2025 WATCH PARTY: WEEK 13

[forkbeard3777]

And if my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle.

This same argument gets brought up every year.

 

[Huntr]

Herbstreit is full of shit



Like, read what you're RTing, Kirk.

Bama is moved by G6 games, because they're going to the 9 game SEC schedule next year, not dropping powerhouse games, you fake ass lying fuck.

 

[NDPhilly]

They moved a game against USF? Ok?

 

[forkbeard3777]

They moved a game against USF? Ok?

They're moving it from 2026 to 2032 and replacing it with UT-Chattanooga. They also added ECU for 2026.

I'm afraid with the 9-conference game schedules, that these marquee OOC matchups will dwindle down.

What's the incentive?

 

[Huntr]

They're moving it from 2026 to 2032 and replacing it with UT-Chattanooga. They also added ECU for 2026.

I'm afraid with the 9-conference game schedules, that these marquee OOC matchups will dwindle down.

What's the incentive?

Money

 

[NDPhilly]

They're moving it from 2026 to 2032 and replacing it with UT-Chattanooga. They also added ECU for 2026.

I'm afraid with the 9-conference game schedules, that these marquee OOC matchups will dwindle down.

What's the incentive?

We're talking about USF as a marquee OOC match up? What?

 

[Wild Bill]

Money

The cake is somewhat baked in that regard, right? TV money is what it is for bama and the rest of the conference next year. The difference in ticket sales and concessions is probably negligible, if anything at all.

 

[DONTH8]

Bama has been doing this for years, though. Saban was notorious for having a pretty light OOC schedule.

 

[bcole2]

Here's the way I see it. If everyone moves toward this, it will be incredibly short sighted on their part. The committee does not purely go based on record. Case in point is BYU, ranked behind multiple 2 loss teams at 11-1 and Virginia ranked behind two 3 loss teams. It still depends on the quality of your games and your performance.

Inevitably, teams are going to lose games in conference play. Miami did it to SMU and Louisville, Texas did it with Florida. Alabama almost lost to South Carolina. Those losses are going to matter and they are going to happen, which will then hurt your ability to make a conference championship game and win your way in to the field. So if everyone goes to cupcakes OOC, conference play would be the only way to differentiate yourself.

However, if you play a marquee OOC game and win it, your possible gain is far greater than your punishment for losing (especially if close). Case in point ND this year. Therefore as more and more teams go to cupcakes OOC if that truly is the way things go, you would have even more incentive to schedule those OOC big games to further differentiate yourself and not just rely on your conference performance. More room for error, and much more room for distinction compared to your conference peers. I think this would especially apply to conferences such as the Big 10 and SEC that have so much logjam amongst their teams.

 

[ACamp1900]

As if the SEC hasn't been playing this game for decades,... "who you play and where you play them",... lol

 

[MPClinton22]

Is this all stemming from UT's hemming and hawing? I've never seen anything lamer in my life - YOU LOST 3 GAMES, including one completely noncompetitively against UGA and one to a Billy Napier coached 4-8 UF team, and looked like ass against UK and Miss St. And rather than just say "wow, we really should have played better against some of these opponents, we'll improve next year", they blame the system. What a bunch of fucking losers

 

[Bane]

Herbie is such an insufferable company man twat. At no point has Sark or anyone at Texas ever once suggested maybe they should have beat OSU, like that doesn’t even cross their minds at all. It wasn’t a blowout, they had their chances. Sark is so soft and bitchmade he can’t even fathom that.

 

[ACamp1900]

The answer to all of this is to stop crying for ND to join a conference and to end conferences as we know them altogether. No one gets to build their own schedules anymore... including us. Have one central org oversee all of it. no conference-aligned contracts, officials, networks, schedule makers. Complete rebuild.

 

[bcole2]

If all the other schools really wanted to do something about it and essentially blackball us into joining a conference they need to stop scheduling us altogether. So put up or shut up (oh god, hope I didn't signal him). They won't do it because they know we bring record crowds to their stadiums and huge amounts of money when our game gets put on national television.

 

[ACamp1900]

So when do these stupid rankings drop already so we just know?? Like an hour??

Edit* already dropped I guess,… that show how much I pay attention,…

 

[NDPhilly]

Someone give me a tortilla to throw

 

[zelezo vlk]

They're moving it from 2026 to 2032 and replacing it with UT-Chattanooga. They also added ECU for 2026.

I'm afraid with the 9-conference game schedules, that these marquee OOC matchups will dwindle down.

What's the incentive?