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College Football 2016 Week Five: We got to see them BOTH lose!
- Thread starter mre
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Insane that this defense is a couple of steps ahead of last year with all of the losses. I know the competition isn't the best but tOSU wasn't completely stonewalling offenses like they have been at this point. Here's hoping Urban can hang onto Schiano for a couple more years.
Imagine if College football trading was a thing.
That's what people want, everytime Nick Saban has a problem with a player transferring.
Well, duh. If Tennesee beats A&M and bama they would likely have the best resume of any team at that point.
Not only have to beat both of them, have to beat one of them twice, most likely.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
So the Atlanta Braves played their final game at Turner Field tonight.
Here's one potential rendering of Turner's future as Georgia State's football stadium (via reddit/r/CFB's twitter):
Here's one potential rendering of Turner's future as Georgia State's football stadium (via reddit/r/CFB's twitter):
zyxwvu4321
Member
Oh hey, we're ranked. And won't (shouldn't) drop out next week (bye week!).
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
So the Atlanta Braves played their final game at Turner Field tonight.
Here's one potential rendering of Turner's future as Georgia State's football stadium (via reddit/r/CFB's twitter):
That looks about as dumb as when they tried to play at Wrigley field...
Congrats to whoever your team is!
His username literally has wvu in it.
Randolph Freelander
Member
It's a backwards alphabet and a countdown. He obviously knows something about the cosmos the rest of us do not know, probably an extinction level event. He says they won't drop out next week, so we probably have some time, but then he also called it a bye week.
tl;dr we're all dead.
Yeah, really bad. Guess they practice that the end of practice every Thursday. The guys knew what to do, just didn't do it. College football in a nutshell. UGA football in particular.
This picture is fantastic.
And this picture from UGA wide receiver Reggie Wilkerson is interesting. Don't think he's played at all this year, but maybe the older members of the team like him haven't bought into what Kirby is selling.
I'd imagine most of the older players are not happy. Afterall, they got to go from Richt's philosophy to Kirby's, which I'm sure is not too far from Saban's if its any different. Looks liek alot of players who were expected to be big players haven't stepped up and at times have quit on plays and such.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
It seems like a no duh situation, but I guarantee you if such a scenario unfolds then the talk after the game will be more about Alabama and/or the SEC being overrated, resulting in Tennessee not moving past #3 in the AP (unless Clemson, Michigan, and Ohio State fall in the next two weeks).
I would say wait and see but then again we are talking about a dream scenario here.
bucknuticus
Member
A Texas source says the school is "very close" to deciding to fire Charlie Strong at the end of the season.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Supposedly Charlie is gonna demote the D coordinator and take over. So says the ticker on ESPN right now.
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Well, the Louisville teams he coached were tough on D, right?things couldn't get much worse for Texas D, so it isn't a bad idea, and one that will save his chances of running a premiere program ever again.
peteykirch
Member
Did Charlie bring his list of rules from UL to Texas? Maybe that's what they need?
Heh
Heh
For sure, I've thought for some time now that there could be a real problem in the locker room because of the culture change. Let's face it, playing for Richt would have been like going to a country club. Richt didn't correct guys at practice and coach them up. He stood there and watched them and maybe later he'd talk to their position coach about something wrong that they did. Kirby is coaching kids up immediately, he's throwing passes in practice for kids to practice with. He's way more hands on and way more intense than Richt was. And he has no loyalty to play older guys just because they've been there longer. They have to earn playing time every week.
I could see all of that rubbing guys the wrong way that weren't recruited by Kirby.
Who knows. I think Tennessee has Auburn's lucky rabbit foot that they had a few years ago.
bucknuticus
Member
Nothing else seems to be working for Oregon might as well try an old school name
I think you're on to something here. I haven't looked at any other games get but I wouldn't be shocked if that's the one.
Hippopuncher12
Member
I assume he will stay at least 1 more season due to Urban's request to stay for 2 seasons. If the defense continues to improve though I just don't see him staying longer than that, I also don't see Fick staying that much longer I mean someone has to offer him a HC job he would like at some point.
Coming up with next week's pick 'em games is revealing quite a few. Purdue/Illinois is the other game of 2 stinkers, plus a whole bunch of probable blowouts.
Pretty sure that auburn team got the shit kicked out of one time on the road by LSU. This weekend probably correlates to this game.
perfectchaos007
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FloydtheFathead
Member
But he did it with respect..
bucknuticus
Member
@RedditCFB
Hmm... Urban Meyer hit 1 million followers yesterday and Jim Harbaugh mysteriously gained 5,000 egg followers overnight to match that...
