So if LSU loses today... but somehow beats Georgia...
Does a 3-loss LSU go because SEC Champion over a 1-loss tOSU?
Does a 1-loss Georgia go over 3-loss LSU to whom it just lost?
Does Bama back in over both LSU and Georgia by not playing?
or is there a scenario where no SEC team makes the playoffs? In that case I guess we're getting our expansion next year!
Don't you tempt me with a good time Carl.
Apple Cup showing why Air Raid college football is so awful. Defenses are completely useless here. It's like watching a 3-pt shooting contest or longest-ball competition. An entire part of the game (defense) doesn't even exist.
Why do I even have this on? I just need to tune in for the final couple minutes to see who has the ball last because that's who will win.
And that's, to me, boring football.
So with OSU losing if both LSU and USC lose does that open the door for Alabama to be the 4 seed?
Alabama has no business being considered, but they will be. It think some of the ESPN guys were saying they were two plays from being undefeated. But if you look at it that way, they had three other games that came down to the last minute, so they could have been a 5 loss team as well.
I definitely see Alabama moving to number 5 in the new rankings, with the possibility of getting in after championship weekend, but what I've seen so far is a very good, but not playoff-caliber team. Just the amount of dumb penalties yesterday - the most impressive one being 12 men on the field after a timeout - speaks against them getting in.
Imo, Alabama's best chance is Kansas St. getting revenge against TCU for earlier in the season. If USC takes care of business against Utah, they will likely leapfrog Bama though. We'll see.
Gig 'Em, gentlemen. Gig them all.
Hope we can sort some things out during the offseason. My priorities would be offensive line coach and a new OC who calls the plays.
It was hilarious yesterday to hear my wife and all my inlaws regret not hiring Luke Fickell and trading an extra year of Urban for Ryan Day. But it meant that everyone was surely at the family gathering, so that was bad.
At least Marshall won.
stanfurd's David Shaw steps down... on one hand Cal has one 3 out of the last 4 Big Games.. on the other hand, Shaw was also like 8-1 before the current Cal streak... not to mention at least 2 Rose Bowls during his reign.
Very curious what furd will do. They have unlimited resources, but college football is so different now, and unlike Cal, I don't think the students/fans care enough for whatever hire they make. I'm not sure they will want to keep up with the times, and recruiting at stanfurd is never easy. So even though they could basically afford any coach they want, not too many would be interested in coaching here, if the athletic department stays it's course.
Bama at 6.
So, short of some absolute chaos in the Conference Championships, they should be out.
Bama at 6.
So, short of some absolute chaos in the Conference Championships, they should be out.
That's not the playoff committee. They can do whatever they want. Alabama might still make it. They shouldn't, but they might.
It's petty, but Alabama should not be ranked above UT.
UT has a worse loss, but Alabama has less good wins and loss the head to head, as well as lost to LSU. The same LSU UT trucked at Death Valley. And Alabama had to squeak out wins 3 other times.
Oh well, still pretty happy with the season for the Vols. Even with the disappointing South Carolina debacle. Sad for Hooker, though.
Yep anyone putting Bama above Tenn is using their preseason bias still
While generally ambivalent, but leaning towards anxiety at who stanfurd will end up hiring.. it suddenly flipped to panic mode when on my feed someone suggested my aforementioned undefeated, #2 FCS seed, Sacramento State head coach and proud Cal alum, Troy Taylor may be a prime candidate...
That can't happen can it? Troy Taylor coaching against Cal in the Big Game?
Apple Cup showing why Air Raid college football is so awful. Defenses are completely useless here. It's like watching a 3-pt shooting contest or longest-ball competition. An entire part of the game (defense) doesn't even exist.
Why do I even have this on? I just need to tune in for the final couple minutes to see who has the ball last because that's who will win.
And that's, to me, boring football.
