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2014 College Football Season

Report: UAB to drop football program

Chase Goodbread
College Football 24/7 writer

The University of Alabama-Birmingham has fired athletics director Brian Mackin and intends to shut down its football program amid sweeping changes to a financially struggling athletic department, according to multiple media outlets.

The school will announce the move, which coach Bill Clark had indicated he strongly feared, in a news conference Thursday, according to Sports Illustrated. The Blazers beat Southern Miss, 45-24, on Saturday to become bowl-eligible with a 6-6 record under first-year coach Bill Clark.
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Sole undefeated Florida State ranked... 4th?

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Would like to see Bama play FSU. TCU vs U of O great matchup as well. Let's see if Florida State stays unbeaten? Then Semioles can say I told you so.
 
Ohio St shouldn't even be in the conversation, IMO. Their schedule was too easy. If they were undefeated it would be one thing, but their loss is so bad that I would actually put Arizona above them.

FSU at #4 is actually better for them because they would get to play Alabama in the Sugar Bowl instead of Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

I don't really feel sorry for FSU. With their level of talent they should be smoking people. Their schedule was pretty easy as well. But multiple times a mediocre team has had them on the ropes at the end of the game and they just manage to pull it out at the last second. It won't matter though. If they beat Georgia Tech they will be in.

I think TCU is better than Baylor. Substantially better. But that epic choke job in Waco still counts. If Baylor beats Kansas St I think they have to jump.
 
bah007 said:
Ohio St shouldn't even be in the conversation, IMO. Their schedule was too easy. If they were undefeated it would be one thing, but their loss is so bad that I would actually put Arizona above them.

FSU at #4 is actually better for them because they would get to play Alabama in the Sugar Bowl instead of Oregon in the Rose Bowl.

I don't really feel sorry for FSU. With their level of talent they should be smoking people. Their schedule was pretty easy as well. But multiple times a mediocre team has had them on the ropes at the end of the game and they just manage to pull it out at the last second. It won't matter though. If they beat Georgia Tech they will be in.

I think TCU is better than Baylor. Substantially better. But that epic choke job in Waco still counts. If Baylor beats Kansas St I think they have to jump.
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I don't disagree about FSU. I do think that if we beat GA Tech, we should move up to atleast #3, seeing as how TCU will have played Iowa State. GA Texh is a good team on both defense and offense and I actually expect to lose. We've had a hard time stopping run heavy teams this year. We've had a hard time stopping everyone really.
 
TexansSeminole said:
I don't disagree about FSU. I do think that if we beat GA Tech, we should move up to atleast #3, seeing as how TCU will have played Iowa State. GA Texh is a good team on both defense and offense and I actually expect to lose. We've had a hard time stopping run heavy teams this year. We've had a hard time stopping everyone really.
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Georgia Tech really isn't that talented. They are just well coached and extremely hard to prepare for in a week because hardly anybody runs that style of offense anymore. They control the ball with their offense and they play bend but don't break defense that forces you to sustain drives.

FSU has the advantage of having already played a triple option team earlier this year in the Citadel. They should win this game.

I also think you have to take the entire season into account when ranking. You can't just look at a single game. TCU shouldn't be penalized for playing the tough part of their schedule earlier in the year. They should, however, be penalized for blowing a 21 point fourth quarter lead against Baylor.
 
bah007 said:
Georgia Tech really isn't that talented. They are just well coached and extremely hard to prepare for in a week because hardly anybody runs that style of offense anymore. They control the ball with their offense and they play bend but don't break defense that forces you to sustain drives.

FSU has the advantage of having already played a triple option team earlier this year in the Citadel. They should win this game.

I also think you have to take the entire season into account when ranking. You can't just look at a single game. TCU shouldn't be penalized for playing the tough part of their schedule earlier in the year. They should, however, be penalized for blowing a 21 point fourth quarter lead against Baylor.
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It stands to reason that if TCU just now passed us, it is close, therefore a win vs GA Tech would put the Noles over the top this week.
 
TexansSeminole said:
It stands to reason that if TCU just now passed us, it is close, therefore a win vs GA Tech would put the Noles over the top this week.
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I understand that. I'm not really a fan of this committee thing so far. I don't have a problem with their rankings so far, but they don't seem to have any reasoning behind them. They seem arbitrary.
 
I guess this is the place for this.....

Florida has hired Colorado State HC (and former Alabama OC) Jim McElwain to fill their vacant HC position after Will Muschamp resigned.

