Official College Football Thread

[Heads22]

Iowa State has a new head football coach. Smart money is on Central Michigan head coach Brian Kelly, but there is also a chance it is LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini.

 

Apparently we got our #1 choice, which makes me think it might be Pelini. That and the fact that Kelly still has at least two games to coach while Pelini is still a coordinator.

 

At least, I sure hope it's Bo.

[RockRaines]

Haha...I love people who think Brady Quin is the best QB in the country. Troy Smith is the best QB in the country and is by far the best pro prospect in the country. The guy has absolutely every tool an NFL team would want for its QB.

 

He has a strong, accurate arm, has proven he can take a beating, and can use his feet very well to buy time or take off and grab the occasional first down, and is a proven winner and a proven leader.

Fixed

[He_Gawn]

Fixed

 

 

Not even close. Is Smith even going to go in the first round? Quinn is the most NFL ready QB to come out of college since Manning.

Edited November 26, 2006 by He_Gawn

[Brian]

Not even close. Is Smith even going to go in the first round? Quinn is the most NFL ready QB to come out of college since Manning.

 

I think you're both being ridiculous. If Smith falls to the 2nd round, I'd be shocked. Quinn will go early just because the draft won't have many great QBs coming out. They are both top 15 picks most likely.

 

Smith will have to shake the legend that mobile QBs can't win it all in the NFL.

[THEWOOD]

Is ND out of the BCS bowl picture with last nights loss? They are ranked 10th in the new BCS standings.

[greasywheels121]

Is ND out of the BCS bowl picture with last nights loss? They are ranked 10th in the new BCS standings.

 

Can you post the rankings, I've been looking for those.

 

Thanks in advance.

[El Barto]

Iowa State has a new head football coach. Smart money is on Central Michigan head coach Brian Kelly, but there is also a chance it is LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini.

 

Apparently we got our #1 choice, which makes me think it might be Pelini. That and the fact that Kelly still has at least two games to coach while Pelini is still a coordinator.

 

At least, I sure hope it's Bo.

 

Kelly would be a heck of a coach for your team. He created the D2 powerhouse (my alma mater) GVSU and turned Central Michigan around in three years. His offense is innovative and he can recruit. Pelini would be a good choice and maybe a safe choice but Kelly has the chance to be a great fit.

[THEWOOD]

Rank TEAM Harris Votes % of 2850 USA Today / ESPN Votes % of 1575 Computer % of 100 points BCS Average

1 Ohio State 2850 1.000 1575 1.000 1.000 1.000

2 USC 2711 0.951 1491 0.947 0.940 0.946

3 Michigan 2614 0.917 1445 0.917 0.930 0.922

4 Florida 2528 0.887 1405 0.892 0.890 0.890

5 LSU 2294 0.805 1255 0.797 0.830 0.811

6 Louisville 2175 0.763 1169 0.742 0.780 0.762

7 Wisconsin 2176 0.764 1221 0.775 0.590 0.710

8 Boise State 1872 0.657 1018 0.646 0.720 0.674

9 Arkansas 1890 0.663 1042 0.662 0.660 0.662

10 Notre Dame 1765 0.619 928 0.589 0.670 0.626

11 Auburn 1680 0.589 985 0.625 0.640 0.618

12 Oklahoma 1743 0.612 994 0.631 0.410 0.551

13 Rutgers 1558 0.547 777 0.493 0.610 0.550

14 Virginia Tech 1298 0.455 744 0.472 0.400 0.443

15 West Virginia 1226 0.430 668 0.424 0.350 0.401

16 Tennessee 872 0.306 434 0.276 0.530 0.371

17 Wake Forest 1071 0.376 607 0.385 0.280 0.347

18 California 598 0.210 343 0.218 0.530 0.319

19 Texas 945 0.332 596 0.378 0.180 0.297

20 Nebraska 793 0.278 523 0.332 0.070 0.227

21 BYU 798 0.280 339 0.215 0.080 0.192

22 Georgia Tech 439 0.154 259 0.164 0.040 0.119

23 Texas A&M 349 0.122 202 0.128 0.040 0.097

24 Oregon State 14 0.005 16 0.010 0.270 0.095

25 Hawaii 370 0.130 203 0.129 0.000 0.086

[RockRaines]

Not even close. Is Smith even going to go in the first round? Quinn is the most NFL ready QB to come out of college since Manning.

