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College football

Substitution rule is an example of unintended consequences. And, it's what we do as coaches.

Example in another sport,

Fastpitch softball was plagued with batter/runner taking off to first base on an uncaught third strike, when there was less than two outs and a runner on first. At the lower age levels, it caused chaos, and muddied things up occasionally at the 18-unders as well.

Added the caveat that if a defensive team threw the ball to first, the runner headed to second had to come back. We instructed our catchers on passed ball-or wild pitch-third strikes to fire the ball to first. Took advantage of a rule. It's what we do.

Couple of years of that, governing body changed things back. Know your situation is back in force.

How they are going to solve the substitution rule currently in place is beyond me. There are rules, like 12 in the huddle, that I don't profess to know. Used to know the NFL/NCAA/NFHS rule books, not now. I'm up to snuff when high school softball rolls around and that's it.
 
Bummer, Malachi Toney, one of the most exciting players in the NCAA won't be playing against Notre Dame Saturday for Miami.
 
Might be best, Notre Dame has a bad habit of tackling to injure, they're a dirty team which is why they didn't get selected for the playoffs last year.
 
Climber said:
Might be best, Notre Dame has a bad habit of tackling to injure, they're a dirty team which is why they didn't get selected for the playoffs last year.
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No, they didn't get selected last year because it was between them and Miami and Miami had beaten ND at the start of the season.

I hate ND but I don't think they are especially dirty in their tactics.
 
GAJ said:
No, they didn't get selected last year because it was between them and Miami and Miami had beaten ND at the start of the season.

I hate ND but I don't think they are especially dirty in their tactics.
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When I watched them play USC, they were the dirtiest team that USC played all year. Late hits, hitting in a manner that was more likely to cause injury and piling on with full body weight when tackling. Some would call that good tactics, others would call that dirty tactics.
 
If someone had told me at the beginning of the season that UCLA would be the highest ranked Big Ten team and The Ohio State would barely be in the top 25 I would never have believed it. It's a shame that Sayin got hurt, it pretty much has tanked the season for the Buckeyes. Ryan Day did not have a good enough QB room to overcome an injury and their defense has never looked great this year. Can't really find any fault with the top 12 as it came out today. Georgia is definitely the front runner. Utah and Notre Dame are probably ranked too high as neither team has looked like a top 3 team to me, but I understand why they're there. Interesting season so far.
 
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This has been an interesting year for college football, the parity across teams has probably never been closer, a side effect of the transfer portal with the levels auto correcting as each team only has so much money to spend on athletes.

It's been an interesting year and being #1 has proven to be a curse more than a blessing so far this year.
 
In this era ranking only matters in as much as it gets you into the playoffs.
 
GAJ said:
In this era ranking only matters in as much as it gets you into the playoffs.
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and that is why you see a lot of teams play lower tier colleges so they can run up the scores and make themselves look better to the voters. It doesn't behoove a school to play better schools on the off chance you lose it can cost you a ton of money by not going to the playoffs.
 
Sharxfan said:
and that is why you see a lot of teams play lower tier colleges so they can run up the scores and make themselves look better to the voters. It doesn't behoove a school to play better schools on the off chance you lose it can cost you a ton of money by not going to the playoffs.
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That was always the case it seems.

Good news on that is that it has always been a good payday for the lesser team and once in a great while they actually win.
 
Sharxfan said:
and that is why you see a lot of teams play lower tier colleges so they can run up the scores and make themselves look better to the voters. It doesn't behoove a school to play better schools on the off chance you lose it can cost you a ton of money by not going to the playoffs.
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I'm not sure this is the case anymore. The CFP committee has stated, and proven so in the past, that strength of schedule plays into their ranking. They have allowed multi loss teams in the past to make it into the CFP over undefeated teams who played no one of note. I'm hoping to see even more high ranked teams play each other early and often, ala the Texas-Ohio State games scheduled early. That loss to Texas would not have kept Ohio State out of the playoffs. This needs to happen more. Who really wants to see Georgia play Mississippi Valley State beyond the first game of the season?
 
I don't know they still let some weak teams in though. But is used to suck to be an SEC team as you played all top tier teams most of your season due to the so many conference games they used to knock each other out a lot.
 
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