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  1. Our SEC schedule Didn't Mean More though
  2. I'm not saying Quinn is the ONLY reason for getting beat by Dillon Gabriel in 2023. I am saying he can't be counted on to lead the team to a come from behind win. Sugar Bowl out front should have told ya. (Yes, I know we was one play away from advancing. Moral victories are for aggy and they're not our standard)
  3. OU last year is actually a good example of the point I was making. Thanks
  4. I cannot recall any game where the Longhorns were behind and Quinn Ewers did anything clutch to win it.
  5. Belichick in shambles. Can he handle coaching in a conference that Just Means More? I don't see him thriving in high-stakes environments.
  6. FSU's lawyers have said ESPN could end it in June 2027 https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/198512536-Amended-Complaint-1.pdf I think all of these lawsuits are smoke and mirrors. If we've learned anything in this era of never-going-away-realignment talk, it's this: if the big cigars and ESPN think it will be good for business, any team can go to any conference.
  7. No way meatchicken's aggy has $4M for a single player on a program that's always been second fiddle to basketball.
  8. I don't expect any conference to stay 16 teams in size. I can easily see Clemson and FSU joining.
  9. I think a point system makes the most sense, as long as it doesn't too heavily weigh the preseason rankings. I'm hesitant to use the concept of "strength of schedule" because I believe it suffers too much from a feedback loop, but I acknowledge that teams whose SOS is in a top percentile should get a bonus of some kind, which I tried to do with the 1-25, 26-50, 51-75 cutoffs. It's tweakable. I also hesitate to weigh margins of victory too much. Often it says more about flow of the game than it says the relative strengths of the two teams.
  10. I agree they could be better than Clemson and SMU, but we might be in the minority there
  11. and you know this because?
  12. https://bsky.app/profile/brendelbored.bsky.social/post/3ld372pb77c2y
  13. "The only coach who could replace this legend was a six-time Super Bowl winner" -- Bill Little
  14. He should have flown to Costa Rica, gotten plastic surgery, and taught yoga on the beach
  15. Fundamentally there is never going to be a way to ensure that all qualifying teams took equally difficult paths to the playoff. Some teams will have had it easier than others, and other teams would have qualified if their paths had been as easy as the path that a qualifying team had, but this is true in literally every competition where the goal is a championship to be earned through postseason play. There's weak divisions in the NFL and NBA, there's groups of death in the World Cup, there's whatever UIL district the Friday Night Lights team played in back in 1987, and there's whatever UIL district allows a team that went 0-10 to make the playoffs and lose by 80+ points. Knowing all this, I still think CFB is still at an exciting crossroads, because for the first time we can say that any team that completes the season undefeated has a chance to compete for a national championship. Army would be in the playoffs if it had defeated Notre Dame. That's unprecedented, and I appreciate it. We can still do better. My hope is that we move away from relying on committees and computers and instead formulate an objective, fairer way to determine which teams qualify for the postseason tournament. I'm okay with using committees and computers to seed the qualifiers after they've qualified, and I think there are some cool ways to reward teams for having scoreboard over other playoff teams (like swap options), but other than for seeding purposes I don't like committees. In fact, I have my doubts that SMU would have qualified if it were a school from outside DFW, where the committee convenes. We're definitely headed in the right direction though.
  16. Point system: P4 Win = +10 points ND Win = +10 points G5 Win = +9 points FCS Win = +8 points CCG Win = +5 points P4 Loss = -5 points ND Loss = -5 points G5 Loss = -7 points FCS Loss = -10 points CCG Loss = 0 points Final SOS in Top 25 = +5 points Final SOS in Top 25 to Top 50 = +3 points Final SOS in Top 51 to Top 75 = +1 point Oregon Georgia Boise Arizona State Texas Penn State Notre Dame Ohio State Tennessee Indiana SMU Clemson Alabama (Out of CFP) Miami (Out of CFP) South Carolina (Snubbed) Ole Miss (Snubbed) BYU Army UNLV This point system would yield rankings of: This could use some tweaks, but it's reasonably fair. An undefeated P4 team should have the most points by far. No points are deducted from Penn State, SMU, Texas, or UNLV for losing their CCGs, but bonus points are awarded to Army, Boise, Oregon, Georgia, Clemson, and Arizona State for winning theirs. I think it would also be cool and chaotic for teams who qualify for CFP to have the OPTION to swap places with any team that it won H2H series against (this year, that would have allowed: Clemson to avoid Texas in Round 1 and travel to Happy Valley (assuming Ohio State didn't exercise its option against Penn State, in which case Clemson goes to Columbus) Ohio State to move up to #6 and force Penn State to host Tennessee instead of SMU, setting up Tenn at Penn State and SMU at Ohio State Ohio State to strategically move down to #10 (forfeiting home field) to visit South Bend, setting up Buckeyes at Domers and the Vols travel to Bloomington Georgia could also (in theory, and it would make zero sense) sub in for #5 Texas or #9 Tennessee. Coaches and ADs would get a certain number of hours to exercise or decline their swap options. This would create greater in-season incentives to win games, especially big OOC games like Ore-Boise, and in a CCG rematch (Tex/UGA and Boise/UNLV come to mind) a team that lost in the regular season could strip the winner of the swap option they'd won. It would give the talking heads almost too much to discuss.
  17. Anyone who would disagree should be banned
  18. Good for them. The marketing still annoyed me, but now I understand why they did it.
  19. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ranking-2024-conference-debuts-arizona-state-shocks-big-12-oregon-wins-in-big-ten-oklahoma-struggles-in-sec/
  20. I would still coach him to get into the end zone.
  21. Round One https://www.cbssports.com/writers/chip-patterson/
  22. They shut Indiana the fuck down
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