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Official 2022 College Football Thread: Georgia is Back to Back Champions !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

WakeFanAdam said:
This will have a bigger impact than people realize. And it will show if Dabo really is the man.
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Dabo can still be the man, but it seems like he has made his program through keeping top-end coordinators and recruiting. A leg of that is now gone. You don't just shed guys like Veneables and replace them.

I am expecting the same kind of team as last season. Excellent defense, good running game, weak passing game. They will likely win more games because their schedule is easier. I don't see more than 2-losses.

WF is the second-toughest game on their schedule.
 
The last two times Saban kept both coordinators over the offseason, Alabama won the national championship. Both will be back this season.

Also, Saban has lost 7 coordinators to head coaching jobs.

That's a bit of a contrast to the Clemson coordinator talk.
 
This season will be a good test of Venables’ “greatness”.

Defense has been OU’s weakness for years. If OU becomes a defensive juggernaut, credit to Venables

Clemson has been loaded with defensive talent forever. Warren Sawvel can coordinate a defense with first round picks across the line and in the back 7. Everyone is great in preseason, but have good things about Wes Goodwin. Lots of pressure on him as one bad game from the Clemson D and everyone will pounce claiming Godwin’s inferiority. Think Clemson’s D will be as dominant as ever
 
Biff, weren’t you the one arguing the Clemson replacing coordinators didn’t matter?

Dabo is not Saban or at least he hasn’t shown himself to be a football genius like Saban.
 
Was just presenting a data point. There are many shades of gray.

Saban still makes the playoff when he loses one or two coordinators. He just doesn't win the national championship.
 
Zach Calzada looking good for the starting quarterback spot at Auburn.

 
Pilchard said:
This season will be a good test of Venables’ “greatness”.

Defense has been OU’s weakness for years. If OU becomes a defensive juggernaut, credit to Venables

Clemson has been loaded with defensive talent forever. Warren Sawvel can coordinate a defense with first round picks across the line and in the back 7. Everyone is great in preseason, but have good things about Wes Goodwin. Lots of pressure on him as one bad game from the Clemson D and everyone will pounce claiming Godwin’s inferiority. Think Clemson’s D will be as dominant as ever
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He is coming back to a Big XII that doesn't quite run the big offenses that it used to and hasn't for a few years (really since Briles was fired). Kind of like the ACC was when he went there. That will help. But the big hire Venables made was getting Todd Bates away from Clemson, who Clemson really wanted to keep. That, as well as the move to the SEC, will be a big lure for defensive recruiting, which is where OU has really suffered-- not having been able to lure truly elite defensive tackles in years. It is already paying dividends on the recruiting front. OU has a shot at a top 3 class this year, and assuming they get a few guys they expect to get and hold onto the ones they already have, the 2023 class will be better on paper than anything Lincoln Riley put together. Can't be a good coach without a good staff, and in saving much of the 2022 class, using the transfer portal, and doing well so far for 2023, the future looks promising.
 
Well Big XII defense has been trash forever. Maybe Veneables and Aranda can turn things around.
 
 
Maybe a 10% to 15% chance of adding a new one this year ? Maybe ? And I would place nearly all of that on tOSU.

 
Interesting stuff in that article. Not surprisingly that people think Satterfield and Collins are toast.
 
UF has found its won sock-monitoring Jeff [Redacted] in Billy Napier.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/gat...illy-napiers-florida-gators-turnaround-socks/

The whole team will wear white socks which will apparently fix these other problems that manifested themselves under Dan Mullen.

Like the late fumble and thrown shoe that led to the game-deciding field goals against Texas A&M and LSU. Or the four early third-down penalties that kept Alabama touchdown drives alive in the 2020 SEC championship. Or the eight false starts at Kentucky, the failed two-point conversion against Alabama where one player lined up incorrectly and another ran the wrong way or the blown coverage that gave Missouri the winning two points in Mullen’s final game.

Those overlooked details help account for six of UF’s last 10 losses. Change one or two of them, and maybe it would have been Mullen, not Napier, standing at the lectern Tuesday for UF’s media day.

“It all matters,” Napier said.

The socks matter for a few reasons. For Dexter, they represent uniformity.

“When you see the Army go out there … you don’t see one guy with a green helmet or one guy with purple socks, purple shoes,” Dexter said.
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It will be interesting to see how Venables does as a head coach. It's one thing to act like a lunatic as an assistant. But being the head coach is different.
 
LilburnDeac said:
It will be interesting to see how Venables does as a head coach. It's one thing to act like a lunatic as an assistant. But being the head coach is different.
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One man’s coach with antics and lunacy is another man’s coach with passion and energy
 
JKW385 said:
One man’s coach with antics and lunacy is another man’s coach with passion and energy
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When the space between those two is very small, it is extremely important. Venables needs to stay on the passion/energy side. If he goes into the lunacy, he will not so well as a head coach.
 
I agree that actual lunatics tend to do poorly as coaches.

Sociopaths do all right though.
 
PhDeac said:
Yep. And for most P5-G5 matchups, it's not a big deal. I've driven from Duke to App State. It's not a short drive. No one would expect that to be a regional rivalry.

Cincy has been the highest tier of G5 for awhile and UK to Cincy is an easy 90 min drive. And like I said above, they passed on a great opportunity for a good regional basketball rivalry.
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App State fans would make the drive, Duke fans would not.
 
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