College Football Catch-All Thread

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Milk and Cookies said:
I like to look at Massey ratings. Its an aggregator of few dozen different rating sites.

For 2003, we beat Wake Forest (5-7 record) who finished the season rated #66.
In 2002, we only won 3 games but beat Arizona St rated #31.
In 2006 we only won 3 games but beat NC State rated #69.
In 2017 we only won 3 games but beat Pitt rated #47.
In 2018 we only won 2 games but we beat Pitt again who finished rated #38.

This season, our best win was against Stanford who finished #79.

This is the weakest "best win" since beating VMI in 1989.
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I'm not sure winning a home game against a crappy Wake team in 2003 is any more impressive than winning a home game against a crappy Stanford team in 2025. That said, I am fine saying this is one of our worst seasons. I'd put in on par with 18, 17, 03, 02, 99, 89 and 88.
 
keywestheel said:
Throw in the whole staff/admin budget and it's not even close which is the worse.
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We’re kinda splitting hairs about which seasons were statistically the worst, but at least you could chalk up some of those lousy Torbush/Bunting/late Fedora teams to the school generally being apathetic about the football program.

This season was uniquely miserable because UNC finally decided to push serious money into football and still managed to make one of tue dumbest hires in the history of the sport. Not only was the product on the field some of the worst football I’ve ever seen, we also had to put up with being the butt end of the joke at the national level because of the sheer scale and stupidity of it all. Depressing times for sure lol.
 
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Peppers49 said:
We’re kinda splitting hairs about which seasons were statistically the worst, but at least you could chalk up some of those lousy Torbush/Bunting/late Fedora teams to the school generally being apathetic about the football program.

This season was uniquely miserable because UNC finally decided to push serious money into football and still managed to make one of tue dumbest hires in the history of the sport. Not only was the product on the field some of the worst football I’ve ever seen, we had to put up with being the butt end of the joke on the national scale because of the sheer scale and stupidity of it all. Depressing times for sure lol.
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Id also add that some of those earlier teams, Fedora ones especially and Torbush in 1999, had significant injuries causing issues. Those Fedora teams, in addition to the Qb problem, were ravaged
 
uncjhodges said:
Id also add that some of those earlier teams, Fedora ones especially and Torbush in 1999, had significant injuries causing issues. Those Fedora teams, in addition to the Qb problem, were ravaged
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Fed had recruiting limits due to sanctions, plus general ncaa spectre - that first yr had an insane amt of attrition which I always assumed to be a sign that academic side could no longer "look the other way" for a few yrs. 2017 would theoretically be a little smaller in count of 5th, 4th and 3rd year players.
 
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SnoopRob said:
I read this a few minutes ago and thought it was interesting...



I'm sure that eventually Penn State will get a coach and have some recruits, but isn't to avoid this exact situation why you fire your coach mid-season?
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Good thing they fired their coach early and got a jump on the coaching search.
 
Zoo_View said:
He’s called out to Trump and appears to be acknowledging Trump’s power.

Given his family in the stands this last game, he’s likely a Trumplican.
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There’s also the fact that his younger bro has been arrested and charged with several minor crimes over the past few months. I wouldn’t doubt he thinks ingratiating himself to Trump would be an avenue toward a pardon, should anything more serious come about about his bro.
 
1moretimeagain said:
Good thing they fired their coach early and got a jump on the coaching search.
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PSU eventually signed two by end of day. There's a second signing day, but lots of talent will be gone by then. And fortunately there's the portal.

Since coaching firings and hirings happen right when portal AND signing day are happening, I think the Athletic Directors need to gain more control of football personnel operations by separating GM versus HC duties. At UNC we have a GM, but he's a BB henchman. PSU had them, but they seem like Franklin accolytes. Ideally these two would report directly to the AD and the GM would be a dynamic salesman so the AD/GM could have control over recruiting outreach, player retention, all the personnel stuff to keep the ship afloat as much as possible during transition.

And then don't let your new HC fire the GM. And don't let the HC poach your GM if they leave or are fired.

Associate Athletic Director – Chief of Staff Kevin Threlkel and General Manager of Personnel and Recruitment Andy Frank followed Franklin to Virginia Tech, along with Brett Arnold (Assistant Director of Player Relations), Chris Mahon (Recruiting Coordinator for Personnel), Rashad Erby (Assistant Recruiting Coordinator for Personnel), and Aeneas Hawkins (Assistant Director of Player Advancement & Revenue Sharing Strategy)

If not, you need to be extremely quick with your firing/replacement.
 
Howz everyone feeling about the 2 biggest games tomorrow . . . ?

Who ya got . . ?

Alabama vs. Georgia . . UGA -2.5 @ 4 PM

Indiana vs. Ohio State . . OSU -4.5 @ 8 PM
 
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