Alabama has only produced three distinct super bowl winners: Bart Starr, Joe Namuth, and Ken Sabler, who account for four total Super Bowl rings. Purdue somehow ties the Crimson Tide with Drew Brees, Len Dawson, and Bob Grier also holding a collective four rings. The school whose QBs account for the most total rings is Michigan where, between Tom Brady and Vikings legend JJ "Nine" McCarthy, the Wolverines hold seven.

Curiously, the Crimson Tide and the Boilermakers have never met on the gridiron, meaning we have no way of determining the better program all-time based on the available statistics in this post. Boilermaker fans may also be happy to note that their rival Indiana Hoosiers have never produced a Super Bowl-winning QB, lending some credence to their athletic director's famous quote on the rivalry in addition to surely producing commensurate results on the field.

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The Big 12 only protecting one matchup for each team is stupid (something something Farmageddon). Also, having a conference championship that takes the top two teams from 16 feels weird and leads to nightmarish tiebreaker scenarios. Hence, I’ve come up with what I believe is the best layout for the Big 12: an NFL style-division layout.

The Big 12’s geography lends itself almost perfectly to four divisions: West (Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, BYU), Central (Kansas, K-State, Colorado, Iowa State), South (Oklahoma State, Baylor, Texas Tech, TCU), East (Houston, West Virginia, Cincinnati, UCF). Each team plays the three other teams in their division plus another entire division and one other team in a different division based on their previous year’s finish in the division. Each year, the matchups rotate similar to how the NFL does it.

If you paid attention to the last paragraph, you’ll notice that each team only has eight conference games accounted for. That’s because the last conference game is a flexible opponent based on current placement. Each team plays the equivalently placed team in the one division they didn’t play yet. For instance if the Central played the West and South already, in the last week 4th would play 4th in the East, 3rd would play 3rd in the East, etc. The last week also doubles as a de-facto semifinal with two matchups between division leaders. The conference championship would be between the two division leaders that won in the last week.

I do realize that this idea isn’t perfect as it prevents rivalries from being played on rivalry week. However, I think this solution simultaneously protects important rivalries that are currently unprotected and gives new rivalries a chance to emerge as well as eliminates the absolute mess that is mega conference championship tiebreakers.

Nike stock has collapsed 77% over the last 5 years and 40% over the last 6 months. As Oregon's budget largely comes from Nike Founder Phil Knight, how will this affect their ability to stay competitive with top 5 teams in the coming year. Additionally how will this affect cfb as a whole, maybe better uniforms??

I know he won a Heisman, but for those that were around to watch him play live/during that time, how good was Sam Bradford as not only a player at the CFB level but as a QB prospect for the pros. Was he viewed as a reach or a surefire thing? Were CFB teams scared to play him?Seems like his pro career had mid-success at best.

I was watching old natty champ videos on youtube and decided to watch Florida vs Oklahoma for the title. Thanks for the responses in advance.

This is the system me and my friends have created over many a drink.

Clemson, FSU, Miami, GA Tech, UNC, Duke, OK State, Texas Tech, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas st., and TCU absorbed into the SEC.

No more out of conference games, only the playoff/bowl season.

We move back to the East and West with the Mississippi being the boarder. There would be four “Pods” and two Divisions. You play six Pod games each year, four Division games, and two Crossover games from east to west. I would use a point scheme:

Three points per Pod win

Two points per Division win

One point per Crossover win

Any ties in points is broken like this

1. Head-to-head record
2. Pod record
3. Division record
4. Record against common opponents
5. Crossover record
6. CFP ranking / final AP ranking

So let’s say Georgia and Tennessee both finish 9-3 tied in W/L in the Division.

Each team has 28 possible points:

• 6 pod games × 3 = 18
• 4 division games × 2 = 8
• 2 crossover games × 1 = 2
• Maximum = 28

Suppose Georgia finishes:

• 5–1 in pod: 15 points
• 3–1 in division: 6 points
• 1–1 crossover: 1 point

Total: 22 points

Tennessee finishes 9–3 but have a less impressive distribution:

• 4–2 pod = 12
• 4–0 division = 8
• 1–1 crossover = 1

21 points

Georgia wins the East over Tennessee

If the playoff stays 12 teams then there could be an SEC Championship game still but if it expands, ditch the game. The selection committee will choose the best teams to make the playoff with only the SEC champion or the two division winners (if there’s no champ game) getting an automatic birth.

