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The 2025 CFP Regular Season Is 3/4s Finished - What Do You Think?
I am not at all following the logic that the bottom six of the Big XII is better than the bottom six of the SEC. Auburn beat the dog out of Baylor, which is not at the bottom of the Big XII. Their defense hasn’t given up more than 24 all year and is legit good (most Auburn stat season ever). MSU beat ASU, which is a mid to good Big XII team. Florida and UK can be plenty dangerous. Arkie has played ranked teams close all year. Now with fired coaches and turmoil all bets are off. But the bottom of the Big XII wining games against the middle of the Big XII does nothing for me. The top through middle of the SEC is really fucking good. I’ll buy AZ and Iowa State as decent teams but UCF on down is not good at all.
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The Democratic Party
That’s completely separate from being upside down with (presumably) the lowest income and most socially subsidized demographic. My own hunch is that no one is threatening to take away those benefits; so they are already functionally socialized. And law and order messaging consistently does well among lower-income demographics while the foreign policy stuff is largely irrelevant at best. I think this can explain a lot of Trump btw. This is unironically the median American voter:
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The Democratic Party
One thing that’s incredible is that the avowedly DSA guy is weakest versus the “establishment” D candidate among people in public or subsidized housing. Many such cases.
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SEC Catch-all Thread
With DJ Durkin now interim HC, the SEC has reached natural stasis of number of head coaches who killed a kid: 1.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Interesting stuff and goes back to my point that one place of difference between teams at the 10 or below spot is mostly just noise. I don’t have the energy to count but Texas may lead OU on more ballots than not. A quick scan says that the Kentucky and LSU voters have Texas farthest behind OU. The A&M voter has Texas at 11 and ahead of OU.
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The Democratic Party
The problem with populism is that populists of any stripe are objectively terrible at governing. Across time and space, I struggle to think of a populist who did a good job anywhere at scale, which is a function of populist rhetoric invariably offering simplistic and unrealistic solutions and promises against real, complex problems. There’s always the old “lie about being a populist” trick but you can’t pull the football forever and eventually someone will come along who actually does the stupid shit and either makes a hash of things or just overturns democracy to avoid consequences. This basically happened with the republicans. We got here because most of America treats real elections like student council elections: vote for the stupidest and most unreal shit because deep down you believe adults will remain in control. Only that’s not how it works in real life.
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The Democratic Party
This was the Barrack Obama formula. Difference being that Obama honed his rhetoric, skills, positions very early in a statewide race.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
This only works in a closed system. Because now add to the discussion team 13, who only played nine of the top 12 and wins seven (one more than your fictional team. The rest of their schedule is between 15-20, and they win all of those convincingly. And maybe some of the top 15-20 would match up really well with your fictional team and could knock them off. There will always be some eye test and human judgment in an NCAA playoff.
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The Democratic Party
Every internal D debate boils down to: ”Wow, this democratic socialist is really mobilizing the base in this D +42, 38 percent foreign born major metropolitan district! We need to replicate this energy nationally and push out the centrists!” “Noooo, you can’t do that! This kind of rhetoric hurts the D candidates in this rust belt, R +1.5 race! You need them in Congress and their voters in national elections. The radicals need to tone it down.” Then in national and most statewide races voters pick someone in between the two in primaries and the two poles lob bombs, bicker, and dont vote for the candidate in the general. Rinse, wash, repeat!
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
One spot in the rankings as tabulated is basically noise once you get past the top five or so. One or two outlier ballots can put a team over another one. It’s not worth going on tilt over and happens every year to different teams. The only way to correct it, ironically, is to implement an actual media conspiracy via expert or editorial correction to weight or throw out ballots.
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Trump’s America
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Yeah, he’s not. But that’s the theory, though. It will be interesting to see what Chinese and Russian backing really means. That is another message the admin wants to send: it’s not worth anything in this hemisphere.
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Have you ever seen a ghost?
MFW “something” warns me not to get the extra hot Vindaloo buy I do anyway.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Looks like the UMD news was bad info (and the Terps would be foolish to jump into this). So Tech looks more likely and I think he’ll do very well there.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
I agree and will die on this hill: Franklin is in the top tier of coaches actually available to hire and is better than several hot names.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Heupel at Tennessee is the James Franklin of Matt Rhules.
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Hugh Freeze Auburn Football
This year a lot of coaches are gonna get hired a level or two above where they belong.
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Chili w/o beans
Pureeing the rehydrated peppers also gives some built in thickener that I sometimes struggle to get without masa harina in powder based chili. I still add a bit because I like the flavor it adds, though.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Will do.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Time to implement an NFL rule of no skin between the belt and shoes. It’s ridiculous, I’m waiting for some dude to visit the volleyball equipment manager.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
UVa scheduled its series with NCSU outside the ACC scheduling system to preserve its rivalry after expansion. I didn’t even know it was much of a rivalry but you learn new things all the time.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Franklin hasn’t signed at VaTech yet. He’d be a great choice there or at Maryland.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Maryland is a P5 job, sort of. No clue what they are thinking jumping in this cycle.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Auburn is going to bigly disappoint fans with their eventual hire.