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  1. I watch a LOT of games, will admit I don’t follow GT as closely as you. My own take is that Vandy and Tech can play pretty well and still likely go down against ND. They need hero ball or some serious ND mistakes. Maybe both. Texas and ND both playing well against each other is a much closer run thing, maybe edge Texas. Georgia has looked uninspired for long stretches and never really dominant. They better come to play against Texas. They can’t just out-athlete y’all.
  2. I tend to lean on serranos over jalepenos simply because the heat is more consistent than jalepenos at the grocery store. I save the jalepenos for stuffing or just grilling and serving on the side.
  3. Arbol is an OG hot pepper, no need to seed them. That’s what South Texas cooks would use. A few fresh chile pequins will turn it up, too. Anything above habanero is a novelty pepper, IMO.
  4. Tech and ND have a common opponent: NCSU thumped the Yellow Jackets and ND completely wrecked the Wolfpack. Transitive property and all but GaTech has struggled a lot more against some pretty terrible teams and have relied on Haynes King doing it all. ND has not really stumbled since the early season. Tech and now Virginia are the only teams I look at in tje current top 25 and really think “overrated.” Vandy and Utah are interesting choices. Vandy has looked overmatched against more talented rosters and relies on hero ball as well. ND is a more complete team. They could lose that game but are better everywhere on the field save QB and maybe TE— Stowers is a dude. Utah intrigues me the most of all the ones you pick. I’d honestly be more likely to slot UT ahead of ND before any of these. If Texas plays well, they’re much better than Vandy or GaTech for sure.
  5. This essay is delightful. I didn’t know I needed it. I’d take a Greyhound anywhere if it involved 6 UGA cheerleaders and 3 UGA horsey girls.
  6. It will depend on a lot of things but they won’t necessarily not deserve it, either. If we are talking “deserve” let’s be real and admit that none of the G5 is really a top 12 team. The ACC probably doesn’t have one either. If we are talking about the best 12 teams I’m going with OSU, IU, Alabama, Georgia, A&M, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas, OU, ND, and one of BYU or Tech. My simple ask with ND is: tell me who behind them is clearly better based on record, roster, and coaching. Right now, not based on projected W-L.
  7. Thinking about Iowa and their crazy good white return man was giving me deja vu and I finally remembered Tim Dwight. He’s an all-time “oh yeah, that was a guy.”
  8. A 10-2 A&M would have the H2H against ND. A 10-2 Texas would have clearly better wins across the board. That freshman QB at Pitt will command some big money in the portal. That said, he’s doing freshman things against a top 25 ND defense, and ND can lean on Love against a Pitt D that’s given up 30+ four times this year.
  9. Bill and Barack are easily two of the three most successful politicians of the past 50 years (Reagan being the third) and a good chunk of the leading D intellectuals are convinced that they are part of the problem. If you give off normal guy energy and make voters believe you like America, they will make you president as a D. This even worked for Biden.
  10. Ok, well, that’s not a platform. If your argument is “promising to do what people want” is good politics, I won’t argue. I Mamdani is really, really unpopular at the national level. He’s killing it in NYC, no argument. To extrapolate his winning coalition of upwardly-mobile, highly educated people and young foreign born New Yorkers to a national electorate that is much older, less-educated, more native-born, and less wealthy is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention— there are actually Republicans out there fighting back. Especially since the data shows he’s really not well liked at all among people who have heard of him.
  11. They have NFL talent all over the roster on that side of the ball. Truly speaks to the mistake of Arnold and Freeze’s offensive ineptitude. Kendrick Faulk is a potential day 1 pick, maybe in the top half. And they stomped Baylor which is why I’m skeptical that the bottom of the Big XII is better than the bottom of the SEC.
  12. This is tracking like every analysis on message boards: no team in the top 10 deserves to be there except maybe the top-ranked but there’s no nomination for who actually belongs there except maybe (checks notes) Pitt and Iowa.
  13. I am slightly skeptical that freezing rent, making buses free, and opening state-run bodegas resonates in Grand Island like it does in NYC, but sure. I’ll keep an open mind here.
  14. 9-3 is too close to 8-4 especially with Samford on the schedule.
  15. Yeah, I’m the opposite, chili without masa just doesn’t feel completely done to me. A little bit of earthiness, which is why it’s so fucking good with Fritos or tortillas or cornbread.
