The CRAZIEST college football season of all time | British Guys Reaction 

Rankings in college football are pretty subjective, but one of the strongest things people looked at was strength of schedule. If a team goes 5 and 0 but played a bunch of nobodies..it didn't mean much. So teams were encouraged to put strong teams to play against in the out of conference part of your schedule.

The "universal" schedule for gridiron football usually ends up like this; Thu - NFL Fri - High school football (rarely covered, you're either in person or listening to local sports radio to catch this, Texas excepted) Sat - College football Sun - NFL (the 'original day') Mon - NFL

West Virginia fans will love to have you as a fan as well

I went to WVU for grad school and Purdue for undergrad. perfect mix of football and basketball schools.

I was at the 2007 LSU vs UF game in the student section the day USC lost to Stanford. I've never heard a roar of a crowd that loud in my life. It was and still is my favorite sporting event I've ever been to.

Six points for a touchdown. If you kick for the extra point, you get one point. If you choose to run or pass and get into the end zone, you get 2 points. Most coaches choose the kick for one point.

To your question about objective vs subjective rankings- individual conferences rank their teams by objective wins and losses just like a normal league table. The top-25 is different because there are so many teams spread out across such a huge country, its impossible to rank them all objectively against each other, so there are several different top-25 polls conducted every week that give subjective rankings to all the teams. The Coaches Poll top 25 is determined by an actual polling of the head coaches across the US, the AP is the same idea but with members of the sports media, and then there's also the playoff ranking committee which decides who the top-4 teams are at the end of the year who will make the playoff, but they also put out their own full top-25. Back in the day there were also the BCS top-25 which was done entirely by computer algorithm. It's actually really fascinating the way the top-25 works. Hope this info was helpful!

ESPN College Game Day, every Saturday from 9am to noon during the college football season

You can be as old as you want as long as it is your first time going to college. University of South Carolina had a 35 year old QB in like early 2000

Ain’t no maximum age in college football the oldest guy to ever play D1 football was Joe Thomas Sr and he was 55 when he played 😂😂

6 for the TD and 1 for point after try or PAT, it's 5 for a try in rugby and 2 for the PAT.

It's not as simple as most wins fewest losses when ranking. The most important factor is the quality of wins over good opponents.

No limit to over times, there must be a winner. The current record sadly is my team loosing in one of the most embarrassing losses. October 23rd 2021 #7 Penn State got beat by unranked Illinois 20-18 after 9 OTs 🤦🏻‍♂️

14:30 within certain guidelines, colleges pick their own schedule. Pick teams that are too easy and you’ll win more but be ranked lower due to low quality, pick too hard and you’ll lose more, the key is finding the perfect sweet spot to be ranked as high as possible

The college season and NFL season are the same time of year. College usually starts the first week of September, and NFL regular season starts in the second week of September. College regular season is 13 weeks, each team gets an off week every year, so everyone plays 12 games. NFL is 18 weeks long, and every team gets an off week, so they play a 17-week season (they played 16 games until 2021). College typically plays on Saturday, with some games happening on Thursday nights and some on Friday nights. NFL typically plays on Sundays, with the exception of one game on Thursday nights and one game on Monday nights. The rankings in 2007 were determined 1/3 by the AP Poll, made up of sportswriters, 1/3 by the Coaches’ Poll, made up of all the coaches in college football, and 1/3 by a computer program. These get put together and takes the top 2 teams at the end of the season, after conference championship games, and they play in the national championship game. Nowadays, the rankings are determined by a committee, and the top 4 teams get picked for a playoff for the national championship. Starting in 2024, the playoff will expand to 12 teams by the same criteria.

Check out Texas Tech. John Denver (who wrote Country Roads) is sn Alum

5:50 Same time. College begins a week or two prior to the beginning of NFL. They run simultaneously, as well as HS AF. There are 12 college games, not including playoffs, conference and bowl games. There are 17 NFL games, not including playoff games and the SB.

