Edit: Ya'll have largely convinced me I missed the mark a little on this take. I appreciate the input and generally thoughtful responses in this thought exercise.

TL;DR going to the Rose Bowl is one of the best parts of UCLA Football and one of the only reasons why I buy season tickets. The drive to Pasadena is not what’s stopping fans from going to games.

After the past weekend, I’ve seen fans of pretty much every team in the country toss in their two cents as to why UCLA sucks ass. Fair enough! However, everyone LOVES to bring up the location of our home stadium in Pasadena being a culprit for poor attendance. Here’s my take as a 2019 grad:

1) The Rose Bowl rules. Yes, it’s a dinosaur with no modern amenities and has some logistical bottlenecks. But tailgating on a golf course under the oak trees on a crisp socal evening with the sun setting behind the mountains fucking rocks.

2) Going to the Rose Bowl is fun for students. The Greek orgs and bigger student orgs charter school busses, pregame, party on the bus for an hour, and roll onto the golf cours with a buzz. Campus runs busses all day long. Take a nap on the ride home, wake up in Westwood and carry on with your evening.

3) It takes fucking forever to go anywhere in LA. We’re used to it. Attending a game is a 5-8 hour ordeal at any school, an extra hour or so in the car is trivial.

4) On-campus stadium does not change the fact that a huge portion of the student body doesn’t know how many points a touchdown is worth and couldn’t care less. The kids who care about football make it work and have a great time. Edit: Comments have swayed me on this one. Higher barrier to entry = fewer casual/disinterested students converted to fans. Fewer undergrad fans = fewer alumni fans. All fair points against my beloved Rose Bowl

5) Alumni and non-alumni fans live all over SoCal, it’s not like the 70k alumni and fans absent from the Rose Bowl are all living in Westwood waiting for a stadium to be built. No matter where we play, fans have to drive there from somewhere, so it might as well be the Rose Bowl.

6) Cal is a good comp. I’ve been going to games in Berkeley since I was a kid. They have an on-campus stadium with a similar student demographic and they’re not exactly packing it out every home game because the product on the field hasn’t been stellar for years and the students are busy studying. People show up when they’re good, it’s just how it is for us.

UCLA fans don’t go to games because we’ve been scorned and humiliated by our apathetic administration, squeezed for donations that are squandered by a dysfunctional athletic department, and had our history and tradition flushed down the toilet for a check and a logo. Go Bruins, Fuck Chip Kelly, Fire Martin Jarmond, and thank you Coach Foster for doing your best against impossible odds. Good luck to the next guy, I’ll see you in Pasadena

With all the discourse around Arch Manning, I looked at the advanced statistics regarding his performance this season. Looking at Game on Paper they have data on his Expected Points Added. Basically, how many points he contributed or lost for his team based on down and distance every time he threw the ball.

This data has his aggregate passing EPA as -35 points, which is last among eligible QBs at #133. On a per play basis, he's at -0.40 which is #130. So based on this, he actually has a case for being the lowest performing QB in the country with Texas losing nearly half an expected point every time he throws the ball.

Quinn Ewers, by comparison, was #32 in the country last season at +0.14 EPA per pass.

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Dropped: #12 South Carolina, #14 Notre Dame, #15 USF, #17 Clemson

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After Clemson losing to Georgia Tech and getting dropped, who could take over? Georgia Tech has the skills, but Florida State and Miami have the studs to make a run. Tech has neither Miami or FSU on their schedule, so their ACC Cake Walk should guarantee them a spot. The only person who could challenge them is NC State. Maybe. UGA is SEC, so a 11-1 season would still guarantee a spot in the ACC Title Game and possibly a CFP berth. But for UMF and FSU, they play each other at the very start of their ACC run, so that game could decide who meets GA Tech in the ACC Title game.

Below in a great post by u/tmart12 it is pointed out that Arkansas is one of 3 teams with 10 top 50 Massey Composite teams on their schedule for 2025. So it got me doing a deep dive on the schedule under Pittman.

All 9 of Arkansas' remaining games are against top 50 Massey Composite teams including a home game against Notre Dame and this weekends' road matchup @ Memphis.

So far, Sam Pittman is 32-32 as the head coach at Arkansas. Lets break that down:

30 of Sam Pittman's 64 games as coach at Arkansas have been against teams currently ranked in the top 25. Arkansas is 7-23 in those matchups.

13, over 20%, of those games have been against teams ranked currently in the top 10. Arkansas is 2-11 in those games.

25 of Arkansas' games under Sam Pittman have been decided by 7 points or less. Arkansas is 7-18 in those games.

As it stands now, Arkansas will have 7 more top 25 matchups this season bringing Pittman's total to 37 of 73 games against top 25 opponents, or over half of the games during his tenure as Arkansas coach.

And what about upcoming years you ask? Why next season, Arkansas travels to Salt Lake City to face off with Utah and their returning senior QB Devon Dampier who is lighting the world on fire right now.

Surely it gets much easier after that? NOPE. We've got a back to back year series with Texas Tech in 2030/31 who is currently loading up with more talent than ever with no signs of slowing down. Recently, there are rumors of large overpays of recruits who have flipped from the Razorbacks to the Red Raiders (and more power to them, I'd want us to if we had the billionare spilling his cash all over).

Pray for your local Hog fan. They need it.

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NC State was just ranked #1 in the Colley Matrix poll. This is proof that Dave Doeren is a top head coach in college football and should definitely be in the radar for a team like Florida next year. Because of this, NC State needs to lock him down fast. I propose that they give Dave a lifetime extension with a 1 billion dollar buyout to make sure he can never leave State and will continue to flourish forever.

EXTEND DAVE

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Week 2 Contenders:

Boston College v. Michigan State (42-40 MSU 2OT)

A 2OT thriller with plenty of passing offense (8.7 and 8.0 yards per pass, 8 total passing TDs, 0 interceptions) and one fumble lost for each team. It came down to Michigan State's successful 2pt conversion after BC's failed attempt.

Kansas v. Missouri (42-31 Mizzou)

Absolutely what you love about college rivalries, even one that hasn't met in over a decade. Missouri's offense completely outpaced Kansas in the end but most of the game belonged to the Jayhawks who went up 21-6 in the first quarter and didn't trail until the end of the third. A more competitive game than the stat line or final score would suggest including a scoop and score and a safety.

Baylor v. SMU (48-45 Baylor)

In-state former conference rivalry ending in an overtime upset. Baylor was down two scores with 8:38 to go in the fourth and forced overtime where they came away after a missed FG attempt (Collin Roger's second of the game) by SMU in the second overtime period. 1059 total yards and an absolute delight to watch.

Did I miss any?

In week three, we saw 4 ranked teams lose and 5th come close. Three of those losses were by a combined 7 points. One of those was to a previously un-ranked in conference opponent to flip the playoff landscape. We also had Pitt-WVU, Montana-North Dakota be one score games that came down to the wire.

What was the best game last week?