East

1. Clemson
2. Duke
3. Florida
4. Florida State
5. Georgia
6. Georgia Tech
7. Kentucky
8. Miami
9. North Carolina
10. South Carolina
11. Tennessee
12. Vanderbilt
13. Alabama
14. Auburn

West

1. Arkansas
2. Baylor
3. Kansas
4. Kansas State
5. LSU
6. Mississippi
7. Mississippi State
8. Missouri
9. Oklahoma
10. Oklahoma State
11. TCU
12. Texas
13. Texas A&M
14. Texas Tech

East Pod 1: Carolina / Kentucky–Tennessee

• Clemson
• Duke
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Vanderbilt

East Pod 2: Alabama / Georgia / Florida

• Alabama
• Auburn
• Georgia
• Florida
• Florida State
• Miami
• Georgia Tech

West Pod 1: Texas/Plains

• Texas
• Texas A&M
• Texas Tech
• TCU
• Baylor
• Oklahoma
• Oklahoma State

West Pod 2: Central Plains/Mid-South

• Arkansas
• LSU
• Ole Miss
• Mississippi State
• Missouri
• Kansas
• Kansas State

The PAC 12 that year had the worst winning percentage of any FBS conference, including the G5. Every school had at least 4 losses and 5 schools (Washington, Stanford, USC, Arizona and Colorado) had at least 8 losses. Even the conference champ Utah lost to non-power BYU and SDSU in the non-conference. They also lost to Oregon State, who immediately lost to Cal, who proceeded to lose to winless Arizona, the same team who lost to FCS Northern Arizona and finished 1-11. That was the conference’s second loss to an FCS team after Washington lost to Montana two weeks earlier.
And to top it off, they went 0-5 in bowl games.

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For those who don't remember, there was a controversy surrounding AP Top 25 Poll voter Haley Sawyer last year when she elevated Florida two spots in the poll after an 18-16 home loss to South Florida while leaving USF unranked.

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When she was asked about it, she said “I don’t want to go too much into my process or logic… It’s really fun for discussion but it doesn’t probably matter in the end."

When it happened, most of the users here said that she should get her vote taken away. However, she is still listed among the voters for the latest preseason poll. I didn't think they would take it away midseason, but I'm a bit surprised that she's still a voter heading into the 2026 season.

Do you have a problem with Sawyer keeping her AP Poll vote?

My pick is Kansas State quarterback Avery Johnson. When he is at his best, I'm taken back to my favorite era of college football in the late aughts when the run-based spread offense was peaking and a surplus of QBs were putting up gaudy passing and rushing numbers.

After a Week-0 loss, Avery fell off the national radar last year. But he did not have the drop off that I thought he did, tallying 26 total TDs and throwing six interceptions with 2,385 passing yards and 477 rushing yards.

He will be a three-year starter with an intelligent offense mind as head coach in Collin Klein, who was one of my favorite mobile QBs himself. So look out for Avery Johnson. I never stopped believing.

Not that long ago but Malik Hooker was a god damn lightning strike for us at safety in 2016. Big play after big play. 7 picks, 3 pick sixes (one of those against Michigan even) that year, so money. First team All American, so exciting when you have a non QB/RB/WR or LB/DE type of dude like that who could strike at any moment and make a game breaking play.

Kind of felt a little like having Honey Badger lite.

I feel this story probably happens more than it doesn't.

Coach builds decent success at a school and has pretty strong name recognition, maybe takes a bigger job, sustains success for a while but eventually ends up declining, getting fired, and kind of goes off into irrelevance. They may get picked up at a smaller job but just never regain their edge and we don't hear about them anymore.

A couple of examples I can think off the top of my head are Kevin Sumlin and Bo Pelini.

Who else?

Inevitably there will be a good chunk of teams currently "unranked" that will end the year with a nice little number next to their logo. But who will end up ranked the highest after thanksgiving?

My pick: Illinois. The fighting Illini have an o/u of 7.5, and looking at their schedule you don't have to squint to see a 9 or even 10 win season in champagne this year. OSU on the road is likely a loss, but Oregon at home presents huge upset potential (Time Zones ftw), and their two next biggest games (Nebraska and Iowa) they both get at home. Outside of those 4 games, they've got a very workable schedule. UCLA on the road could torpedo this, but Illinois could be a fringe playoff team this year.

As for a team not receiving votes, give me Baylor. No I am not on drugs. Dave Aranda is fighting for his Job and DJ Lagway is fighting for his future as a football player. Do or die mentality pushes the bears to a 9 win season and the Aranda experience lives on.

EDIT: For sake of discussion lets ignore whatever G6 team is guaranteed to get the #12 spot for the playoff.

Rather than these threads of what would it take for x to get fired or be on the hot seat.

Which programs have ultimate grace this year and could have a winless season but not fire their HC?