I don’t want to hear another word about how the G6 doesn’t deserve an autobid and should instead have its own playoffs. UMass just beat the dogshit out of Rutgers. And this isn’t some isolated occurrence. Every single year, when P4 teams actually schedule G6 teams, they lose. Look at last year. We beat UF. Memphis beat Arkansas. Tulane beat Northwestern AND Duke. UNLV beat UCLA.

The P4 obviously have bigger NIL Budgets, but they regularly lose to G6 teams. The best G6 teams are clearly better than the lower end P4 teams. So why should we be forced to suffer the indignation of an FCS style playoff? Until there is relegation, there cannot and should not be a separation for playoffs.

I’m going to focus on the non-football side of this for a second. One thing that worries me about the long-term future of college football is the future of college itself. Since COVID, it feels like the value of a traditional college degree has been questioned more and more. Tuition keeps going up, while employers increasingly seem to care about experience, specific skills, or what you can actually do rather than simply having a degree.

You also have a growing number of college graduates struggling to find jobs that actually require their degree. And statistics about unemployment among graduates don’t necessarily capture the people who technically have jobs but are working unrelated jobs just to pay the bills.

I believe this basically kills off any group of 5 school or any Power 4 school with only local relevance ex: TCU, SMU, Cincy, UH, Etc. Of course the big brand programs will survive bc majority of their fanbases aren’t even alumni. But this is like what? 15-20 programs at most?

If the economics of going to college stop making sense for a large percentage of young people, I don’t see how that doesn’t eventually have a major impact on the majority of schools that can afford to operate college football programs.

Edit: I feel like most of yall are missing my entire point. I just don’t see how future generations will be attending college like gen Z & millennials did. Thats gonna hurt most CFB programs in the long run, because who the hell is their fanbase going to be?

I guess the answer is YES. It is a bigger threat than what we realize

It would be very interesting if come Sunday the AP doesn't rank LSU, and continues to leave them out of the rankings. Pretty much all of college football is against LSU doing this, I imagine almost all of the AP voters feel the same too. Many might feel strong enough to protest vote against LSU. The AP leaving out LSU would probably ramp up a conversation about what the playoff committee might do. Two months of public speculation and conversation can be very persuasive. Our entire world seems to just be run by the mob of public sentiment these days.

The AP not ranking LSU for two months would be a signal for the playoff committee to do the same, and may give them cover too if they were to find a way to leave them out of the playoff. The AP can vote how they want, that is clearly 1st amendment grounds. I imagine the CFP committee can try and claim the same. The committee would probably have to include another SEC team though for the SEC to go along with that, but I could see that happening.

One of the main “pros” of a separate super league was a greater ability to enforce their own rules. However, the sec being stopped from enforcing their eligibility rules by LSU and the state court puts the entire idea of conference self-governance into question.

So what now? Has the legitimacy of the super conference idea taken a hit? Will being separate from the ncaa fix any issues a super league may have? Or will they still be sued every time a player wants to earn more money anyway?

The university needed a way to get rid of Belichick without having to pay him. They just got it.

Petrino will move into the head coach role, and we are rid of one set of distractions—as long as no motorcycles are involved.

I want to hear what you guys have for ideas on how this sport will continue to spiral

Heres mine - the SEC instructs the refs (not in writing) to throw bogus flags on LSU costing them W after W

What would even happen if they thought that was true? LSU sues?

If you don’t write it down or have it on wiretap how could you ever prove that?

The NCAA posted the updated rules on their website for how automatic qualifiers work. Here are the updates:

• The 12-team College Football Playoff field each of the conference champions from the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC —also known as the Power 4 — will receive an automatic bid regardless of their final ranking.
• The highest-ranked team from one of the Group of 6 conferences (American, CUSA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12 OR Sun Belt) — regardless of whether its a conference champion or not — will also get an automatic bid.
• Notre Dame can also receive an automatic bid in 2026 if it ranks among the top-12 teams.

The first bullet point concerns me, would an unranked duke have been in the playoff field last year? If so, what would the playoff seeding be? I believe with the new rules last year would have had Notre Dame as the 10 seed (instead of Miami), Tulane still is the 11 seed, and Duke as the 12 seed (instead of conference champ JMU).

Let me know if I am wrong, thanks

As a UF alum and Gator fan, I think Mullen was fired too soon. We had an 11 win season with Trask and Pitts, so there wasn't any reason we couldn't do it again. He did make some questionable recruitng/ transfer chocies like Emory Jones and Anthony Richardson. I am not comparing him to Saban, but if we kept him around longer, we would have avoided Napier like the plague.

I keep seeing the argument that once a player enters the NFL, they shouldn’t be allowed to come back and play college football. And honestly, I think that argument would have been completely valid before NIL.

The problem is that college football isn’t amateur football anymore. These players are getting paid, and some of them are making more money in college than they ever would have made in the NFL. At this point, college football is essentially professional football with different rules.

If a player still has NCAA eligibility and gets drafted but doesn’t make the roster, or only participates in training camp/preseason, I don’t really see the problem with letting them return to college.

I think there should be a clear cutoff: once you play in an official NFL regular-season game, you forfeit whatever college eligibility you have left.

But if you get drafted, go through training camp, play in the preseason, and then get cut? Why shouldn’t you be allowed to go back to college and play?

You’re telling someone they can’t make money for a different employer simply because they previously tried to make an NFL roster. Especially if the NFL team decided they weren’t good enough to keep them.

The rules around college football have changed dramatically because of NIL. I don’t think we can keep applying the old “amateur athlete” logic to a sport where players are openly getting paid millions of dollars.

If you still have eligibility and the NFL doesn’t want you, I don’t see why you shouldn’t be able to go back and play.

Jahron Manning and Malick Sylla were both pretty big contributors for our defense last year. Manning exhausted his 4th year of eligibility, joined the Falcons mini-camp, and ultimately signed a contract in the IFL. Sylla similarly exhausted his eligibility, graduated, and signed with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL.

After the Colorado injunction, granting them a 5th year of eligibility, both Manning and Sylla are intending to return to Mississippi State this Fall after signing professional contracts.

My question is how this is different from the situation at LSU with Kiffin attempting to bring back players that signed pro contracts? Why is LSU generating more controversy? Is there a legal difference? Is it just that those players had signed an NFL contract rather than with a lower-level league?

As we all know, Billable Hours has been dominating almost every facet of the sport, to the point where many people think that they’re undefeated. But App State has beaten them before, therefore, should App State be considered National Champions?

Credit to “The Audible” podcast for this question. Both former coaches have expressed interest in returning to coaching. Assume that both are willing to swallow their pride and take lower tier jobs than where they were fired.

One has a national title. One is the winningest coach in ND’s history.