@mwachsman.bsky.social
College Football aficionado, will post things from my College Football Focus page. Goal is to travel around the world and see/feel other cultures. Loves good pizza and the occasional dad joke. Doing what I can to get along in this crazy world.
Here is my Substack Big 12 preview
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#CFB2025 #Big12Football
So I have a Substack, which will be very active during the college football season.
This is the story of my arrival at this point in life. I would welcome anyone hitting the Subscribe button, especially since it is completely and totally free!
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campaign.
Talk to the people who purchased last year's inaugural edition to find out just how much you will need this year's -- especially if you're a huge fan of college football!
#CFB2025 #PreviewSeason
The projection is for it to be released in early July, just in time for summer beach reading season.
More details to come (including how to pre-order and save a little cash), but the belief is that it will be better than last year's edition and will delve even more in-depth into teams for the 2025
Back from my trip to the UK (which was fabulous), starting work on the second edition of the CFB Focus College Preview publication.
As it was last year, this will be a digital publication, but this time around we won't have any of the hiccups or speed bumps we encountered with the first one.
Fun Friday fact -- Wake Forest hasn't beaten a top 10 team since 1946. The Demon Deacons are 0-65 since 1946 vs. Top 10 teams.
They will likely not face a single top 10 team this season.
Yes, this is what I do with most of my day.
#CFB2025
All of that would be great, but I believe they are simply slotted in by ranking, not really "chosen" by the committee.
CFP BRACKET SEEDINGS
1 Oregon
2 Texas
3 Miami
4 Boise State
FIRST-ROUND GAMES (at higher seed)
5 Ohio State vs 12 Arizona State
6 Penn State vs 11 SMU
7 Notre Dame vs 10 Indiana
8 Georgia vs 9 Tennessee
#CFB2024 #CollegeFootballPlayoff
17 Iowa State (22)
18 Tulane (20)
19 BYU (14)
20 Texas A&M (15)
21 Missouri (23)
22 Colorado (16)
23 UNLV (24)
24 Illinois (25)
25 Kansas State (NR)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF PREDICTION (LW)
1 Oregon (1)
2 Ohio State (2)
3 Texas (3)
4 Penn State (4)
5 Notre Dame (6)
6 Miami (8)
7 Georgia (10)
8 Tennessee (9)
9 Indiana (5)
10 SMU (13)
11 Boise State (12)
12 Alabama (7)
13 Ole Miss (9)
14 South Carolina (18)
15 Clemson (17)
16 Arizona State (21)
POWER RATINGS WEEK 14
SEC has 11 in the Top 25, easily securing its place as the nation's top football conference.
There's a new No. 1 team, one that has been at the top previously this season.
The optimism I had for Ohio State making a run in the CFP has been greatly diminished.
Seth McLaughlin has been the Buckeyes' best lineman this season, and was a good bet to be All-America center.
He is now out for the year with an Achilles' injury.
A big blow to an already patchwork unit.
18 South Carolina
19 Army
20 Arizona State
21 Kansas State
22 Tulane
23 Iowa State
24 Illinois
25 Missouri
#CFB2024 #CollegeFootballPlayoff
My prediction of what the committee's rankings will be tonight. This is not how I would rank them.
CFP PREDICTION
1 Oregon
2 Ohio State
3 Texas
4 Penn State
5 Indiana
6 Notre Dame
7 Georgia
8 Miami
9 Alabama
10 Ole Miss
11 Tennessee
12 BYU
13 Boise State
14 SMU
15 Texas A&M
16 Colorado
17 Clemson
How often has each team "played like the best team in the country" through Week 12 (in terms of its number of opponent-adjusted FEI game ratings in the 95th+ percentile):
6 - Ohio St
4 - Texas, Alabama
3 - Oregon, Ole Miss, Georgia
Game ratings for all teams here: www.bcftoys.com/2024-gr
Those are projected SEEDINGS, not RANKINGS.
Florida A&M at Bethune-Cookman (Florida Classic)
UC Davis at Sacramento State (Causeway Classic)
Idaho at Idaho State (Battle of the Domes)
Lamar at McNeese (Battle of the Border)
RIVALRIES
Yale at Harvard (The Game)
USC at UCLA (Victory Bell)
Western Michigan at Central Michigan (Victory Cannon)
Akron at Kent State (Wagon Wheel)
Lafayette at Lehigh (The Rivalry)
Howard at Morgan State
Montana at Montana State (Brawl Of The Wild)
Jackson State at Alcorn State (Soul Bowl)
TOP GAMES WEEK 13
Indiana at Ohio State
Army at Notre Dame
BYU at Arizona State
Ole Miss at Florida
Alabama at Oklahoma
Pittsburgh at Louisville
Virginia Tech at Duke
Penn State at Minnesota
UConn at Syracuse
Sam Houston at Jacksonville State
Western Kentucky at Liberty
CFB 2024 Biletnikoff Award semifinalists:
Jack Bech/TCU
Ja'Corey Brooks/Louisville
Harold Fannin Jr/Bowling Green
Tai Felton/Maryland
Tre Harris/Ole Miss
Travis Hunter/Colorado
Tetairoa McMillan/Arizona
Nick Nash/San Jose State
Xavier Restrepo/Miami
Jeremiah Smith/Ohio State
Ryan Williams/Alabama
Florida Atlantic has fired head coach Tom Herman, and those who have paid attention should not find that at all surprising.
For those keeping score, all four teams with Owls as mascots have fired their coach:
Kennesaw State
Temple
FAU
Rice
#CFB2024 #OwlsClippedCoaches
It's funny that during the tenure of the 4-team CFP fans were upset about the committee using the "eye test" to favor one team over another.
Now, despite the fact that Alabama & Georgia are better than most teams in CFB, those same folks want to use "eye test" to keep them out of the 12-team CFP.
One of their more underrated tunes, gets me going on a Saturday morning.
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Difficult to start work when management commandeers your chair.
Someone's getting fired, right?
Great start to a Friday with this Aussie power pop nugget.
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Certainly has not been a year the Tigers hoped for. I would expect they get by the Gators this weekend.
TOP GAMES WEEK 12
Tennessee at Georgia
Clemson at Pittsburgh
Texas at Arkansas
Arizona State at Kansas State
Oregon at Wisconsin
Missouri at South Carolina
Tulane at Navy
Boise State at San Jose State
Baylor at West Virginia
Cincinnati at Iowa State
Virginia at Notre Dame
#CFB2024 #TopGames
Intro ripped from "Sympathy For The Devil" and intro is reminsicent of the Black Crowes. A banger.
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This is the configuration of Wrigley Field this weekend for Ohio State-Northwestern. Hoping no one from either team gets hurt.
#PlayInAFootballStadium
Olentangy Orange principal Monica Asher has been placed on administrative leave after penning the following note to her staff.
The superintendent's message follows.