The Official College (American) Football Thread

Gators? Who are they?

Look at those Alabama championships.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Crimson_Tide_football#Championships

Painful. The worst of that stretch was 1995 in that shithole known as the swamp. My Vols are up 30-14and next thing the Gators score 48 straight. Don't think I've ever witnessed something like that even to this day. Was at the 96 game in Knoxhell in the absolute downpour. Gators went up 35-0 and Peyton almost brought them back.

Worried about all this UT hype though. If they beat the Gators for the 1st time in 12 years, I will buy into it.

That's cool man, did they make rings? What position did you play?

LSU-Wisconsin could be interesting. And, of course, USC-Bama. Ole Miss-FSU might be an oddball game as well.


Heh, I was actually there last year for that quagmire of a game in The Swamp. Thought for sure the streak was gonna end until Calloway made that miraculous reception and scored right in the endzone I was sitting in. You could literally hear the silent disbelief of the UT fans sitting around us. It's a weird thing to hear a silence in the middle of roaring cheers, but for a football stadium... that's an odd occurrence. I mean, they weren't even mad or upset or anything, just... stunned. I almost felt pity. Almost.


I never want to hear the name Georgia Southern again for as long as I live. 

Last year was the worst of them. It was the all time stomach punch game. I was shocked to say the least, but I didn't get pissed until the guy missed the field goal at the end. Interestingly enough, the DB that made one of the many mistakes made on Callaway's TD was a guy I coached in high school, back when I coached.

Ha, I had completely forgot about that GSU game. At least somebody I root for has beaten them in the last decade. Their head coach at the time (now at Army), was my position coach.

Yes, that's the game. That was also the game where the 2 Gator offensive linemen were blocking each other.

In the history of terrible losses to the Gators last years was the worst. 99 and 2000 (Gafney didn't catch that TD, clearly a drop) were rough as well. The 06 game in Knoxville was the most disappointing until last year. In 06, I almost became physically sick from the way that game ended. Can't tell that I can't let it go can you?

Notre Dame - Texas

I had to share it again.

Ahhhh, got my LSU and South Carolina tickets secured. Excellent.

Now, to wait until UGA tickets are out and eventually drop in price right before game week...

Crazy old Les getting a lot of credit in both polls. Wonder if the LSU cigars will can him if he doesn't finish that high. They are at the top of returning experience via some calculations, but we'll see if that translates into wins.

For the counter example of why this doesn't always matter, if you take a look in the Big Ten the teams with the most returning experience are either Purdue or Rutgers, depending on how you weight things. At the other end you have Ohio State who lost a lot of players to the draft, but is still ranked up at 6, ahead of the school up north who has more returning experience.

Notre Dame managed to have 6 players arrested Friday night, which is impressive.

Hugh Freeze should have sent a little of the booster payola to the AP to get them into the preseason top 10.

Baylor will be fortunate if they can pull out a winning season this year.