It's 6 for the touchdown and 1 for the kick. However, instead of kicking, you can try a normal play, and if you get in the end zone with that, it's worth 2 instead of 1.

Sunday- NFL (all day) Monday- NFL (one game) Tuesday- College (MACtion, november only) Wednesday- College (MACtion, november only) Thursday- NFL (one game) Friday- High school football Saturday- College (all day)

Rankings are subjective because there's over 130 teams that play at the top level (the FBS). These teams are dispersed across 10 conferences, and a few schools choose to remain independent (no conference). There are 5 conferences that are known as the "Power 5" that have all the big time programs and schools, the other 5 are full of programs that just aren't as big of a brand, market or school, etc) Depends on the conference, but you will typically play 8 or 9 conference games a year. These are set by the conferences. The schools are free to schedule what they want for the other dates. So scheduling is never even, so there's no way to objectively determine national standings. Teams in weaker conferences have easier schedules. Only thing they can really do is try and schedule 1 or 2 games against the big schools, win and then win every game in their conference to even have a chance of being ranked high enough for the playoffs (currently the top 4 get in as of 2014). Any power 5 team that goes undefeated is essentially guaranteed to be in. Not by rule but just by their schedule probably being at least above average. But that's why say a 11-1 Wyoming would still be seen as quite inferior to a 9-3 or even 8-4 power conference team.

2007 was the most fun I've ever had as a Kentucky fan until 2018

College football and the NFL run during the fall, but the majority of college games are played on Saturday while majority of NFL games are played on Sunday. There are variations, like the NFL playing Thursday and Monday and college being played Wednesday through Saturday. You get six for a touchdown and then one for the PAT kick or two for a two point conversion. The reason you'll get a 4-0 team over a 5-0 team is varied and part of an ongoing argument. It depends on who your "strength of schedule" (how tough those teams are), who you beat (if you play three high ranked teams and beat them you will be ranked higher than a team that only beat one or two), and then it can change based on who the team you beat/lost to played and beat/won. Should also note how many teams are in the top league of NCAA football. Currently there are 124 divided into ten conferences with a few non-aligned teams. And they aren't all equal in team strength. It would be like having the top flight of English football include the Premier League, the Championship, League One, and League Two in the same league. You can go 12-0 and stay out of the top 20 because you only play teams on the lower end of the league. That doesn't mean you'd be able to beat OSU, Michigan, Alabama, or another powerhouse team, and you're ranking will show that. Someone mentioned the fixtures are chosen by the colleges, but it's not like they choose fixtures the year prior. Games are decided years in advance, with some games decided 15 years in advance. As for maximum age, it's GENERALLY 21/22. Start at 17/18, you get four years of eligibility. Occasionally you'll get the 24 year old. Far more rarely you'll get a 30 year old because he started college late in his 20s.

West Virginia played Notre Dame for the National Championship in 1988 I believe. (They lost but still..)

As a Michigan fan, I honestly wasn’t that shocked or hurt by that App St. lost. You could kinda see the cracks in Michigan every since they botched the Brady thing.

So for the rankings thing…teams play 12 games every season. You play four out of conference teams and eight teams in your conference. Some conferences are naturally better than others and have tougher teams, so because florida plays in the SEC and was 4-2, and Hawaii in the Mountain West and was 7-0, Florida automatically had a tougher schedule because they had to play teams like Tennessee, Alabama, LSU, Auburn, etc for 8/12 games, but Hawaii plays teams like San Jose State, Fresno State, Utah State, Air Force Acadamy, etc. The only opportunity for Hawaii to build up good strong wins was with their four out of conference games. Therefore, Florida’s two losses were likely still against better teams than any of the ones Hawaii had beaten so that’s why 4-2 Florida got ranked in front of 7-0 hawaii. That’s just pulling an example, but that’s how the poll works every week and every season. Furthermore, the college season starts a week and a half before the NFL, and runs concurrently with the NFL. NFL games are played on Thursday, Sunday and Monday, and college games on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

