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Huckleberry

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  1. Joel Klatt really wishes this were true.
  2. Correct, this eliminates the possibility of fumbling for a touchback.
  3. I'm hoping for UNLV to win also because I think Boise is way overranked. And then the B12 game Saturday is for both a berth and a bye so that one will be even more fun.
  4. Trust the coaches, got it. There is no need for you to contribute any further, we understand your position on every issue moving forward.
  5. Are you asking if Oregon (or whoever is the #1 seed) would get to choose who plays where in the semifinals even if they lose in their quarterfinal? I'm going to guess that no, they would not. So it's pretty clearly the highest remaining seed.
  6. 1. SEC, 528-288, 0.647 2. Big Ten, 432-450, 0.490 3. Big 12, 374-442, 0.459 4. ACC, 348-502, 0.409
  7. Boise State has won their games but the Mountain West is worse than the Sun Belt. For discussion's sake here are my conference rankings this season. Reminder since I haven't run them in a couple of seasons, my conference ratings use my ratings and are just a ranking of expected winning percentage for each conference if FBS football played a complete round robin. 1. SEC, 1468-420, 0.778 2. Big Ten, 1391-697, 0.666 3. Big 12, 1227-661, 0.650 4. ACC, 1243-746, 0.625 5. Independent, 194-199, 0.494 6. Pac-12, 106-158, 0.400 7. Sun Belt, 637-1043, 0.379 8. MWC, 513-951, 0.350 9. American, 571-1109, 0.340 10. MAC, 396-1068, 0.270 11. C-USA, 274-966, 0.221
  8. Boise State will get hammered by 20+ by the #5 team. Unless it's Notre Dame. Then only 14.
  9. I don't think there's any way 2-loss Penn State stays ahead of 2-loss Ohio State
  10. I think they would drop Georgia behind Tennessee in that case. To my knowledge the committee hasn't said CCG game losers can't be "punished," that has been other people.
  11. I see that Lanning is now getting the surly one great season overhype. Maybe it's just a green and yellow thing, turns out previous winners Matt Rhule and Dave Aranda aren't actually coaching savants.
  12. Out of all the QBs in Texas, he's one of them.
  13. He is among the top QBs in Texas. The top 100 QBs.
  14. "He also has combine style measurements..." I, too, have a height, weight, wingspan, and 40 yard dash time.
  15. There's an easy and obvious reason. The entire point is to reward conference champions. And since the major conferences haven't split off, that's what happens. I hope they never split off but think they will in time. And I have no issue with ensuring that conference titles continue to mean something, and using the format to reinforce that is fine with me. Texas fans were trained by Mack Brown to think conference championships don't matter a lot. But they do. And they should.
  16. Correct, it's really just Ohio and Louisiana. The Lafayette campus is of course trying to rebrand as The University of Louisiana but that's very recent. Ohio is really the only long term example. Temple and Pitt (I'll still call them that if I want) are the other two main public schools in Pennsylvania so there's not really a U of State versus State U dynamic there.
  17. Man that was a Davis Warren level INT throw there by Winston.
  18. What do you mean? She can't even afford enough fabric to conceal her daughter's underwear for a Christmas photo.
  19. So I went ahead and ran my ratings so I could make my own 2-loss schedule rating. Basically measuring how good a team would have to be to have 2 expected losses against their schedule. Listed for the ESPN projected CFP top 25 this week. 1. Oregon - 0.880 (54) 2. Texas - 0.902 (34) 3. Penn St. - 0.893 (44) 4. Notre Dame - 0.877 (58) 5. Georgia - 0.938 (7) 6. Ohio St. - 0.907 (28) 7. Tennessee - 0.896 (39) 8. SMU - 0.868 (65) 9. Indiana - 0.860 (67) 10. Boise St. - 0.793 (90) 11. Miami (FL) - 0.871 (63) 12. Alabama - 0.923 (15) 13. Mississippi - 0.904 (31) 14. South Carolina - 0.924 (13) 15. Arizona St. - 0.879 (56) 16. Iowa St. - 0.880 (55) 17. Clemson - 0.891 (47) 18. BYU - 0.884 (53) 19. Missouri - 0.903 (32) 20. UNLV - 0.785 (96) 21. Colorado - 0.873 (62) 22. Illinois - 0.895 (40) 23. Syracuse - 0.876 (59) 24. Memphis - 0.730 (115) 25. Texas A&M - 0.930 (11)
  20. There is literally not a single objective rating set that exists which has Illinois better than every Big 12 team. It's an absurd thing to say.
  21. This is actually more ridiculous than saying Iowa State has a better résumé than Indiana.
  22. The problem is you are equating top team strength with overall conference quality. It's probably because you are doing the same thing the media does and completely undervaluing the difficulty of beating a slate of competent teams compared to beating one or two great teams and a bunch of scrubs. Ask Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Ohio State, etc. about having to play all those teams in the #25-#50 range. It's not easy to beat them all without slipping up. A schedule with one great team and a bunch of scrubs is incredibly easier to manage than a schedule with no great team but 10 good ones. Oregon, Penn State, and Indiana all had just as easy or easier schedules to go 10-2 against than Iowa State did. And that's why.
  23. Except the Big Ten has more than 4 teams.
  24. That's if they call "personal foul with targeting" instead of "personal foul, targeting." In the first case it's a personal foul even if it's not targeting (like a late hit or roughing the passer for example). In the second case it's only a personal foul if it's targeting.
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