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CFB Week 7: Katy Perry, Football Goddess. Everyone else, Cougin It.
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Syracuse lost their starting qb for the season and just demoted their oc. If you manage to lose this game ...
Yeah i just read that article. We are really banged up right now. I missed the game on Saturday, did we look ok?
Randolph Freelander
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Slow start offensively, I recall a couple of turnovers early, but the defense looked better than they have all year. On the other hand, the opponent was Wake Forest.
Don't the Cyclones get hosed every year?
Eh, I don't think so. They just don't have the horses to compete in a power conference.
Also, good correction. That was a huge missed opportunity to deploy #Stick2Cooking.
PlayALLtheGames
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Oh boy. Over/under FSU rushing 50 yards total against Syracuse?
I know they got hosed by the refs against UT last season. Seems like I remember some other cases as well but I definitely remember Rhoads going off about that goal line non-fumble in the UT game.
I guess we'll start bending over again.
It's more than football. We got screwed a few years ago during the KU bb game, in the NCAA tourney that same year against Ohio State, last year against Texas, last year against KU basketball again, this year against KSU, an then last Saturday. Out of these, the only one to not cost the game was last Saturday.
I'll never forgive Mack Brown, and I have that ref's face plastered in my brain as the dictionary definition of 'incompetent.'
perfectchaos007
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I'm sure the Missouri Valley Conference will give ISU the respect they deserve.
On a serious note, I wonder what kind of leverage ISU actually has. Like how would the Big 12 respond if ISU threatened to leave the conference. Would the Big 12 bend over backwards to convince them to say or would they say "Bye Bitch" and invite UCF?
lol
I'm not really sure. On one hand, we bring in revenue for wrestling, but not as much as OSU. We bring in basketball revenue, but not as much as KU. Our football is bringing in record numbers for us, and we're expanding the stadium, so there's money to be had there. We've fared pretty well for track and cross country, but again we aren't the big dogs in those sports. So for those few (and small) aspects I can see the Big 12 wanting to keep us, but otherwise they'd probably be fine with letting us go. We wouldn't leave because where would we end up? Probably some crappy mid-major or possibly the B1G.
Related: Funny thing is that I could see ISU finishing second or third in the B1G West, but yet finishing last in the Big 12.
EDIT: Tinfoil hat time. Bob Bowlsby, former AD of Iowa and UNI, aspired to the Big 12 commish to bring down ISU through poor officiating.
bucknuticus
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Frustrated_Grunt
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lol
I don't know why I should hate Paul. Every time I see a clip of him, it's just him being silent and yelled at.
I don't know why I should hate Paul. Every time I see a clip of him, it's just him being silent and yelled at.
perfectchaos007
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awesome
bucknuticus
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he's literally created a radio version of a sec message board. He barely talks he just lets the callers yell at each other
This is amazing.
Oh my goodness.
Dreams-Visions
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that would be awkward, having gone to U. Mich. Alum and all that.
life has been hard lately. long suffering Cleveland sports fan who at least had Michigan football every year to enjoy mostly. Now I'm just long-suffering. Weekends would be numb for me if the Browns stunk.
At least I have our Cavs...and the Browns are looking like they're going to be good in a year or two.
Randolph Freelander
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You should know by now it will always be a year or two away.
Smart talk from a guy in charge of a program that has experienced sluggish ticket sales recently.
Yeah, they definitely didn't purposefully call 30 penalties against Nebraska in the game against A&M during their last year in the conference. Never happened.
Dreams-Visions
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pls my heart. let me dream.
Please tell me that you knew NDSU, who beat ISU this year, is in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
GoldenEye 007
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Georgia Southern says: Go GATA.
http://footballscoop.com/news/georgia-southern-debuts-new-traditions-alternate-uniform/
http://footballscoop.com/news/georgia-southern-debuts-new-traditions-alternate-uniform/
To be fair, they've been saying that for years.
I would guess a fair amount of leverage, as would anybody who tries to leave the Big 12, since the next school that decides to leave (no matter their own prestige) would essentially be the death knell for the conference.
Anybody that wanted to leave would have to have a P5 offer to do it, though. Big 12 TV money versus lower conference TV money makes up for a lot of bad calls by the refs.
serenewarfare
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So I heard some stuff tonight that suggests that Gameday is coming back to Tallahassee for the FSU-ND game next week. Are there really no other big games that they can justify coming back for the second time already or do they just not care?
perfectchaos007
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since when did you get a tag and why does the url lead to an unavailable youtube video?
