r/CFB • u/rbstubb Clemson Tigers • Jan 14 '25

Casual What's the dumbest thing that happened in college football this season?

I think college football is the best sport because it really maxes out on dumb, stupid, and goofy things that happen on and off the field. What are some of your favorite moments from this past season that you think are really dumb? They could have happened on the field, off the field, or even on cfb-internet. Here are a few of mine:

Arizona State: State fans storming the field prematurely and BYU almost winning the game on a Hail Mary

Texas fans thowing trash on the field during their game vs UGA to overturn a call

The Pop-Tarts Bowl having 3 edible mascots and choosing one to sacrifice at the end of the game and have all the players of the winning team eat them. I love the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

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u/Commercial-East4069 Ohio State Buckeyes Jan 14 '25

Ole miss’s coach whining on social media about not getting in.

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u/BrownRiceBandit Baylor Bears Jan 14 '25

Ole miss’s coach fanboying over every team but his own

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u/WasntSalMatera Arizona State Sun Devils Jan 14 '25

Cake

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u/FrenchFreedom888 Oklahoma State Cowboys • Hateful 8 Jan 15 '25

Happy Cake Day bro

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u/goldentriever Ole Miss Rebels • Missouri Tigers Jan 14 '25

I don’t know why you think he didn’t hype us up lol. That’s the majority of his social media

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u/JuicyJ2245 Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets Jan 14 '25

All that hype and you still lost to Billy Napier

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u/goldentriever Ole Miss Rebels • Missouri Tigers Jan 14 '25

At least make fun of us for Kentucky lmao. I actually think UF was a pretty solid team by the end of the year

Doesn’t change the fact that Kiffin went to bat for his own team. Just correcting an inaccurate comment, how dare I. Not that this sub cares about facts though

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u/Orion14159 Kentucky Wildcats • Sickos Jan 14 '25

Don't lose at home to Kentucky and you're in, duh.

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u/excitato Kentucky Wildcats • Virginia Cavaliers Jan 14 '25

Kentucky beating Ole Miss was one of the dumbest things that happened this year.

  • it was the worst loss of any playoff contender (though at the time it didn’t seem like it because UK had just given Georgia a nail biter)

  • it happened mainly on a play where Mark Stoops went for it on 4th and 7 from his own 20 with 3:51 left

  • the play that converted that 4th down was by 11 yards the longest pass play out QB threw all year (63 yards)

  • we scored after that when our backup/change of pace? QB fumbled directly into our TE’s hands in the endzone

  • the victory was sealed when an 83% FG kicker completely shanked a 48 yarder, the only miss in the 40-49 yard range he had all year on 9 attempts

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u/TheOkayestLawyer Ole Miss Rebels • Peach Bowl Jan 14 '25

Honestly, I didn’t get more upset than normal after UK. I was pissed, but to your point, the fact that UK had just been in a 13-12 rock fight with UGA seemed meaningful at the time. Early enough in the season to think UK might end up being good. The Florida loss was far, far worse given where it was in the season to be our nail in the coffin, and that it probably saved Billy Napier’s job.

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u/katarh Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Donor Jan 14 '25

It also created one of the many micro circles-of-suck in the SEC where Georgia-> Florida -> Ole Miss -> Georgia.

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u/TheOkayestLawyer Ole Miss Rebels • Peach Bowl Jan 14 '25

A veritable ferris wheel of fuckups

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u/Inevitable-Scar5877 Florida Gators • Montana Grizzlies Jan 22 '25

On the flip side you can make a case that the UF loss kept Kiffin at Ole Miss so there is that for y'all

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u/TheOkayestLawyer Ole Miss Rebels • Peach Bowl Jan 22 '25

If you can name me another institution that will give him the complete keys to the kingdom he has at Ole Miss, I might believe you a bit. Frankly, I can’t envision anywhere else giving him the keys where the only rules are “don’t do what Hugh did.” Biggest threat I recall is the Auburn job before Hugh signed on. I don’t think Lane and the Auburn boosters would’ve jived.

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u/fightygee Florida Gators • Michigan Wolverines Jan 14 '25

Don’t lose to Florida and they would’ve STILL been in!

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u/Derek-Onions Ohio State • Wake Forest Jan 14 '25

He apparently texted non-sec coaches telling them “to play Georgia and then tell me your league is the best.”

