My ratings' picks I mean my picks are in. Hopefully they work as well as here as for the basketball seed draft but to be honest I don't like the way they look. But I can't stop using the numbers now.
The Welcome to Texas sign is a nice touch for the kid who was born and raised in Cypress, went to school in Cypress, went to Texas A&M, and is now moving to Houston.
Guaranteeing multiple bids to a conference is so stupid and anti-competitive that I'm sure it will happen.
For fuck's sake if Ole Miss beats shitass Kentucky OR Alabama beats mediocre Oklahoma OR Alabama beats mediocre Vanderbilt OR Ole Miss beats mediocre Florida OR South Carolina doesn't get completely fucked by the refs against LSU then the SEC gets 4 teams in. Instead of rigging the playoff maybe have your teams not blow 4 easy chances and also maybe don't try to predict what teams will be good and fuck yourself by influencing an early game.
I was wondering how quickly the novelty of playing SEC shit programs would wear off and be replaced by the realization that it's the same as shit Big 12 programs every home schedule except in different uniforms with even shittier visiting fans.
Have to admit, 3 months was faster than I figured.
Make it so the enter key (a return) goes one line instead of double spacing. Shift+enter is a workaround on a computer but on mobile it's not possible. Well I guess there's probably some modified keyboard app but I don't want to deal with that shit. If you set it up this way then everyone's fine because you can just hit enter twice if you want double space between lines.
I have always favored an automatic bid for any conference champion to make it a real playoff. However I don't think that ever happens in football, best we can hope for is any conference champion in the CFP top 25. So a 16 team field with straight seeding and automatic bids for any conference champ in the top 25 this season would be
#16 Army @ #1 Oregon
#9 Boise St. @ #8 Indiana
#13 Miami (FL) @ #4 Penn St.
#12 Arizona St. @ #5 Notre Dame
#15 Clemson @ #2 Georgia
#10 SMU @ #7 Tennessee
#14 Ole Miss @ #3 Texas
#11 Alabama @ #6 Ohio St.
What do you mean by historically a major player? Because the current #1 team in the country checks a lot of those boxes and isn't a blue blood by any means.
There's a reason the spread is where it is and why most places have it an 80/20 game for Texas, because that's what it is. I've got it in the 30-17 to 31-20 range on average. That means Texas has some wiggle room but not much. The more important things to discuss instead of worst case scenarios are things like Kelvin Banks's and Bond's recoveries, what the hell Jeff Banks does these days, and if Sarkisian is going to cut the crap with the 5 fakes in the backfield stuff.
The point is that your analysis is fairly worthless. Yes, Texas will lose if they play poorly while Clemson plays their best game. Great. Now what happens if Texas plays their best while Clemson plays poorly? Something like 41-7 Texas. But who gives a shit about edge cases. We've covered them now so how about everyone stops crying about their nightmares?
I admonished the vaginal caterwauling around here before the A&M game and your version is even dumber.
"But what if we play as badly as we've played all year and they play better than they have all year? What then?"
Scintillating analysis.
Holy shit our fanbase is so ridiculous.
"Not sure if we can line up and just run against anyone"
Non-sack rushing for Texas
40-196
32-143
34-197
51-243
29-200
29-183
20-88
30-133
30-219
39-146
46-256
49-244
22-58
It looks like we can run against everyone except one game against one team. Our first game against Georgia was fine on straight runs, Sarkisian tried to run wide way too often in the second game.
It was better when athletes were the only students at the university who weren't allowed to transfer to any other school whenever they wanted. You know, they need to be treated just like every other student except they have to be locked where they are so I can watch them play sports.
Well it's two weeks away so there will definitely be at least periods of time where they're lower. But there's a chance that they go up right at the end when people realize they can save on travel and hotel costs by going to this one instead of Atlanta.