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College Football 2017 Week 2 |OT| Remember the L-amo? Liberty sure does.

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andycapps

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perfectchaos007 said:
Nicholls was a play or two away from beating Georgia last year. Y'all are fucked
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They had two good linemen that kept them in the game. If you watched Last Chance U last season, it was Ronald Ollie and the other dude on the DL. Was a bad combination with our worst OL I've seen in years against them.
 
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100%TrophyMaster

Member
Mac the KNife said:
GO GREEN.
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GO WHITE!
Western Michigan is going to be a sneaky good game for the Spartans this week at home after they played close with USC. Would love to see them win and go into the ND game undefeated.

Btw great OT--I love the picture of the cursed scepter on the sideline of the Texas AM game. It was like one of those children's movies where he touched it and his team couldn't do anything right afterwards lol
 
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perfectchaos007

Member
Smokey said:
may the football gods strike down texas longhorn football and tom herman
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Baylor took Briles from Houston
A&M took Sumlin from Houston
Texas took Herman from Houston
???? will take Applewhite from Houston.

Your school trains coaches to go off to bigger programs. Get over it.
 
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GoldenEye 007

Member
perfectchaos007 said:
Baylor took Briles from Houston
A&M took Sumlin from Houston
Texas took Herman from Houston
???? will take Applewhite from Houston.

Your school trains coaches to go off to bigger programs. Get over it.
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Baylor: In flames and losing to Liberty. Also raped a bunch of women.
A&M: Has less division titles than Mizzou and has BoR members crying like children.
Texas: Gave up over 50 at home to a terrible football program in Maryland.

The trend is clear!
 
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DMVfan123

Banned
The big 3 in the state of Virginia (JMU, VT, UVA) went 3-0 week 1

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Hope this success continues into next week
 
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Smokey

Member
perfectchaos007 said:
Baylor took Briles from Houston
A&M took Sumlin from Houston
Texas took Herman from Houston
???? will take Applewhite from Houston.

Your school trains coaches to go off to bigger programs. Get over it.
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Shut up.

And all suffered embarrassing opening weekends. What a time.

Fuck em.
 
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Karl2177

Member
So this year, following the feedback from last year I've slightly changed the way I do the Pick 'em. I'll be dropping the worst 2 weeks for each person. This way you can still come back even if you miss a week and also hopefully it means people won't just stop participating the last few weeks.

So here is the full sheet from Week 1:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xk-jSnYueVp-juBUEP1HfTKz4uB1ODgDfTPYORxUdiY/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the running total over 1 week:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14oB6wMtBN3TgAWnUzysoWqpmSlLGVY5XhU5MAluLv-U/edit?usp=sharing

And here are this week's games:
L'VILLE@UNC
USF@UCONN
IOWA@ISU
PITT@PSU
TCU@ARK
CMU@KU
NEB@ORE
AUB@CLEM
SCAR@MIZZOU
OU@tOSU(bonus points for total score)
UGA@ND
STAN@USC

Link to Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/w45YYKty5K6LFQIv2
 
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BTM

Member
Karl2177 said:
So this year, following the feedback from last year I've slightly changed the way I do the Pick 'em. I'll be dropping the worst 2 weeks for each person. This way you can still come back even if you miss a week and also hopefully it means people won't just stop participating the last few weeks.

So here is the full sheet from Week 1:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Here's the running total over 1 week:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

And here are this week's games:
L'VILLE@UNC
USF@UCONN
IOWA@ISU
PITT@PSU
TCU@ARK
CMU@KU
NEB@ORE
AUB@CLEM
SCAR@MIZZOU
OU@tOSU(bonus points for total score)
UGA@ND
STAN@USC

Link to Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/w45YYKty5K6LFQIv2
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This is great news! I literally just came in here to yell at myself for missing out on week 1.
 
