fyi, Cristobal says getting rid of Miami's Turnover Chain. Says not part of their culture.

Times a'changin'...

College Football Rankings: 2022 CFN Preseason Ranking Of All 131 Teams

https://www.yahoo.com/video/co...022-cfn-210108433.html

VEGASINSIDER.COM TOP 25 TITLE ODDS RANKINGS
Rank School Record Conference Title Odds
1 Georgia Bulldogs (0-0) SEC +350
2 Alabama Crimson Tide (0-0) SEC +190
3 Ohio State Buckeyes (0-0) Big Ten +350
4 Michigan Wolverines (0-0) Big Ten +5000
5 Baylor Bears (0-0) Big 12 +8000
6 Oklahoma Sooners (0-0) Big 12 +3500
7 Clemson Tigers (0-0) ACC +1200
8 Oklahoma State Cowboys (0-0) Big 12 +8000
9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (0-0) Independent +4000
10 Texas A&M Aggies (0-0) SEC +2000
11 Arkansas Razorbacks (0-0) SEC +8000
12 Michigan State Spartans (0-0) Big Ten +12500
13 Ole Miss Rebels (0-0) SEC +10000
14 USC Trojans (0-0) Pac-12 +2000
15 Iowa Hawkeyes (0-0) Big Ten +15000
16 NC State Wolfpack (0-0) ACC +15000
17 Texas Longhorns (0-0) Big 12 +4000
18 Utah Utes (0-0) Pac-12 +5000
19 Penn State Nittany Lions (0-0) Big Ten +8000
20 Houston Cougars (0-0) AAC +25000
21 LSU Tigers (0-0) SEC +6600
22 Tennessee Volunteers (0-0) SEC +10000
23 South Carolina Gamecocks (0-0) SEC +15000
24 Purdue Boilermakers (0-0) Big Ten +25000
25 BYU Cougars (0-0) Independent +20000
26 Auburn Tigers (0-0) SEC +15000
27 Wisconsin Badgers (0-0) Big Ten +8000
28 Mississippi State Bulldogs (0-0) SEC +15000
29 Kentucky Wildcats (0-0) SEC +15000
30 Oregon Ducks (0-0) Pac-12 +6600
31 Cincinnati Bearcats (0-0) AAC +15000
32 Miami-Florida Hurricanes (0-0) ACC +6600
33 Wake Forest Demon Deacons (0-0) ACC +8000
34 Texas Tech Red Raiders (0-0) Big 12 +25000
35 UCLA Bruins (0-0) Pac-12 +10000
36 San Diego State Aztecs (0-0) MW +100000
37 Kansas State Wildcats (0-0) Big 12 +25000
38 Minnesota Golden Gophers (0-0) Big Ten +25000
39 Boise State Broncos (0-0) MW +50000
40 Fresno State Bulldogs (0-0) MW +50000
41 Florida Gators (0-0) SEC +6600
42 UTSA Roadrunners (0-0) CUSA +25000
43 TCU Horned Frogs (0-0) Big 12 +20000
44 Louisville Cardinals (0-0) ACC +25000
45 West Virginia Mountaineers (0-0) Big 12 +20000
46 Louisiana Ragin Cajuns (0-0) Sun Belt +20000
47 UNC Tar Heels (0-0) ACC +20000
48 Air Force Falcons (0-0) MW +100000
49 Maryland Terrapins (0-0) Big Ten +25000
50 Pittsburgh Panthers (0-0) ACC +15000

Picking the best college football team in each state entering the 2022 season

https://www.cbssports.com/coll...ering-the-2022-season/

I must have missed your squad in the Vegas top 50



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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

"I must have missed your squad in the Vegas top 50"

Yup. that's why I posted that. UCF is the hunter and not the hunted this year.

funny how CBS Sports thinks UCF is the best team in Florida. Yet, gators ranked higher.

Gators have a new unproven coach in with the SEC with a bunch of players left, recruiting and transfers weren't that good, and a ton of question marks.
UCF has a proven SEC coach. Majority of players are returning. Transfers from Bama, Auburn's best WR and best freshman DL, Gators best TE and tons more. Also, beat the Gators the most recent bowl game. We will see though. Season starts soon!

USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll


https://www.usatoday.com/sport...Gu07WVCFcBUS7V-4QIBZp0

Pre-season Coach Poll:

1 Bama
2 Ohio State
3 Georgia
4 Clemson
5 Notre Dame
6 Michigan
7 Texas A&M
8 Utah
9 Oklahoma
10 Baylor
11 Oklahoma State
12 Oregon
13 NC-State
14 Michigan State
15 Southern Cal
16 Pitt
17 Miami
18 Texas
19 Wake Forest
20 Wisconsin
21 Kentucky
22 Cincinnati
23 Arkansas
24 Ole Miss
25 Houston

Others Receiving Votes

Iowa 248; Penn State 246; Tennessee 163; Brigham Young 152; Louisiana State 143; Auburn 98; Central Florida 55; North Carolina 34; San Diego State 25; Fresno State 21; Mississippi State 19; Florida 17; Utah State 12; Air Force 12; UCLA 10; Boise State 10; Appalachian State 10; Minnesota 6; South Carolina 5; Kansas State 4; Iowa State 3; Army 3; UL Lafayette 2; Southern Methodist 2; Purdue 2; Oregon State 2; Coastal Carolina 2; Texas-San Antonio 1; Louisville 1; Florida State 1.

I was wondering about Ole Miss and Lane. Did he lose a lot of talent?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Lane only has something like 4 offensive starters returning, and only 1 is a "skilled position" player, a WR. While his offensive scheme might look like The Keystone Cops, it is actually extremely complex and will take the transfer QB (from USC of all places!!) a while to run well.

