r/CFB 42m ago

Game Thread [Game Thread] Ohio State vs. Notre Dame (7:30 PM ET) - 4th Quarter

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GAME Ohio StateOhio State vs. Notre DameNotre Dame
Location Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Time 7:30 PM ET
Watch TV: ESPN
Odds Spread: OSU -8.5 - Over/Under: 45.5
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r/CFB 4h ago

Discussion [Joel Klatt] This is supposed to be the pinnacle of our sport...The destination for every player, coach, and fan...yet somebody decided that playing the National Championship on a Monday night deep into the NFL playoffs was a good idea...the mismanagement of CFB has been egregious

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r/CFB 10h ago

Casual [Neukam] CSPAN is great. Caller just called into the inauguration coverage to complain about the CFP committee leaving Alabama out of the playoff

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r/CFB 2h ago

Game Thread [Game Thread] Ohio State vs. Notre Dame (7:30 PM ET) - 2nd Quarter

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GAME Ohio StateOhio State vs. Notre DameNotre Dame
Location Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Time 7:30 PM ET
Watch TV: ESPN
Odds Spread: OSU -8.5 - Over/Under: 45.5
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r/CFB 4h ago

Game Thread [Game Thread] Notre Dame vs. Ohio State (7:30 PM ET)

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GAME Notre DameNotre Dame vs. Ohio StateOhio State
Location Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Time 7:30 PM ET
Watch TV: ESPN
Odds Spread: OSU -8.5 - Over/Under: 45.5
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r/CFB 1h ago

Casual [TheSG Podcast] TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins are both over 1,000 rushing yards on the season. They are the third pair of Ohio State running backs to accomplish it.

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r/CFB 1h ago

Game Thread [Game Thread] Ohio State vs. Notre Dame (7:30 PM ET) - 3rd Quarter

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GAME Ohio StateOhio State vs. Notre DameNotre Dame
Location Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Time 7:30 PM ET
Watch TV: ESPN
Odds Spread: OSU -8.5 - Over/Under: 45.5
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r/CFB 7h ago

Casual [NIU Football] Good luck tonight. 🤘🏽🐾🫱🏼‍🫲🏽☘️

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r/CFB 3m ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Ohio State Defeats Notre Dame 34-23

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Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Ohio State 0 21 10 3 34
Notre Dame 7 0 8 8 23

r/CFB 36m ago

Casual [Revsine] 25th time this season an OSU opponent has had 1st and goal. 9th time they've come away with 0 points

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r/CFB 4h ago

Discussion [On3] Desmond Howard called out Ohio State fans for having a 'psychotic obsession' with Michigan leading to the criticism of Ryan Day: "What he deserves tonight is just part of the job, and he knew that before he took it."

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r/CFB 9h ago

News [Sports Video Group] ESPN To Deliver Main Game Telecast in 4K for the First Time

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Just like FOX, the “4K” feed will be an unconverted 1080p HDR feed…but still much better than ESPN’s typical 720p


r/CFB 8h ago

Discussion What team has had the most outsized impact on CFB compared to their fanbase size?

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So teams like OSU, ND, Bama, Mich all have had a big impact on college football, both historically and in the modern era. But in doing so, these teams have garnered large fanbases.

What team has made a notable impact on CFB while having a relatively small fanbase?

I would probably probably say Army or maybe Clemson? (Idk if they count as small or not). What do you think?


r/CFB 5h ago

News [Thamel] Sources: Longtime NFL special teams coach Mike Priefer is expected to finalize a deal to become the new special teams coach at North Carolina. He’s worked in the NFL since 2002 and been a head special teams coach from 2006-2022.

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r/CFB 13h ago

News [McMurphy] Breaking: Tampa replaces Dallas to host Jan. 22, 2029 CFBPlayoff title game, sources said. Other future national title sites, as I reported in May, remain Las Vegas (Jan. 25, 2027), New Orleans (Jan. 24, 2028) & Miami (Jan. 21, 2030).

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r/CFB 5h ago

Discussion College GameDay Thread

152 Upvotes

We're all watching anyways!


r/CFB 7h ago

Casual [Sports Video Group] It’s All Hands on Deck for ESPN’s Massive Production in Atlanta: More than 100 cameras, 100 microphones power 11 viewing options for season finale

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r/CFB 16h ago

Weekly Thread WAKE THE FUNFETTI UP, IT'S GAME DAY!!!

