1. Mike Leach isn't eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame because he didn't win 60 percent of his games as a head coach.
2. He won 59.6 percent of all games he coached.
3. Change this rule,
@NFFNetwork
. Leach is a hall of fame coach.
1. Alabama damn near lost to Auburn
2. Georgia was tied with Auburn until there was three minutes left in the game
3. Bama and UGA combined to beat Auburn by a total of 10 points
4. Auburn got smashed by New Mexico State 31-10
5. No SEC team belongs in the CFP
1. Oregon coach Dan Lanning's reaction to Colorado leaving the Pac-12:
2. "I'm trying to remember what they won to affect this conference and I don't remember ... I don't remember them winning anything."
3. Colorado goes to Oregon next Saturday.
1. With the game on the line in OU-Texas: "You can't practice the intensity and the pressure—"
2. Brent Venables: "Yes, you can."
3. Don't mind Oklahoma.
1. Big 12 champ Texas gets in over SEC champ Alabama if Michigan and Florida State win tonight.
2. Head-to-head -- Texas walked into Tuscaloosa and walked with a double-digit win.
3. Don't cheat the game.
4. Don't cheat the kiddos.
5. This isn't hard.
On Tuesday, Kirby Smart said he doesn't think college football players should make $10,000 a month.
On Thursday, Kirby Smart signed a contract that will pay him more $900,000 a month.
1. LSU ranked ahead of USC and Tennessee is ridiculous. The CFP committee is asking us to challenge its credibility with this ludicrous ranking.
2. UT stomped out LSU 40-13 *in Baton Rouge.* USC is a 1-loss P5 team.
3. This is ridiculous.
Ohio State signed the No. 1 WR in 2021.
Ohio State signed the No. 1 WR in 2020.
Ohio State signed the No. 2 WR in 2019.
And none of them are Chris Olave, Jameson Williams, Marvin Harrison Jr. or Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
That's how nasty that WR corps is.
Bob Stoops retired. He has an incredible gig. He's watching his kid play ball. He threw himself into the breach when someone else might've said it's not their job, not their fight. He steadied the ship, gave his hands to service.
That's the kind of man you build the statue for.
1. I think the Butkus Award finalists list is hurt by not including Ohio State LB Tommy Eichenberg, who has been immense.
2. Butkus Award finalist and UGA LB Jamon Dumas-Johnson: 54 tackles, three sacks.
3. Eichenberg: 105 tackles, 2.5 sacks, an INT, a TD
Oklahoma ain't played nobody. That's what they said.
Oklahoma ain't played nobody. That's what they said.
Oklahoma ain't played nobody. That's what they said. Oklahoma ain't played nobody.
Don't mind Oklahoma.
1. Oklahoma is 6-0 to start this year.
2. Oklahoma finished 6-7 last year.
3. Oklahoma beat No. 3 Texas, who beat then-No. 3 Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
4. Don't mind Oklahoma.
The best receiver at Ohio State since 2020 has not been drafted. And they've had three go in the first round this year alone.
Good luck with that, college football.
1. Tennessee should be pissed at the CFP committee.
2. You beat Alabama, and they still ranked you behind them because they don't like Joe Milton.
3. This is garbage.
Justin Fields finished 20-2 at Ohio State.
He was a Heisman finalist, played in
#CFBPlayoff
semis and led his team to a national final.
Respect will be paid.
When the Big Ten opted out of college football in 2020, Justin Fields —who knew he was a 1st-round pick—begged folks to sign a petition and led a campaign: We Want To Play.
And you have the nerve to take any one seriously who questions his work ethic.
And then you repeated it.
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables miraculously put together a top-10 class just eight days after accepting the job.
For perspective, Big Ten champ Michigan ranks No. 9.
Venables and his staff absolutely floored it.
1. Ohio State and Michigan are the only two teams in the nation who have beaten their opponents by an average of 30 or more points per game.
2. Neither the Buckeyes nor Wolverines played a single FCS team like UGA, Tennessee and LSU did.
3. Beating up FCS teams just means more.
1. Deion Sanders has never coached a losing season.
2. Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders is 26-3 as a starter in CFB.
3. But folks project CU to win just three games.
4. Coach Prime's Buffs are 3-0.
5. Folks stay hatin' fasho.
1. Neither Ole Miss, nor Penn State have better resumes than Oklahoma.
2. Oklahoma beat Texas.
3. Penn State's best win is Iowa.
4. Ole Miss' best win is Tulane.
5. This is nonsense. This CFP committee is nonsensical.
1. Ohio State (+29.5) and Michigan (+26.7) have beaten their opponents by a larger margin than Georgia (+26.7).
2. Georgia played an FCS opponent. Ohio State and Michigan did not.
3. Now, show this to an SEC fan.
Shoutout to the Oklahoma Sooners fans who
—bought tickets
—booked travel
—fought Pasadena traffic
—turned the Rose Bowl red against UCLA.
Y'all are the playmakers today.
With Kobie McKinzie re-committing to OU's 2022 class, understand the guy on the right is 6-foot-2, 241 pounds, a former first-round NFL pick and linebacker for the LA Chargers.
The guy on the left is McKinzie.
Nick Saban's 2015 staff at Alabama:
OC Lane Kiffin is head coach at Ole Miss.
DC Kirby Smart is HC at Georgia.
OL coach Mario Cristobal is HC at Miami.
