College Football 2021

[Linc]

Rest In Peace Coach Bowden — As FSU has stated, legends leave legacies. Coaches help their athletes become quality people.

NCAAF is going through fundamental changes. The portal; NIL; super conferences; RTCs; an extra Covid year; more shirts; playoff expansion?

Please leave your favorite links and what you like.

I’m aware of two comprehensive guides to college football —> VSIN and XMSirius 204

 

[Trippy Trekker]

@Linc - thank you for creating this thread!

My condolences to Coach Bowden’s family, friends and the legions of Florida State University fans! Truly a One of a Kind Man, Bobby Bowden created a dynasty! He leaves a remarkable legacy!

My earliest memories of the FSU v. UF football rivalry date back to the mid-1960s when Steve Spurrier quarterbacked the Gators. I lived on the University of Florida campus, 3rd & 4th grade, in family housing. We Gators Loved to Hate Florida State!

In the 1980s, when Coach Bowden took over the FSU program, FSU dominated the Gators until the early 1990s when Coach Spurrier came back to lead UF. Game On! What a beautiful rivalry! Both teams often contended for National Championships!

Coach Bowden personified class, integrity, talent, coaching brilliance and competitiveness! While little in physical stature, he became a Giant in the way he impacted College Football! I stand in admiration!

Again, my condolences to all who miss him; R.I.P.

 

[Risky Thicket]

Rest In Peace Coach Bowden — As FSU has stated, legends leave legacies. Coaches help their athletes become quality people.

NCAAF is going through fundamental changes. The portal; NIL; super conferences; RTCs; an extra Covid year; more shirts; playoff expansion?

Please leave your favorite links and what you like.

I’m aware of two comprehensive guides to college football —> VSIN and XMSirius 204

Thanks for starting the thread, Linc.

For starters, I am not in complete support of the portal. It should be limited.

I am opposed to NIL. College football is racing toward semi-pro football. That is exactly the wrong direction. Combine the NIL with a fairly loose portal policy and college football become even less of a team sport.

Super conferences? I fart in their general direction. It’s all about money and less about real national competition.

Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC? Bad for most of the country’s college football programs. I’m not certain that I know how Texas will benefit. How will the SEC benefit. In addition I predict a domino effect. Kansas is already predicted to jump the Big 12. Much and more may follow.

 

[Linc]

@Risky Thicket @Trippy Trekker

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[Linc]

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[Trippy Trekker]

@Risky Thicket @Trippy Trekker

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When it comes to Sports Betting, I tend to stay away from all but friendly small wagers.

In the Political Arena, particularly in regard to the last General Election, my attitude changed! My wife unleashed me and I would have liked to stake at least $5000 on Biden using an offshore betting app. My research concluded this would have worked best using Cryptocurrency, a medium I do not invest in. The only friend knowledgeable in Ethereum and Bitcoin, who successfully trades, did not like Biden; he refused to set the bet up for me even for a generous cut.

 

[Linc]

When it comes to Sports Betting, I tend to stay away from all but friendly small wagers.

In the Political Arena, particularly in regard to the last General Election, my attitude changed! My wife unleashed me and I would have liked to stake at least $5000 on Biden using an offshore betting app. My research concluded this would have worked best using Cryptocurrency, a medium I do not invest in. The only friend knowledgeable in Ethereum and Bitcoin, who successfully trades, did not like Biden; he refused to set the bet up for me even for a generous cut.

You don’t have to bet to read the information presented by all of these services. I can’t find any info not related to betting. Please present some if you have the links.

I see the reality of the end of PAPSA (written by Sen. Bradley in 1992) by this SCOTUS as completely changing all pro and college sports. You can’t watch a sporting event without seeing odds presented by Fanduel, Draftsking or other firms.

The running by-lines at the bottom of every sports channel have odds. Then they say 1-800-gambler if you have a problem. Pools, fantasy —> it’s all betting related.

So, which of the 4 teams that should be in every final 4 ‘could’ miss? Oklahoma has Iowa State followed by bedlam where OK St. is beyond super upset at OU for leaving the Big 12.

 

[Rexedgar]

College is already ‘semi-pro’ football. High school is on the cusp, imo.

Final High School Football America 100 for 2020-21

When the coronavirus pandemic split the 2020 high school football season into fall and spring seasons, we were left in a quandary — do we create two

highschoolfootballamerica.com

 

[Linc]

College is already ‘semi-pro’ football. High school is on the cusp, imo.

Final High School Football America 100 for 2020-21

When the coronavirus pandemic split the 2020 high school football season into fall and spring seasons, we were left in a quandary — do we create two

highschoolfootballamerica.com

NIL has now seen the #1 QB prospect skipping his senior year in HS to enroll in Ohio State early.

 

[Linc]

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These guys have really great articles well beyond sports betting.
Action labs are mathematical tools.

 

[Linc]

Here"s a few more:

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[Linc]

@Risky Thicket
Discussion on VSIN among PAC, B1G, ACC (not Big12) to form an alliance and voting block as a volley back at that $EC. It’s fluid ...

 

[Risky Thicket]

@Risky Thicket
Discussion on VSIN among PAC, B1G, ACC (not Big12) to form an alliance and voting block as a volley back at that $EC. It’s fluid ...

I am not surprised. I can't blame them. We can expect a new kind of college football before next season. I'm not looking forward to that.

 

[Risky Thicket]

Also, Baylor has a very wealthy fan who has announced that he will pay tuition for all football walk-ons at Baylor. That is good for Baylor and very bad for college football. It will change the dynamics across the board. The ramifications are massive and not, in my opinion, desirable. You have a fan using the NIL to in essence buy part of the roster. And that's just the beginning of the impact such a move will make.

