WAKE THE FREAKING FALL RAIN UP IT'S GAMEDAY!

[u/JohnRamos85]

Week 7 has arrived CFB Reddit.

Any games will you all be watching? And for those who watched this week, how was the in-stadium experience?

And what do you all think of a possible expanded D1 FBS CFP?

[u/drunkenmagnum24]

Finally feeling like fall ( just for one day) in AL. It just feels wrong to be 90 this late in the year.

[u/Pan_TheCake_Man → u/drunkenmagnum24]

Today’s weather for me is hilarious, the high was 74, at midnight, and it just falls all day.

I’m glad it’s fall too

[u/koots4 → u/drunkenmagnum24]

32°f out here in Alberta just took dogs out and had morning wake n bake and is still frosty out 🥶. Wish it was even 40s or 50s out.

[u/drunkenmagnum24 → u/koots4]

Can we trade (both cold and wake & bake)?

[u/Gingerh1tman → u/drunkenmagnum24]

Man you ain’t kidding. I do not want to see summer weather for a while this is one of the worst summers I can remember.

[u/Real_Statistician538 → u/drunkenmagnum24]

We have a Freeze Warning tonight up my way for tonight. Brrrrrr.

[u/SpiritClaw40 → u/drunkenmagnum24]

So, those flairs… AL, huh?

[u/drunkenmagnum24 → u/SpiritClaw40]

I was radicalized

Kidding, I spent the first 30 years of my life in GA, the last 14 in AL.

[u/R_Raider86]

My twin brother's wedding is a little under 4 hours from right now. No alcohol. No dancing. Eggs, biscuits, lattes served at the reception.

God help me.

[u/LongDickCallahan → u/R_Raider86]

just eggs and biscuits? Where the damn bacon or sausage!?

[u/R_Raider86 → u/LongDickCallahan]

No word on either of those being available yet.

[u/mjr2p3 → u/R_Raider86]

Have pocket bacon ready just in case

[u/justheretolearnlangs → u/mjr2p3]

just make sure not to mix it up with your pocket sand

[u/sammysbud → u/justheretolearnlangs]

Mix em together for extra crunchy

[u/DamnitBobbehHill → u/R_Raider86]

What the fuck, is it at a Bob Evans?

[u/R_Raider86 → u/DamnitBobbehHill]

Worse. It's outside in from of an old historical house attached to a museum in southeast Texas.

[u/olemiss18 → u/R_Raider86]

I feel you. My twin brother’s wedding was in a 100-year-old church with no AC in south Mississippi in fucking August. Walmart cupcakes after. No alcohol.

All for them to, I shit you not, divorce a year later.

[u/Mississippi_Matt → u/olemiss18]

The worst mistake I ever made was agreeing to get married in Vicksburg at a tiny church in the middle of fucking July because her best friend's dad was the preacher. The next worst was staying with her for 8 years after that.

[u/olemiss18 → u/Mississippi_Matt]

Oof, feel you there. My brother’s church was outside of Port Gibson so really close to there.

[u/wrestle4life189 → u/R_Raider86]

That’s interesting. Never seen a brunch wedding haha

[u/Acsteffy → u/R_Raider86]

Disown

[u/IntrepidYoung9493 → u/R_Raider86]

I’m so sorry, that sounds incredibly bland. Congratulations to your brother though!

[u/moby323 → u/R_Raider86]

Is he religious or something?

[u/R_Raider86 → u/moby323]

Nope

[u/H_I_McDunnough → u/R_Raider86]

You should have hit him more when you were kids.

[u/EliminateThePenny → u/H_I_McDunnough]

I rarely laugh (literally) out loud at reddit comments, but this one snuck up and got me.

[u/Tight_Bug_2848 → u/EliminateThePenny]

Same! Atleast it sounds like a bad time and everyone will leave early

[u/Turkelton888]

Got all the windows open and no AC and just feels right!

[u/runningwaffles19 → u/Turkelton888]

Can run my oven and not worry about heating up the house

[u/Midnightstimepasser → u/Turkelton888]

I've got to go out and scrape the frost off my windshield. 90 sucks. 30 something sucks. I'll take 60 and sunny for the win.

[u/Snoo93079 → u/Midnightstimepasser]

I'll take 30s over 90s

[u/britishmetric144 → u/Snoo93079]

Agreed. I experienced —5 C on the top of a mountain last week. With 50—knot winds. Far better than the yucky heat and humidity here in the summer.

[u/Enough_Wallaby7064 → u/Turkelton888]

Furnace is on here

[u/britishmetric144 → u/Turkelton888]

Isn’t Northern Arizona University at high elevation anyway?