I've had it for a while, and the video worked when I first got it. I don't know why I got it, or what the video had to do with it. Maybe one of our resident mods can shed some light on it, if they keep records for that sort of thing
It's been confirmed to be the 8:00 PM primetime spot on ABC, so it would make sense for GameDay to be there. Looking at the Week 8 schedule, the only other decent match-ups are (17) K-State vs. (11) Oklahoma, (14) A&M vs. (7) Bama, and (16) Ok. St. vs. (9) TCU.
Considering ESPN doesn't particularly want their SEC pre-game show at the same location as GameDay, this rules out A&M vs. Bama. Ok. St. vs. TCU is covered by FOX Sports 1, and the A&M vs. Bama game is the CBS afternoon game. Also, ND vs. FSU is a top ten match-up with two very solid and GameDay-friendly fanbases. Sure, GameDay doesn't like going to the same place twice in one season, but considering the other games on the slate, ND vs. FSU makes sense, especially because of the ABC affiliate.
Just for the record, aside from being the second time GameDay visits FSU in this season (first time for the Clemson game), it's also the third time this season FSU's been in the GameDay location game (the first being the Dallas opener against Ok. St.).
Go Noles.
(25) Stanford vs. (20) Arizona State play that week, but who cares.
BertramCooper
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This is life-changing.
chicko1983
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What is your lock of the week this week cyan???
I'll lock in northwestern to defeat minnesota to give you a chance hehe
I don't know how it all works over there but I assume game day is played in the morning/early afternoon before Eastern time zone games.
Hence it's pretty hard and not as big crowds for the live game day shows that are held on the pacific coast?
Also, Stanford v Arizona state game will be close, but it will be riddled with errors as well. You got a team that can't convert red zone downs against a very unpredictable team.
The pick of the games will be miss state v auburn but they can't go back to Mississippi again can they?
chicko1983
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Sorry, you were talking about next week.
The pick of the games for week 8 will be nd v fsu. Two unbeaten teams (likely) and one or both are playoff contention
The pick of the games for week 8 will be nd v fsu. Two unbeaten teams (likely) and one or both are playoff contention
Yeah, Erk Russell started that at Georgia and then took it to Southern when he went there. He took it from the Georgia Tech Athletic Association and hated Tech so much that he wanted to change around the letters and come up with a new saying. Stands for Get After Their Asses. The politically correct way that you'll hear Richt still say it is Get After Them Aggressively, but we know what the acronym really means.
UGA actually had GATA on the goalposts this year on the padding for the first game, and then they were gone after that. I think the conference asked them to remove them for some reason.
Erk had tons of those sayings. My favorite is probably "If we score, we might win. If they never score, we'll never lose." He liked to headbutt his players (while their helmets were on) before the game to get them pumped up.
I'm not saying our resident Bama fans are like this, but the average ones that you will meet in the south are insufferable. I would have loved to be in Alabama when they lost so I could hear the reactions.
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Might have free ticket to go to dawgville this Thanksgiving. Parents are def going now as friends gave them 2 tickets and a parking pass. Think they have another pair for the waifu and I. Legit sauce.
Maybe I've been out of the south for a while, but what is dawgville?
bucknuticus
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This entire post. SMH so much...
StrikerObi
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I got hosed last week (6 games right + 2 MoV bonus), but then again pretty much everybody else did too so I guess that's alright. I bet that at the end of the season, a lot of people's Week 6 gets dropped as their worst. Anyway here we go.
GAF Pick'em Week 7 Games
Georgia @ Missouri by 4
West Virginia @ Texas Tech by 10
Northwestern @ Minnesota by 4
Duke @ Georgia Tech by 6
Auburn @ Mississippi State by 4
TCU @ Baylor by 6
Oregon @ UCLA by 6
Washington @ California by 4 I WANT TO BELIEVE
Penn State @ Michigan by 4
LSU @ Florida by 4
Ole Miss @ Texas A&M by 4
USC @ Arizona by 6[/QUOTE]
GAF Pick'em Week 7 Games
Georgia @ Missouri by 4
West Virginia @ Texas Tech by 10
Northwestern @ Minnesota by 4
Duke @ Georgia Tech by 6
Auburn @ Mississippi State by 4
TCU @ Baylor by 6
Oregon @ UCLA by 6
Washington @ California by 4 I WANT TO BELIEVE
Penn State @ Michigan by 4
LSU @ Florida by 4
Ole Miss @ Texas A&M by 4
USC @ Arizona by 6[/QUOTE]
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