I love it Reece , I’m from Clanton, AL and I use to carry baskets of peaches from store to store selling them in Guin. I was like 12 years old , was back in the early 80’
Teach ‘em Rece. I’m so old, my first memories of college football was one game on Saturday on one of the three tv channels we could bring in, then on Sunday we watched the replay film of our local university and a 30 minute highlight show of games across the nation. Then the NFL game of the week, occasionally an AFL game, but not every week. This was 60 years ago. Bama was king then too with Bear Bryant. Georgia had Vince Dooley and Ohio St. had Woody Hayes.
This is so great. Thanks so much for doing this Rece and friends. I enjoy this type of content so much. The more college football talk we can get the better
When Thamel got hired by ESPN, I couldn't wait for him to team up with Rece and the rest of the Gameday crew. This is getting me so juiced up for the season. Clean slate and endless possibilities for every program around the country. Bring on Week 0!!
Davis & Thamel - I think this is going to be a great team. Looking forward to it and Go Green! Dieter Brock - oldest NFL rookie in history. Played 1 season for the Rams, handing off to Eric Dickerson. Had to play that great Bears team in the NFC Championship.
I believe there truly was a large gap with Bama and UGA. I'm not falling asleep on UGA. Kirby has led 3 of the best Defenses in College Football History just in the last 10 years. I follow recruiting and only Smart recruits like Saban. OSU has the roster but it's the balance of the roster that concerns me. OSU has issues at DT,LB and secondary. UGA can lineup with 3 NFL TE"S at the same time. The last 5 cycles have Bama and UGA both averaging a 2.2 in recruiting. We have 2 schools that have averaged in the top 2 the last Five Cycles. I think Bama wins the title over UGA in another war. I'm not being a homer. I expect UGA could be more difficult than OSU this year.
As much as I don’t agree with David, I’m happy he said what I been saying about Lincoln Riley, he’s legit never had a good defense and idk what makes everyone think cause his transfers it’s going to translate to a good defense his first year. Makes no sense. Usc should be good but not as good as people are making them out to be.
As a Stephen F. Austin Lumberjack, I can promise no one flew to Alabama from Nacogdoches. You'd have to drive to Houston or Dallas to get to an airport first, then fly to Alabama. They don't have that kinda money to waste.
I wondered if Pollack played at UGA with my cousin (by marriage) Butch Box ,a "Dooley Junkyard Dog" but after checking his Wikipedia page I see David wasn't born until a decade later. Kids......
Wait for it... THE FULL PICTURE IS IN! -August 11, 2022 ND TO STAY INDEPENDENT; MIAMI IS IN, JOINING THE SEC! (They're going to 25) THE NEW FULL MEMO ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL REALIGNMENT... Please remember, as Commissioner Warren said, these things are planned well in advance... To the B1G (FOX): Pitt, Stanford, Cal, Washington, Utah, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona and Colorado for 25 (all here mentioned are AAU schools). To the SEC (ESPN): NC(aau), Duke(aau), UVA(aau), Clemson, Florida St., West Virginia, Georgia Tech(aau), Miami and Virginia Tech for 25. Notre Dame (NBC) (and BYU?) will stay independent with playoff access. Look for an independent alliance to include ND, BYU and the service academies moving forward. NOTE: Divisions are only for the purpose of assuring regional play and reducing travel, and could be annually flexible by school requests. These divisions are likely to be more relevant in non football sports. The football teams with the top 4 (at least, could go to 8 [flexibility?], culminating with the Rose Bowl) conference records will go to the conference semifinals in early or mid December regardless of their divisions, and the conference championships are to be played on New Year's Day (B1G/Rose, SEC/Sugar, Third25/Cotton). B1G25 Southern Pacific division Cal USC UCLA Arizona Utah B1G25 Northern Pacific division Colorado Nebraska Stanford Oregon Washington B1G25 Great Plains division Minnesota Iowa Kansas Wisconsin Illinois B1G25 Great Lakes division Indiana Purdue Northwestern Michigan Michigan State B1G25 Union division Rutgers Maryland Penn State Pitt Ohio State Meet the SEC25: Knowing that Pitt is going B1G, and 8 more ACC schools are going to the SEC, that's more than enough schools than needed to break the ACC contract. Given the continuing regional continuity of the SEC, divisions will be even less significant than in the B1G. Maintaining certain rivalries and neighborly games will be more a matter of game "reservation" than divisional assignments. Again, the 4 (or 8, or a flexibility to assure fair access) best conference records of the SEC to play in semifinals in early December. Texas Oklahoma Texas A&M Arkansas Kentucky Missouri LSU Miss State Ole Miss Tennessee Vanderbilt Alabama Auburn Florida Florida St. Georgia Georgia Tech South Carolina Clemson North Carolina Duke UVA Virginia Tech West Virginia Miami The rest to comprise TheThird25 conference with access relegation to playoff eligible divisions (similar to Euro soccer leagues) with guaranteed football playoff slots for their top teams every year. (Realignment for non football sports in this third conference, as membership could include 40 or so schools, with likely only 25 members of which will start the football season with access to the national