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  1. If we get left out behind 4 unbeaten teams I don't really have a problem with that, even if I think we are better than Washington or FSU. If we get left out behind Oregon who had a lot weaker SOS I would be very unhappy. If somehow we got left out behind a 1 loss Ohio St., Michigan or Alabama, then its time to throw out the committee.
  2. Well 3 of those are against each other. WVU, Baylor, Tech and Okie St. have all managed to lose a game against one of them.
  3. They didn't have any SEC teams on their schedule after losing 49-3 to UGA last year.
  4. What the talking heads seem to forget is that if Alabama beats Georgia, we STILL have a better win than Alabama since they will be ranked ahead of Georgia.
  5. Your #2 is merely possible. Its highly probable Texas gets in over a 1 loss Alabama. We've had a stronger schedule, same record and beat them in their house by 10. The way they evaluate teams in triads, Texas definitely beats out Alabama by their rules if its for the 4 or 5 slot. In any event, Georgia is going to beat Alabama worse than we did. We need to make sure we keep winning and FSU/UW and preferably OR have losses. The 2 Pac can make our path much clearer if WSU/OSU win this weekend.
  6. That just shows that Bama fans are delusional. Washington, Oregon, FSU and Texas have a lot better odds of winning out than Bama does of beating Georgia. Odds makers don't pick who wins. They guess how people will bet. My Dad had a friend in Kentucky who said there was no more sure way to make money than to take the points and bet against Kentucky basketball, because there are a lot of UK fans and they will almost always bet on Kentucky beating the spread.
  7. https://sports.yahoo.com/is-college-athletics-headed-for-the-great-split-we-need-to-recreate-or-relaunch-the-ncaa-160523061.html The divorce of the P4 and NCAA is on the horizon. Or at least the divorce of the major schools from most of Division I or from FBS or something else... "Last Friday, a day before his university hosted Michigan in a Big Ten football game in College Park, Maryland athletic director Damon Evans sat before a group of college athletic stakeholders inside a conference room at the Marriott Marquis giving a direct, at times blunt, and sometimes jarring assessment of college sports and its future. A sitting Big Ten AD vocalized publicly what’s been privately whispered for months: Within five years — and most say much sooner — the Power Five conference schools will operate from under a new governance structure that features an athlete revenue-sharing model, a shift often described by many within the industry as “The Great Split.” “I do believe five years from now that we will be at a point where we are sharing revenue with student-athletes,” Evans told leaders of the Knight Commission, a group of mostly former and current college athletic administrators promoting educational reforms in college sports. “To think we are not going to be sharing some of those revenues… we are going to be there. It would not surprise me to see some sort of different type of governance structure in place that separates the A5 out from the current structure.” The Great Split is no longer a far-fetched idea or a long-shot theory. It is instead a looming reality in light of legal challenges facing college athletics, most notably the costly House antitrust case against the NCAA and the power conferences. The case, seeking as much as $3 billion in retroactive name, image and likeness (NIL) and broadcasting revenue payments, is the latest lawsuit expected to chip away at the NCAA’s bedrock of amateurism. The case will, undoubtedly, force the organization to distribute more revenue to athletes like those legal losses before it (think: cost-of-attendance payments in 2015 and Alston academic-related stipends in 2021).... “There are a number of models being created,” he continued. “Some I’ve been sworn to secrecy on. I sat in a room and listened to a model. There is no end to the models, the next iteration and what it might look like.” After the meeting, White spoke more to Yahoo Sports about the models, some of which would have the power conference schools “leave and take their resources with them,” he said. That’s something he believes will negatively impact college athletics’ broad-based, Olympic sport system...."
  8. We are WAY overdue. Very little in the last 3 weeks. Lets just hope we aren't directly involved.
  9. Per Sagarin SOS among the top 10: Texas 2 Alabama 24 Washington 25 Missouri 26 Ohio St. 47 Oregon 57 Georgia 61 Michigan 63 Louisville 64 FSU 68
  10. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/dolly-parton-joins-peyton-manning-at-tennessee-vs-georgia-sings-rocky-top/ar-AA1k9DLh Dolly Parton sang Rocky Top at the Tennessee-Georgia game Saturday, escorted in by Peyton Manning. After the horrible sound system where she couldn't hear or be heard and Georgia's 38-10 win, word is, Dolly is entering the transfer portal.
  11. Milroe looks better, but the rest of Bama looks about the same. Very undisciplined for a Saban team. Still don't have the same quality receivers.