Nebraska has hired Oregon State HC Mike Riley to fill their vacant HC position after firing Bo Pelini.

This leaves Michigan as the clear cut top opening with virtually all of their candidates still available.
 
bah007 said:
I understand that. I'm not really a fan of this committee thing so far. I don't have a problem with their rankings so far, but they don't seem to have any reasoning behind them. They seem arbitrary.
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It just seems an impossible task to compile a ranking that is both body-of-work based, yet of some week-to-week significance that isn't contradictory somewhere.

I prefer this system, that is clearly finding it's legs as it goes, to the BCS or the old mythical national championship, both by a mile. All the junk leading up to the final four is just good babble for babble-sake tv/talk radio stuff anyway. Once we get down to the 1v4 and 2v3 matchups for real it'll be time to cut loose and just enjoy.
 
Playoffs said:
Colin Cowherd says he knows who it is and it's a "wow" hire.
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Cowherd knows as much about it as I do (i.e. zilch). He's just trying to stir up the UM fan base (a noted favorite pastime of his) by putting this info out there. Then he can have a laugh when it doesn't happen and a bunch of sunshine pumpers get their panties in a bunch over it.

Not that it's hard to fool this fan base. Half of them think Harbaugh would turn down a $10M a year contract from an NFL team just for the chance to coach at Michigan and the other half think that Sean Payton would leave New Orleans to coach at UM because he was seen once at a basketball game wearing a UM t-shirt.
 
I really liked Cameron Erving as an OT prospect last year. He was a disappointment there this year. But ever since he moved to Center he has been exceptional. Very impressive.
 
bah007 said:
I really liked Cameron Erving as an OT prospect last year. He was a disappointment there this year. But ever since he moved to Center he has been exceptional. Very impressive.
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http://www.texanstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106913

bah007 said:
Erving is an okay RT/LG prospect but I think this is at least a round too early. I don't think he'll ever be anything more than an average starter or good depth.
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Which is why I was projecting him as a 2nd rd. Center. He looks more natural in a phone booth than exposed out in the open.
 
beerlover said:
http://www.texanstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106913



Which is why I was projecting him as a 2nd rd. Center. He looks more natural in a phone booth than exposed out in the open.
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I'm starting to come around. At first I was projecting him as finishing his college career at OC but moving back out to OT in the pros. But now, I don't think you can move him. He's too good inside. And I think he's a much more valuable prospect there than at OT.
 
Someone explain this to me, please, since I'm not up on CFB politics and too lazy to research it...

I've heard twice now that Big 12 commissioner "presented" Baylor and TCU to the selection committee, and that may burn both teams for the playoff?

Should Ohio State be in or one of Baylor/TCU?
 
Playoffs said:
Someone explain this to me, please, since I'm not up on CFB politics and too lazy to research it...

I've heard twice now that Big 12 commissioner "presented" Baylor and TCU to the selection committee, and that may burn both teams for the playoff?

Should Ohio State be in or one of Baylor/TCU?
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No reason why a Big 12 team shouldn't be in the playoffs. They're arguably the 2nd best conference college football.
 
Playoffs said:
1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Florida St.
4. Ohio St.



Big 12 :choke:
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It's crazy to think a team can win 55-3 and fall in the rankings. The Big 12 has to expand and get a Conference Championship game to make sure this doesn't happen in the future.
 
JCTexan said:
It's crazy to think a team can win 55-3 and fall in the rankings. The Big 12 has to expand and get a Conference Championship game to make sure this doesn't happen in the future.
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Agreed. I believe TCU could've kept up with any team in college.
 
CretorFrigg said:
Big 12 has to kill each other because there are a lot of good teams, but don't get any recognition. That's what ultimately left them off. I think it's BS.
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Weak conference this year. UT and OU were shells of themselves and TCU and Baylor had Nothing outside of conference.
 
Because the playoff committee is new, the FiveThirtyEight playoff model was based on a historical assessment of the Coaches Poll instead. In the Coaches Poll - and the AP poll - the rankings are quite “sticky” from week to week. Voters in those polls rarely engage in top-to-bottom reassessments of the field; instead, they’ll demote teams after they lose and sometimes move them up an extra position or two after a big win. Otherwise, they’re left in about the same order.

Based on that assumption, Ohio State had a decent shot to make the playoff after its big win against Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship. But the model had TCU favored to make the playoff because it had been ranked No. 3 by the committee entering the weekend. The model had No. 4 Florida State as the more vulnerable team instead, simply because it had been ranked lower by the committee to begin with and its win Saturday - it beat Georgia Tech 37-35 for the ACC championship - was the narrowest of anyone in the top six.

