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[mre]

Welcome everyone to another year of College Football. With the lengthy preseason full of meaningless exhibition games played on college campuses and in Australian stadiums finally behind us, we can finally get down to business. But first, a look back at last year:

AP Top 25

RK TEAM REC PTS TREND
1 Alabama(33) 0-0 1469 —
2 Clemson(16) 0-0 1443 —
3 Oklahoma(4) 0-0 1352 —
4 Florida State(5) 0-0 1325 —
5 LSU(1) 0-0 1269 —
6 Ohio State(1) 0-0 1224 —
7 Michigan(1) 0-0 1147 —
8 Stanford 0-0 1029 —
9 Tennessee 0-0 1021 —
10 Notre Dame 0-0 1006 —
11 Ole Miss 0-0 718 —
12 Michigan State 0-0 710 —
13 TCU 0-0 707 —
14 Washington 0-0 651 —
15 Houston 0-0 644 —
17 Iowa 0-0 484 —
18 Georgia 0-0 448 —
19 Louisville 0-0 447 —
20 USC 0-0 344 —
21 Oklahoma State 0-0 316 —
22 North Carolina 0-0 283 —
23 Baylor 0-0 280 —
24 Oregon 0-0 218 —
25 Florida 0-0 180 —

How in the hell is Tennessee ranked number 9? I can only think that some how this is Cyan's fault. Get your shit together, Hobbes.

Notable Week 1 Games
Thursday, September 1
MATCHUP TIME  (CT) NAT TV LOCATION
Charlotte #19Louisville 6:00 PM ESPN3 Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, KY
Appalachian State #9Tennessee 6:30 PM SECN Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TN
South Carolina Vanderbilt 7:00 PM ESPN Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN
Oregon State Minnesota 8:00 PM BTN TCF Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN

Friday, September 2
MATCHUP TIME  (CT) NAT TV LOCATION
Colorado State Colorado 7:00 PM ESPN Sports Authority Field, Denver, CO
Kansas State #8Stanford 8:00 PM FS1 Stanford Stadium, Stanford, CA

Saturday, September 3
MATCHUP TIME  (CT) NAT TV LOCATION
Georgia Tech Boston College 6:30 AM ESPN2 Aviva Stadium, Dublin
#3Oklahoma #15Houston 11:00 AM ABC NRG Stadium, Houston, TX
Hawaii #7Michigan 11:00 AM ESPN Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI
Rutgers #14Washington 1:00 PM PAC12 Husky Stadium, Seattle, WA
#16UCLA Texas A&M 2:30 PM CBS Kyle Field, College Station, TX
#5LSU Wisconsin 2:30 PM ABC Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI
#18Georgia #22North Carolina 4:30 PM ESPN Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA
#20USC #1Alabama 7:00 PM ABC AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX
#2Clemson Auburn 8:00 PM ESPN Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, AL
BYU Arizona 9:30 PM University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ

Sunday, September 4
MATCHUP TIME  (CT) NAT TV LOCATION
#10Notre Dame Texas 6:30 PM ABC Royal Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, TX

Monday, September 5
MATCHUP TIME  (CT) NAT TV LOCATION
#11Ole Miss #4Florida State 7:00 PM ESPN Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL

PICK 'EM - Modernized for a more genteel day and age

So archaic bullshit is out and slightly modern bullshit is in. Here's how it works. You make your 12 picks, they're each worth 1 point. Then there's a bonus round. If you get within a field goal of the total score for a random game that week, you get a field goal added to your score. So you can earn up to 15 points per week. First game is Friday at 7:00PM central, which is when I'll close the responses. If you want to submit after that, you'll have to PM me your picks. You will need a Google account in order to submit and you can change your response up until the cutoff time.

Link

The games are:

• Colorado State @ Colorado
• Kansas State @ Stanford
• Oklahoma vs. Houston
• Missouri @ West Virginia
• UCLA @ Texas A&M
• LSU vs. Wisconsin
• Miami(OH) @ Iowa
• Georgia vs. North Carolina
• USC vs. Alabama
• Northern Iowa @ Iowa State
• Notre Dame @ Texas
• Ole Miss vs. Florida State [Bonus Round: Total Score]

The Decided Schematic Advantage

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[GoldenEye 007]

Citroknightro's road to the national championship begins Saturday!

 

[Lonestar]

Alabama Internet getting a workout.

 

[Draxal]

Thank you for putting the Sparty punt block gifs. All time favorite.

 

[BTM]

We back. GBR!

 

[mre]

Thank you for putting the Sparty punt block gifs. All time favorite.

Those were always going in. My favorite, if you know the context, is probably this one of Clemson not even going into the locker room at half time against Miami, and instead just having capri suns and orange slices packed by their mom on the field:

 

[Nialrot]

Who's excited for the First Frost to begin Saturday?

 

[qcf x2]

This feels like it's gonna be one of those unpredictable seasons, even by NCAAF standards.

Go Buckeyes!

 

[suberzat]

Let's go LSU

Tigers

 

[Balphon]

Washington's road to 15-0 begins.

 

[Lonestar]

Too Full of Bama Pawwl

 

[Sirpopopop]

Looking forward to Washington getting SMASHED this weekend.

