CatManTrue said:

What if: Gronowski had come with Lukan for 2024?

Preston Stone looks like a winner based on his 2023 performance.

It doesn’t matter now. Lujan has a QB ready to go (Lausch should play a Colter type role - he’s too talented not to be a WR with some real Wildcat potential).

South Dakota State QB Mark Gronowski to enter portal, keep eye on draft

Quarterback Mark Gronowski, who won two FCS national titles at South Dakota State, is entering the transfer portal but also keeping his eyes on his NFL draft potential, he told

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TheC said:

As long as that's based on regular season champ and not the stupid conference championship game. One game shouldn't decide that big advantage.

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AdamOnFirst said:

My proposed solution to the byes thing is: move the round of 4 bowl games to the first round. Teams 5-12 play at the bowl sites. This eliminates the big advantage a team gets by being seeded 8 instead of 9, which is very marginal and subjective and probably not fair.

Give the 4 conference champs the bye week AND give them home field advantage. Now we're talking a really major advantage. The reality of the conference champs rules means a lot are still going to be underdogs and lose, but you're heaping all the advantages on the teams who actually earned it through titles and not based on seeding.

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Sheffielder said:

We got to 12 teams for a host of obvious reasons:
* Preserving the "value" of conference championship games and ensuring participating teams don't just bench their starters.
* 12 teams is more than 8...more games = more money.
* The 12 team model will forever inherently favor the Big 2, and they know it. In most years it will include no less than two (but probably three) teams from B1G/SEC.
* 12 teams significantly brings down the heat on the last team in. If it were eight this year, then we would've been debating the exclusion of Ohio State or Tennessee (under the current system, there is literally no difference being #8 or #9)...that ball could've easily bounced the other way since OSU was coming off a "bad" loss to Michigan. As it is, no one is losing too much sleep arguing over 12th/13th/14th.

...so I totally get why they included 12, and I'm fine with it. My favorite solution to the problem we think we're seeing right now: let the top three seeds pick their opponents coming out of the first round. So, in this case, Oregon would've been allowed to pick who they play between Ohio State, Penn State, Texas, and Notre Dame. And then Georgia, and then Boise, and then Arizona State would've gotten the last team left.

Or, if you don't like that...then let Oregon pick from any of the seven teams remaining after the first round...so they could pick Boise (who still got a first-round bye for being one of the highest-ranked conference champs). If logistics and planning are raised as a concern, then you can have Oregon submit its rank-order list once the first-round games are announced, so if they wanted Boise that could've been known on Dec. 8, regardless of the first-round results.

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prez77 said:

I don't think Georgia was national championship material. I think Ohio State and Oregon are the top two.

I agree, not making mistakes is part of being good. Great baseball teams don't make errors at critical moments and great basketball teams don't leave their free throws on the floor.

However, if Georgia had their starting QB, and ND and Georgia were to play a series, I think Georgia wins. Overall, I think they have the better athletes and I think their peak ability as a team is higher than ND's even if ND did play a more disciplined game yesterday.

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JournCat said:

Excited to see Jeb Bush’s campaign? (Just kidding. No one was excited about that one, not even Jeb.)

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Hungry Jack said:

That sequence at the end was the epitome of a catch 22.

The whistle blew because it was goaltending.

Because there was goaltending, the put back does not count.

But we have to review the goaltending to make sure it was the correct call.

As it turns out, it was not a goaltend.

But because the whistle made the play dead, the put back does not count.

So there is no goaltending, there is no put back, and no basket for the cats.

Have a nice day.

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NUCat320 said:

Let’s say you had a crazy rich uncle, and he decided that he wanted to try self-preservation through cryotherapy, and he willfully froze himself 50 years ago!

Let’s further say that he was a big college football fan.

Let’s say funding ran out today, and you had to thaw him and see if he survived, and it worked!

“Uncle Warbucks, you’re alive!”
“What’s the date?! How was the Rose Bowl?”
“January 2! Rose Bowl was a blowout. OSU over Oregon.”
“Oregon?!?!? Oregon?!! Not USC or UCLA or Washington or Cal for chrissakes. OREGON?!”

“But there’s more uncle. We’ve got a COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF, and FOUR TEAMS ARE LEFT.”

“A playoff! Blasphemy! Who’s are the FINAL FOUR?!”

“Ohio State, Texas, Notre Dame, Penn State.

“Some things never change, I guess.”

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FanatiCat said:

What does that mean? Great teams (we are talking about national champion level teams here) either don’t make many of those mistakes, or they are good enough to overcome them. If Georgia falls apart without one player and gets shut down by an “underdog/overmatched” ND, then they’re not national championship worthy this year. I watched that UGA-GT game. Just like the Texas-ASU game, if a targeting call was appropriately called in the last 2 minutes, Georgia (and Texas) very likely lose.

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TheC said:

Finally... the Rant Board is back! Good... we have a lot to catch up on.

Can you believe what Mitt Romney said in that second debate?!?! What a boob.

And can you believe some of these decisions from Kathleen Sebelius? Don't get me started.

Ok.... I need to pace myself here! Getting way too excited. I better go lie down.

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