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Cincydawg

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The 2021 CFB Season
« on: May 03, 2021, 12:01:26 PM »
Your thoughts?


  • Will it seem fairly normal with tailgating and full capacities?
  • What does your top ten look like at the moment?
  • What are pluses and minuses for your team, and where would you rank them?
  • What is the toughest out on your schedule?
  • What is a sleeper team quasi-forgotten you think could make a run for the top ten?
  • What is an asleep highly regarded team you think could slide to 9-4ish?


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Re: The 2022 CFB Season
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2021, 12:03:16 PM »
For reference, the preseason rankings I've glanced at include the usual:

Clemson Bama Oklahoma  Ohio State UGA UNC Florida Michigan Texas A&M and varied others, including Iowa State.

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Re: The 2022 CFB Season
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2021, 12:05:05 PM »
I predict that having never, EVER been there before, Iowa State will struggle with the expectations.  Like losing 2 games they're easily favored in.
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Re: The 2022 CFB Season
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2021, 12:08:13 PM »
What are the collective thoughts on the 2021 season coming up?
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Re: The 2022 CFB Season
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2021, 12:13:58 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 03, 2021, 12:05:05 PM
I predict that having never, EVER been there before, Iowa State will struggle with the expectations.  Like losing 2 games they're easily favored in.
Like Texas and OU???
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2021, 12:26:59 PM »
Well with the few players who got drafted from those 2, they should be fully-stocked for this coming year, no?
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2021, 12:29:54 PM »
I believe it will be normal with tailgating and full capacities. I think that by September, we won't see masks much. If we do, it will mean something terrible has happened with a new variant and/or vaccine inefficacy, and I would like to remain optimistic and hope that doesn't happen. That said, that will be my only COVID-related contribution to this thread. I assume others may disagree, but I'm not going to debate it.

Don't care about the top ten. I'm a Purdue fan lol...

Plus for my team is a new DC, because Diaco was a huge mistake. George Karlaftis being healthy should help too. Hopefully the OL is finally starting to round into form, because it was a dumpster fire when Brohm arrived and he's been piecing it together ever since. Minus is that after all the years of Brohm, we still have no freakin' clue who is going to be behind center. Also that we are EXTREMELY thin at RB. One of our top guys transferred out after getting busted for carrying weed while driving. Prediction [hope] is that we're basically a top-40 team and that we can finish with a bowl-eligible record. 7-5 would be wonderful.

Wisconsin at home. Yeah, I know I should say OSU, or even ND, which are both road games. But we haven't beaten Wisconsin since 2003. I won't believe we can until we do. 

Eh on the final two questions for the same as the other top ten question. I haven't had time to get my finger on the pulse of anyone other that Purdue this year.
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2021, 12:38:20 PM »
I think it will look fairly similar to the current MLB season.  Some variations on capacity, from full crowds in some places, to 33-50% in others.  I think tailgating will probably be normal, as for any non-school sanctioned tailgating.

I think we might have kids/coaches miss games, but I don't think we'll have any games outright cancelled due to mass outbreaks/contact tracing.

I *hope* I'll find myself more engaged, after struggling to do so with the makeshift sports over the past 14 months.  I've noticed this normalish MLB season has been the first time I've gotten into more of my pre-COVID mindset, and that's with an absolute trash Tigers offense to root for.  I never got into last college football season at all.  Starting in late October, games with absolutely zero environment, games getting cancelled.  It was always just background noise for me, and college basketball felt similar.  I'm hoping college football *feels* normal.

As for a top 10?  Who knows.  The tip top, is always the same.  Behind that, that's why I didn't even bother with a countdown this year.  I don't know what was real and what wasn't last year.  It's impossible to track the rosters right now with the transfer portal.

For MSU, the biggest pluses I think are the upgrades at RB.  Jordan Simmons looked really good at times as a freshman.  Elijah Collins had a good 2019, before struggling last year with the after-effects of COVID.  If he's back to 100% that's a solid 1-2 punch, before even considering the portal additions from Wake Forest and Auburn.  The WF kid particularly, I think is very good.  Granted, if the OL isn't MASSIVELY better, it won't matter.  The biggest worry is the secondary, which is crazy to think from how recent the No Fly Zone was.  6 of the 8 in the two deep either graduated, transferred, or went pro early.  Outside of Kalon Gervin, it is nothing but question marks.  The Spring Game did nothing to make MSU fans feel better about the situation.

Toughest out?  It's always Ohio State

Positive surprise teams?  I think Miami and Washington, while maybe not making people think its 1991, could be top 6-10 type teams.

Negative surprise?  I don't like Notre Dame's roster much at all.  I don't know what their schedule looks like, but I could easily see them going from CFP to 9-4
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2021, 12:41:19 PM »
Florida is going to look a lot like Mullen at MSU with Fitzgerald at QB, but with a better passer at QB.  We're stupid-deep at RB.  We have 2 athletes at QB with cannons for arms.  Hell, I'd say we'd be like that Auburn team that ran wild on everyone in '13, except I'm not sure about our OL.  Skill-position wise, we should run the ball 70% of the time.  
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Defense is a crapshoot, because it was the worst one ever last year.  Literally.  
We have an all-SEC type DE, MLB, and CB.  We have 300 lbers inside.  Our other DBs scare me, tbh.  We get to play Alabama and LSU this year, so that's fun.  We could beat UGA again and still lose the East.  
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We're at 10-2/9-3, something like that.  
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2021, 12:44:04 PM »
And here I thought that ELA was going to drop his entire preseason rankings on us all at once. 
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2021, 12:47:20 PM »
ND:
@ FSU (very down, but they didn't know that when they scheduled this, I'm assuming)
Toledo!
Purdue
Wiscy @ Soldier Field Spaceship Stadium
Cincinnata
@ VT
bye.............oh yeah, they get to schedule their own byes.....another advantage
USC
UNC
Navy........if you're counting, yes, that's 2 true road games in their first 9
@ UVA
GT
@ Stanford
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I can BLINDLY pick an SEC team and they'll have a much tougher slate.
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2021, 12:51:04 PM »
No SEC team is going to have fewer than three non-P5 opponents on their slate, and instead of Cincinnati, Toledo and Navy, the SEC teams will have scheduled their non-P5 games against FCS HBCUs. 
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2021, 12:52:47 PM »
And my claim will still hold true......that's the point, lol.
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Re: The 2021 CFB Season
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2021, 12:57:47 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on May 03, 2021, 12:51:04 PM
No SEC team is going to have fewer than three non-P5 opponents on their slate, and instead of Cincinnati, Toledo and Navy, the SEC teams will have scheduled their non-P5 games against FCS HBCUs.
UGA plays Tech and Clemson OOC, then UAB and Charleston Southern.  If you count Tech as a P5, that means they have fewer than 3 non-P5 opponents.
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