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  1. One article that includes the above photo of Moore: https://soonersports.com/news/2007/9/26/208400845 Some quotes from that 2007 article... Reading them with today's reality changes the interpretation "I take pride in putting family first," Moore said. "My parents have always let me go my own way and I love them for that." "My dad told me when it's your time to always step up and take action," Moore said. "Take action and do what you have to do." "You've just got to realize that you have to live life like you can and live your life the right way," Moore said.
  2. What a fool. Freeze was fired and did not coach for 2 years. Bobby Petrino was out of work for 1 year. Pitino was out of coaching for 1 year and had to climb back through Panithinaikos and Iona. Price was unemployed for 1 year and his consolation prize was UTEP. The big differences? 1 - 1 year has not yet passed. Let's see what happens. 2 - none of the above broke into another person's home and threatened murder-suicide (allegedly) among other things
  3. 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….
  4. Not sure we'd have been allowed to play them twice. But not a bad idea going forward...
  5. Big12 played the following SEC games. MSU over ASU 24-20 Auburn over Baylor 38-24 Missouri over Kansas 42-31
  6. 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.
  7. 11 plays 14; 12 plays 13 - these are play-ins for the real 11 and 12, but yes it is flawed.
  8. 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).
  9. negged for using "natty"
  10. The wild thing about the Big10 - there are now 6 destinations worse than West Lafayette. Username.
  11. This is the Pickens many Steeler fans were accustomed to.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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?
  15. 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?
  16. 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.
  17. Purdue started a similar chant over 20 years ago. It was something like "(PA:) 1,2,3,4 (Fans:) First Down!" Students later added "Bitch!" to the end. The stadium operators blew a loud train horn after "1,2,3,4 First Down!" to drown out "Bitch," but the students quickly adapted and yelled "Bitch" after horn. Later the administration sent an email officially changing the chant to "1,2,3,4 First Down Boilers." Students added "bitch" after it. All that aside, it was not really that annoying. In recent years, Purdue has not gotten many first downs, so it does not occur enough to be annoying. But yeah, a PA guy leading cheers really sucks. Edited to add: Purdue administration disallows the band to play Hail Fire these days. At the end, the entire stadium screams, "IU Sucks!" which is glorious. In reality, Purdue has done quite a bit more sucking at football as of late.
  18. Looked it up - he's worth $500mm and opened his 1000th store recently. He also agreed to pay the fine for BYU fans storming the field. He and many donors stepped up to the plate quickly. When the fine never came, McGowan and others donated the money to NIL AND wiped out the student lunch debt at Provo and SLC schools.
  19. 2023 - OkSt came in at 9-4 and won. 2009 - Navy: 9-4 and won. 2008 - Rice: 9-3 and won. 2008 - WMU: 9-3 then lost. 2006 - Rutgers: 10-2 then won.
  20. Dude's name is Brian Beckcom. I am going to go with Braedon, Bryson, Brooklyn, and Branlee.
  21. This is a good reference site: https://collegepolltracker.com/football/distribution/2025/week-15 A couple of wild ones: aTm: (3) Peter Welter, Raleigh; (4) Jablonski, Dayton and Riley, Baton Rouge BYU: (5) Goodwin, Boise; (7) Sordelett, Roanoke and Johnson, Ft Worth Star-Telegram (8) 4 voters Vandy: (7) Hlas, Cedar Rapids; (8) Greene, Portland (10) Cessna, College Station Texas: (8) 2 voters (9) 1 voter... (14) 14 voters (15) 6 voters (16) 7 voters
  22. Bowls voted Texas 13. Guy from college Station has Texas at 9. McMurphy has Texas at 16.
  23. Massey. Some interesting takeaways - tOSU SoS = 58 and will be 42 after they play IU IU SoS = 41 and will be 16 after they play tOSU Texas has strongest SoS in top-20 Team Record Δ Rat Pwr Off Def HFA SoS SSF EW EL Correlation 571 1000 992 965 963 -113 884 889 290 236 Ohio St FBS 12-0 1.000 1 9.42 1 85.16 5 67.34 1 45.75 2.16 58 56.18 42 59.22 0.65 0.35 Indiana FBS 12-0 1.000 2 9.23 2 80.54 2 68.42 3 40.05 2.10 41 58.96 16 61.95 0.35 0.65 Oregon FBS 11-1 0.917 +1 3 9.02 4 79.42 3 67.61 5 39.75 2.15 14 62.09 15 62.09 0.00 0.00 Georgia FBS 11-1 0.917 -1 4 8.89 6 75.97 13 63.91 4 39.99 2.13 18 61.34 11 62.76 0.47 0.53 Notre Dame FBS 10-2 0.833 +1 5 8.76 3 80.17 1 68.48 6 39.62 2.10 40 59.25 41 59.25 0.00 0.00 Alabama FBS 10-2 0.833 +1 6 8.74 5 76.95 9 65.43 7 39.45 2.26 13 62.16 4 63.42 0.53 0.47 Mississippi FBS 11-1 0.917 +1 7 8.73 8 73.74 6 66.46 23 35.21 2.16 31 59.88 33 59.88 0.00 0.00 Texas A&M FBS 11-1 0.917 -3 8 8.72 16 71.06 11 64.56 25 34.43 2.18 11 62.50 13 62.50 0.00 0.00 Texas Tech FBS 11-1 0.917 +1 9 8.69 7 74.40 7 66.18 17 36.15 2.09 54 56.94 47 58.12 0.64 0.36 Oklahoma FBS 10-2 0.833 +1 10 8.62 15 71.11 36 58.81 2 40.24 2.24 10 62.54 12 62.54 0.00 0.00 BYU FBS 11-1 0.917 -2 11 8.61 18 70.04 20 61.76 15 36.22 2.15 39 59.31 24 60.63 0.36 0.64 Texas FBS 9-3 0.750 +1 12 8.53 11 72.75 16 62.71 10 37.97 2.19 5 63.19 6 63.19 0.00 0.00 Utah FBS 10-2 0.833 -1 13 8.49 9 73.13 8 65.77 22 35.29 2.21 42 58.87 43 58.87 0.00 0.00 Miami FL FBS 10-2 0.833 +4 14 8.44 13 71.21 19 61.79 13 37.35 2.09 48 57.87 50 57.87 0.00 0.00 Vanderbilt FBS 10-2 0.833 +2 15 8.40 21 68.09 12 64.42 41 31.60 1.99 19 61.10 20 61.10 0.00 0.00 USC FBS 9-3 0.750 -1 16 8.39 14 71.12 10 65.29 29 33.77 2.20 16 61.70 18 61.70 0.00 0.00 Michigan FBS 9-3 0.750 -3 17 8.39 12 71.44 25 60.67 9 38.71 2.11 28 60.16 30 60.16 0.00 0.00 Iowa FBS 8-4 0.667 +2 18 8.28 19 69.56 42 58.27 8 39.22 2.16 17 61.34 19 61.34 0.00 0.00 Tennessee FBS 8-4 0.667 -3 19 8.22 17 70.74 4 67.39 46 31.28 2.17 21 60.87 22 60.87 0.00 0.00 Washington FBS 8-4 0.667 -1 20 8.17 20 68.90 22 61.40 20 35.43 2.17 24 60.32 26 60.32 0.00 0.
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