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Brian Fantana

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  1. I don't think I've ever felt so much secondhand embarrassment in my entire life, and I don't think I'm being hyperbolic
  2. Their offense is really nice, but their defense is trash, like really bad, especially on the ground. They straight up cannot stop the run. The only thing they really have going for them is their schedule after the next 2 games being cake. If I was Kirby Smart & Georgia, I wouldn't throw a single pass tomorrow until they proved they could stop the run. They were extremely lucky to beat Washington State at home this past week, a bounce or two the wrong way and they've got one of the worst losses in CFB this season. I'm just not buying them as a true contender.
  3. Really sucks. Hoping it's minor surgery and he'll be back by the postseason. He's been one of the highest grading DTs in the country all season and he's kind of the emotional leader of the defense. Luckily we have plenty of quality depth behind him, but still sucks.
  4. Surprised to see Tugler not at the top of this list, but I'll take it.
  5. Not riled up at all, I love good banter/quality discussion. I agree with most of what you're saying here except for the Kiffin thing. I really think they are fools gold, maybe even moreso than A&M is.
  6. If us and BYU are both still undefeated when that game rolls around, I would imagine this happens, but that's a big if. I don't think BYU gets through Utah this week and Tech has a road test @ ASU although we should win that game on paper. Anything can happen.
  7. He's an animal, been fun to watch. There isn't, as far as I know. We're also expressly allowed to do it on the opening kickoff.
  8. CFB Player Rank: The top 25 players at midseason - ESPN 11. David Bailey LB, Texas Tech, Senior 2025 notable stats: 11 solo tackles, 8.5 sacks, 2 FF 2025 preseason ranking: 57 Bailey was one of the most highly-touted players in the transfer portal after recording eight tackles for loss and seven sacks for Stanford last year. He already has 9.5 TFL and 8.5 sacks, respectively, in half a season in Lubbock. The Red Raiders are in the driver's seat for a spot in the Big 12 Championship because of a transformed defense, and for as good as Jacob Rodriguez, Romello Height and others have been, Bailey's explosive pass rushing has played a massive role in the turnaround. -- Connelly 2. Jacob Rodriguez LB, Texas Tech, Senior 2025 notable stats: 21 solo tackles, 2 FF, 3 PD 2025 preseason ranking: 92 If Rueben Bain Jr. has been the best defensive player in the sport, then Rodriguez is right on his heels. The Red Raiders boast the stingiest run defense in the country -- allowing only 62.5 rushing yards per game -- and Rodriguez is right at the center of it all. The senior has made his impact felt in the ground game and the air game, forcing multiple fumbles, deflecting passes and snatching multiple interceptions. It's safe to say opposing offenses hate to see him coming. -- Uggetti
  9. No shit this is gonna rock that town to its core
  10. "This....is not meth" is probably what first truly hooked me on the show. Todd shooting the kid.
  11. Boomer detected
  12. Well that settles it, they're winning the natty.
  13. Russia is bad so Israel is good seems like a low effort argument. (I'm joking, mostly)
  14. Yeah I mean it's going to take time if it happens at all. The goal this year was to win a Big 12 championship. We're on track, half a season to go. We'll see what happens. Can't build a program overnight, etc. Anyway, all of that RB talk makes me super pissed about Quinten Joyner getting hurt before the season started, especially considering that we would also have had a true triple threat at RB, though our dual threat is doing pretty good and I'd probably place it in the top 10 in your list: Cameron Dickey - 91c, 591y, 6.5ypc, 8td J'Koby Williams - 68c, 358y, 5.3ypc, 4td My point about OSU's WRs that I don't think you caught was that Illinois also bottled them up in a similar way and they don't have anything resembling an elite defense. That's all I was saying. They're obviously good and talented but they haven't been amazing by any measurement. I've said this 100 times but it's not even close to just Cody Campbell donating, he's just the most visible guy/the one that set up the NIL collective. There are actually quite a few, most of them don't have their names in the headlines. Several have their names on facilities (namely Pat Mahomes and the guy who the football and basketball facilities are named after) and/or rooms in the facilities, but most prefer not to have their names in the news. Both of those guys could die tomorrow and it would continue completely unabated. Also, no one is saying there is parity in football now, just that there's a lot more parity than there was 5 years ago, which is objectively true, at least at the FBS P4 level. That's actually a big part of the reason why no one has really separated themselves from the pack nationally (arguably Ohio State but again, arguably as we've discussed) and it's difficult to say with certainty if a number of teams are even good, Oregon being a great example. Ole Miss being another. Hell, they are ranked top 5 and have scraped by with 1-score wins over 3 of the worst P4 teams and have a shit defense. Look at the B1G. Tell me who is objectively good in that conference outside of Ohio State and Indiana. You can't, because there are a million ifs and buts. Oregon only lost by 10 and got a few shots in, but if you watched that game they got physically put in a coffin by Indiana, a team that on paper has much less talent than they do, and it wasn't close. They got handled, I'm not sure Indiana wouldn't win 10 times out of 10 if they played that many in a row. With the SEC, there is at least more data there to point to some good teams. Are any of them great? Bama looks like they are trending in that direction after getting embarrassed in the season opener. A&M at least has an impressive road win. Texas finally broke the seal, and IMO looked pretty good doing it, but Oklahoma is fucking dogshit and we all know it, despite their top 15 ranking. Tennessee has a really good RB room (as you mentioned) and a pretty good QB but their defense is absolutely horrendous. We know they're not winning anything. The point I'm getting at is the reason everything seems so silly right now, like Ole Miss being top 5 even when everyone knows they're not, is the increased parity. Rankings are a disaster because no one knows where to put anyone outside of a few outliers. Computer models are probably far more reliable at this point. No one is saying true parity has come to college football, that would be silly, but the parity level has noticeably increased and it's goofy as hell to pretend otherwise.
  15. Also, the tortilla toss thing was pretty mild and barely a blip until the Big 12 decided to make a big deal about it in the preseason and now every fan wants to throw tortillas to spite Yormark. Nice Streisanding, dumbshit.
  16. I think they're more pissed that all this is a result of the KU head coach straight up lying about something being thrown at one of his staffers instead of something we actually did.
  17. I can't express how disappointing that shit is. He should know better, he probably does know better, which makes it worse.
  18. France and Britain refine plans at UN for Gaza force resolution | Reuters This seems to fly in the face of the narrative that Western countries don't want to be involved.
  19. He does have cop skull, he would fit in nicely I think.
  20. You guys are way too obsessed with helmet stickers. Ohio State would be favored maybe 3 points over Indiana right now on a neutral field. I would say closer to 10 over Oregon. I'm still waiting on an answer on how exactly their running game is somehow far and away better than everyone else's. There is no data or set of results that backs that claim up even a little bit. The line about Texas being the only team to bottle up Smith and Tate is also not even true. What is going on here? I'm not saying they shouldn't be the favorite to win it all again this year, until proven otherwise it's their crown to give up, but some of this is going a bit far. I'll take what their defense is selling any day of the week, though, that's for sure.
  21. Chappelle of old is still the goat for me, but when he started punching down instead of up his comedy turned boring and shitty, at least in my opinion.
  22. Joe Rogan being the arbiter of comedy "killed" comedy. A painfully unfunny ninja turtle looking motherfucker being the gatekeeper along with his painfully unfunny friends is asscheeks. It's not a coincidence that the funniest comics are the ones that haven't sworn any fealty to him over the years.
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