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Sports 🥌 2025 College Football Thread - UNC home games are sold out for the season

Utah State is in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl for the fifth time vs Washington State in Boise Idaho on the blue carpet.
 
JNA said:
Utah State is in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl for the fifth time vs Washington State in Boise Idaho on the blue carpet.
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I cannot watch any game played on the smurf turf. My eyes and brain cannot function with that color as playing field.
 
MD Planner said:
Looks like Michigan is very late to the coaching search party. :r:
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Wow… I didn’t have that one on my Bingo Card. But good for Michigan at finally holding people accountable. I liked Moore, but it is a shame that he “had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member”.

I wonder what would have happened if he had beaten OSU. Would they have confronted but kept him?
 
MD Planner said:
Looks like Michigan is very late to the coaching search party. :r:
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Now there is a Michigan man.... ;)

I want to make fun of the situation, but honestly I have two major issues:

1. It is a terrible situation for his wife and kids, and honestly just looks like a completely douchebag thing to do. Then if the rumors of him then threatening both women and stating he wanted to kill himself are true, it makes it an even more sad situation.
2. It now means Michigan may get an actually good coach.

Rumor also has it that Michigan knew for a bit, but was just waiting out the recruiting cycle, which is pretty terrible if true. It will be interesting to see the impact of recruits leaving - but I would guess with the clearly upgraded coaching situation, they are going to see little loss there and could even gain some transfers.
 
Hink said:
It now means Michigan may get an actually good coach.
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Doubtful - all of the "good" HC candidates have either already moved up for more $$$ or signed extensions. Michigan is in dumpster-fire territory (for now) after yesterday.
 
Hink said:
Rumor also has it that Michigan knew for a bit, but was just waiting out the recruiting cycle, which is pretty terrible if true. It will be interesting to see the impact of recruits leaving - but I would guess with the clearly upgraded coaching situation, they are going to see little loss there and could even gain some transfers.
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And Letters of Intent are not nearly as binding as they used to be so even with high school recruits signing they can still get get out of it.
 
michaelskis said:
Wow… I didn’t have that one on my Bingo Card. But good for Michigan at finally holding people accountable. I liked Moore, but it is a shame that he “had an inappropriate relationship with a staff member”.

I wonder what would have happened if he had beaten OSU. Would they have confronted but kept him?
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Hink said:
Now there is a Michigan man.... ;)

I want to make fun of the situation, but honestly I have two major issues:

1. It is a terrible situation for his wife and kids, and honestly just looks like a completely douchebag thing to do. Then if the rumors of him then threatening both women and stating he wanted to kill himself are true, it makes it an even more sad situation.
2. It now means Michigan may get an actually good coach.

Rumor also has it that Michigan knew for a bit, but was just waiting out the recruiting cycle, which is pretty terrible if true. It will be interesting to see the impact of recruits leaving - but I would guess with the clearly upgraded coaching situation, they are going to see little loss there and could even gain some transfers.
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I was wondering the same thing as MSkis about what would have happened had Michigan beaten OSU but as more reporting came out and going back over some quotes from other people in the program over the final few weeks of the season it did sound like maybe the writing was on the wall for Moore and Michigan may have indeed been waiting out the recruiting cycle. Of course, now that Moore is out, isn't anybody who already committed to Michigan free to go basically anywhere else? If Michigan was waiting out the recruiting cycle, they may have just shot themselves in the foot if this causes a bunch of decommits. Biff Poggi was named interim coach and there were more than a few interviews with players and write ups from commentators during the season about how everybody on the team LOVES Poggi so maybe that's a good sign that they won't have quite as much player turnover as they would otherwise? They've also got Wink Martindale who has had some success at the NFL level as an assistant coach so maybe that will be a draw for some of the players? Who knows what else might shake up from all of this though if it turns out others on the staff knew of Moore's affair with a staff member.

I will say that as more and more news came out yesterday evening about the entire situationI feel this is sort of like the Ron Burgundy "That escalated quickly!" meme. :omg:
 
The news coming out of Ann Arbor be like:

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Wannaplan? said:
The news coming out of Ann Arbor be like:

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True!

I have not seen fireworks like this since Tiger Woods had a window smashed out of his SUV...


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I have to say that as a Michigan fan, I am profoundly disappointed in former coach Moore's actions. I had such high hopes that he could be the beginning of a long and stable program only to learn that he is quite unstable in his personal life. The University did the right thing and frankly, I think his actions earlier this week left them no other choice.
 
After 21 seasons at Utah's HC, Kyle Whittingham will retire from coaching and move to an advisor role, per his contract, for $3.45 million a year for two years. Morgan Scalley has been promoted to HC. Whit leaves Utah as the most winning coach at 177-88.
 
michaelskis said:
fireworks
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Well, a nuclear bomb ain’t fireworks, it’s, umm, a bomb. The impact from this detonation is slowly expanding, its effective range could very well be a larger circle of immense damage. Ain’t no way any sane Wolverine-enjoyer would call these events “fireworks” lol!
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Biff Poggi was named interim coach and there were more than a few interviews with players and write ups from commentators during the season about how everybody on the team LOVES Poggi so maybe that's a good sign that they won't have quite as much player turnover as they would otherwise?
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I was a big fan of Biff when he was at Charlotte for less than two season. I wish they would have given him one more season. He was well liked by the players and the fans. 30 players, 11 starters entered the transfer portal after he was fired, some would have left anyway, but....
 
Planit said:
That's one hell of a way to 'flip' a coin
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But on the brightside, Navy won!

I didn't start to get into the game until about a decade ago (right around the tailend of Navy's 14 year win streak) and since I have been watching it feels like Army has won more years than not. Two wins in a row for Navy so maybe we're about to start another long win streak...
 
Well I think Michigan just got A LOT better. Kyle Whittingham is a great coach. That is a huge step up from what they had the last two years. He is also a pretty straight shooter, which should help with the cheating culture they seemed to be rolling with since Harbaugh. It seems they still need to fire Manual, but Whittingham is a great hire and will be good for the program moving forward.

Also, as of yesterday the Big10 is 5-0 in bowl games, with the Big12 (2-0) and Pac-12 (1-0) doing well. SEC is 2-4.....

The upcoming conference games should be really interesting to see which conference is better....;)
  • Alabama / Indiana
  • Texas / Michigan
  • Illinois / Tennessee
 
At this point, I'm good with any of the remaining teams winning out. I do think Ole Miss winning would be a great jab at Kiffin, but he'd claim credit. Plus the only thing that keeps Ole Miss fans from being as annoying as some of the other teams in the SEC is that can't win big games or the NC.
 
Bubba said:
Like I needed a reminder that the playoff needs to expand to 16 teams and get rid of the stupid extra week off for the top four seeds...not that I'm bitter and angry or anything.
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Unless you're Indiana who had no problem with the layoff. But I totally get your point.

Or, in my opinion they need to be contracted. (I know this will never happen). But I guess the argument for expanding is that it until you stop awarding bids due to recency bias (looking at you Alabama) more deserving teams may get a shot. NIL has changed everything in college football. Texas Tech and Ohio State scored a combined 3 points. Tech was shutout by an Oregon team that gave up 34 points to JMU at home.
 
Indiana v. Miami I guess? Not sure what to believe in anymore. Although, Indiana looks legit.
 
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