2023-2024 NCAA Football Thread

[Jimbo]

Here's a link to all of this weeks games.

Matt's College Sports on TV

Since 2005, college football and men's college basketball television & webcast schedules.

mattsarzsports.com

View attachment 164588

Unfortunately, only 1 game of interest ..... however, I didn't expect That game to be this week either !
Notre Dame vs NAVY

 

[Derwin0]

Unfortunately, only 1 game of interest ..... however, I didn't expect That game to be this week either !
Notre Dame vs NAVY

Yeah, that was the only game I bothered to watch.

Here's week 1's schedule, much better lineup.

Matt's College Sports on TV

Since 2005, college football and men's college basketball television & webcast schedules.

mattsarzsports.com

I'll be at the Ga Tech/Louisville game at the Aflac (formerly Chickfila) kick off game at the Mercedez Benz in Atlanta on Friday.

 

[Derwin0]

Ronnie- Can you move all the posts from Jimbo's Aug 13th and after to the new thread and unpin and lock this one? Looks like we both mistakening posted in this one forgetting about the other. Thanks,

 

[Ronnie-]

Ronnie- Can you move all the posts from Jimbo's Aug 13th and after to the new thread and unpin and lock this one? Looks like we both mistakening posted in this one forgetting about the other. Thanks,

Sure thing.

 

[satjay]

Five days of college football! Enjoy all and Go Blue! and Fire up Chips (Central Michigan University) My daughter goes there Pull off the upset and beat Michigan state on Friday night! I do think it will be a competitive game

 

[Derwin0]

My oldest son is flying in for Labor Day/DragonCon weekend and will be will us at the Kickoff Game at the Mercedes Benz tomorrow for his 21st birthday.

 

[Bruce]

About time-

NBC Sports has confirmed that Peacock, the NBC-owned streaming service, will offer select Big Ten games in 4K this season. The 4K broadcasts will start with this Saturday's noon (ET) matchup between East Carolina University and second-ranked Michigan. An NBC Sports spokesman did not reveal additional 4K games at this time. "Select Big Ten games on Peacock will be available in 4K throughout the season," the spokesman said today.

However, we asked NBC again this week after the episode description of the upcoming ECU-Michigan game included a 4K HDR (High Dynamic Range) tag. The NBC Sports spokesman today confirmed that the 4K tag was correct.

Supposed to be in real 4K/HDR, not up-converted 1080P into 4K that Fox puts out.

Good News For 4K Fans: Peacock WILL Show Big Ten Games In 4K

By Phillip Swann The TV Answer Man –@tvanswerman NBC Sports has confirmed to The TV Answer Man that Peacock, the NBC-owned streaming service, will offer select Big Ten games in 4K this season. The …

tvanswerman.com

 

[Jimbo]

I agree with your thoughts there, Maybe Washington (barely inside ) or Tennessee al though I don't know if they will be bad enough to drop all the way out of the Top 20 ....
Just a hunch.

Florida State as one to drop out ...

 

[Jimbo]

#WEEK1 325 Points ... or Else

The strangest clause in college football is this: If Iowa doesn't make a Bowl game and score 25 PPG this season (or 325 overall), its offensive coordinator will lose his contract. Why? Scores like this ​ Last year, under OC Brian Ferentz (son of HC Kirk), Iowa's offense ... Averaged only 13.6 offensive PPG Had seven passing TDs and seven INTs Won a game 7-3, thanks to two safeties Iowa's Cooper DeJean, a CB, scored the third-most TDs on the team. ​ The Hawkeyes are 23.5-point favorites against Utah State on Saturday. So ... if you see them trying to score up 30 points in the fourth quarter, just remember: Brian Ferentz needs those points ​

 

[Derwin0]

ACC will be adding Stanford, Cal, and SMU next year for the 2024 season.

