Sheriff Brackett

I think it’s much tougher to play those 3 SEC schools on the road than any of the other teams you mentioned in the Big 10. I mean Mississippi State was ranked No. 1 way back in 2014 with Dak at one point.

Vandy was formidable this year and would’ve been in the playoff if not for Tulane or JMU. Clark Lea seems like he’s got something good moving forward.

It may not be much but it’s more than I can say for a lot of the bottom dwellers in the Big 10 either.

Outside of maybe Penn State, the schools you see that are consistently ranked in the top 10 in hardest to play are in the SEC.

I’m not going to tell you that the B10 doesn’t have good teams, but I think we can all agree that it’s harder to play at Jordan Hare or even at SC than going on the road to Nebraska or Michigan State regardless of record.

There are obviously weeks during the regular season where you have multiple games on at once that are good matchups.

In this day in age, you can have multiple games being showed at once. It's not that big of a deal. You can spread out most of the lower tier games early in the week and then get to the bigger bowls and better matchups.

Sounds like you're being the sanctimonious one with the "it was better back in my day" and "I DON'T LIKE CHANGE!!!!" old man bitching routine.

CFB has changed so much, but I think this would actually be a good change. You would get more people who care about the games, and the ratings would be better. It's basically the same thing but you just put it to kickoff the season.

You're still getting the extra game against an intersectional opponent. It's just to kickoff the season as opposed to playing at the end of it.

Maybe you can go cut the grass at that time because it'll still be growing in August!

I also find it laughable that everyone gets their panties in a wad over "BUT THE PLAYERS GET 2 WEEKS OF EXTRA PRACTICE!!!!" I don't need 10 extra practices to know that the majority of the team sucked this year outside of a handful of players. These players don't just magically become significantly better during that time.

I mean you don't have to go to the games. You think there won't be 100K+ in the sweltering humidity when Clemson comes to Baton Rouge next year?

Again, this isn't a preseason game. This is the first week of the season and this game counts against your record. It's not a true "bowl" game in that sense, but a glorified Kickoff Classic. You can call it a "bowl" or whatever you would like.

It's the first game of the season. Same risk as in any other game. It's no different than when Jacobian Guillory tore his Achilles vs. Nicholls State in 2024 in the second game of the year.

But you have the same amount of time to get your team ready. It's just pushed up a week. Wouldn't the solution be to push fall practice up a week?

Stanford Steve talked about it on some podcast where he said Rick Neuheisel's idea was to play the bowl games at the beginning of the season.

You would move everything up a week to Week 0, and that way the championship is essentially played on New Year's Day or right around then.

I don't mind that idea. Think it would certainly generate more interest from CFB fans as a whole who are desperate for any football at that time, and you would probably get more people to travel to the smaller bowl games.

It would be a good way to keep competitive non-conference matchups as well, forcing the top teams to at least play someone of value outside of a rent-a-win.

I don't think there is anyone that thinks this wasn't BK's own doing. He made his bed and had to sleep in it and deserved to be fired.

I'm strictly talking about the meeting Woodward had with him after the A&M game where Woody told him to get rid of Sloan and BK said he wanted to also get rid of Brad Davis, and that didn't go over well.

That to me is where things started going south real fast on Sunday. Just seems peculiar that Brad Davis of all people was the hang-up for Woodward. Why not let the coach you're paying $100M get rid of the offensive line coach if he wanted to?

It would at least make more sense if Kelly wanted to also get rid of Baker or someone similar and Woody intervened.

Your interpretation certainly makes the most sense to me. I thought I was reading it wrong when it first came out, but that’s what Dellenger and a lot of the other guys allegedly in the know were reporting simultaneously.

Just found it odd that would be the hang up.