Chris Petersen exposed as fraud coach.

Texas Tech University is probably going to lose too. I bet no one cares though, because it's Texas Tech. The seventh most relevant team in Texas behind El Paso.

Texas Relevancy Rankings:

1. Texas
2. Texas A&M
3. Baylor
4. TCU
5. Houston
6. SMU
7. UTEP.
8. Texas Tech University

Oh wait! Sorry! I meant eighth!

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Excited to see Notre Dame beat Texas this weekend.

 

[Balphon]

Missed prime joke opportunity to include non-Texas school in Texas state power rankings.

Shame.

Spoiler

Also, poor UTSA.

 

[Sirpopopop]

Missed prime joke opportunity to include non-Texas school in Texas state power rankings.

Shame.

This is a fair and accurate list of Texas teams in Texas!

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Gator Status:Go

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Time to wear the Boise State colors again.

 

[Lonestar]

 

[Balphon]

This is a fair and accurate list of Texas teams in Texas!

There are 12 FBS teams in Texas!

I'd also be willing to entertain arguments that Ball State is in Texas, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Point being, this list is fraudulent.

 

[ag-my001]

Gig'em, Aggies!

And :jnc at the A&M fan on Finebaum that thought ESPN was being harsh putting us at 8-4 instead of 10+ wins. I'm still hoping for a path to six.

 

[KefkaPalazzo]

Get ready for another!!

 

[AlteredBeast]

Goooooooo Big Reeeeeeeeeeeddddddddd!

Psyched as always for the season. College football is my reason to live (sorry honey, and children) for 4 months a year!

 

[FelixOrion]

UCLA OP title, no UCLA in the OP, lol

We back. GBR!

Goooooooo Big Reeeeeeeeeeeddddddddd!

Psyched as always for the season. College football is my reason to live (sorry honey, and children) for 4 months a year!

GO BIG RED

 

[Bunta]

Good ole Notorious GOP.

 

[FelixOrion]

My favorite video from last year

Young Arkansas fan: "I don't wanna go to the football ever again because the Razorbacks always lose!"

 

[Frustrated_Grunt]

CFB is suffering.

I'm hyped!

 

[Vanillalite]

About to listen!

 

[truly101]

Checks OP gifs

breathes sigh of relief.

 

[Lunar15]

I can't wait for the Gators to have a better team but a worse record this year. Gonna be fun!

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Who's excited for the First Frost to begin Saturday?

it's going to be chilly in Orlando on Sat. Frosty even. unseasonably cool

 

[jjasper]

Starting in the top 10. what could go wrong?

 

[george_us]

This feels like it's gonna be one of those unpredictable seasons, even by NCAAF standards.

Go Buckeyes!

Joe Thomas gonna get us back to the promised land

 

[ryseing]

WE BACK FAM

This week has some great matchups. So happy we're playing Thursday so I can relax and watch Saturday's entire slate in peace.

 

[Frustrated_Grunt]

Starting in the top 10. what could go wrong?

 

[perfectchaos007]

What's the Yahoo! password?

 

[Poeton]

Excited to see Notre Dame beat Texas this weekend.

And I am excited for the opposite!

 

[The Outsider]

I can't wait for the Gators to have a better team but a worse record this year. Gonna be fun!

This is pretty much where I'm at. 8-4 sounds reasonable, right? And maybe a mediocre bowl win or something.

We doing pick 'em this year? I usually play for the first five weeks and subsequently forget to do it the rest of the year, but hey, maybe this is my year.

 

[andycapps]

Great OT. I'm ready for a season of great moments and hopefully a lot more moments like these.

 

[MIMIC]

Whoever loses 2nd in the top 8 wins the title!

 

[Reptars Revenge]

See you at the championship in Tampa. Not because the gators will make it but I live there.

 

[Dsyndrome]

Let's see what an offseason can do for you Charlie Strong, at least you didn't have six players arrested in one weekend.

 

[Affeinvasion]

What's the Yahoo! password?

If people are legitimately interested I can set up a Yahoo pick em again this year. It's as easy as hitting the Renew League button.

OR I can set up an ESPN one if people would prefer.

 

[chaosblade]

Glad I'm off this weekend, season is starting with a bang.

 

[andycapps]

If people are legitimately interested I can set up a Yahoo pick em again this year.

I'll stick with the one mre is setting up. I found the Yahoo one more time consuming.

 

[Rommel]

Alright BYU lets have a repeat 1st game win. If we can avoid the heart attack at the end it would be nice.

 

[FelixOrion]

Alright BYU lets have a repeat 1st game win. If we can avoid the heart attack at the end it would be nice.

This is disgusting

Cyan, please ban this guy

 

[Randolph Freelander]

 

[Yaboosh]

Just to let everyone know ahead of time everybody is required to be positive towards FSU on Monday night so that we can all collectively will them into a victory.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Go Huskies! Magnificent OP!

 

[StoOgE]

If people are legitimately interested I can set up a Yahoo pick em again this year. It's as easy as hitting the Renew League button.

OR I can set up an ESPN one if people would prefer.

Cyan can back me on this, but I will personally ban anyone who tries to improve our archaic bullshit pick em system.