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| posted: 2023-12-20 09:22:37 (ID: 100179649) Report Abuse | |
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Second Set of Bowl games during the next days, including Christmas, is online.
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| posted: 2023-12-27 11:00:45 (ID: 100179810) Report Abuse | |
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Third Set of bowls is online.
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| posted: 2023-12-30 10:22:58 (ID: 100179840) Report Abuse | |
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4th set of bowls is online.
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| posted: 2024-01-04 09:21:57 (ID: 100179935) Report Abuse | |
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5th set of Bowls, basically only the National Championship game, is online.
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| posted: 2024-01-04 09:39:03 (ID: 100179936) Report Abuse | |
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Hi Jack. I'm a longtime admirer of your work, and all the effort you put in to this site.
However, as a longtime FSU fan I do have some issue with your BoG report on the "embarrassment for the whole sport". While I do have some sympathy with the CFP board and their (highly controversial) decision to leave the Seminoles out of the playoff - the injury to Jordan Travis significantly affected our team, and I doubt our offence would have done much of anything in the playoff given our performances since he went out (though we still won both games we played without him against good opposition) - the fact is no unbeaten Power 5 team had ever been left out before. When you've gutted out an entire year and gone 13-0, to then be denied the reward you ultimately play for was a massive kick in the teeth. You can argue that a spot in the Orange Bowl against Georgia is some compensation, but it comes nowhere near playing for the National Championship (which Georgia probably should have been doing, given they are clearly one of the best teams in the nation, but that's entirely on them and losing to Alabama). Having been handed arguably the biggest snub in college football history, did anyone really expect Florida State's players to stick around for the bowl game? All those players had business decisions to make, which is no small matter in the NIL era, and it didn't surprise me at all that basically the entire starting team decided against it. I think we'd all like our teams to have their full rosters for bowl games, but it's just not the way of college football any more, sadly. |
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| posted: 2024-01-04 21:44:03 (ID: 100179940) Report Abuse | |
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I agree, but a few things are just fluffy on that FSU team compared to other teams, from my point of view:
a) from my point of view they were 13-0, yes, but compared to other power-5-champs their schedule was weaker. b) they were so laud on being worth a playoff spot, that the starters leaving for draft or NIL stuff was just terrible, like posers. c) other teams did bring almost their A-game and FSU could at least tried to do that, but did not. Georgia did and showed their strength, and those FSU players you bolted. Yes, money is an big issue now and that's what I did write in the entry, that this NIL AND DRAFT-stuff will have major effect in the future. But if you DO wine like that and then bolt, man that's not OK, from my point of view. Honestly, if that A-game-FSU team would have had the spot in the playoffs, as #4, Michigan would have killed them. Not as much as Georgia did with the backups, but that team was not on the same level and I think they made the right decision to put Alabama in. Hell, those 2 games were as close as it can be and that's what I want to see. |
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| posted: 2024-01-06 11:07:25 (ID: 100179956) Report Abuse | |
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I did think yesterday about the situation regarding Florida State and came to the conclusion that the ACC has a major problem now.
a) The conference was left out of the playoffs with an unbeaten Champion, because the people in charge to put the strongest 4 teams into the playoffs, agreed that this unbeaten Champion was weaker than the two 1-loss-Champs. That's a hard verdict, because it means, the conference is in total softer than the 4 others, or at least 2 of the others. What does that mean in recruiting and career planning for a player in future? If I would be TOP100 material, would I go to an ACC school or go to another conference with a Championship flavor? I think that's what happended with the transfer guys already, at least in parts. b) Since the conference is marked weak, how many of the BIG money schools in it will tolerate that for some time? Will several teams join FSU regarding the marketing contracts and will then say 'bye bye' IF a court does eventually put a dent into that fail safe contract? And as I said, if enough schools join FSU, the conference is taken over by the rebels, like the PAC-12 was this season and then those contracts are no longer valid, before they are ruled at court. That's likely the worst case scenario. c) If this all sticks and all teams HAVE to stay to 2034 something, what will happen AFTER that? Will the conference become so weak until then, because of recruiting and the rise of the BIG10, SEC and BIG12 that the ACC will NOT get the type of money the others got. THEN the exodus will start also, just later. The only unknown in this whole thing is from my point view, how the 12-team-playoff-system of next season will effect the whole circus, because in best case we will have - The ACC Champ - The BIG10 Champ - The BIG 12 Champ - The SEC Champ - At least one GROUP of 5 Champ, most of the time likely AAC, but you never know - The rest filled with at-large based on strength The PAC-12 is out of scope, except the teams do perform very well, since it is either in rebuild or demolition phase. This season that could have been (but including the PAC-12 Champ) Michigan, Washington,Texas, Alabama, Florida State, Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Missouri, Penn State, Ole Miss, Liberty. Then the team can battle it out on the turf and find a champion and every conference has at least a chance. |
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| posted: 2024-01-09 08:45:01 (ID: 100180017) Report Abuse | |
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THE END is online.
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| posted: 2024-01-09 17:14:35 (ID: 100180029) Report Abuse | |
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Thanks a lot for another season of your blog, appreciate your effort, the time you put into it. Again, many thanks!
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| posted: 2024-01-09 21:32:07 (ID: 100180043) Report Abuse | |
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I'm not into College Football at all, but I read your posts nonetheless.
Thank you very much for your efforts  |
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