NCAA College Football - 2018 Thread

JaMarcus

New thread for the year ahead.

If anyone is interested in college fantasy football this year, please see this thread in the FF forum: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057887416

brinty

6/7 weeks to go
Getting excited now. Any news on a college game to Ireland again soon. Talking to some UK cowboys fans and we're discussing a trip in Oct-19 to take in cowboys AMD longhorns game

Peter File

brinty wrote: »

6/7 weeks to go
Getting excited now. Any news on a college game to Ireland again soon. Talking to some UK cowboys fans and we're discussing a trip in Oct-19 to take in cowboys AMD longhorns game

No sign of one anytime soon. They had around 30,000 at the last game and they released lots of €20 tickets to pad out the crowd.

JaMarcus

Shameful bump for our college fantasy football league where we need 4 more people

gstack166

Peter File wrote: »

No sign of one anytime soon. They had around 30,000 at the last game and they released lots of €20 tickets to pad out the crowd.

It’s finished for the foreseeable as far as I know. Was an agreement for a game every 2 years but I understand Aer Lingus pulled the sponsorship for some reason. I’m sure it was discussed on a thread here.

Fr Tod Umptious

Eir Sport are offering 3 months for €1 per month for Sky customers, offer ends July 31st.

The package includes BT Sports channels so you can get lots of September and October NCAA football for a great price

More details on the Bargain Alerts thread.

gstack166

I don’t see how Urban survives this if true:



https://www.google.ie/amp/s/buckeyewire.com/2018/08/01/brett-mcmurphy-reports-urban-meyer-knew-of-previous-domestic-abuse-by-zach-smith/amp/

Paully D

https://twitter.com/allbrightnfl/status/1024770615922831361?s=21

JaMarcus

He's already been placed on leave. They fired Tressel for less, so I expect him to be gone once they've investigated.

JaMarcus

QB1: Beyond The Lights has been added to Netflix for anyone that's interested. Follows 3 Quarterbacks in their final year before moving to a D1 college. It's a good watch.

gstack166

I find it a weird one with Urban. I mean he can’t monitor his wife’s messages, who’s to say she’s not lying & even if she’s not Meyer committed no crime, are the police arresting the coach who was assaulting his wife? Baffles me how the only person who most likely losses in this is the Head Coach. $6m a year job gone for no wrong doing of his own.

Fair enough if it is PROVEN he kept it under wraps, I’m sure the wife at the time wouldn’t have wanted the husband losing the job no matter what he was doing, I looked at her interview earlier & she kept saying the same thing ‘I thought I could change him’ surely if she thought that she would of kept it in house as much as possible & if it got out would of pleaded with Meyer not to fire her husband.

Just my opinion obviously.

MayoSalmon

Hey guys whats the easiest way to watch college football?

The NCAA College Annual Pass?

Doogs27

MayoSalmon wrote: »

Hey guys whats the easiest way to watch college football?

The NCAA College Annual Pass?

BT sports Espn has college gameday and then games I think?? I just subscribed and I'm hoping so.

Loughc

Doogs27 wrote: »

BT sports Espn has college gameday and then games I think?? I just subscribed and I'm hoping so.

Yes BT/ESPN has live games and College GameDay. This week they have a College GameDay episode showing the best of the 2017 season.

brinty

Eir/bt sports git ye covered
Bout 10 games a weekend Thursday through Sunday morning
College gameday Saturday and catch up during the week
Only bad thing is it rarely shows big 12 games to see my beloved Texas longhorns

gstack166

Doogs27 wrote: »

BT sports Espn has college gameday and then games I think?? I just subscribed and I'm hoping so.

ESPN player is €20 p/m & you can watch whatever game you want. Unbelievable value, can be chronecasted or played through a fire stick also.

gstack166

Could anyone recommend a podcast(s) about the big 10 & preferably but not essentially previewing the conference on a gambling basis

Thanks.

JaMarcus

gstack166 wrote: »

Could anyone recommend a podcast(s) about the big 10 & preferably but not essentially previewing the conference on a gambling basis

Thanks.

The Solid Verbal recently did a season preview of the Big Ten East (Aug 2nd show) and Big Ten West (July 19th show). They tend to go through each team's schedules and project what their record will be.

Doogs27

gstack166 wrote: »

Could anyone recommend a podcast(s) about the big 10 & preferably but not essentially previewing the conference on a gambling basis

Thanks.

