The Scarlet and Gray

[Captain Canada]

Get his lame ass outta here

[toysoldier00]

deuces!

fake accent and all. curious to see who takes over those sec spots

I wish I could find a way to get Lane to LSU. Would be so fun.

Get his lame ass outta here

tbh, he wasn't even that bad of a coach, he was just that bad of an everything else.

[toysoldier00]

Indiana Jumps to No. 2, Texas A&M No. 3 as Mendoza Grabs Heisman Control

Marissa Bleday
November 11, 2025


The College Football Playoff committee delivered its first real reshuffle of the top tier Tuesday night, and the message was clear: the undefeateds are tightening their grip on the race, even if the ordering still raises eyebrows.

After being oddly slotted above unbeaten Indiana and unbeaten Texas A&M a week ago, 9-1 Ole Miss dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 in the Week 12 CFP rankings. The Rebels remain ahead of one-loss Georgia, the team that beat them head-to-head in Athens, a reminder that the committee’s résumé math can be as much about “who you are” as “what happened.”

The big mover was Indiana, which rose to No. 2 following a 35-13 win at Penn State. Texas A&M climbed to No. 3 after throttling Missouri 31-7 on the road, giving the Aggies another statement result as they continue to build a playoff profile anchored by defense and steady offensive growth.

“We’re not chasing style points, we’re chasing a standard,” Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko said after Saturday’s win. “When you go on the road in this league and play clean, physical football for four quarters, that’s what a playoff team looks like. I’m proud of how we responded, because the best teams don’t just win, they separate.”

Those three, Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M, have “separated from the pack,” according to the CFP committee commissioner, with the next cluster fighting for position before the stretch run begins.

Texas remains the highest-ranked two-loss team, rising to No. 8, and holding off a Texas Tech team that made its own loud statement. The Red Raiders climbed to No. 9 after their 38-20 win over BYU, while the Cougars took the biggest hit inside the top 15, falling from No. 7 to No. 13 after their first loss.
Further down the board, Louisville suffered one of the steepest drops of the week, sliding from No. 10 to No. 19 after a 17-14 loss to Cal.

Virginia and Missouri held on at No. 23 and No. 24 despite losses, while Iowa, LSU and Washington dropped out entirely. Illinois, Tennessee and Pitt climbed into the Top 25, signaling how quickly the committee will reward momentum, and punish it.

Heisman Update

And in the Heisman race, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza is starting to create daylight. Mendoza strengthened his case with 319 passing yards and three touchdowns in the win over Penn State, and he now sits as the clear betting favorite as November begins to separate contenders from candidates.

Rank	Team	Record	Last Week	Up Next
1	Ohio State	9-0	41-7 Win at Purdue	vs UCLA
2	Indiana	10-0	35-13 Win at Penn State	vs Wisconsin
3	Texas A&M	9-0	31-7 Win at #24 Missouri	vs South Carolina
4	Ole Miss	9-1	49-0 Win vs The Citadel	vs Florida
5	Georgia	8-1	52-21 Win at Mississippi State	vs #8 Texas
6	Alabama	8-1	21-19 Win vs LSU	vs #11 Oklahoma
7	Oregon	8-1	42-0 Win at Iowa	vs Minnesota
8	Texas	7-2	Bye	at #5 Georgia
9	Texas Tech	9-1	38-20 Win vs #13 BYU	vs Central Florida
10	Notre Dame	7-2	37-0 Win vs Navy	at #25 Pittsburgh
11	Oklahoma	7-2	Bye	at #6 Alabama
12	Michigan	7-2	Bye	at Northwestern
13	BYU	8-1	38-20 Loss at #9 Texas Tech	vs TCU
14	USC	7-2	38-7 Win vs Northwestern	vs Iowa
15	Georgia Tech	8-1	Bye	at Boston College
16	Miami (FL)	7-2	38-7 Win vs Syracuse	vs North Carolina State
17	Utah	7-2	Bye	at Baylor
18	Vanderbilt	8-2	27-24 Win vs Auburn	Bye
19	Louisville	7-2	17-14 Loss vs California	vs Clemson
20	Arizona State	6-3	Bye	vs West Virginia
21	Illinois	6-3	Bye	vs Maryland
22	Tennessee	6-3	Bye	vs New Mexico State
23	Virginia	8-2	36-35 Loss vs Wake Forest	at Duke
24	Missouri	6-3	31-7 Loss vs #3 Texas A&M	vs Mississippi State
25	Pittsburgh	7-2	Bye	vs #10 Notre Dame

[James]

Kelly gone.

