of offense throughout 2007 but the injuries to Henne and Hart didn't make it possible. Agree though, it would have been nice to see that offense implented earlier then 2007.
October 19th, 2014 at 5:42 AM ^
While ND looked impressive against FSU, their best win is know against 3 loss Stanford, who based on their schedule may have 5 or 6 losses by the time the season ends.
October 19th, 2014 at 7:33 AM ^
2003: 13-1 National Champions
2004: 9-3
...THAT is my main argument for Miles not building a program. He was handed a LSU program 1 year removed from a national championship.
His coordinators? Jimbo Fisher and Bo Pelini.
Again, I wasn't saying he's not a good coach and I damn sure wasn't saying he wasn't an obvious upgrade.
I was just saying that I don't think he can build OUR program in it's current state.
He's old, we suck and he doesn't have Fisher and Pelini, two head coaches as coordinators.
Those are glaring minuses in my book. You may not agree, but you can't deny that those things play a factor. They just may play less of a factor to you.
He also went to the SEC right when all of the hoopla started. Before he got there, guys weren't just committing because they wanted to play in the best conference in college football. Now they do. Now the media slurpage and the string of championships is benefiting everyone.
You have to take all of these things into account, IMO.
October 19th, 2014 at 9:12 AM ^
yost, for me, Hoke is so terrible that miles would be a definite upgrade, however, I'm not a HUGE Fan of his. He has had multiple clock management issues, his offenses have not been very consistent over the past 3-5 years. either way, I don't see him being the coach.
October 19th, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^
Plus he's a whack job. Which is overlooked as long as he's winning.
But if you think Hoke's quaint mannerisms get on your nerves after a loss, wait until you get a load of the bizzare Les show after a loss.
October 19th, 2014 at 3:42 PM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 3:23 PM ^
the last 4 years with his own talent?