COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2024-2025

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Sources: NCAA to increase scholarships for sports, with football getting roster limit of 105 players

As part of the new revenue-sharing model, by-sport scholarship restrictions will be eliminated, and schools are permitted to offer scholarships to the entirety of their rosters.
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If this accurate, FBS schools will have to reduce their total roster to 105 players but may increase their scholarship players to 105 if they choose. I guess this is to facilitate the implementation of revenue sharing. Sounds like "walk on" spots would be eliminated at most schools. That would be sad as to "tradition", but I guess if a player is good enough and works hard enough to earn a roster spot, they deserve a scholly.
 
So the best funded schools (I.e. Big Ten and SEC) are all going to have 20 additional scholarship players at the expense of traditional walk-ons and schools outside of the P2 conferences.
 
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This is a breakdown of the best teams in college football (minus a few, such as Utah).

Some key take-aways.

* Talent matters. Every year since 2014 the National Champion was always top 3 in terms of top 25 recruits in their two-deep (see Georgia, Bama, OSU this year). Except for last year. Last year was an outlier because of covid. UM had just enough high end talent and a boat load of 5th & 6th year seniors to off set any talent gap they would have had with others. This year is slightly similar as there are juniors and seniors that have been in college football for 7 years. Yes, 7 years. Playing seniors and even juniors has always mattered, but it matters more today than ever as having 23 year old grown men on the field, who pre-covid would be in the NFL, matters.

It is amazing how much talent Georgia had at seasons end last year. They still have 29 top 25 recruits in their two-deep while a bunch of top 25 transfers are sprinkled elsewhere around the country.

Oregon and Ole Miss return a bunch of starters but more importantly return 16 senior starters, which is amazing.

Michigan fell off a cliff. They will not be awful, but do not expect them to be anywhere near where they were.

Last year was an odd year. Bama, OSU, Georgia all started new QBs and were "down" by their high standards. It set up a scenario for a very senior laden UM to steal the show and they did (not taking away from what UM did). This year college football is pretty loaded. Outside of UM and maybe FSU everyone returns a bunch AND they are upper class heavy. Georgia, Bama, Texas, Ole Miss, A&M, Penn State, Iowa, Clemson all return their QBs and OSU, Oregon, FSU, and ND all return high end QBs who started elsewhere last year.

Should be a GREAT year for college football.
 
We can only hope with NIL and the fact that just about all major D1 schools are on TV all the time, we can get away from these football factories where we only have a handful of teams hording all the talent. It makes no sense to me that kid who is a top ranked talent goes to a school where they may not start or play much?
I think the "starter" notation is a little misleading. Not sure how it's determined, but at most of the big boy schools, the rotation of "fresh bodies" makes being a "starter" means you're in the rotation. Actually I probably answered my own question from earlier.
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This is a breakdown of the best teams in college football (minus a few, such as Utah).

Some key take-aways.

* Talent matters. Every year since 2014 the National Champion was always top 3 in terms of top 25 recruits in their two-deep (see Georgia, Bama, OSU this year). Except for last year. Last year was an outlier because of covid. UM had just enough high end talent and a boat load of 5th & 6th year seniors to off set any talent gap they would have had with others. This year is slightly similar as there are juniors and seniors that have been in college football for 7 years. Yes, 7 years. Playing seniors and even juniors has always mattered, but it matters more today than ever as having 23 year old grown men on the field, who pre-covid would be in the NFL, matters.

It is amazing how much talent Georgia had at seasons end last year. They still have 29 top 25 recruits in their two-deep while a bunch of top 25 transfers are sprinkled elsewhere around the country.

Oregon and Ole Miss return a bunch of starters but more importantly return 16 senior starters, which is amazing.

Michigan fell off a cliff. They will not be awful, but do not expect them to be anywhere near where they were.

Last year was an odd year. Bama, OSU, Georgia all started new QBs and were "down" by their high standards. It set up a scenario for a very senior laden UM to steal the show and they did (not taking away from what UM did). This year college football is pretty loaded. Outside of UM and maybe FSU everyone returns a bunch AND they are upper class heavy. Georgia, Bama, Texas, Ole Miss, A&M, Penn State, Iowa, Clemson all return their QBs and OSU, Oregon, FSU, and ND all return high end QBs who started elsewhere last year.