Instead, Florida State moved up to No. 3. And TCU was overtaken not just by Ohio State and Florida State, but also by Baylor (which missed the playoff but was given the committee’s No. 5 ranking for posterity). What the committee did last week - promoting TCU into the No. 3 position ahead of Florida State - proved to be a head fake.

In other words, the committee appears to engage in a more thorough reassessment of the teams with its final rankings. For better or worse, it’s more concerned about getting the “right” answer in the end than in being consistent from week to week.
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/...inal-thoughts-and-national-championship-odds/
 
IMO the first 3 are undeniable:

Alabama - Consensus #1 in the nation, conference champ, quality wins and huge fan base.
Oregon - Conference champ, good wins, avenged only loss in conference championship game and has the presumed Heisman winner.
Florida St. - Undefeated (should be 'nuff said), conference champ, good wins, defending national champs, huge fan base

Here are the 3 teams that vied for the last spot listed in order of finish:

Ohio St - Big 10 champ, decent wins, came on strong mostly blowing out opponents, overcame adversity at QB position and huge fan base that travels well. Ohio State's schedule is hyped by the NCAA due to bowl eligibility commitments to the Big 10 and those schools generally have fans that travel well. Only the SEC has more bowl eligible schools than the Big 10.
Baylor - Co-conference champ, good win over TCU but otherwise lackluster schedule. The weakest IMO of the top 6 but they should have been the Big 12 Champion.
TCU - Co-conference champ, decent wins (look at the rankings of the opponents at the time of the win and not the opponent itself) and the team that I feel is getting screwed the worse. 5 days ago TCU was thought to be the 3rd best team by the playoff committee and even though they had a weak opponent they did exactly what they were supposed to do by blowing them out.
Big 12 - Outsmarted itself by not following its own rules. All year the Big 12 advertised "One Champion" but when it saw potential $$$ it wavered. Currently, the 1st tie-breaker rule between two teams in the Big 12 is head to head. No matter what Baylor should be the champion. Weeks ago with the possibility of landing 2 teams in the playoffs they backed off their rules and stated it would have co-champions if both teams won out. Now they are on the outside looking in by not naming one true champion. One thing they can't be punished for is not having a championship game. By the rules, there are not enough teams in the Big 12 to have a championship game.
Playoff committee - I think they did a good job. Even if Baylor had won the Big 12 championship, I don't think it would have been enough to propel them over Ohio St. Conference championship is only 1 of the factors for playoff seeding. I heard a radio analyst complain that the committee was just watching highlights while using stats and records.
 
JCTexan said:
It's crazy to think a team can win 55-3 and fall in the rankings. The Big 12 has to expand and get a Conference Championship game to make sure this doesn't happen in the future.
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Yup. It just shows you that they are basically winging it every week.
 
The Big XII deserved to get left out after the way they screwed Baylor. I believe 100% that TCU is a better team than Baylor but the fact is that Baylor is the Big XII champion. And if TCU has a problem with that then they shouldn't have choked away a 21 point lead in less than ten minutes.

On the other hand, this conference championship game stuff is total BS. The reason the Big XII doesn't have one is because they play a round robin schedule and so they already have a true champion. Holding that against them is ridiculous.

The top three is pretty obvious to me. After that, I think you have to eliminate Ohio St because their loss is absolutely terrible. You are then left with Baylor and TCU. While I think TCU would woodshed them on a neutral field I think you have to put Baylor #4 due to being the conference champion.
 
bah007 said:
The Big XII deserved to get left out after the way they screwed Baylor. I believe 100% that TCU is a better team than Baylor but the fact is that Baylor is the Big XII champion. And if TCU has a problem with that then they shouldn't have choked away a 21 point lead in less than ten minutes.

On the other hand, this conference championship game stuff is total BS. The reason the Big XII doesn't have one is because they play a round robin schedule and so they already have a true champion. Holding that against them is ridiculous.

The top three is pretty obvious to me. After that, I think you have to eliminate Ohio St because their loss is absolutely terrible. You are then left with Baylor and TCU. While I think TCU would woodshed them on a neutral field I think you have to put Baylor #4 due to being the conference champion.
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But Baylor isn't the conference champion. They are co-champions along with TCU. TCU had a tougher schedule, had more convincing wins, beat most of their ranked opponents at away games, and barely lost to Baylor - at home, due to a very controversial PI call. Did I mention Baylor lost to an unranked team as well?
 
