Afternoon Games (OPEN) Thread

Submitted by Mr. Yost on
3:30 PM No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 7 Alabama CBS    
3:30 PM No. 8 Michigan State at Indiana ESPN     
3:30 PM Rutgers at No. 13 Ohio State
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3:30 PM No. 24 Clemson at Boston College ESPNU     
3:30 PM UCLA at California
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4:00 PM No. 10 Georgia at Arkansas      
4:00 PM No. 15 Oklahoma State at No. 12 TCU FOX Sports 1    

 

LSAClassOf2000

October 18th, 2014 at 3:41 PM ^

I switched away from WVU-Baylor to Michigan State-Indiana for a bit. Seriously, there is a realizable shot at 300 combined penalty yards in Morgantown - I am honestly impressed that self-facemasking, not washing one's hands after using the facilities and bowing to the inevitable have somehow not managed to get yellow flags in that game. 

mGrowOld

October 18th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^

Ohio State keeps CHEATING. They are snapping the ball with about 15-20 seconds to go on the play clock and Rutgers isn't ready. So not fair.
Don't they realize that in the B1G ur suppose to wait till there's 2 seconds or less left before snapping???

Mr. Yost

October 18th, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^

Love that the first year they do this...it's complete chaos. Listen to the fans, we wanted 8. 8 makes it SO much easier.

You completely take the "conference champions" argument out because you give an automatic bid to conference winners and then pick your best 3 at-large teams.

Is there still going to be bitching? Yes. They're bitching in college basketball and they're arguing over 64-68. But the tournament starts and it's over and no one actually thinks a team that was left out could've won it all. That's not the case here with 4 teams. Someone is going to get left out that could easily win a national championship.

Just take your 5 conferences winners and 3 at-large, then seed according to AP poll or something. You're always going to have bitching, but let's have it about teams 7, 8, 9. 

Also if you do this, it makes CFB even MORE exciting because you're not out of it if you lose a game or 2, you make the conference races more interesting. 

And yes, put some kind of disclaimer that if you're a conference champion, but you're not in the top 15 in the country, then you forfeit your automatic bid.

MonkeyMan

October 18th, 2014 at 4:07 PM ^

OSU up big early but they have a tendency to fade after a fast start and let other teams back in. Gary Nova starting to get a rhythm