I also bet urban has a gazillion egg followers. WHO CAN GET THE MOST EGGS?!
Hmm... Urban Meyer hit 1 million followers yesterday and Jim Harbaugh mysteriously gained 5,000 egg followers overnight to match that...
I also bet urban has a gazillion egg followers. WHO CAN GET THE MOST EGGS?!
So the NCAA gets scolded, but doesn't have to pay out (yet)?
@RedditCFB
Hmm... Urban Meyer hit 1 million followers yesterday and Jim Harbaugh mysteriously gained 5,000 egg followers overnight to match that...
I also bet urban has a gazillion egg followers. WHO CAN GET THE MOST EGGS?!
Assuming this site is correct, Harbaugh has 81% legit followers vs Meyer's 85%.
ErnieMcCracken
Member
@RedditCFB
Hmm... Urban Meyer hit 1 million followers yesterday and Jim Harbaugh mysteriously gained 5,000 egg followers overnight to match that...
I also bet urban has a gazillion egg followers. WHO CAN GET THE MOST EGGS?!
But how many does Peppers have?
I poll for /r/cfb and thought you guys might like to see my ballot. I have an odd way of looking at the sport so I figured this would be an easy way to share my observations from the week.
Notes- I still have a predilection for undefeated teams this early on. That factors less and less as the season goes on obviously. While Washington had the most impressive win of the week thus earning them the two spot, I think Louisville is a better team than Stanford, thus earning Clemson the 1 spot. I'm a bit higher on Colorado and G5 teams than most. I don't believe in the "quality loss", but Oklahoma losing to two bonafide top six teams and beating a borderline t25 team in TCU earns them their ranking IMO. The same goes for Ole Miss to an extent, though I am now of the belief that FSU will be an 8-4 team at best. Taking Bama to the late 4th and beating what I consider a top 30ish team in Memphis makes up for that though.
Notes- I still have a predilection for undefeated teams this early on. That factors less and less as the season goes on obviously. While Washington had the most impressive win of the week thus earning them the two spot, I think Louisville is a better team than Stanford, thus earning Clemson the 1 spot. I'm a bit higher on Colorado and G5 teams than most. I don't believe in the "quality loss", but Oklahoma losing to two bonafide top six teams and beating a borderline t25 team in TCU earns them their ranking IMO. The same goes for Ole Miss to an extent, though I am now of the belief that FSU will be an 8-4 team at best. Taking Bama to the late 4th and beating what I consider a top 30ish team in Memphis makes up for that though.
bucknuticus
Member
As many tackles as he had this weekend.
:jnc
FloydtheFathead
Member
Damn
bucknuticus
Member
OSUn and Alabama have given up 1 rushing TD combined. One broken tackle against Mississippi away from 0
Aka: OSUn only team in the nation to yet give up a rushing TD
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Nothing else seems to be working for Oregon might as well try an old school name
1. Ugly
2. is their mascot gonna get replaced with a Land Before Time character or something?
3. why the fuck did they put Oregon's flag on the helmet? It's one of the US's plague of shitty, shitty, shitty blue Seal-on-a-Bedsheet monstrosities
4. ugly
5. literally no green and wrong yellow. none of these colors are oregon's colors. are these supposed to be faux-throwbacks?
6. ugly
chaosblade
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I don't think anyone else can see that link. Or at least it tells me permission denied in Chrome and just doesn't load in Firefox.
That's a funny shade of green.Nothing else seems to be working for Oregon might as well try an old school name
Affeinvasion
Member
They're trying to trick the other team into thinking they're playing a better team.
Unfortunately for you the TSIO is gonna be the handoff we aren't going to play anyone with a pulse and are going to be regulated to the Jefferson pilot game for the rest of the year.
Edit: Speaking of this year Jalen Hurd/Hurts is going to be the death of Verne.
We fucking get it, you can't stand the Peppers hype...
Also OSU has yet to play anybody with a pulse, you are acting the same way as Michigan fans earlier in the year which you complained about so much.
Is Notre Dame really any better this year?
Looks like Illinois is putting a ton of money into facilities upgrades. Enclosing the South endzone, weight training facilities, recruiting pizzazz, etc.
Dat BTN money...
If the Big 12 doesn't do something to keep up with the other 4 P5 conferences fast they will slip to AAC level fast.