NCAA Football 2012 Season Catch-All

Yes, but Ole Miss is 6-6, 3-5 in the SEC, and gave up 66 points to now unranked Texas, at home. Not a remotely impressive resume, and barely made a bowl game. They did play 3 currently ranked teams and Texas was ranked when they played them, but they lost to all of them, 3 of the 4 by 19+ points.

I guess Pitt is also 6-6, and not terribly impressive either. But they had flashes of brilliance, destroying ranked at the time VaTech and still ranked Rutgers by 18-21, and that 3OT game with ND that they should have won.

Guess I just expected a close game today. And maybe Pitt will turn it around, but they're still down 14 at the half. Is it too much to ask for one bowl game after New Year's Day that ends within 1 score and is worth watching to completion?

Woohoo. 4/5-star WR James Quick just chose to stay home in Louisville during the Army All-Star game.

Picked up a 4-star DE yesterday too. Think that Sugar Bowl performance is showing returns already.

I'm just going to point out that myself and Coolbeans gave Ole Miss their respect during the season, and took flack for it.

Also, can we not all agree that "ranked at the time" is a totally worthless concept, just as bad as "pre-season number one" (USC! ). I'm not saying I've never used those, but there's a decent New Year's resolution for this board.

Edit: Hell, my main man DSG is ahead of the trend - he believes "ranked at the end of the season" is a worthless concept.

Well yeah I'm heavily in favor of ratings that don't start until week 4 or 5. Especially in the case of ratings that influence BCS selection. It's a joke. Just another way to keep the little guys down.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Stele wrote:

Wow Pitt looks terrible in the first quarter. Weird to see a team that had Notre Dame beat, missing a game-winning FG, be down 14-0 to Ole Miss right now. :?

That's nothing - you should had seen what happened to Notre Dame's "signature win" last night. :twisted:

Played a half of decent football before falling apart because they couldn't convert points?
Very similar to the Notre Dame game...

Yeah, I didn't really mean that as a slight to OU, though I know it read that way. Collateral damage of a shot at Notre Dame.

This year not only proves the need for a playoff, but a playoff bigger than 4 teams.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

This year not only proves the need for a playoff, but a playoff bigger than 4 teams.

Something we can all agree on, no matter what team we are fans of. Yay.

I'm just trying to figure out a system that would have had the Aggies in there this year. Any such system would not have room for conference champ auto-bids, unless you went up to a large number of teams. I don't *think* we'd have made it in to a 16 team playoff where every conference gets one auto-bid, but it's possible.

Right now the system is 4 teams with a selection committee picking anyone they want. Make that 8 teams and the Aggies have a real shot, since the committee would only need to jump them over one higher-ranked team.

*Obviously this exercise is only because I'm an Aggie fan.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Yeah, I didn't really mean that as a slight to OU, though I know it read that way. Collateral damage of a shot at Notre Dame.

This year not only proves the need for a playoff, but a playoff bigger than 4 teams.

Well you know when the best defensive play is an interception off a tip because the safety was a yard back on blown coverage, OU deserves some slighting.

Gumbie wrote:
Badferret wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

I like Georgia to win the East next year if your QB returns.

Who do y'all have from the West?

LSU in Athens in September and Auburn. In a strange twist, due to the SEC monkeying around with the schedules post expansion, the Auburn game will be at Auburn for the second straight year.

Dawgs have a tough Sept; At Clemson, home against S. Carolina and then end the month with LSU.

After that though, only Florida remains as a truly tough game.

Tennessee may be easy game, but Vanderbilt definitely won't. Really who knows what Tennesseee will be like next season. Going to a spread offensive (very similar to A&M) and going back to a 4-3. TN was terrible last year and they still gave Georgia all the could handle till the last drive.

Yeah, Vandy will probably be tough but they do lose Jordan Rodgers and Zac Stacey to graduation. I still think the S. Carolina debacle was due somewhat from the Dawgs "wasting" one of their emotionally dialed in games on Vandy this year.

As for UT, I think they will actually be worse next year with Bray, Hunter and Patterson going pro. This year, the Vols were at least able to score on teams, they just couldn't stop anyone. I don't see how they do better with out their top 3 offensive players. but I admit I have no idea about who they have in the cupboard.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Yeah, I didn't really mean that as a slight to OU, though I know it read that way. Collateral damage of a shot at Notre Dame.

This year not only proves the need for a playoff, but a playoff bigger than 4 teams.

Yeah. This is the disconnect for me when you get defensive about the SEC. In a 4 team playoff A&M would be at home. In an 8 team where A&M was involved I would be willing to out money on them to win it all. I think they might be the best team right now. They're definitely on one of the biggest rolls.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Edit: Hell, my main man DSG is ahead of the trend - he believes "ranked at the end of the season" is a worthless concept. ;)

Thanks for the propers.

DSGamer wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

Yeah, I didn't really mean that as a slight to OU, though I know it read that way. Collateral damage of a shot at Notre Dame.