playoff, more permanent regional sub conferences will be needed, and allowing these regional divisions to develop organically is expected to be one of the final components, and possibly most time consuming, such that the networks/B1G/SEC intend to allow the third conference a couple years of organization before defining a final playoff structure.) This third conference is going to be full of badass non AAU schools from coast to coast, will have playoff access, and likely compete well for national titles moving forward. And now be introduced to TheThird25 Conference: TheThird25 (Apple/Amazon/Innovative Media Delivery, -and maybe CBS) (Assuming BYU stays independent) 1) Oklahoma St. 2) Washington St. 3) TCU 4) Arizona St. 5) Kansas St. 6) Baylor 7) Boise St. 8) San Diego St. 9) NC St. 10) Tulane (AAU school) 11) Rice (AAU school) 12) UCF(disney/espn) 13) Louisville 14) Cincinnati 15) Houston 16) Boston College To finish TheThird25: Utah State Syracuse Hawaii Oregon State Fresno State Iowa State Texas Tech SMU Memphis and/or Southern Miss or Wake Forrest or Colorado State or Tulsa or Wyoming or New Mexico or UConn or Nevada or UTEP or Army or Navy or Air Force... etc. Relegation clearly required. The Eligible76 (77 - BYU?) So that makes 76 teams with playoff access each year: B1G25, SEC25, TheThird25 (with relegation beyond 25), and independent Notre Dame (and BYU?). B1G/SEC to play 9 of 11 regular season games in conference (4 division, 1 each in the other 4 divisions, plus 1 reserved/rivalry game =9), and 2 non conference games (1 allowed to be an opponent beyond the eligible76). How can this happen? Quite simply. -and in the end likely a value booster for all schools through the 3 mega conferences... Except for the 32 currrent legacy members of the B1G/SEC, revenue sharing as we've known it is finished. The rest will be taken on and paid in accord with their relative fanbase/marketshare and other values brought to the table. And they're selling this beautifully.... This has to be the single best dudes' soap opera to run the sportswire in some time. This is intentional. It's a done deal, but milking the interest is just the first part of this brilliant college football marketing campaign. -or, blame capitalism. ✌🤠✌ Look for something called the "Independent Invitational" game to be played in early December alongside the conference semifinals, and to be managed by The Playoff Commission, playing Notre Dame (and/or BYU?) and possibly service academies against a team hoping to make a playoff or better bowl claim, or any other 2 teams the Commission may deem appropriate in a given year in order to help clarify and minimize their playoff selections upcoming after the bowls. (It has been proposed that any Division 1 school relegated beyond the eligible76 could achieve instant transcendence with an undefeated (11-0) season -w/10 D1 wins- and a likely invitation to the Independent Invitational prior to major bowl selection.) The bowls will play out during the holidays and could have playoff selection implications depending on the year. PLAYOFF FLEXIBILITY IS THE KEY (setting an arbitrary number of playoff slots before the season plays out is a failed model): The concept of yearly playoff flexibility should be incorporated. Every year is different; setting an arbitrary number of playoff slots before the season plays out inevitably rubs against fairness for the next team left out. After the 3 Conference championships on New Year's Day (yielding 3 guaranteed advanced playoff births) the Playoff Commission should call no less than 4 teams, but up to 16, or any (even odd) number in between, such that no eligible undefeated team is left out (an "objective, measurable, clear and articulable delineation between the last team to qualify, and all remaining eligible teams..."), and playing such few games as necessary to answer but one question: Who is number 1?
Oh yes you can screw up with multiple top 5 classes. Ask Texas Lsu Florida and USC. Ed O had top 5 every year at Lsu then managed to go .500 over the last two years
If ur talking Mississippi State I agree. Will Rogers is one of the best QBs in the country but he’s not the typical Mike Leach system QB, I really think he looks like a pro style QB. Big arm hangs in the pocket makes reads. It’s not just throw it left it throw it right bulldogs or for real and they get Bama Tamu UGA all at home. They’re gonna win one of those
On ranking teams it’s who would beat who on the field! Arkansas would beat nc state maybe ok state also. Ole miss would also. Why are they ranked so low when they would beat the teams above them 5th game of season?
Because that’s sadly not how they rank them, it’s based more on how they think the teams will end up record-wise at the end of the year. Josh Pate did a power ranking Top 25 and honestly it seems alot more believable.
Agree. But Ole Miss is gonna have a rough year. I think they might finish last in the West I’m picking the Bulldogs to do well. Arkansas is up in the air.
Please don’t make light of lower status programs, if only 8,000 watch them in a tiny stadium, those fans are just as passionate about their team as the throngs of the elites. Plus, those 8,000 are watching the elites and listening to you guys put them down, or laugh when you mention their program. Not cool.
Pete Thamel - you're ostensibly a professional broadcaster and you can't go 50 minutes without continually chugging a drink? Take a page from the professionals around you. At the very least, don't take one in the first 5 seconds!
