College Football Championship Week & Beyond

[Rex]

This Birmingham Bowl feels like the game where Crash Davis broke the minor league home run record. Why would you care about this game unless you were fucking one of the players?

[Brontoburglar]

Because this happened?

[brian]

Because this happened?

I didn't see anything -- did he piss himself?

[rass]

This Birmingham Bowl feels like the...run...s

[DSafetyGuy]

So, the Birmingham Bowel?

[brian]

So, the Birmingham Bowel?

You should be writing for Yahoo.

[Brontoburglar]

there are limits at times. this was one of those times.

[Brontoburglar]

Georgia is reportedly hiring Brian Schottenheimer as OC

[sancarlos]

Georgia is reportedly hiring Brian Schottenheimer as OC

Understandable that he'd leave the Rams for that gig. As it is a proven stepping stone job to becoming coach for Colorado State.

[rass]

ESPN will have 12 ways to follow the NC game.

None of them include Musburger.

[sancarlos]

I wonder if losing a couple players to drug testing will hurt Oregon much?
Link

[brian]

Michigan blogs had been putting it at 80 to 90 percent, but reports are now that Harbaugh to Michigan is a done deal. Official numbers not released, but unless the bandied about numbers are way off he would be the highest paid college coach in history. (For probably a few days or so until Alabama or tOSU ups the ante.)

tOSU should probably wait a bit to see if they can (they can't) beat Bama.

You underestimate the long ingrained tOSU inferiority complex where Michigan is concerned.

Urban Meyer's total 2014 compensation is less than $4.6MM. They're not going to give him a raise of 75% to pass a potential $8MM deal for Harbaugh.

At least for Nick Saban, it's a more modest (in coaching salary and percentage terms) hike as his total comp is ~$7.1MM.

You underestimate the long ingrained tOSU inferiority complex where Michigan is concerned. I'd be shocked if Meyer isn't within +/-$500K of Harbaugh after tOSU's season is over. They obviously have no reason to give him a big raise. Everyone knows he isn't going anywhere so he has no leverage, but they will just so Michigan isn't paying their head coach $2.5M a year more.

Announced today that Urban Meyer got a raise to make him higher-paid than Harbaugh. (Up to $6.5M now.) He magnanimously took less than Saban ostensibly because he didn't want to be the highest paid coach. At least according to reports.

[DSafetyGuy]

Since this thread's usage of "beyond" seems to infer it is the place for something of this nature, Syracuse just got a commitment from Robert Washington, a four-star running back from North Carolina (ranked #116 overall and #8 RB at ESPN). The odd thing (aside from someone that good committing to Syracuse, obviously)? About 15 minutes before his actual announcement, Bleacher Report posted a pre-recorded interview where he committed to Florida.

Word is the video was recorded Thursday and he changed his mind Friday. I'll take it any way I can. Now, to hold onto him for eight months, as he plans on starting college in the spring semester of 2016 and taking all five of his official visits before then.

[brian]

Baylor added a game against Utah in 2023. Which means Baylor has exactly TWO non-conference games scheduled against P5 teams in the next 10 years (Duke and Utah). Absolutely pathetic.

[brian]

Put another way, Central Michigan is going to play more non-con games in four weeks this September (3 - Oklahoma State, Michigan State, Syracuse) against P5 teams than Baylor will over the next 10 years (unless they get on the stick and add some, which is not impossible obvs).

[Giff]

Baylor added a game against Utah in 2023. Which means Baylor has exactly TWO non-conference games scheduled against P5 teams in the next 10 years (Duke and Utah). Absolutely pathetic.

It's actually 4, since they're both home and homes. Briles also let slip that they're probably adding Mississippi State for 2020-21. But I agree. While Baylor has understandably shied away from those games while they were awful and trying to rebuild their brand which was one of the worst of the P5 schools, they've had enough success over a sustained period of time to address this sooner. Hopefully they don't look back after this.

[brian]

Baylor added a game against Utah in 2023. Which means Baylor has exactly TWO non-conference games scheduled against P5 teams in the next 10 years (Duke and Utah). Absolutely pathetic.

It's actually 4, since they're both home and homes. Briles also let slip that they're probably adding Mississippi State for 2020-21. But I agree. While Baylor has understandably shied away from those games while they were awful and trying to rebuild their brand which was one of the worst of the P5 schools, they've had enough success over a sustained period of time to address this sooner. Hopefully they don't look back after this.

With the system the way it is now, they're going to NEED to. Though I think they get that. Nothing they can do for this year, but hopefully they start adding some games for 2016/2017, etc. Even if it's really late to do so opportunities come up, like maybe a "neutral" site game in Dallas or Houston or something. (I'll further grant that it's harder with 3 non-con games as opposed to 4. I get that they're going to play at least one tomato can out of the three, but the other two probably should be against P5 teams.

[brian]

Credit where credit is due. Baylor has really stepped up their OOC scheduling. This would be a pretty sweet addition.