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NCAA College football season 2022

eagle eye

It's back in a week. I can't wait. How will Lincoln Riley do at USC? Or Brian Kelly at LSU? Or Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame? Will Clemson be back after a down year? Can Georgia repeat? Could Utah cause a big shock?

Lots and lots of questions before the season even starts. Below is the associated press preseason rankings.

I can't wait for next weekend. Go Irish!!!

AP Preseason Top 25

1. Alabama

2. Ohio State

3. Georgia

4. Clemson

5. Notre Dame

6. Texas A&M

7. Utah

8. Michigan

9. Oklahoma

10. Baylor

11. Oregon

12. Oklahoma State

13. North Carolina State

14. USC

15. Michigan State

16. Miami (FL)

17. Pittsburgh

18. Wisconsin

19. Arkansas

20. Kentucky

21. Ole Miss

22. Wake Forest

23. Cincinnati

24. Houston

25. BYU

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eagle eye

I feel so bad for TCU, it's embarrassing at this stage and Georgia won't stop.

Currently 65-7 and I hope at this stage that Georgia will finally show a bit of class and play soft zone on defense and run clock on offense.

theoneeyedman

Brutal result.

Didn't wait up for it, but horrible, ruthless, relentless stuff from Georgia. They are the outstanding team for the last probably 3 years, so deserving winners overall. After only watching the highlights, but would any other team have done any better last night? Hard to tell, TCU there on merit I guess. Maybe another similar style team like Alabama might have stood up better but who knows.

Kirby Smart building his own legacy with the Bulldogs

eagle eye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120088592#Comment_120088592

Stetson Bennett has been a huge part of all this. His story is wonderful and it'll be a movie some say. It's very hard to gauge just how much he influenced all of this.

I'm not sure how he'll do in the NFL but if attitude, self-belief, drive and determination were the qualities required he'd be the best of the best.

The biggest issue is his height, he's only 5'11".

theoneeyedman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120088840#Comment_120088840

It's a brilliant story alright, certainly triumph over adversary and a great advertisement for perseverance. I knew he had dropped down to a junior college at one point, but I didn't realise he played in Ellisvillle MS for that year - I'd know that area because I lived in the next town over for a while, and to describe it as a backwater would be an understatement! A real, real small town in a poor part of Mississippi, and not a football hotbed by any means.

Credit to the lad, and he's been very good all year and particularly last night, but I wonder how much is it him and his talent and how much is it the Georgia system and the players around him, particularly the O Line and McConkey.

While his drive, application and attitude deserve great credit, and what he has already achieved deserves great credit in itself, I have my doubts if he has enough talent to bring him a successful NFL career. As I say, that's not to denegrade him or what he has done, but success at NFL level is different gravy.

Success or failure at NFL level shouldn't take from his college career though.

Loughc

With the ESPN Player gone now is TNT sports our only chance to catch college football over these parts these days?

icdg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120950003#Comment_120950003

ESPN have also broken ties with TNT Sports.

if lucky, TNT will still show the SEC on CBS, but that’s not clear at this point either.

Sky will show Notre Dame’s home games, including the fixture v Navy at the Aviva.

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120950298#Comment_120950298

Grim. Shame there is no streaming platform or a tv station picking up college football game often better watch than NFL games. More freedom to the plays.

eagle eye

Well from what I'm reading TNT still have the contract for NCAA football. Apparently they also have the contract for USFL moving forward.

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120950925#Comment_120950925

Confirmed now no college football for ESPN games.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120951646#Comment_120951646

How many ESPN games were on Saturdays on the old BT Sports ?

I can't remember.

icdg

It would really depend on other stuff on but usually there’d be ESPN/ABC games at 5pm and 12 midnight/12:30am. The SEC on CBS aired between the two, at 8:30pm, but sometimes you’d get an ESPN/ABC game either instead of it or else simultaneously on another channel. They’d sometimes show 3:30am PAC-12 games too.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120953773#Comment_120953773

I'm guessing/hoping the ABC games won't be affected, even though they are owned by the same group as ESPN.

icdg

Probably wishful thinking I’m afraid. There’s no real dividing line between ESPN and ABC Sports these days, and hasn’t been for a long time.