Hahahaha. I think the ND blinders have carried over to the NFL for ya. If Troy Smith goes in the 2nd round of the draft, you can have my season tickets for the sox.

 

If you have your choice of QB in the most important game of your season, anyone who does not pick Troy Smith is blind. Brady Quinn has played against 2 good defensive teams this season, Michigan and USC. Throwing up yards and TD's vs the service trio doesnt apply to how you will do in the NFL.

Edited November 27, 2006 by RockRaines

[THEWOOD]

Chuck Amato out at NCSU.

[IlliniKrush]

Hahahaha. I think the ND blinders have carried over to the NFL for ya. If Troy Smith goes in the 2nd round of the draft, you can have my season tickets for the sox.

 

If you have your choice of QB in the most important game of your season, anyone who does not pick Troy Smith is blind. Brady Quinn has played against 2 good defensive teams this season, Michigan and USC. Throwing up yards and TD's vs the service trio doesnt apply to how you will do in the NFL.

There's a difference between a great college qb and a great nfl qb.

 

Brady will go before Smith in the draft, no doubt.

[RockRaines]

There's a difference between a great college qb and a great nfl qb.

 

Brady will go before Smith in the draft, no doubt.

Ok, what is it that Smith lacks? He has a cannon for an arm, has shown he has gret decision making skills, completes a large amount of his passes, has great touch on the deep ball and has shown he is the best big game QB in quite some time in college football. What part of that doesnt translate to the NFL?

 

Too many people just place Troy Smith in a category without actually seeing him play, he is not a run-first QB with so-so passing skills like Vince Young. He is a pocket passer who has shown he is more dangerous through the air than on his feet. He has completed 67 percent of his passes this year and has thrown 30 TD's. Please explain how running a Pro-style offense, in a tough conference, against 2 #2 ranked teams, and leading your team to a national championship doesnt translate to the NFL.

[IlliniKrush]

Ok, what is it that Smith lacks? He has a cannon for an arm, has shown he has gret decision making skills, completes a large amount of his passes, has great touch on the deep ball and has shown he is the best big game QB in quite some time in college football. What part of that doesnt translate to the NFL?

 

Too many people just place Troy Smith in a category without actually seeing him play, he is not a run-first QB with so-so passing skills like Vince Young. He is a pocket passer who has shown he is more dangerous through the air than on his feet. He has completed 67 percent of his passes this year and has thrown 30 TD's. Please explain how running a Pro-style offense, in a tough conference, against 2 #2 ranked teams, and leading your team to a national championship doesnt translate to the NFL.

I guess we'll just wait for the nfl draft, or if you like people can start posting nfl draft rankings from various places.

[He_Gawn]

Ok, what is it that Smith lacks? He has a cannon for an arm, has shown he has gret decision making skills, completes a large amount of his passes, has great touch on the deep ball and has shown he is the best big game QB in quite some time in college football. What part of that doesnt translate to the NFL?

 

Too many people just place Troy Smith in a category without actually seeing him play, he is not a run-first QB with so-so passing skills like Vince Young. He is a pocket passer who has shown he is more dangerous through the air than on his feet. He has completed 67 percent of his passes this year and has thrown 30 TD's. Please explain how running a Pro-style offense, in a tough conference, against 2 #2 ranked teams, and leading your team to a national championship doesnt translate to the NFL.

 

Good points, but look at every expert and their mothers mock draft. I guess time will tell.

[whitesoxfan101]

Is ND out of the BCS bowl picture with last nights loss? They are ranked 10th in the new BCS standings.

 

No, ND is a 100 percent lock for a BCS bowl any year that they go 9-2 or 10-2 since they are ND. It's not fair, but it's the facts.

[RockRaines]

I guess we'll just wait for the nfl draft, or if you like people can start posting nfl draft rankings from various places.

so, basically you are forming your opinion based on NFL draft projections. Cade McNown would have LOVED you.