[toysoldier00]

Tyree Figurs’ Late-Blooming Rise Fits Ohio State’s Quarterback Bet
By Colten Brooks on November 11, 2025


Ashton Ramsey is next in line in Ohio State's conveyor belt of first round receivers.



Tyree Figurs didn’t commit early, didn’t win the summer headline wars and didn’t arrive in Ohio State’s 2026 class with the kind of rating that gets graphics departments warmed up.

He arrived with something else: a clear plan, a steady belief in his own ceiling and, now, proof that the Buckeyes weren’t chasing a fallback.

On3 bumped Figurs to a four-star this week after the Mission Hills (Calif.) Mission Hills High School quarterback pieced together the kind of senior season that forces evaluators to watch a second time. He’s now listed as the No. 29 quarterback in the country and the No. 374 overall prospect, a meaningful rise for a player who committed to Ohio State on July 28 as a three-star and, at the time, one of the last quarterbacks in the cycle to attach himself to a major program.

“It’s cool to see the work show up like that,” Figurs told Eleven Warriors. “But the rating isn’t the goal. The goal is being ready when I get to Columbus, ready to compete, ready to learn, ready to earn it.”

The tape has made it easier to understand why Ohio State kept circling back.

Figurs is 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds with a live arm that shows up even when the pocket is muddy. He’s not a track star quarterback, but he’s athletic enough to slide, reset and turn chaos into structure, the kind of subtle movement that separates “mobile” from “functional.” His senior year has been a highlight reel of quick decisions and bigger throws, the kind that aren’t just completions but statements.

Through nine games, Figurs has completed 196 of 298 passes (65.8%) for 2,742 yards and 28 touchdowns with six interceptions. He’s added 463 rushing yards and six scores, most of them on broken plays and red-zone keepers where he’s decisive rather than reckless. Mission Hills is 8-1, and Figurs has thrown multiple touchdowns in every game but one, including a five-score night in a rivalry win that had scouts stacked along the fence line, phones out, nodding as if they were confirming what they already suspected.

“People talk about ‘tools’ like it’s a video game,” Figurs said. “For me it’s just, can I make the throws, can I move, can I lead? That’s what I’ve tried to show. I wanted them to see I’m not just a strong arm. I can play quarterback.”

Figurs’ story at Ohio State is also the story of how quarterback recruiting can turn from calm to chaos in a month.

The Buckeyes had an early answer in the class: Willie Thorne, the five-star out of Jacksonville’s Trinity Catholic, pledged early and gave Ohio State what it thought was stability. But quarterback recruiting isn’t just about securing talent, it’s about managing timelines.

Thorne rose. His star got brighter. And as he watched Ohio State sign five-star Tavien St. Clair a year earlier, it became clear he didn’t want to walk into a room where patience would be required. Thorne decommitted and chose Georgia, leaving the Buckeyes with a problem: most of the top quarterbacks were already spoken for, and the ones who weren’t had their own leverage.

Ohio State’s search stretched through spring and into summer, the kind of long, quiet process that looks like a scramble from the outside even when it’s calculated on the inside. The Buckeyes evaluated late risers, double-checked fit, and went hunting for traits rather than hype.

And eventually, they landed on Figurs.

“He was honest with me from the beginning,” Figurs said. “They didn’t sell me on ‘come here and start right away.’ They sold me on development. Coach Day, the offense, the track record, it’s real. That’s why I felt comfortable being the guy.”

Figurs doesn’t look like a finished product, and Ohio State doesn’t need him to be one yet. What it needs is a quarterback prospect with enough baseline talent to enter a high-level room and grow into something bigger.

The Buckeyes saw the size. They saw the arm strength, the ability to rip deep outs and hit posts without floating the ball. They saw the pocket movement: not panicking, not bailing, but manipulating space. And they saw the competitive edge in how he plays when things go wrong, the way he doesn’t go quiet after a mistake, the way he comes back hunting the next drive.

That’s the trait that tends to age well in Columbus.

Figurs is joining a program where quarterback development is a selling point, not a slogan. Ryan Day has made a living building passing games that manufacture answers, then demand quarterbacks hit them. It’s a system that can elevate good talents into great ones, but only if the quarterback is willing to be coached hard.

Figurs sounds like he’s expecting exactly that.

“I know what it is at Ohio State,” he said. “It’s not comfort. It’s pressure. It’s standards. That’s what I want. I want to be pushed.”

A late commitment, a new label, the same bet

The irony of Figurs earning a fourth star now is that it doesn’t change what Ohio State liked about him in July. It just gives the rest of the sport a cleaner way to understand it.