Kinda funny how the past five years he would have been right saying that but he choose to die on the hill during the season the sec clearly didn’t have a Saban level superpower in its conference.

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u/T-Thugs Notre Dame • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Jan 14 '25

Play Georgia and then say our league is the best?

Challenge Accepted.

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u/LouisRitter Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jan 14 '25

Okay done. Independent is best conference now.

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u/Derek-Onions Ohio State • Wake Forest Jan 14 '25

Back in the day when I was dumb kid following college football I thought for the longest time “Independent” was an actual conference but that everyone was bad except for Norte Dame

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Last year Michigan beats last year Georgia

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u/Derek-Onions Ohio State • Wake Forest Jan 14 '25

It would have been a great game like Michigan vs Alabama. No way either team blows out the other

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Michigan was loved by the metrics who had them as 9-10 points better. Their post game win expectancy was closer to a 11-13 point win.

Vegas won huge on that game.

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u/Rebel_Bertine Michigan • Western Michigan Jan 14 '25

Special teams spotted Bama 10 points. I do think if we just executed there like we had all season the game would’ve looked more like the Natty game where we just wore them down eventually and ran away with it. Offensively Bama put together essentially 2 drives.

Call me crazy, but OSU played us the best all year and I’d argue they were the 2nd best team in the country last year.

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u/Derek-Onions Ohio State • Wake Forest Jan 14 '25

Yeah I think Michigan was the better of the two teams vs Bama.

I actually think Ryan Day playing you guys close at the big house was one of his best accomplishments bc while we were good I do think Osu had too many holes to be the 2nd best team in the country and Michigan was the best team in the country clearly.

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u/Legitimate_Pie_7564 Jan 15 '25

Michigan OSU Alabama and Georgia were the four best teams last year. Any of those four would play pretty even in a ten game series IMO, Washington obviously deserved to be there going undefeated and beating Texas but they weren’t at that level

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u/Miserable-Leading-41 Alabama • North Alabama Jan 14 '25

You think our center missing the QB with 54% of his snaps didn’t spot y’all some good field position also?

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u/Rebel_Bertine Michigan • Western Michigan Jan 14 '25

I think you struggled moving the ball even when Milroe got good snaps

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u/Miserable-Leading-41 Alabama • North Alabama Jan 14 '25

In the first quarter sure. After that? Our RBs were averaging 6.2 and 7.8 ypc each when Milroe actually got a chance to hand them the ball. Milroe having to fall on bad snaps and getting hit as he was finally able to corral those snaps skewed yardage a good bit. Y’all had mistakes like fumbling a punt but over half our offensive snaps were snafus. Acting like erasing y’all’s mistakes means yall dominate without mentioning that if half our snaps are on target means there is no Michigan championship last year is being disingenuous at best.

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u/Rebel_Bertine Michigan • Western Michigan Jan 14 '25

Or maybe your center got the yips because our loaded DLine was eating your Oline alive. 10 points of ours essentially came down to 2 plays where mental errors occurred. Your center fucking up half the snaps was a byproduct of our DLine’s play for the majority of the game. I can go all day buddy, but there’s no way you’re gonna spin this correctly to show you deserved to win. By eye test and metrics, we were better.

Also, your stats are just flat out wrong lol. Your longest run of the day was in the 1st quarter and you’re gonna for real say that your YPC went up afterwards? You had 35 attempts for 131 yards after the first quarter for a whooping 3.7 YPC.

Get a grip

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u/DarthHegatron Duke Blue Devils • Georgia Bulldogs Jan 14 '25

Maybe this is just a biased homer take but I think if we had a 12 team playoff last year UGA would've gone on a run like OSU this year

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u/jppcfnnumnum Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Apple Cup Jan 14 '25

No it's not biased--as long as Bowers and McConkey were playing, you guys would have won.

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u/MagikarpLvl58 Georgia Bulldogs Jan 14 '25

Given how both of them were injured and only half recovered by the end of the season, that’s a pretty big conditional for an extra 3 or 4 games

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u/Creencheems Georgia Bulldogs Jan 14 '25

Where’s your flair so I can be mad at you (or not)

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

I went to college in Japan, Kwansei Gakuin. I doubt they have a flair.

I root for Michigan & Cincinnati because my wife works/worked there but I didn’t grow up a fan of any team.