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Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
Karl2177 said:
So this year, following the feedback from last year I've slightly changed the way I do the Pick 'em. I'll be dropping the worst 2 weeks for each person. This way you can still come back even if you miss a week and also hopefully it means people won't just stop participating the last few weeks.

So here is the full sheet from Week 1:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xk-jSnYueVp-juBUEP1HfTKz4uB1ODgDfTPYORxUdiY/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the running total over 1 week:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14oB6wMtBN3TgAWnUzysoWqpmSlLGVY5XhU5MAluLv-U/edit?usp=sharing

And here are this week's games:
L'VILLE@UNC
USF@UCONN
IOWA@ISU
PITT@PSU
TCU@ARK
CMU@KU
NEB@ORE
AUB@CLEM
SCAR@MIZZOU
OU@tOSU(bonus points for total score)
UGA@ND
STAN@USC

Link to Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/w45YYKty5K6LFQIv2
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Strange that I went with Florida and WVU when I chose Michigan and VT on the podcast.
 
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GoldenEye 007

Member
USF/UConn? Man, UCF/Memphis would have been a much better pick. Hurricane reschedule, last time they met, UCF basically killed a guy on their field to win the game, they haven't beat us in 9 meetings, and now they're actually good.
 
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Lonestar

I joined for Erin Brockovich discussion
http://alabama.247sports.com/Article/Sources-Major-Potential-Shift-In-NCAA-Transfer-Rules-107001121

In a potentially paradigm-shifting proposal, the NCAA members may vote to allow all Division-I transfers to be eligible to play immediately. The only potential restrictions are that student-athletes would be asked to meet a minimum GPA, in order to transfer immediately, and that any additional transfer would require the student-athletes to sit out a full year. The proposal, which is being solicited among members for feedback, is gaining increased traction in recent weeks, a source confirms.

In April, a 19-person task force comprised of commissioners, athletic directors, coaches, and student-athletes initially assembled under the name of Division I Transfer Working Group. Their mission was to bring a fresh approach to the often publicly maligned transfer process. Although earlier groups had been formed in prior years under similar missions, the Transfer Working Group was given more data, while also tasked with the goal of trying to create uniformity within the transfer process.

By late June, the Transfer Working Group made progress on creating uniformity in transfer rules. They contemplated two polar-opposite options: the first was to require every student-athlete to sit out a year, while the second option was to enable every student-athlete to be immediately eligible upon transferring to a new school, as long as they achieved a minimum GPA designed to lead the student-athlete ultimately to graduate.

TWG Chairman Justin Sell, Athletic Director of South Dakota State, told NCAA Associate Director of Public and Media Relations Michelle Brutlag Hosick at the time, “I am thrilled with the great progress made this week, and I’m confident we can move forward with some initial concepts for consideration in this year’s legislative cycle. We are working toward academics-based, data-driven decisions that benefit student-athletes, teams and schools.”

Within recent weeks, it has become more clear that the latter option of immediate eligibility for transfers who achieve a minimum GPA is the one gaining traction amongst members. The proposal must be completed by Nov. 1. The members of the Transfer Working Group will continue to seek feedback from fellow coaches, directors, commissioners and student-athletes in the days ahead, but it is becoming more likely that the proposal will be voted upon next April with the possibility of this going into effect as early as the 2018-19 calendar. The uniformity of applying the same rules across all sports would potentially streamline the transfer process.

Proponents of student-athletes being permitted to change schools as freely as coaches will undoubtedly laud this potential new development. The concern from some detractors may be the further encouragement of raiding smaller programs as well as the likelihood that the number of annual transfers will grow exponentially. The challenge of tracking potential tampering in pending transfers may also be a potential hazard of the new development.
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Still a long shot, but this is potentially the NCAA moving to let players transfer and play immediately (caveat being they have to have the grades).
 