The rankings are mostly objective, but there is some subjective. "Favoritism" Objective ways of ranking teams 1. Record 2. Strength of schedule! Meaning a 5-1 who played a tougher schedule could be ranked above a 6-0 team 3. Point differential.. If 2 are even in the two categories above! They will separate them based on how much they won by! Now! How they rank team before the start of the season! Is based on what they did the prior season and who has the most 5 star recruits.. recruiting is based off the level of talent and they category by stars! There is 1 star, 2 stars, 3 stars, 4 stars and 5 star players. I hope this helps you understand. I can also break down the rules for both college and pro and how they are different.. simple example.. in the NFL a pass interference penalty? Will be penalized by where the penalty happened so if you throw a deep ball! 50 yards and happens 50 yards down the field? That's where their next play with be! It's a spot ball foul. As appose to college! College it's always a 15 yard penalty.

I agree with you on how the rankings should work but they are so worried that a small school (less money generated) might make it to a big bowl game or even the playoff. You're right though, it should be based on games played and games won.

A 5-2 team may be better than a 6-1 teaam because the 5-2 teaam has a much more dfficult schedule. This means a lot in college football.

Crazy season

Michigan week 1 hurt so bad 😞

If you want to claim the Mountaineers, I can send you some stuff. And I recommend reacting to Tavon Austin Senior Highlights.

Teams set who they will play years ahead of time at conference meetings and NCAA meetings. They have to play teams in their conference and teams outside the conference. They negotiate the TV revenue shares they will receive. The top ranked teams usually play much lower teams early in the season. It’s good for the lower teams to play the powerhouse teams financially and for recruiting and the powerhouse teams usually don’t have to worry about a loss early in the season while they get to hone their plays and get into mid season form. Certain conferences are always strong the Southeastern Conference (SEC) or the Big 10 tend to produce the national champions. Every program in them is competitive and can beat a given team any week. So SEC teams for example may lose 3 games and end up in the top 5 or top 10 because all their losses were in their conference against top 5 teams. Same for the Big 10.

I'm an alumni of west virginia university, and I swear everyone in Morgantown was balling their eyes out, super heartbreaking

Lol your reactions to the rankings is a very common reaction by fans. We scratch our heads all the time.

Catching up on all your reactions, and you seem like a cool and genuine guy! Not that you need advice from a random person, but keep up the consistency and watching things that genuinely interest you and I have no doubt your channel will grow however you want it to. I'm partial to college football over NFL, but it's all good in my book (I'm also the seemingly rare fan of both American football and ⚽ football lol).

The fact that South Florida (an 11 year old program at the time) made it all the way to #2 shows how drunk 2007 was for college football.

AT 15:32 they misspelled Cincinnati. There is only one t, not two. Go Bearcats, Go Bengals!

NFL and college play during the same time of year roughly the end of August through mid January. Sports writers used to vote on teams but now they’re ranked by computers based on strength of schedule, margin of victory, and the ranking of they teams they best or lose to. Losing to a highly ranked team hurts you less than losing to a lesser team. Same applies to wins. If you’re #20 and you best #15 you’ll rise a little. But if you beat #3 suddenly you’re a too 10 to top 5 team.

You got it right. Who you play matters, who you beat matters. How badly you beat them also matters. In that USC game against Stanford, USC needed to blow Stanford out. Had USC won that game by only a point or 2 they'd likely still go down in the rankings because they had such a close game against such a heavy underdog. Correct, no ties allowed. If it takes all day today, and part of tomorrow, we'll play OT until someone wins.

a 4 win team will be ranked higher than a 5 win team depending on quality of play and who you play

That coach is now the Michigan coach

The regular season in college is the PLAYOFFS.