Should be a GREAT year for college football.
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Irwin20 said:
triblive.com

It's not your imagination: There are players in their mid-20s all over college football, here's why

Each time he sees his freshman teammates, Oklahoma State quarterback Alan Bowman gets a reality check about the length of his college career. “When I was playing as a true freshman at Texas Tech, they were probably in seventh grade,” Bowman said. Bowman is entering his seventh year of college
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Crazy right? It is why I listed upper classmen above. You have 23-24-25 year olds which matters.
 
bob99 said:
We are into an era never seen before in college football. So many subplots. The first 12 team college playoffs. Good or bad? Shouldn't leave to many questions about the National Championship being won on the field against the most deserving teams. Less importance on regular season games. First year of the expanded conferences and the demise of the Pac as a conference. The big 4 conferences will have 16 to 18 members in 2024. The retirement of the GOAT. Does Alabama take a step back being an annual national power? Does Kirby Smart and Georgia step into the best team with the best coach shoes? With the tidal wave created by Saban leaving, causing coaches to move around playing musical chairs, what will the teams with new coaches look like in 2024? The 30 day transfer portal for players on teams changing coaches is changing the landscape of college football. Weakening some and strengthening others. When all is said and done and after the spring open portal the saying of not knowing the team without buying a program may have never been truer. The questions about Michigan and the NCAA investigations will be an ongoing drama. How long it will take and the results of the final decisions could be monumental. Michigan, another school losing their head coach and facing players transferring, may be facing a major rebuild unlike any other. Preseason polls are totally worthless until the dust clears. That could remain unclear until the spring transfers are completed and the final team rosters are known. This could be the year of college football news every day all year long. I am looking forward to it.
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Less significance on regular season games? REALLY? WHERE did you hear THAT? Course, WE don't play in a FOUR TEAM Conference like the BIGGIE SIXTEEN, or whatever!
MY question, is WHICH MORONIC group is responsible for making out conference schedules? Because UGA COULD be one of the more talented teams in the last decade. Yet not come CLOSE to qualifying for the twelve team playoff, because we have to play SEVEN TOP TWENTY FIVE teams in REGULAR SEASON, plus the SEC Championship game, IF we qualify. WhomEVER made out our schedule, was HELL BENT to make SURE that UGA did NOT make this playoff. More than TWO Losses leaves us OUT of the festivities. Because anyone who knows football, KNOWS that NO TEAM is capable of getting up psychologically AND physically, against a CONSTANT horde of opponents. Try THESE on for size, and tell me WHICH team in the BIG SIXTEEN, could run THIS gauntlet, and finish unscathed?

AT Kentucky, ARCHRIVAL Auburn, AT ARCH RIVAL Florida, AT Old Mississippi, AT Texas, ARCHRIVAL Tennessee, AT Alabama, RIVAL Clemson, and ARCHRIVAL Georgia Tech. While NOBODY in the Big Sixteen plays ANYBODY! We lose TWO, and THEN, we hafta beat one of these AGAIN, just to make the playoffs. If we LOSE that game, we're DONE! I wanna know WHO created THIS CRAPSHOW?
 
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SWGA Fan said:
Less significance on regular season games? REALLY? WHERE did you hear THAT? Course, WE don't play in a FOUR TEAM Conference like the BIGGIE SIXTEEN, or whatever!
MY question, is WHICH MORONIC group is responsible for making out conference schedules? Because UGA COULD be one of the more talented teams in the last decade. Yet not come CLOSE to qualifying for the twelve team playoff, because we have to play SEVEN TOP TWENTY FIVE teams in REGULAR SEASON, plus the SEC Championship game, IF we qualify. WhomEVER made out our schedule, was HELL BENT to make SURE that UGA did NOT make this playoff. More than TWO Losses leaves us OUT of the festivities. Because anyone who knows football, KNOWS that NO TEAM is capable of getting up psychologically AND physically, against a CONSTANT horde of opponents. Try THESE on for size, and tell me WHICH team in the BIG SIXTEEN, could run THIS gauntlet, and finish unscathed?

