OT: NCAA College Football Games Thread 10/29-11/2 Tues-Sat

[rutgersguy1]

Tuesday, Oct. 29

Florida International vs. New Mexico State, 7 p.m. | CBSSN
Texas State vs. Louisiana, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2
Sam Houston vs. Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m. | ESPNU

Wednesday, Oct. 30

Jacksonville State vs. Liberty, 7 p.m. | CBSSN
Western Kentucky vs. Kennesaw State, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2

Thursday, Oct. 31

Charlotte vs. Tulane, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
South Carolina State vs. North Carolina Central, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2

Friday, Nov. 1

UConn vs. Georgia State, 7 p.m. | CBSSN
Columbia vs. Yale, 7 p.m. | ESPNU
Florida Atlantic vs. South Florida, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2
No. 15 Boise State vs. San Diego State, 8 p.m. | FS1

Saturday, Nov. 2

No. 3 Penn State vs. No. 4 Ohio State, 12 p.m. | FOX
No. 5 Miami (Fla.) vs. Duke, 12 p.m. | ABC/ESPN+
No. 19 Ole Miss vs. Arkansas, 12 p.m. | ESPN
No. 24 Illinois vs. Minnesota, 12 p.m. | FS1
No. 21 Army vs. Air Force, 12 p.m. | CBS/Paramount+
Purdue vs. Northwestern, 12 p.m. | BTN
NC State vs. Stanford, 12 p.m. | ACCN
Syracuse vs. Virginia Tech, 12 p.m. | The CW Network
Akron vs. Buffalo, 12 p.m. | CBSSN
Eastern Michigan vs. Toledo, 12 p.m. | ESPN U
Memphis vs. UTSA, 12 p.m. | ESPN2
Vanderbilt vs. Auburn, 12:45 p.m. | SEC Network
No. 1 Oregon vs. Michigan, 3:30 p.m. | CBS/Paramount+
No. 2 Georgia vs. Florida, 3:30 p.m. | ABC/ESPN+
No. T11 Iowa State vs. Texas Tech, 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
No. 13 Indiana vs. Michigan State, 3:30 p.m. | Peacock
No. 17 Kansas State vs. Houston, 3:30 p.m. | FOX
Nebraska vs. UCLA, 3:30 p.m. | BTN
Florida State vs. North Carolina, 3:30 p.m. | ACCN
UCF vs. Arizona, 3:30 p.m. | FS1
UTEP vs. Middle Tennessee, 3:30 p.m | CBSSN
Navy vs. Rice, 4 p.m. | ESPN2
New Mexico vs. Wyoming, 4 p.m. | truTV/Max
Mississippi State vs. Massachusetts, 4:15 p.m. | SEC Network
Oklahoma State vs. Arizona State, 7 p.m. | FS1
No. T11 Clemson vs. Louisville, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
No. 10 Texas A&M vs. South Carolina, 7:30 p.m. | ABC/ESPN+
Iowa vs. Wisconsin, 7:30 p.m. | NBC
Washington vs. Southern California, 7:30 p.m. | BTN
South Alabama vs. Georgia Southern, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN U
No. 7 Tennessee vs. Kentucky, 7:45 p.m. | SEC Network
No. 18 Pitt vs. No. 20 SMU, 8 p.m. | ACCN
Baylor vs. TCU, 8 p.m | ESPN2
Nevada vs. Colorado State, 8 p.m. | CBSSN

 

[rutgersguy1]

Forde-Yard Dash: The Secret Sauce for 10 Highly Successful Teams

From Texas A&M’s offensive line to Colorado’s defense, here are the units that have been instrumental in the turnarounds of some of the nation's top teams.

www.si.com

some excerpts:

Indiana Hoosiers (24)​

Curt Cignetti’s transfer legion is running the ball, stopping the run and getting into the opposing backfield. Indiana leads the Big Ten in both sacks and tackles for loss, with the Hoosiers’ top eight players in TFLs all transfers from Group of 5 conference schools. Nobody in the Big Ten has run the ball more than Indiana’s 391 attempts, with their top four running backs also all transfers—either from the ACC or Cignetti’s old school, James Madison. But the offensive line is largely a collection of holdovers who have simply gotten better.

Iowa State Cyclones (28)​

Coordinator Jon Heacock’s traditionally good defense has taken it up a notch this year, leading the nation in pass efficiency allowed and ranking ninth in points allowed. Typical of a Matt Campbell team, the undefeated ‘Clones are largely transfer-free defensively, with players moving up through the depth chart and excelling when they get their chance. The breakout star is sophomore defensive back Jontez Williams, who has interceptions in four straight games—the most recent of which sealed a dramatic win over Central Florida. Iowa State also is getting early production from a pair of freshman linebackers, Rylan Barnes and Cael Brezina, who have only been part-time players thus far.