Against all odds with cousin sál from the ringer podcasts are good for the gambling. They'll cover big 10 I'm sure but they won't focus on it at all.

JaMarcus

Well done everyone, we just survived our last Saturday without College Football for the next few months

OldRio

I managed to find, by pure chance, Rolling with the tide, on YouTube. Fascinating insight on Alabama. The first two episodes are up at the moment.

JaMarcus

The Ohio State Trustees decision on Urban Meyer is due shortly - any time in the next hour or two.

Doogs27

Are there any big match ups this weekend? Looking forward to Michigan @ Notre Dame for the first college gameday.

JaMarcus

Doogs27 wrote: »

Are there any big match ups this weekend? Looking forward to Michigan @ Notre Dame for the first college gameday.

In a word - no.

Week Zero is for gamblers only.

JaMarcus

https://twitter.com/davebiddle/status/1032367551207026688?s=19

BKWDR

gstack166 wrote: »

ESPN player is €20 p/m & you can watch whatever game you want. Unbelievable value, can be chronecasted or played through a fire stick also.

Have tried this, the app is only available in the US. I tried VPN and still no joy...do you have a workaround?

Loughc

BKWDR wrote: »

Have tried this, the app is only available in the US. I tried VPN and still no joy...do you have a workaround?

I have the app and it works here. Prices are in Euro as well, they'd hardly be advertising in Euro if it doesn't work.

The Website even states its available in Europe, Middle East & Africa.

JaMarcus

ESPN Player should work fine here, though it doesn't have every game. It'll have a lot, but some of the big games that would be exclusive to Fox or other networks won't be on it so just be careful.

When it comes to watching college football, a good IPTV subscription that has US channels is all you need, plus you always have reddit.com/r/CFBstreams.

gstack166

BKWDR wrote: »

Have tried this, the app is only available in the US. I tried VPN and still no joy...do you have a workaround?

Do it on the website not app, but like what was said it won’t have every game, the prime time games on other networks aren’t showed & I think Notre Dames games are excluded too but open to be corrected.

Realt Dearg Sec

gstack166 wrote: »

Do it on the website not app, but like what was said it won’t have every game, the prime time games on other networks aren’t showed & I think Notre Dames games are excluded too but open to be corrected.

Far as I know Notre Dame home games are exclusive to NBC. It's a very lucrative arrangement for both, probably makes things a bit difficult for Irish college ball fans though.

BKWDR

I have iptv so Ill stick with that and see what's on cheers

Haven't really picked a team to follow really but enjoy watching on Saturdays, Penn state maybe?

JaMarcus

They'll definitely be fun to watch anyway. As I heard so well put on a podcast yesterday, you'll have an impossible task trying to figure out if Trace McSorley is just really, really good or really, really lucky. There's a lot of Favre to him!

brinty

BKWDR wrote: »

I have iptv so Ill stick with that and see what's on cheers

Haven't really picked a team to follow really but enjoy watching on Saturdays, Penn state maybe?

Texas Longhorns baby
#Hook'em

Doogs27

brinty wrote: »

Texas Longhorns baby
#Hook'em

No nó no. Geaux Tigers

JaMarcus

Feel like such a degenerate watching and betting on UMass vs. Duquesne.

Will go UMass -20 just because they're returning pretty much everyone on offense this year and a lot of them are seniors and will want to get a bowl game this year.

The first game of the year has officially started.

BKWDR

JaMarcus wrote: »

Feel like such a degenerate watching and betting on UMass vs. Duquesne.

Will go UMass -20 just because they're returning pretty much everyone on offense this year and a lot of them are seniors and will want to get a bowl game this year.

The first game of the year has officially started.