AT Kentucky, ARCHRIVAL Auburn, AT ARCH RIVAL Florida, AT Old Mississippi, AT Texas, ARCHRIVAL Tennessee, AT Alabama, RIVAL Clemson, and ARCHRIVAL Georgia Tech. While NOBODY in the Big Sixteen plays ANYBODY! We lose TWO, and THEN, we hafta beat one of these AGAIN, just to make the playoffs. If we LOSE that game, we're DONE! I wanna know WHO created THIS CRAPSHOW?
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SWGA Fan said:
Stetson Bennett the IV was CUT TWICE, before he won a natty at AGE TWENTY FOUR!
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And he as a bit of an anomaly. Chris Weinke won a title at 28.

The fact of the matter today is we are seeing the tail end of the covid classes and have rosters full of 23-24-25 year old men. Who BTW should all be grad students or have two degrees at this point. ;)
 
SWGA Fan said:
Less significance on regular season games? REALLY? WHERE did you hear THAT? Course, WE don't play in a FOUR TEAM Conference like the BIGGIE SIXTEEN, or whatever!
MY question, is WHICH MORONIC group is responsible for making out conference schedules? Because UGA COULD be one of the more talented teams in the last decade. Yet not come CLOSE to qualifying for the twelve team playoff, because we have to play SEVEN TOP TWENTY FIVE teams in REGULAR SEASON, plus the SEC Championship game, IF we qualify. WhomEVER made out our schedule, was HELL BENT to make SURE that UGA did NOT make this playoff. More than TWO Losses leaves us OUT of the festivities. Because anyone who knows football, KNOWS that NO TEAM is capable of getting up psychologically AND physically, against a CONSTANT horde of opponents. Try THESE on for size, and tell me WHICH team in the BIG SIXTEEN, could run THIS gauntlet, and finish unscathed?

AT Kentucky, ARCHRIVAL Auburn, AT ARCH RIVAL Florida, AT Old Mississippi, AT Texas, ARCHRIVAL Tennessee, AT Alabama, RIVAL Clemson, and ARCHRIVAL Georgia Tech. While NOBODY in the Big Sixteen plays ANYBODY! We lose TWO, and THEN, we hafta beat one of these AGAIN, just to make the playoffs. If we LOSE that game, we're DONE! I wanna know WHO created THIS CRAPSHOW?
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Go cry to Greg Sankey
 
SWGA Fan said:
Less significance on regular season games? REALLY? WHERE did you hear THAT? Course, WE don't play in a FOUR TEAM Conference like the BIGGIE SIXTEEN, or whatever!
MY question, is WHICH MORONIC group is responsible for making out conference schedules? Because UGA COULD be one of the more talented teams in the last decade. Yet not come CLOSE to qualifying for the twelve team playoff, because we have to play SEVEN TOP TWENTY FIVE teams in REGULAR SEASON, plus the SEC Championship game, IF we qualify. WhomEVER made out our schedule, was HELL BENT to make SURE that UGA did NOT make this playoff. More than TWO Losses leaves us OUT of the festivities. Because anyone who knows football, KNOWS that NO TEAM is capable of getting up psychologically AND physically, against a CONSTANT horde of opponents. Try THESE on for size, and tell me WHICH team in the BIG SIXTEEN, could run THIS gauntlet, and finish unscathed?

AT Kentucky, ARCHRIVAL Auburn, AT ARCH RIVAL Florida, AT Old Mississippi, AT Texas, ARCHRIVAL Tennessee, AT Alabama, RIVAL Clemson, and ARCHRIVAL Georgia Tech. While NOBODY in the Big Sixteen plays ANYBODY! We lose TWO, and THEN, we hafta beat one of these AGAIN, just to make the playoffs. If we LOSE that game, we're DONE! I wanna know WHO created THIS CRAPSHOW?
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You play 1 less conference game, that is huge. Half your conference gets 1 less loss ever year. Have you ever thought about that?
 
SWGA Fan said:
Less significance on regular season games? REALLY? WHERE did you hear THAT? Course, WE don't play in a FOUR TEAM Conference like the BIGGIE SIXTEEN, or whatever!
MY question, is WHICH MORONIC group is responsible for making out conference schedules? Because UGA COULD be one of the more talented teams in the last decade. Yet not come CLOSE to qualifying for the twelve team playoff, because we have to play SEVEN TOP TWENTY FIVE teams in REGULAR SEASON, plus the SEC Championship game, IF we qualify. WhomEVER made out our schedule, was HELL BENT to make SURE that UGA did NOT make this playoff. More than TWO Losses leaves us OUT of the festivities. Because anyone who knows football, KNOWS that NO TEAM is capable of getting up psychologically AND physically, against a CONSTANT horde of opponents. Try THESE on for size, and tell me WHICH team in the BIG SIXTEEN, could run THIS gauntlet, and finish unscathed?