[whitesoxfan101]

Hahahaha. I think the ND blinders have carried over to the NFL for ya. If Troy Smith goes in the 2nd round of the draft, you can have my season tickets for the sox.

 

If you have your choice of QB in the most important game of your season, anyone who does not pick Troy Smith is blind. Brady Quinn has played against 2 good defensive teams this season, Michigan and USC. Throwing up yards and TD's vs the service trio doesnt apply to how you will do in the NFL.

 

I agree with everything you said, but I wouldn't make that bet. Scouts for some reason don't like Troy, and he's probably going to be a late 1st/early 2nd pick.

 

I never really figured out why they went away from Mustain in the first place. They were winning with him. While they were doing it mostly with the running game, I don't recall him playing poorly enough to be benched. I was thinking the same thing Friday. If Dick was so bad, why not bring in Mustain.

 

Anyone care to shed some light on this?

 

Mustain really struggled in the couple weeks before he exited the job with presnap reads, and began to turn it over a lot. That was the reason they gave, but I don't get it either. He's way better than Casey Dick.

 

Smith will have to shake the legend that mobile QBs can't win it all in the NFL.

 

Steve Young and John Elway disagree with that legend, but your right that it does exist.

[greasywheels121]

No, ND is a 100 percent lock for a BCS bowl any year that they go 9-2 or 10-2 since they are ND. It's not fair, but it's the facts.

 

How do you see them moving up?

[Rex Hudler]

I guess we'll just wait for the nfl draft, or if you like people can start posting nfl draft rankings from various places.

 

I don't recall anyone saying that Troy Smith is not an NFL QB? I think Troy Smith will do just fine for himself. But scouts love Brady Quinn. His size is exactly what they look for in the NFL. Brady is 6'4" 227 vs. 6'1" 215 for Smith. Quinn has also showed a toughness NFL scouts like, staying healthy for four years as the starter at ND, including times when he did not have the best protection. It also can be argued that Quinn did not have as much talent around him as Smith did.

 

Who ultimately is the better QB remains to be seen. But many college QB's were ultrasuccessful and did not pan out in the NFL. So going by college performance alone is not all the NFL will look at. The bottom line is they both are very good.

[IlliniKrush]

so, basically you are forming your opinion based on NFL draft projections. Cade McNown would have LOVED you.

I'm basically going against your earlier statement that says Smith is the better pro prospect than Quinn. I'm using opinions that are better than either of our opinions to make a case.

 

Smith is a pro prospect of some sort, but evaluating the guy more on wins/losses and 'leading a championship team' is not the criteria to really use here.

[whitesoxfan101]

How do you see them moving up?

 

If there were 4 BCS Bowls, they'd be out. But they will for sure make the 5th one, just watch. It'll happen.

[Heads22]

The ISU coach picture is a clusterf***. There's stuff going around with our AD saying our new coach's name hasn't been said in the media. Sites have reported its Kelly for sure, but there's some deafening silence, and other sites have made partial retractions.

[WhiteSoxfan1986]

No, ND is a 100 percent lock for a BCS bowl any year that they go 9-2 or 10-2 since they are ND. It's not fair, but it's the facts.

 

Yup, it will always be like that. They are probably going to play Michigan in the Rose bowl, which sucks because I don't want to see that matchup again.

[Wedge]

Yup, it will always be like that. They are probably going to play Michigan in the Rose bowl, which sucks because I don't want to see that matchup again.

 

I'm pretty sure it'll be the Arkansas/Florida winner in the Sugar Bowl.

 

ND has a ways to go. There's some nice skill position players, but Willingham has left us woefully thin on both sides of the line.

[WhiteSoxfan1986]

I'm pretty sure it'll be the Arkansas/Florida winner in the Sugar Bowl.

 

ND has a ways to go. There's some nice skill position players, but Willingham has left us woefully thin on both sides of the line.

 

I think it will be the Rose, because they will most likely be losing both USC and OSU to the Nat. title game, so they will get the first 2 at-large choices. Not exactly sure how it works when the Rose loses both teams. Maybe they will have to choose Michigan or ND, but I think they can take both.