Colorado Buffaloes (30)​

Their evolution into a more solid all-around team in the second season under Deion Sanders is most notable defensively. Sanders turned to the NFL to hire new coordinator Robert Livingston away from the Cincinnati Bengals, and of course shuffled the roster a bit as well. The result to date has been a reduction in points allowed from 34.8 to 22 per game. Third-down conversion defense is better for the 6–2 Buffs, sacks are up, tackles for loss are up, explosive plays surrendered is down. Colorado still has a lot of offensive weapons, but it no longer has to score 35 points every game to have a shot at winning.

 

[koleszar]

I will be at the Army vs chAir Force game this weekend.

 

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Forde-Yard Dash: The Secret Sauce for 10 Highly Successful Teams

From Texas A&M’s offensive line to Colorado’s defense, here are the units that have been instrumental in the turnarounds of some of the nation's top teams.

www.si.com

some excerpts:

Indiana Hoosiers (24)​

Curt Cignetti’s transfer legion is running the ball, stopping the run and getting into the opposing backfield. Indiana leads the Big Ten in both sacks and tackles for loss, with the Hoosiers’ top eight players in TFLs all transfers from Group of 5 conference schools. Nobody in the Big Ten has run the ball more than Indiana’s 391 attempts, with their top four running backs also all transfers—either from the ACC or Cignetti’s old school, James Madison. But the offensive line is largely a collection of holdovers who have simply gotten better.

Iowa State Cyclones (28)​

Coordinator Jon Heacock’s traditionally good defense has taken it up a notch this year, leading the nation in pass efficiency allowed and ranking ninth in points allowed. Typical of a Matt Campbell team, the undefeated ‘Clones are largely transfer-free defensively, with players moving up through the depth chart and excelling when they get their chance. The breakout star is sophomore defensive back Jontez Williams, who has interceptions in four straight games—the most recent of which sealed a dramatic win over Central Florida. Iowa State also is getting early production from a pair of freshman linebackers, Rylan Barnes and Cael Brezina, who have only been part-time players thus far.

Colorado Buffaloes (30)​

Their evolution into a more solid all-around team in the second season under Deion Sanders is most notable defensively. Sanders turned to the NFL to hire new coordinator Robert Livingston away from the Cincinnati Bengals, and of course shuffled the roster a bit as well. The result to date has been a reduction in points allowed from 34.8 to 22 per game. Third-down conversion defense is better for the 6–2 Buffs, sacks are up, tackles for loss are up, explosive plays surrendered is down. Colorado still has a lot of offensive weapons, but it no longer has to score 35 points every game to have a shot at winning.

You are a good man, Charlie Brown!!!

 

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[rutgersguy1]

Paywall but some excerpts.


It's what I've been saying with portal etc...helping spread the talent around and how everyone deals with depth issues to one degree or another.




From the article:

Talent, depth gap is tighter​

This is the easy answer: the transfer portal — especially with players being able to transfer every year — coupled with programs being able to use money from name, image and likeness to level the field a bit in recruiting.

Smart said every game week he gets a list of players on the other team who are transfers, and it seems higher than ever. It has had the dual effect of making teams better but spreading talent around; the Georgias and Alabamas can’t hoard young players on their bench as much anymore.

“The teams are better,” Smart said. “I don’t know that teams have as much depth. I know we don’t. We don’t have as much depth as we’ve had in the past. So that depth is shared out, which may create some more parity there.”

 

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[rurichdog]

Ragin' Cajun player down for an extended time, less than a minute until halftime. Cart is out, looks like a head or neck injury on a kickoff return. Didn't look good.

 

[rutgersguy1]

Ragin' Cajun player down for an extended time, less than a minute until halftime. Cart is out, looks like a head or neck injury on a kickoff return. Didn't look good.

Wasn’t a KO return just a tackle with his head down on a Texas St receiver. Just hurry up offense at the end of the half.

Looked like a crown of the helmet tackle. That rule is as much for the safety of the defensive player as the offensive player.

 

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[rutgersguy1]

As I've said try to be resourceful and creative with whatever you have. Also would do the same for coaching salaries, if an AD had the guts to change the paradigm.



