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CFB Week 8: Biased Pollsters Prevent America from Experiencing Game of the Century.
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Did you miss Michigan/PSU last week?
chicko1983
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fair enough then.
However, I thought student athlete's basically get a free ride so no need to cheat. Good on ND for taking a stand on it.
The free ride is the free education. There's at least some work that these guys have to complete, and they must have been cheating pretty badly to get suspended like this. There's a certain amount of leniency that athletes get that your average student does not get. They have tutors, people that meet with them regularly to see how they're doing in class, etc.
Affeinvasion
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Not at Notre Dame they don't. I had football players in a bunch of my classes and they had to do all the work that I did. The suspended players got sent before an academic review board like anyone who cheats or plagiarizes and got suspended for a year with a chance to be readmitted.
The Outsider
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I'm debating whether I should go to the UCLA-Cal game this weekend. Not a fan of either time, but I just moved to California and I'd like to watch some college football. How's the tailgaiting scene in Berkeley?
Depends where you're from. It's probably ok, but not some kind of event. I mean they also have the 49'ers and the Raiders right there.
The Outsider
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I went to UF for four years. Just looking to have a fun time on Saturday. Not looking to break the bank though, which I'm afraid might be the case with an NFL game.
It's not like the SEC. If you want a football game with plenty of scoring and high-flying offenses, go for it.
If you want anything more, you won't find it there.
The Outsider
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I'm a Gators fan. I enjoy anything that even somewhat resembles an offense at this point.
Purple Cheeto
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Oregon State and Utah are auditioning for the SEC of a few years ago when the SEC still played defense.
Alcibiades
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Another Pac-12 game going down to the wire...
Alcibiades
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and that was that... was cheering for Oregon State... oh well...
perfectchaos007
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Thurs/Friday games have been killing me this year in the pickem. ugh
StrikerObi
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Here are my updated final picks. Why the fuck did I pick both VT and ORSt yesterday? I'm a retard. At least the Beavers took Utah into overtime, so I can feel alright about that pick. But Virginia Tech!? What the fuck happened out there? I only caught bits and pieces of the game, including what has to be on of the worst red zone performances I have EVER seen, when VT managed to shoot themselves in the foot about a dozen times right at the end of the first half.
With VT losing to Pitt, has anybody done the math to figure out if it's still possible for the entire ACC Coastal to go 4-4 this year?
With VT losing to Pitt, has anybody done the math to figure out if it's still possible for the entire ACC Coastal to go 4-4 this year?
Stephen Garcia opened up his mouth regarding players signing autographs for money. As you can imagine, it's priceless.
Affeinvasion
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Money isn't free if it comes with consequences.
Do you think Stephen Garcia thinks about consequences?
Randolph Freelander
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BREAKING NEWS: NCAA suspends the entire roster of 12 SEC teams. Kentucky and Vanderbilt will meet in SEC championship game.
perfectchaos007
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They can't, they're in different divisions! Kentucky or Vandy would would win the SEC-CG by default
Randolph Freelander
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With 12 teams kicked to the curb, divisions don't matter.
(Note that the winner would get an automatic selection to the college football playoff.)
(As would the loser.)
Hey, losing in the SECCG is basically the same thing as winning a lesser conference.
I think Kentucky got a B1G Championship Trophy in 2013 for finishing last in the SEC.
I heard they're an up and coming program.
Who can forget their dramatic Rose Bowl victory over Stanford?
What consequences? Manziel had photos of him signing in a hotel room pop up (and video seen by some reporters and other non-NCAA affiliated individuals) and still barely received a slap on the wrist because it's impossible to prove they took money for the autographs. Is it obvious that they're taking money? Of course. It's very hard to prove anything if they're taking cash payments though.
Xplatformer
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The Hokies QB looked 2nd string high school player bad.
perfectchaos007
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tOSU disagrees
Tempted to make a snarky comment (more about the weird brand of Christianity that sports programs foster than about OU) but I won't.
Hope he gets the help he needs.
Davis Webb may be having a bad year for us thus far, but at least we can now be pretty sure that Brewer wasn't going to be the answer if he was still around. He's looked terrible all season from what I've watched.
http://www.tomahawknation.com/2014/10/17/6996059/jameis-winston-rescues-stray-puppy
Some of the comments have been pretty amazing:
Has this been authenticated by JSA?
story checks out
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Eyewitnesses report that Jameis was seen asking the dog "You stray?", to which the dog replied "I’m stray, if you stray".
Jameis then said "We stray, den!"
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Somebody please photoshop jameis into the Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial
"For 55 autographs a month..."
"That’s less than two autographs a day."
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"There are not yet any reports on if Winston accepted money for this dog"
"Sources who checked the animal shelter website have found that Winston has turned in over 2000 dogs"
timetokill
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We stray, den! :jnc wow
Affeinvasion
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Dsyndrome
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That's the best thing I've seen all day. Did Vegas not reopen the game up this week?
Affeinvasion
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I believe they did.
Purple Cheeto
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Kansas State @ Oklahoma by 7
Iowa @ Maryland by 6
Virginia @ Duke by 4
Texas A&M @ Alabama by 13
UCLA @ California by 7
Clemson @ Boston College by 5
Oklahoma State @ TCU by 10
Missouri @ Florida by 6
Notre Dame @ Florida State by 10
Stanford @ Arizona State by 4
Percy Harvin is a bad teammate and a jerk who likes to fight his own teammates. I would never have expected such a player to come out of Urban Meyer's sterling clean Gator program.
Iowa @ Maryland by 6
Virginia @ Duke by 4
Texas A&M @ Alabama by 13
UCLA @ California by 7
Clemson @ Boston College by 5
Oklahoma State @ TCU by 10
Missouri @ Florida by 6
Notre Dame @ Florida State by 10
Stanford @ Arizona State by 4
Percy Harvin is a bad teammate and a jerk who likes to fight his own teammates. I would never have expected such a player to come out of Urban Meyer's sterling clean Gator program.
I can feel it in my bones, tomorrow we are going to stomp FSU. I always give Michigan fans shit for being scum but FSU is the scum of college football. Tomorrow ND strikes a blow for the good guys and buries the scumbags of the college football world. I'm old enough to still be salty as fuck over the media's gift national championship to FSU in 93..........scumbags. Their scumbag QB, scumbag AD , and scumbag coach are all going to be touched by college football royalty tomorrow night. So pumped
Are you sure it isn't just gas?
This is a good post.
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