The World of College Football

[GP1]

https://getsomemaction.com/news/2025/11/24/2025-mac-football-championship-game-tiebreakers.aspx

MAC tie breakers. 

[Reslife4Life]

I do not understand the Lane Kiffin thing at all. First of all failure on the ADs, NCAA, everyone for allowing these coaching changes to happen before the season is over. What if Jared Embick just said he is going to coach somewhere else right now? 
Second, why would the coach of the #6 ranked team in the country leave his job to go coach a team that went 3-6 in conference play this year? Even if the answer is money how is Ole Miss not putting up the same amount of money to keep him? P4 football is a disaster, ruining the soul of college athletics

[kreed5120]

14 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

I do not understand the Lane Kiffin thing at all. First of all failure on the ADs, NCAA, everyone for allowing these coaching changes to happen before the season is over. What if Jared Embick just said he is going to coach somewhere else right now? 
Second, why would the coach of the #6 ranked team in the country leave his job to go coach a team that went 3-6 in conference play this year? Even if the answer is money how is Ole Miss not putting up the same amount of money to keep him? P4 football is a disaster, ruining the soul of college athletics

 

It's an entirely crappy situation. Same with the only portal window being in January when teams are still playing their postseason. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

 

Akron should find another 5-7 team to play a game in Hawaii or Alaska to get to 6 wins and push for bowl eligibility, or just call the 13th game the bowl game. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Let'sGoZips94

[AkronAlumnus]

56 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

Akron should find another 5-7 team to play a game in Hawaii or Alaska to get to 6 wins and push for bowl eligibility, or just call the 13th game the bowl game. 

S/o Vandy!! They deserve to be in the playoffs.  My wife's alma mater and our cities home team.

[Let'sGoZips94]

College football is an unsustainable, dying entity in its current form.

Edited 4 hours ago by Let'sGoZips94

[catdaddyp]

9 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

College football is an unsustainable, dying entity in its current form.

100%. Im still waiting on the day ESPN reports on the declining graduation rate from all the transferring and acts like no one saw this coming.

[kreed5120]

It doesn't help they have the highest paid coach in the Big 12 despite him only having a 16-21 record...

[LZIp]

19 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

It doesn't help they have the highest paid coach in the Big 12 despite him only having a 16-21 record...

I assume not anymore with BYU’s coach getting paid.

 

The PSU situation is a disaster (which I personally enjoy).

 

Ohio’s coaching situation is looking pretty juicy as well…curious what’s going on there.

[kreed5120]

20 minutes ago, LZIp said:

 

The PSU situation is a disaster (which I personally enjoy).

 

Financially they escaped the deal without eating too much money.

 

I thought it was a dumb firing when it happened. It would have only made sense if they had an Urban Meyer or Nick Saban lined up to take the job. Virginia Tech was the real winners there.

[Blue & Gold]

 

[Let'sGoZips94]

1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

It doesn't help they have the highest paid coach in the Big 12 despite him only having a 16-21 record...

 

The only reason these numbers are being reported is because it involves Deion. All but ~10-15 programs are subsidized by other avenues of revenue. 

[kreed5120]

6 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

The only reason these numbers are being reported is because it involves Deion. All but ~10-15 programs are subsidized by other avenues of revenue. 

 

At the P4 level it's driven by delusions of grandeur by ADs and University presidents. Not everyone can be an Alabama or OSU. I imagine it's programs like Iowa who understand this that are doing well financially.

[Let'sGoZips94]

16 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

 

At the P4 level it's driven by delusions of grandeur by ADs and University presidents. Not everyone can be an Alabama or OSU. I imagine it's programs like Iowa who understand this that are doing well financially.

 

According to this, Iowa's athletics lose money. 

[kreed5120]

2 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

 

According to this, Iowa's athletics lose money. 

Losing $4 million is well worth the cost given the marketing athletics provides them. They couldn't buy the publicity they receive at that cost. I'd say they're still spending responsibly. It's the programs like JMU, Florida State, Rutgers, etc that make you scratch your head wondering WTF are they even doing.

 

Purdue I suppose would have been the better example for one actually turning a profit, but I also made that statement on a pure guess without pulling up the financials.