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College Football Playoff Rankings & Is College Football Rigged?

College Football Playoff Rankings & Is College Football Rigged?



I keep seeing a hashtag on Twitter that insinuates that College Football is rigged. When you look at the intricacies of this Big 12 Championship contest, you may want whoever is behind the curtain to keep making these magical College Football games occur.




ZACH SMITH TOM HERMAN
In the 247 Sports article titled Zack Smith: Herman wanted to bring Meyer down. Author Jordan James is able to illustrate through a series of Tweets from former Ohio State Coach Zach Smith that paints a very vivid picture of the relationship between Texas and Ohio State in College Football Today.




OHIO STATE VS NORTHWESTERN 2018
When asked how he felt about the upcoming matchup, Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald said, "I don't think anyone outside these doors would pick us to win this game. My mom and dad, I guess, would. I'm not even sure if my sisters would. But I don't need them. I just need the 74 guys who will put on the purple and white Saturday." Fitzgerald may be right, the odds are not in his favor. The Wildcats have been wildly inconsistent this season and have had a number of close wins that should have been blowouts such as Rutgers and Illinois.


CFB PLAYOFF RANKINGS 2018
We already previewed the Alabama vs Georgia SEC Championship match-up that will also dictate the CFB Playoff Rankings and what UCF would need to do to climb into one of the four CFB playoff ranking positions.


Week 14 College Football Picks for College Football Championship week can be found by clicking HERE. College Football Today already has previews for the SEC, BIG 12 and PAC 12 championship match-ups with predictions from College Football Today President Maddy Sperling. Check out how we did week 13 by clicking HERE.


The real issue with Trinity and Lutheran North forfeits...

As someone familiar with the area, I am going to shine some light on this issue. While some want to say there is no reason to forfeit, and I agree, I think the context is important to what is happening in the state and especially in the STL area. Simply put, MSHSAA is not enforcing the rules for whatever reason. I have seen many kids transfer from private to private and have to sit out 365 days, even though they are no varsity starters or moving closer to their home address. These players all usually share something in common. Yet, the state has let two schools run wild in the transfer and undue influence areas. Schools are clearly seeing the state is not enforcing rule against them, so the only way to make a stand is to refuse to play them to make MSHSAA take notice.

I’ve been told by multiple AD’s the new thing to get eligibility granted is to check the “don’t feel safe” box. All it takes is the student going to Guidance once or twice, getting documentation, and then when they transfer, that becomes their appeal. Not saying this is the case in every circumstance, but when you see the level of players changing to these two schools and playing right away, it would give some credibility to what I have heard is going on in STL.

2015 Season

Trinity hires coach whose background is invested almost entirely in the JFL (for non-STL people, STL does not have middle school football, so this is essentially recruiting super teams at the middle school level). Suddenly, in 2015 he starts a group of freshmen on varsity that is now made up of no-less than a half dozen players claiming Division 1 offers as juniors, 3 of which are top 100 in the nation, all of which are public school middle schoolers now playing for the same Class 2 Catholic school team.

2016 Season Transfers

Jabriel Green- top player on Jennings Class 4 team, transfers to Trinity and becomes all-state, top JUCO level player. Immediately eligible by MSHSAA.


Torre Boland- top player on Riverview Gardens Class 4 team, transfers to Trinity and becomes all-state, D-1 (Missouri State). Immediately eligible by MSHSAA.


Ronnie Perkins- top player on University City Class 4 District Championship team, transfers to Lutheran North where his older brother’s head coach is now the head coach….immediately eligible. National level recruit.


2017 Season Transfers

_________- Hazelwood West, leading rusher on Class 5 team with 1,200 yards is now Lutheran North leading rusher…eligible immediately by MSHSAA.


_________- Vashon, 2nd leading rusher on Class 4 team, now 3rd leading rusher for Lutheran North…eligible immediately by MSHSAA.



When Class 2 teams, or any team for that matter but especially those limited in resources, are allowed to accumulate this level of talent through what appears blatant undue influence and ineptitude by MSHSAA to take a legitimate stand against transfers sitting 365, you are going to get backlash from other schools.

Did Trinity save Lovie Smith's job?

Il gives Lovie a contract extension after going 9-27 with the team. One of the reasons sited as to why was the young players on the roster and those committed to the school. The real crazy part is in two years Trinity players could makeup around 10% of the Il roster. I would guess very few schools have 10% of there roster from a single outside state little lone a single out of state school.

SEMO University Redhawks are 9-3

So we have another CFB team in Missouri having one heck of a year. SEMO won their first home FCS playoff game yesterday in front of a boisterous crowd in Cape Girardeau 28-14 over a physical Stony Brook University team out of NY.

They travel this week to Ogen Utah in the second round to play #2 ranked Weber State. SEMO has one of the best turnover ratios in the country.

Semo's offense is coordinated by former North County All-State QB and long time North County head coach Jeromy McDowell.
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