OFFICIAL 2020 COLLEGE FOOTBALL OFFSEASON THREAD

Who will the four teams in the College Football Playoff be?

  • Alabama

    Votes: 36 83.7%

  • Clemson

    Votes: 35 81.4%

  • UGA

    Votes: 22 51.2%

  • LSU

    Votes: 7 16.3%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 19 44.2%

  • UF

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Ohio State

    Votes: 12 27.9%

  • Auburn

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Michigan

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • Someone else

    Votes: 17 39.5%
  • Total voters
    43
  • Poll closed .
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What a great birthday gift for nako xl nako xl !!

If I’m Graham Harrell, I ride out another year at SC with a QB I know I like and try to get a head job next winter.

No reason to gamble on working for Herman at Texas. Clay may not be great and he may be a dead man walking, but at least he’s respected around the country by his peers.

People hate Tom Herman.
 
Texas really got all the tools for greatness but can’t put that shh together for nothing

no way in hell should Texas, LSU, uga or usc be just average.. a lil less on usc cause folks don’t care care like the other places

 
Michigan LB/DE Josh Uche going pro... 2nd team All Big Ten by the coaches and Don Brown decided to play him 20 snaps vs OSU... LOL
 
I'm more a f'eryist but I think teams will take the chance to get in and see how the dice rolls than not being in at all
 
Bobby Layne Bobby Layne heres an interesting one. As always it’s from a board so validity isn’t 100%


"Spoke with the Second Wiseman regarding the game planning around the Michigan game and the immediate impact afterwards and he had some VERY interesting things to say about the two staffs...

This has been a strange stretch in terms of coaches crossing sidelines with the swapping of ED WARINNER, GREG MATTISON, and AL WASHINGTON all within the past five years or so...

The Ed deal wasn't his choice however, after Urban Meyer literally fired him at the baggage claim after the team landed from the Clemson game in January 2017. Ed made his way to Michigan via Minnesota and hasn't had near the impact people in that organization had hoped...

The Al Washington and Greg Mattison deal was an ENTIRELY different ordeal. Mattison has long been an outstanding coordinator, yet was stuck in a rock and a hard place when Jim Harbaugh took his good friend Brady Hoke's job (they are very very close). Out of loyalty to the kids, he humbly accepted being relegated to defensive line coach after being the DC. Greg isn't getting any younger and his son resides in South Bend, so it seemed like a good deal...

That is, until, he got around Don Brown and his concepts. Mattison has long been known as being extremely sound on defense and letting players play fast. He will get exotic on passing downs, but generally he is in the mode of helping his guys maximize their talents. He learned a ton from his time being the DC for the Baltimore Ravens when he had Ray Lewis, Haloti Ngata, Ed Reed, and Terrell Suggs. Those guys taught him to coach and call a sound defense and when you have outstanding players, they will make you look great. When you are at Michigan or Ohio State, you essentially have the mid-2000s version of the Baltimore Ravens on defense from a talent perspective. Where did it go wrong???

Enter Don Brown, Defensive Coordinator, University of Michigan...

Don has long been a huge proponent of being a little edgier and taking more chances on defense. Some of it comes from having inferior players at most of his stops and having to "swing for the fences" on defense, strikeouts be damned. When he got to Michigan, however, he didn't adjust to having top end talent. This was all cruising along fine for a few years until last year's Ohio State game. Michigan came in as a favorite, and Don Brown's defense was being lauded as the best in the entire nation. The great divide between Don Brown and Greg Mattsion that week regarded how to defend the Ohio State aerial attack. Don had been running mostly COVER 1 (or man free) at a really high clip (like 80%), which is great versus Rutgers and team who aren't good enough to block Gary and Winovich. But Greg Mattison thought that Ohio State's tackles could block those two, and that we should run more zone (Quarters, Halves, and 3) to help out versus Ohio State's speed and crossing patterns that became a staple in 2018...

They had it out, and Don Brown won. He went MAN FREE versus Ohio State, and they proceeded to put up more points than anyone in the history of the rivalry...

That was it for Greg, and when word of his unhappiness reached Columbus, an old friend reached out through back channels. Greg went on to recommend AL WASHINGTON, whom he thinks very highly of but is still very green at coaching LBs. Mattison told the powers that be that Washington would be a superstar on the staff and that Al Washington Sr. (who lives in Grove City) was imploring him to "come home". Greg has done great work teaching Al linebacker play and it is very evident this year that the group has done a 180..."
 
witnesskb24 said:
Bobby Layne Bobby Layne heres an interesting one. As always it’s from a board so validity isn’t 100%


"Spoke with the Second Wiseman regarding the game planning around the Michigan game and the immediate impact afterwards and he had some VERY interesting things to say about the two staffs...

