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College Football 2016 Week 3 - Alabama still has more wins in Jerry World than Dallas

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jfkgoblue

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LMAO, they'll be in the 20s for sure.
How can you put them in the 20's? Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma(teams in front of them) all lost as well as Ole Miss, ND, and Oregon... 7 ranked teams lost yesterday, so it's really hard to drop any team that actually won.

Same point for those wondering why Wisconsin stayed put.
 

chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
I can only assume all the people putting Bama at 1 have not watched Bama play outside the USC game. Offense was terrible against an overwhelmed WKU team and both sides of the ball looked bad against an Ole Miss team that will do well to win 8 games. Going to require some serious soul searching if they want to win the division, let alone get in the playoff.

1. OSU
2. Louisville
3. Michigan
4. Houston
5. Michigan State
6. Washington
7. Clemson
8. Wisconsin
9. Alabama
10. Stanford

Or something, I dunno.
 

giga

Member
Looks like some guys got a little too excited on the game winning TD for UGA. If you look at the timeline, the trip ended with stitches at the ER.

I could *maybe* understand if it was the national championship or the sec championship, but a game against a nonranked mizzou?
 

El_Chino

Member
How can you put them in the 20's? Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma(teams in front of them) all lost as well as Ole Miss, ND, and Oregon... 7 ranked teams lost yesterday, so it's really hard to drop any team that actually won.

Same point for those wondering why Wisconsin stayed put.
Because they almost gave up 21 points to Ohio and it was a close game until late in the 4th..

Just because they won doesn't mean they get to rise in the rankings either.
 
So SDSU beats Cal, but Cal beats Texas... SDSU has nation's leading rusher and the 2nd longest winning streak in Division I. SDSU in the top 20 confirmed?

I know it's not confirmed.
 

Vanillalite

Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Bold yes
Will we win probably not
Is Clemson unwinnable I don't think so

Point is we got a shot

Bring on Thursday night
 
I can only assume all the people putting Bama at 1 have not watched Bama play outside the USC game. Offense was terrible against an overwhelmed WKU team and both sides of the ball looked bad against an Ole Miss team that will do well to win 8 games. Going to require some serious soul searching if they want to win the division, let alone get in the playoff.

1. OSU
2. Louisville
3. Michigan
4. Houston
5. Michigan State
6. Washington
7. Clemson
8. Wisconsin
9. Alabama
10. Stanford

Or something, I dunno.

Who is going to beat Bama in the West or hell the East. Ole Miss is out two games they're done, LSU doesn't have a QB, A&M is A&M, Florida just lost their QB, Georgia I dunno haven't watched them. SEC isn't that hard to win for them honestly.
 

jfkgoblue

Member
I can only assume all the people putting Bama at 1 have not watched Bama play outside the USC game. Offense was terrible against an overwhelmed WKU team and both sides of the ball looked bad against an Ole Miss team that will do well to win 8 games. Going to require some serious soul searching if they want to win the division, let alone get in the playoff.

1. OSU
2. Louisville
3. Michigan
4. Houston
5. Michigan State
6. Washington
7. Clemson
8. Wisconsin
9. Alabama
10. Stanford

Or something, I dunno.
I think they should drop to 3 or 4 but I doubt they actually will

Also people need to stop riding Houston's dick.... they have one notable win, and that win is against a (now) unranked OU team

And before people bring up my team, well Michigan has to prove that they belong with 3 games against top 10 teams coming up, plus a difficult Iowa team. Houston has one tough game on the schedule. Plus they almost lost to freaking Cincinatti
Because they almost gave up 21 points to Ohio and it was a close game until late in the 4th..

Just because they won doesn't mean they get to rise in the rankings either.
My point is when you so many teams around you lose(6) it's impossible for you not to rise, there's just no one to put ahead of Tennesee
 

El_Chino

Member
I think they should drop to 3 or 4 but I doubt they actually will

Also people need to stop riding Houstob's dick.... they have one notable win, and that win is against a (now) unranked OU team

My point is when you so many teams around you lose(6) it's impossible for you not to rise, there's just no one to put ahead of Tennesee
I don't agree with that thought process , it doesn't makes sense at all to me.

We'll see when the new AP polls come out though.
 

chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
Who is going to beat Bama in the West or hell the East. Ole Miss is out two games they're done, LSU doesn't have a QB, A&M is A&M, Florida just lost their QB, Georgia I dunno haven't watched them. SEC isn't that hard to win for them honestly.

Based on the three games so far, I'd definitely pencil in LSU as a loss and maybe TAMU. Arkansas isn't outside the realm of possibility either with the way this team has looked, and how Arkansas has actually looked decent.
 

mre

Golden Domers are chickenshit!!
Bama is only marginally a top ten team, and then only because all of the other candidates choked.

