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  1. Huckleberry
    I see that Lanning is now getting the surly one great season overhype. Maybe it's just a green and yellow thing, turns out previous winners Matt Rhule and Dave Aranda aren't actually coaching savants.
  2. Huckleberry
    Out of all the QBs in Texas, he's one of them.
  3. Huckleberry
    He is among the top QBs in Texas. The top 100 QBs.
  4. Huckleberry
    "He also has combine style measurements..." I, too, have a height, weight, wingspan, and 40 yard dash time.
  5. Huckleberry
    There's an easy and obvious reason. The entire point is to reward conference champions. And since the major conferences haven't split off, that's what happens. I hope they never split off but think they will in time. And I have no issue with ensuring that conference titles continue to mean something, and using the format to reinforce that is fine with me. Texas fans were trained by Mack Brown to think conference championships don't matter a lot. But they do. And they should.
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    Correct, it's really just Ohio and Louisiana. The Lafayette campus is of course trying to rebrand as The University of Louisiana but that's very recent. Ohio is really the only long term example. Temple and Pitt (I'll still call them that if I want) are the other two main public schools in Pennsylvania so there's not really a U of State versus State U dynamic there.
  8. Huckleberry
    Man that was a Davis Warren level INT throw there by Winston.
  9. Huckleberry
    What do you mean? She can't even afford enough fabric to conceal her daughter's underwear for a Christmas photo.
  10. Huckleberry
    So I went ahead and ran my ratings so I could make my own 2-loss schedule rating. Basically measuring how good a team would have to be to have 2 expected losses against their schedule. Listed for the ESPN projected CFP top 25 this week. 1. Oregon - 0.880 (54) 2. Texas - 0.902 (34) 3. Penn St. - 0.893 (44) 4. Notre Dame - 0.877 (58) 5. Georgia - 0.938 (7) 6. Ohio St. - 0.907 (28) 7. Tennessee - 0.896 (39) 8. SMU - 0.868 (65) 9. Indiana - 0.860 (67) 10. Boise St. - 0.793 (90) 11. Miami (FL) - 0.871 (63) 12. Alabama - 0.923 (15) 13. Mississippi - 0.904 (31) 14. South Carolina - 0.924 (13) 15. Arizona St. - 0.879 (56) 16. Iowa St. - 0.880 (55) 17. Clemson - 0.891 (47) 18. BYU - 0.884 (53) 19. Missouri - 0.903 (32) 20. UNLV - 0.785 (96) 21. Colorado - 0.873 (62) 22. Illinois - 0.895 (40) 23. Syracuse - 0.876 (59) 24. Memphis - 0.730 (115) 25. Texas A&M - 0.930 (11)
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    There is literally not a single objective rating set that exists which has Illinois better than every Big 12 team. It's an absurd thing to say.
  12. Huckleberry
    This is actually more ridiculous than saying Iowa State has a better résumé than Indiana.
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    The problem is you are equating top team strength with overall conference quality. It's probably because you are doing the same thing the media does and completely undervaluing the difficulty of beating a slate of competent teams compared to beating one or two great teams and a bunch of scrubs. Ask Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Ohio State, etc. about having to play all those teams in the #25-#50 range. It's not easy to beat them all without slipping up. A schedule with one great team and a bunch of scrubs is incredibly easier to manage than a schedule with no great team but 10 good ones. Oregon, Penn State, and Indiana all had just as easy or easier schedules to go 10-2 against than Iowa State did. And that's why.
  14. Huckleberry
    Except the Big Ten has more than 4 teams.
  15. Huckleberry
    That's if they call "personal foul with targeting" instead of "personal foul, targeting." In the first case it's a personal foul even if it's not targeting (like a late hit or roughing the passer for example). In the second case it's only a personal foul if it's targeting.
  16. Huckleberry
    Agreed, plus you're saying that the winner should get a benefit but the loser should suffer no consequence. That's silly and is exactly why I think I've only heard conference commissioners and their media lackeys make this argument. Yes losing a CCG against a highly ranked opponent shouldn't hurt you very much but that's the same with any matchup of top teams.
  17. Huckleberry
    He's referring to the quarters and semis where I think the highest seed picks location (top seed picks first and so on) but TV picks day and time.
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    The receiver's head snapped to the side, it was clearly forcible contact. I think it still isn't targeting though because there's not an indicator. Technically you could argue that Mukuba led with his head because that's what made first contact but he was clearly trying to lead with his shoulder. Again, that's why I say it was a close call, it was absolutely in the gray area of the rule.
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    But #12 will be one of the B12 winner, Clemson, UNLV, or Boise State if they struggle in a win over UNLV.
  20. Huckleberry
    Yep, Mukuba was clearly delivering a shoulder to the chest and the helmets happened to hit. The issue there is that Lemonnier is correct that intent isn't the rule, what actually happens is and Mukuba did accidentally deliver forcible contact to the head. So the only reason that wasn't targeting is if they ruled that the receiver was no longer defenseless in that instant. It was a very close call and that is a part of the targeting rule that sucks. But I'm not sure changing it makes overall sense because it would decrease player safety. On that play it would have been better all around for Mukuba to just take out their player's thighs because he was well short of the first down, but that's much easier to say in hindsight than at full speed on the field.
  21. Huckleberry
    I tend to agree that the placekicker and punter sucking isn't necessarily something you can pin on the ST coach. However that blocked punt certainly is. Looked like the protection was running a roll right punt and the punter executed a straight punt. The good news is that kind of thing can be a one-off mistake where you fix the miscommunication and it never happens again.
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    He also has the Big 12 as the 2nd best conference, which you conveniently omitted.
  23. Huckleberry
    Appreciate the writeup but your thinking the place and people and even Billy Liucci were great is about as surprising as finding out on Texags that some visiting fan appreciated getting directions to the field.
  24. Huckleberry
    Previous Bevo/canine interactions. Not really but at least they could get public sympathy for not wanting their dog to get gored.
  25. Huckleberry
    Does anyone have a breakdown of Texas A&M football NCAA violations, probation years, etc.?

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