They are using a new-fangled offense brought from the FCS level, are playing a new quarterback they got from Alabama and have a rebuilt defense thriving despite the departure of a handful of starters.

But perhaps most interesting of all, the school’s NIL collective, in conjunction with Narduzzi, made the offseason decision to overhaul the distribution structure on the team — from paying each player in a tiered system to paying select players who earn it.

“You have to be hungry,” Bickell continued. “If you want sponsorships and want to be paid like a professional, you have to earn it. This team is hungry.”

In this age of escalating athlete compensation figures, the move is one of the more unique approaches in the industry — a public admission of scaling back, not up.

But for Pitt, it’s working, even the most veteran players say so.

“Money doesn’t get you a championship,” Narduzzi told Yahoo Sports. “If it did, all these teams that have spent all this freaking money would be really good. Florida State. Michigan is spending a lot of money. I want hungry players.

“I sat down with (some of the) guys and told them, ‘You’re not getting paid,’” Narduzzi said. “I told them that the guy investing in you isn’t happy. I said, ‘If you were an investor putting your money down and you win three games, what would you do?’ Kids said, ‘Coach, I wouldn’t give it.’ That’s what he’s doing. You’ve got to go earn it.”

Behind the improvement is a transfer quarterback from Alabama, Eli Holstein, and a first-year FBS offensive coordinator, Kade Bell. Bell brought with him from Western Carolina not just his uptempo, motion-filled scheme, but two coaches and two players, including all-purpose back Desmond Reid, a 5-foot-8, 175-pounder who’s burst onto the major college football scene with some electric performances (he became the only player in Pitt history to amass 100 yards rushing and receiving in a single game earlier this season).

Holstein and Reid are operating in a multiple-faceted offense with concepts pulled from the NFL (pro-style), Josh Heupel at Tennessee (hurry-up) and LSU’s 2019 national championship run (the RPO and vertical passing attack), said Pat Bostick, the former Pitt quarterback and color analyst for the team’s football broadcasts.

 

[rutgersguy1]

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Connor Stalion spotted disguised as young Al Franken on various B12 game sidelines. . . . .

 

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[rutgersguy1]

As I've said try to be resourceful and creative with whatever you have. Also would do the same for coaching salaries, if an AD had the guts to change the paradigm.

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They are using a new-fangled offense brought from the FCS level, are playing a new quarterback they got from Alabama and have a rebuilt defense thriving despite the departure of a handful of starters.

But perhaps most interesting of all, the school’s NIL collective, in conjunction with Narduzzi, made the offseason decision to overhaul the distribution structure on the team — from paying each player in a tiered system to paying select players who earn it.

“You have to be hungry,” Bickell continued. “If you want sponsorships and want to be paid like a professional, you have to earn it. This team is hungry.”

In this age of escalating athlete compensation figures, the move is one of the more unique approaches in the industry — a public admission of scaling back, not up.

But for Pitt, it’s working, even the most veteran players say so.

“Money doesn’t get you a championship,” Narduzzi told Yahoo Sports. “If it did, all these teams that have spent all this freaking money would be really good. Florida State. Michigan is spending a lot of money. I want hungry players.

“I sat down with (some of the) guys and told them, ‘You’re not getting paid,’” Narduzzi said. “I told them that the guy investing in you isn’t happy. I said, ‘If you were an investor putting your money down and you win three games, what would you do?’ Kids said, ‘Coach, I wouldn’t give it.’ That’s what he’s doing. You’ve got to go earn it.”

Behind the improvement is a transfer quarterback from Alabama, Eli Holstein, and a first-year FBS offensive coordinator, Kade Bell. Bell brought with him from Western Carolina not just his uptempo, motion-filled scheme, but two coaches and two players, including all-purpose back Desmond Reid, a 5-foot-8, 175-pounder who’s burst onto the major college football scene with some electric performances (he became the only player in Pitt history to amass 100 yards rushing and receiving in a single game earlier this season).

Holstein and Reid are operating in a multiple-faceted offense with concepts pulled from the NFL (pro-style), Josh Heupel at Tennessee (hurry-up) and LSU’s 2019 national championship run (the RPO and vertical passing attack), said Pat Bostick, the former Pitt quarterback and color analyst for the team’s football broadcasts.

Just to add to how much of a departure this must be from a Narduzzi mindset. Awhile back I saw a stat that they were 3rd lowest in the country in TOP. Was just looking and to date they're actually lowest in the country in TOP. They're not terrible in defense (YPG/Scoring) despite that plus both stats are probably skewed by that 3 pick 6 Cuse game. In YPP defense, they're actually ranked 11, that's pretty good considering.

