Posted on 10/19/2025 6:04:12 AM PDT by C19fan
The group of unbeaten teams in college football shrank significantly in Week 8.
Just six teams remain undefeated after No. 2 Miami, No. 5 Ole Miss, No. 7 Texas Tech, No. 22 Memphis and UNLV all lost over the weekend.
Miami was the first team to fall as the Hurricanes lost to Louisville on Friday night. Ole Miss scored TDs on its first five possessions against No. 9 Georgia before being unable to move the ball in the fourth quarter and Texas Tech took a late lead against Arizona State before the Sun Devils scored the game-winning TD with 34 seconds to go.
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If THE U wins out but does not make the ACC Championship game would the playoff committee leave them out so as not to punish the ACC runner-up? Or would the ACC get a 3rd bid?
A potential bracket buster in the ACC is Pittsburgh. They play Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, and Miami the last three weeks of November. The Dan Marinos' host the Domers and THE U. Pitt's offense has greatly improved with a switch at QB.
Texas Tech is in a better situation than THE U after getting upset at Tempe. The Red Raiders hosts the LDSers on November 8. BYU and Cincinnati play each other on November 22.
When you think the Craponoles cannot sink any lower, they proceed to lose to the Stanford. Does Florida State have $60 MM plus for the buyout?
Lots of havoc in the Group of 5. Memphis lost to UAB. UNLV lost to the Smurf Terf. USF will be the highest ranked Group of 5.
Lincoln Riley is what he has always been; zero toughness on defense. The Domers steam rolled USC for over 300 rushing yards. The only potential road block to the Domers going 10 and 2 is the before mentioned Pitt. A 10 - 2 Notre Dame is making the playoff. My entire life the Domers have been given the benefit of the doubt. Why should that change in 2025?
Alabama plays stronger as the season goes on.
Georgia/Ole Miss was the most entertaining game of the day.
The QB for Miami blamed his receiver for the final pick. Well, he had 3 others in the same game...
Seems to be a year of parity - likely due to NIL money.
As long as Napier is fired today, we can move forward.
The thing about these massive coach buyouts is it’s not just the money it takes to buy and fire the current coach, but the likelihood of having to come up with another large amount of money to buy out the contract of whoever you hire.
FSU has to come up with 50-60 million to buy Norvell, it will take another 10-15 million or more, to buy out a quality coach from somewhere else, unless you go cheap and buy out a lower-level coach and hope you hit a homerun.
Any new coach worth anything will demand a competitive recruiting and NIL budget which could be another 15-20 million.
Schools like Penn State, FSU and perhaps LSU face a 75–100-million-dollar decision.
UF faces maybe a 40-50 million dollar decision.
We should have kept Ed Orgeron as our head coach. He loved USC and the fans loved him. After leaving USC, Coach O coached LSU to a natty.
Er, that university is properly spelled “tu” ...
What’s the U?
University of Miami
Florida, because Napier is still there.
Nope he’s going to be here until the end of the season.
I do think FSU might have gotten hosed on that final play against Stanford, it looked like the ball did touch the plane.
Do you think the Gators will hire James Franklin at the end of the season?
OK, thanks.
they did but Stanford got hosed on the hail mary that was caught that put FSU into position to throw the ball into the endzone. FSU had no time outs, the ball was caught, and the clock should have started once the ball was set, they allowed FSU to line up and call a play. In college football, the clock stops on a first down, then is supposed to restart once the ball is set. BTW, I was up watching the game.
Stricklin will probably hire someone like Mark Stoops, or Shane Beamer.
UConn got their first P4 win as a visitor since 2012 when they went to Boston and beat down Boston College. Thank you Jim Mora for reviving UConn football. We should be undefeated but 5-2 is great for a basketball school.
Very disappointed in Texas Tech, I thought they were going to run the table.
I thought the booster meetings this week spelled out something different. Even Spurrier was talking about it. We’ll see who is more correct. It could be Monday.
I think the bigger problem with firing these high-prices coaches is that you lose a lot of players who came to play for them.
That’s true but you can also sign a bunch of players to come in and play immediately, which is why anyone who takes one of the current openings is going to demand a competitive recruiting and NIL budgets.
Look at Indiana, the guy comes in and totally changes their program in one year. Cignetti brought in a bunch of guys from the portal and started winning immediately.
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