Honestly, look at who they've played. 3 wins over teams who are a combined 4-5? And they looked bad against a team that lost to FSU? Please.
 

jfkgoblue

Member
Bama is only marginally a top ten team, and then only because all of the other candidates choked.

Honestly, look at who they've played. 3 wins over teams who are a combined 4-5? And they looked bad against a team that lost to FSU? Please.
Oh I don't disagree with that, I just don't see anyone in the SEC capable of beating them after the Ole Miss game, TAMU has a chance, but the rest of their schedule has looked bad as well

CONGRATS Bama, you have now achieved Ohio State schedule easiness while Ohio State was forced to take Bama schedule toughness
 
Based on the three games so far, I'd definitely pencil in LSU as a loss and maybe TAMU. Arkansas isn't outside the realm of possibility either with the way this team has looked, and how Arkansas has actually looked decent.

LSU having to throw the ball to win means an automatic loss.
 

Ambient80

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So the Big 12 is pretty much eliminated from the playoffs now right? I mean WVU and Baylor are the only two undefeated teams left there, and TCU is now unranked with a loss. I'm a huge WVU fan but...yeah lol.
 

andycapps

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I could *maybe* understand if it was the national championship or the sec championship, but a game against a nonranked mizzou?
I'm going to assume he was pretty drunk. Stupid decision, obviously. That's why it's funny.

As far as beating an unranked Mizzou, I'm going to assume most people in this thread didn't watch the game due to the other games on at the time. Understandable.

UGA can't get out of their own way. Busted plays in the secondary in the first half gave up some chunk plays. After half they held Lock to 50 something yards and 3 interceptions. The hard part was that running the ball is what we do and when that is taken away, Eason had to step up. And he did while under a lot of pressure. Where does Mizzou get all these ridiculous DL?

The Mizzou DL was dominating the left side of the UGA OL. Part of that was they had 8-10 defenders in the box for most of the game which made it hard on the OL to open any holes for Chubb. Part of that is that our OL is pretty small and pushing a much bigger DL around was tough. Catalina is a Rhode Island graduate transfer so I think the jump in who he's playing against may be beyond what he's capable of. Maybe they'll get better as the season goes on as I think Pittman is a great OL coach, he's just coaching guys that are much smaller than he or Kirby want for the scheme they want to run. Chaney deserves credit for adjusting to what was working last night and changing up playcalls quite a bit.

They just need to play better if they don't want to drop a few games. 9-3 or a stretch 10-2 seems reasonable at this point based on our OL.

The good thing about Eason playing so well last night is that it should open up the box a little more for Chubb and the OL.
 
I think they should drop to 3 or 4 but I doubt they actually will

Also people need to stop riding Houston's dick.... they have one notable win, and that win is against a (now) unranked OU team

And before people bring up my team, well Michigan has to prove that they belong with 3 games against top 10 teams coming up, plus a difficult Iowa team. Houston has one tough game on the schedule. Plus they almost lost to freaking Cincinatti

My point is when you so many teams around you lose(6) it's impossible for you not to rise, there's just no one to put ahead of Tennesee

Houston has played a tougher schedule than Michigan so far
 

chaosblade

Unconfirmed Member
So the Big 12 is pretty much eliminated from the playoffs now right? I mean WVU and Baylor are the only two undefeated teams left there, and TCU is now unranked with a loss. I'm a huge WVU fan but...yeah lol.

I wouldn't write 1 loss teams off, we might not see any team go undefeated this year. 1 loss B12 champ might have a chance.
 

ag-my001

Member
So the Big 12 is pretty much eliminated from the playoffs now right? I mean WVU and Baylor are the only two undefeated teams left there, and TCU is now unranked with a loss. I'm a huge WVU fan but...yeah lol.
They're on the wait list. Houston/Louisville could play a knockout game (though Louisville might be able to absorb the loss), PAC-12 winner could have two losses, same with B1G. They're out for now, but not forever.
 

jfkgoblue

Member
They're on the wait list. Houston/Louisville could play a knockout game (though Louisville might be able to absorb the loss), PAC-12 winner could have two losses, same with B1G. They're out for now, but not forever.
I'd say even a 2-loss Big Ten champ is almost guaranteed a spot
 

Caturro

Member
I think they should drop to 3 or 4 but I doubt they actually will

Also people need to stop riding Houston's dick.... they have one notable win, and that win is against a (now) unranked OU team

And before people bring up my team, well Michigan has to prove that they belong with 3 games against top 10 teams coming up, plus a difficult Iowa team. Houston has one tough game on the schedule. Plus they almost lost to freaking Cincinatti

My point is when you so many teams around you lose(6) it's impossible for you not to rise, there's just no one to put ahead of Tennesee

Cincinnati is a hell of a better team than whoever Michigan has played thus far, that's for sure.