AT Kentucky, ARCHRIVAL Auburn, AT ARCH RIVAL Florida, AT Old Mississippi, AT Texas, ARCHRIVAL Tennessee, AT Alabama, RIVAL Clemson, and ARCHRIVAL Georgia Tech. While NOBODY in the Big Sixteen plays ANYBODY! We lose TWO, and THEN, we hafta beat one of these AGAIN, just to make the playoffs. If we LOSE that game, we're DONE! I wanna know WHO created THIS CRAPSHOW?
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If they ALL are your archrivals, no one is.
 
AEW Champion said:
You’re the only FSU fan on the board. It ain’t that deep.
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If Notre Dame lost a game , I definitely wouldn't think of you to post a call out where you weren't even posting ...

So yes I'm in your head. I hardly ever post on this section

But it's all about perspective. I support plenty of teams who haven't won a title. Mentor football and multiple pro teams

FSU on the other hand I've seen 3 national titles. 14 straight top 5 seasons. Many other good seasons beyond that.

You've seen one title maybe if you were a toddler in 1988

So yeah I'm fine and don't let my life be ruled by sports results. Maybe you'll get out more and get that perspective one day
 
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MentorGrad2002 said:
If Notre Dame lost a game , I definitely wouldn't think of you to post a call out where you weren't even posting ...

So yes I'm in your head

But it's all about perspective. I support plenty of teams who haven't won a title. Mentor football and multiple pro teams

FSU on the other hand I've seen 3 national titles. 14 straight top 5 seasons. Many other good seasons beyond that.

You've seen one title maybe if you were a toddler in 1988

So yeah I'm fine and don't let my life be ruled by sports results. Maybe you'll get out more and get that perspective one day
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So you are an FSU fan? I must have misremembered.

In that case, :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

lol, I don't get to say that very often.
 
MentorGrad2002 said:
If Notre Dame lost a game , I definitely wouldn't think of you to post a call out where you weren't even posting ...
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Likely a lie. But if not, apparently I need to do a better job on here.
MentorGrad2002 said:
So yes I'm in your head. I hardly ever post on this section
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Nah. I just remembered you making a fool of yourself last December when the CFP field was revealed.
MentorGrad2002 said:
But it's all about perspective. I support plenty of teams who haven't won a title. Mentor football and multiple pro teams

FSU on the other hand I've seen 3 national titles. 14 straight top 5 seasons. Many other good seasons beyond that.

You've seen one title maybe if you were a toddler in 1988

So yeah I'm fine and don't let my life be ruled by sports results. Maybe you'll get out more and get that perspective one day
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Congrats on bandwagoning the most popular team in the 90s.
 
AEW Champion said:
Likely a lie. But if not, apparently I need to do a better job on here.

Nah. I just remembered you making a fool of yourself last December when the CFP field was revealed.

Congrats on bandwagoning the most popular team in the 90s.
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You are a joke and not really worth my time. But I'll just say you don't know me. And also say I'm just gonna put you on ignore because it isn't worth it to deal with you and you don't bring anything to the table
 
I'm a casual college football fan. However, I'll hop on here occasionally and post some thoughts about the season. First of all, I hate the playoffs system, I don't like conference realignment, the NIL and players constantly transferring. To me it's terrible for the game and overall makes the product worse. But I will say that I watched the FSU / Georgia Tech game and I guess my interest will be more in random games. Who knows how the season will turn out, but it's going to be a long stretch to all Florida State a top 10 team. To me, the problem is the preseason poll is a product of the media. I'm almost sure that a team's popularity has alot to with rankings. There's really no other explanation on the consistency that FSU loses early in the season. They are always way overrated. They've not had a QB since Charlie Ward and just because they are FSU, they get early votes for polls?? Why?
 
BTW, the Coach Prime rift with the reporter is kind of interesting. I mean is there another coach in all of sports who could get away with what Sanders gets away with? No one has ever held that guy down. He just does this thing and because he was a great athlete, no one says a word. Here is where we are at in big time college sports now. The president or AD has no control over Sanders. He makes the school and the football program look silly and no one cares. It's the media's fault.
 
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