Actually found myself watching the cedar Grove high school game last night then some of the UMass game

rebelyell99

Hawaii ,colorado state was a very entertaining game .Colorado almost came back from 30 points down.Roll on next weekend

JaMarcus

Here's what I can see on UK/Irish TV this week:

Thursday Night:

Midnight: #21 UCF @ Connecticut (BT Sport 2)
1:00am: Northwestern @ Purdue (BT Sport ESPN)

Friday Night:

Midnight: Army @ Duke (BT Sport 2)
2:00am: Western Kentucky @ #4 Wisconsin (BT Sport ESPN)

Saturday:

5:00pm: Ole Miss vs Texas Tech (BT Sport ESPN)
8:30pm: #6 Washington vs #9 Auburn (BT Sport ESPN)
Midnight: Cincinatti @ UCLA (BT Sport ESPN)
1:00am: Louisville vs #1 Alabama (BT Sport 1)
3:45am: BYU @ Arizona (BT Sport ESPN)

Sunday Night:

12:30am: #8 Miami vs #25 LSU (BT Sport ESPN)

Monday Night:

1:00am: #20 Virginia Tech @ #19 Florida State (BT Sport ESPN)

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Saturday lineup is pretty cool as it gives us a mix of everything. Ole Miss/TT should be a shootout and for me, the over/under at 67 is ridiculously low so I expect it to comfortably exceed that total. Washington/Auburn is a genuine top 10 match up and two very similar, evenly-matched teams. Then we get to see Chip Kelly's return to college football with UCLA, we get to see the number one team in the country in Alabama face Louisville who are trying to replace Lamar Jackson (Jawon Pass is supposedly very similar but with much better passing skills - a scary thought). And then we get to see the consensus #1 fantasy player in the country in Khalil Tate for Arizona if you're up that late. In the span of 6 games last year, he rushed for 327, 230, 137, 146, 161 and 206 yards respectively (with 11 rushing touchdowns and 8 passing touchdowns thrown in). Not bad for a quarterback!

Michigan/Notre Dame doesn't make our screens, but is on NBC so plenty of streams will be available. It's on at 12:30am on Saturday night. Notre Dame are bringing back the green jerseys for this one.

Loughc

JaMarcus wrote: »

Michigan/Notre Dame doesn't make our screens, but is on NBC so plenty of streams will be available. It's on at 12:30am on Saturday night. Notre Dame are bringing back the green jerseys for this one.

Damn that was the one I really wanted to see!

brinty

11 games this weekend.. oh happy days. Ms Brinty is working on Saturday and Sunday so i'll stay up late for one and watch another on Sunday maybe two, who wants to watch the muck that'll be going on in Croke park this weekend..

I'd be happy if they could get some more regular Big 12 games on for us. Everyone should witness the red rivalry game at least once.

#Hook'em

JaMarcus

Ugh, potentially serious injury on the opening play of UCF/UConn.

UCF player down after the opening kickoff. Players have taken a knee, stretcher out on the field. Though there appears to be some movement in his legs per the commentators. Seems a fairly sombre mood out there, doesn't look good.

JaMarcus

Second night in a row we've had a long delay on a televised game because of a player seriously injured on a kick-off. Spinal board and neck brace out again. Can't be long before the kick-off is taken out of the game.

JaMarcus

Utah State have gone to #11 Michigan State and are on the verge of taking the lead with 5 minutes left. Michigan State have been absolutely dreadful, as have the referees, but on the same hand Utah State have been seriously impressive.

eagle eye

Yeah, Utah State imo have been bang average. Wolverines have been awful, doesn't seem like they put enough work in during the offseason. Certainly look very disorganised on offense.

eagle eye

There you have it, Utah State in front and they deserve to win it I think.

JaMarcus

eagle eye wrote: »

Yeah, Utah State imo have been bang average. Wolverines have been awful, doesn't seem like they put enough work in during the offseason. Certainly look very disorganised on offense.

The refs seem to be reviewing everything that could go Utah States way, but not reviewing anything that can go Michigan States way.

The knee down before the touchdown, and Lewerkes "fumble"/grounding could have changed the game.

I gave up on Michigan State covering the spread in the 2nd quarter, they're going straight on my "Do Not Bet" list and I hope Utah State win out of spite

eagle eye

Wolverines back up by 7 now. Two minutes for Utah State to get back in this. I really do hope they do it, Wolverines don't deserve the win.



Gotta agree about the fishy refereeing in this one and I'm rarely in agreement with people about that stuff.

eagle eye

Ugh, horrible end to the game with he batted ball.

adrian522

The first week of college football is officially the start of winter. Think I'll light the fire

eagle eye

I watched Colardo vs Colorado State last night. It appears it's going to be a very long season for Colorado State. They got beaten everywhere last night in a 45-13 defeat and they lost to Hawaii the week before.

eagle eye

Jaysus, I was tired last night. I was calling the Spartans the Wolverines, lmfao.