The background to this is that BT bought ESPN’s U.K. operation in 2013, and retained an affiliation deal with them that they renewed at one point, which allowed them access to certain ESPN content including college football and basketball as well as some in house programmes. They even had a co-branded channel, BT Sport ESPN, though that name was first thing to go once WBD came in.

BT Sport has now been effectively taken over by Warner Bros Discovery (BT retain 50% share but WBD have operational control) and the new owners have declined to renew the affiliation deal and it expired at the end of July. So all the ESPN stuff has disappeared from the newly renamed TNT Sports literally overnight.

The hope is that they retain the SEC on CBS, but even that’s not clear, and this is the final season for that package anyway before it moves to ESPN in 2024. Remember also that for now obscure reasons the SEC on CBS doesn’t premiere till Week 3 (they get to make up with double headers later in the season).

mooreman09

I use other means for college football but is the ESPN player not around anymore? I used that for years and they had 70 or 80% of games on there.

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120961055#Comment_120961055

ESPN player closing down from 12th august.

icdg

Unfortunately the news is not good for CFB - barring a last minute deal no college football will be screened in the U.K. and Ireland this year apart from Notre Dame home games.

(There’s also apparently an international non-geoblocked stream of the PAC-12 Network available on YouTube - not sure whether this shows any live events and if it does I suspect that they’re very late at night given where PAC-12 schools are located).

ssshhh123

1 ticket for Saturdays game available 86e FV block 515

el Fenomeno

This Colorado TCU game is insane.

eagle eye

Duke are about to beat Clemson. 5 minutes left and they have the ball up by 14 points.

Clemson told DJ Uiagalelei that he wouldn't be starting and he left in the portal and went to Oregon state.

Now if you have a good one to replace him that makes sense but this guy Klubnik is worse.

Make that a 21 point lead.

LuckyLloyd

Lads how can we watch the games?

Got a bit of a shock there to see it is not being covered on BT (or any of the Sky channels, of course) and the ESPN player is shut down. What are the options here from Ireland, if any?

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121089909#Comment_121089909

All ND games are on sky sports and some college games are on NFL Gamepass on DAZN.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090152#Comment_121090152

Home games only for Notre Dame on Sky alas.

Loughc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090211#Comment_121090211

Apologies I meant to say home games

eagle eye

Anyone watching Bama v Texas? Great game, defense was on top until about half way through the third quarter and then it exploded. Ewers having a great game, and improving his draft stock.

Texas up by ten in Tuscaloosa, that puts you firmly in the playoff picture if you hold on for the win.

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091410#Comment_121091410

where the hell are we supposed to watch them , now espn have parted from bt sports

eagle eye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091420#Comment_121091420

Well I have a special TV package. Message me if you want more details. Cannot chat about it here.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121089909#Comment_121089909

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121091420#Comment_121091420

Ok I know this is likely to get deleted but also to a certain extent this info is in the public domain, so I'll post it.

Just search for "NCAA football live" on YouTube and you will see games that people are broadcasting on their YouTube channels.

I watched a good few games last year that way and Nebraska at Colorado and the Alabama v Texas game on it yesterday.

It's the way I'll get my college football this year.

theoneeyedman

Early days...

Are Bama In trouble? I think 12 teams get into the playoffs this year so they might be OK, but a home loss to another SEC team on game 2 doesn't auger well for a tip 4 finish in the old system.

Are the Longhorns any good? Ewars looked very good, are theyfor real and can they sustain it.

Notre Dame 3-0, big delay in NC with lightening but didn't change the direction of the game.

The Colerado bandwagon goes on another week, I'm late to this Dion Sanders/Coach Prime story but seems to be a huge buzz around Colerado, and they backed up the TCU win with another one. Again, will they be able to sustain it.... why not really? If they do well in the PAC12, you'd image the TV companies will want them in the top 12 and in the playoffs?

TV situation is a boll1x. I supose the NCAA don't care or see Europe as a market worth chasing, but if not why not remove the geolock and out the games on YouTube or something like that? TV companies probably haven't the rights to show it, which is a pity.

el Fenomeno

It's still a 4 team playoff this year. Expansion is next year.

theoneeyedman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121094730#Comment_121094730

Im talking sh1te so.

Alabama in big trouble in the national picture so.