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2007 is widely regarded as the strangest year in college football
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:07 pm
2026 is knocking on the door.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:07 pm to HonoraryCoonass
Nah, we’ll “sort it out” in the playoffs
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:15 pm to HonoraryCoonass
Nothing strange about it. There are no dominant teams and a ton of good teams.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:16 pm to HonoraryCoonass
These upsets are great but it sucks that they don’t ruin seasons anymore
In 2007, Texas’s season would be over at this point and so would Bama
Both teams are now still able to get to playoff
In 2007, Texas’s season would be over at this point and so would Bama
Both teams are now still able to get to playoff
Posted on 10/17/26 at 6:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Both teams are now still able to get to playoff
Thankfully, Michigan won't
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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n 2007, Texas’s season would be over at this point and so would Bama Both teams are now still able to get to playoff
So, in the past, each team would sleepwalk through six more meaningless games. Now, each team has to fight for their season the rest of the way. The new way sounds much better.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:32 pm to The Third Leg
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Nothing strange about it. There are no dominant teams and a ton of good teams.
in recent history, that is incredibly strange. how many times in the last 15 years could you not peg 3-4 teams who would win the title by november 1st
This post was edited on 10/17/26 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:33 pm to witty alias
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So, in the past, each team would sleepwalk through six more meaningless games.
Where in the hell did this idea come from that these games were "meaningless" in the past just because teams were knocked out of the national championship picture? Can you tell me that?
Did all of those classic Iron Bowls and Third Saturdays in October where there were no national title stakes in play feature teams that were sleepwalking through their schedules? I don't think so. Because winning the national championship wasn't the end all, be all objective of the college football season.
That's why we had subjective polls from sportswriters and coaches at the end of the year awarding trophies to the teams they thought were the best in college football. For decades the name of the game was beating your rival, winning your conference, and representing at a prestigious bowl game on New Years' Day in Miami, Dallas, New Orleans, or Los Angeles.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:34 pm to witty alias
No because you still had a shot a new years six bowl which was still seen as prestigious and something to go for. The whole we lost and can't make the playoffs thing is something that's new and has appeared in part due to the expansion of the playoffs and the notion that if you aren't in it doesnt matter
This post was edited on 10/17/26 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:43 pm to RollTide1987
quote:exactly. at the end of the day there's one simple edict: nobody, en masse, asked for college football to be fixed. we didn't ask for this.
That's why we had subjective polls from sportswriters and coaches at the end of the year awarding trophies to the teams they thought were the best in college football. For decades the name of the game was beating your rival, winning your conference, and representing at a prestigious bowl game on New Years' Day in Miami, Dallas, New Orleans, or Los Angeles.
nobody even gave a shite about the title game by the time it rolled around last year outside of degenerate gamblers and the 2 teams playing because they drug it out so long. we were too saturated and it was too drawn out by then.
future title contenders are going to be playing the final with a ragtag group of duck taped together rosters full of mercenaries playing objectively horrid fundamental football. yay, they fixed what wasn't broken.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:46 pm to RollTide1987
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Where in the hell did this idea come from that these games were "meaningless
Because they were.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:47 pm to The Tiger322
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No because you still had a shot a new years six bowl
A meaningless game.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:48 pm to mudshuvl05
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exactly. at the end of the day there's one simple edict: nobody, en masse, asked for college football to be fixed. we didn't ask for this.
The majority of fans were asking for a playoff for years.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:59 pm to WinnPtiger
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in recent history, that is incredibly strange. how many times in the last 15 years could you not peg 3-4 teams who would win the title by november 1st
Recent history is the NIL/Portal/12 team CFP era. Anything that happened before then simply isn’t relevant to today’s landscape.
And last year at this time, the 16-0 national champions were not considered very real threats to win it all by most. Most on this board thought they were a joke and benefactors of a weak schedule. Nearly everyone thought tOSU would dog walk them. Then they thought bama would get it done
The other team that made the final didn’t even win the weakest power league in the country and lost to Louisville on 10/17 and SMU on 11/1 and only got in to distribute money to the ACC.
The SEC champs were ranked #9 or 10 at this point last season
Oklahoma was top 5.
This post was edited on 10/17/26 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 10/17/26 at 10:34 pm to witty alias
Meaningless? Are we just going to ignore LSUs fiesta bowl win vs UCF and how that very clearly led to Joe Burrow becoming what he did the next year and really that entire team as a whole? Hardly meaningless as are many other games like that which served as spring boards for future years
Posted on 10/18/26 at 3:15 am to The Third Leg
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And last year at this time, the 16-0 national champions were not considered very real threats to win it all by most.
expanded playoffs don’t change this at all. you said it yourself, but I don’t think you realize it
Posted on 10/18/26 at 5:06 am to WinnPtiger
We’re in week 7 and the last undefeated SEC and B1G team is UCLA.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 5:09 am to HonoraryCoonass
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2026 is knocking on the door.
Just sloppy football all around.
Posted on 10/18/26 at 9:04 am to WinnPtiger
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expanded playoffs don’t change this at all. you said it yourself, but I don’t think you realize it
Where did I say expanded playoffs change things?
Miami was closer than anyone to beating Indiana in the playoffs, and they were the most controversial playoff team of all time and shouldn’t have been in.
The crying about giving 13-24 a play-in game is hilarious. You should probably just dump the sport.
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