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SurlyORama

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  1. Take the inner pot out and out it on the stove. Then you don't dirty 2 pots. I saw on Amazon where the support folks at the manufacturer say you shouldn't do that. Will it be ok? Maybe.
  2. Love this thing so much we now have two (a 6-quart and a 3-quart). My wife rolled her eyes when I first told her about it, but once we got it and she used it, it's now her favorite way to make meals. So much so, that we bought a Mini so that she could make two things at once (the small one quite often used for rice.)
  3. Oops, I see your point. Looks like a max of 4 SEC teams scheduled 2 P5 opponents, not 1 as I said. I was confused because you didn't include the part of my post that was flat-out wrong. Sorry about that. Looks like 1 SEC school scheduled 0 P5, 9 scheduled 1, and 4 scheduled 2 (if you count Notre Dame and BYU). Regardless, I think the overall point that very few SEC schools play against 10 P5 schools is relevant. Their records are definitely better because of this. Additionally, overall the conference probably gets 6-7 fewer total losses by the fact that they only play 8 conference games, since most of those games are replaced by lower-tier opponents.
  4. And? It's because they only have 8 conference games. That's the point. 8 conference games allows them to pad their schedule with weaker opponents, inflating their records to support their desired narrative.
  5. Yeah, agreed. But that's why I said "at least" they can't push another conference champion out in favor of an SECSECSEC non-champion if they did this. A conference is free to schedule how they like, and determine their champion how they like, and that champion makes the playoff.
  6. But only 4 (at max) SEC teams plays a P5 non-con opponent, while almost every team in the Big 12 does.
  7. Or, and call me crazy, have a playoff system where P5 conference champions are automatically admitted. That way, conferences at least can’t use these tactics to game an extra team in over another champion. Just quit whining that “it’s a travesty if a 3-loss champion” gets in because they “don’t deserve to.” As above shows, one three loss record is not necessarily like another. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  8. For next year, seems similar: Is the ACC starting to follow a similar scheduling strategy?
  9. Too lazy to find the original, and it's not the exact same stat, but a tweet from "Pick Six Previews" showed that the SEC non-conference schedule (all teams in the SEC combined) had four FCS opponents for every P5 opponent. So, a 4:1 ratio in favor of the weaker opponents. Big 12 was effectively a 1:1 ratio, and the B1G was 1:2. Cannot recall ACC or PAC, off the top of my head.
  10. Used to bring hard boiled eggs for lunch quite often. One day, had some guacamole and wondered "guacamole on eggs?" Game changer for me. Slice eggs in half lengthwise, slap a dollop of the green stuff on top. Salt, pepper if needed. Delicious.
  11. In a playoff, what you are doing is crowning a champion of that playoff "tournament". You are not saying that the winner of that is necessarily the "best" team overall, only that they did what it takes to WIN THE PLAYOFF. That criteria is objective and fixed. There's no "eye test", it doesn't matter how bad you beat teams in the games, whether or not you have key injuries, or anything else that's subjective. That's the beauty of such a system. However, when you take that and corrupt it by having some SMALL committee of humans just decide who "deserves" to even have a chance to participate, when the criteria are unclear, not communicated, evaluated in secret, and seemingly change year to year, you've moved us into a system that, in my opinion, is worse than ANY of the prior systems. I'd take the BCS, or even the pre-BCS bowl system and national championships that were KNOWN to be opinion-based, over this bastardized disaster we've got now. Don't worry about a system that sometimes lets teams in that "don't deserve it", because "deserving it" is a garbage criteria for determining a champion.
  12. Huh. Clemson beat Pittsburgh 42-10, dominating 32 point win. Almost as good as UCF's 33 point win over the same team. But UCF has no business even being in the discussion, huh?
  13. Well, if they can't beat Alabama, then there's no sense even putting them in.
  14. This is among my favorites.
  15. Agree on this. But people just not watching is NOT what ESPN wants. Need more people to just boycott. But they won't.
  16. Yes, this is sad.
  17. I have already stated to several people: if SEC gets two teams in, and one of them is a 2-loss non-conference-champion OVER a P5 1-loss champion, I am not watching any of the playoff games. THAT is what ESPN wants?
  18. College football: where every game matters, except the ones we don't want to matter.
  19. If a 2-loss non-conference champion gets in over TWO 1-loss P5 conference champions, this thing needs to be burned to the ground. Heck, if they get in over ONE, same thing. Their championship game should just be considered their first round game. They lost. They are out.
  20. Agreed. Cake is far superior.
  21. Son currently swims for Arizona State. First and only college athlete in my family that I know of.
  22. SurlyORama

    UCF

    They also had UNC on their schedule, postponed by hurricane. All of this "just schedule some P5 teams" is ridiculous. Last year they had Georgia Tech on their schedule as well, but that was also killed by a hurricane. I know, I know, "Just stop having hurricanes UCF. C'mon."
  23. Agree on getting better, but dat defense tho...
  24. Fritos are a fantastically good junk food, considering the ingredient list: - Corn - Corn Oil - Salt Amazing.
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