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6 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

If we had beaten OSU, Florida, and Georgia we would be undefeated and #1

and still just in the playoffs if we played rice instead of osu.   so what’s the point of playing osu?  playoffs is playoffs.  there is no trophy for beaning number one at the end of the regular season 

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Just now, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

and still in the playoffs if we played rice instead of osu.   so what’s the point of playing osu?

High quality entertainment and opposition for the fanbase.  A home-and-home with tOSU is better than 2 home games with Rice.  

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2 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

High quality entertainment and opposition for the fanbase.  A home-and-home with tOSU is better than 2 home games with Rice.  

I would prefer to watch meaningful games in January than in September. 

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9 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I would prefer to watch meaningful games in January than in September. 

Understood - I want to see them all season.

The challenge with the evolution toward 1-2 16-28 team super-conferences is that future historical records will approach 0.500.  Outliers will approach 60% wins.  It will be interesting to see what happens to donations, NIL, etc. when 10 wins becomes an anomaly for the top teams.  There are not enough children's hospitals in Louisiana or enough treated lumber customers in Alabama to support such a thing.

 

Edited to add - all records are 0.500 (duh), but the top-28 to 32 teams are well above that...

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1 minute ago, boilerhorn said:

Understood - I want to see them all season.

The challenge with the evolution toward 1-2 16-28 team super-conferences is that future historical records will approach 0.500.  Outliers will approach 60% wins.  It will be interesting to see what happens to donations, NIL, etc. when 10 wins becomes an anomaly for the top teams.  There are not enough children's hospitals in Louisiana or enough treated lumber customers in Alabama to support such a thing.

I think a relegation system is needed where the top half of the conference is set apart from the bottom half and then there are play-in games for top performers in the bottom half. But these conferences are jsut way too big and the schedules too unbalanced as constituted.  

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27 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

I think a relegation system is needed where the top half of the conference is set apart from the bottom half and then there are play-in games for top performers in the bottom half. But these conferences are jsut way too big and the schedules too unbalanced as constituted.  

Yea or the more likely scenario is that eventually in the next decade or so the SEC and B1G pick up the few remaining blue bloods or blue blood adjacent stragglers cut a little dead weight and go do their own NFL like thing with 30ish teams. 
 

There is a shitload of value monetarily in Texas vs Ohio State if not value to the loser at the moment in the present constitution of the playoff system.  It’s not going to be left on the table. 

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As I’ve been saying all year, the only thing that matters is the loss column to these fuckers. No reason to ever schedule a tough OOC opponent ever again. What’s the point?
 

Shit, just play a bunch of bottom feeders and treat it like NFL preseason, who cares.

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1 minute ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

As I’ve been saying all year, the only thing that matters is the loss column to these fuckers. No reason to ever schedule a tough OOC opponent ever again. What’s the point?
 

Shit, just play a bunch of bottom feeders and treat it like NFL preseason, who cares.

100%. If we beat aggy on Friday and CDC isnt saying this on every major sports news channel and threatening to cancel every game preseason game and switch them out with Arizona and Wake Forest, then I will be very disappointed. 

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46 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

If we had beaten OSU, Florida, and Georgia we would be undefeated and #1

Michael Richards Yes GIF

2 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

100%. If we beat aggy on Friday and CDC isnt saying this on every major sports news channel and threatening to cancel every game preseason game and switch them out with Arizona and Wake Forest, then I will be very disappointed. 

If we beat aggy on Friday, I have a feeling you're going to be very disappointed.

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5 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

As I’ve been saying all year, the only thing that matters is the loss column to these fuckers. No reason to ever schedule a tough OOC opponent ever again. What’s the point?
 

Shit, just play a bunch of bottom feeders and treat it like NFL preseason, who cares.

Whatever you do, do NOT look at our future schedules.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

As I’ve been saying all year, the only thing that matters is the loss column to these fuckers. No reason to ever schedule a tough OOC opponent ever again. What’s the point?
 

Shit, just play a bunch of bottom feeders and treat it like NFL preseason, who cares.

if you want the best chance to get into the tournament on average yes.

I would submit that I'd like our coach/OC/QB whisperer to have an actual real OL coach and build a real OL and make sure our 3 year in the program 5 star QB is ready to go.

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I’d say another problem for us is at the moment who are the top two or three realistic contenders for the title?  Well one is obviously Ohio State and another looks to be Georgia. Unfortunately the committee has seen us go 0-5 against those two in the last 13 months. Fool me once….fool me 5 times. 

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Michigan has ZERO wins over a ranked team this year. Texas has 2.

Michigan was handled easily by OU, whom we beat.

Michigan lost to OU and was blown out by USC. Texas has lost @OSU, @GA and @UF.

Don’t give me the close games argument. Michigan survived by 3 points again Nebraska, 5 points against Purdue, and 2 points against Northwestern.

Why again should Michigan be ranked ahead of Texas? There is ZERO rational justification for doing so.

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1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

if you want the best chance to get into the tournament on average yes.

I would submit that I'd like our coach/OC/QB whisperer to have an actual real OL coach and build a real OL and make sure our 3 year in the program 5 star QB is ready to go.

It should be obvious by now that experience is way more important than practice.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

It should be obvious by now that experience is way more important than practice.

maybe, depends on if your coach wants to practice or not.

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Just now, Voluminous Banality said:

Michigan has ZERO wins over a ranked team this year. Texas has 2.

Michigan was handled easily by OU, whom we beat.

Michigan lost to OU and was blown out by USC. Texas has lost to OSU and Florida.

Don’t give me the close games argument. Michigan survived by 3 points again Nebraska, 5 points against Purdue, and 2 points against Northwestern.

Why again should Michigan be ranked ahead of Texas? There is ZERO rational justification for doing so.

We have three losses, they have two.

That's why.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Voluminous Banality said:

Michigan has ZERO wins over a ranked team this year. Texas has 2.

Michigan was handled easily by OU, whom we beat.

Michigan lost to OU and was blown out by USC. Texas has lost to OSU and Florida.

Don’t give me the close games argument. Michigan survived by 3 points again Nebraska, 5 points against Purdue, and 2 points against Northwestern.

Why again should Michigan be ranked ahead of Texas? There is ZERO rational justification for doing so.

what is the "loss column"? Alex

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Just now, dcar00 said:

what is the "loss column"? Alex

Yeah, that's the point. The committee made a big deal all preseason about how they are going to reward SOS and not punish losses in marquee OOC matchups. That was obviously a load of hooey. Schedule only pushovers in OOC to inflate your record because that's all that matters--that's the message the committee is now sending.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Voluminous Banality said:

Yeah, that's the point. The committee made a big deal all preseason about how they are going to reward SOS and not punish losses in marquee OOC matchups. That was obviously a load of hooey. Schedule only pushovers in OOC to inflate your record because that's all that matters--that's the message the committee is now sending.

But also, we have a really, really, really bad third loss.

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22 minutes ago, Voluminous Banality said:

Yeah, that's the point. The committee made a big deal all preseason about how they are going to reward SOS and not punish losses in marquee OOC matchups. That was obviously a load of hooey. Schedule only pushovers in OOC to inflate your record because that's all that matters--that's the message the committee is now sending.

This 100%. Clearly we arent actually ranking and considering SOS AT ALL. If we were, texas would be ahead of Vandy, Utah, and Michigan right now. And with a win over Aggy, we should 100% be in the field if Bama or OU lose. 

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