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  1. On ‎10‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 9:29 PM, NWBuck said:

    So let me get this straight... they're in Virginia, but need to go to a museum to get a wagon and a plow and a canoe?

     

    And it took this long to figure out how beasts fo burden work.

     

    Seriously though, I likethe premise. They need more primitive tech because they will eventually run out of diesel fuel so they go where they expect to find old stuff. 

  2. 5 minutes ago, Treefidy said:

    I don't agree with that sentiment.  We know Bama is good, but who else is good in that division?  LSU is probably pretty good, barn, aggy, MSU appear to be ok to somewhat good.  How would the teams not named Bama fare against UT, OU, WVU, TCU?  Or tOSU, pedo, Michigan, whoever. 

    we all know about the artificial ranking fuckery, and the scheduling an extra bye game because the conference slate is so hard, and how that brawndo/electrolytes argument works. But that conference as a whole is Bama and the 12 dwarves + UGA,   Start playing more OOC games or expand the playoffs, either way to upgrade the metrics to judge team/conference/schedule quality.  

    With the SEC it's the One&Done OOC game followed by a school you've never heard of.  They rarely have to get up for more than one quality September opponent.  That being said, UW and Miami are @#2 in their respective conferences and the SEC's 3rd and 4th teams beat them. 

  3. 18 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    Auburn does not have a better resume than Texas. Maybe they will at the end of the year, but their future schedule is not relevant. My post was made to point out that LSU losing at Florida is a lot more forgivable than Texas losing to Maryland at a "neutral" site. I really don't understand what you are trying to get at?

    Mostly trollin the SEC schedules.  But at this time LSU is quite close to Texas.  Beating OU, TCU I slightly better than AU, Miami but only slightly.  LSU has the more forgivable loss yes. 

     

    That being said, it's hard to deny the eventual winner of the SECw will have the best quality wins in all of CFB; even if/when their body bag games are the worst wins in all of CFB.

  4. 12 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Didn't they vote to have permanent cross-division games stay in place that were voted on/considered historical rivalries?  Like Bama-Tenn, Auburn-UGA, Arky-Mizzou, etc.?  Then they rotate the rest of the cross division opponents.

     

    7 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    LSU would like a word. Though I will concede that the Auburn win doesn't look any better than Lour USC win at this point. Their loss is a lot less embarrassing/questionable.

    LSU and AU would like a word.  With due respect to the other UT, locked into playing UF/UGA every year is the shorter stick.   Surely Bama is working hard on their OOC to make up the difference. 

  5. 2 hours ago, Treefidy said:

    That's the funny thing about polls, beat a team and they drop.  Anyone really think a 1 loss USC or TCU is not ranked at this point in the season?   And TCUs losses are to #3 and #9.  I think USC also lost to 2 pretty good teams

     

    1 hour ago, Treefidy said:

    2020.  UGA and Bama play, they trade games and ESECN has a party over the 3rd game in a season.  

    Not sure how their cross division games work, but looking forward Bama has added Tennessee as a cross division game for the next 7 years and they will only play UGA once in the foreseeable future in conference.  

    Go figure, a conference that games the game, chooses their bowl matchups, lightens the load with 8 games, artificially inflates the deadbeats in the middle of the pack to secure SOS, and tinkers with cross conference matchups so the best teams don't have to face one another until the CCG. 

    Meanwhile we decided a round robin isn't good enough, we have to make sure our best 2 teams face each other twice.  This conference sucks.

    It's so structured that no one will notice Arky's buy game against North Texas, or that the Hawgs are just under average in Bama's schedule. 

  6. 5 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    They were Both  overrated alright.....

    #5 LSU lost to Florida.... 27-19

     #8 Auburn lost to Miss State..... 23-9

    so UF and MSST are the new #4 and #6?

  7. 5 hours ago, kopp0e said:

    Makes sense, Notre Dame was wise in partially joining the ACC, so to have some consistency in opponents...

     

    Agreed, it changes the entire dynamic of the season in conference matches vs independent...

    For years we played UMich and MichSt back to back, and paid for it.  I think we went 2-0 twice the last 20 years where that was scheduled.

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  8. 2 hours ago, kopp0e said:

    It's got to be tough on coaches & scheme of each game, to face such wide ranging offenses from week to week, if BYU faced the spread every week, the team would be ready for it...

    It's more of a case of cramming all the tough games into the first 4 weeks of the season. Any team would have trouble being 100% for each game.  So how well the Cougs recover week to week is a high variance proposition.

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  9. 3 hours ago, kopp0e said:

    Irish take 1st blood on the Cardinal...

    (Is it possible to draw blood from a tree..?)

    In Dante' Inferno, Suicide Circle.  Where most NDNation posters claimed to be near last month. 

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  10. 5 hours ago, TXSooner518 said:

    Man, you have a different type of butthurt than Penn State football usually creates, but it is significant.

    Yep, I did make an error, Penn State did come back from 3 TDs down to beat a Wisky team that beat literally no one else all season after a Week 1 two point win over LSU in Green Bay.

    But let's look at those five AMAZING wins that Penn State had that led you to say they got better over the season after luckboxing that win over Ohio State:

    62-24 vs Purdue - Purdue finished 3-9 that season, including losses to Cincy 38-20, Maryland 50-7, and Northwestern 45-17.

    41-14 vs Iowa - Iowa finished 8-5 that season, including losses at home to North Dakota State and Northwestern, and a 30-3 beatdown by a meh Florida in their bowl.

    45-31 at Indiana - Indiana finished 6-7 that season, including a home loss to Wake Forest. Five of their six wins were Ball State, Florida International, Purdue, Maryland, and Rutgers. Penn State trailed this game with 5:00 to go.  Indiana outgained PSU, but had 5 turnovers, including 2 in the last 3 minutes. Improvement as the season goes on, though!

    39-0 vs Rutgers - I could just say "lol Rutgers", but Rutgers finished 2-10 with wins over Howard and New Mexico. The other 2 top B1G teams that year beat them 58-0 and 78-0.  Michigan State's only B1G win of the season was over Rutgers 49-0.  This game was 9-0 at the half.

    45-12 vs Michigan State - Michigan State finished 3-9 that season, with 2 of those wins being Furman and Rutgers. Nonetheless, Sparty led this game 12-10 at half. 

    So PSU's last 3 regular season games included trailing a sub-500 Indiana team with 5:00 left in the game, leading a historically woeful 2-10 Rutgers team 9-0 at half, and trailing an awful 3-9 Sparty team 12-10 at half.  Wow, those dominating performances at the end of the season!!

    Maybe watch more games, champ. 

     

      Remember last year when the Borg won a bunch of bowl games?  How about the year before when the lost a bunch?  But does anyone want to remember how Wisconsin's won  the Cotton Bowl?

  11. 1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Meh

    fuck'em, they had their chance to join the B1G but their ego couldn't give up the NBC contract. So now they are mired in with the ACC and make $15 million annually from their football contract, while the B1G schools are each making around $50 million
    (caveat - I have no idea how the ACC splits their football & hoops conference revenue - especially with a nominal member

    We could join the EU if we would just give up our Constitution. 

     

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  12. On ‎9‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 8:52 AM, JBJ said:

    Undefeated ND or assuming 1-loss to Stanford? Both probably make it, but undefeated is a no-brainer.

    It would probably come down to the beauty contest of our best win, ugly loss, and market value of the other contenders.

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