2013 NCAA Football Thread

Yeah, it's a pretty selective pool, given mostly to newspapers, VERY large digital only publications, and a few TV/radio stations. Some of the papers are kinda small though (the Ohio State vote, for example, came from a newspaper in Urbana).

The Heisman vote is even stricter. Others are more open ended. I'm a Nagurski Award voter, for example.
 
Yeah, the other vote in Alabama is the Dothan paper. Not exactly a thriving metropolis :dunno:

BTW, three schools have their highest ever preseason ranking this year: Stanford, South Carolina and Louisville . . .

EDIT: If you listen to Saban's post-scrimmage press conference today, we're going to lose every game: can't get a push on run plays, can't maintain the pocket in pass protection, can't collapse the pocket on defense, and the edge rushers are making poor decisions on containment. We should just give up now . . .
 
Hey, he's important to us, which makes him important to all the people who want to see us lose. What's the going rate for a DUI these days anyway? Two games? That would make him miss A&M . . .

And here's the guy that voted OSU #1 . . .

EDIT: Oh, I see what you were saying, because the Jets QB spells his name the same way. I just sort of figured since it's a college football thread people would get it. Plus I only had a second to hop on and post. But I can see how it would be confusing . . .

Toughest schedule in the country: Cal or Tennessee?

Cal plays an impressive seven teams ranked in the preseason, including #2-4 . . .

Tennessee plays only five, but they're all in the top ten and they play those five games over a seven week span . . .

I've been monitoring the reaction of the Alabama fanbase to the news about Smith, and I'm a little surprised. It's ranged from "We've got loads of five stars behind him, he'll be lucky to get back in the rotation" -- which is totally untrue -- to the more frightening "Recall 2010, we were #1 preseason, had one of Saban's best teams on paper, and dropped three after Dareus' suspension." Plus, Smith's issue is the second major focus flag; DePriest is already suspended . . .
 
ummmm........ said:
Yeah, the other vote in Alabama is the Dothan paper. Not exactly a thriving metropolis :dunno:

BTW, three schools have their highest ever preseason ranking this year: Stanford, South Carolina and Louisville . . .

EDIT: If you listen to Saban's post-scrimmage press conference today, we're going to lose every game: can't get a push on run plays, can't maintain the pocket in pass protection, can't collapse the pocket on defense, and the edge rushers are making poor decisions on containment. We should just give up now . . .
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:lol: A coach on top can talk down their team. A coach in the middle has to play it up.
 
True. There is legitimate cause for concern though. He didn't just publicly protest that he didn't like what he saw from the O-line in the first scrimmage, he changed the starting lineup for the second scrimmage as a result. Then he said that the new unit wasn't any better, but he hasn't indicated that he's going to change it back.

And it's not a new problem. We knew we didn't have the personnel we were going to need this year so we brought in a JUCO tackle that we could use while we developed younger guys. But he hasn't cracked the starting rotation anywhere on any of these lines as Saban has continued to move pieces around. I think that's a bad sign.

Speaking of bad signs, once Geno Smith gets suspended our dime package will likely be Deion Belue, John Fulton, Vinnie Sunseri, Clinton-Dix, Landon Collins and Nick Perry or Jarrick Williams. That's four safeties on the field in dime. That's not good. We'll also have more of Vinnie Sunseri as the fifth back in nickel until Smith returns. He was frequently exploited at that position last year.

Anyway, I said I was going to be on the bandwagon from day one this year, so I am. We're awesome, and we're going to beat everybody with or without whatever starters may be injured or suspended, because our guys are just that much better than everyone else's guys. Go us we're unstoppable. There . . .
 
ummmm........ said:
EDIT: Oh, I see what you were saying, because the Jets QB spells his name the same way. I just sort of figured since it's a college football thread people would get it. Plus I only had a second to hop on and post. But I can see how it would be confusing . . .
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Maybe he thought since Geno Smith is having trouble beating out Mark "Buttfumble" Sanchez, he came back to college football at 'Bama on some NCAA loophole :mischief:
 
Saban would find a loophole. Hell, Saban would suit up Jets Geno and still claim he was Bama Geno
 
Geno Smith suspended for one game. Seems light to me, though I'm not fully acquainted with the facts, obviously . . .

It will be Jarrick Williams, not Nick Perry, who takes Smith's spot in nickel and dime . . .

Oh, and the O-line flipped LG and RT again today . . .

EDIT: Turns out the one game DUI suspension has pretty much been par for the course across all conferences over the past season. Who knew . . ?

2014 SEC schedule coming out today. Only one conference opponent will really change for each team, but Alabama will get Florida instead of Kentucky, and LSU will get Kentucky instead of Georgia. So next year Florida has to face Alabama and LSU just like LSU has to face Georgia and Florida this year. Will we hear the same complaints from Muschamp that we've heard from Miles this year? Also, A&M will start with SCAR to kick off the season on opening Thursday.

UGA at Arkansas 2014 . . .

I don't know why they're trickling this out instead of just releasing the whole schedule . . .

SCAR/A&M is going to be an SEC Network broadcast . . .
 
SEC coaches pick Murray, Manziel, McCarron 1,2,3 on the preseason coaches all-SEC team. :WTH:

Oklahoma picks the guy who played Manziel on the scout team before the Cotton Bowl last year to start this year . . .

Also, the season starts in less than seven days. Anybody paying attention? Bueller? McFly? Anybody . . ?

EDIT: :WTH: Y'all don't have a :WTH: ? ? ?
 
ummmm........ said:
SEC coaches pick Murray, Manziel, McCarron 1,2,3 on the preseason coaches all-SEC team. :WTH:
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Welcome to attention grabbing 101.

Oh and yes, please make Johnny's and AJ's chip that is on theirs shoulder a little bit bigger. Alabama and Texas A&M really need that...
 
I don't know that attention grabbing has anything to do with it. It's a coaches SID's poll, it's not like they collaborate on it.

The only thing I can think is that you're more likely to vote for players you've played against, so maybe most of the East votes went to Murray while McCarron and Manziel split the West guys . . ?
 
I think that's reasonable. The idea that Manziel can't replicate his performance from last season is not uncontroversial in the national CFB world. There is a reason he isn't the betting favorite this year, or even (last I saw), even in the top 2.
 
He was shaky in the scrimmage :mischief:

EDIT: Interesting tidbit from Chris Low today. Obviously everyone knows about the SEC's national title streak and what seems to be perceived as Alabama's likely-yet-unprecedented national title run this year. Three in a row, four of five, blah, blah blah. BUT, in addition to the challenge of winning the national title three times in a row, there is the challenge of winning the SEC twice in a row, which in and of itself is a feat that hasn't been accomplished in fifteen years . . .

EDIT EDIT: It would also mark five straight SEC titles for the West, which would also be unprecedented. The East won six straight from '93-'98 . . .

The longest SEC streak by an individual team, if you were wondering -- and I know you were -- is of course Alabama, with five straight from '71-'75 . . .
 
Consensus four star WR commits to Alabama yesterday. Only six spots left, unless Scarbrough or someone decommits . . .

A&M releases the suspension info on Everett and Raven, and unsurprisingly neither got more than a game. So they're both good to go for Alabama. Now if they can just get Manziel cleared . . .
 
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