By Mike Farrell
Random college football thoughts while shaving.
Can a 12-Team Playoff Fix College Football?
— The college football playoff system is obviously broken and a joke, but people think it will get better with a 12-team playoff. And to some extent, it will as teams like Florida State won’t be eliminated for having an injured quarterback. However, favoritism will still be rampant as teams will get byes over teams in lesser leagues, and the SEC and Big Ten will get the majority of the spots in the 12-team format. If you think the ACC and Big 12 won’t get screwed, you’re fooling yourself.
TV money rules the world. Is there an ACC TV schedule show on ESPN anytime soon? I see an SEC one coming up this week in primetime on the network, barely a week removed from screwing the Seminoles. Again we have the matchups most of us want to see, made for TV matchups that everyone will love. But that doesn’t mean FSU didn’t get hosed, and it doesn’t mean it won’t continue to happen even with an expanded playoff.
What Does Prime Actually Want?
— How the hell does Deion Sanders wish he and his team had more privacy this season, literally a few days before Season Two of his Amazon Prime show following him around as he coached the Buffs? You can’t make this stuff up.
"Prime Time and @DeionSanders are two different people."
Coach Prime Season 2 streams December 7 on @PrimeVideo. pic.twitter.com/yzbFIZiDNv
— NFL on Prime Video (@NFLonPrime) December 1, 2023
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NIL Reporting Needs to Improve – Fast
— Marvin Harrison Jr. is awesome and a high-character kid. So it’s troubling to see media members just make up crap about what NIL offers he has to stay at Ohio State. And I mean it’s simply being made up just like the garbage we were told about Nico Iamaleava at Tennessee and the Jaden Rashada offers out of high school. Established college athletes command much more NIL money than high school recruits, but the inference that Harrison Jr. could be offered up to $20 million to stay in school is dumb and irresponsible.
Who cares? I do, and here’s why.
Harrison Jr., a terrific kid who isn’t chasing money, could be viewed by some as greedy to accept such made-up offers or even unappreciative if he turns down such made-up offers. It just reflects poorly on the kid, and there is zero basis in fact. And some of the few media members who see the truth here are the same ones who feed into this garbage for clicks. The lack of responsible reporting for NIL is appalling.
Georgia Fans Need to Walk Back from the Edge
— UGA fans worrying about losing a 5-star QB crack me up. UGA won 29 straight games and two national titles before losing to Alabama in the SEC title game, but now that Kirby Smart’s title run is stalled (temporarily) and QB Dylan Raiola is thinking of flipping to Nebraska, then the world must be ending. Relax. You have the best coach currently in college football.
Riley Leonard to the Rescue?
— Sorry, Notre Dame fans, but Riley Leonard will be about the same dude as Sam Hartman. He’s solid, but ND needs a difference-maker at QB to break through, and this isn’t it.
