While we are still days from New Years, there is some college football news to go with some games as well.
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Thoughts: - This bowl season has me convinced that it’s time to expand the college football playoff. Watching 4-5 against 5-6 teams duke it out is awful. 2025 can’t come fast enough (2025 is when ESPNs current contract is up, expansion won’t happen before then). There are plenty of issues to resolve (player opt outs, expanded schedules, etc…) but no one is watching the garbage bowls (except probably me) anyway. - Coastal Carolina’s dream season ends on a wacky note. Liberty fumbled in the last minute on the Coastal goal line and the game ended in OT on a blocked kick. I’m pretty impressed by Liberty’s offense, if they could find WRs who could catch they can be pretty special next year. Coastal had been tied with Alabama for the longest current winning streak in the FBS. Coastal just doesn’t have the talent to play against top teams, this puts BYU’s loss in additional context as a full strength A&M or Florida would put 60 up on either team easily. Group of 5 teams most of the time lack the talent to compete against Power 5. - That being said, I think Cincinnati has a fantastic chance of knocking off Georgia. Georgia has already had 5 or 6 starters opt out of the game and they are getting crushed by covid right now. This is a fantastic opportunity for Cincinnati to get a marquee win in the national spotlight. - Louisiana-Lafayette’s almost chocked away a 17-point lead over UTSA in the First Responder Bowl. The Ragin’ Cajuns responded with a time-consuming winning touchdown drive in the fourth quarter and a critical defensive stop. - Utah Utes RB Ty Jordan, the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year killed himself in an accidental discharge. He was back home in Texas when he did it. - Miami quarterback D'Eriq King announced that he will return to the team for the 2021 season. King is talented QB who could make a lot of noise next year in a Trevor Lawrence less ACC, which is huge news for the Hurricanes. - New England Patriots quarterbacks coach Jedd Fisch has been named the new head coach at the University of Arizona, replacing recently fired head coach Kevin Sumlin. Sumlin’s Wildcats were obliterated 70-7 against Arizona State in his final game. - Clemson’s Dabo Sweeney is still going off on Ohio State making the playoffs: "Obviously, they're a great team. They're plenty good enough and talented enough to beat us and good enough to win the national championship. But in my opinion, I don't think that it's right that three teams have to play 13 games to win it all and one team has to play eight. What universe am I living in? And it has nothing to with them. It was about qualifying. And I didn't think they were qualified, based on the number of games, versus all these other teams. ... In my opinion—Texas A&M, Florida, Oklahoma, Cincinnati—they got punished for playing more games." - I’ve also discovered that Ohio States local reporters should be drug tested for trying to make the case that Justin Fields as played better than Trevor Lawrence this year and that they would rather have The Award That Most Not Be Named: Our top four are the finalists. I see no reason to change the list other than strikeout a deserving Najee who finished 5th. 1. DeVonta Smith: Deserves the award. The dude balled out. 2. Mac Jones: Stepped into Tua’s shoes and made Tua an afterthought. 3. Trevor Lawrence: Missed too many games 4. Kyle Trask: Looked pretty darn good against Alabama. But two losses in a row doesn’t help the cause. Playoff Prediction for This Week. Our prediction here was also correct. ND is the most marketable team not named Alabama. Yes, they get more viewers than Clemson on a weekly basis. That being said. 1. Alabama over Notre Dame. The point spread is about 20. ND needs to be able to run the ball tied in with short passing to chew up clock if they want to keep it close. It’s close for three quarters, then the doors come off. 2. Clemson over OSU. Justin Fields hasn’t looked great this year. He probably won’t look great against a talented Clemson defense and a Clemson offense that will score on just about every drive. I think Clemson wants to make a statement about OSU not being deserving and does their best to publicly embarrass OSU on the national stage. Just a note. Another big factor often forgotten is these are also the top recruiting teams in college football as well. Destroying a foe in front of prospects goes a long way in getting them signed to letters of intent.
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