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Park Gothic

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  1. Those pollsters are probably treating this like the AP poll and you are thinking of it like the CFP poll. The CFP committee ranks teams 5-25 to justify the rankings for teams 1-4 because those are the only spots that matter. Their whole focus is on who should be in the top 4. The AP arguably shouldn't really care about top 4 in the same way because they aren't thinking of playoff spots. The argument for Ohio State - which I am not endorsing - is that they were ranked number 2 and they lost to number 3 is a close game. It's the end of the season and otherwise both teams have won all their games. Things are otherwise pretty calcified. Swapping them out makes as much sense as if they were both 9-2 and ranked 10th and 11th. The winner is 10-2 and moves up one spot while the loser drops a spot. I assume that, to these voters, it works the same way for the top 4. To be clear - I don't agree with that logic and it looks like most AP voters don't either. But it makes sense if you maintain a certain perspective.
  2. Seeding and getting the bye due to winning the conference. Getting that bye, at the end of the season, will be a massive advantage. Rest, getting over injuries, and planning for the next game. That's why I think the 5-12 teams are kinda boned. Playing that extra game against strong competition will be brutal, only to be followed up by even stronger competition.
  3. "...to character assassinate any success that A&M would have in athletics." 1) Literally what success would that be? 2) Why would we need to use papers to diminish any kind of Aggie success when they already do a masterful job of that themselves? 3) Why the fuck would we use papers? What year do they think it? 4) Great and totally appropriate use of the phrase "character assassinate" and not all weird. You englished real good in that post.
  4. My heart wants to pick "Nothing short of undefeated national champions was good enough" but my head knows that winning the Big 12 should be enough.
  5. Playboy came in on channel 74, but it was scrambled most of the time. not all the time though.
  6. Apropos of nothing, but how do I put someone on ignore? It's been a long time since I've had to and I've forgotten.
  7. I've got two thoughts about what you've said - not really complete arguments, but I want to put them out there. 1. A coin flip has even odds (50/50) of coming up heads or tails, but if you flip a coin ten times the odds of it coming up heads every time is 1/1024. It's not as simply as looking at the odds for each individual coin flip - you have to look at the series. That's what football seasons usually feel like to me. It's not just the individual games, it's the entire season of them. 2. The argument that we should beat every team that we're more talented than flies in the face of our history as a program, and the proud CFB tradition of more talented teams losing to less talented teams. It happens every year, in every conference, and it happens a lot. I'm not sure how those thoughts fit into this conversation, something about math and history, but I would assume that is why Vegas had us at 9.5 wins instead of 11.
  8. I swear some of y'all would rather be right than happy. Vegas had us at 9.5 wins. Most of the guys on IT had us going 10-2 at best. These aren't cagey fans or battered longhorns. They are industry people who, by a huge margin, did not think we would win more than 10 games and were more likely to only win 9. We have overachieved and it's okay to be happy about that.
  9. Wow, yeah he gets plowed into hard. Now I feel bad for thinking it was a smokescreen to hide that he was pissed off. Plus - goddamn kid, how accident prone can you be?
  10. You really put your nuts in the vice with this thread, but I think I speak for everyone (except maybe @6th Street) when I say I’m glad you were right .
  11. Not much signal in all that noise Edit - Whoa, I saw "Penn" and thought "Penn State." That's actually an impressive offer list for a kid from an Ivey.
  12. Honestly, would we say no to Stewart? I get what y'all are saying about him being a bad culture fit, but he's a great receiver and we're losing a lot of production.
  13. The fuck is this nightmare. It gets worse the longer I look at it.
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