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Slo

Member
Lonestar said:
http://alabama.247sports.com/Article/Sources-Major-Potential-Shift-In-NCAA-Transfer-Rules-107001121



Still a long shot, but this is potentially the NCAA moving to let players transfer and play immediately (caveat being they have to have the grades).
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I wonder if some school could fill the niche of a 5th year senior heavy team the way that Kentucky has become a 1-and-done basketball program. Get your degree from a school with decent academic reputation but no credible football program
Minninois
, then go be a mercenary for a year at some borderline Power 5 hanger-on team who's taking all NFL prospects.
also Minninois
 
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OfficerRaichu15

Member
So looking at it now Petrino has a lot of shit to fix for Clemson(I'm confident Louisville will beat UNC)
1st: stop fumbling the damn ball at the 1 yard line
2nd: cover better my god
3rd: false starts my god the false starts

Other than that let Lamar lead this team and we are good.
 
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andycapps

Member
Karl2177 said:
So this year, following the feedback from last year I've slightly changed the way I do the Pick 'em. I'll be dropping the worst 2 weeks for each person. This way you can still come back even if you miss a week and also hopefully it means people won't just stop participating the last few weeks.

So here is the full sheet from Week 1:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xk-jSnYueVp-juBUEP1HfTKz4uB1ODgDfTPYORxUdiY/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the running total over 1 week:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14oB6wMtBN3TgAWnUzysoWqpmSlLGVY5XhU5MAluLv-U/edit?usp=sharing

And here are this week's games:
L'VILLE@UNC
USF@UCONN
IOWA@ISU
PITT@PSU
TCU@ARK
CMU@KU
NEB@ORE
AUB@CLEM
SCAR@MIZZOU
OU@tOSU(bonus points for total score)
UGA@ND
STAN@USC

Link to Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/w45YYKty5K6LFQIv2
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Nice to see Gondo is still participating in this and buck's conference picks. Gotta redeem myself this week in my picks.
 
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MugiwaraCole

Member
ChuckHoneywood said:
#10 seems about right to me. FSU isn't doing much with a frosh QB
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These rankings aren't supposed to be predicting the future. They lost to the number one team in the country. That doesn't warrant dropping 7 spots, especially since half of 4-10 looked just ok opening week.

Also, we're a year removed from Alabama going undefeated all regular season with a freshman QB. Whatever you guys think about Jalen, Blackman's in a pretty similar situation; namely, having an absolutely elite defense and a ton of pieces around him on offense to hold him up while he learns on the fly. I seriously think writing them off so early is a mistake.
 
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andycapps

Member
MugiwaraCole said:
These rankings aren't supposed to be predicting the future. They lost to the number one team in the country. That doesn't warrant dropping 7 spots, especially since half of 4-10 looked just ok opening week.

Also, we're a year removed from Alabama going undefeated all regular season with a freshman QB. Whatever you guys think about Jalen, Blackman's in a pretty similar situation; namely, having an absolutely elite defense and a ton of pieces around him on offense to hold him up while he learns on the fly. I seriously think writing them off so early is a mistake.
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FSU was never in that game. If Bama's offense had a pulse the score could have been much worse. Yes, FSU has a good defense, but Bama looked rusty. Dropping them where they are makes sense.

Keeping Florida ranked makes no sense, though.
 
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MugiwaraCole

Member
andycapps said:
FSU was never in that game. If Bama's offense had a pulse the score could have been much worse. Yes, FSU has a good defense, but Bama looked rusty. Dropping them where they are makes sense.

Keeping Florida ranked makes no sense, though.
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This is extremely reductive of their defense. We weren't rusty so much as our OL got their asses whipped. Period. Our defense just looked better down the stretch than theirs did (helped by our special teams getting us excellent field position).

Florida ranked over Tennessee is hilarious. Not because they lost to Michigan, but because of how bad they looked in doing so.
 
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Monroeski

Unconfirmed Member
MugiwaraCole said:
These rankings aren't supposed to be predicting the future. They lost to the number one team in the country. That doesn't warrant dropping 7 spots, especially since half of 4-10 looked just ok opening week.

