2025-2026 College Football Season

[Celtics2021]

Also, is Franklin going to get fired this week.  What an epic collapse by Penn State and now Allar is hurt.

Franklin has a buyout of nearly $50 million through at least December 1st, so he is likely safe unless a very rich donor hates him that much. 

[Birdman]

Why these colleges give ridiculous amount of money to these coaches then in 3-4 years they fired them & owe them a lot of cash

[Birdman]

Auburn got hosed big time

[greg683x]

Auburn got hosed big time

Those referees all need to be punished for how they handled Kirby calling that timeout and then claiming he didn?t.  I?ve never seen officials so easily manipulated by a coach.

The last two minutes of that first half were an s show too.

[Moranis]

Franklin fired

[greg683x]

Franklin fired

I hope they go after an offensive mind as a replacement, maybe try and pry Will Stein away from Oregon.   

Or offer a Cignetti a big bag of money and see if he?d leave Indiana.

[Moranis]

I don't see why Cignetti would leave IU for PSU.  They seem fairly similarly situated with the way the modern game is.  If Cignetti leaves, I think it is for one of the top 10 national jobs of which there are only 3 in the Big Ten - Ohio State, Michigan, and Oregon.  Penn State is not on that level.  The school is in the middle of nowhere in a small town.  They don't have the local businesses or donor base to compete with the top tier. 

[Moranis]

Rhule is apparently a top candidate at Penn State and while he said how much he loves Nebraska he also said he loves Penn State and didn't exactly shoot down the rumors.

[Moranis]

So we are about the mid-point of the season now and if the playoffs started this weekend the playoffs would look like this (using AP poll rankings)

Top 4 teams with a Bye - Ohio State (C), Miami (C), Indiana, Texas A&M (C)

1st Round

5 v. 12 - Ole Miss v. South Florida (C - it is almost certainly them, Memphis, or Navy who are all on a collision course for American title) - winner players A&M
8 v. 9 - Oregon v. Georgia - winner plays Ohio State
6 v. 11 - Alabama v. Tennessee - winner plays Indiana
7 v. 10 - Texas Tech (C) v. LSU - winner plays Miami

That is a pretty nice bracket though obviously things will change especially as all the SEC teams keep playing each other.  Right now though they'd have 6 teams, the Big Ten would have 3, and then 1 each from ACC, Big 12, and AAC. The 3 from the Big Ten would have to have a Penn State type collapse to not be there at the end of the season and it isn't likely someone like USC makes it high enough, so those 3 seem solid (obviously rankings will likely change, but who knows IU and OSU might play for the Big Ten title and both be unbeaten).  I can't imagine 6 SEC teams make it.  Georgia Tech is well positioned at 6-0 and ranked 12th to make the playoffs. As we've seen the committee tends to not hold title game losses against teams so if they make the ACC title game and lose (even if they lose 1 along the way), they will probably be in over some 3 loss SEC school. The most interesting thing to me is if one of the Big 12 teams behind Texas Tech moves up.  Both BYU and Cinci are unbeaten in the conference (and BYU is unbeaten overall) and Utah is ranked.  BYU has a gauntlet left, if they win out they'd start to have an argument for a bye as they play Utah, Iowa State, TTech, TCU, Cinci, and then close with UCF.  That is a lot of schedule strength.  Even 1 loss and they probably move into the playoffs. 

Setting up to be a nice close to the season with a fair amount intrigue.  Shame PSU collapsed and Allar got hurt as they should have added more intrigue.  This weekend is a bit light outside of SEC.  Best games of the weekend are

Ole Miss at Georgia
Tenn at Bama
LSU at Vande
Utah at BYU
USC at Notre Dame (who is ranked 13th and still lingering on the cusp and the Miami and A&M losses to open the season have gotten a lot better looking especially since they combined lost those games by 4 points)