kreed5120 Posted Friday at 04:58 AM Report Posted Friday at 04:58 AM (edited) All this talk the prior few months about how only 2-3 teams have a chance, meanwhile only 1 of the 4 teams in semi-finals has won a title this century (Miami 2021). Ole Miss last won a title in 1960. Oregon and Indiana have never won a national championship. Edited Friday at 04:59 AM by kreed5120 1 Quote
Reslife4Life Posted Friday at 05:14 AM Report Posted Friday at 05:14 AM Lane Kiffin is a loser. This is the best playoff ever. The favorite to win the national championship is Indiana, a school that has the most losses in college football history. How about this December/January madness! 3 Quote
Zippy87 Posted Friday at 04:39 PM Report Posted Friday at 04:39 PM I'm betting we see a push soon to move to 16 teams. Teams with first round byes are now 1-7 over the last two seasons. Some coaches have started to talk about the difficulty of so much time off. Quote
Zips1991 Posted Friday at 04:57 PM Report Posted Friday at 04:57 PM 17 minutes ago, Zippy87 said: I'm betting we see a push soon to move to 16 teams. Teams with first round byes are now 1-7 over the last two seasons. Some coaches have started to talk about the difficulty of so much time off. How about a push to move to 8 teams? That also gets rid of the byes. Or maybe 4. Quote
GP1 Posted Friday at 06:44 PM Author Report Posted Friday at 06:44 PM 1 hour ago, Zips1991 said: How about a push to move to 8 teams? That also gets rid of the byes. Or maybe 4. Divide that by two one more time. If we need four , why can't we just pair up the champion of each P4 conference? BTW, was anyone able to watch all three hours of GameDay yesterday? I turned it on with an hour and a half to go and the dumbbells on the show were trying to guess the weight of dumbbells. I turned it off knowing the last 90 minutes were only going to get worse. Quote
kreed5120 Posted Friday at 08:27 PM Report Posted Friday at 08:27 PM 3 hours ago, Zippy87 said: I'm betting we see a push soon to move to 16 teams. Teams with first round byes are now 1-7 over the last two seasons. Some coaches have started to talk about the difficulty of so much time off. There really is no need to have that large of a gap. IMO they should move up the start of the playoffs. Have the semifinals on New Year's Day with the Championship the week after. They can then open up the portal the day after. That way there isn't all these problems with the portal being open when the season is still ongoing. Quote
clarkwgriswold Posted Sunday at 08:28 PM Report Posted Sunday at 08:28 PM I heard today that there are currently more players in the portal than there are players in the NFL. Quote
lance99 Posted Monday at 11:22 AM Report Posted Monday at 11:22 AM 14 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said: I heard today that there are currently more players in the portal than there are players in the NFL. I heard that too! People are saying numbers in the portal up to 4K? There is no way there is that many! Quote
ZippyDoo Posted Monday at 04:28 PM Report Posted Monday at 04:28 PM I believe the 4k is just the Division 1 athletes and does not include Division 2 and 3 athletes. The one report I saw this morning said there is an unprecedented 4,500 Division 1 players as of today with the portal closing on the 16th and an estimated 3800-4000 Division 2 and 3 combined but there is not an exact number known as of now. The report estimates that only 30% percent will improve there current status or "find a better home"... 1 Quote
ZippyRulz Posted yesterday at 12:17 AM Report Posted yesterday at 12:17 AM I guess the glass-half-full view is that they all have some post-HS experience/tape and there are enough to go around for FBS. The question is whether we can get enough of the good ones to come to the Kron.. Quote
Ham Posted 19 hours ago Report Posted 19 hours ago Over 4000 in the portal? 30+/ team? nearly 40% of the roster? That's hard to believe. I know some teams loose more than others, but if this is true D1 football is in a real bad place. 1 Quote
ZippyDoo Posted 18 hours ago Report Posted 18 hours ago Ham you see what is happening at the "bigger" D1 schools? Iowa State was left with 16 players on their roster ! That is insane... JMU went to the playoffs, lost their head coach, and then lost their entire starting offense to the portal and graduation. Cincinnati qb just got 5 million to go be Texas Tech qb for one year. That is more than Shadeur Sanders rookie contract, I am no Shadeur Sanders fan mind you, but that is crazy... College football until controlled is going to be like MLB free agency without a salary cap. The players will get while they can get and get what they can get. If a kid doesn't think they are going to make it to the NFL better get paid now... When Finn left for Toledo, Weiner (Toledo QB Coach) told me personally that he was receiving 400k to go Baylor and that he had to do what was best for his family. He played 3 games threw 23 passes and rushed the ball 21 times. He made $133,33.33 a game! I'd say that was a pretty good investment if he doesn't make it to the NFL. The money being thrown at these players is mindboggling. It won't last forever... Something will have to give either some type of cap, some type of super conference, or something else but even the smaller P-4 schools can't compete. Backup offensive linemen at Pitt get 100k and they are the backups... A lot of these athletes are making the decision of do I want the money or do I want to play football knowing they may never get on the field and be just a back up? 2 Quote
kreed5120 Posted 12 hours ago Report Posted 12 hours ago On 1/5/2026 at 11:28 AM, ZippyDoo said: The report estimates that only 30% percent will improve there current status or "find a better home"... TBF I'm sure not 100% who enter are expecting to find a better home. I'm sure some are entering because their coaches were very candid with them that they aren't cut for this level. Some also probably want to drop down to get playing time or prefer playing closer to home. It's hard to pencil in how many of the transfers entered expecting a payday or not. Quote
kreed5120 Posted 12 hours ago Report Posted 12 hours ago 5 hours ago, ZippyDoo said: The money being thrown at these players is mindboggling. It won't last forever... Something will have to give either some type of cap, some type of super conference, or something else but even the smaller P-4 schools can't compete. Backup offensive linemen at Pitt get 100k and they are the backups... A lot of these athletes are making the decision of do I want the money or do I want to play football knowing they may never get on the field and be just a back up? I don't see it going away anytime soon. Millionaire boosters get to pretend to be sport owners without the multi-billion dollar price tag. It will only go away when booster fatigue settles in, but even then maybe a school like Indiana will see someone like Cuban slowdown on his spending, but there is probably another booster worth 100s of millions at some other school that will take his place. Some schools like Alabama, OSU, or Notre Dame have such a large fanbase that they will always be able to attract the corporate dollars to fund the program. If you see anything it will probably be the ~50 schools with the means break away from the rest and form their own league. You're kind of already seeing it with the B1G and SEC raiding the best teams from the former PAC-12 and Big 12. Quote
GP1 Posted 7 hours ago Author Report Posted 7 hours ago 1 hour ago, zippy5 said: GP1 gonna be pissed Not nearly the loss now Seattle Seahawk Kenneth Walker III was a few years ago. They recovered that. Quote
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