He’s still the quarterback who committed late, after the big names were mostly gone. He’s still the prospect who became the answer after a high-profile decommitment forced Ohio State to pivot. He’s still the player who will arrive in Columbus needing to add weight, sharpen his footwork and learn how fast everything moves when defenses have future pros at every level.

But he’s also something else now: a reminder that quarterback recruiting isn’t always about landing the first domino, it’s about landing the right one.

And if Figurs keeps stacking Saturdays the way he has this fall, the Buckeyes might end up telling this story someday as a win not just of evaluation, but of timing.

“People can call it late,” Figurs said. “For me it was perfect.”

Rank	Pos	Name	Height	Weight	High School	Home Town
	QB	Tyree Figurs	6'3"	190 lbs	Mission Hills	Mission Hills, CA
	WR	Ashton Ramsey	6'3"	190 lbs	Loyola Academy	Chicago, IL
	TE	Jordan Ivory	6'5"	235 lbs	Culver Academies	Culver, IN
	OT	Marcus Okam	6'7"	285 lbs	Pickerington Central	Pickerington, OH
	OT	Grady Austin	6'6"	305 lbs	Princeton	Cincinnati, OH
	OT	Derron Merriman	6'6"	300 lbs	Hilliard Bradley	Marysville, OH
	OT	Alex Jordan	6'7"	280 lbs	Paramus Catholic	Paramus, NJ
	IOL	George Crecelius	6'4"	285 lbs	Cy-Fair	Cypress, TX
	IOL	Thaddeus Roe	6'4"	290 lbs	Avon	Avon, IN
	IOL	David Weeks	6'4"	300 lbs	Janesville Parker	Janesville, WI
	DE	Deontae Savage	6'6"	240 lbs	Avon	Avon, IN
	DE	Ornell Mack	6'5"	240 lbs	Winton Woods	Cincinnati, OH
	DT	Vondree Eagles	6'3"	345 lbs	Reynoldsburg	Reynoldsburg, OH
	DT	Dillon Bridges	6'3"	290 lbs	Snider	Fort Wayne, IN
	LB	Pauly O'Dwyer	6'5"	215 lbs	Washington	Massillon, OH
	LB	Emmanuel Wooden	6'2"	210 lbs	Westerville South	Columbus, OH
	LB	Jaylen Smalls	6'2"	210 lbs	Glenville	Cleveland, OH
	LB	Avondre Lincoln	6'1"	200 lbs	Princeton	Cincinnati, OH
	CB	Teion Cherry II	6'1"	175 lbs	Wayne	Huber Heights, OH
	CB	Tremayne Shepley	6'1"	185 lbs	Greenville	Greenville, SC
	S	Bobby Jackson-Ruud	6'1"	190 lbs	St. Thomas Aquinas	Fort Lauderdale, FL
	S	Landon Bishop	6'0"	195 lbs	Whitmer	Toledo, OH
	P	David Procter	6'5"	170 lbs	Elder	Cincinnati, OH

[Soapy]

It's a long climb from 16 to 10.

let's lock in, boys

[Agent]

Hope he's a future star for the team

[toysoldier00]

It's a long climb from 16 to 10.

let's lock in, boys

fwiw, the game counted Virginia's non-conference game against NC State as a conference game, which completely changes the tiebreakers, and has Miami set to make the ACC championship game

Hope he's a future star for the team

yep, love me a green gem QBs

[toysoldier00]

Week 12 Preview: Massive Battles in the SEC to Determine the Fate of the Conference

Marissa Bleday
November 13, 2025


November has a way of clarifying everything. The margin for “good seasons” shrinks, the margin for error disappears, and suddenly every contender has a game that either validates the résumé or exposes the soft spots. Week 12 brings that kind of weekend, led by a primetime heavyweight bout in Athens and a second SEC clash in Tuscaloosa that could redraw the playoff map before Sunday morning.

#7 Texas Longhorns (7-2) at #5 Georgia Bulldogs (8-1)
It’s the game of the week for a reason: Georgia has the most complete offense in the country, and Texas has built its identity around a defense that can make even elite quarterbacks look ordinary. Add in the stakes, two-loss Texas needing a marquee win, one-loss Georgia trying to keep pace near the top, and Sanford Stadium will feel like a referendum by halftime.