 

[Linc]

I am not surprised. I can't blame them. We can expect a new kind of college football before next season. I'm not looking forward to that.

The “alliance” and the $EC want their own championship. This will cause a civil war in the NCAA, reaching out to all sports. I’m hearing talk of having an NCAA commissioner.

I see Dabo and Nic as not wanting 12 teams in the playoffs and lose out on prize recruits. They don’t want more teams that can compete with them. I’m hearing talk of an NCAA commissioner.

My big worry is dozens of college and pro stadiums filled with 50,000 to 100,000. Delta is estimated to peak at the end of next month from what I’ve seen. Baseball doesn’t get a pass either.

 

[Linc]

One week from today ...

 

[azgreg]

Also, Baylor has a very wealthy fan who has announced that he will pay tuition for all football walk-ons at Baylor. That is good for Baylor and very bad for college football. It will change the dynamics across the board. The ramifications are massive and not, in my opinion, desirable. You have a fan using the NIL to in essence buy part of the roster. And that's just the beginning of the impact such a move will make.

A company in Provo (Built Bar) did the same for BYU.

 

[Risky Thicket]

A company in Provo (Built Bar) did the same for BYU.

i hope the NCAA puts a stop to it before it further ruins college football.

 

[Linc]

i hope the NCAA puts a stop to it before it further ruins college football.

I’m starting a sports betting thread all inclusive so as to not take away from our dedicated themed sports threads. However, when owners of pro sports teams are invested in sports hedge funds;

as we can’t escape odds on any sports channel and sporting events; with the explosion of sports betting in now 30 plus states like yours, and of course betting on ‘amateur’ sports like NCAAF, the line is certainly blurred between watching and betting; especially with pools and fantasy.

Nebraska coach on a very hot seat at Illinois this week with five games in what some are calling week zero. Lots of name teams don’t travel much at all until October.

And I do support playoff expansion to level the field for recruiting. We’ll see what the Alliance announces later today.

 

[Linc]

@poweRob I forget which of the New Mexico teams was your team. One of them has the college football world to itself Saturday night at home as a dog to UTEP.

 

[poweRob]

@poweRob I forget which of the New Mexico teams was your team. One of them has the college football world to itself Saturday night at home as a dog to UTEP.

I follow University of New Mexico. That is New Mexico State the rivals. I'm a fan but not fully 100% about the lobos but I like them and since they are fairly close, I go to a game from time to time. My fav college team is Division II Valdosta State. In the bigs my team is U of Georgia then Ohio State. Also like Maryland. But I like to see the Sunbelt Conference do their thing. Mostly because Valdosta State belongs there now but their athletic director doesn't have the stones to move them up. Meanwhile, a couple of their old rivals are in the Sunbelt now.

UNM is struggling like always but now they have a new coach. Davies, had health issues and took UNM as far as he could and wasn't making progress. We'll see how this new guy works out.

 

[poweRob]

@Linc - thank you for creating this thread!

My condolences to Coach Bowden’s family, friends and the legions of Florida State University fans! Truly a One of a Kind Man, Bobby Bowden created a dynasty! He leaves a remarkable legacy!

My earliest memories of the FSU v. UF football rivalry date back to the mid-1960s when Steve Spurrier quarterbacked the Gators. I lived on the University of Florida campus, 3rd & 4th grade, in family housing. We Gators Loved to Hate Florida State!

In the 1980s, when Coach Bowden took over the FSU program, FSU dominated the Gators until the early 1990s when Coach Spurrier came back to lead UF. Game On! What a beautiful rivalry! Both teams often contended for National Championships!

Coach Bowden personified class, integrity, talent, coaching brilliance and competitiveness! While little in physical stature, he became a Giant in the way he impacted College Football! I stand in admiration!

Again, my condolences to all who miss him; R.I.P.

I grew up in South Georgia and I liked FSU. Back in the 80's they pulled some recruiting out of my high school so I would follow them for that. And being a UGA fan of course I liked the Gator's rivals lol. Where I was at was so close to the GA/FL border that the fans were like... 40%/40% UGA/FL with the other 20% FSU.

 

[poweRob]

Thanks for starting the thread, Linc.

For starters, I am not in complete support of the portal. It should be limited.

I am opposed to NIL. College football is racing toward semi-pro football. That is exactly the wrong direction. Combine the NIL with a fairly loose portal policy and college football become even less of a team sport.

Super conferences? I fart in their general direction. It’s all about money and less about real national competition.

Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC? Bad for most of the country’s college football programs. I’m not certain that I know how Texas will benefit. How will the SEC benefit. In addition I predict a domino effect. Kansas is already predicted to jump the Big 12. Much and more may follow.

I never bought into conference fandom. I tolerate the SEC because UGA is in it but I don't pull for other teams just because they are in the SEC. A lot of that kind of fan shit is like that. I hate this 14 team sec now. It's just ****ing ridiculous at this point. It'll get so big that they'll never play outside their own conference which is just boring. Cap conferences at 8 max, spread the wealth. 10 game season and expand the playoffs to be like it is in DII football with 28 teams. That makes the post season 5 games for the two in the championship. 15 game season for those in the championship just like it is now in DI but with some well-earned damn meaning.

 

[Patriotic Voter]

I do not believe in conference fandom either. If Florida fails to make the playoffs, I will root against the SEC team who did. Likewise for Ohio State and the Big Ten.

 

[poweRob]

I do not believe in conference fandom either. If Florida fails to make the playoffs, I will root against the SEC team who did. Likewise for Ohio State and the Big Ten.

As a UGA fan, the only way you'll see me pull for Florida at this point is if they are playing Alabama.