[u/KansasEF5Tornado → u/britishmetric144]

Yeah it's in flagstaff

[u/gozasc]

AI-generated GameDay signs really don't have the same charm

[u/motherbearsrack]

Any big games today?

Go Hoosiers!

[u/henry_fords_ghost → u/motherbearsrack]

FitzBowl

[u/KansasEF5Tornado → u/henry_fords_ghost]

Cats

[u/2400hoops]

Ah Sunflower Showdown Saturday. What cruel way will God have us lose this time?

[u/ShackletonsVael]

As much as reddit might hate it I'm excited for GameDay even if Pat is there lmfao. I'm just hoping they lean into the Mormons vs Catholics as a joke like the Catholics vs Convicts joke with Miami.

[u/LiquidLight_ → u/ShackletonsVael]

I saw someone call it "Saints vs Soakers" a couple weeks ago and was more amused than I should have been. 

[u/moby323 → u/LiquidLight_]

Soakers?

[u/LiquidLight_ → u/moby323]

It's joke around alleged Mormon premarital intimacy practices.

[u/moby323 → u/LiquidLight_]

Ahh I see, funny!

And gross.

[u/LongDickCallahan → u/LiquidLight_]

Dont forget the part where you sometimes get a friend to rock the bed so you arent doing the thrusting lmaooo

[u/ShackletonsVael → u/LiquidLight_]

Saints vs Soakers is what I will always call it now lmfao that's so good. I think we play them next year as well?

[u/zoom518]

A day so stacked there’s 2 interesting games on the SEC Network

[u/Jyingling21]

COASTAL SUCKS

[u/AtrioxCalamity]

… I am not sure I want to watch.

[u/T2_JD → u/AtrioxCalamity]

Let the hype take you into some excitement, but maybe we go for a hike by halftime?

[u/NudeBeachEnthusiast]

Will Florida give Texas a game or get steamrolled?

[u/Arkehn → u/NudeBeachEnthusiast]

Texas will give Florida a game to give Texas

[u/justheretolearnlangs → u/Arkehn]

described it perfectly lmao

[u/ztreHdrahciR]

Week 7? Dammit. More than half over

[u/narcbynight08]

Had a 6 hr delay on my flight last night ✅

Got 5.5 hours of sleep ✅

Going to watch PSU v. UM in the booty bowl ✅

Will I booze? Ya damn right

[u/LongDickCallahan]

Worked almost 60 hours this week so im finna melt into my couch for about 16 hours straight. Got a big ole bag of some shit called Blumosa and it tastes like your sucking on an orange peel. My girlfriend(not a cousin) is gonna cook shrimp pasta and said if Bama wins tonight she would let me crawl on top of her and flop around a while. ROLL TIDE!

[u/njoinglifnow → u/LongDickCallahan]

That fact that your girlfriend isn't a cousin already makes you a winner!

[u/randy5554 → u/LongDickCallahan]

I love your username, haha

[u/LongDickCallahan → u/randy5554]

love you bb

[u/DonnaDDrake]

Bright and early ready for Gameday to start

[u/MightyIrish]

My Irish are playing biggest game of the year so far and somehow I’m in Nashville watching hogs versus Vandy!?! 🤷‍♂️

[u/KansasEF5Tornado]

It's 9:14 A.M. in GA and Kansas still sucks

[u/koots4 → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

Waking up at 7 am on days off should be banned but the things I do for game day and football lol.

[u/BrilliantArm5914 → u/KansasEF5Tornado]

can't spell suck without kU

[u/loriiscool]

Hanging in Corvallis today with the fam ! Never been here , cannot wait

[u/Apart_Selection7722]

I might watch Gameday today, because it isn't at a SEC school

[u/thegreeseegoose → u/Apart_Selection7722]

Should be a good one

[u/NCMA17 → u/Apart_Selection7722]

lol, my wife saw where gameday is this week and was confused. She actually said “I thought gameday was only an SEC thing?”

[u/ohGodwhynowww]

5 more minutes ZZZZZ.

[u/Significant_Push_856]

There's a little frost on the ground here in WI. Gonna be a good day to chill and enjoy some football

[u/Real_Statistician538]

Good morning friends!

[u/NYCHoo]

Football political dissident Tony Elliott seen on the Grassy Knoll

[u/Jormopolis]

I've been told I need to go back to sleep since our game is not for another 14 hours.

[u/dualstrike19]

Kansas has not beat Kansas State since 2008. As long as I have been a fan they haven’t won this game. I’m really hoping this Sunflower Showdown is the one.

Additionally my other flair has their rivalry game as Ferris State and GVSU play The Anchor-Bone Classic today. It’s supposed to be available free on Amazon prime on one of the Flo Sports channels. While Ferris has looked pretty dominant all year, with this one being in Allendale in what is supposed to be a sold out crowd it feels like an anything can happen game.