Georgia enters on a five-game win streak since its loss to Alabama, finally pairing its explosive passing game with a more consistent rhythm on the ground. Quarterback Gunnar Stockton has been the engine (2,953 yards, 25 touchdowns), and the receiving duo of Zachariah Branch (934 yards) and Dillon Bell (853 yards, nine TDs) has kept defenses stretched snap after snap. Georgia leads the nation with 488 yards per game and sits top-10 in scoring at 39.4 points per game.

Kirby Smart framed the matchup this week as a test of execution, not emotion.

“This time of year, everybody’s talented,” Smart said. “You win on discipline, detail, and how you handle the moment.”

Texas arrives in Athens looking like a team that’s steadied itself after an early stumble. The Longhorns’ four-game win streak includes a win over Oklahoma, convincing performances against Kentucky and Mississippi State, and the emphatic 52–10 demolition of now-No. 18 Vanderbilt. They’re rested coming off a bye, and the résumé still has heft even with losses to Ohio State and Florida.

Arch Manning’s numbers are solid (2,069 yards, 19 TDs, five INTs), but Texas still goes as far as its defense carries it. Edge rusher Colin Simmons has 10 sacks, linebacker Anthony Hill Jr. has been everywhere, 59 tackles and four interceptions, and the Longhorns are second nationally in yards allowed (284.8) and top-five in scoring defense (17.7).

Steve Sarkisian leaned into the tone of a team that knows exactly what it needs. “You don’t come into this building and play Georgia if you’re looking for comfort,” Sarkisian said. “You come in here if you want to measure yourself.”

The chess match is obvious: can Texas’ front disrupt Stockton before Branch and Bell can create explosives? And on the other side, can Georgia’s defense turn Manning into a must-win-it-with-your-arm quarterback? If Texas is going to steal this, it probably looks like a fourth-quarter rock fight. If Georgia is going to win comfortably, it starts with early passing-game fireworks that force Texas to chase.

#11 Oklahoma Sooners (7-2) at #6 Alabama Crimson Tide (8-1)
The SEC’s other marquee game comes with a different kind of pressure. Alabama is cruising, eight straight wins after the opening loss, and many around the sport view Kalen DeBoer’s team as the most dangerous one-loss squad in the country. But Oklahoma arrives in Tuscaloosa with its season compressed into one sentence: win and you’re alive, lose and you’re praying for chaos.

Alabama is built around quarterback Ty Simpson (2,653 yards, 16 TDs, three INTs) and one of the sport’s most electric receivers in Ryan Williams, who has 989 yards and six touchdowns and has become a weekly highlight reel. The Tide have also proven they can win ugly, surviving LSU in a thriller last week.

DeBoer called this stretch “the point of the season where you find out who you really are.” “It’s November,” he said. “There’s no hiding. Every snap matters.”

Oklahoma, meanwhile, has been a team of swings, losses to Texas and Ole Miss, followed by a stabilizing 29–19 road win at Tennessee two weeks ago. John Mateer has been the reason the Sooners can walk into Tuscaloosa believing: 2,206 passing yards, 22 TDs, only two picks, plus 303 rushing yards and seven scores on the ground.

Brent Venables kept the message blunt this week. “To win a game like this, you can’t blink,” he said. “You have to play your best football, for four quarters, in their environment.”

The matchup hinges on whether Oklahoma can protect long enough to hit explosives, and whether Alabama can force Mateer into the kind of mistakes he’s largely avoided this season.

#10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (7-2) at #25 Pitt Panthers (7-2)
Notre Dame has quietly turned its season into a steady climb after dropping its first two games. The formula has been simple: feed Jeremiyah Love, let the defense dictate terms, and let freshman quarterback CJ Carr grow at his own pace. Love is second nationally with 1,208 rushing yards and has been the Irish’s weekly bailout plan.

Pitt’s challenge is obvious, it’s playing without starting quarterback Eli Holstein and turning to true freshman Mason Heintschel (870 yards, nine TDs, five INTs). Pat Narduzzi didn’t dodge the reality. “We’re going to have to play a clean game,” he said. “And we’re going to have to be tough.”

Other Games to Watch

(7-2) South Florida at (7-2) Navy is a style fight with real stakes, and (6-3) Iowa at (7-2) No. 14 USC has “nobody enjoys this game” energy written all over it.

And if you want an upset to stash away for later: Clemson (4-5) at No. 19 Louisville. It’s exactly the kind of game where a talented, frustrated team can ruin someone else’s month.

Week 12 doesn’t just offer big games, it offers answers. And by Saturday night, the playoff picture will look a lot less theoretical.






[Caesar]

Praise be! Kelly is gone!

I hadn't realized how little in the way you've got skill position guys on the offensive side of the ball in that '26 class.