The Other Guys - Week 8 games

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squintsdd wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:21 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:02 pm
TheDrake wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:15 pm Bama will get in with 4 losses
which is why a 12 team playoff is just stupid. why can teams compete for a title if they can't even win their conference?
Do you use this thought process for professional sports as well, or just college?
just college. There's more parity in the NFL throughout the entire league. You can pick up players in the middle of the season in the NFL. The playoff format in the NFL is rooted in tradition too.
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I'm just here to remind everyone this scary Georgia defense* gave up 30 to Mississippi State last week, got steamrolled by Alabama, and rates 8th in the Southeastern Conference.
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ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:37 pm
squintsdd wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:21 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:02 pm
TheDrake wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:15 pm Bama will get in with 4 losses
which is why a 12 team playoff is just stupid. why can teams compete for a title if they can't even win their conference?
Do you use this thought process for professional sports as well, or just college?
just college. There's more parity in the NFL throughout the entire league. You can pick up players in the middle of the season in the NFL. The playoff format in the NFL is rooted in tradition too.
I'm not quite sure how you can mention parity and then say you don't want a 12 team playoff. If you want tradition, should college football just go back to when the polls decided 1 and 2 for the championship? It would be SEC vs SEC every year. Talk about a lack of parity
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squintsdd wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:41 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:37 pm
squintsdd wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:21 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:02 pm
TheDrake wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:15 pm Bama will get in with 4 losses
which is why a 12 team playoff is just stupid. why can teams compete for a title if they can't even win their conference?
Do you use this thought process for professional sports as well, or just college?
just college. There's more parity in the NFL throughout the entire league. You can pick up players in the middle of the season in the NFL. The playoff format in the NFL is rooted in tradition too.
I'm not quite sure how you can mention parity and then say you don't want a 12 team playoff. If you want tradition, should college football just go back to when the polls decided 1 and 2 for the championship? It would be SEC vs SEC every year. Talk about a lack of parity
Where did I say I wanted parity? I just said there's more parity in the NFL which would make a playoff in that league more reasonable/understandable.
The cfb landscape has changed. I'll give you that. With conference realignment and NIL, it's hard to predict a "what could have been" if we went back to the BCS system. The current format is fine. It's a happy medium between maintaining tradition and giving a 3rd or 4th (undefeated) team a shot at a title. That's just my 2 cents of course.
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that's a terrible call against texas. the defender has a better idea of where the ball is than the receiver.
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ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 7:23 pm that's a terrible call against texas. the defender has a better idea of where the ball is than the receiver.
What call? Lol
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Duck07 wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 7:25 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 7:23 pm that's a terrible call against texas. the defender has a better idea of where the ball is than the receiver.
What call? Lol
XD you're right. there's no call now. that's a very odd sequence of events.

didn't realize they can reverse the DPI. And the officials did nothing about all the junk on the field. that's usually a flag.
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That they overturned their call after 200 beer bottles with no flag was interesting.

I'm ready for a universal referee body, not conference refs.
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Michigan State beats Iowa 32-20, the B1G is very confusing.
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StevensTechU wrote:I'm just here to remind everyone this scary Georgia defense* gave up 30 to Mississippi State last week, got steamrolled by Alabama, and rates 8th in the Southeastern Conference.
Lots of folks on here are prisoners of the moment.
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Is the runner leading with the crown of the helmet or the defender? Got to love a late targeting call.
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squintsdd wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:41 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:37 pm
squintsdd wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:21 pm
ducks5ever wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 6:02 pm
TheDrake wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:15 pm Bama will get in with 4 losses
which is why a 12 team playoff is just stupid. why can teams compete for a title if they can't even win their conference?
Do you use this thought process for professional sports as well, or just college?
just college. There's more parity in the NFL throughout the entire league. You can pick up players in the middle of the season in the NFL. The playoff format in the NFL is rooted in tradition too.
I'm not quite sure how you can mention parity and then say you don't want a 12 team playoff. If you want tradition, should college football just go back to when the polls decided 1 and 2 for the championship? It would be SEC vs SEC every year. Talk about a lack of parity
Unfortunately the SEC bias cannot be stopped, LSU and A&M being ranked ahead of Indiana is proof of it, but at least more teams get opportunities now.
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Kirby Smart going for it on his side of the field when Texas has barely a chance left was quite the boneheaded decision. I really don't know how to justify that one. And then of course it doesn't pay off.
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StevensTechU wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2024 8:29 pm Kirby Smart going for it on his side of the field when Texas has barely a chance left was quite the boneheaded decision. I really don't know how to justify that one. And then of course it doesn't pay off.
Kirby Not-Smart....
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Such a bad call.
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