2017 College Football Stories Thread (not the weekly degenerate thread)

Because ...

A) Colleges and universities are very dependent on federal dollars (whether through funding for research, etc., or indirectly via federal student loans);
B) SJW ideologues in the DofEd don't much give a shit about anything other their obsession(s) du jour; and
C) in a "Shit for Brains" version of March Madness, said ideologues and college/university administrators would be odds-on favorites to meet up in the finals.

Title IX shouldn't be implicated in these things, but because it seemed a convenient way of achieving that which couldn't be achieved in other ways, the ideologues seized on it.

 

Because sexual harassment and sexual assualt deny students equal opportunities in education. The original Title IX had nothing to do with sports. A school can be sanctioned for allowing harassment or assault so the school has to have a plan to address it.

 

Thank you, thank you. As I said, somebody in government decided so.

 

Starting to sound like some episodes of "Law and Order" late in its run: "We can't charge them with anything else ... oh yea, the Patriot Act. They're terrorists!"

 

Sad but true: The upper crust of the Mountain West could compete against most Big 10 West teams. (B1G East? Not so much)

 

Why Sam Darnold could lead USC to its first national title in 13 years

@Songbird

 

Too many stories on him. They'll lose 2 of the first 3 just because.

 

USC doesn't have a kicker. That's kind of a big deal in bigtime football.

 

College Predictions 101.
1. Team has a returning QB.
2. Team is coming off a winning season.
3. Count the number of returning starters/seniors
4. Slot accordingly.*

* - Texas and ND bring in a new coach and all the sudden all the cruddy recruiting/player development doesn't matter.


PS - If the rankings were a story, people would be accusing the writers poll of plagiarism with 24 of the 25 coaches teams, and very minimal variation of rankings - the writers top 13 is the coaches top 13, same top 18, same top 23.
Shoot I get it, of course people took a look at the Coaches poll for some ideas, but I expected it to be quite a bit more random the further you go down.

 

And many of those same writers will bash the coaches poll when the preseason rankings go sideways a month into the season but you'll hear nary a peep about their almost identical poll doing the same.