BigOrange1

boom motherfucker!

The new season tipoffs tonight and the Rockets were certainly active over the summer, adding in a respected head coach and a couple of veteran starters to bring some experience to the young core. Projected startig lineup: PG - Fred Van Vleet SG - Jalen Green SF - Dillon Brooks PF - Jabari Smith C - Alperen Sengun On paper, it's an intriguing group. How well they mesh together remains to be seen. The western conference looks pretty deep this year and the Rockets could be an improved team but still find themselves at the bottom of the standings. They owe their pick to OKC if it doesn't fall in the top four so there is not much reason to purposely want to lose this year. The Vegas win total was set at 31.5. I'll say they finish slightly better than that and go 36-46. Probably not good enough for the play-in tournament but if they can get the young guys some expereince in some games that actually matter in the second half of the season and the young guys look like they belong, I'll consider it a good start to phase 2 of the rebuild. Game 1 is tonight at 6:00 in Orlando. Go Rockets!

Here is Week 9. I think it's a pretty solid poll with the exception that I think some of you have Penn State way too high. Rank Team Record Points 1 Florida State (2) (7-0) 140 2 Ohio State (1) (8-0) 137 3 Michigan (3) (8-0) 136 4 Washington (7-0) 134 5 Georgia (7-0) 132 6 Oklahoma (7-0) 125 7 Texas (6-1) 115 T8 Alabama (7-1) 105 T8 Oregon (6-1) 105 10 Penn State (6-1) 88 11 Oregon State (6-1) 86 12 Ole Miss (6-1) 82 13 Utah (6-1) 77 14 Notre Dame (6-2) 73 15 Missouri (7-1) 62 16 LSU (6-2) 61 17 North Carolina (6-1) 53 18 Louisville (6-1) 43 19 Duke (5-2) 36 20 Air Force (7-0) 32 21 Tulane (6-1) 25 22 USC (6-2) 24 23 Kansas State (5-2) 19 24 UCLA (5-2) 16 25 James Madison (7-0) 12 Others receiving votes: Miami (11), Clemson (7), Rutgers (6), Tennessee (4), Fresno State (3), Iowa (2)

reading between the lines, it doesn't sound like Sark expects Quinn to be out for a really long time. maybe he's back for TCU at the latest?

they are "more than hopeful" that Ryan Watts will be back this week.

Quinn and Ethan Burke are "week to week" Edit - Catalon too.

not surprising that practice would go even longer than normal today. lot of shit to sort out.

Texas starts fast, sputters, and holds on to beat Houston 31-24. There are injuries galore and they are going to be without the starting QB for some time. What will Sark have to say? Next up, 5-2 BYU Saturday afternoon at DKR, 2:30pm on ABC.

my guess is that we'll see the 6-day window exercised and that fox will choose between this game and bedlam for big noon. the big ten slate on 11/4 is very weak.

its more astonishing that you really think he wouldn't. even considering how stupid your takes typically are.

have you seen asu's offense?

damn, awesome play by the asu defender on that 2 point attempt

ballgame

such horseshit

they are doing the same things that teams who ultimately don't pull these off always do.

i swear to god if they trot that fg kicker out there again....

michigan is the best team in the country and it has taken harbaugh the better part of a decade to get them here. in fact, up until he finally beat ohio state in 2021, there were plenty of people who mocked him on this very site.

dumb decision to kick that

we have the dumbest fucking people posting here i swear.

sorry i can't do it this year. my wife is extremely pregnant and could go into labor at any point between now and tuesday (when she's scheduled to go in and be induced) so i can't commit to anything over the next few days.

Same here. I've gotten into his show this season and find him to generally be thoughful, fair, and non-reactionary.

my wife is super pregnant and is scheduled to be induced on tuesday. think i'm gonna try and see this on sunday morning but am slightly worried i'll get a call/text that we have to go to the hospital at some point during the movie.

i don't expect a ton of winning, but i am excited to watch them play. i think jabari smith is going to take a big step forward this season and it should be fun to watch.

Texas 45 Houston 20 348 passing yards

yeah i am more than ok with him running late due to practice. plus, by this point, we all know it's likely to be a 11:15-11:30 start time.