  16. I’m an Aggie. I’ll offer my best objective take, which I don’t think is any more or maybe less biased than the prevailing opposite bias around here. If we win at Mizzou I’ll take a breath. Not that Mizzou with 3rd QB is awesome but: at that point you’re at least 10-2 and almost for sure in the PO. If Texas embarrasses us completely in Austin that could change the calculus but barring that I feel like the program has taken a significant step to sounder footing. Reed getting hurt could happen and upset the whole thing. I’m happy with the recruiting and more so with the transfer portal. So far Scourton, Howell, Craver, Concepcion, Will Lee, Armaj-Reed have been superb takes where we need them. Ricks, Scooby, Hayes, and to a lesser extent Boerkircher have contributed. I don’t worry about the ability to patch holes with the staff and the people we lost haven’t been sorely missed. I assume Elko stays and likely gets a raise. I imagine Klein has a better than even chance to get a HC gig. I’ve been happy with Elko’s hires and the staff overall. Next year is next year. No one has any idea what LSU looks like, if Eli sticks around or bolts to Auburn or something, and how OU fixes their shit. Florida and LSU looked like 2/3 of our biggest hurdles on 1 August. So yeah, 10-2 and in the CFP is something to build on. 11-1 and SEC CCG appearance is better. 12-0 for sure would be best. Gun to my head, I’d say 11-1 is most likely.
  17. I agree that Iowa is a really solid team this year, with offensive competence added to usual solid defense and ST. I’d love to see them win out and get into the PO. Notre Dame is a good team. They are well-coached, I think Love is a top-3 player in CFB and theu no glaring holes. They aren’t a NC contender but can put a scare in good teams in the PO. I have difficulty saying that anyone behind them for sure belongs in front but I do think they’re much better than a BYU or Virginia. I don’t over-index the early loss to a Jekyll and Hyde Miami that always starts strong under Cristobal and that has a roster to play with anyone when you get good Beck. USC is, in fact, ranked at the moment. Clearly, transfers are here to stay and you better do well in the portal. There are different paths to that but no one currently looked at as a real NC contender is there without doing a good job in the portal.
  18. I’ll buy Oregon if they close out with wins over Iowa, Washington, USC. You do have to put 12 teams in the playoff.
  19. I am not at all following the logic that the bottom six of the Big XII is better than the bottom six of the SEC. Auburn beat the dog out of Baylor, which is not at the bottom of the Big XII. Their defense hasn’t given up more than 24 all year and is legit good (most Auburn stat season ever). MSU beat ASU, which is a mid to good Big XII team. Florida and UK can be plenty dangerous. Arkie has played ranked teams close all year. Now with fired coaches and turmoil all bets are off. But the bottom of the Big XII wining games against the middle of the Big XII does nothing for me. The top through middle of the SEC is really fucking good. I’ll buy AZ and Iowa State as decent teams but UCF on down is not good at all.
  20. That’s completely separate from being upside down with (presumably) the lowest income and most socially subsidized demographic. My own hunch is that no one is threatening to take away those benefits; so they are already functionally socialized. And law and order messaging consistently does well among lower-income demographics while the foreign policy stuff is largely irrelevant at best. I think this can explain a lot of Trump btw. This is unironically the median American voter:
  21. One thing that’s incredible is that the avowedly DSA guy is weakest versus the “establishment” D candidate among people in public or subsidized housing. Many such cases.
  22. With DJ Durkin now interim HC, the SEC has reached natural stasis of number of head coaches who killed a kid: 1.
  23. Interesting stuff and goes back to my point that one place of difference between teams at the 10 or below spot is mostly just noise. I don’t have the energy to count but Texas may lead OU on more ballots than not. A quick scan says that the Kentucky and LSU voters have Texas farthest behind OU. The A&M voter has Texas at 11 and ahead of OU.
  24. The problem with populism is that populists of any stripe are objectively terrible at governing. Across time and space, I struggle to think of a populist who did a good job anywhere at scale, which is a function of populist rhetoric invariably offering simplistic and unrealistic solutions and promises against real, complex problems. There’s always the old “lie about being a populist” trick but you can’t pull the football forever and eventually someone will come along who actually does the stupid shit and either makes a hash of things or just overturns democracy to avoid consequences. This basically happened with the republicans. We got here because most of America treats real elections like student council elections: vote for the stupidest and most unreal shit because deep down you believe adults will remain in control. Only that’s not how it works in real life.
  25. This was the Barrack Obama formula. Difference being that Obama honed his rhetoric, skills, positions very early in a statewide race.
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