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  1. 14 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

    Scoring in Nebraska is different. Top 3 ways for most folks are giving an offensive line lots of steroids, throwing a baggie full of dried corn at a stationary target, and giving beer to a naive farmgirl freshman.

    Beer? No no. That's a job for beer's cousin, liquor.

  2. 11 minutes ago, Kenny Powers said:

    Jokes on him...he meant to take out Orlando  but got Beck instead. Not today Purple Wizard! 

    Even his satanic hexes are losing their touch. Couldn't even curse the right coordinator. 

  3. 1 hour ago, TXSooner518 said:

    So you would say OU's 28-21 overtime win over Army is equally impressive as Texas' comfortable win over TCU last week?  Because wins are wins, right? Why are there 3-1 teams ranked ahead of 4-0 teams? How do you decide which 4-0 team should be ranked highest, and which shouldn't be ranked at all?

    I don't think PSU is overrated in general. I think they were overrated at the end of 2016, thanks to a fluky win over tOSU and a pisspoor schedule, that they weren't even that dominant against.

    No - because OU wasn't expected to get taken into OT and Texas wasn't expected to win. 

    Did Penn State face some back-loaded garbage that season? Sure. But they won every game. The fact that one or two of those games was closer than it "should" have been doesn't really mean much considering they went on to win the BIG10. 

    What about PSU's ass whipping of Iowa that season - a team that kicked the shit out of the Ohio State team we are talking about? 

    I don't think PSU was especially consistent that season - but when they were firing on all cylinders they could hang with any team in the country. 

  4. 23 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:

    Here are the two statements I was challenging:

    1) Penn State was a Top 5/Playoff team in 2016
    2) Penn State "improved as the 2016 season went on."

    For #1, my much bigger arguments than halftime scores against Sparty/Rutgers are:  Penn State lost to a 5 loss Pitt team AND they lost to Michigan 49-10. So what do they have to counterbalance those two games?  The wins over tOSU and Wisconsin.  tOSU was a very good team that year, but my contention is that Penn State's win was lucky/flukish. It obviously counts in the standings, but if we are discussing how good a team is, it matters. 

    For Wisconsin, in addition to Penn State having to rally from 28-7 in that game, my main point was that Wisky beat NOBODY that year, other than a 2 point win over 8-4 LSU in Green Bay and an 8 point win over a MAC team in their bowl. So to call Wisky a "top 6" team is more a function of their schedule than Wisky's actual power (Sagarin's final ratings had Wisky at 9, and PSU at 13, BTW).

    For #2, that's the point made where I think the scores are relevant. Penn State closed 2016's regular season against one team that you could generously call mediocre, and two that were truly awful. The fact that they trailed the mediocre one with 5:00 left in the game, and struggled mightily until late in the game with both of the awful teams certainly suggests that they had not actually developed into some juggernaut powerhouse, but instead that they closed the season on a winning streak due to schedule, with scores that were "prettier" than the actual games.

    I'm not a B1G hater, but the fact is that, due to the size of the conference, and the consolidation of top programs in one division, you can end up playing a VERY weak conference schedule, leading average to above average-level teams to elite-looking records. It happened with Wisconsin in 2016, and Iowa the year before. 

    It also allows teams who pull off a pretty fortunate win to ride the rest of their schedule to a division title, without necessarily being the best team in the division (Sparty '15, PSU '16).

    I never said they were a top 5 team. I said they were a contender and could have gave someone a scare in the CFP.

    We get it. You think Penn State is overrated.

    Wins are wins. Unless you're aggy. You're not aggy are you? You sound like it.

  5. On 3/30/2018 at 1:59 PM, The Virginian said:

    Josh Allen is still a controversial topic on a lot of draft venues so I thought we'd bring him on over.  First up, Barstool Sports takes Josh out for New York pizza:

     

    What is that bullshit. That looks like an actual NY Pizza chef took a dump and set it in the over for 50 minutes. 

    Give me a thin, dollar slice dripping in grease. Toppings or no toppings - who gives a shit. 

  6. 3 minutes ago, Katfid54 said:

    You found a line where Texas is +8.5?  That's unpossible, dude.

    Texas is a 8.5 point favorite (i.e., -8.5; not +8.5).

    If Texas was +8.5 I'd sell a kidney and take the ML

  7. 2 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    NFC is very fun, much more enjoyable than the AFC since Peyton retired. The Packers are a fixture because of Rodgers, and the Seahawks because of Wilson and the defense (but not this year), but otherwise there seems to be a carousel of teams that take turns being really good for a couple years before falling back into the middle.

    Your mom was fun last night

  8. 28 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Teaser time

     

    You know what. Fuck it. I'm gonna say it. Herman is a great coach. The whole idea of each game being just another step in the process, as simple as it is, is great coaching and a message that stick with you. It gives players something to work towards every single week regardless of what happened the week prior. 

    We've seen this team get better 3 weeks in a row. Let's make that 4. 

    Hook em. ftb

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