Plus, Ol Miss plays in the SEC West ...... easily the toughest division in college football

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell


"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

AP Top 25 Football Poll
First-place votes in parentheses.

TEAM RECORD
1. Alabama (54) 13-2
2. Ohio St. (6) 11-2
3. Georgia (3) 14-1
4. Clemson 10-3
5. Notre Dame 11-2
6. Texas A&M 8-4
7. Utah 10-4
8. Michigan 12-2
9. Oklahoma 11-2
10. Baylor 12-2
11. Oregon 10-4
12. Oklahoma St. 12-2
13. NC State 9-3
14. Southern Cal 4-8
15. Michigan St. 11-2
16. Miami 7-5
17. Pittsburgh 11-3
18. Wisconsin 9-4
19. Arkansas 9-4
20. Kentucky 10-3
21. Ole Miss 10-3
23. Cincinnati 13-1
24. Houston 12-2
25. BYU 10-3

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AP.Others Receiving Votes
Tennessee (180) 0-0; Texas (164) 0-0; Iowa (163) 0-0; Penn State (160) 0-0; LSU (55) 0-0; Fresno State (32) 0-0; Minnesota (31) 0-0; UCF (27) 0-0; Purdue (17) 0-0; Mississippi State (15) 0-0; Auburn (15) 0-0; Kansas State (14) 0-0; Florida (14) 0-0; North Carolina (9) 0-0; Boise State (5) 0-0; Air Force (4) 0-0; Appalachian State (4) 0-0; UCLA (2) 0-0; San Diego State (2) 0-0; South Carolina (2) 0-0; Utah State (2) 0-0; Nebraska (1) 0-0;

Florida State leaning on experience in Norvell's 3rd year
AP

https://www.usatoday.com/story...lls-3rd-year/50610359/

Beat of Sports
Marc Daniels Column: All That Is Good In College Football
By
Marc Daniels, Scott Harris
Aug 19, 2022

We are a week away from the start of a new season in college football. We have spent much time in the off-season focusing on the issues the sport faces. We are consumed with NIL,pay-for-play, collectives, realignment, billion dollar TV deals, the future of the NCAA, the breakways of the P5 or the Super 2, an expansion of the playoff. It goes on and on but today we put aside all the issues and negativity and focus on all that is good in the great game of college football.

Here's 100 things that make this such a great game...

Zombie Nation at a UCF home game(I had to start here)

"Heeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrreeeee come the Gators" onto the field before kickoff

The smoke in the tunnel as the Canes come out

Planting of the spear by Chief Osceola in Tallahassee

Lee Corso's headgear and pick

Rece Davis' open for every GameDay

CBS College Football opening theme

A Notre Dame home game in November with gray skies

The Big House and the Michigan's "Go Blue" banner

Dotting the "I" at Ohio State

The Rose Bowl sky at the start of the 4th quarter

The Iron Bowl

The Hedges at Georgia

The Grove in Oxford

Bevo at a game in Austin

The Backyard Brawl

White Out at Penn State

An 11am central start

A 10:40p kickoff

Night game at LSU

Clemson's run down the hill

The "Jump Around" at Camp Randall

Arkansas' "Woo Pig Sooie"

"Boomer Sooner"

Any Oregon uniform

Iowa fans waving to the children's hospital

Checkerboard end zones in Knoxville

Midweek MACtion Action

Army-Navy

South Carolina's "2001 Space Odyssey" entrance

Chris Fowler and Herbie calling your game

A student section that never sits down

UCLA's baby blue unis

A successful onside kick

Cowbells in Starkville

The "12th Man" in College Station

The mountains behind the stadium at BYU

The triple option

The Uni-Dome

UGA

Harvard-Yale

Punters from Australia

Walk ons who play

Sideline grad assistants holding up signs to call in a play

Marching bands

Mascots with weapons

Thursday night game in Blacksburg

Uncut grass at Northwestern

The blue field at Boise State

The Stanford campus

Tailgating

Useless halftime interviews with coaches

Camera shots of coordinators drinking diet coke

Dozens of people on sidelines with no purpose being there

Duplicate numbers

Rain in Pullman

Replay that's under two minutes

Any story told by Tom Rinaldi

A first down measurement

Scrolling through DIII scores

The Holy War

Named rivalry games

Any game in the snow

Defensive lineman who wear single digits

Steve Spurrier

Will Ferrell and Snoop on the USC sideline

Bedlam

Pitt's throwback light blue unis

Big and Rich opening your pregame show

Mike Leach and a pirate story

Brian Kelly and a southern accent

Nick Saban never being happy

Team walks into the stadium

Going for it on 4th down on your side of the field

A stop at the goal line on 4th and 1

A game at the Naval Academy

The true freshman who runs for 200 yards

The defense that sits in a semicircle of chairs

The strength and conditioning coach wearing the smedium shirt

The waterboy who squirts the water into the starters mouth for them

Friday night on the road going out to eat and meeting fans of your team

Pregame media meals

When North Dakota State is on TV

When GameDay's guest picker comes prepared

A doink on a field goal try

Any offensive lineman who scores

Sailgating before a Baylor home game

When it gets dark earlier and it's the start of the 4th quarter and the game is tied

Matt Campbell coaching rumors

Luke Fickell staying at Cincinnati

PJ Fleck rowing the boat

Memorial Stadium in Lincoln

The Atlanta skyline at Georgia Tech

War Eagle

A 6th year player

An argument over who is number one

1 vs 2

Kentucky...the football school

Week 0

...whenever a new season begins

Final note: The oldest rivalry in college football is Lehigh vs Lafayette. The two have played 157 times

https://969thegame.iheart.com/...d-in-college-football/