If people actually analyzed Houston's schedule you would see that besides Louisville we still have to play Memphis and Navy away, two teams that were ranked last year and could potentially climb up the rankings this year as well. Plus Houston would have to face in a potential conference championship USF or ECU, more than capable teams that have already beaten P5 teams this year.

These are not shitty teams, as much as some of you would like to think. The difference between the better AAC teams and most of the P5 stock (save for the blue bloods) is not as big as you think it is.
 

ag-my001

Member
These are not shitty teams, as much as some of you would like to think. The difference between the better AAC teams and most of the P5 stock (save for the blue bloods) is not as big as you think it is.
You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, it's not CFB-GAF's opinion that matters, but the committee's (and as a proxy pollsters). They are still the ones that catapult an unproven Texas up to #11 because of a pre-season ranking on Notre Dame, neither of which had much basis in fact. Houston and the other G5 teams well not get that same favorability should there be any trip ups.
 

Calion

Member
I can only assume all the people putting Bama at 1 have not watched Bama play outside the USC game. Offense was terrible against an overwhelmed WKU team and both sides of the ball looked bad against an Ole Miss team that will do well to win 8 games. Going to require some serious soul searching if they want to win the division, let alone get in the playoff.

1. OSU
2. Louisville
3. Michigan
4. Houston
5. Michigan State
6. Washington
7. Clemson
8. Wisconsin
9. Alabama
10. Stanford

Or something, I dunno.

LMAO. Please tell GAF who these teams in the almighty SECW are that will give Bama L's.
 
Yeah, of course Gameday is in Knoxville. Whole thing blows, now that we've lost Del Rio.

The good news is that Tenn has been just about the least impressive ranked team and our defense has started to look a lot more confident.

QB woes for days, weeks, years.
 

StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
Welp,

Derp.

Why we threw the ball against a team that can't stop the run that much I won't Know. We got jobbed on that last fumble but didn't deserve another shot with the ball.

Felt like offer some penalties kept us out of the game. Every time we had a drive going it felt like we would get pushed I to 2nd and long with holding or false start.

Cal fans were pretty nice, though stadium bag policy is the most asinine thing ive seen. Had to walk all the way around the stadium to the 'bag' entrance. Then no one checked it or our tickets...
 

jfkgoblue

Member
Cincinnati is a hell of a better team than whoever Michigan has played thus far, that's for sure.

If people actually analyzed Houston's schedule you would see that besides Louisville we still have to play Memphis and Navy away, two teams that were ranked last year and could potentially climb up the rankings this year as well. Plus Houston would have to face in a potential conference championship USF or ECU, more than capable teams that have already beaten P5 teams this year.

These are not shitty teams, as much as some of you would like to think. The difference between the better AAC teams and most of the P5 stock (save for the blue bloods) is not as big as you think it is.
Compare 1 ranked team, with 3 top ten teams on Michigan's schedule, plus Colorado is most definitely better than Cincinatti, plus @Iowa and if we make it, the B1G CCG. That's 4-5 ranked teams on the schedule


When you are talking about Memphis and Navy as "tough" games, you know the schedule is a joke
 

Lunar15

Member
The good news is that Tenn has been just about the least impressive ranked team and our defense has started to look a lot more confident.

QB woes for days, weeks, years.

Probably worse than Del Rio is the fact that we lost Ivey for half the next game as well, for throwing a punch after the whole Del Rio hit. The O-Line wasn't great to begin with, but now we're down multiple starters. To be fair, Tennessee also lost some key starters yesterday.

I'd say we could win through our defense, but they get a surprisingly low amount of turnovers.
 

MrJames

Member
Probably worse than Del Rio is the fact that we lost Ivey for half the next game as well, for throwing a punch after the whole Del Rio hit. The O-Line wasn't great to begin with, but now we're down multiple starters. To be fair, Tennessee also lost some key starters yesterday.

I'd say we could win through our defense, but they get a surprisingly low amount of turnovers.

Ivey won't miss time. That is for targeting only. Tyler Jordan was out yesterday and may be out against Tennessee.

They say Del Rio barely beat out Appleby for the starting job so hopefully there won't be a massive drop off like in previous years.
 

andycapps

Member
Bert can't beat Bama. Period. The only team in that division that could possibly beat them is A&M

Yeah I think Malzahn's lucky rabbit foot was returned to the store so Auburn has no chance at it. Both divisions of the SEC look pretty poor right now. Maybe some improve as the season goes on.

Arkansas hasn't beaten them since Saban has been there. It would take a miracle.
I didn't say it was likely, just looking at the schedule I don't see many threats.
 
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