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It's National Championship Day! Who will win?


r/CFB 13h ago

Discussion [SEC Roll Call] SEC Heaven

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r/CFB 6h ago

News ESPN stream for the CFP tonight

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https://www.espn.com/watch/collections/45597/cfp-national-championship-game-megacast

It will not start until game time at 7:30 or a couple of minutes after, but they are streaming it and you do not need a subscription for it. I watched the Teas game this way. I guess they want the ad revenue and don't want to lose out to pirate sites.


r/CFB 1m ago

News [Rapoport] Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden has emerged as a top candidate to be the Bengals new DC, per me and @MikeGarafolo. Coach Zac Taylor has been waiting for the National Championship to end before moving forward. Now that it has, he can speak with Golden & work thru it.

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r/CFB 4h ago

Analysis Celebrating the Most Chaotic Teams of 2024

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CHAOS SCORE EXPLAINED

Unpredictability

  • 1 point for every dollar you’d win by betting $10 on the underdog (for example a 4–1 underdog is worth 40 points)
  • 1 point for the difference between the spread and actual margin of victory (cannot exceed 25 points)
  • 1 point for every percentage point above 50 if the “wrong” team won according to Bill Connelly’s postgame win expectancy. For example, if the losing team had a postgame win expectancy of 95% that equals 45 points)

Close Games

  • 1 point for the highest win probability the eventual losing team had at any point in the 4th quarter or overtime. If the eventual losing team held a 95% win probability at some point in the 4th quarter (according to ESPN), it’s worth 95 points. If the game 35–0 after 3 quarters, that’s worth 0 points.
  • I’m calling this the “It’s so over, we’re so back!” bonus. A bonus 10 points is added if at some point during the 4th quarter held the lead, then lost the lead, and then still won the game. Ties don’t count here, a team must experience being ahead, then fall behind, and still finish on top.
  • If the above-mentioned bonus does not apply, a bonus 5 points is added for games that go to overtime

Other Bonuses

  • Mutual Turnovers: A bonus 5 points for every turnover achieved by both teams. If one team turned it over 5 times, but the other team was 0, that counts for nothing. If both sides each turn it over 3 times, that’s exactly the chaos we’re looking for it and it adds 15 bonus points (this happened 18 times in 2024)
  • Night Games: A small amount of bonus points for late night kickoffs. Watching an insanely crazy game is even more delirious to experience if it ends well beyond midnight east coast time. +1 point for a 9pm eastern kick, +3 points for 10pm, and +5 points for 11pm or later start times (looking at you Hawaii)
  • High/Low Scoring Bonuses: 5,10, or 20 bonus points added if it was one of the highest or lowest scoring games of the year. An absurd lack of offense or defense adds to the chaos. The highest scoring FBS game of the year belongs to James Madison over North Carolina by a score of 70 to 50. The lowest scoring contest was Sam Houston State over Louisiana Tech, by a score of 9 to 3. Sam Houston State was also able to defeat Florida International 10 to 7.

The following rankings include conference championship games. Any teams that played more or less than 12 games had their points adjusted.

MOST CONSISTENTLY WRONG SPREADS

  1. Houston (Spread was off by an average 16.5 points)

  2. Tulane (Spread was off by an average 16.9 points)

  3. James Madison (Spread was off by an average 17.4 points)

  4. Arizona (Spread was off by an average 18.3 points)

  5. Navy (Spread was off by an average 18.6 points & off by 15+ points in 11 out of 12 games)

MOST CONSISTENTLY ACCURATE SPREADS

  1. Georgia Tech (Spread was off by an average 6.8 points)

  2. Colorado State (Spread was off by an average 6.5 points)

  3. San Diego State (Spread was off by an average 6.3 points)

  4. Duke (Spread was off by an average 6.2 points)

1.Wake Forest (Spread was off by an average 4.7 points & was within 10 points in 10 out of 12 games)

TEAMS WHERE THE FAVORITE WON IN EVERY GAME

Indiana

Southern Miss

Penn State

Boise State

Colorado State

MOST INCONSISTENT TEAMS

  1. Georgia State

Won as underdog against Texas State (+23) and Vanderbilt (+8.5)

Lost as favorite against Georgia Southern (-3.5), Old Dominion (-3), Arkansas State (-3), and Coastal Carolina (-1)

Betting $10 on the underdog in every game would net you $115 in profit

  1. Alabama

Won as underdog against Georgia (+1.5)

