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Would all depend on SEC championship. If Bama won, I think you'd see two SEC, Texas, and Pac 12. Assuming Louisville takes care of business.

These stupid fuckers are going to back into a win on Saturday, I guarantee it. Michigan will just literally stand there and drop balls, watch Iowa players recover them and run into the end zone while doing absolutely nothing to stop them. I can feel this fresh hell in my bones. Although the Big 10 getting left out of the playoff would be fucking hilarious.

Norm’s a good shit, but Marge brought home the bacon. All I’m saying. In the Midwest, especially in the 90’s, guys like Norm were viewed as lacking ambition, which is the greatest sin this society has.

I’m comparing Norm Gunderson to the lady cop’s unemployed husband who wants to be a professional golfer in Season 5. I didn’t catch their names.

What's crazier than the Big 12 not protecting it, is that both schools' ADs act like it isn't a big deal in spite of the screaming protests from both fanbases. It really is ISU and KSU's respective faults as institutions for not formally embracing it. Which is just completely asinine. I suspect it's driven by some academic snobbery bullshit of not wanting to embrace a goofy nickname that owns the schools' Midwest ag roots. Because they're afraid we'll look like hayseeds. Newsflash - we're fucking hayseeds. Own it.

Kliff would get people tuning in out of curiosity for sure. It would have a limited appeal if he didn't win.

And in both the movie and this season the couple who experienced the kidnapping have a dynamic of one coming from wealth, and the other not coming from wealth. The wealthy family is a side character in both stories. The kidnappers in both cases are a large, stoic, European man, and a smaller American man with a mustache. In both stories the abductions happen in suburban Minneapolis, and the abductors take the victims west out on to the plains. Both stories feature a strong willed female police officer investigating the crimes, who has to come home to deadbeat-ish/layabout husbands. Ok, I'll quit.

I would think so. The call backs that those of us familiar with this universe are celebrating aren't necessary to understanding what's going on in this series. Fargo the show essentially functions with each season being a stand alone story that has a few Easter Egg/cross over elements to other parts of the Coenverse that only enhance the experience for those in the know.

I had unsubscribed this thread, but figured I'd poke my head in after I saw that Farmageddon had the best ratings of any Fox night game this year. You're right that the 3 of those 4 will likely be a drag, but the Big 12 never helps tear the Pac apart if they don't make those adds for stability. BYU belongs at this tier for sure. UCF might do ok if they get their shit together - they have a decent sized fanbase for a former G5. Cincy and Houston are always going to be in really tough spots. Cincy at least has a history of people giving a shit when they're good. Houston doesn't even have that.

Also, I like how they're finally getting the locational filming to match the listed setting. Scandia is a quasi-suburb of Twin Cities near the St Croix River and looks the part. Stark County, ND is way out on the west side of the state, and looks it. The one thing that's always pedantically annoyed me as someone who lives basically in this part of the country is all the topographic/biome inaccuracies in contrast to their setting. In the movie, they have Brainerd PD out on the prairie when Brainerd's in the woods. In Season 2, Luverne is set in the north woods and it's out on the prairie. Shit like that.

Dude's a perfect blend of Cigur and Steve Buscemi's counterpart from Fargo.

Last time I ate squirrel, it was one my brother and a buddy of our's shot at. I say "shot at" instead of "shot" because they had wandered off with a 12 gauge loaded with bird shot while a whole group of us were spending the weekend just drinking beer, grilling, and wandering around a several hundred acre property my dad's friend owns in the (relative to Iowa) heavily wooded and rugged area near the Mississippi River. It was still pheasant season, and the property contained about 80 acres of prairie. About 20 minutes after they left the hunting cabin, we hear a few shotgun blasts, quickly followed by some war whoops. They come running up to the cabin with the dead squirrel. We start skinning it to fry it up with the campfire breakfast that was being prepared at the moment. Obviously being as they had been loaded with bird shot, we're being very vigilant to remove the bbs whilst prepping the squirrel. We did not find a single one. Only thing that made any sense was that they fired in the direction of the squirrel, missed it completely, but the blast was so startling that it had a heart attack and fell out of the tree.

