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[NCAAF] 2017 College Football Thread
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BErt
Seeing as how half the fan bases in the conference were rooting for us to lose anyway I don’t see why y’all are pretending to be upset. Spare me the conference pride/unity bullshit. It’s just as dumb as the “ESS EEE SEE” dorks who ride Bama’s coattails every year to imagined supremacy.
Dave
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Yeah, because Iowa and Northwestern are top teams in the Conference. Pardon me while I
And note that I'm not upset in the least and my retorts are good-natured ribbing. I don't want people to think I actually give too much shit about this.
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SEC “improved” their soft OOC scheduling by allowing Missouri to just up and join the conference.
SEC. were it just means more...to schedule Mercer.
SEC. were it just means more...to schedule Mercer.
Lots of teams schedule FCS teams. It's just that SEC teams beat them.
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You’ve been in the SEC for 5 years. This would be like Rutgers celebrating OSU’s win
I mean we've had two SECCG appearances so it's not like we've been Rutgers (by my calculations that's more Conference title games than Michigan has made in the same timespan).
I was just pointing out that it's easier to have a good record as a conference in bowl games when the CFP isn't snatching any of your top teams.
Not to mention, while we haven't played our main rival since leaving the Big 12, we've still beaten them more recently than Michigan has beaten Ohio State
I was just pointing out that it's easier to have a good record as a conference in bowl games when the CFP isn't snatching any of your top teams.
Not to mention, while we haven't played our main rival since leaving the Big 12, we've still beaten them more recently than Michigan has beaten Ohio State
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And I was just pointing out that it’s dumb for you to have a boner over two teams that aren’t yours playing in the championship because they’re in the same conference.
But whatever man. Congratulations. Be sure to take pictures for us of the rings they send out to all the sec schools for this very real win.
But whatever man. Congratulations. Be sure to take pictures for us of the rings they send out to all the sec schools for this very real win.
My contention is that, with so damn many conferences in I-FBS, the National Championship committee should be told "only choose conference champions." That way it would have been Clemson-UCF in the Sugar Bowl.
And now, with the new "any I-FBS conference can have a championship game, regardless of size" rule, there's no excuse to not do it.
And now, with the new "any I-FBS conference can have a championship game, regardless of size" rule, there's no excuse to not do it.
No, it would've been Clemson-Ohio State.
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I really dont see an easy solution. 8 teams seem like too many for most years, 6 teams in theory would be the best (all power-5 champs +1 at-large) but UCF still would have gotten hosed for Bama. And what about years when ND is in the running?
Rich Rod and the University of Arizona have parted ways, following a season-long investigation into a sexual harassment allegation by a former employee. I'm not posting this in that other thread because the allegation could not be substantiated following an independent investigation. However, apparently something disturbing enough to warrant a mutual separation of ways was discovered inside the football program. The university will continue to pay his salary for the remainder of his contract length. Very unexpected.
But absolutely not surprising.
One of the stories surrounding his sudden departure from WVU was that his wife found out he was banging a cheerleader, and she gave him the ultimatum that to avoid a very messy and expensive divorce, they must leave Morgantown. That's the most popular explanation among fans here.
I'd never heard any of that, but it doesn't surprise me in the least, given the amount of sexual impropriety that goes on in connection with college athletics. Hell, my long-time favorite coach was Mike Price, fired by Alabama before his first season even began, for hiring strippers on the company credit card. Such a moronic move.
RR admitted to an affair in a statement after the firing.
Meanwhile in Ann Arbor and Morgantown:
Disappointed that OU lost, but that was a pretty great season overall. Nice start for a rookie coach. Kyler Murray seems quite talented at QB. It's nice to have a dual-threat at QB.
Honestly, at this point, I'm just hoping they didn't uncover something along the lines of Sandusky or Briles - for the students' and athletes' sakes. I really don't have any skin in this game. Zona's a conference member, but we're already seeing some impressive turnover at coaching (ASU, Oregon, OSU, UCLA before this) and it's not like RR was lighting up the Western Sky with his brilliance or anything, he was 45 - 35 in his 6 seasons, including a pretty significant slump from 2015 onward.
Disney marketing department, apparently. It's tie-in to the Black Panther movie and OST by... guess who?
Probably.
Dave
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Looks like the refs are all in for Alabama. In one series:
A single missed call is expected. A couple on the same series is suspicious. Three in a row is just blatant.
- Missed a false start - instead called it an offsides on a blocked punt.
- Missed a blatant facemask.
- On the punt, they missed an illegal block in the back.
A single missed call is expected. A couple on the same series is suspicious. Three in a row is just blatant.
Y'know, it was a fun game to watch. It came down to overtime. It had a wild personnel change mid-game. It wound up being two true freshman playing against each other, who roomed together at some point in their lives, and tested themselves against each other, who wound up playing each other on the national stage. I really just wish we could get one damn championship game that's clean. Also, I hope Kyriq McDonald is OK - just collapsing on the sideline is never a good sign.
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