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Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:13 pm to GoGators04
1990. No corporate influence (ESPN), No pay to play (2024), conference jumping, scholarships binding.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:25 pm to GoGators04
2019.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:59 pm to Buckeye06
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Elite depth is impossible when 6 of the top 7 skill position players are all out. You named Bama losing one WR and one OL in 2020. Now combine that with losing Smith and Najee Harris and Brian Robinson and tell me how elite your depth is. You can't lose literally your top 2 WRs, top 2 RBs and top TE and not expect it to cause issues for any team. Bama fans have complained about UGA in 2021 just because they were without their top 2 WRs. OSU was without 3X as many skill position players, and better ones.
Injuries are a part of the game. Cry more. You’re the only team ever to lose key players at multiple spots apparently, and we should all acknowledge the 2022 season has an asterisk bc of it. What a complete lack of awareness.
Living proof you can be a fan of a top tier program and still not having a fricking clue about this sport lmao. Depth and injuries are a part of the game. Take a lap.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 3:02 pm to GoGators04
Before there was playoffs
Posted on 7/15/25 at 4:04 pm to oleyeller
January 26, 1983
Posted on 7/15/25 at 4:33 pm to NWLA_Bama
Not as many as Vandy
Posted on 7/15/25 at 5:23 pm to GoGators04
1/13/2020
Posted on 7/15/25 at 5:25 pm to dat yat
1896
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:09 pm to FireDanMullen
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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
You mean the championship game where Ohio State lost 14 players due to COVID? Is that the game you’re referring to?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:32 pm to Arkapigdiesel
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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.
It's like a boxer being penalized for targeting the other boxer. That is what you are supposed to do. I want every hit to hurt without being dirty, and that is going to include some helmet action.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 6:33 pm to OStateBuck
quote:Lmao. What pussies...
Ohio State lost 14 players due to COVID?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 7:43 pm to GoGators04
Round about 2019.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:06 pm to shinerfan
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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.
Agreed. When the Orange, Rose and Sugar stopped being what they had traditionally been, I started to become disillusioned. Maybe when Keith Jackson was gone. But I think some of this is just us being sentimental about the era in which we were formed. We don't want the world too change too much, because our youth was when everything was full of wonder and awe. Everything was better.
Some of us hang onto a simpler time. When you worked hard, went to school to learn and did your best to take the next step in life. You met a girl, fell in love, married, had kids and went back to homecoming so you could visit the first spot you met your wife. She remembered, of course. You probably didn't. See old teammates and fraternity brothers. Hopefully, your old watering hole is still there.
Now it too often seems like it's not much more than a transaction with no deeper meaning. "The old college try" is a thing of the past.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:08 pm to Froman
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2019
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:49 pm to GoGators04
2019
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:19 pm to shinerfan
quote:This.
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.
The BCS allowed for a winner-take-all championship game, but in doing so it destroyed the Sugar, Rose, Orange, Cotton, and Fiesta bowls, and everything that it meant for conference champions to make those games.
Used to be, an SEC team strove to make the Sugar as the SEC champ; and if you then won it, you had the "best" season, polls be damned. Same thing with the Big 8 and the Orange, or the Big 10 and Pac 10 with the Rose, or the SWC with the Cotton. Toss in top independents such as Miami, Penn State, Fla State, Pitt, Notre Dame etc, and the occasional ACC team such as Clemson that didn't have a landing spot, and you'd get great matchups. And if some other team was voted ahead of you, nobody really cared- they didn't beat you, so you could choose to ignore or taunt them.
All the pageantry of the game is gone now. Nobody cares about a rivalry, or even a conference championship, as long as you can get in the playoffs. Look at Ohio State, they lost to Michigan for the second straight season, and they didn't even make the Big 10 championship. Down year, right? No- they won the title.
And it's not just them; we've seen Alabama win 2 titles in seasons they didn't even win the SEC West, and Georgia win a title after losing in Atlanta.
This just doesn't feel the same as it used to.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:36 pm to GoGators04
2019 was last true normal CFB season.
2020 had players with covid contacts having to miss time, some players sitting out completely, beginning of transfer problem, start of seeing so many players sticking around for an extra year or two, partial seasons especially for the Big 10 & PAC 10, and partially filled stadiums.
2021 saw the start of NIL in the summer, so even a fall football season too soon after NIL started to affect opening rosters, back to normal with crowds, and not having players sit out for contact exposure NIL was already having huge recruiting differences for 2022 and with opting out at end of season and for bowl games to hit the transfer portal.
With 2022 and 2023 some things got closer to normal, but NIL and transferring growing and becoming pay to play annual free agency instead of the true Name, image, & likeness expected in summer of 2021, the thinning out of rosters, and the beginning of conference realignment continued to make the seasons more different than pre-covid.
Just when you think you are about to stop seeing so many players around for additional seasons Junior college players get added eligibility.
2020 had players with covid contacts having to miss time, some players sitting out completely, beginning of transfer problem, start of seeing so many players sticking around for an extra year or two, partial seasons especially for the Big 10 & PAC 10, and partially filled stadiums.
2021 saw the start of NIL in the summer, so even a fall football season too soon after NIL started to affect opening rosters, back to normal with crowds, and not having players sit out for contact exposure NIL was already having huge recruiting differences for 2022 and with opting out at end of season and for bowl games to hit the transfer portal.
With 2022 and 2023 some things got closer to normal, but NIL and transferring growing and becoming pay to play annual free agency instead of the true Name, image, & likeness expected in summer of 2021, the thinning out of rosters, and the beginning of conference realignment continued to make the seasons more different than pre-covid.
Just when you think you are about to stop seeing so many players around for additional seasons Junior college players get added eligibility.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:38 pm to OStateBuck
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You mean the championship game where Ohio State lost 14 players due to COVID? Is that the game you’re referring to?
The championship where Ohio State only had to play half a season to be eligible.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:47 pm to GoGators04
1997 season. Last year of th e AP,UPI polls determining the National champ. New Year’s Day meant something.
1998 season ended with the first BCS game between Tennessee and Florida St. With Tennessee winning the title.
Everything since has led to college ball being professionalized.
Still like watching today but real old school ball died in that game.
No more arguing who was number one! Killed the bowl system.
1998 season ended with the first BCS game between Tennessee and Florida St. With Tennessee winning the title.
Everything since has led to college ball being professionalized.
Still like watching today but real old school ball died in that game.
No more arguing who was number one! Killed the bowl system.
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