SMU/Clemson/Louisville in the coming weeks, will be interesting to see how that holds up.

 

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[rutgersguy1]

Would they have reached any other conclusion even if something did happen lol.

 

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[rutgersguy1]

What I’ve mentioned about AK being a big loss for Leipold at Kansas. I think I’ve read another article in the past where the money Kansas offered was on par but AK wanted the bigger stage I guess for HC opportunities.


From the article:

Amid a 4-0 start in 2022, Kansas coach Lance Leipold could think of nothing more important than how to retain his offensive coordinator.

Leipold and Andy Kotelnicki had been their own Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, riding together for a decade together at three stops. Kotelnicki joined Leipold in 2013 at Wisconsin-Whitewater for the last two of the coach's six Division III championships. From there, the pair won 41 games together in six years at Buffalo before taking on downtrodden Kansas.

With the Jayhawks creating national buzz in 2022, defenses weren't the only ones closing in to try to stop Kotelnicki's unique approach. So were potential suitors.

"Don't write anything about him," Leipold pleaded to a reporter back then. "He needs to stay right here. Don't give him some $2 million [coordinator's] job."

"I gotta give Kansas and Lance and their AD a ton of credit because it wasn't an easy hire," Franklin said. "He's been with Lance a long time. You don't make that move unless you feel good about it. I think Kansas is committed to winning in football at a level we probably haven't seen in a long time."

 

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What I’ve mentioned about AK being a big loss for Leipold at Kansas. I think I’ve read another article in the past where the money Kansas offered was on par but AK wanted the bigger stage I guess for HC opportunities.


From the article:

Amid a 4-0 start in 2022, Kansas coach Lance Leipold could think of nothing more important than how to retain his offensive coordinator.

Leipold and Andy Kotelnicki had been their own Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, riding together for a decade together at three stops. Kotelnicki joined Leipold in 2013 at Wisconsin-Whitewater for the last two of the coach's six Division III championships. From there, the pair won 41 games together in six years at Buffalo before taking on downtrodden Kansas.

With the Jayhawks creating national buzz in 2022, defenses weren't the only ones closing in to try to stop Kotelnicki's unique approach. So were potential suitors.

"Don't write anything about him," Leipold pleaded to a reporter back then. "He needs to stay right here. Don't give him some $2 million [coordinator's] job."

"I gotta give Kansas and Lance and their AD a ton of credit because it wasn't an easy hire," Franklin said. "He's been with Lance a long time. You don't make that move unless you feel good about it. I think Kansas is committed to winning in football at a level we probably haven't seen in a long time."

Did AK (the coach!) get more money? Is that why he left?
It's funny, in my line of work, I could probably sell what I am worth and trade up to a bigger organization for a larger sum of money, but I like what I have, the stability, the familiarity with my colleagues, etc., and more money is not "worth it" to me for potential problems that I know will not crop up in my current situation.

 

[rutgersguy1]

Did AK (the coach!) get more money? Is that why he left?
It's funny, in my line of work, I could probably sell what I am worth and trade up to a bigger organization for a larger sum of money, but I like what I have, the stability, the familiarity with my colleagues, etc., and more money is not "worth it" to me for potential problems that I know will not crop up in my current situation.

I don’t think it was much more than what Kansas offered from I’ve read in an article from months ago. Franklin’s comments here make it sound like that too. I think the opportunity of a bigger stage to shine and then get a HC opportunity down the line of successful might have been the bigger lure.

 

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Do you agree with this statement?

“The things that are important to success are different now than they were 10 years ago,” Cignetti said in an interview this week. “NIL is a big thing. Collectives. You can’t compete if you don’t have it — and have enough of it. There was a commitment there, and it grew and grew and grew. It allowed us to get done what we had to get done (with our roster) in December. It would have been very difficult to fill a football team with all the guys that left. That’s what you see nowadays, more and more. When the coach leaves, there are guys leaving.”

 

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Do you agree with this statement?

“The things that are important to success are different now than they were 10 years ago,” Cignetti said in an interview this week. “NIL is a big thing. Collectives. You can’t compete if you don’t have it — and have enough of it. There was a commitment there, and it grew and grew and grew. It allowed us to get done what we had to get done (with our roster) in December. It would have been very difficult to fill a football team with all the guys that left. That’s what you see nowadays, more and more. When the coach leaves, there are guys leaving.”