I just stumbled on your channel. I found your Chiefs/49ers video which I'm a Chiefs fan. I'm also a Kansas football fan in college and 2007/08 is the season that lives in lore for KU, which made it to the Orange Bowl that year and won it. It was crazy. I am so happy that KU is finally back in a bowl game for the first time since then this year.

West Virginia actually made it to the BCS National Championship in 1988 against Notre Dame. Sadly, they lost against ND, but it's a lie to say West Virginia never made it to a national championship. I do wish they eventually win one though. They have been having a hard time, especially these last four years.

It’s not so much about who has the most wins but who they played for those wins. Beating a low ranked team won’t make u jump but beating a top tier team will definitely make u jump in the rankings. In the nfl all teams are created equal….but college football definitely isn’t.

College football coaches are the highest paid state government employees in most states earning several million dollars per year at the top programs.

no limit to OT. Slight rule change in the last couple years but still no limit.

College football is treated #1, cause alot of fans or states dont have nfl teams. That year was crazy, like upset every week

The rankings are based a lot on who you’ve played, beaten, or lost to. So you can be 7-0 vs a bunch of bad programs and be ranked below someone who’s lost a game or two to good teams.

"It's not like you can have an established team for five, six, seven years." *Everyone else side eyes Alabama from the last 15 years.*

The vast majority of the players are 18-22, but every once in a while there will be some non-traditional students on the teams. Stetson Bennett the current QB for Georgia is 25 I believe, and Oklahoma State has a 32 year old punter. BYU (a Mormon university) is probably most known for having old players. Most of their players are in the mid to late 20s because they all have to serve their mission trips as being members of the Mormon church so they don't start college until a couple years after most people

There are several states that have the highest paid person in the state be a college football coach.

There are 125 teams in division 1-A college football. They play 12 regular season games and the top 4 play each other two get the top 2 for the national championship. The rest play in bowl games that mean nothing. Also in college its not how many you beat, it's who you beat. Strength of schedule. It makes sense for the most part when you understand the conferences in college football and which teams play in those conferences.

Yes college football coaches get paid. They get paid big time. For context, the average NFL coach salary is 6.6 million per year, while the average college coach is 1.7 million per year. However, one must keep in mind that there are a lot of schools with very small football programs that bring that average down. The college coaches at elite schools actually make more than the NFL average. The top ten current highest paid coaches all make more than 8 million per year.

Most big time schools pay their coaches 4-10 Million a year.

in Cal/Oregon game was 14 seconds on the game clock, yes, you're right, he had to throw it out of bounds to stop the clock... and try again.

Players can now get sponsored by corporations, but this current season is only the second season that it’s been allowed.

A regular kicked field goal = 3points... Touchdown is 6points. .After touchdown options are1point for kicked field goal from 15yard line, OR 2 point conversion from 2yard line.

No they run simultaneously we just have too much sports here we got other sports to get to

5:56 they play at the same time but college is always on Saturday and NFL is always on Sunday to avoid directly competing

If you want to see some examples of how much schools spend on their programs Coiski has tour videos of some of their practice facilities. The Alabama Crimson Tide spent 288 million on theirs and Oklahoma spent 370 million

The rankings are indeed subjective because there are way too many teams for each team to play one another, so the AP poll is an average of several hundred college football journalists from around the country that vote every week on their top 25 teams. Taking things like record, strength of schedule, and "eye test" into consideration. If a team is undefeated but not near the top, its because they probably have not played any top class teams

College football is confused as hell to me (college ranking that is) there’s just too much going on for me. That’s why I just stick to NFL. Although it certainly helps that I’ve been born and raised in a city with a NFL franchise. (Indianapolis Colts)