WR coach Billy Napier is HC at Florida
DB coach Mel Tucker is HC at Michigan State.
GA Dan Lanning is HC at Oregon.
Peyton Bowen has:
—blocked two points
—forced this fumble
He is a true freshman.
Send a certain OU women's soccer player flowers. If you know, you know.
Dear OU defense—
What if you could make it all back with one game?
Right all the wrongs in your name?
What if you became legend tonight?
Are these not the nights where men win glory?
Wear your heart on your sleeves.
Heart is your family.
Heart is your soul in this game.
1. Ohio State has outscored its last two opponents 75-6.
2. Ohio State hasn't allowed more than 17 points scored by any single opponent.
2. Ohio State hasn't allowed a chunk play of 40 yards or more.
3. Ohio State tackles. Ohio State turns you over.
4. THE Ohio State defense.
Dear
#CFBPlayoff
committee:
Oklahoma’s ranks No. 31 in total defense.
LSU ranks No. 43.
OU’s offense has faced *three* top 50 defenses in the last three-straight games.
TCU ranks No. 33.
Baylor ranks No. 41.
Iowa State ranks No. 50.
Respect the Big 12’s gangsta.
—RJ
Stop calling Caleb Williams Jalen Hurts 2.0. He's more accurate than that.
"Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield had a love child, and his name is Caleb Williams."
—an NFL vet to me
Ohio State has
— a Heisman front-runner in C.J. Stroud
— a Biletnikoff contender in Marvin Harrison, Jr.
— a Broyles Award contender in Jim Knowles
— a Bednarik Award contender in J.T. Tuimoloau
— a Coach of the Year contender in Ryan Day
Sheesh.
Brent Venables struggled with his decision to leave Oklahoma.
"It's Oklahoma. That's not a stepping-stone job."
And now he's back to where he won a national title helped create a monster defense in the mid-2000s.
And this time? He's head coach.
There's only one Oklahoma.
As a true freshman, Colorado RB Alton McCaskill:
—put up 1,074 yards from scrimmage in 2021
—averaged 5.1 yards per rush
—scored 18 TDs
And he's been activated CU's trip to No. 10 Oregon.
Scott Frost hired Mark Whipple, who is the OC behind Pitt QB Kenny Pickett's Heisman finalist season and Mickey Joseph, who was LSU WR coach for Ja'Marr Chase, Justin Jefferson and Terrace Marshall.
Nebraska is a QB away from looking to drop 50 every game.
Here. For. It.
Ohio State has won 38 of its last 40 home games.
2. Acknowledge that.
3. Ohio State has the best win in the country—on the road at South Bend.
4. Acknowledge that.
5. Ohio State has looked better than Georgia.
6. Acknowledge that.
Biletnikoff Award finalists after Week 8:
1. Ohio State WR Marvin Harrison Jr.
2. Tennessee WR Jalin Hyatt
3. Purdue WR Charlie Jones
4. Ohio State WR Emeka Egbuka
5. Oregon WR Troy Franklin
From the decision to go with Dwayne Haskins in 2018
—to the development of Justin Fields
—to the identification of C.J. Stroud as a prodigious talent
—to the commitment of Dylan Raiola
—Ryan Day and Ohio State are on an absolute tear.
Goodness.
The Chiefs and Rams could also be—
Texas vs. West Virginia
Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State
Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech
Oklahoma State vs. West Virginia
Oklahoma vs. Texas
And not a one of y'all is yelling about how bad the Chiefs and Rams' defenses are.
Yes, I'm judging you.
Ohio State only beat Indiana by seven, but that seems to matter less than Clemson only beating Boston College by six — with a loss.
This makes no sense.
1. Oklahoma has recorded 15 takeaways in six games
2. That's the most takeaways for an OU defense through six games since 2002
3. Oklahoma has 12 INTs in six games. That's most since the 2000 national title team
4. Oklahoma's offense is good
5. Oklahoma's defense is elite
Remember when Justin Fields competed 16 of 18 for 223 with four TDs in the first half of the Sugar Bowl with an injury against Clemson?
Remember when he finished the game 22 of 28 for 385 with six TDs just days after Dabo Swinney voted Ohio State 11th on his ballot?
No college basketball.
No college softball.
No college baseball.
No college wrestling.
No college tennis.
No college golf.
No track and field.
No Women's College World Series.
No College World Series.
This the right thing to do.
It doesn't change that—
I. Am. Sad.
When Brent Venables said he's going to "employ a physical, punishing, relentless, suffocating defense," he got a raucous cheer from the crowd.
I imagine someone shouted at their phone at work too.
Alabama:
QB: Bryce Young
RB: Jahmyr Gibbs
WR: Jermaine Burton
USC:
QB: Caleb Williams
RB: Travis Dye
WR: Jordan Addison (maybe)
Texas:
QB: Quinn Ewers
RB: Bijan Robinson
WR: Xavier Worthy
And Ohio State would STILL have the best offense in the country.
That's WHYOLD.
1. Coach Prime's Colorado is 4-2. Notre Dame is 4-2. Clemson is 4-2. LSU is 4-2.
2. Colorado has sold out every game it has played — including two road games at Texas Christian and Arizona State.
3. CU QB Shedeur Sanders leads the nation in passing.
How much poorly do Georgia and Alabama need to play for Ohio State to be ranked No. 1 in the AP poll?
Because if the point is show dominance that's exactly what the Buckeyes have done.