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  1. Could have sworn that Javelina Stadium was a grass field but looks like they did switch to turf. Likely a lot more cost-effective in South Texas and holds up better for playoffs but I still hate losing real grass fields.
  2. The one upside of this stupid carousel season is that we are all about to learn some new names. Lots of assistants and hopefully FCS coaches getting their shot with a P4 program.
  3. It’s the most recent ranking, the new CFP ranking comes out Tuesday. The question was whether UT is being considered among other two loss teams and the answer is clearly “yes.”
  4. I mean you don’t have to ask them, Texas is the highest ranked three loss team and above teams with 2 losses including a traditional power like Michigan.
  5. ENMU used to be a chippy but not great team that ruined a lot of good seasons for LSC teams in Blackwater Draw. They were a triple option team.
  6. A player like Aaron Donald is of course invaluable and that’s why he may be the GOAT NFL defender. We also gotta define our terms: a truly bad interior DL that gets rolled is a tremendous liability that can’t get schemed out of. I am thinking more of the delta between good/really good/great and value. I think some are underselling the value of combining a pass rusher who can get home out of a base defense with a CB who can be left in man against WR1. They are impacting the game when they aren’t involved in plays. If you can do that you’re a long way towards eliminating game-breaking downfield plays on 1st and 2nd down and limiting what you have to scheme against. They are generating TOs and negative plays and making it easy to get off the field in 3rd down. They turn good offenses into pedestrian offenses by virtue of the plays that aren’t attempted. And of course— if the other areas on the field are Browns-level inept, you still won’t win. But if the rest of the D is “good enough,” you’re scary.
  7. If we are going to talk unit’s I’d argue that a truly great OL is what I’d build my team around before even QB. Then QB and DL.
  8. An elite DT is high value but you can scheme better to make-up for them to stop the run. You can’t as easily find a scheme to make up for no pass rush or bad coverage without more weakness. An elite edge rusher who can get home when rushing 4 and shutdown corner who can take away an option means you can put more bodies on the run problem. So my vote is pass rusher, CB, then OT. Serviceable at DT will be OK.
  9. Some fascinating storylines along the way to the likely same end (NDSU winning). First year the Ivies play in the playoff. Lehigh is a tough draw for Harvard but Yale has a shot to knock off Youngstown and then get mauled by MoState. ACU is capable of a run and has wins against SFU and Tarleton already. Two losses to FBS programs and two inexplicable losses to not great FCS teams. But the path to quarters is open. BTW, to get in the door at Montana-Montana State this last weekend was around $250 for the cheapest ticket. CFB is about regional rivalries and friendly tribalism and superconferences are killing that.
  10. Rutgers has under 75 total yards through three quarters against tOSU. This is a conference game.
  11. There is a small but not zero chance that the highest ranked ACC champ is behind two G5 champs. Some other stuff going on in the numbers, too, but that’s the big one.
  12. Playoffs are a bracket to determine a champion, not to measure SOS or determine which conference is stronger. The metrics— Sagarin, Massey, JBL’s own— have worked preseason ranking out of the formula by this point in the season, their SOS rankings reflect what was on the field.
  13. College football fans confronted with math running back to the beauty pageant when they don’t like the math LOL.
  14. Is her name pronounced like the makeup brand, or “Low-real” or “Lori-all.” Or something else?
  15. Why make housing more expensive for everyone to provide a benefit for only some classes of workers? If you’re doing a job in a community, that job is clearly needed by someone and it’s not obvious why those people shouldn’t also be able to afford to live close to work, too.
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