Official 2017 College Football Thread
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Should have never be on New Year's Eve in the first place
The College Football Playoff will consider moving future semifinals off New Year's Eve if it can help increase viewership.
Executive director Bill Hancock told reporters at Southeastern Conference Media Days the conference commissioners who make up the playoff management committee are open to changing future schedules, starting in 2019 when the semifinals are scheduled for New Year's Eve.
The first College Football Playoff after the 2014 season drew record television ratings for ESPN when the semifinals were played on New Year's Day. The first game, the Rose Bowl, kicked off around 5:30 p.m. ET. TV ratings dropped 36 percent for the semifinals played after last season when the games kicked off at similar times on New Year's Eve.
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Damn they got us predicted to finish 5th in the preason Big 12 poll lol
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southsil4lil wrote: »Damn they got us predicted to finish 5th in the preason Big 12 poll lol
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Welp. We lost Lawrence Cager for the season with a torn ACL
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http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/17102933/acc-espn-agree-20-year-rights-deal-lead-2019-launch-acc-networkSources: ACC Network to launch by August 2019
The long-awaited ACC Network will launch by August 2019, according to league sources.
The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN have agreed to a 20-year deal and rights extension through the 2035-36 academic year, sources said.
The ACC also extended its conference grant of rights deal nine years through 2035-36, a source said.
The conference's grant of rights makes it untenable financially for a school to leave, guaranteeing in the 20 years of the deal that a school's media rights, including revenue, for all home games would remain with the ACC regardless of the school's affiliation.
The ACC's new grant of rights also automatically extends Notre Dame's contract with the conference as a member in all sports but football through 2035-36, a source said. If the Irish forgo football independence in the next 20 years, they are contracted to join the ACC.
While the linear network will launch by 2019, the ACC Network's digital channel will start this fall, sources said.
Conference commissioner John Swofford would provide any update Thursday on the ACC Network at the ACC's Football Kickoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, a conference spokesperson said.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz declined comment.
The addition of the ACC Network will increase the league's overall value, putting it in line with the top Power 5 conferences.
"When the ACC Network revenues are included, the ACC will be very competitive with the upper tier [Big Ten and SEC] of the Power 5 leagues," a source said.
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Make sure yall tune in.
Bud Elliott @TomahawkNation 15s15 seconds ago
Breaking: Showtime's "A Season With" show will be with FSU this year, multiple sources told us. Last year was Notre Dame.
Bud Elliott @TomahawkNation 3m3 minutes ago
Showtime wanted FSU last year as well and FSU almost did it, source said. This year team much more mature. -
Knew it was only a matter of time before the big 12 start looking at expansion. Problem is the schools out there aint really all that.
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KingHustle wrote: »Knew it was only a matter of time before the big 12 start looking at expansion. Problem is the schools out there aint really all that.
They ? up not taking Louisville when they were begging to let em in... -
Boise St
BYU
Houston
Memphis (Fedex will pay to add them)
Only ones who makes sense...so basically the old mountain west -
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Big 12 better add Houston and Memphis and take UCF if they want in, hell even UTEP. They need to do something but nationally they will never be sexy. UT & OU just can't carry the entire conference nationally.
All hail FLORIDA STATE respect us!
BAMA & LSU bout to tear up this yr tho...Clemson will lose to us knocking them out of the playoffs -
Big 12 better add Houston and Memphis and take UCF if they want in, hell even UTEP. They need to do something but nationally they will never be sexy. UT & OU just can't carry the entire conference nationally.
All hail FLORIDA STATE respect us!
BAMA & LSU bout to tear up this yr tho...Clemson will lose to us knocking them out of the playoffs
They should get BYU, Houston, Memphis and wild cards (Air Force, Tulane, Cincinnati) -
He might as well follow in his father's footsteps. -
Only thing I remember about dude was that time he lit our ass up on all them pick plays.
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Dude is top 4 RB
I'll only take LF7, Cook, And Chubb before him. -
Speaking of RB tandems, don't sleep on D'onta Foreman and Chris Warren. It was criminal how many carries we wasted on Johnathan Gray last yr because he was senior, meanwhile the youngins were doing ? like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ubU8le3_4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXk8OoBVGCE -
Man chris warren mashed tech the ? up lol
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No offense
But that was a terrible highlight tape. (Foreman)
He broke a total of two tackles didn't juke anybody in that entire clip. He was basically going untouched or getting tackled by 1 defender. -
And that was with no respectable passing game which Im finally expecting us to have this year.....Just hope the offesnive line holds up, its talented but is young and doesnt have a lot of depth
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Shizlansky wrote: »No offense
But that was a terrible highlight tape. (Foreman)
He broke a total of two tackles didn't juke anybody in that entire clip. He was basically going untouched or getting tackled by 1 defender.
His strength is that he's 245 and runs a 4.4
Most of the time he is by the defender before they lay a hand on him because they don't realize how fast he's moving.
https://youtu.be/MnrU60KVNvY
https://youtu.be/bEESpwadbDs
