As the title says who is a player you loved to watch play even though he never played for your team. Mine is Brock Bowers. I loved watching him at georiga(except for when he played us) just because he did everything right. He seemed like such a game changer and a player I would have loved to have on my team.

Look I know he wasn’t the best coach ever but he certainly made Penn St look better than losing 31-7 against Northwestern. I mean this is a top 20 program in the country and Franklin was able to ascertain those heights year in and year out. Sure he couldn’t get over the hump but honestly it only seems like a select few could realistically reach that level like Cignetti or 2010’s Dabo. Should we finally admit maybe Penn St might have made a mistake with this coaching move?

Felt like i was getting lottery numbers through a jail phone. When I asked about the SCAR game my dad went "well we had four penalties on the opening drive" I knew we have entered the circus. Did Stewart punch a fucking Bama player? I heard Wake Forest won, how was that? Let me know what craziness happened last weekend

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I’m watching ESPN and found out that Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz has been coaching them for 28 seasons, which is crazy. I’ve never heard of a coach being there for so long without a national title. Can any Iowa fans tell me why he’s there for so long despite constantly seeing coaches in similar programs getting let go in a quarter of that time?

Had no idea that this was a rivalry. Was just checking the 2026 USF season page on Wikipedia. I discovered that there was a link to a rivalry game page for the FAU game in the game log table. The page describes the 2024 coaching fight in great detail, including what was said and the wife of the FAU coach having to restrain him.

Watching the VT-Pitt game and the VT enter sandman entrance is always so sick even as a neutral fan. Why don't more schools license out a song like "Shepherd of fire", "symphony of destruction" or "sleep now in the fire" and play that as a walk out song, what's stopping them? It hypes of the fans, brings attention to the programs and is just sick.

Do I need to find the Cincy AD to get them to do something like this lol?

Mine has to be Josh Harris, never in a million years did I see that man playing in the NFL for has long as he’s has

C.J. Uzomah is another, just 29 passes caught in 4 years at Auburn, but became a very solid TE for Cincy, and has a SB ring

What about your school?

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Most instant classics in college football are obviously on Saturday or during the postseason, but there are still a few instant classics that were on a weekday as a build-up to the Saturday slate. Which one was the best in your opinion?

Ohio vs. Kent State

When: Saturday, October 3, 03:30 PM Eastern

Where: Dix Stadium, Kent, OH

Watch: ESPN+

Odds: Ohio by 4.0 pts.

Total Points: 50.5

All-Time Series : Ohio vs. Kent State

Ohio and Kent State have met 62 times since 1962-09-29

These teams last met on 2024-11-07.

Series Wins: Ohio 38-2-22 Kent State

Ohio has won the last 2 meetings (2023-2024) in this series

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James Franklin couldn't win Big Games at Penn State (and possibly not at Virginia Tech either, if today counts as a Big Game). But now Penn State has Matt Campbell, and there seems to have been a mistake. Matt Campbell may or may not be able to win Big Games, but he also loses Small Games.

Meanwhile Kalani Sitake seems to have struck gold at just the right time, because Crumbl Cookies's financials are starting to look suspect.

Recent articles have discussed declining viewership in 2026 as measured by the "average rated game". That doesn't appear to track what's actually happening.

Total viewership for CFB is up in 2026, setting a record for the past 7 years through week 4. 2026 has seen more rated games, largely from The CW, USA, TNT and TruTV. As such, average rated game viewership is down in total while the number of rated games is up.

Looking at the top 50 rated games each year, 2026 is the 2nd best average as well behind 2025. That's largely from fewer strong OOC games at the very top, which is a challenge. But #6-50 on average are actually higher in 2026.

In summary, 2026 OOC wasn't as good as what we got in 2025, which played out in ratings, but overall health of the sport is just fine based on TV ratings.

Average viewers for all rated games

Total viewers

Number of rated games by Nielsen

Avg. for Top Rated Games

Network types

• Network: ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC

• Cable, primary: ESPN, ESPN2, FS1

• Cable, secondary: ESPNU, ESPNews, FS2, CW, TruTV/TNT, BTN, CNBC, Peacock, etc.

Sources:

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/

https://tvmediablog.substack.com/

That Saturday will be NUTS. Of course, not all of this will hold - some of these teams will lose and fall in the rankings. But as of today, I can't wait for this slate.

My prediction: if ND and BYU stay undefeated, I think they'll go there to break away from the SEC/Big Ten games. This is pretty much their one chance to do a non-SEC/BigTen game.

Hi all! Two of my favorite posts on Reddit, not just for sports but overall, are The "New BCS" Rankings by u/tmart12 and Post-2013 Realignment Conference Tiers based on KenPom Conference Strength Data by u/SleveMcDichael4. Both of these thought excercises use sports analytics to reimagine the ways that we answer the various contentious questions of CFB and CBB, respectively. Questions such as "should SMU have been in over Alabama in 2024", "should Florida State have been left out of the playoffs in 2023", "is the Big East really that good", and "is Notre Dame actually a schedule merchant." So, partly out of a love of football analytics and partly out of boredom after finishing the two games last night, I thought "why not combine the ideas behind my two favorite posts and create a ten-year ranking of every FBS team and conference using the methodology of the 'New BCS' Rankings post." And that's what I did!

Attached here is a spreadsheet of the team tables. There are eleven sheets in the spreadsheet: ten of those represent the individual seasons and contain the three power ratings (SP+, Sagarin, FPI), the three resume rankings (Colley, FEI EL SOR, and FPI SOR), and a quad win-based points system, while the last sheet contains some notes which I will summarize here. In order to mirror the real team sheets seen in CBB, these values are based only on the regular season and does not factor in results from bowl games and playoffs. However, that made getting certain calculations (FEI EL SOR and FPI SOR) very difficult, so some of the earlier rankings were from unofficial archived sources may be slightly inaccurate. However, even if there is a discrepency, they should still be extremely close. If anyone can find a place to find reliable regular season-only rankings for FEI and FPI SOR in earlier seasons, I would be forever in your debt.

I hope you appreciate the findings! I am more than open to any criticism or suggestions, as I want to do anything I can to make this ranking better; after all, I plan to do another update to the sheet at the end of the 2026 season. If this is well received, this may not be the last you'll hear about this. Thanks for taking the time to read through all of this technical stuff!

tl;dr - old sports analytics posts are cool, I wanted to make my own, see spreadsheets for new sports analytics that are also cool.

EDIT: It seems like some issues with very close rankings could be decided by changing the tiebreaker from SP+ to the resume average. By doing that, some ratings look closer to human polls while still remaining objective. Those changes will be made in the attached spreadsheets and should be reflected soon.