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Texas 69 KSU 0 KSU 420 punting yards

Hell ya

If someone wore this backwards, he would be dickbutt.

Taken to an extreme, moral relativism would tend to require extreme accountability to oneself (our "highest self" or whatever is equivalent in your belief system), otherwise it inevitably becomes a tool for justification of self interest. But the accountability to self requires some absolutes. I believe in 2, and one is arguably a corollary of the other. English does not have a word to describe the first, but at its most pure, the best description I can conjure is unfathomable grace. Agape, one of the Greek expressions of love, is probably close. Divine love for those who view this through a religious lens. This grace has unconditional reverence for all creation (including Self) without judgment or attachment. I believe all humans, regardless of culture or background or belief system, are capable of brief moments of this when they are at their best. Most of us, including me, fail 99.9999% of the time, but that is the entire point, otherwise we would not have the human experience. Why am I here? To live a human experience. I think the virtues most of us recognize are just expressions of this grace contextualized through human experience. It nearly always has to catch a ride on something familiar for us to recognize it. And then all of those virtues can be perverted when one spends too much time on the context or dogma and not the intention behind it. And that leads to the 2nd absolute, which is free will. I do not believe this exists in a vacuum, but on a continuum from a simple organism behaving according to its programming (like a bacterium), to humans, which are furthest along on that continuum. Humans possess the ability to observe ourselves and choose/evaluate/discern more than any other species. But the aforementioned failure rate (despite knowing better a lot of the time) creates evolution and infinite perspective, and it is from those infinite perspectives that destroys the universality of most (all but 2) moral judgments. I believe a community of humans living according to these 2 absolutes, with superhuman accountability to themselves, would create utopia, and that utopia would be expressed arbitrarily through whatever culture they happen to share or create. But unfortunately (or fortunately?), the practical requirements of life get in the way, so the ability to sustain an existence of unfathomable grace is.....difficult. This is my worldview based on my own biased perspective and I don't expect anyone to agree. Or, Dickbutt.

Is the Big 10 going to change up the divisions? Part of Iowa's absurdity is that the West is so awful. In 10 interdivision games between East and West this year, the East is 7-3 with an average score of 32-13 in favor of the East. And of course Iowa misses Ohio State and Michigan. And is there some bizarre rule where Iowa gets to avoid Ohio State most years? They've played 3 times in the last 13 years. And most of their best years in the Ferentz era, they missed both Ohio State and Michigan. Iowa's seasons in which they've finished the season ranked since 2001 (Ferentz era): 2002 - #8 - miss Ohio St 2003 - #8 - played both going 1-1, losing to Ohio St 2004 - #8 - played both going 1-1, losing to Michigan 2008 - #20 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2009 - #7 - played both going 1-1, losing to Ohio St 2015 - #9 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2018 - #25 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2019 - #15 - miss Ohio St 2020 - #16 - miss both Mich and Ohio St 2021 - #23 - miss Ohio St 2023 - #24 so far - miss both Mich and Ohio St So in the last 10 years, their successful seasons are 100% correlated with missing Ohio State and 71% correlated with missing both. The formula seems to be: continue milking 2002-2004, avoid Ohio St at all costs, and finish ranked in the years you miss both Ohio St and Michigan. Even including 2002-04, he's never beaten both in the same year. Maybe that's the best they can expect.

Damn, which one? NCC-1701-D?

There's broken brain Quinn (first 3 quarters of Wyoming, first Q against OU), then there's.... normal(?) Quinn? Through 6 games, he has the highest QB rating since Colt in 2008. I had to include only QBs with more than 100 attempts in order to filter out.... Case McCoy in 2012. Hahaha This includes 2 top 10 defenses according to FPI and the toughest strength of schedule in college football. Zooming out, broken brain Quinn is so frustrating to watch, but mix in normal Quinn and he's damn good. Very little correlation between strength of the defense and his output- similar numbers against the bad defenses.

The 8-year old in me is still amused by transposing syllables, turning his name into Butt Dickus. RIP

Texas 69 OU 6.9 (rounds up to 7) Texas 420 rushing yards

Texas 69 Kansas 6.9 (rounds up to 7) Kansas 420 yards of offense

I hope this doesn't mean Ja'Tavion Sanders, Jahdae Barron, Jake Majors, and Jaydon Chatman are going to transfer.

3 yards and a cloud of angel dust

https://www.texastech.edu/board-of-regents/bio-campbell.php Also, Permian Basin. Edit: you caught it before I posted, good on ya

QE also stands for quantitative easing. I'm not sure what that means but I'm certain it's significant. He just looks uncomfortable. Still. When he looked good last year, he had kind of a Manziel energy of I'M MILDLY OUT OF SHAPE AND PROBABLY DRANK TOO MUCH LAST NIGHT AND I DIDN'T WATCH ANY FILM BUT I HAVE A MULLET AND F YOU MM looks comfortable and confident. I'm not sure he's a better option but body language was much better.

Texas 69 Bama 0 Bama 69 yards offense Texas 420 yards of offense Only 8008 Bama fans left in the stadium at the end of the game

Unless I'm mistaken, the Danube is considered international waters and countries do not need to give permission to transit through if the ship isn't docking at a port in that country. So legally, this isn't a problem. A ship can move between Romania and Croatia without involving Serbia. Practically, that part of Croatia is sparsely populated with little industry, and I don't think there are any sizable ports on the Danube. The Sava is a tributary that meets up in Belgrade and upriver forms the southern border of Croatia with Bosnia (the confluence of the Sava and the Danube has bars on barges everywhere and is one of the best party scenes in Europe), and in theory that could be used to get further into Croatia, but I don't think it's wide or deep enough to handle big grain ships. About the same size as Lady Bird Lake. Croatia idea sounds cool but probably not likely to have an impact.

Putin: Regions can form their own armies, we will help pay for it Tatarstan: Ok cool [1 year later] Putin: Ok, dissolve your army Tatarstan: lol no

WTF everyone knows it was the Germans except for that dumb teenager apparently

Corrected my question per above shitpost. Previous year's win/loss margin probably isn't predictive at all for the next year, depends on who returned from that team.

If you were to regress our final ranking for each of those years with one metric, which one is the most predictive?

It's because we all started arguing on the internet instead

That was the prototypical Southern exclamation of "got damn"

6ks thru 4 innings today. 11 yesterday. Clearly TSU is a pipeline of Sandy Koufaxes