ACC adds Stanford, Cal, SMU beginning 2024-25

The ACC presidents and chancellors voted to add three schools -- Stanford, Cal and SMU -- beginning in the 2024-25 school year. It will bring the ACC to 18 members, with 17 playing football full time in the conference.

www.espn.com

Might as well drop Atlantic from the name and call it the Coastal Conference. And the PAC-4 now becomes the 2PAC.

With Stanford being added, I wonder if this might be a prelude to Notre Dame going full time, as they were a huge proponent of Stanford being added.

 

[Derwin0]

Great game last night with Utah taking Florida down 24-11

Florida vs. Utah score, takeaways: Gators unimproved in disastrous, mistake-filled opener | OnlyGators.com: Florida Gators news, analysis, schedules and scores

Expectations may have been low for the Florida Gators entering the 2023 season, but after Thursday night's 24-11 road loss to the No. 14 Utah Utes, they should perhaps tumble even further. The Gators looked mostly listless while falling to the Utes, victims of the same self-inflicted errors that...

www.onlygators.com

 

[Don in CT]

ACC will be adding Stanford, Cal, and SMU next year for the 2024 season.

ACC adds Stanford, Cal, SMU beginning 2024-25

The ACC presidents and chancellors voted to add three schools -- Stanford, Cal and SMU -- beginning in the 2024-25 school year. It will bring the ACC to 18 members, with 17 playing football full time in the conference.

www.espn.com

Might as well drop Atlantic from the name and call it the Coastal Conference. And the PAC-4 now becomes the 2PAC.

With Stanford being added, I wonder if this might be a prelude to Notre Dame going full time, as they were a huge proponent of Stanford being added.

ND only cares about the ACC for olympic sports not football.

 

[Don in CT]

At this point just make college football a relegation system, top 50 teams each year get to stay. Do away with conferences in general.

 

[Derwin0]

At this point just make college football a relegation system, top 50 teams each year get to stay. Do away with conferences in general.

No way to do that, courts have long ago ruled that the NCAA can't impose restrictions on conferences & schools due to anti-trust (NCAA v Oklahoma/Georgia - 1984).

 

[Don in CT]

No way to do that, courts have long ago ruled that the NCAA can't impose restrictions on conferences & schools due to anti-trust (NCAA v Oklahoma/Georgia - 1984).

The football schools are about to bipass the NCAA and go on their own.

 

[Derwin0]

The football schools are about to bipass the NCAA and go on their own.

They've been doing that for a long time through their conferences. NCAA used to enforce it's own TV contracts, so Oklahoma & Georgia sued them in 1981, winning at the district level and then at the Supreme Court. So schools and conferences have been doing their own contracts ever since.

You'll notice that the NCAA doesn't schedule a single football game, that's all done by the schools and their conferences.

The only games that the NCAA actually schedules/controls is the NCAA Basketball Tournaments.

 

[Don in CT]

They've been doing that for a long time through their conferences. NCAA used to enforce it's own TV contracts, so Oklahoma & Georgia sued them in 1981, winning at the district level and then at the Supreme Court. So schools and conferences have been doing their own contracts ever since.

You'll notice that the NCAA doesn't schedule a single football game, that's all done by the schools and their conferences.

The big schools want all of that money. I'd expect a power 20 setup soon with just the top schools.

 

[Derwin0]

The big schools want all of that money. I'd expect a power 20 setup soon with just the top schools.

They already have the money, the only money the NCAA itself makes is from it's basketball tournaments.

 

[Yespage]

No way to do that, courts have long ago ruled that the NCAA can't impose restrictions on conferences & schools due to anti-trust (NCAA v Oklahoma/Georgia - 1984).

Don't have to impose it, conferences just need to make certain all top division schools get paid enough to not complain about it. Maybe at some point people will start wondering if we should stop pretending that College Football isn't a formal sports league.

Until then, let the consolidation continue! We'll end up with two conferences, the Big 40-somthing and the SESWNWNEC.

 

[osu1991]

2023 The year college football died.