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Steelers Roll Left

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  1. Without knowing much of anything regarding this year’s transfer portal, I think raiding the cupboards of coaching transition schools like LSU, Florida, Michigan are sound strategies. Mixing in some southeastern high school products w/ in-state recruiting talent has produced results in our recent past
  2. I have to give Miller a pass for this year. He was hired late in the recruiting cycle last year. Last I checked, next year’s recruiting class is ranked 7th on Rivals. Like it or not, Texas basketball is just not a destination job. Hopefully, he gets the NIL resources he needs to compete w/ the top programs (I’m not sure where UT ranks on that front), and we’ll see where Miller Texas basketball is at in 2 seasons
  3. Congrats. Betting on Cleveland at home vs Tennessee proved to be my undoing this week. Didn’t love the pick, but 14 weeks in….
  4. In the 12-team playoff era, the bowl games are dead, not just for the fans, but to the players themselves who deem them worthy of sitting out to avoid injury ahead of NFL prospects. Will I watch? Yes. Do I expect to be able to glean much from the result? No.
  5. w/ one added caveat: “IF, and only IF, you are a blue blood”….
  6. Miami favored at A&M is interesting. No love for the Aggies from me, but I thing I’d go “wrong team favored” there, but who am I compared to Vegas?
  7. Just absolute, complete, fucking nonsense
  8. Well, I’m “not happy” for JMU and Tulane. Definitely lose the 5th conference champion guarantee. Frankly, I would lose the 4th as well. If you want to guarantee conference champions “only in the top 15”……OK, but that wouldn’t be my 1st choice. If I’m ESPN, be real. You don’t want to be stuck selling JMU v Oregon, Tulane v Ole Miss to advertisers. Hell, Miami at A&M is even a harder sell than ND v A&M. Forget the inclusivity. It’s just a bad product
  9. I would argue Notre Dame passes the eye test RIGHT NOW, in August/September not so much. But who the hell knows what criteria THIS committee is using on a team-by-team basis, much less the entire field
  10. The committee is a moving target year-to-year so it’s hard to speak w/ any convention as to their criteria week-to-week much less annually. They DID hang their hat on “Conference Championship game participants will not be punished due to a loss” a year ago. This season, and in the past week, Yormark specifically has played it close to the vest in interviews revealing almost nothing to give the public an inside look at committee criteria down the stretch so all we can do is guess. If it’s the eye test, Bama’s finish vs OU, Auburn, & Georgia didn’t exactly light the world on fire. But in a world of speculation, one can only wonder what ACTUALLY tips the scales…..eye test? good matchups for TV ratings? Who knows, but I would bet the committee, already staring at Tulane & James Madison ruining 2 of the 4 1st round matchups, doesn’t want to flirt with a 3rd choosing BYU over Alabama
  11. I don’t think Texas is getting in, but I do think they’re at least worthy of consideration. I mention that because I do sense a concerted effort among talking heads the past week plus to not mention Texas at all in such discussions. THAT feels like an injection of collective bias that shouldn’t be present among the committee members and the media, but who are we kidding here. Compare it to the way 3-loss Bama was debated up to the release of the final playoff rankings a year ago
  12. Citrus Bowl has 1st dibs among non-playoff bowls and due to bowl ties will be selecting an SEC vs Big Ten game. It’ll almost certainly will be Texas v Michigan in the Citrus
  13. From everything I’ve heard, Bama remains in despite a loss
  14. If anyone is paying attention, fair or not, Texas isn’t even part of the National conversation for the playoff anymore. They’ve been effectively crossed off. I do think there’s a “slight” chance that things get interesting today if Duke wins (does the committee and the networks REALLY want 2 of 4 1st RD matchups irrelevant and unwatched with Tulane, James Madison in the field because that’s what they’d be staring at staying the course)
  15. Matt Campbell has impressed me as much as any coach in CFB the past decade putting multiple star players in the league from freaking Ames, Iowa while playing in a second tier conference. Great get by Penn State. The only question is whether Campbell’s magic only works doing more with less instead of having first dibs on top recruiting and transfer talent. These highly sought-after coaches that choose to stay at less relevant programs (Whittingham is another example) are really interesting to me. Campbell’s could’ve gone anywhere over the past 8 years or so, but he consistently passed. One wonders what made Penn State right for him…..or perhaps Penn State’s timing was just right. As for Iowa State, odds are the magic is over and it’s back to complete irrelevancy
  16. What I’ve found amusing in the short (2) years of the 12-team playoff is how everyone complains about the quality of playoff matchups which they don’t watch after fighting and politicking so hard to give the have-not’s a seat at the table at the end of the reg. We’re spiraling towards something like a Tulane at Oregon & Virginia at Ole Miss. That’s half of the 1st RD that college football consumers will likely outright skip, and it gets worse than that if Duke wins the ACC title game. Cancel the 5th conference champion auto-bid. It’s simply a better product, and better for business
  17. Not this year then……got it……….
  18. The show didn’t discuss Texas at all. Didn’t want to touch it
  19. Because they’re afraid we’ll Slide down our cloth from New York down by they’re Virginia, Ticklin' them around Delaware before I enter
  20. or Gator, and I’d bet on it being vs Michigan or Miami/ND (whichever is left out)
  21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cQcUAqeCUI
  22. The loser of the Big XII title game should be nervous if Georgia hands Bama their 3rd loss and the committee decides to keep Bama
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