2022 NCAA Football Thread

[gehringer_2]

7 minutes ago, casimir said:

Well, and there’s something I hate about our sports culture.  Georgia could smoke someone in a playoff game and the team that loses will declared as “sucks”.  Sucks?  They’re the #4 team in the nation and will be declared as “sucks” if they lose decisively.  They’ll have the 4th best resume (and I understand there is sometimes debate on this, just set it aside for now) and have the misfortune of one bad game and then be discarded as some 4th best team in the MAC West.  Makes no sense.

That's the funny thing. If you set up a competition where the best best team is too likely to win, you won't have a league that is very much fun because the outcomes will be too predictable. You don't want team sports where there is no doubt in the outcome of the games or teams are able to have the kind of dominance that Serena Williams did when she was clearly the best player and just beat everyone. So most team games have evovled so that they have lots of random noise events that help obscure true talent differences from always controlling the score. (there is a reason footballs are funny shaped!). But the world still has a need to treat the winners as if they are more than just a pretty good team that had the best luck that season - which is all most teams  can prove. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[lordstanley]

OSU trails 

[buddha]

why do people think will levis is good?

[Motor City Sonics]

Oh Maryland, My Maryland, how lovely are your branches !

 

COME ON TERPS !

[MichiganCardinal]

Stroud is limping and their starting guard just went down.

[MichiganCardinal]

MD getting the ball with 40-some seconds left, down 6. 

[Motor City Sonics]

Well, shit.  

[Motor City Sonics]

If Tennessee gets a blowout win,  it could be

1- Georgia

2- Ohio State

3 - TCU

4 - Tennessee

5 - Michigan

but it really doesn't matter where they are ranked Tuesday............Win and You're In 

[MichiganCardinal]

I think it'll stay put. 6-5 Baylor = 7-4 Illinois = 6-5 Maryland. 11-0 is 11-0.

 

[lordstanley]

4 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

If Tennessee gets a blowout win,  it could be

1- Georgia

2- Ohio State

3 - TCU

4 - Tennessee

5 - Michigan

but it really doesn't matter where they are ranked Tuesday............Win and You're In 

What, you really think Georgia, Ohio St and TCU did much more than Michigan this week? Kentucky, Illinois, Baylor and Maryland are all around the same level of mediocrity. The top 4, who all struggled, will stay the same. 

[Motor City Sonics]

6 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

What, you really think Georgia, Ohio St and TCU did much more than Michigan this week? Kentucky, Illinois, Baylor and Maryland are all around the same level of mediocrity. The top 4, who all struggled, will stay the same. 

The voters are fickle and Michigan has had such a weak schedule this year.  MSU losing to Indy at home didn't help things.    Doesn't matter though. 

[Hongbit]

Michigan fans get to rekindle their love for Zack Charbonnet tonight 

[Hongbit]

Carolina continuing the crazy week for the top teams.   21-7 Cocks over Tennessee early 

[Motor City Sonics]

22 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Michigan fans get to rekindle their love for Zack Charbonnet tonight 

Best Uniform game of the year

[Motor City Sonics]

Wow,  Sparty.  Blew a 24-7 lead over and 0-7 Indiana team?      

How bad is their kicker.   My goodness.  

 

[buddha]

51 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

If Tennessee gets a blowout win,  it could be

1- Georgia

2- Ohio State

3 - TCU

4 - Tennessee

5 - Michigan

but it really doesn't matter where they are ranked Tuesday............Win and You're In 

would you stop?  tcu barely holds on to beat a bad baylor team and you have them jumping michigan and you have tennessee with one loss jumping an undefeated michigan.

why wouldnt a one loss tennessee top a tcu team that has barely won half its games?

[buddha]

38 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

The voters are fickle and Michigan has had such a weak schedule this year.  MSU losing to Indy at home didn't help things.    Doesn't matter though. 

none of this is true.

are you smoking already?

[buddha]

btw, if you want to see a real fraud, come watch this north carolina game.

[Motor City Sonics]

36 minutes ago, buddha said:

none of this is true.

are you smoking already?

No, edibles, but not until about 10pm

[Motor City Sonics]

The other day I bought a pack of those two-bite brownies..........you know, the enhanced kind.  Only 2 to a package.  I ate half of one of the brownie last night and holy shit, I was on the moon, man.   I didn't like that, that is not relaxing.  

[gehringer_2]

Buddha's PAC10 hopes are down 14 early against UCLA.

[lordstanley]

Down goes North Carolina. 

And everyone's darling Tennessee, has given up 35 1st half points to 4-loss South Carolina.

I tell you, if Tennessee loses and UCLA beats USC, then both Michigan and Ohio State have one foot in the playoff.  Unless LSU beats Georgia, which isn't going to happen. Would be a stretch to put in Clemson over the Michigan-OSU loser; they have a blowout loss to Notre Dame and no one in the ACC is any good

Edited November 20, 2022 by lordstanley

[buddha]

very much rooting for the University of Caucasians Lost among Asians tonight.

[Hongbit]

The fact that I’m not taking shit tells you what i think of USC chances.  Caleb is incredible.  The defense is not.  

This team is a year away but who knows maybe he can find a way to do it himself.  He’s that good. 

[buddha]

18 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

The fact that I’m not taking shit tells you what i think of USC chances.  Caleb is incredible.  The defense is not.  

This team is a year away but who knows maybe he can find a way to do it himself.  He’s that good. 

do you know how easy the big ten west is going to be for you?