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OT: College Football Playoffs First Round 12/20-12/21 Fri-Sat

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Friday, Dec. 20

No. 8 Indiana at No. 5 Notre Dame (College Football Playoff first round) | 8 p.m. | ABC/ESPN

Saturday, Dec. 21
No. 10 SMU at No. 4 Penn State (College Football Playoff first round) | 12 p.m. | TNT/Max
No. 16 Clemson at No. 3 Texas (College Football Playoff first round) | 4 p.m. | TNT/Max
No. 7 Tennessee at No. 6 Ohio State (College Football Playoff first round) | 8 p.m. | ABC/ESPN
 
It will interesting to see how well the on campus college playoff games on Saturday do in the tv ratings. The PSU-SMU and Clemson-Texas games are on TNT and go head to head with 2 NFL games on Saturday afternoon. The Texans are at The Chiefs @ 1 pm on NBC and Steelers are at Ravens at 4:30 pm on Fox. The ND- Indiana game Friday night and the Tenn- OSU game Saturday night are on ESPN.
 
Bummer, traveling Saturday during PSU game, hope the game is on the plane TV and then maybe catch it on the radio when on the ground and in the car. Go SMU!!!!
 
A lot of the things I've been saying. Some who don't want change want to maintain their power and hold which has become harder to do with all the changes in CFB. IMO opportunity is as good as its ever been.

From the article:

The pro-like changes are having significant impacts on the industry. Whether they are positive or negative is up for debate. But one thing is becoming clear: There is parity in the game for the first time in years, if not ever — another staple of the NFL.

That parity? It is a result, coaches and administrators believe, in players having the freedom of movement.

Even Swinney believes that to be true.

“What’s the most important position in football? Quarterback. Everybody has the ability to go get a quarterback,” Swinney said. “These kids don’t sit. Or the kids played really well and they’ve got an opportunity to move somewhere else, and financially, it’s a no-brainer for them. You can go from an inexperienced quarterback to a great one in a heartbeat. That’s a game-changer for a lot of programs.”

Five of the 12 playoff teams have a first-year starting quarterback.

The Mustangs are a shining example of this new age model. They lured away backups and role players from more historical football powers, and put them in position as starters.

“They weren’t the guys at their last school,” SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. “Those schools didn’t want them to leave, but they had the chance to make an impact.”

With the new transfer rules, Lashlee contends that the blue bloods of college football can no longer “load up, create a monopoly and dominate over and over again,” he says. Players, previously restricted to one school and penalized for transferring, are now free to move. They are leaving schools for starting jobs and, in some cases, bigger paychecks.

“They transfer so they can play and it spreads the talent out more,” Lashlee said.

Kind of like free agency in … the NFL, no?

But it’s not all bad, he finally admits.

“It has created more opportunity and it’s going to keep (expanding), but it’s just changed the focus to the playoff. It’s all about the playoff. That’s probably not a bad thing,” he said.


 
A lot of the things I've been saying. Some who don't want change want to maintain their power and hold which has become harder to do with all the changes in CFB. IMO opportunity is as good as its ever been.

From the article:

The pro-like changes are having significant impacts on the industry. Whether they are positive or negative is up for debate. But one thing is becoming clear: There is parity in the game for the first time in years, if not ever — another staple of the NFL.

That parity? It is a result, coaches and administrators believe, in players having the freedom of movement.

Even Swinney believes that to be true.

“What’s the most important position in football? Quarterback. Everybody has the ability to go get a quarterback,” Swinney said. “These kids don’t sit. Or the kids played really well and they’ve got an opportunity to move somewhere else, and financially, it’s a no-brainer for them. You can go from an inexperienced quarterback to a great one in a heartbeat. That’s a game-changer for a lot of programs.”

Five of the 12 playoff teams have a first-year starting quarterback.

The Mustangs are a shining example of this new age model. They lured away backups and role players from more historical football powers, and put them in position as starters.

“They weren’t the guys at their last school,” SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. “Those schools didn’t want them to leave, but they had the chance to make an impact.”

With the new transfer rules, Lashlee contends that the blue bloods of college football can no longer “load up, create a monopoly and dominate over and over again,” he says. Players, previously restricted to one school and penalized for transferring, are now free to move. They are leaving schools for starting jobs and, in some cases, bigger paychecks.

“They transfer so they can play and it spreads the talent out more,” Lashlee said.

Kind of like free agency in … the NFL, no?

But it’s not all bad, he finally admits.

“It has created more opportunity and it’s going to keep (expanding), but it’s just changed the focus to the playoff. It’s all about the playoff. That’s probably not a bad thing,” he said.


I agree that we are seeing increasing parity in the college game. I think with the expanded playoff (I think it will eventually go to 16 teams) , player movement and increased competition, there will be expanded public interest nationally. However, I do believe there needs to an authoritative office established to set up required process, guardrails , rules for player movement, revenue sharing, payment, etc.
 
