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Posts posted by gmr548
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Georgia should be favored but 14 seems a bit high given the circumstances and the fact that Texas has basically proved itself OU's equal over two games. Of course, UGA has a big advantage in the trenches so it could certainly be a multiple score game, but Texas has a habit of hanging around.
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tosu @ multi-loss purdue, league road game at night
in advance, is that a big game?
No. Purdue also hasn't been among the best teams in the Big Ten over the past five plus years, wasn't consistently finishing above Ohio State in years past, didn't have a three game winning streak (now four) over Ohio State, and hadn't shown the ability to be really good by thrashing a ranked opponent earlier in the year. Apples and oranges.
Further, Purdue damn sure thought it was a big game. Oklahoma State sure thought it was a big game. Not having your team ready to match that = unprepared.
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Curious what gives UGA the edge over Ohio State but not OU? While OU had a clear edge over Ohio State it was a small one. Odd that whatever got OU ahead of UGA didn't apply to Ohio State.
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Well this will be fun
It will. NOLA for new years. Top flight opponent. A January football game.
We'll be underdogs, deservedly so, but iron sharpens iron. I fully expect the team to get up for this and give great effort.
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LOL at Maryland and OSU being “big games”
Not sure which MD game you're referring to. I'd argue that a season opener against a P5 is a fairly big game. In 2017, your first game as Texas HC is absolutely a big game. In 2018, opening the season against an opponent that embarrassed you in the opener last year is absolutely a big game.
OSU was an ABC primetime game. The whole country was watching. It was a road conference game against a team we've been looking up at in the standings for five plus years. We were plenty familiar with how good their A game was.
You are reaching.
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Being better than the Strong era does not make the narrative of Herman being some big game zen master accurate.Going to the sugar bowl in year two. Perhaps you would like to go back to charlie strong?
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We spotted them 20 points. They scored on a bomb on their third play or something. It took an entire half to settle in. I love the effort of the team to keep fighting and give themselves a chance to win but we absolutely came out unprepared for that environment and quality of opponent.
It’s your opinion that we didn’t play well against OU in 2017?
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He leaves now, hes a 4-5th round pick
he comes back, he could maybe be a fringe 1st rounder
Curious - what do you think he can improve that would so drastically change his draft position? To me, I don't see how his numbers get any better next year - his statistics are ridiculously efficient and would almost certainly regress some. Not to say that would diminish his impact on the field. But I'm also not well versed in evaluating the technical side of WR play so I could be missing something.
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Well, you never know, but if mom is out on Twitter saying he's going back the chances seem pretty high.
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Cant wait. Herman always has his teams ready to go for big games.
Yeah, like Maryland 2017, OU 2017, Maryland 2018, OSU 2018, and yesterday. The "Herman excels in big games" myth persists even though we've been punked/ embarrassed in just as many of them as we've come out looking prepared. I don't get it.
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Offensively I think we're okay if LJH comes back. That makes Anderson the one offensive loss that I'm not sure we have a replacement that can be as good or better. Cosmi will be very good in the long run but may experience some growing pains at LT.Dont we lose 13-14 starters next year?
id be thrilled just hitting 10 wins next year, including the bowl game
Defensively, I expect trouble.
Nelson and Charles were solid this year. Unpopular opinion, no Hegar is addition by subtraction. He hurts more than he helps. Especially the way we deploy him. We have some talented guys behind them - Wilbon, Christmas, Coburn at nose and Graham and Ossai (I think he moves to DE as he gets bigger) at end, but we will need someone to take a big step forward. We also need Roach to put it together in his last year. I think the starters can be average to above average, much like thus year, but we're only one or two injuries from real trouble.
LB is also an issue. Wheeler can be replaced easily but GJ will be very difficult to replace, much like we saw with Malik this year. I know we're bringing in a good haul of LBs this year, including a juco IIRC, but no one can be expected to fill Gary's shoes. It may be tough sledding in the front seven.
Secondary will probably look similar to this year. Some nice plays, a lot of WTF. I assume Jones comes back - he is what he is at this point. Sterns and Foster are budding stars. DD and Locke moving on is addition by subtraction. Boyd is a good player but we were trying to put a square peg in a round hole the way we used him. We have a lot if young talent at CB to replace them. Theoretically, they'll take their lumps next year but in 2020-21 we'll be in as good of shape there as you can be in this conference. I'm skeptical of that because our DB coaching looks pretty bad but maybe the seniors are just that stupid. We'll see next year.
