Florida State and coach Mike Norvell have won all of their games this season, but they are still a long way from the College Football Playoff. He expected a diminished Seminoles team to play in the Orange Bowl against Georgia. Colin Hackley/Associated Press
College football’s silly season has begun, and every year, it seems to get sillier and sillier. If you’re confused, let me help you: Here’s a recap of the 10 dumbest ways to end the college football season every year…
1) A set of tournament matches that may or may not be meaningful, followed by…
2) A group of nerds gathered in a smoke-filled room to determine which four teams would pass the eye test and play in the playoffs, followed by…
3) A group of coaches who are acting – emphasis on acting – extremely excited to play in a meaningless exhibition game somewhere against an opponent they may or may not care about, followed by…
4) And then some of those same coaches announced that as much as they loved their teams and wanted to coach in an exhibition game, they were taking another job, so someone else would have to handle it, followed by…
5) A group of players who thank God, their families, friends, teammates and coaches and declare that they will “always be a Sea Wolf for life” and then announce their transfer, followed by…
6) A group of players tell us how much they love their teammates, their coaches, and the university, but not enough to want to play in that last meaningless exhibition game with them as they head to the NFL, followed by….
7) A group of players who thanked God, family and friends a few days ago announced that they thank God, family and friends again because they found a new team and a group of people to call brothers, followed by…
8) A group of players who thanked God, their family, and their friends a few days ago and declared that God had spoken to them and told them that the best move for them was to stay in their current program, so they would truly be a Sea Wolf for life, followed by…
9) A bunch of meaningless exhibition games that are essentially spring game rosters for both teams because several key players have opted out for one reason or another, followed by…
10) We were told that a four-team invitational would determine the national championship even though the four teams were chosen in a smoke-filled room, and the undefeated team sat at home…
I don’t even know if I understand college football anymore, and I’m not sure it makes sense anymore.
And the fact that players are now announcing – through their schools’ NIL collective – that they are staying is absolutely stupid.
Look, I’m glad the players are getting paid on nothing deals. And I’m glad they’re free to move on, but college football is an exciting regular season that’s coming to an anticlimactic end with the way December is going.
Add to that teams that jump across conferences, rivalries that remain in the wake of TV dollars and home games, and the collapse of an entire traditional conference and NIL groups become the most important recruiters on any team. And now we have players that transfer multiple times and play college football for six, seven, even eight years, which is stupid.
College football has killed itself. He is dead. It was no longer anything more than a collection of loosely affiliated teams that played games, an NFL developmental league and a television show. The sport itself is broken and can’t be fixed.
And don’t get me started on how college football teams are chosen. Three major teams in the conference are undefeated, so no one can say “this team is better or this team is better” because they haven’t lost.
But if those three had been picked, it would have left the SEC in the lurch — a conference whose non-conference business suggests it was vastly overrated this year — so they needed to concoct some nonsense about the eye test and Florida State. .
It would be OK if Florida State was eliminated if the cowards running the playoff committee said, “This is an invitational, not a playoff, a TV show, not a competition, and we have to kiss the national team’s brass ring.” Securities and Exchange Commission.
I can live with that because it’s at least honest, but spare me all the illogical explanations about how the team that didn’t lose might not be as good as the team that did.
As for the transfer portal, I never want to hear a single coach complain about rigging again. There is not a single program that does not engage in tinkering through their NIL collections. How should I know that? Because it’s unbelievable that 15 seconds after a guy enters the transfer portal, he’s posting offers on social media from 10 different schools. How can all these coaches put this player on their speed dial?
And how did they all get to the point where they would offer him a scholarship 10 seconds after they found out he was available?
Then there’s this new thing: players entering the transfer portal to take advantage of a better deal from their school’s NIL collective.
I mean, what are we doing here anymore? Is pursuing a college degree still possible for “student-athletes” who play “college” football?
The bowl system is officially dead too. I think they would be better off having a 32-team playoff and then cutting the ball pool back to about 15.
For one thing, there are too many snaps that involve too many bad or average teams, and there are too many snaps that are watered down because players opt out and teams are coached by interim coaches. I laugh when fans puff out their chests about how they’ll get a place in the New Year’s Six bowl as if this is any different to any other bowl other than maybe it’s in a better time slot.
Ultimately, they’re all just show games, and none of them matter.
Do not believe me?
Go back and watch the press conference with Mike Norvell and Kirby Smart as they try to hype their excitement for the prestigious Orange Bowl. Both men looked like they had to announce their next colonoscopy.
Since then, Florida State has had a group of players either transfer, withdraw or opt to have some type of surgery, so it won’t be the same team that went 13-0 when it arrived in Miami. And in every NY6 Bowl game and even many others, key players opted out, showing how important these games are to players.
I call this the silly season of college football, but for now, let’s drop the word “season” because college football is completely ridiculous now.
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