A lot of the things I've been saying. Some who don't want change want to maintain their power and hold which has become harder to do with all the changes in CFB. IMO opportunity is as good as its ever been.

From the article:

The pro-like changes are having significant impacts on the industry. Whether they are positive or negative is up for debate. But one thing is becoming clear: There is parity in the game for the first time in years, if not ever — another staple of the NFL.

That parity? It is a result, coaches and administrators believe, in players having the freedom of movement.

Even Swinney believes that to be true.

“What’s the most important position in football? Quarterback. Everybody has the ability to go get a quarterback,” Swinney said. “These kids don’t sit. Or the kids played really well and they’ve got an opportunity to move somewhere else, and financially, it’s a no-brainer for them. You can go from an inexperienced quarterback to a great one in a heartbeat. That’s a game-changer for a lot of programs.”

Five of the 12 playoff teams have a first-year starting quarterback.

The Mustangs are a shining example of this new age model. They lured away backups and role players from more historical football powers, and put them in position as starters.

“They weren’t the guys at their last school,” SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. “Those schools didn’t want them to leave, but they had the chance to make an impact.”

With the new transfer rules, Lashlee contends that the blue bloods of college football can no longer “load up, create a monopoly and dominate over and over again,” he says. Players, previously restricted to one school and penalized for transferring, are now free to move. They are leaving schools for starting jobs and, in some cases, bigger paychecks.

“They transfer so they can play and it spreads the talent out more,” Lashlee said.

Kind of like free agency in … the NFL, no?

But it’s not all bad, he finally admits.

“It has created more opportunity and it’s going to keep (expanding), but it’s just changed the focus to the playoff. It’s all about the playoff. That’s probably not a bad thing,” he said.


Fits in with the theme of what I mentioned above, one of those in power having to work harder to maintain it.

 
Byrne has turned into a major whiner. Between whining about schedules and now this, he sounds like a guy trying to get out in front of any criticism of his hiring of DeBoer and Bama's apparent slide back to the pack.
There’s only 1 Saban, it was inevitable they’d come back down to earth. I think DeBoer is good but Saban is in a class by himself. I wonder if even he knew how the landscape was going to change and it would be harder for him to maintain the crazy level of excellence he achieved in the future
 
Byrne has turned into a major whiner. Between whining about schedules and now this, he sounds like a guy trying to get out in front of any criticism of his hiring of DeBoer and Bama's apparent slide back to the pack.
DeBoer is a very good coach and would be in demand anywhere at the college level. However, I was surprised he took the ‘Bama job. There is an old coaching adage about never following a legendary coach, you want to be the guy who follows the guy who replaced the legend. Typically, the guy who follows the legend doesn’t last long as HC.
 
If we were hosting a playoff game in Piscataway with a chance of snow and low temperature, folks would find a reason for not filling the stadium.
Nah. Winning - as I've said a million times re: attendance - CURES ALL!
 
DeBoer is a very good coach and would be in demand anywhere at the college level. However, I was surprised he took the ‘Bama job. There is an old coaching adage about never following a legendary coach, you want to be the guy who follows the guy who replaced the legend. Typically, the guy who follows the legend doesn’t last long as HC.
If you’ve seen him manage a game at times, he’s sort of risk taker and gutsy so I’m not too surprised he’d be willing to follow Saban.

Plus no matter how long he lasts, there were 80M good reasons for him to take the job lol.
 
DeBoer is a very good coach and would be in demand anywhere at the college level. However, I was surprised he took the ‘Bama job. There is an old coaching adage about never following a legendary coach, you want to be the guy who follows the guy who replaced the legend. Typically, the guy who follows the legend doesn’t last long as HC.
Sometimes it does work out and you can just live off and have success based on what happened before. Look at Les Miles at LSU, where Saban was.
Worked out fine for bill O’Brien (PSU), and even Ryan Day (OSU).
Then Mark Few (Gonzaga), Matt Painter (Purdue ) and Jamie Dixon (Pitt).
Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson at Miami . Jimbo at FSU .
Rich Rod at WVU - he even won a game by 73 points over a conference foe.

Even Kyle flood won a conference title after a legend at RU

All this off top of my head . Sure there is more
 
DeBoer should never have followed Saban but for 80mm, I can see why
He's a very good coach, would take him here in heartbeat
 
Improved forecast in South Bend. Currently snowing until noon and 31 degrees. Clears up a bit with clouds by day. 8 PM KO temp of 28. Quite a bit better than what looked like earlier this week, and what it was when IU hosted PU Thanksgiving Saturday.
 
Improved forecast in South Bend. Currently snowing until noon and 31 degrees. Clears up a bit with clouds by day. 8 PM KO temp of 28. Quite a bit better than what looked like earlier this week, and what it was when IU hosted PU Thanksgiving Saturday.
Might be less of an issue for 2 Midwest teams. From a tv standpoint, it can be a nice atmosphere though. SMU and Tenn are the ones where it’ll be interesting to see if it has any effects.



 
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