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There are a lot of ways to arrive at not winning the conference. It's pretty hard to judge a football team in absolutes, so yes I'd say that there are versions of next season where not wining the conference is acceptable. I will say that going forward, as long as the B12 had this dumbass 1 v 2 rematch after a round robin schedule, I expect to be playing in the game more often than not.
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This. I can't put a finger on exactly when, but he went from a solid, professional analyst to the douchey shill we know today. Maybe he has just gotten comfortable at ESPN, like a professor hitting tenure and not giving a fuck. Maybe he's getting talking points from his bosses. Maybe he's slipped into fan mode as the landscape of college football has changed so much over the past decade. Whatever it is, it's disappointing. I think he still is a good color guy on games that don't involve Ohio State, but otherwise it's tough to watch him.I used to really like Herbstreit. It's going to be impossible to watch him, much less take him seriously, after this.
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1 minute ago, satyanash said:
Flawed model that puts too much emphasis on winning conference championships and doesn't account for independent teams well. Nate Silver admitted as much.
Oh I don't disagree. Shared for the lulz
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Eight team playoff with first round games in two weeks at campus sites:
#1 Alabama vs #8 Washington - Tuscaloosa
#2 Clemson vs #7 UCF - Clemson
#3 ND vs #6 Georgia - South Bend
#4 Oklahoma vs #5 Ohio State - Norman
What a terrible idea, amirite?
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FWIW, which is basically nothing, 538 has Oklahoma and Ohio State each more likely to get in than ND. Georgia with no chance. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-college-football-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo
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1 minute ago, texaslong said:
Texas, 1/1/19
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2 hours ago, ButtFumble said:
I think a really good Texas team will show up as well
the extra practice is meaningful
This team finally has pride it would have been easy to lose to Missouri last year Texas was coming off a horrible loss to Tech, Texas was playing for a "seven win season" which is pretty meh by Texas standards even with the shitty recent seasons......Missouri was on a 6 game win streak after losing 5 straight and playing for 8 wins which for them would be a good year based on past results and based on the recent past.....Missouri was really up for the game to "take down Texas" and while Texas wanted to beat a bad SEC SEC SEC team they thought they should beat and one of the Big 12 cry babies that ran off it would still have been easy for Texas to line up thinking that Texas on the jersey gave them 14 points right off the bat
instead they came out and played a pretty decent game overall against a team that also played well and still got their dicks knocked off and their little backpacks thrown in the trash can
this years team has just that much more pride and the opponent is way bigger as is the game, but I think UGA has a lot to be down about and less to be excited about
While I agree with your general point, that Mizzou team was awful. On par with Baylor. Losing to them would have been far from easy.
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Northwestern hanging right with OSU in football. Think of how hard they'd smash them if they were playing school.
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Also, in researching UGA for that I found out Mizzou is ranked. LO fucking L.
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Georgia isn't fucking going to the playoffs. With the way Ohio State has fucked around with a meh Northwestern team tonight, maybe they'd sneak in if we'd have found a way to win today. But we didn't, and now OU is 12-1 with a B12 championship, wins over everyone they played, three ranked teams, three more bowl eligible teams in conference, and a better OOC win than UGA in 9-2 Army. UGA matches the three ranked wins and three other bowl eligible wins, but they are an 11-2 at large who got smoked in one of those losses. They also played no one OOC. I agree with the "ESPN is just filling air time/creating fake buzz" takes.
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29 minutes ago, RoyalBevo21 said:
Will be interesting to see what getting skull f*cked on national tv will do for recruiting?
I know you're being tongue-in-cheek but it will be a fuckload better than playing in an Alamo Bowl game no recruits will see or care about. It will be better than winning a Texas Bowl no recruits see or care about with a punter as the MVP. Even in a loss there is recruiting value to being in that game. Just ask recruits if they'd rather go to a Sugar Bowl or whatever the fuck bowl aggy or TCU is playing in.
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5 hours ago, Rockethorn1978 said:
Don’t get me started on the traffic too. Every fucking road for 10 miles in every direction is under construction so by 2024 it’s a easier flow. It’s a fucking abortion. And I agree Texas stadium was loud and it smelled like football. Never leave the old cotton bowl ever.
Fucking this. It took forever to get in and out of there. It is a traffic death trap and there will never be rail out there. The lines getting into the stadium were also a total mess. We were in line at 10:15 and missed kick. And no, we didn't go to the wrong gate.
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lol fuck ohio state
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The B12 sweeps the undercard if WVU musters any fucks to give. Could see them checking out and laying an egg. Texas and OU have their work cut out for them, obviously.