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  1. I will die on the hill that CFB was perfect and needed no fix pre-BCS and mega-conferences. You got plenty of joy in winning your conference and enjoying wins over schools close to you— needling the people at work, church, the PTA. Bowl games were a fun bonus. The newspaper would crown a MNC and it was a distraction to read about and then move on from. The only NC trophy handed out was a gimmick from Trick Dick as a little dogwhistle for the last all-white teams and their fans. A “real” NC, playoff, etc is something thet talking heads on 24/7 sports media and then the internet created for their own benefit and then convinced fans they needed. Has not made the alum and fan experience at all better.
  2. Let’s do what everyone does and strike a deal with PE for a great injection of cash! We’ll use it to smartly get on a sound, long-term footing and then we will be healthy AND PE will make their money back.
  3. Posted this on another thread, it’s not updated. It shows whether teams have more or fewer wins than they should expect have based on post-game win expectancy. Kind of a proxy for “are you playing as well as your record.” UVA and BYU went down— they had been playing dangerous ball.
  4. Probably. Tech and Pitt play each other, unfortunately for the ACC. If they didn’t, both could get a couple wins against CFP top ten and make the case after the CCG.
  5. ACC champ gets in, so better for chaos and no clearly good runner up. Makes it more likely the SEC gets a fifth spot.
  6. Why? Of all the ways I’ve seen injuries on the football field, I can’t recall even one due to a Tillman style attack on the ball. It’s a legit way to force a fumble. What problem is being solved here?
  7. It’s literally always legal to punch the ball. Blocking a kick, whacking a ball out of a receiver’s grasp, or forcing a fumble. Your punchball zinger reminds me of Reddit-tier “handegg” memes.
  8. No, that Iowa team is good and it is a tough place to play. I expected Oregon to lose that one.
  9. Oregon over Iowa in a rock fight in Iowa City is an impressive win. I think more of that team now.
  10. It’s better for the sport to give G5 programs a real shot at the playoffs. The 12 best P5 team is not going to be that great and have a real chance to win the NC anyway so it’s not affecting the integrity at the outcome. March Madness is more fun getting to see some mid-major take their best shot even though you’ll usually have a power conference team finish on the bubble that’s “better.” The overall season and experience would be less fun and engaging the sixth best SEC teams in as opposed to a fun G5.
  11. I feel bad for this kid, it’s clear Mizzou never intended him to be here this year and it’s just too much. The A&M pass rush is good. Klein is clearly being conservative, taking what the defense will give and trying to avoid the big Mizzou defensive play. Not a bad plan with a one-dimensional offensive team that won’t play well from behind. Takes the crowd out and makes it hard for Mizzou to get energized.
  12. No one knows. He’s a true freshman. Good offer list, decently ranked recruit out of PA with plenty of Big Ten and SEC offers, likely not the top target for the big ones. He was 3rd string so assume Eli wanted him to have more time to develop.
  13. Highly, highly doubt the CCG loser gets knocked out unless the game is totally out of hand; they’ll not want to ding a team for getting to the game over others. Probably a help on balance. Missing it is likely good for a team like Ole Miss that is basically guaranteed a spot if they win out but still needs help to get there.
  14. UGA is gonna beat MSU, so it doesn’t matter. But the vibes part can go either way. “Coming in with a loss they’ll be dejected and feel beatable.” ”If they take an L they’ll be fired up and more determined.” Math doesn’t change. The games aren’t truly independent events but no one knows what is actually the impact aside from things like injuries. Best to treat them as black boxes. Sports message boards consistency prove why it’s better not to care about sports too much if you want to gamble on it.
  15. Watching the BYU game, last time I was in Lubbock was in early 2000s. I really like what they’ve done with the remodel and the end zone addition. Meshes with campus, really makes the atmosphere more intimate.
  16. If you’re a Longhorn fan you want UGA to lose because then you can knock them out next week and clear some space in front of you. You want A&M to lose so if you win against them, you have a H2H when the committee looks at 2 loss teams from the SEC. Rooting for teams in front of you to lose opens more paths for you. Go with the math.
  17. Spanberger won purple VA with a sitting GOP gov by a larger margin than Z won deep blur NYC over an granpaw killing sec pest and meme candidate. American preference for three letter orgs is clear, CIA>DSA.
  18. Aircraft carriers: Largest surface combatants designed to destroy capital ships and bombard targets ashore. Spiritually a battleship without squinting too much.
  19. That’s fair. For sure the “ship of the (battle) line” came with mass rather than distance and quality in firepower.
  20. Accurate. The etymology begins with “ship of the battle line.” The idea of a bigger ship with bigger guns that can hit you from a long way away and sink you before you can hit and sink it has been around for a while. I could make one of those alignment charts to argue that an aircraft carrier is spiritually a battleship. The airplanes are the “guns.”
  21. All the accessible water on earth has already been used in some way multiple times over the course of geological time. Why are you so upset about this new disruptive way of using it. I am very smart.
  22. Fuck, I wish I could come up with a plan as disruptive as “well let’s just keep trying to make people like this shitty thing they don’t really like at all.” Really humbling to see what separates me from elite human capital.
  23. That story made me super sad. It’s beyond time to regulate this in its consumer applications. Every text it spits out should have a cigarette style warning: ”This text was created by a computer program that cannot think or feel. The program is owned by (company) and its purpose is to advance (company’s) business interest.” Every image or audio visually or audibly watermarked in a similar way.
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