CFB 2021 Week 0

Awesome Fossum

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FINALLY. All times ET. Lines are from ESPN.

Saturday, August 28

1:00 Nebraska (-7) at Illinois, FOX
2:00 UConn at Fresno State (-26.5), CBSSN
3:30 Hawaii at UCLA (-17), ESPN
6:00 Eastern Illinois at Indiana State, ESPN+
7:00 MEAC & SWAC Challenge: North Carolina Central vs Alcorn State in Atlanta, ESPN
9:30 Battle of I-10: UTEP (-9) at New Mexico State, FloFootball
10:00 Southern Utah at San Jose State, CBSSN
 

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Why do you schedule a game for 11AM in Fresno when there's not a lot of other games going on?
 

Captaincoop

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Ever been to Fresno in August? 11am is going to be better than anywhere in the 1-4pm window.

That's putting aside whatever considerations CBS had in clearing the game for CBSSN.
 

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Looking forward to catching a bit of the UCLA Hawaii game. UCLA looks to run the ball with the duo of Brittain Brown and Zach Charbonnet and Hawaii, like always, will showcase an air attack, this time led by Chevan Cordeiro.
Chip Kelly is still looking for his first OOC win as UCLA head coach I believe.

Curious to the fan turnout.
 

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Can’t believe Nebraska are road favorites. Are Illinois terrible?
Whoever made that call has clearly not seen any Nebraska football for the past three years. They are comically bad. Whatever Scott Frost had at Central Florida he must have forgotten to pack with him when he moved to Lincoln.
 

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Whoever made that call has clearly not seen any Nebraska football for the past three years. They are comically bad. Whatever Scott Frost had at Central Florida he must have forgotten to pack with him when he moved to Lincoln.
Martinez has been their QB for seemingly 9 years and he still is awful.
 

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Whoever made that call has clearly not seen any Nebraska football for the past three years. They are comically bad. Whatever Scott Frost had at Central Florida he must have forgotten to pack with him when he moved to Lincoln.
UCF is the better job and it was before they hired Frost.

Frost isn't going to be attracting any significant Florida talent and Texas is dead since the move to the Big10. Omaha, Hastings, and Kearney need better high school football programs.
 

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Can’t believe Nebraska are road favorites. Are Illinois terrible?
Whoever made that call has clearly not seen any Nebraska football for the past three years. They are comically bad. Whatever Scott Frost had at Central Florida he must have forgotten to pack with him when he moved to Lincoln.
I think the main thing going into this season is that Lovie Smith was fired in the middle of last season. And the somewhat powder-keg Bret Bielema was brought in. Plus, I think I heard or read that they are only returning something like 6 starters, after losing their leading rusher and receiver. Plus, Illinois finished dead last in defense last year.

But hey, just checked the score and it's Illinois up 30-9 with 4 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter.
 

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Frost isn't going to be attracting any significant Florida talent and Texas is dead since the move to the Big10. Omaha, Hastings, and Kearney need better high school football programs.
There are five players from Nebraska listed on Rivals in the state rankings for 2022 - they got one of them, the 5th ranked guy. The others went out of state. They are a rudderless ship.
 

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I don't think the bugeaters have much to offer recruits these days. So many more attractive options.
This is what I was thinking. I’m not sure Nebraska’s problems are fixable — the recruiting pipelines to California and Texas from the Osborne era are long gone, and the program isn’t naturally advantaged in the ways that the programs to which Husker fans compare themselves (particularly OU) are advantaged.

Ironically, the best thing that could happen to the program in the near term might be for something to come of the alleged practice violations. NCAA sanctions would make it easier to move on from Frost (he has a $20M buyout that goes away if he’s fired for cause), and a new coach coming in would have a more patient alumni base and the ability to sell recruits on the ability to step in and play immediately (as I assume a lot of the current players would transfer). But even that’s more like “we can be what Wisconsin is now in 5 years if a few things break right,” not “we’re going to return to being a national powerhouse like we were in the Osborne years.”
 

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At UCF Frost had players and fertile recruiting grounds. Now he has a quickly diminishing reputation and money.
 

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1990s Nebraska/modern Oklahoma is definitely an unrealistic expectation, but there's so much space between that and modern Nebraska, which is now working on its fifth straight losing season. There's no reason for them to be this bad.
 

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$5M a year apparently only buys you a playbook that is predicated on the opposing team never changing their scheme or making any in-game adjustments of your own.

 

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Frost reminds me of the Charlie Strong years at Texas. Zero creativity on offense. Winging it on defense without any discipline or clear game plan. Zero special teams prep (that punt return blunder was one for the ages), no in-game adjustments, lots of stupid turnovers, dumb penalties, etc. This Nebraska team plays almost exactly like Strong’s Texas teams did.
 

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Frost reminds me of the Charlie Strong years at Texas. Zero creativity on offense. Winging it on defense without any discipline or clear game plan. Zero special teams prep (that punt return blunder was one for the ages), no in-game adjustments, lots of stupid turnovers, dumb penalties, etc. This Nebraska team plays almost exactly like Strong’s Texas teams did.
Frost has never kicked off to start both halves of a game. Point: Scott.