2023 & On - College FOOTBAW Thread

[Spaceman Spiff]

Penn State needs to fire James Franklin, we just can't keep doing this every year. Never gonna win a thing with him as head coach.

 

[Broward83]

Penn State needs to fire James Franklin, we just can't keep doing this every year. Never gonna win a thing with him as head coach.

Who's out there that's better?

 

[909]

Chris Klieman and Matt Campbell but honestly that's about it. Thing is Penn State is still gonna cruise into the playoff but as a lower seed.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

10 years of "just not good enough", how many more years is this guy gonna get at what is supposed to be a top football program? Watching the end of their game against Ohio State today, they had a chance to tie the game inside Ohio State's 5, I said to myself "well here comes 3 runs into the middle of the line", guess what happened? The same play each time! What are we doing???

Who's out there better? Don't care, but something needs to be done because the program is going to be in an eternal holding pattern as long as he's there, being good but just not good enough.

 

[909]

It's kinda the same thing as Mack Brown. Or like how Florida State fans were sick of Jimbo Fisher. You fire him and you are risking 8-10 years of purgatory. It's not guaranteed but maybe that's what'll happen. There's only a handful of programs where one of these kinds of teams didn't collapse for a while. I'm a fan of one!

Now all this being said. If the playoffs were expanded, not counting this season, Franklin would have gotten Penn State to the playoff 5 or 6 times. They're the Ole Miss of the Big Ten. Obviously I'm not saying 'be happy with that,' but they're gonna make the playoff this season. I don't know if anyone who achieves that is gonna get fired.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Some minor upsets as UTSA knocked off Memphis 44-36, handing Memphis its 2nd loss of the season. UCLA moved to 3-5 on the year beating Nebraska 27-20. Rice stomped Navy 24-10.

Notable FCS Scores
- Villanova beat Hampton 20-14. WR Jaylan Sanchez was 5-103
- Stony Brook survived Bryant 31-30 in OT. RB Roland Dempster ran for 107 and 2 TD
- Rhode Island beat Monmouth 37-28. RB Malik Grant ran for 126 and 1 TD
- Indiana State beat North Dakota 35-31. WR Rashad Rochelle was 6-72-1
- Presbyterian knocked off Dayton 28-7. RB Quante Jennings ran for 87 and 1 TD
- Morgan State beat Norfolk State 38-37 in OT. QB Tahj Smith threw for 179 and 1 TD
- Harvard beat Dartmouth 31-27. QB Jaden Craig threw for 311 and 1 TD
- Richmond beat Towson 35-24. QB Camden Coleman threw for 230 and 2 TD
- Western Carolina beat Chattanooga 38-34. QB Taron Dickens threw for 431 and 5 TD
- Eastern Illinois beat Western Illinois 45-38. QB Pierce Holley threw for 338 and 5 TD
- Mercer beat East Tennessee State 37-31. RB Dwayne McGee ran for 124
- Southern beat Alabama State 25-20. QB Czavian Teasett threw for 294 and 3 TD
- Bethune-Cookman beat Grambling 24-21. RB Dennis Palmer ran for 86 and 1 TD
- UPSET SPECIAL: Utah Tech beat Central Arkansas 34-21 to get their 1st win of the season while CA falls to 6-3. QB Reggie Graff threw for 211 and 2 TD.
- Abilene Christian beat Southern Utah 28-25. QB Maverick McIvor threw for 306 and 2 TD.
- San Diego rolled Davidson 40-13. QB Grant Sergent threw for 307 and 3 TD.
- UT Martin beat Tennessee State 28-21. QB Kinkead Dent threw for 266 and 3 TD.
- UPSET SPECIAL: Eastern Kentucky beat Tarleton State 17-13. RB Joshua Carter ran for 149 and 2 TD.
- Portland State beat Sacramento State 58-38. QB Dante Chachere ran for 165 and 4 TD.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1854589587051430022

More sad about this than what happened Tuesday.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Louisiana is now notably 8-1 as is Boise State (Ashton Jeanty ran for 180+ and 3 TD. He'd get my Heisman vote tbh. Travis Hunter's impressive but he's pretty bleh as a WR from a statistics standpoint and needs to show out more there IMO as there's a lot of WRs having better years with bigger YPR numbers. What made somebody like an Ohtani incredible was he was being elite in both sides). Both #3 Georgia (who are now 7-2) and #4 Miami got knocked off. #17 Iowa State suffered their 2nd loss to Kansas. Michigan's completely falling apart sitting at 5-5 after losing to Indiana.

UCONN is quietly 7-3 on the year. Jim Mora's doing a great job there. Duke are 7-3, James Madison are 7-2, Tulane are 8-2, and Western Kentucky are 7-2.

FCS Recap
- East Tennessee State beat Western Carolina 24-21
- San Diego beat Dayton 16-10
- Harvard beat Columbia 26-6. The Ivy League has received another proposal to have their champion in the FCS Playoffs. I get the prestige factor but it'd be awesome to see IMO.
- Duquesne beat Robert Morris 31-6.
- Delaware beat Rhode Island 24-21 in a GOTW Matchup.
- Elon upset William & Mary 40-36.
- Davidson beat Morehead State 31-14.
- 909's Shootout Alert: Penn beat Cornell 67-49.
- Eastern Kentucky beat Central Arkansas 31-24.
- UPSET SPECIAL: Lindenwood beat SE Missouri State 24-12 to improve to 5-6 on the year.
- South Dakota State beat North Dakota 38-7.
- Drake beat St. Thomas Minnesota 22-19.
- Grambling beat Alabama State 24-23.
- Prairie View A&M beat Florida A&M 31-12.
- UPSET SPECIAL: East Texas A&M who are now 2-8 beat Stephen F. Austin 19-14
- UC Davis beat Montana 30-14.