[u/DougFlutiesMullet]

Any games will you all be watching?

Once I wake up, all of them....

😴💤🏈🍺🏈🍺😴🍺🍺🍺🍺😴💤🏈🍺🏈💤....

[u/MrSCR23]

Hope you’re ready to get run over Vols

[u/Atlgal42]

I hate it here

[u/Jimmykindaexists]

Kinda struggling with the impending doom that is the 24 team playoff. Am I the only one struggling to get hyped? Maybe it's a physiological thing, but I just feel deflated this morning

[u/moby323 → u/Jimmykindaexists]

Every season past few years im less hyped than the one before.

My biggest fear is that now that EAPN owns the property, they will hype the hell out of the playoff and treat the regular season like a preamble.

Every game will be framed as playoff percentages based on the potential outcome.

[u/Jimmykindaexists → u/moby323]

I'm a new fan, got into the college version of the sport in 2025 because my friend had been pushing me for years. I really began to fall in love with the stakes, the way every game felt like must see television. Obviously it's lesser now than it was, but it still made for must see television

Now with 24, the games have no weight, and the friend whos gotten me into the sport is done with everything besides the playoffs because he's a fan of a big program that doesn't have to really worry about their season (Miami, if curious). I just feel deflated, knowing that I didn't really get to enjoy much of the good days

[u/moby323 → u/Jimmykindaexists]

Yeah, before, this Alabama - Tennessee game would have massive implications to a 1-loss Alabama team.

A second loss could absolutely derail their season or put them on the brink. If the game was close at the end, it would feel like “This could be Alabama’s whole season right here.”

With the 24 team playoff, this game is nothing but some bragging rights. Alabama could lose this game and 1 or two others and probably still be in the top 24.

[u/LiquidLight_ → u/moby323]

At some point they're just reinventing the BCS system from first principles. I'd assume things stop before they get to "hey the whole season's a tournament, last undefeated wins", but who knows.

[u/DamnitBobbehHill → u/Jimmykindaexists]

The whole concept seems like a drunk Pat McCaffee idea to make ESPN more money and they listened without considering how it will kill the sport

[u/skushi08 → u/Jimmykindaexists]

I think 24 is absurd and only guaranteeing 1 G6 spot. Half the round 1 matchups are going to be bloodbaths anyway. I’d rather see a sunbelt champ or any G6 champ show up with something to prove, than watch B1G champ play the 5 seed coming out of the SEC with half the team actively in the portal or opting out so they don’t get injured for the portal/draft.

[u/esports_consultant → u/Jimmykindaexists]

No I am barely hyped.

[u/Mrs-Stinsfire → u/Jimmykindaexists]

You’re not the only one struggling to get hyped. I joked yesterday around the house that eventually we’ll have a 64 team playoff. 6 games will get played and then in mid-October we’ll just start the playoff run. I was just ranting of course, but I don’t know, I just turned 50 so I could see this in my lifetime, LOL.

What I’m struggling with is all the pre-season talk about which teams will be in. Let’s take my school, Texas, for example. I heard two guys going back and forth on SiriusXM about “Texas has a hard schedule. If they lose three games but manage to beat Ohio state, they should be in.” Should they? Who knows. Then they went on to similarly scenario Ohio State, Bama, Oregon… why are we deciding in August who should potentially be in 4 months later? Why not just play the season and see how it goes? So that’s my concern, that 24 teams will just lead to more predeterminations that X and Y teams can lose 3-5 games and still be okay.

I don’t really know if I’m explaining myself all that well. The whole thing just feels… meh. Like “it’s okay to lose 25-33% of our games, we’ll be fine.”

On the flip side though, maybe, just maybe, fewer players will jump ship to other teams to chase that small handful of teams that are playoff bound. Pipe dream? Maybe.

Change is a-comin’ though, so I guess I better just wrap my head around it and move on.

[u/britishmetric144 → u/Jimmykindaexists]

Food for thought…

There are 32 teams in the NFL, of which 14 make the playoffs each season. That’s 44 per cent. (It used to be 12 of 32, or 38 per cent).

There are 138 teams in FBS. Under the old four—team playoff, only three per cent of teams made it. The current system is 12 teams, or nine per cent. Expanding this to 24 means that 17 per cent of teams get in.

If the NFL can still maintain a quality regular—season, with more than 40 per cent of its teams qualifying for the playoffs, college football can certainly do fine at just under 20 per cent.

[u/Jimmykindaexists → u/britishmetric144]

NFL teams are more balanced than college teams though, by a considerable margin. The dolphins only lost by 14 to Kansas City, and they're considered one of the worst rosters ever assembled.

