The Third Leg

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It looks really bad slowed down. Live speed it looked like a guy being overly aggressive trying to make a play as the QB was going to the ground.

He was overly aggressive and the outcome of the play has people up in arms.

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Lol. They were both already on the ground, QB had actually completed the process of rolling over, and then tackler released his hand from QBs head neck area, cocked back and swung—nowhere near the ball—while sitting on the ground.

“Trying to make a play”

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Iowa has never done that and never will.

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Do any of you retards realize that if every program that isn’t a blue blood quit caring simply because they won’t win national titles, that there would be no college football because like 6 programs would be in it?

These LSU cats think they’re Alabama because they caught lightning in a bottle. Fire coaches only to be 7-8 win program, Then they go out and pay $100MM for a coach to lose to the team he tried to raid and Kentucky.

Florida hasn’t mattered since Urban Meyer hired convicts who eventually murdered people and faked a heart attack to get out of it. Yet here you are beating the drum about championships he won.

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good point It’s as compelling to national audiences as Iowa football

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Iowa is an agricultural state in a city smaller than its stadium and puts 70,000 asses in the seats against cupcakes.

Baseball teams in Florida can’t sell out in conference championships that nobody is watching on TV because 87% of the country doesn’t even know where the Devil Rays are from

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Just have to beat out mighty Northwestern and you'll be there.

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Northwestern could beat half the SEC this year out of the Wing T. They’re probably going to be a ranked team and should be right now. They’re a dumb penalty away from beating Indiana

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I get it, your team might finally have a shot at a 24th playoff spot. For the rest of college football is lessens the quality of the playoffs and the regular season.

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Iowa was 2 plays from being on the 12 bracket last year.

This year, they’re sitting at 5-1 with a very real shot of winning out and being in it.

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No. You watched two teams that belonged anywhere but the CFP. In a sport that had operated on a Top 25 ranking system for decades, it is asinine to allow 24 of them into a round robin tournament.

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If AP voters haven’t shown you how worthless their ranking system is by now, they never will. shite is a comical joke. The CFP ranking always resets the AP poll because they actually watch all the games instead of just following regional guidelines and being homers.

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Now you’re deflecting We were talking about teams not having a shot You are really all over the place and must be spun out of your mind, proof that Iowa I had nothing to offer but corn and meth

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Actually, you’re being a fricking retard, like usual, and my entire presence in this thread has been centered around the 9-24 games being competitive and this format giving more teams a shot to stay alive for something meaningful. I don’t care that they don’t have a shot to win it all. The mere attention for these programs is huge for recruiting.

Half of the quarterfinals last year were laughable arse kickings like Indiana giving bama their worst post season loss ever. Oregon making Tech look like a JUCO.

The year before, every team that had a bye lost in the quarterfinals.

You watched a fluke rules based happening with Tulane and JMU playing top 5 level teams and saw no ability of anyone like USC or Texas to pull and upset against those teams because they lost 3 games in the regular season.

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JMU and Tulane had zero shot last year Thanks for playing tweaker

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How many guys sat out so they could preserve their health to transfer? Both schools had huge numbers of guys leave the program. How many skipped the games?

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only One team was a real contender on that list and that’s Miami. Expand the playoff far enough and it won’t be a big deal just like losing the first round of the ncaa March madness tourney

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Nobody thought Miami was a contender. Be real. They couldn’t even win the worst power league. It was a handout to the ACC so they weren’t left out.

It isn’t about them being contenders to win it all. The point is to quit playing meaningless exhibitions in Tampa, Nashville, and Houston, and have them play games that keep their slim hopes alive so players don’t sit out or transfer so much.

Few teams have a shot to win the NCAA tournament either. That’s why they hang banners just for advancing.

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you have to factor in 17-24 is going to filled with apathic checked out teams that are going to travel to say michigan in december. these aren't scrappy A-10 teams that are making the trounment for the first time in decades. They will be major college football programs with coaches on the hot seat after losing every rivalry game that season.

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Last seasons would have been:

17 Virginia @ USC
18 Arizona @ Utah
19 Michigan @ Vanderbilt
20 Tulane @ Texas
21 Houston @ Miami
22 Georgia Tech @ BYU
23 Iowa @ Notre Dame
24 North Texas @ Alabama

And every single one of them would have been thrilled for the opportunity. None were on the hot seat, Moore lost his mind and got fired. Lost games to 3 playoff teams if this were the format, two were in the top 8.

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The goal should be to make the playoffs better right? As it sits right now, not team seeded 10-12 is ever going to win the title. Ever. It's not happening. Doubling the size of the field is just going to expand the number of teams that has absolutely no shot at winning a title. It's dumb. So you're expanding it so the 20th ranked team will sometimes make the second round. Yay!

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Most of these people want to go back to the BCS where like 3-4 teams has any shot to make it. None of them wanted 8, which would have precluded Ohio state.

Having 9-24 play into the bracket makes it infinitely better for any fan of a non blue blood.

The best team I’ve ever seen live was 10-2 USC in 2002 who would have beat Ohio state or Miami for the title. To pretend there’s never going to be a team capable of making a run from the playin to the semis or beyond is ignoring what Ohio state did. They got upset a few times not playing their best and got their shite together for a run, and killed everybody in the process. For most of their history, that’s a Citrus Bowl winner

The bowls are dead, nobody cares. This will create meaningful games for more programs. This notion that college football was somehow great when almost nobody had a shot to win it without running the table, often against inferior schedules, is dumb.