If the refs hadn't jobbed us with the non-call offsides in the LSU game, it'd be us playing Notre Dame in Nashville. As it is we play West Virginia. Should be an interesting game given that we're both basically the same team.

Little disappointed we don't play the Longhorns in Houston but it is what it is. Arkansas gets that game, and it should be an interesting matchup. I think if Arky had held on vs. Mizzou it would be A&M vs. UT in that game.
 
CretorFrigg said:
But Baylor isn't the conference champion. They are co-champions along with TCU. TCU had a tougher schedule, had more convincing wins, beat most of their ranked opponents at away games, and barely lost to Baylor - at home, due to a very controversial PI call. Did I mention Baylor lost to an unranked team as well?
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The Big XII can call it whatever they want but by all conference rules Baylor is the champion. And if the conference had just admitted that then they may have a team in the playoff. But instead they gave the committee an easy out to ignore both teams.

I agree that TCU had a tougher schedule, but not by much. They did have more convincing wins, but they also played Kansas and Oklahoma a lot closer than Baylor did. And the unranked team that beat Baylor only lost to TCU by one point.

I think TCU is better. But they choked against Baylor and they are paying the price. If they don't blow a 21 point lead in ten minutes then this isn't even a discussion.
 
So the playoff system is going to be just as much stupid horsesh!t as the old system. TCU beats the hell out of a team and loses 3 spots?

This is just as dumb as when the #1 and #2 team play and the #2 team loses by one point in a close game and then drops to #12 under the old system.

I watched more college ball than ever this year because of the playoff system, however I won't watch either playoff game or the championship because this is just stupid.

Florida State struggled with GT, yet they get to the playoffs. So the argument is that they are undefeated, but then the douches that run the CFC would argue that TCU is in a weaker conference. Well Florida State is in the ACC, so you can't have it both ways CFC.

I'm a UT fan, but living in Dallas I've enjoyed watching TCU and was pulling for them late in the season.

I will refer to the "College Football Championship", as the pick who ever the F you want to bowl.

I boycott this stupidity.
 
Also just wanted to comment on the Big 12 co-championship deal. It should have no bearing. Being champion of your conference doesn't do jack for your playoff berth.

If a team in the AAC went undefeated playing no one noteworthy and were crowned AAC Champiosn would they have a snowballs chance in hell of making the top four, the answer is no.
 
Big Lou said:
Also just wanted to comment on the Big 12 co-championship deal. It should have no bearing. Being champion of your conference doesn't do jack for your playoff berth.

If a team in the AAC went undefeated playing no one noteworthy and were crowned AAC Champiosn would they have a snowballs chance in hell of making the top four, the answer is no.
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Not saying it's right but the committee said they put a lot of weight into conference champions and the Big 12 didn't give them one. They asked for conference champions from all P5 conferences and Big 12 was only conference to not give them a champ. They formally presented them 2 co-champions, which is hilarious after all the "one true champ" sloganing they did for months. They spent all year saying they had the one true champ model and at the end of they year they were the only conference without one true champ.

Big 12 tried to screw Baylor because they thought TCU had a better chance to get in and it blew up in their face. Serves them right to be left out. Baylor was the obvious conference champ by their own tiebreakers for goodness sake! The #1 tiebreaker in the Big 12 rules is head to head! And the Big 12 ignored it. There was no right answer with the final four, but the Big 12 gave the committee an easy out because most of the blame doesn't lie with the committee here. It lies with the Big 12.
 
Ian Rapoport on NFL AM this morning...

Q: So Harbaugh is not a candidate for Michigan?

Rapoport: Not Jim Harbaugh.​


:thinking:
 
Playoffs said:
Ian Rapoport on NFL AM this morning...

Q: So Harbaugh is not a candidate for Michigan?

Rapoport: Not Jim Harbaugh.​


:thinking:
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I hope Michigan takes away Les Miles. It would hopefully mean one less good team to worry about in the SEC West.

Heard a lot of chatter about Dan Mullen but I don't know if there's any truth to that.
 
htownfan32 said:
I hope Michigan takes away Les Miles. It would hopefully mean one less good team to worry about in the SEC West.

Heard a lot of chatter about Dan Mullen but I don't know if there's any truth to that.
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My guess is that Les Miles is at the Top of Michigan's wish list.
 
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