Cal (CAL!) beat Mike Leech's #8 ranked air raid offense in 2017 who had been scoring 30+ points per game, 37-3. The following year, Cal held them to 19 points in a 19-13 loss, when WSU had been scoring nearly 40 per game, and in 2019 Cal beat them again holding them to 20 points. After realizing that he was the only coach to have a losing record against Cal (maybe) during his 8 year tenure, Leach decided to pack his bags to the Cal-less SEC.
While its much easier said than done... hit the recievers at the line. With few or 0 tight ends/RBs in to block, get to the QB. If perennially 5-7 Cal could do it, I'm pretty sure a better team can do it.
Top_Shelf wrote:Apple Cup showing why Air Raid college football is so awful. Defenses are completely useless here. It's like watching a 3-pt shooting contest or longest-ball competition. An entire part of the game (defense) doesn't even exist.
Why do I even have this on? I just need to tune in for the final couple minutes to see who has the ball last because that's who will win.
And that's, to me, boring football.
Cal (CAL!) beat Mike Leech's #8 ranked air raid offense in 2017 who had been scoring 30+ points per game, 37-3. The following year, Cal held them to 19 points in a 19-13 loss, when WSU had been scoring nearly 40 per game, and in 2019 Cal beat them again holding them to 20 points. After realizing that he was the only coach to have a losing record against Cal (maybe) during his 8 year tenure, Leach decided to pack his bags to the Cal-less SEC.
While its much easier said than done... hit the recievers at the line. With few or 0 tight ends/RBs in to block, get to the QB. If perennially 5-7 Cal could do it, I'm pretty sure a better team can do it.
I'd like to believe you!
What I was watching on Saturday was two defenses that were bad at tackling and seemed to just let runners go? That could be a talent issue, maybe SEC DBs are big and will smash.
Yep anyone putting Bama above Tenn is using their preseason bias still
I don't think anything is going to happen to get either into the playoffs, but it will affect the Sugar Bowl. That's why I annoyed as a Vol fan.
Although I'd like to face Clemson or NC in the Orange. Especially Clemson after Dabo talked about Tennessee flipping burgers while looking ahead toward the playoffs and then losing to the same South Carolina team that beat him the week after he said that. That would be fun to use to get the team worked up about.
(Comment really didn't both me, but you know it would be good motivation for players)
Even my smuggest, snarkiest, most offensive coastal elite stereotype on the values of a certain part of the country still wouldn't come up with a justification to hire Hugh Freeze to a state government funded public university.
No college football program is a saint.. but there are receipts on this guy being a predator, and that doesn't matter?
Even my smuggest, snarkiest, most offensive coastal elite stereotype on the values of a certain part of the country still wouldn't come up with a justification to hire Hugh Freeze to a state government funded public university.
No college football program is a saint.. but there are receipts on this guy being a predator, and that doesn't matter?
I have a good friend that got his PhD from Auburn, and he's done. Won't give the school another dime while this guy is coach.
Carlbear95 wrote:Even my smuggest, snarkiest, most offensive coastal elite stereotype on the values of a certain part of the country still wouldn't come up with a justification to hire Hugh Freeze to a state government funded public university.
No college football program is a saint.. but there are receipts on this guy being a predator, and that doesn't matter?
I have a good friend that got his PhD from Auburn, and he's done. Won't give the school another dime while this guy is coach.
This feels like a thing that went through because of good ol boy boosters and back room crap.
I think AUB would need to start backpedaling IF the students and/or backers that have a conscience started making their voices heard. See: TEN and Schiano.
Carlbear95 wrote:Even my smuggest, snarkiest, most offensive coastal elite stereotype on the values of a certain part of the country still wouldn't come up with a justification to hire Hugh Freeze to a state government funded public university.
No college football program is a saint.. but there are receipts on this guy being a predator, and that doesn't matter?
I have a good friend that got his PhD from Auburn, and he's done. Won't give the school another dime while this guy is coach.