Even without that though, is college footballs value not in its high stakes regular season matchups? Is it not about limiting mistakes against hungry schools looking to ruin your season? A 24 team playoff effectively makes the regular season lose any true impact it once had. After all, why care if Bama loses when they can make it with 4 losses?

[u/esports_consultant → u/britishmetric144]

McDonald's tier food for thought.

[u/unfortunateavacado24 → u/Jimmykindaexists]

Not too much. I thought 12 teams was too big, so 24 has just been more of the bad thing I already didn't like. I kind of appreciate them essentially admitting with the "strength of conference" variable that they will just be seeding playoff teams based off revenue projections. If you're going to be greedy, at least don't insult my intelligence by pretending not to be.

[u/JohnRamos85]

It's Gameeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/Commercial-East4069]

How has ESPN not forced the ACC to play 8 am games?

[u/moby323 → u/Commercial-East4069]

If it’s this bad already, I can’t imagine how bad the conference elitism will get once ESPN is done with this sport.

[u/Commercial-East4069 → u/moby323]

I mean we still essentially have PAC12 after dark, why can’t we have coffee with the Atlantic Coastal Conference?

[u/awildyetti]

Woke up and my tv had turned itself on and was playing the exorcist on IFC (not a joke), and currently I’m out of town for my wife’s uncles funeral. So looking for some good things today! MIZ!

[u/BrilliantArm5914 → u/awildyetti]

ZOU

[u/runningwaffles19]

Bye weeks stink but the weather is great and the good games are just spread out enough that I can check scores a couple times today to see if anything is worth watching

[u/moby323 → u/runningwaffles19]

Bye weeks are awesome! You can enjoy football without the chance of getting pissed off at your own team.

[u/Nervous_Metal_9445]

Can't wait to watch the ducks play at 4 am tomorrow. So I got two options stay awake through the night or go back to sleep once it hits a reasonable time. Anyway, football from abroad is an experience.

[u/moby323]

I was watching that game last night and they said Memphis has 81 new players on the roster this year.

The turnover has gotten to be absolutely absurd. Is there anyway we can let the players get paid but ask that they play minimum two years at a school or “red shirt” a year?

[u/General_Komodo → u/moby323]

Conferences and teams are trying to figure that out but who knows what can actually be made into an enforceable rule with everyone just suing to get out of anything

[u/moby323 → u/General_Komodo]

I mean, can’t it just be two year minimum NIL contracts?

[u/luke15chick]

Got my cup of coffee, gearing up for another noon game

[u/RxseJay]

74 degrees here in central FL and rain expected around 10, my type of gameday atmosphere

[u/MikeMacBlu]

Hello big game pit in my stomach, it’s been a while.

[u/britishmetric144]

Okay, how did my team NOT lose last night?!?

[u/Practical_Cat_5849]

OSU and WSU. 🦫 Go Beavs
Hopefully Reser is packed (and stays packed)

[u/Big_You_8936]

JMU vs Georgia State, biggest game of our season so far, go Dukes!

[u/Bill3ffinMurray]

My team’s game is closer to starting tomorrow than it is to starting today, and I don’t like it.

[u/SWB1988]

Been nuts around these parts. Them dang kids been camping at this GameDay thing all week. Glad to see we didn't disappoint tho

[u/cartoonhero42]

It feels like fall outside finally (Houston), My Halloween decorations are up, and I'm a Sooner fan AND a UH fan today. It's a beautiful day for College football. We'll have games on all day in this house.

[u/SWB1988]

And y'all thought that GameDay shouldn't be going to Provo. Turns out this is the most amount of people that have shown up to 1 GameDay. We broke the record! 🤣

[u/Aar1012]

Can I sleep in? I’ve got MACtion after Dark tonight 🥱

[u/hitokirizac]

ND-BYU is on at 8:30 local time for me and I have to be a bus chaperone at 9:30. Guess who's gonna be glued to his phone the whole way there and back?

[u/SuedRainbow]

UNC at Duke. High of 58 here in the triad finally breaking record highs this week. Even with rain, feels like fall ball finally.

[u/cjdeck1]

Crack open the apple juice, it’s a party at BYU

[u/justheretolearnlangs]

I yearn for the day these obnoxious Jesus signs are removed from Gameday

[u/Dialectic_Emptiness]

My local theatre isn’t even showing “You Can See Everything” so that’s annoying.

But it’s 50 degrees and raining all day so it’s time to get as snug as a bug in a rug.

[u/moby323 → u/Dialectic_Emptiness]

I got tickets for tomorrow, luckily my theater has it

[u/Enough_Wallaby7064 → u/[deleted]]

Why did you turn this on and hop in the game thread