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Actually defensive holding
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
Two year relationship. I bet nobody at UM had a clue.
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Yeah but he has a cool avatar.
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That's a negotiation with the playoff where every conference, especially 2 of them, wants 'special' treatment. Does everyone play an equal number of FBS teams? Bigger P4 teams? Example, Bama scheduled U Louisiana Monroe and Eastern Illinois University!? So their '13th game' was actually the Tide's 11th losable game.
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The spring games have been getting cancelled. Why not have the minor 'bowl' games around the time spring practice ends. It would give everyone a chance to cool down after the real season and a chance for the playes to test whether they need to leave for the portal.
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What rule are you talking about?
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The computers love teams that win by 70 or has the quality loss. Sagarin is probably the most famous offender. I like the BCS because it used both human polls and computers.
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#6 is our computer ranking (Massey composite). The PC ranked ND 9th until it was time to promote Bama and Miami.
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That's contractual. It was poor rule writing because the CFP likely did not predict that the ACC champ would be an 8-5 team, and thus they were roping another JMU type team. And the ACC likely didn't consider naming the highest rated teams at tiebreaker. No one's saying they wrote those rules as part of a vast conspiracy to screw ND. Yes it's a flawed system. When a 12 team playoff cannot include the #6 team by the objective computers then it doesn't have a good system. Did you watch SC @ Oregon? IT was a comedy of errors and if the game continued ad infinitum they would still be trading the lead score.
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Oregon played one very good team and lost at home, one pretty good team (USC) and won at home. If the Ducks spent one OOC slot on an SEC team then it's 50:50 they go 10-2 and are in the scrum.
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Question for the You didn't beat anyone crowd. Why is Oregon in the playoff? They beat Southern Cal (same as ND) and did not play an SEC team (unlike ND). The Ducks spent their OOC on Montana (1-11), Oregon St (2-10), OKST (1-11). The Ducks 2nd best win was 8-4 Iowa on a last minute fg. @Vic Mackey Massey rates our offense at #1.
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ND supplies the dates and the ACC supplies the teams. We only know that everyone wants to play Notre Dame so they get roughly the same access. I don't know when Cal and SMU jump in The ACC signed a contract with Notre Dame, making us business partners. The terms of this partnership inter alia, Notre Dame signed a grant of rights for All sports except football, Notre Dame agreed to five games a year against ACC teams in football. (Upping that to eight or nine ACC teams a year would on average be a weaker schedule). And have you ever heard anyone, in over 50 years, complaining about how Duffy Daugherty played for the tie at home? There's a long established tradition of people complaining that Notre Dame gets 'preferential treatment' while those who know the history roll their eyes.
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How about the ACC?
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
What twinkle toe B's is this? Has there ever been a consensual relationship?
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Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
This is so typical Michigan. They just couldn't stand that for maybe 4 days Notre Dame was number one in horrible headlines.
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The G5 tie in indicated that BYU would have been bumped out before the CCG. That's not the PC's decision. The PC absolutely did punish BYU by dropping them for CCG loss, while for Bama they did not. In this situation, sitting altar boy still will accomplish nothing. They now know that screwing ND comes with a price.
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Too many things wrong in that article to list them all, but I will call attention to But no program, even Notre Dame, can truly position itself to win a national championship in this playoff era with two or three decent games a year, most of them early in the season. Oh, someone please tell me about the second or third best win of Texas A&M? TTech = BYU, BYU, and ?? Even #5 Oregon. Their second best win is probably Iowa (8-4) on a last drive fg. When people please check the computer rankings before making these posts? The most friendly one to the didn't beat anyone crowd is the Colley Matrix, which will lay it out visually. https://www.colleyrankings.com/scgi-bin/teamsplot.cgi?i1=119&i2=107&i3=77&i4=115&i5=45&s=2 We don't have a conference commissioner or any repa on the CFP to b**** to. And it's clear that the ACC does not advocate for our interests. By being independent it means the only outlet is public. Bowls extend invitations, we declined their invitation. It's ESPN throwing the tantrum here.
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I was clear that you judge the entire season over picking a couple games and declaring only they matter. But in my personal opinion, a game against unheard of Eastern Illinois should be treated as a scrimmage, after which you can evaluate Bama's 12 game season. It is dominant, not a blowout, when you are never really worried that you might lose. Fredo College had a total of 12 yards rushing, if that matters. BC kept it close with a fumble at the BC 5 and ND kneeling it out at their 25. Miami OTOH called timeout instead of victory formation to throw for style points.
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Which Bama loss was worse than FSU? Here is the fine point of it, look at the entire season instead of cherry picking a couple of data points that support your position. Notre Dame started with two disappointments and ended with 10 straight dominant wins. Bama started okay and ended with five disappointments and 1 crushing win over Eastern Illinois.
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Apparently you did. BYU is either better than Miami or they are not. See below.
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The PC said that teams would not be punished for playing in a CCG. They meant teams would not be punished for playing in an SECCG. This is more scandalous than the Miami switch because it's a clean cut lie. They cleared out the teams inbetween nd and Miami to justify their other trope about teams next to each other.
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I believe the PC wrote their rules incorrectly with what they wanted. They assumed that the P4 conf champs would always be in the top 5 of other conf champs. But they didn't put that into the rules so they were stuck with Tulane and James Madison ranked higher than Duke. Likewise the ACC probably assumed their top two programs would play for the ACCCG but they didn't make that the official tiebreaker. I am glad you asked. The PC always followed the computer rankings, specifically the BCS proxy. Even the year that everyone thinks they screwed TCU for anOSU, the Buckeyes actually got to #4 in the final BCS proxy. Exceptions. 2023 FSU the PC knew that FSU's qb was out, the computers did not. 2025 ND. The PC knew that it had to include Bama and an ACC team, the computers did not.
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The ACC didn't really have a good OOC win, other than week 1 ND@Miami squeaker and FSU thrashing Alabama; the latter I noted was banned from media discussion even in late September. Otherwise there were a lot of close games, like GTech having the ball and a chance to win on the last drive @UGA. But nothing (after week 1) to point to that would tell us ACC was just as good as the other three.
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The same reason that ESPN devoted almost no air time to ND vs SEC #5. Bad for business. The computer composite, and average of all the metrics say that ND is 6th. https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf and To put it another way, whom did Texas A&M beat other than ND? I promise that I have not looked that up.
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Teaching, feeding the poor, and other things better than propping up ESPN's left behind 'bowl games.'