This year not only proves the need for a playoff, but a playoff bigger than 4 teams.

Yeah. This is the disconnect for me when you get defensive about the SEC. In a 4 team playoff A&M would be at home. In an 8 team where A&M was involved I would be willing to out money on them to win it all. I think they might be the best team right now. They're definitely on one of the biggest rolls.

I don't see the connection between "defensive about the SEC" and 4 team playoff, but I sincerely appreciate your support this season! It's been a true source of happiness.

Updated version of AT&T's "Hello" video, now starring Johnny Manziel: http://youtu.be/2Vjjuby0KIY

Count me among the surprised that Chip Kelly has decided to stick around at Oregon. Either he knows that any potential NCAA issue is resolved or he is extremely naive. I think Nike U will definitely be in the NCAA crosshairs in the nearterm with him still there so I guess we'll see what happens.

I pretty much had Kelly pencilled in at Philly. Definitely the best match personnel wise of the current vacancies to run some form of his uptempo offense.

Yeah, when the NCAA rejected Oregon's self-imposed punishment, I assumed the writing was in the wall for Kelly and serious sanctions were coming. His staying doesn't make much sense to me - can he possibly know what the NCAA is planning to do?

In other news, the big game it tonight! Not sure I've ever said this before, but:

ROLL TIDE!

Good luck, Grump!

Fedaykin98 wrote:

In other news, the big game it tonight! Not sure I've ever said this before, but:

ROLL TIDE!

I know for a fact I've never said this before:

Go Irish!

I love the SEC but as someone who is constantly surrounded by obnoxious bama fans I won't root for them. (sorry Grump, but I know the feeling is mutual :P)

Gumbie wrote:

I love the SEC but as someone who is constantly surrounded by obnoxious bama fans I won't root for them. (sorry Grump, but I know the feeling is mutual :P)

I don't have this problem - Grump may be the nearest Gump, and he's in Austin.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

I love the SEC but as someone who is constantly surrounded by obnoxious bama fans I won't root for them. (sorry Grump, but I know the feeling is mutual :P)

I don't have this problem - Grump may be the nearest Gump, and he's in Austin. ;)

I'm about an hour away from Huntsville so the ratio of Alabama to Tenn fans here is pretty close and there is a WHOLE lot of sh*t talking pretty much all year. Although as Tenn fan I haven't been able to talk any in quite awhile.

Kickoff is about 5-ish hours away, and I'm still waffling on who to root for.

Alabama is SEC (good), is in Alabama (bad) and coached by Nick Saban (bleh).

Notre Dame is joining the ACC (good!) but not really in football (wha?) and it's Notre Dame (ugh).

My Carolina Panthers fan-dom doesn't help either. Steve Beuerlein (ND) is one of my favorite Carolina players of all time (and one of my best fantasy players, too.) But ND also produced Jimmy Clausen (ack).

Maybe my wife DVR'd Downtown Abbey.

I am also conflicted.

I am tempted to root against Bama, if for no other reason but because rooting for the underdog is fun, and after the last 6 years the SEC has to be considered the favorite, but it's Notre Dame.

Would be like rooting for the Yankees (as a Twins fan married to a Red Sox fan).

hmmmm, I vote beer and hope for many loud collisions.

Fed, it is fine to root for the SEC team, but you should never give their cheer. I would sooner ferret leg than do the gator chomp or sing Rocky Top.

In fact, your school earned a lot of scorn from my Facebook friends for that YouTube video by A&M students doing all the SEC cheers.

*Note: It would be perfectly acceptable to say, roll tide, right down the toilet bowl.

Good luck, Grump, hope Bama kicks some Irish arse!

ferret - That video was abhorred by Aggies as well, on many levels. It was bad in every conceivable way.

But I've seen tons of SEC fans say "Gig 'Em!" leading up to the Cotton Bowl. Check out the SEC Rant. It's not a cheer, it's just what we say - which seems to be similar to "Roll Tide", and a far cry from doing a cheer like the Gator chomp, or singing a song like Rocky Top.

Perhaps Grump will grace our presence and enlighten us a bit on Roll Tide etiquette.

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As per tradition, pennants for ND and Bama fly above the Rockne gate at Notre Dame Stadium.

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I was just sayin' today, the Tide is gonna get rolled.

Touchdown Jesus!

I'll take that as an endorsement of my "Roll Tide!", then.

I should go dig up some previous post where I said "Sic 'Em, Dawgs" and ask ferret why there was no correction then.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

It's not a cheer, it's just what we say - which seems to be similar to "Roll Tide", and a far cry from doing a cheer like the Gator chomp, or singing a song like Rocky Top.

Roll Tide, Fed.

Bring another one to the SEC, Roll Tide!

Cotton Bowl to Host first Playoff National Championship Game. I knew it was just a matter of time until Jerry took a run at hosting the big game. Not a surprise since the the last three Cotton Bowls have had the best match-ups outside of the NCG.

If that's any indication of what's to come, it's gonna be a long ass night for Notre Dame's defense.