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  1. I can imagine teams - esp UND - telling the NCAA to f-off. “We will practice when we want to.” Edited to add - someone else also had this idea….
  2. Not sure we'd have been allowed to play them twice. But not a bad idea going forward...
  3. Big12 played the following SEC games. MSU over ASU 24-20 Auburn over Baylor 38-24 Missouri over Kansas 42-31
  4. This is exactly the type of game I would try to orchestrate if I were the Big12 commissioner wanting to get 2 teams into the playoff. Score kept close, "defensive struggle" (for those who do not watch), and large doses of Kevin Mar to help keep my thumb on the scale. And a dumbass coach going for 4th-and-2 where a field goal makes it a 2 score game.
  5. 11 plays 14; 12 plays 13 - these are play-ins for the real 11 and 12, but yes it is flawed.
  6. Given this is really just entertainment... Expand the playoffs to 14 teams. 12 selected as they are today. 2 more based on ratings and must have a winning record. Teams ranked 11-12 play the at-large "ratings teams" the same week as CCG - as play-ins. If the 2 at-large teams get crushed, who cares, we get another week of entertainment. If one or both win, we all win, dispatching a pretender before the get fed to the #5 team a week later. This year, Texas and LSU would be the at-large "ratings" teams (based on the above graphic).
  7. negged for using "natty"
  8. The wild thing about the Big10 - there are now 6 destinations worse than West Lafayette. Username.
  9. This is the Pickens many Steeler fans were accustomed to.
  10. Functional morons - who are good (real or perceived) at something of high demand and low supply - always make their way into academic schools. Stanford, Texas, Vandy, Cal, Purdue, UCLA, USC, Michigan, etc. There is always a way.
  11. In addition to its own computer ranking system, Massey also collects data from many other computer ranking systems to create a composite ranking. I find it useful for 2 reasons: (1) it points me to other ranking systems an (2) it shows the overall range across the ranking systems. For the CFB top-6, I see the following range (composite ranking in parens) 1 - tOSU (1) : 1-3 2 - Indiana (2) : 1-9 3 - UGA (5): 2-12 4 - TTU (4) : 1 - 11 5 - Oregon (3) : 3-14 6 - Ole Miss (9): 4-18 UND (6): 2-14 BYU (7): 2-25 Texas (16): 10-27 Fwiw. Also - I had forgotten about the Billingsley system. I like it, but largely because it rewards Texas
  12. Fwiw... (csb?) To my knowledge, BYU also wants there to be several/many donors involved in any one specific endeavor. I know this from friends/colleagues involved w/ BYU and a handful of anecdotes shared with me. When my son played lacrosse at Texas, they played both Utah and BYU in the same year. Utah was in its final year before becoming a D1 team, and proceeded to demolish Texas. BYU did, too. When talking to some of the BYU parents at the game, I reflected on Utah becoming a D1 team. One BYU dad said, "Yes. One guy is donating enough to endow the program into perpetuity. He came to us first and the AD declined. Did not want a single donor with that much influence over the program. So he went to Utah and they said yes." Now, that could be more of BYU hating on Utah, but I had heard similar stories at other times. /csb?
  13. We can only see how the coaches voted in the final poll of the year, it appears. However, there is some silliness in it. Glad no one takes it seriously. Oh, wait. https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/football/ncaaf/coaches-poll The high/low rankings of some teams stands out a bit. Indiana: 2/21 OU: 6/NR Miami: 2/18 Texas: 1/19 GT: 7/NR Indiana at 21? OU unranked? Miami at 2? Texas at 1? GT at 7?
  14. Given the schedule order of Florida, OU, Vandy, aTm, that would be reasonable. After that "prize" I suspect most of us would be cautious about making any wager going forward. Texas wins: Natalie Portman; Florida wins: Rosie Texas wins: Sweeney; OU wins: Barr Texas wins: Crawford; Vandy wins: Kathy Bates Texas wins: Anderson; aTm wins: Kathy Griffin After the Florida loss, many here were convinced Texas would lose 6 games.
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