And--Guess Indiana is not a developmental program 🤣 😖:

“I’m not necessarily a guy that lives by the portal year and year out, but I mean, this was a necessity,” Cignetti said. “Look, I wasn’t going to take four or five years to win. Like, back in the day, you just try to build a program by your fourth year. Nowadays, you’ve got to win now, because this is the I-want-it-now society and times.
“And I’m not used to not winning, so we were going to win now. And it all worked out.”

 

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Sorry, one more:😖😖😖😖😖

Cignetti, in just the first year of a six-year, $27 million deal,

 

[rutgersguy1]

Do you agree with this statement?

“The things that are important to success are different now than they were 10 years ago,” Cignetti said in an interview this week. “NIL is a big thing. Collectives. You can’t compete if you don’t have it — and have enough of it. There was a commitment there, and it grew and grew and grew. It allowed us to get done what we had to get done (with our roster) in December. It would have been very difficult to fill a football team with all the guys that left. That’s what you see nowadays, more and more. When the coach leaves, there are guys leaving.”

I get it but I've given the makeup of his roster and it's not a bunch of superstars. 90% 0-3 stars out highschool, 44 0 stars out of high school, Rourke recruited by Vandy, BYU, WF in the portal, same OL as last year etc.....this isn't some big high profile roster, it's a bargain basement one where he probably used whatever resources he had to put it together. It's not incongruous with my repeated statement of try to make it work with what you have.

It goes hand in hand with these quotes from the same article:

.But he — and those of us outside of Bloomington — may have underestimated Cignetti’s portal savvy and player development. He’s a great evaluator of talent, for sure. He’s also pushed every right button as he’s built a disciplined, sound team that, just a week ago, survived its first full game without its starting quarterback.

Two agents who spoke to NBC Sports under the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the coaching market said that there are a few lessons that other athletic directors and coaches should take from Cignetti’s Year 1 success. First, there’s a huge benefit to hiring a sitting head coach — because he can bring good players from his previous stop with him. They can not only become key contributors on the field, but they can help instill the coach’s culture quickly.

Sitting head coaches, especially those who have won at lower levels (like Cignetti, who began his head coaching career in Division II), may also be better equipped to handle roster construction in the current era. They’ve previously had to deal with their best players getting poached by others. They’re used to making tough budgetary decisions. They’re used to doing more with less in general. (“There’s nothing more frustrating for an AD than a head coach who always asks for more and is never satisfied with his resources,” one agent said.)

 

[rutgersguy1]

Sorry, one more:😖😖😖😖😖

Cignetti, in just the first year of a six-year, $27 million deal,

Leipold's first contract and Klieman's weren't back breaking either. Matt Campbell as well and even now. That's why I never complain about budgets or recruits or whatever...it's all the same theme in my mind. You have what you have, you're limitations are you're limitations, figure out how to make it work with what you have.

 

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Leipold's first contract and Klieman's weren't back breaking either. Matt Campbell as well and even now. That's why I never complain about budgets or recruits or whatever...it's all the same theme in my mind. You have what you have, you're limitations are you're limitations, figure out how to make it work with what you have.

Rutgers just needs to be patient until you are in the Rodkin Center corner office, and I am in the adjacent office with the couch. CFP here we come!!! 🤣

 

[rutgersguy1]

I know Ole Miss is one that has been suspicious this year.

 

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[rutgersguy1]

Nice call by Boise to throw it for the TD on 4th and short when they’re probably so focused on Jeanty.

35-10 Boise

 

[BeantownKnight]

UCONN beating up on powerhouse Georgia State 34-20 in the 4th. They win and they're bowl eligible.

 

[rutgersguy1]

Boise up 56-10



5 star transfer Malachi Nelson from USC in the backup…2 star in the starting qb.

 

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Rutgers is number 38 in Stop Rate to Colorado's 19 I expected it to be worse... but we did have some early success

 

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[Joey Bags]

Gotta laugh at some of these ACC games. Syracuse vs VT on The CW. WTF is the CW?

Highest profile game in conference is undefeated Pitt vs SMU. Top 20 matchup. Best it could do is ACCNetwork (which is basically junk tier coverage).

It’s really P2 and G7 at this point.

 

[rutgersguy1]

Gotta laugh at some of these ACC games. Syracuse vs VT on The CW. WTF is the CW?

Highest profile game in conference is undefeated Pitt vs SMU. Top 20 matchup. Best it could do is ACCNetwork (which is basically junk tier coverage).

It’s really P2 and G7 at this point.

CW is channel 11. They’ve been showing ACC and some G5 games the last couple years.

 

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