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When, in your opinion, was the last time that CFB truly felt like CFB?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:18 am
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:18 am
Lots of talk over these last few years about the changing landscape and the sport becoming unrecognizable. What was the last year that you think college football was what you remember and wanted it to be?
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Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:18 am to GoGators04
2025
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:20 am to GoGators04
2022.
A&M's class of purchased players were freshman and not really changing the landscape yet. NIL was around but it was almost exclusively for the established players.
Healthy OSU walks it off but unhealthy OSU almost did it anyway
A&M's class of purchased players were freshman and not really changing the landscape yet. NIL was around but it was almost exclusively for the established players.
Healthy OSU walks it off but unhealthy OSU almost did it anyway
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:27 am to Buckeye06
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2022.
A&M's class of purchased players were freshman and not really changing the landscape yet. NIL was around but it was almost exclusively for the established players.
Thsi feels right. My deafult was 2019 pre-covid, but honestly 2021 and 2022 still felt like the "normal" CFB we were all used to.
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Healthy OSU walks it off but unhealthy OSU almost did it anyway
It's funny that every time we beat a team that has injuries that is the only reason, but when we are decimated by injury nobody makes a peep. Perhaps if our stud, All American, #1 overall HS player and 1st round NFL draft pick OLB nolan smith had played against OSU stroud wouldn't have had a career day running all over the field? Stuff like that gets swept aside though.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:29 am to GoGators04
2019 pre covid NIL
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:32 am to GoGators04
The abandonment of New Year's Day as the big payoff was a gradual thing with no particular moment when New Year's Day became irrelevant but it was the end of the CFB that was.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:36 am to shinerfan
Much like when NASCAR screwed up that by trouncing on tradition... CFB screwed it up when they went to a playoff that exceeds logic. The NIL brought the ones who played by the rules even with those who didn't but now it's totally out of control and will bring lawsuits at every effort to bring sensibility to it.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 7:39 am
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:37 am to GoGators04
back when we had a football program
about 13 years ago
about 13 years ago
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:39 am to WG_Dawg
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It's funny that every time we beat a team that has injuries that is the only reason, but when we are decimated by injury nobody makes a peep. Perhaps if our stud, All American, #1 overall HS player and 1st round NFL draft pick OLB nolan smith had played against OSU stroud wouldn't have had a career day running all over the field? Stuff like that gets swept aside though.
Nolan Smith hell of a player and incredible stud.
Jaxon Smith Njigba - All American first rounder
Marvin Harrison Jr - All American first rounder
Tre Henderson - Frosh All American second rounder
Cade Stover - Mackey Finalist fourth rounder
That isn't even all the offensive skill positions guys who were out. UGA had a very good player at TE also go out in the game (Washington), but if you don't think Njigba destroys UGA's secondary with what Harrison did without him then I don't even know what to say.
These are not the same
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:42 am to GoGators04
I'd say pre-COVID, but if I REALLY wanted to bring back that college football feel it would be back during the Jefferson Pilot days of college football. Nothing in the south said college football like the Jefferson Pilot 11 am game on Saturday mornings!
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:45 am to NWLA_Bama
2019. Not just because it was a historical year for LSU, but that was a fun season all around, and it was before COVID and NIL and the portal BS.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:05 am to GoGators04
this was the final game of CFB in its natural form -
everything else since has been a perversion or mockery -
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 9:08 am
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:12 am to GoGators04
Early 2014
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:13 am to GoGators04
2009. Auburn winning a national title killed the sport.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:13 am to Buckeye06
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Jaxon Smith Njigba - All American first rounder Marvin Harrison Jr - All American first rounder Tre Henderson - Frosh All American second rounder Cade Stover - Mackey Finalist fourth rounder That isn't even all the offensive skill positions guys who were out. UGA had a very good player at TE also go out in the game (Washington), but if you don't think Njigba destroys UGA's secondary with what Harrison did without him then I don't even know what to say. These are not the same
Lmao. I forgot every team that won a championship never played hurt.
Bama lost all American Jaylen Waddle and all American Landon Dickerson in 2020 and still boatraced everyone including OSU by 30 points in the championship.
It’s called having elite depth. It’s beautifully ironic a clueless fan of Ohio State can’t grasp their 3rd string QB led them to a national title bc of that exact concept in 2014 lmao. Having elite depth is a part of the game dipshit
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:18 am to GoGators04
2019 was the end of an era.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:20 am to GoGators04
Somewhere between uf’s first title and nebraskas last.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:27 am to GoGators04
Pre-SEC Network and conference expansion.
12 team conferences were perfect for an 8-game schedule.
Not every game was on TV, you either had to go or listen to the radio call.
You didn’t have to relearn a new roster every season, and you got to watch players develop at your school year-over-year
ETA: Basically, college football died with Jefferson Pilot and tDaves
12 team conferences were perfect for an 8-game schedule.
Not every game was on TV, you either had to go or listen to the radio call.
You didn’t have to relearn a new roster every season, and you got to watch players develop at your school year-over-year
ETA: Basically, college football died with Jefferson Pilot and tDaves
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 9:30 am
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:28 am to GoGators04
2021
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:36 am to GoGators04
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When, in your opinion, was the last time that CFB truly felt like CFB?
The introduction of the targeting penalty has completely fricked up CFB. It's such a crock of shite to eject a player or even give a 15 yard penalty on an accidental helmet to helmet hit. When two players are running, shifting, juking, jiving, ducking, etc. sometimes a helmet to helmet hit is unavoidable.
I hate it.
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