College football week 3 thread: The Hurricane Mutiny

[2muchcoffeeman]

And with that choke job in Morgantown, I am done with Pitt football this year. Eli Holstein is a slightly better version of Phil Jerkovec.

I have your new coach!

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I actually wish they’d drop football and stop wasting our time.

 

[Batman]

Villanova +46.5, FTW.

 

[DanOregon]

My circle of trust: Ohio State, LSU, Miami, Oregon, that's it.

BTW, I think I need another team to adopt since the alma mater looks like they could lose as many games as most fans expected them to win this season.

It is becoming clear that there is significant and growing gap between the haves and the have nots. I think non-P4 schools accept it and will do the best they can with what they have. But at the P4 level, how expensive is it going to be to just compete to GET IN to the playoff and get bounced in the first round, or second round? How will the have nots in the ACC and Big 12 (which is most of them) enjoy the charade of a football season when they know they have no real shot? And what happens when the SEC and Big10 have more teams "out of it" than in the mix.
I see more people tuning out of college football earlier in the season as the new era progresses. People see the scores, they know the bankrolls. Without a "level playing field" the sport is doomed.
Maybe relegation is the answer, I don't know. The sport has become the Premier League already.

 

[Cosmo]

I was thinking the same thing. There is a gigantic gap between the top 10 or so teams and the rest of the field. It almost feels like the way women's college basketball used to feel, when UConn and Tennessee were so far ahead of the rest of the field that it rendered the sport uninteresting.

There are definite tiers within the ACC and Big 12.

ACC haves -- Miami, FSU, Clemson. There's smallish second level where UNC, SMU and Louisville can probably pump enough money in their programs to compete with that top tier. Then there's everyone else.

In the Big 12, Texas Tech seems to want to play the big-money game. You might be able to throw Iowa State on that level too. But for the most part it feels like the Big 12 is going to be a one-bid league most years.

It's going to reach a breaking point. Northwestern can't compete with Oregon and Ohio State. Mississippi State can't keep up with Alabama, LSU and Georgia. There's an entire swath of schools in the P4 alone that feels like I-AA to the big schools' I-A.

 

[waterytart]

The ACC plan was to add Miami and FSU for football, and the rest of us would look toward March. The SEC apparently has other plans.

 

[waterytart]

Villanova +46.5, FTW.

Thanks, Batman. I’ve passed this along to my husband and nephew, both Nova grads.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Coaches on LSD?

 

[DanOregon]

Because they'll probably be favored in every game they have left, and make the playoff. They may not be great, but half the field of the playoff will have no shot anyway.

 

[waterytart]

Pry may not make it to noon

ESPN dateline was 1:16. That’s close enough.

 

[dixiehack]

 

[mpcincal]

That post made me realize that, holy crap, Kirk Ferentz has hit 70 and he's been the head coach at Iowa for 27 years. In my mind, I still think of him as the upstart who took over for the legendary Hayden Fry.

 

[Batman]

 

[Della9250]

Coaches on LSD?

If you go by their poll they list to no 6 on the road by 3 with a minute left and by one to no 10 on a botched Pat with a minute left.

I think that’s a decent spot.

 

[Batman]

Why are you still here? Go home!

 

[BTExpress]

Speaking of such . . . why are so many events on TNT AND TruTV? Just seems like you're getting one channel for the price/bandwidth of two.

Are there really systems/tiers that typically have one channel but not the other?

 

[Batman]

It's still summer and we've got two P4 coaches whacked.

Leadership transition underway for Virginia Tech football

Head Football Coach DeShaun Foster Relieved of Duties - UCLA

 

[HanSenSE]

It's still summer and we've got two P4 coaches whacked.

Leadership transition underway for Virginia Tech football

Head Football Coach DeShaun Foster Relieved of Duties - UCLA

Thread '2025-26 college football coaching carousel'

Sep 14, 2025

Here we go.

• HanSenSE
• Replies: 1,962
• Forum: Sports and News

 

[BTExpress]

UCLA deserves to suck as long as . . .

1. They have Nico.
2. They use "Bruin Block" font on their jerseys instead of the traditional Clarendon font.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I was thinking the same thing. There is a gigantic gap between the top 10 or so teams and the rest of the field. It almost feels like the way women's college basketball used to feel, when UConn and Tennessee were so far ahead of the rest of the field that it rendered the sport uninteresting.

There are definite tiers within the ACC and Big 12.

ACC haves -- Miami, FSU, Clemson. There's smallish second level where UNC, SMU and Louisville can probably pump enough money in their programs to compete with that top tier. Then there's everyone else.

In the Big 12, Texas Tech seems to want to play the big-money game. You might be able to throw Iowa State on that level too. But for the most part it feels like the Big 12 is going to be a one-bid league most years.

It's going to reach a breaking point. Northwestern can't compete with Oregon and Ohio State. Mississippi State can't keep up with Alabama, LSU and Georgia. There's an entire swath of schools in the P4 alone that feels like I-AA to the big schools' I-A.

You could pump the federal reserve into UNC and it won’t make a hill of difference. How many times have they tried, with every new coach coming with a “new commitment” to football? Didn’t Mack 2.0 get a bunch of new facilities and investment?