  12. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/11/16/pac-12-legal-affairs-washingtons-highest-court-issues-stay-delaying-takeover-of-the-board-by-wsu-and-osu/ Higher court stays ruling for WSU/OSU.
  13. The stupidity of 14-18 team conferences and no divisions.
  14. WSU/OSU want to get their 1/69th (or 70th) share of the CFP power money in 25 and 26.
  15. Saw someone else say Wilner said (twitter I presume) said the judge was going to make sure nobody took advantage of anyone else. The WSU president himself said publicly that there was no way WSU could get at current year's media money. The by-laws were very specific.
  16. https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-cfp-leaders-moving-closer-to-adjusting-12-team-playoff-format-230208506.html Leaning to 5+7 and this: "...Commissioners also established a new policy requiring a league to have eight members to be eligible for an automatic qualifying spot to the 12-team playoff. Both moves were made in the wake of the Pac-12’s collapse. In the originally approved 6+6 format, the highest-ranked six conference champions earn automatic qualifiers and the next six highest-ranked teams earn at-large bids. That format was designed based on the existence of 10 FBS conferences. Realignment leaves FBS with nine leagues, though Oregon State and Washington State are attempting for at least two years to preserve the Pac-12 as a two-team league. The new policy requiring leagues to have eight members makes the champion of a two-team league ineligible to earn an automatic bid...."
  17. Jester may have gotten better by the time you were there. Breakfast was ok, not great. I guess it was good enough we didn't finish our Friday night poker games until the cafeteria was open Saturday morning! The only things I thought were good there they usually served all on the same day and usually on Sunday afternoons when not many students were there-steak, baked potatoes, Dutch crumb apple pie and a pineapple chunk, cheese chunk ambrosia dish. There were a couple times my freshmen year there was mass food poisoning. Fortunately I avoided it, but it hit about 20-30% of the students. There was an article a few years back on the nutritionist the athletic department had hired to work in the athletic cafeteria. They were getting a variety of healthy dishes. Football players were saying they had been getting tired of steak all the time. It was a little different than the typical student's cafeterias! I imagine all these P5 programs have nutritionists working on diets specific for each sport. The costs of running a program keep going up.
  18. My freshmen roommate and some of my hallmates moved to Brackenridge or Moore-Hill their 2nd year. The rooms were larger and cheaper and you could eat at the Moore-Hill cafeteria instead of the abominable Jester. BUT no A/C. So there was NO way I was going there. When the football players were there, no air conditioning was probably the norm. I never had A/C in my schools until 8th grade. The off guy's roommate who had his stuff stolen was a bit of a character. When talking to a guy who lived in the room he had the year before he showed us the burn marks on the ceiling he created with a chemistry experiment. Apparently didn't do too much damage. Room was still habitable. So even in those days, we had mattress and room and dorm realignment! And the SWC expanded with UH who came in and won the football title 3 of their first 4 years.
  19. I imagine the athletes have been moved to better digs than the 3rd floor of Jester East by now. One of the guys on my hall, who was a little off, decided to knock on dorm doors with a hammer and then try to hit the people in the head. Fortunately, he started down on the 3rd floor with the football players. He was quickly stopped. And promptly expelled. That was some time after his roommate was a victim of the Budweiser bandits (no the off guy didn't do it). Happened to a number of people. Every single thing in their room, including the mattress, was stolen. They were left a ransom note to leave a case of Budweiser at a certain location at a certain time in order to get their stuff back. They never caught the guys. Pretty impressive that they could get a mattress out without being noticed.
  20. https://sports.yahoo.com/change-is-coming-to-the-college-football-playoff-145517600.html "At this time next year, the College Football Playoff’s latest rankings will be revealed in a televised broadcast much like they were Tuesday night. While that’s not changing, so much else is. By next year, the CFP… • will have a new executive director. • will have expanded from four to 12 teams. • will have developed a new revenue-sharing model. • will have agreed to a new television deal and long-term contract. Change is coming. The aforementioned topics will be at the center of meetings this week in Dallas when the 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick gather. The group is scheduled to meet on Thursday with plenty of agenda items to explore. Will decisions be made? Not on all of it. Here’s the gist on each of the four topics ahead of Thursday’s meeting:...."
  21. Never slide. Good way to get seriously hurt. Run out of bounds, take a knee, lean forward and go down. Slide rule should go away.
  22. Hopefully not on a particular day! You did understand the point of the previous post? The athletes aren't all just online, but are actually on campus.
  23. Sark isn't alone in this mindless following of analytics. Seen some really dumb stuff this season.
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