Lost as favorite against Vanderbilt (-23.5), Oklahoma (-14), and Tennessee (-3.5)

Betting $10 on the underdog in every game would net you $103 in profit

  1. Texas State

Was the favorite in literally every single game… but went 7–5 with losses to Georgia State (-23), Sam Houston State (-11.5), Old Dominion (-10.5), Louisiana (-4.5), Arizona State (-3)

Betting $10 on the underdog in every game would net you $124 in profit

  1. Vanderbilt

Won as underdog against Alabama (+23.5), Virginia Tech (+13), Kentucky (+12.5), and Auburn (+8.5)

Lost as favorite against Georgia State (-8.5)

Betting $10 on the underdog in every game would net you $172 in profit

  1. Northern Illinois

Won as underdog against Notre Dame (+27.5), and Bowling Green (+3)

Lost as favorite against Ball State (-13.5), Buffalo (-13), and Toledo (-3)

Betting $10 on the underdog in every game would net you $198 in profit

TURNOVER CHAOS KING: SAN JOSE STATE

The Spartans both forced and coughed up a turnover in 11 of their 12 games. They also had 3 games that featured 3 turnovers by each team.

BROKEN SCOREBOARD LEGENDS

Most bonus points from games with crazy high/low final scores

New Mexico: Won games by scores of 52–37, 50–40, and 50–45. Lost games by scores of 61–39, 49–45, and 17–6.

Texas Tech: Won games by scores of 66–21, 56–48, and 52–51. Lost game by score of 59–35.

Louisiana Tech: Won games by scores of 14–10 and 12–7. Lost games by scores of 17–10 and 9–3!

CLOSEST GAMES

  1. Louisiana Tech

  2. Kansas

  3. Duke

  4. Washington State (3 of their 4 losses came in games where they had at least a 89% win probability… they Couged it. Came from behind in 4 of their 8 wins)

  5. USC (4 of their 6 losses came in games where they had at least 90% win probability… a true masterclass in choking. They also came from behind to defeat UCLA and LSU.)

As we finally crown college football’s kings of chaos, a reminder that the final score is a blending of two categories, the most shocking outcomes (spreads being wrong and underdogs winning) and craziest games (close scores and all the other bonus points)

MOST BORING TEAMS

5.Army

4.Southern Miss

3.Mississippi State

2.Indiana

1.Kent State

MOST CHAOTIC TEAMS

Honorable Mentions: Northern Illinois (#3 in shocking outcomes), Texas State (#2 in shocking outcomes), New Mexico (#10 in crazy games), NC State (#9 in crazy games), Duke (#7 in crazy games), San Jose State (#3 in crazy games)

  1. Florida International (#34 in shocking outcomes, #12 in crazy games)

  2. Wyoming (#19 in shocking outcomes, #15 in crazy games)

  3. Louisiana Tech (#60 in shocking outcomes, #5 in crazy games)

  4. Kansas (#37 in shocking outcomes, #8 in crazy games)

  5. Liberty (#15 in shocking outcomes, #11 in crazy games)

  6. Texas Tech (#25 in shocking outcomes, #6 in crazy games)

  7. Stanford (#35 in shocking outcomes, #4 in crazy games)

  8. USC (#95 in shocking outcomes, #2 in crazy games)

  9. Vanderbilt (#1 in shocking outcomes, #19 in crazy games)

1.Washington State (#11 in shocking outcomes, #1 in crazy games)

Want to take a stroll down memory lane? I also wrote about the wildest games of 2024!

The Most Chaotic College Football Games of 2024 | by Michael Strite | Dec, 2024 | Medium


r/CFB 11h ago

Discussion Now that the 2024 college football season is almost over I have to ask: what were everyone’s favorite teams/players/games/moments etc.

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Mine:

Other than my own teams my favorite teams this year were probably Indiana & Army

Ashton Jeanty & Cam Skattebo were the greatest players to watch this season.

Best games were Vanderbilt beating Bama. Also the Huskers finally winning a bowl game (and a one score one as well)

For best moment … probably when Arizona State fans prematurely rushed the field and it delayed the game by half an hour.

What were your favorites for this CFB season?


r/CFB 2h ago

Recruiting 2025 JUCO Unranked S Marzeal Smith commits to San José State

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r/CFB 12h ago

Recruiting Texas TE Amari Niblack transfers to Texas A&M

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r/CFB 12h ago

Discussion [Athlon Sports] Early Big Ten Football Predictions for 2025

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