This has been a strange stretch in terms of coaches crossing sidelines with the swapping of ED WARINNER, GREG MATTISON, and AL WASHINGTON all within the past five years or so...

The Ed deal wasn't his choice however, after Urban Meyer literally fired him at the baggage claim after the team landed from the Clemson game in January 2017. Ed made his way to Michigan via Minnesota and hasn't had near the impact people in that organization had hoped...

The Al Washington and Greg Mattison deal was an ENTIRELY different ordeal. Mattison has long been an outstanding coordinator, yet was stuck in a rock and a hard place when Jim Harbaugh took his good friend Brady Hoke's job (they are very very close). Out of loyalty to the kids, he humbly accepted being relegated to defensive line coach after being the DC. Greg isn't getting any younger and his son resides in South Bend, so it seemed like a good deal...

That is, until, he got around Don Brown and his concepts. Mattison has long been known as being extremely sound on defense and letting players play fast. He will get exotic on passing downs, but generally he is in the mode of helping his guys maximize their talents. He learned a ton from his time being the DC for the Baltimore Ravens when he had Ray Lewis, Haloti Ngata, Ed Reed, and Terrell Suggs. Those guys taught him to coach and call a sound defense and when you have outstanding players, they will make you look great. When you are at Michigan or Ohio State, you essentially have the mid-2000s version of the Baltimore Ravens on defense from a talent perspective. Where did it go wrong???

Enter Don Brown, Defensive Coordinator, University of Michigan...

Don has long been a huge proponent of being a little edgier and taking more chances on defense. Some of it comes from having inferior players at most of his stops and having to "swing for the fences" on defense, strikeouts be damned. When he got to Michigan, however, he didn't adjust to having top end talent. This was all cruising along fine for a few years until last year's Ohio State game. Michigan came in as a favorite, and Don Brown's defense was being lauded as the best in the entire nation. The great divide between Don Brown and Greg Mattsion that week regarded how to defend the Ohio State aerial attack. Don had been running mostly COVER 1 (or man free) at a really high clip (like 80%), which is great versus Rutgers and team who aren't good enough to block Gary and Winovich. But Greg Mattison thought that Ohio State's tackles could block those two, and that we should run more zone (Quarters, Halves, and 3) to help out versus Ohio State's speed and crossing patterns that became a staple in 2018...

They had it out, and Don Brown won. He went MAN FREE versus Ohio State, and they proceeded to put up more points than anyone in the history of the rivalry...

That was it for Greg, and when word of his unhappiness reached Columbus, an old friend reached out through back channels. Greg went on to recommend AL WASHINGTON, whom he thinks very highly of but is still very green at coaching LBs. Mattison told the powers that be that Washington would be a superstar on the staff and that Al Washington Sr. (who lives in Grove City) was imploring him to "come home". Greg has done great work teaching Al linebacker play and it is very evident this year that the group has done a 180..."
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Michigan is mostly a C1/C2 Trap (a pattern matching version of C2) team. Brian on mgoblog mentioned that they've also run a little bit of just a basic C2 this year, but other then that, they don't do much spot dropping. Real life isn't Madden, you can't just run coverages you've never run before on the fly, especially against the best opponent on your schedule. That post is BS.
 
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ThaxbyChamblis said:
I don't think the playoff should expand because in a given year there are barely 4 NC caliber teams in the country, let alone 8.
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It's going to expand because more and more of these guys are going to sit out these NYD6 bowls, which inevitably is going to lead to a drop in fan interest in those games.

We don't need 4, but as a fan I'm not necessarily against the idea of being able to watch more meaningful football, especially if it gives the G5 access to an autobid.
 
Michigan played a lot more zone this year but even then it didn’t look properly coached... A lot of the guys were out of position or would vacate... My guess is Don isn’t suited for teaching it.... Last year they played zone maybe a handful of times and it would have probably led to about the same amount of points... Even this year vs the Buckeyes, guys in zone were letting people get behind them...
 
I definitely want to see the college playoffs expand. Give me a chance to watch a team everybody slept on win it all or pull off an upset like they do in college basketball. That's the main reason I hope Utah grabs this fourth spot. People think they have no chance because of bullcrap "SoS" & the fact that they don't play overhyped SEC/ACC teams on the regular, but I feel they can give them a run for their money.
 
witnesskb24 said:
So you think Brown is gone after their bowl game or will Harbaugh stick with him?
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They're not going to get anyone who is a guaranteed improvement, it'd be change for changes sake.

I don't really think the back end was the main problem against OSU this game anyways. They certainly didn't play well, but the main reason Michigan had nearly 60 dropped on them again was because the front 7 got dominated in the run game. There's not really anything you can do schematically for that, that's recruiting and development.
 
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