College Football 2025

[multivita-man]

Week 0 is in the books and it wasn't inconsequential, as Kansas State, picked by some to win the Big 12, went down to Iowa State.

Week 1's big matchups are Ohio St vs. Texas and LSU vs. Clemson.

A lot of my LSU peeps are excited about this season and this opener, but after dropping every single week 1 game since 2020, I am done with expectations. LSU's probably a pick for many people's top 12 because we have a lot of our skill players returning. However, their lines - both defense and offense - are questions, IMO. Not talentwise, but in terms of experience.

I think the best five in the nation coming into the season would seem to be: Texas, Oregon, Ohio State, and Penn State (maybe Notre Dame). Michigan could be competitive again - they've recruited well.

Will also be interesting to see just how much college football continues to resemble a semi-pro league.

 

[Risky Thicket]

Texas beats Ohio State, Clemson over LSU. Notre Dame is not top five material. Michigan won a sweetheart deal with the NCAA but should be removed from playoffs for the season.

UGA forever. Go Dawgs!

 

[noonereal]

The Hawaii vs Stanford game was a nightmare for Stanford. All they had to do was hold onto the ball.

 

[multivita-man]

I hope this season isn't a let down. I've always enjoyed the purity of the college game but the amount of money that is going into college ball is insane. I'm not saying it was somehow pure before the era of NIL, and I am glad that players are getting paid. These guys are basically forced to play college ball for a few years and risk tearing up their knees and legs (a la Jordan Travis and Marcus Lattimore) before they ever play a down of NFL ball. They deserve to get paid and I'd say they even deserve to get paid fairly well. I just wish it wasn't this wild, wild West system.

 

[noonereal]

I am glad that players are getting paid

I think it ridiculous.

They are compensated though gaining education and development as in any other profession.

 

[noonereal]

These guys are basically forced to play college ball for a few years

Horseshit

 

[multivita-man]

Horseshit

Or not and sell used cars.

 

[noonereal]

Or not and sell used cars.

So, an athlete can only sell cars after graduation?

I know tons of student athletes, none are selling cars.

 

[noonereal]

Well, we have Ohio at Rutgers tonight on the Big10 Network and East Carolina ar NC State in the ACC Network.

 

[CimpleMan]

Can see Nebraska's offense is still a work in progress from last season. Good thing they look to have a reliable kicker. Cal transfer Kyle Cunanan.

 

[roberthughey]

Tennessee vs Syracuse.

12pm on ABC in Atlanta

Go Vols

 

[TobyOne]

Notre Dame is always overrated. Its nice to see an old Pac 12 team in the mix. They're still adjusting but Oregon has been a national team for years now. Excited to see Arch Manning do well.

 

[multivita-man]

Tennessee vs Syracuse.

12pm on ABC in Atlanta

Go Vols

Tennessee should win, but Syracuse has been recruiting hard lately. I kinda think this might be a down year compared to last year, but you never know. If I'm the Vols, I don't take the Orange lightly.

 

[noonereal]

Tennessee should win, but Syracuse has been recruiting hard lately. I kinda think this might be a down year compared to last year, but you never know. If I'm the Vols, I don't take the Orange lightly.

Tonight?

What network?

 

[slick]

Notre Dame is always overrated. Its nice to see an old Pac 12 team in the mix. They're still adjusting but Oregon has been a national team for years now. Excited to see Arch Manning do well.

I hope he does well also. No major sport athlete has ever been hype as much as Arch since 1947 when Jackie Robinson won Rookie of the Year.
But it wasn't Robinson who that talk was about it was the 'Hondo Hurricane' Clint Hartung.

Will he be another Clint Hartung?
The 1947 Rookie of the Year was not supposed to be Jackie Robinson, before the year
even began all the sportswriters could talk about was Clint Hartung!

'The hype for Hartung started long before he arrived for spring training in 1947. He was the savior who would lead the Giants out of the wilderness
of last place toward the promised pennant. New York Daily News columnist Bill Gallo, wrote, “In all my time in sports, I had never seen a ballplayer
so heralded before he had played game one in the major leagues. Not DiMaggio... not Mantle... not Williams nor A-Rod or any of them. … (T)his guy,
at first look, was Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ruth and Bob Feller all rolled up into one.'


'Hartung played on military teams while serving in the Air Corps. In 1946 he reportedly went 25-0 as a pitcher and hit .567 for the
Hickam Field Bombers, based in Pearl Harbor. The Giants offered him a $35,000 bonus to sign after World War II.
The hype before spring training was so great that Giants publicist Schumacher told the press corps in Phoenix, “Hartung's a sucker if he ever shows up. He should go straight to Cooperstown.
”Hartung contributed to the hype by having a great spring. He homered in his first at-bat in an intrasquad
game, and smacked other long drives against major-league opposition.'

In his Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James created an unofficial award in Hartung’s honor, describing the most overhyped rookie of
each decade of baseball history as the winner of the Clint Hartung Award.

Let's hope Manning's career resembles Jackie Robinsons rather than Clint Hartung!!!!