So the way the AP Poll works is there are 63 media members who report on, write about, and study college football during the season who each week submit who they think the top 25 teams in the country are. Each member makes their own list. Teams are given points based on where the members each put them (25 for #1, 24 for #2, 23 for #3, etc). The points are added up once each member submits their list and the teams are then ranked in order by the number of points they received. The poll is subjective but the voters take many factors into account when voting. One of the main factors is strength of schedule. You might see a team who is 4-1 ahead of a team that’s 5-0 because that 5-0 team may not have played anyone good while the team that is 4-1 has beaten good teams and their 1 loss is to a team highly ranked. The schedule is broken up into 2 categories, conference and non-conference games. Conference games are when you play other teams in your conference and is mostly the same teams every year. Non-conference games are when you play teams out of your conference which means you can play pretty much whoever you want. Most teams play 4 non-conference games and then 8 conference games. The exceptions are teams who are independent and not in a conference, their whole schedule is non-conference games. The teams themselves work with other teams to schedule non-conference games with each other. So if you are a good team and play 4 bad teams in your non-conference schedule, sure you might win all 4 but it doesn’t look as good cuz the teams you played aren’t good.

9:55 College football has a bye week, and they're calculating rankings by what is projected to happen. All 5-0 versus 4-0 means is that the 5-0 team hasn't had their week off yet and the 4-0 has. The 5-0 team could have some brutal matchups coming, where the higher 4-0 team plays strong but beatable opponents for the rest of the season. So yes, there's a ridiculous amount of context that goes into ranking predictions, even so far as including the status of teams that the one being given a rank doesn't even play.... but that team influences the rank of a team they *do* play. Sometimes I wonder if the better ranking services don't require a blood sacrifice from the press before casting bones or hitting the ouija board.

Man I just realized something… for all the people who see this comment and are fans of Pat McAfee/The Pat McAfee Show, 2007 was the year he missed that big kick for West Virginia and everyone blamed him for it, cause he contemplate… well you know. RU-vid won’t let me say it but begins with S

6:55 college does not use traditional standing sue to the sheer amount of teams and varying difficulties in opponents, they are ranked by the college football media, almost like judges

Oklahoma fan here that WVU hates. Us.

uh ya got the wrong description it says "We're back with another British Guy Reacts to American Sports video, Today we're looking at NFL Funniest "Mic'd Up" Moments of the 2020-2021 Season!"

7:11 It’s very complex. There are over 900 college teams and there are conferences and divisions, etc. I, and most people, just care if their team beats their rivals at the end of the season, and/or win their division. If you win a national title, fine. Go Blue!

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There is no age limit to play college sports, but if you're over 30 and try out for a 1A program it most likely won't go in your favor. The oldest players you'll see are fifth year seniors (and sixth year like two of my buddies but that's much less common) and guys that joined the military at 18, served their time, and then decide to go to school and play after they get out through some government program. Edit: and I guess there's some that just start school later in life and still get on a team. There's been a couple football players that have been drafted to Major League Baseball organizations straight out of high school, but then the dream doesn't manifest so they go to uni and things fall into place

not sure, but i think the ranking is affected by the rank of the team they won or lost to.

23:24 The highest paid college coach is Nick Saban of Alabama. He gets $11.7m (10.78m pounds) a year.

Like I said College 🏈 is corrupt, it's all about Subjective opinion polls and not about play on the field

Youd be surprised about teams being good consistently. Alabama for instance has been either the best team or one of the best teams for 15 years straight. Most of their history they have been very good. Same with teams like Usc, Texas, Ohio State, etc. Its actually the opposite of what youd initially think. Yes guys graduate all the time, but unlike the Nfl theres no limit on how many good players you can get each season. The best teams get all the top players, because they have 100 thousand seat stadiums and tons of tradition / money for facilities and gear. The smaller schools / ones who actually focus more on academics or another sport have to constantly overcome that fact in order to compete. When it happens it's usually a flash in the pan and next year a blue blood team wins again. Also they play the seasons at roughly the same time. If they had to play a college season and then go right into another season in the NFL would be crazy. The polls aren't decided based solely on your record. The gap between the top teams and the bottom is enormous in college. One teams 5-0 can be far less impressive than another teams 3-2. College football is weird that way.