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College Football 2016 Week 3 - Alabama still has more wins in Jerry World than Dallas
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AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
It is why I am glad the playoff committee doesn't release rankings until well into the season. With the flux of players each year, it makes no sense to release a top 25 before the season begins that sets the scale for the rest of the year.
It would be nice for there to be a rule that no rankings would get released until after the 4th week. At least nearly all OOC play would be done at that point and things would be clearer.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
I'm not freaking out, just banging the "SEC bias" drum like I always do.
Well, SEC bias obviously exists, but it helps that Alabama truly is almost always the best team in the country. If it weren't for them, the entire league's rankings would be more elastic.
Thanks, Abama...
Purple Cheeto
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Jacoby Brissett is playing for the New England Patriots.
It's because all the writers in the country are secretly SEC fans. And the SID's voting in the coaches poll are only from SEC programs. Didn't you know?
Alabama and the 9 dwarves.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Pretty much. Once every 3 or 4 years, however, Papa Saban feels magnanimous and grants a wish so that another SECSECSEC team* can feel special about themselves.
*Only LSU, Ole Miss, or Auburn need apply.
bucknuticus
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AP voter out of minny has Ole Miss 12th and palm beach voter has them 13th and has OU 12th.
full listing here:
http://i.imgur.com/BLbEoFk.png
full listing here:
http://i.imgur.com/BLbEoFk.png
AP voter out of minny has Ole Miss 12th and palm beach voter has them 13th and has OU 12th.
full listing here:
http://i.imgur.com/BLbEoFk.png
Uninformed writers vs uninformed SID's? Who is worse? It's a toss up.
Let's do this line by line. Let me start off by saying that Ole Miss was CFB's best shot at getting Bama a loss and that has passed. I honestly believe that Ole Miss is the second best team in the SECW. Additionally, Alabama typically gels as a unit more and more as the season goes. With that being said....
C'mon man. LSU has a worse defense than Bama. LSU has a drastically worse offense than Bama (And arguably some of worst offense in west. Think 1D Tic-Tac-Toe). This game might get uglier than last year's meeting.
This is CFB's best hope is getting Bama a loss, and it's pretty unlikely. TAMU doesn't have any run game. And while Trevor Knight isnt Johnny Manziel, he does know how to beat Bama. The last few years, this hasn't been much of a game.
2nd best option. Arkansas is a mixed bag that no one can really pin down. History tells us that Saban has never lost to Arkansas when at Alabama.
Stop. Ya'll say this every damn year and its getting adorable. Let's put this in perspective. If the college football playoff started in 2011, Alabama would have been in every single one of them. The only teams in Saban's career at Alabama that wouldn't be in the hypothetical CFB would be 2007 and 2010.
Again, Alabama starts to gel as a unit the more games go by. Henry was a great running back the first half of the season, and turned into a Heisman-caliber one by mid to late season.
You don't think Jalen Hurts will only get better as the season progresses? I mean, he's gotten better every game, and as the game progresses. What exactly changes? He just won one of the biggest games he's played all year. Kid has mad talent and potential, and is only improving with each win.
What the fuck?
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2015/12/alabama_offensive_line_wins_na.html
You just can't win the heisman trophy as a runningback if your OLine is less than amazing/great. Losing Kelly has hurt, but again, bama always improves more and more as the season progresses.
I agree
Alabama's 2s did fine when Foster, Fitzpatrick went down yesterday. The question is experience, not depth.
If Alabama loses one game, wins their division, and wins the SECCG, they're in. Plain and simple.
C'mon man. LSU has a worse defense than Bama. LSU has a drastically worse offense than Bama (And arguably some of worst offense in west. Think 1D Tic-Tac-Toe). This game might get uglier than last year's meeting.
This is CFB's best hope is getting Bama a loss, and it's pretty unlikely. TAMU doesn't have any run game. And while Trevor Knight isnt Johnny Manziel, he does know how to beat Bama. The last few years, this hasn't been much of a game.
2nd best option. Arkansas is a mixed bag that no one can really pin down. History tells us that Saban has never lost to Arkansas when at Alabama.
Just not happening. Auburn - Miss St - LSU are all in a dead heat for last place in the west. Tennessee can't score many points without defense takeaways. Saban has never lost to Tennessee either.
Stop. Ya'll say this every damn year and its getting adorable. Let's put this in perspective. If the college football playoff started in 2011, Alabama would have been in every single one of them. The only teams in Saban's career at Alabama that wouldn't be in the hypothetical CFB would be 2007 and 2010.
Again, Alabama starts to gel as a unit the more games go by. Henry was a great running back the first half of the season, and turned into a Heisman-caliber one by mid to late season.
You don't think Jalen Hurts will only get better as the season progresses? I mean, he's gotten better every game, and as the game progresses. What exactly changes? He just won one of the biggest games he's played all year. Kid has mad talent and potential, and is only improving with each win.
What the fuck?
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2015/12/alabama_offensive_line_wins_na.html
AL.com said:
You just can't win the heisman trophy as a runningback if your OLine is less than amazing/great. Losing Kelly has hurt, but again, bama always improves more and more as the season progresses.