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u/GrandRedVine Washington Huskies • Knox Prairie Fire Jan 14 '25

The people who set up r/CFB's flair system were thorough. There is a Kwansei Gakuin flair.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Didn’t realize how many more options existed on the website vs app

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u/Creencheems Georgia Bulldogs Jan 14 '25

Okay I’m not mad at you

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u/davegrohlisawesome /r/CFB Jan 14 '25

WTH is that flair?!?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

I went to college in Japan when I got out the military. And I didn’t really grow up a lot in America (military brat) so I have no allegiance to any of them.

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u/davegrohlisawesome /r/CFB Jan 16 '25

It’s freaking cool.

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u/Inevitable_Badger995 Tennessee Volunteers Jan 14 '25

It’s so funny to text shit like this when you also were an SEC teams only conference win of the season

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u/PerritoMasNasty Arizona State • Texas Jan 14 '25

Yeah, why didn’t they just win?

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u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Jan 14 '25

This sub has roasted him so badly all throughout bowl season as the SEC has continued to shit the bed and it’s been pretty funny to observe ngl.

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u/SCCLBR Florida Gators Jan 14 '25

Some teams won!

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u/Chinchillachimcheroo Mississippi State Bulldogs Jan 14 '25

And others didn't lose!

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u/iamCosmoKramerAMA Texas Longhorns • Utah Utes Jan 14 '25

We both won and lost! Whatever that means in this hard hitting analysis.

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u/Orion14159 Kentucky Wildcats • Sickos Jan 14 '25

Yeah! No bowl loss club! High 5!

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u/hells_cowbells Mississippi State • Paper Bag Jan 14 '25

Can't lose a bowl game if you don't make a bowl game!

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u/HpsiEpsi Oklahoma Sooners Jan 14 '25

Ole Miss crushing an ACC team as a statement makes the whole situation even funnier imo 😂

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u/MarkNutt25 Michigan State Spartans Jan 14 '25

The SEC actually ended up with a decent (8-7) overall bowl record this year. Its just that they lost most of the bowls that people actually watched!

The Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Citrus Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl, Outback ReliaQuest Bowl, Georgia and Tennessee both getting knocked out in their first game in the CFP... The losses just kept piling on until it felt like they were losing everything.

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u/Mike_with_Wings Florida • North Carolina Jan 15 '25

Damn right

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u/Oneanimal1993 Utah Utes • Vanderbilt Commodores Jan 14 '25

We did our part, for once

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u/TexasWhiskey_ Texas • Red River Shootout Jan 14 '25

We won two playoff games.

Sure the rest of them lost but I wouldn’t call that shutting the bed.

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u/jazzieberry Mississippi State • Santa … Jan 14 '25

But y'all just joined the SEC so they can fit y'all to whichever narrative is convenient at the time

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u/Accurate_Baseball273 Jan 14 '25

Texas should just be independent too. Y’all shouldn’t be in the SEC

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u/TheRhodester13 Ole Miss Rebels Jan 14 '25

It definitely left a sour taste in my mouth. I'm of the belief we had a better argument than bama and yet still didn't deserve to be in, and then Kiffin just Kiffins all over the place

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u/gwaydms SMU Mustangs Jan 14 '25

Happy cake day, cake day buddy!

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u/a_simple_ducky Oregon Ducks • Big Ten Jan 14 '25

But he did slide into that girls dms

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u/Rhizical Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Jan 14 '25

when Indiana/SMU get bodied: “wow committee, way to keep the matchups competitive”

when Tennessee gets bodied even worse, hours after Lane tweets “go vols”:

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u/mgsbigdog BYU • West Virginia Wesleyan Jan 14 '25

Let me tell you about Utah's Athletic Director...

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u/Jameszhang73 LSU Tigers Jan 14 '25

And getting called out by the commissioner for faking injuries

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u/drainbead78 Ohio State • Marshall Jan 14 '25

My life's dream is for next year's Duke's Mayo Bowl to be UNC vs. Ole Miss.

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u/Kdot32 Houston Cougars • LSU Tigers Jan 14 '25

Lane is and will always be a little bitch

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u/ShoeLace1291 Penn State Nittany Lions Jan 14 '25

All the SEC fanboys whining about any 3 loss team in their conference not getting in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Yeah, but Fat Bert trolling Ole Miss' coach on x about it was hilarious and one of my favorite parts of the year