And people complained about Schiano Sunday in Knoxville, when fans revolted about the attempted hiring of someone that was associated with Penn State during that awful mess. It's arguable what Greg Schiano knew, but people didn't want any scent of that associated with our program. The national media acted like that was about football coaching abilities. It was not.
I would have been done if they'd have hired him. It was about to be the last straw in a string of stupid things around our program.
Not that we got the hire right then, but there was no question about hiring someone potentially associated with a child abuse scandal.
Some of the national media still hate our fans for that (Dan Wolken). Screw 'em.
See: TEN and Schiano.
Hah. I was probably editing my comment while you posted this. Passionate fans can affect things if they really care.
Well I hope that happens at Auburn... IMO this is worse than Deshaun Watson being signed by the Browns given the power Football Head Coach at an SEC school holds.
Oh... and lets look at the schedule... who is Cal's current 1st home game (we start on the road), and Auburn's first road game?
Unbelievable... I actually would 100% support Cal pulling out of that home and home series if Freeze sticks.
Top_Shelf wrote:See: TEN and Schiano.
Hah. I was probably editing my comment while you posted this. Passionate fans can affect things if they really care.
Was reading up more on this.
Freeze was at Baylor when Art Briles was in charge of a seemingly lawless culture where multiple football players were doing rapes. The AD at Baylor then who was also forced to resign? Ian McCaw, who is now currently... Liberty's AD.
Like, what the actual f*ck is going on in these Bible Belt places?
Freeze is out here DMing a rape accuser while a federal investigation is going on, defending the AD. And there are rumors of his sketchy behavior toward high school kids, where he coached between scandals.
How is this guy still getting 7-figure roles at a public institution?
Freeze: “With anybody, I made sure they knew that if I hurt them I was sorry, but it’s time to move on. How many times can we write about it? How many times can we talk about it? I said I was wrong. I’ve paid a price. My family paid a heck of a price.”
It Just Means More.™
@RossDellenger wrote:Freeze: “With anybody, I made sure they knew that if I hurt them I was sorry, but it’s time to move on. How many times can we write about it? How many times can we talk about it? I said I was wrong. I’ve paid a price. My family paid a heck of a price.”
It Just Means More.™
JESUS! I SAID I WAS SORRY! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? GOD! SO UNFAIR!
Jason Kirk of Shutdown Fullcast with an absolute banger.
No one is entitled to anyone else’s trust. And those of us who grew up learning to survive holy-rolling bullshitters are under zero obligation to ever see Freeze as anything but one of them.
While the rest of you are still in post-season Bowl mode... down here in "season is over" world, 3 Cal players, OL Ben Coleman, RB Damien Moore and K(!) Dario Longhetto have all said that they will put their names in the transfer portal.
Our OL was terrible, even though Coleman may have been the best of that terrible line, Damien Moore is now RB2 behind Jaydn Ott (assuming he doesn't transfer either)... seeing a K enter the transfer portal is... strange?
Coleman and Longhetto are both grad transfers, so they walk away with the most valuable hardware, a diploma from the #1 Public University in The World.
I'm pretty sure Cal will take advantage of the transfer portal as well once it officially opens.
or is there a scenario where no SEC team makes the playoffs? In that case I guess we're getting our expansion next year!
While unlikely... there is at least a scenario for no SEC team.. and quite likely only one SEC team... and what do we get next year?
EXPANDED PLAYOFFS! At least 1 if not 2 years earlier than expected!
More importantly, with the Rose Bowl's capitulation, this is the final guaranteed Pac-XX/B1G traditional Rose Bowl.. so... the dream.. is ended.
Hey Cal was in the PAC championship game in 2017 on my NCAA 14 dynasty the other day.
They got the Bear Raid going on and lead the nation in passing yards and overall yards. Think they were 10-2 though somehow and not my BCS opponent.
Forgot to check if they won and got Rose hm
The case of Jon Kitna's son is not good, although my immediate conclusion is that the boy's a f*cking idiot.
Kitna told a detective he thought the pictures were legal because he found them online.
An absolute f*cking idiot.
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