2019 College Football

[jazzcyclist]

The season starts today with a Miami-Florida showdown in Orlando and Arizona traveling to Honolulu to play Hawaii. To quote Yogi Berra, the top of the preseason poll gives us deja vu all over again. Get your predictions and observations in now before next weekend's full slate of games. In the meantime Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah

• 1 Clemson(59)
  2 Alabama(6)
  3 Georgia
  4 Oklahoma
  5 Ohio State
  6 LSU
  7 Michigan
  8 Florida
  9 Notre Dame
  10 Texas
  11 Texas A&M
  12 Washington
  13 Oregon
  14 Penn State
  15 Utah
  16 Auburn
  17 UCF
  17 Wisconsin
  19 Iowa
  20 Michigan State
  21 Washington State
  22 Syracuse
  23 Stanford
  24 Iowa State
  25 Northwestern

[Atticus]

1 Clemson
2 Alabama

It'll take a MAJOR upset to get rid of either of those two from being in the NC Game.

[user4]

I'm making a bold prediction, neither Clemson nor Alabama will be in the championship game.

[jazzcyclist]

I would highly recommend watching a replay of ESPN's College Football 150 documentary which aired immediately following the Miami-Florida game which covered the history of college football. Being a college football fan, I was already familiar with most of the material covered from history books, but much of the video footage, especially the footage from the early part of the 20th century, was new to me.

[NotDutra5]

I would highly recommend watching a replay of ESPN's College Football 150 documentary which aired immediately following the Miami-Florida game which covered the history of college football. Being a college football fan, I was already familiar with most of the material covered from history books, but much of the video footage, especially the footage from the early part of the 20th century, was new to me.

That documentary was more or less the opening salvo from a series of documentaries on the history of college football from multiple angles. Much of the material presented in Jonathan Hock's documentary will be explored much more in depth from now until January. I think the individual shows will be aired, two at a time, on Tuesdays weekly. For all the criticism ESPN receives at times, their documentary series tend to be top notch.

[Atticus]

More on the Fla-Mia opener last night:
Neither team covered themselves in glory.
Miami had over a dozen stupid penalties (false starts, illegal substitution, delay of game), couldn't keep their QB's butt off the ground and fumbled in spectacularly egregious ways.
Florida made it interesting in the end when they could have easily stopped Miami, but decided to commit pass interference of every key play.

[jazzcyclist]

For all the criticism ESPN receives at times, their documentary series tend to be top notch.

Yep. From what I've read there are supposed to be a total of 11 episodes. Watching that old footage reminded me of Roger Staubach bemoaning the wussy game that modern football become after watching Peyton Manning engineer a game winning drive with the aid of two roughing-the-passer penalties. I can imagine an old-timer who played a hundred years ago bemoaning the wussy game being played in the eras of Night Train Lane, Dick Butkus and Ronnie Lott.

[jazzcyclist]

More on the Fla-Mia opener last night:
Neither team covered themselves in glory.
Miami had over a dozen stupid penalties (false starts, illegal substitution, delay of game), couldn't keep their QB's butt off the ground and fumbled in spectacularly egregious ways.
Florida made it interesting in the end when they could have easily stopped Miami, but decided to commit pass interference of every key play.

Yeah, that was a game that neither team deserved to win. I remember LSU beating Tennessee in an similarly ugly fashion when Les Miles coaching and afterwards it felt like they had lost. It really was a demoralizing victory.

[NotDutra5]

Yep. From what I've read there are supposed to be a total of 11 episodes. Watching that old footage reminded me of Roger Staubach bemoaning the wussy game that modern football become after watching Peyton Manning engineer a game winning drive with the aid of two roughing-the-passer penalties. I can imagine an old-timer who played a hundred years ago bemoaning the wussy game being played in the eras of Night Train Lane, Dick Butkus and Ronnie Lott.

There's apparently a lot of other "stuff" as well. Listed here:


https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...-espn-schedule

[NotDutra5]

Yeah, that was a game that neither team deserved to win. I remember LSU beating Tennessee in an similarly ugly fashion when Les Miles coaching and afterwards it felt like they had lost. It really was a demoralizing victory.

This was a game I couldn't decide which I'd prefer to lose more but I did text my Gator homer friend to mention that maybe contacting Pop Warner for some tips as to how to play the game might be in order. It was awful.