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Official 2017 College football thread

"you think the ACC has passed the SEC in NFL players." That is not a statement of recent past, that is just a statement that is flat wrong. The actual numbers were as of opening day 358 SEC players in the NFL to 250 ACC players in the NFL. Not even close. And in fact the ACC regressed from the past year in 1st round draft picks vs. the SEC. But try again as you go to you high powered English as you can't win on the actual sports facts when comparing the ACC to the SEC whether it is the past 10 years or the past 50 years.

Damn dude. Take the simple mea culpa I posted.
 
Interesting set of early bowl games set for Saturday:

North Texas vs Troy [Troy should win and plays everybody tough--remember Clemson last year]

Georgia St vs Western KY [WKY has as nice QB but GST is a sleeper team]

Oregon vs Boise St [after lots of early setbacks with QB Herbert out with injury, he has been back & Ducks have been much better. But now HC Taggert has gone to FSU & it was just announced that top RB Royce Freeman will skip the game to wait on the NFL draft.]

Marshall vs Colorado St [Rams have played a lot tougher schedule than the Thundering Turds. But Doc Holliday is 4-0 in bowl games]

Ark St vs MTSU [take the over in this game. Blue Raiders average over 30 points with Stockstill as QB & Red Wolves had 600 yards in loss to Troy]
 
Thanks Reff. Going to the Cure Bowl tomorrow.

Nice! Going to any bowl game is always fun! Years ago I went to several Tire Bowls, one just to see Pitt and Larry Fitzgerald play. They are a blast! Have fun.
 
I notice TheReff omitted the Celebration Bowl.

That thing ain't a bowl, it's an exhibition for their marching bands. The schools should be knocked down to DII if they aren't willing to represent their conferences in the FCS championship playoffs.
 
Ga State has a great stadium for a new start up team..... the former Olympic Stadium, which became Turner Field, the Braves stadium. Glad they didn't blow it up like they did the Georgia Dome.
 
That thing ain't a bowl, it's an exhibition for their marching bands. The schools should be knocked down to DII if they aren't willing to represent their conferences in the FCS championship playoffs.

The MEAC and SWAC make $1 million each from the Celebration Bowl. That's on top of the $270K every FCS conference makes from the CFP.

There's clearly good financial incentive for this arrangement.

Here's an article further explaining the logic.
https://hbcusports.com/2014/12/31/meacswac-postseason-agreement-is-the-right-call/

There is simply no upside in participating in the FCS playoffs. Schools don’t receive a bowl-like payout for starters.
In fact, Towson reportedly lost $250,000 after being seduced into chasing a championship.
Schools that wish to host a playoff game must bid minimum of $30,000. A second round home playoff game costs $40,000.
The MEAC and SWAC participants in this ESPN-created marriage will allegedly bank $1 million for each conference.
How can the FCS playoffs be a more lucrative economic option?
It can’t when the nobody cares about the FCS playoffs. I don’t care about it. Football crazed Americans don’t. Twitter doesn’t. ESPN, which broadcasts the games, fails to promote the contests like they matter much.
The network is, however, feeding constant coverage of the bigger, more important College Football Playoff.


To put this further into perspective, the 2013 FCS title game between North Dakota State and Sam Houston State drew a 0.7 TV rating.
The Beef O’Brady Bowl (real name, no gimmick) between a pair of bad FBS schools got a 1.3 TV rating.
This year’s Bayou Classic, a game played in the middle of a Saturday afternoon featuring Grambling State and Southern, pulled a 1.0 rating on NBC.
While HBCU football has a niche following, ESPN is looking to fill time slots during the meaningless bowl season.
An HBCU postseason game fulfills that need, provides a different football vibe and attracts the interest of a diverse audience.
In exchange, schools get paid and three hours of advertising from the premiere sports network in the world.
That seems like a fair trade.
 
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That thing ain't a bowl, it's an exhibition for their marching bands. The schools should be knocked down to DII if they aren't willing to represent their conferences in the FCS championship playoffs.

No way these 2 schools would ever ever ever choose to play in the 1AA championships over playing in the prestigious Celebration Bowl in the Mercedes Benz Dome in Atlanta. This is worth far more money [$1mm each] and far more notoriety for the HBC schools. Being in the 1AA playoffs make no $$$ unless you might get to the semis and then the finals. They would more than likely have to play a JMU or North Dakota State on the road in the first round. Here they get to have their own "celebration", show off their bands, be on national TV and show off their bands. This is a much better deal for both Grambling & NC A&T.

But because it wasn't a Div 1 bowl, I did not list it.
 
That thing ain't a bowl, it's an exhibition for their marching bands. The schools should be knocked down to DII if they aren't willing to represent their conferences in the FCS championship playoffs.

NC A&T went to the playoffs last year as an at-large. Richmond beat them 39-10 in the first round.
 
GS has a good band. WKY brought more musicians

than fans. Spurrier for the coin toss.
 
A&T looking like they will finish off a season for the ages. 12-0.
 
Wow, Oregon getting blown out and in the last minute of the 2d half get a long scoop and score and a Phonz 2007 MD pick-six to cut the score to 24-14. And Boise had just made it down to the 4 in one long play! Amazing shit.
 
NC A&T went to the playoffs last year as an at-large. Richmond beat them 39-10 in the first round.

Yes they did. They were beaten in the final game of the regular season by North Carolina Central, who won the MEAC, so Central went to the Celebration Bowl as their representative. They played Grambling. A&T was still picked for the 1AA playoffs, just as you said, for a at-large bid as one of the 24 best teams.
 
One game tonight, the Boca Raton Bowl with high power Florida Atlantic led by Lane Kiffen coming in as 22.5 point favorites playing Akron, coached by Terry Bowden. The Zips are well coached and the Owls can really score. The Zips trailed Toledo 38-0 in the 3rd quarter of the MAC title game but fought back to cover. Kiffen covered 7 of 9 down the stretch.

Tomorrow we have the Frisco Bowl with La Tech [6-6] playing SMU [7-5] This could be the highest scoring bowl game? Chad Morris has left SMU to take the Arkansas job. Skip Holtz coaches La Tech. SMU's QB Hicks is a 3000 yard passer plus they have a 1000 yd rusher in Jones & 2 1000 yd receivers in Sutton & Quinn. They also allow a lot of points on D.
 
Both these games could be fun to watch

Killing time until the Belk Bowy
 
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