I agree
Alabama's 2s did fine when Foster, Fitzpatrick went down yesterday. The question is experience, not depth.
If Alabama loses one game, wins their division, and wins the SECCG, they're in. Plain and simple.
One of us isn't reading that correctly, and I'm pretty sure it's not me.AP voter out of minny has Ole Miss 12th and palm beach voter has them 13th and has OU 12th.
full listing here:
http://i.imgur.com/BLbEoFk.png
bucknuticus
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chaosblade
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Find me a not-crazy PAWWWWL type Bama fan that thinks the OL actually deserved that. My reaction was basically "what the fuck." Last year's OL was mediocre as hell (by general CFB standards, not Bama standards) but looked good because Henry was insanely good.
The rest of your response is basically "they will get better." Which was my qualifier, Bama is going to have to get a lot better. What we've seen so far is not a playoff caliber team, and certainly not the #1 team in the country.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
LOL, looking at that voting sheet, there are multiple voters putting Miami in the top 12, wtf!
bucknuticus
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The U is back baby!
ErnieMcCracken
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Buckeye writer naturally has Michigan 10. Must've pained him to put them that high... But puts UL ahead of his Buckeyes? No clue why Michigan is getting a 1st place vote. Dude is crazy.
bucknuticus
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Plain dealer is a joke so its expected
AP voter out of minny has Ole Miss 12th and palm beach voter has them 13th and has OU 12th.
full listing here:
http://i.imgur.com/BLbEoFk.png
Espn's Brett Mcmurphy has Clemson 10th :O
bucknuticus
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Mac the KNife
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Pat Caputo has a vote? The AP poll really is just as useless as the Coaches poll.
Well they have beaten two P5 teams. Albeit one was Auburn.
New Coach Boom picture for somebody's avatar.
Googly Eyes Dog
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Can we agree to kick out Butgers and Maryland? It would ensure that we play against each other more often.
Interesting how much flack Mayfield has been getting this season now that he doesn't have an elite rushing game and defense backing him up. Scrambles too quickly, doesn't go through progressions, and tries to ad-lib beyond his ability to ad-lib.
It all seems incredibly familiar.
It all seems incredibly familiar.
This. These are old archaic systems that suck.
The AP poll has sucked since near inception. Its why Alabama claims 58,000 national titles because for a long time their was a legit axe to grind against the school and players for decisions they didn't have a choice about.
The coaches poll is just as much because no coah or sid has time to watch it all.
This is why we have a playoff committee.
It is also why we should ditch all preseason rankings.
Just wait for the playoof committee rankings. It does us no good to attach value to rankings atm.
We are already going crazy over them
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
ErnieMcCracken
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Notre Dame D coordinator. Had to look it up too...
I guess that means "lack of fire"? The defensive coordinator lacks fire? Or said his defense lacks fire?
Edit:
Oh, after googling it wasn't a typo. They're trying to say that Brian Kelly's twitter account "liked" a tweet from someone else saying to fire the defensive coordinator.
... who cares.
Edit:
Oh, after googling it wasn't a typo. They're trying to say that Brian Kelly's twitter account "liked" a tweet from someone else saying to fire the defensive coordinator.
... who cares.
Shadow2222
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It took me a second. He means that someone using his Twitter liked a comment/tweet saying that the defensive coordinator should be fired.
ErnieMcCracken
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So did Brian Kelly.
chaosblade
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Purple Cheeto
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Iowa, fresh off losing to NDSU is an 11 point favorite over Rutgers to open the week.
USC is a 1.5 point under dog to Utah
South Carolina vs Kentucky is a pick em
Cal is a 6.5 point under dog to Arizona State
Stanford is only a 2.5 point favorite over UCLA (but my first rule of Vegas is not to trust lines on games involving teams from California, Utah, Arizona or Nevada)
LSU is only about a 3 point favorite over Auburn
Tennessee is a 7.5 to 10 point favorite over Florida
Mississippi is a favorite over Georgia
USC is a 1.5 point under dog to Utah
South Carolina vs Kentucky is a pick em
Cal is a 6.5 point under dog to Arizona State
Stanford is only a 2.5 point favorite over UCLA (but my first rule of Vegas is not to trust lines on games involving teams from California, Utah, Arizona or Nevada)
LSU is only about a 3 point favorite over Auburn
Tennessee is a 7.5 to 10 point favorite over Florida
Mississippi is a favorite over Georgia
chaosblade
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ASU has looked terrible, how is Cal an underdog?
Rest of those don't seem unreasonable. Would favor LSU more heavily I guess, and uMiss/Georgia seems like a toss up.
Rest of those don't seem unreasonable. Would favor LSU more heavily I guess, and uMiss/Georgia seems like a toss up.
ErnieMcCracken
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Were Week 3 pick em results posted yet? Can't imagine those went too well.
FloydtheFathead
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fuck that line.. No way Tennessee covers
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
My picks against the spreads:
Utah
South Carolina
Cal
Stanford
LSU
Florida
Ole Miss
Cal has no D, TxTech had no D. The game is at ASU like the TxTech game.
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