2024 Football

[HuskerFever]

1 hour ago, AuroranHusker said:

Pretty salty 2024 recruiting class put together by Rhule & Co. GBR

 

Well, the bar is pretty low. You just have to go 4-8 in your first year to become the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year. He's clearly overachieving.

[AuroranHusker]

I don't follow Colorado's fortunes, but I know Deion had won some type of an S.I. award that's nearly meaningless. I'm not seeing how that affects Nebraska football recruiting, however.

 

[Huskerpapa]

 

[HuskerFever]

Congrats to your 2024 college football champions, the Georgia Bulldogs:

 

Great for the Big Ten, great for the hype, and great to see SEC fans get real salty.

[AuroranHusker]

The fact that Georgia couldn't 3-peat makes my Husker heart warm; namely, that '94-'95 NU squad ought to remain at or near the top of the heap with back-to-back titles.

 

I actually thought UGa moving down from #1 to #6 in the final pre-bowl rankings was the real travesty when a lot of folks merely focused on FSU dropping out of the top 4. But, oh well, what's done is done. GBR

 

Edited January 9 by AuroranHusker

[HuskerFever]

29 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

The fact that Georgia couldn't 3-peat makes my Husker heart warm; namely, that '94-'95 NU squad ought to remain at or near the top of the heap with back-to-back titles.

 

I actually thought UGa moving down from #1 to #6 in the final pre-bowl rankings was the real travesty when a lot of folks merely focused on FSU dropping out of the top 4. But, oh well, what's done is done. GBR

 

It's finally one of the first times that a school finally got penalized for such a weak nonconference schedule. And SEC playing 4 nonconference games already puts them at an advantage with scheduling. Michigan likely would have been in a very similar position if they ended up with 1 loss.

 

Their playoffs started on December 2. And they lost in the first round. It's just nice for a change of pace that the winner of the SEC championship game didn't really matter in this year's tournament. The committESPNee couldn't justify putting two SEC teams in, but they had enough sway to put one in. Deserving, or not.

[AuroranHusker]

4 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

It's finally one of the first times that a school finally got penalized for such a weak nonconference schedule. And SEC playing 4 nonconference games already puts them at an advantage with scheduling. Michigan likely would have been in a very similar position if they ended up with 1 loss.

 

Their playoffs started on December 2. And they lost in the first round. It's just nice for a change of pace that the winner of the SEC championship game didn't really matter in this year's tournament. The committESPNee couldn't justify putting two SEC teams in, but they had enough sway to put one in. Deserving, or not.

 

Agreed. That first weekend in Dec. was essentially the quarterfinals. Next year there's two more layers to it. It will be interesting to see how many B1G & SEC teams are participating. . .

 

 

[HuskerFever]

11 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Agreed. That first weekend in Dec. was essentially the quarterfinals. Next year there's two more layers to it. It will be interesting to see how many B1G & SEC teams are participating. . .

 

One thing I hear people complain about it the possibility of playing a conference opponent 3 times in this new format: regular season, conference finals, and at some point in the 12-team playoff.

 

And as we've seen many many times with basketball and football selection committees, they love a storyline. They'll find some way to pair up a storyline matchup in round one (i.e., Michigan vs. Notre Dame) who would then play Ohio State in the next round.

[AuroranHusker]

1 minute ago, HuskerFever said:

 

One thing I hear people complain about it the possibility of playing a conference opponent 3 times in this new format: regular season, conference finals, and at some point in the 12-team playoff.

 

And as we've seen many many times with basketball and football selection committees, they love a storyline. They'll find some way to pair up a storyline matchup in round one (i.e., Michigan vs. Notre Dame) who would then play Ohio State in the next round.

 

Yeah, sort of like Fred Hoiberg facing Iowa State in the 2024 Big Dance. . . 

[HuskerFever]

He's giving Grant Gibbs a running for his money:

 

 

[AuroranHusker]

Nebraska's Red-White spring football scrimmage will be at 11 a.m. on April 27, 2024.

 

 

[throwback]

 

[throwback]

 

[HuskerFever]

Let's play a game called "Two Truths and a Lie" 

 

 

[Bugeaters1]

 

[49r]

End of an era.

 

[HuskerFever]

Well this is fun...

 

 

[Huskerpapa]

Ouch.  That resignation is going to hurt!

[49r]

14 hours ago, Huskerpapa said:

Ouch.  That resignation is going to hurt!

 

Didn't last long.

[Bugeaters1]

 

[AuroranHusker]

On 7/23/2024 at 9:10 PM, Bugeaters1 said:

 

 

Hoax

[AuroranHusker]

The Big Ten media days just concluded, they had to make it 3 days to cover 18 teams. Sheesh.

 

It will certainly be interesting how the top 2 will end up, the two teams who make the B18 Championship team in football. I predict Oregon & Ohio St. Just a hunch...

 

[brfrad]

Dylan looked good today.  Did what we needed against an overmatched opponent. 

[Bugeaters1]

18 hours ago, brfrad said:

Dylan looked good today.  Did what we needed against an overmatched opponent. 

3 or 4 years ago that wouldn't have been the case.

[throwback]

On 8/31/2024 at 5:11 PM, brfrad said:

Dylan looked good today.  Did what we needed against an overmatched opponent. 

That's been pretty rare the past several years, so it was impressive. We looked like a veteran team that knows what it's doing.