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FSU getting left out after 200 yards of offense is no surprise. Sucks for them but the writing was on the wall, everyone on that team knew that needed to look really good, and they looked bad. Pleasantly surprised they didn’t figure out a way to get Georgia in. What crazy timing - until this...

Weird thing to argue in America that the existence of competitors willing to pay you more shouldn’t be considered in terms of what a “fair” wage would be. You want to give me a scholarship and a 6k stipend, someone else offers a scholarship and 20k? Seems fine and how it works for all the rest...

UGA/TCU (17.2M) had fewer viewers than either UGA/tOSU (22.5M) or TCU/Michigan (21.7M) so I think there’s a certain amount of UGA/SEC fatigue possibly. The year before, UGA/Michigan and Bama/Cinci in the semis both were 17.2M or less so people liked last years Big 10 semis even with TCU more...

And the guy signing those checks is the one who pissed off the fanbase by saying even then, with that more-competitive spending, "Georgia Tech can win nine or 10 games, but they will never do it consistently.” The collapse of the AA in the 2010s was really something spectacular to lead to some...

My pet theory is that the high-revenue schools just realized they didn't have to play the same game as the rest. Many of the salary and revenue and expense figures are public since they're state schools anyway, so maybe a few geniuses at the rich schools finally put 2 and 2 together. I haven't...

As recently as 2007 we were a leader here: https://www.espn.com/college-football/preview07/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=2967046 Johnson was compensated pretty well early in his tenure too. But at some point just couldn't keep up anymore, about ~10 years ago.

This is interesting, the only "new" Big 10 team on the list is Oregon and that game was arguably more about Deion until Oregon won it (and then we don't see any more Colorado games on the list). No USC on the list despite a hot start to the year.

so, the Cincinnati game? [ducks]

When it comes to Miami maybe they need opponent-adjusted odds ;)

Same thing, for all intents and purposes. Look at how much we were (and still are) talking about Deion based on what he did at Jackson State before going to Colorado. The media can latch on and amplify hype, but there’s fire behind that smoke too.

Deion burned a lot of goodwill and attention this year, but that doesn't mean it's impossible for him to win. But he'll probably need to reduce churn and build the old fashioned way - if he couldn't win in year 1 with that much turnover when his start was super bright, it'll be hard to do it in...

I haven't lived in the PNW but I've traveled there for work a lot and honestly I'm still suprised the Big 10 even wanted two PNW schools. Just seemed like a different environment, fan-wise, Oregon's bajilliions of dollars notwithstanding. But Nike+Oregon sells for TV well enough, I suppose. The...

First game I've seen this year but George's size and effort looks pretty good on both ends so far to me. Sounds like that was a needed change.

Lotta Yogi Berra about NYC, huh? “Nobody goes there, it’s too crowdedexpensive”

Elko's an interesting choice for A&M, I think it has solid potential compared to some of their last attempts to pay for past performance in terms of titles vs get someone who's done more with less. Not completely left field with A&M ties already, but he's also not blown the doors off of things...

The night game definitely made it hard to tell dark jacketed UGA fans from dark jacketed GT fans. If the announcers had been more generous to the home team vs pounding on it all game it would’ve seemed at least even on the tv broadcast since the GT crowd sounded louder (probably due to the...

It’s unlikely they would’ve run less if Bowers and co had been healthy. And if they had, it might have been less successful anyway, hard to beat those YPC on the ground. We all knew the ground D was weak, and we all hope it improves - if it doesn’t, lots more folks will get fired. So the hope...

Is it “logic” or just grumpy contrarianism to find a way to complain one week about low expectations and then complain about high ones the next?

random thought: I get taking the ball first against Georgia to try to play ahead and grab momentum, but I wouldn’t do it again.

Hoped it would be at least close (well, HOPED for a miracle blowout win), but they played hard enough and made it competitive enough that I'm more disappointed by the outcome than I thought I would be.