I feel a lot of this. My wife easily gets car sick, which leads to me just giving her the keys when we're in any kind of area with curvy roads (usually rugged/mountainous areas or big cities). On one hand it's nice because I can just watch the scenery. On the other hand, it's nerve wracking because she's a pretty shitty driver. One of the most aggravating things about my wife as a driver is that she'll nag me about things she does herself. The big one is getting a little road ragey when people sit at lights, go slow in the left lane, etc. She tells me to calm down, quit acting like a maniac, etc and then she absolutely loses her shit when she does the exact same thing.

That feature would have been alright in this moment.

I’m not sure if you’re dumb or just trying to talk shit.

I had to highlight it, but I could see it. Sounds pretty close to what I thought. Great for Jimbo!

I'm not seeing anything there other than a blue bar and a light bar. Kinda sounds like he went to rehab, got clean, and decided going back to touring would jeopardize that. Props to Jimbo if so, and I wish him well.

Speaking of backup cameras and this thread, my wife once backed straight into a light pole over the blares of the backup camera alert telling her there was an object incoming, and broke said backup camera in the process. All because she was yelling at me for some reason that I can't recall at this point.

Imagine the hell of having Iowa nd K State as your rivals.

You guys are overthinking this. 1) The Big 10 West is the worst division in the history of college football having divisions. Even the old Big 12 North, at it's worst, was doing things like regularly beating Big 10 teams in non conference play. The teams Iowa plays are so fucking bad that all you have to do is not fuck up, because they're going to fuck up a bunch and literally hand you the ball in positions where your defense or special teams can score. On top of this, Iowa frequently misses the good teams from the East. When they do play them (Penn State this year for example) they get fist fucked. Michigan will fist fuck them on Saturday. 2) Iowa's defense is legitimately quite good. Not only are they almost always in the right spot, when they are gifted turnovers, they rarely drop them or fail to complete the play. They have a system, and they execute it perfectly. 3) Anyone who has watched Iowa football on a regular basis the past 15 years can attest that they have a really amazing amount of luck. If you watched on Black Friday, you'd see there were at least 3 occasions where Iowa ball carrier fumbled, and the ball bounced right to Iowa. Nebraska, on multiple occasions, committed turnovers that were not forced by the Iowa defense (but capitalized on nonetheless). There's the infamous gif of the 2 ISU punt returners running into each other to create a fumble late in a CyHawk game. Iowa did nothing to cause that, but it happened. And this shit happens to Iowa on a really frequent basis. I'm a believer in making your own luck to some extent, but I can't look at the film and tell you what Iowa is doing to make QBs throw balls directly to Iowa defensive players when no WR is anywhere close, how Iowa manages to fumble in ways that bounce the ball directly to their own players thus preventing turnovers, or make opposing players just literally run into each other and or drop balls, but it happens week in and week out and has for a long time. TLDR Iowa plays a god awful schedule, has a very good defense, (and to the first point) is a regular beneficiary of their opponents incompetence.

I mean, there's 4 guards - that should be enough in theory. Gilbert looked like a fucking dude until the VA Tech game, and he's a guy Otz has recruited before. He's been pushing Paveletzke into the lineup more, but I'm just not seeing it. Jones is tits on a boar. Lipsey is all conference material. In the portal, he leaned into guys who were studs at mid to low majors looking to bring them up, as opposed to the previous classes that were P5 guys who were unhappy with or struggling in their current situations. We were fist fucking the bad teams, and I think these guys have talent, but I don't know if they'll put it together in time. The real mystery is how completely useless Omaha Billiew has been. This guy was a consensus 5 star, McD's All American, guaranteed one and done, and he has done next to nothing. I get that college basketball is a big step up from playing in the Des Moines metro, but major yikes here. Right now we need a 10-8 type Big 12 season to dance. Otz has the benefit of the doubt, but this looks like a very disappointing season unless a light bulb comes on soon.

Nah, we’re trash. This was the highest rated recruiting class in school history. An alleged one and done 5 star who looks completely lost and has contributed nothing, a high 4 store who is one of two bright spots, and a bunch of guys transferring up with great stats. They look like the opposite of the first few Otz teams, and I can’t see them making the tournament right now. It’s the law of the universe that ISU fans can’t be happy in two sports at the same time.

It’s gonna be one of those games our fanbase talks about for decades

Will Howard never took a snap in a Farmageddon victory

Fuck K State