Also, we're a year removed from Alabama going undefeated all regular season with a freshman QB. Whatever you guys think about Jalen, Blackman's in a pretty similar situation; namely, having an absolutely elite defense and a ton of pieces around him on offense to hold him up while he learns on the fly. I seriously think writing them off so early is a mistake.
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Top 10 overall and 2nd in the conference behind only the reigning national champion is being "written off?"
 
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ChuckHoneywood

Banned
MugiwaraCole said:
These rankings aren't supposed to be predicting the future. They lost to the number one team in the country. That doesn't warrant dropping 7 spots, especially since half of 4-10 looked just ok opening week.

Also, we're a year removed from Alabama going undefeated all regular season with a freshman QB. Whatever you guys think about Jalen, Blackman's in a pretty similar situation; namely, having an absolutely elite defense and a ton of pieces around him on offense to hold him up while he learns on the fly. I seriously think writing them off so early is a mistake.
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Blackman is a beanpole frosh QB who hasn't even been on campus for 2mos. FSU will be lucky to win the ACC.

My only hope left for the season is to keep the winning streaks vs UF and Miami going.
 
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andycapps

Member
MugiwaraCole said:
This is extremely reductive of their defense. We weren't rusty so much as our OL got their asses whipped. Period. Our defense just looked better down the stretch than theirs did (helped by our special teams getting us excellent field position).

Florida ranked over Tennessee is hilarious. Not because they lost to Michigan, but because of how bad they looked in doing so.
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Defense has an input on offensive stats, clearly. But if I showed you the stats from Bama and you weren't a fan, I'm assuming you wouldn't be impressed.

A good offense makes a good defense have worse stats than normal. Let's see as things go if opponent adjusted stats make Bama's offense look better or worse than future opponents like Miami, Clemson, and Louisville.
 
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bucknuticus

Member
MugiwaraCole said:
This is extremely reductive of their defense. We weren't rusty so much as our OL got their asses whipped. Period. Our defense just looked better down the stretch than theirs did (helped by our special teams getting us excellent field position).

Florida ranked over Tennessee is hilarious. Not because they lost to Michigan, but because of how bad they looked in doing so.
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heard it here first, bamas OL is straight trash
 
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Dreams-Visions

Member
Lonestar said:
http://alabama.247sports.com/Article/Sources-Major-Potential-Shift-In-NCAA-Transfer-Rules-107001121



Still a long shot, but this is potentially the NCAA moving to let players transfer and play immediately (caveat being they have to have the grades).
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Sounds like...damn.

I like the idea of players having more agency, but it seems ripe for abuse? Like a lot of low-end D1 schools simply become glorified community colleges to be transferred from as soon as GPA can be adequately fluffed.

That said, more player agency is good.
 
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jjasper

Member
Gonna see players leaving with coaches (and schools hiring coaches to get players). But if coaches and leave whenever without repercussions players should be able to.
 
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jfkgoblue

Member
MugiwaraCole said:
These rankings aren't supposed to be predicting the future. They lost to the number one team in the country. That doesn't warrant dropping 7 spots, especially since half of 4-10 looked just ok opening week.

Also, we're a year removed from Alabama going undefeated all regular season with a freshman QB. Whatever you guys think about Jalen, Blackman's in a pretty similar situation; namely, having an absolutely elite defense and a ton of pieces around him on offense to hold him up while he learns on the fly. I seriously think writing them off so early is a mistake.
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Early season rankings are supposed to. By your argument no 0-1 team should be ahead of any 1-0 team. Both Alabama and FSU were ranked in the top 5 due to what people were predicting. In these early rankings, you have to include some predictions to come up with your rankings, otherwise there isn't a way to differentiate.
 
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MugiwaraCole

Member
Monroeski said:
Top 10 overall and 2nd in the conference behind only the reigning national champion is being "written off?"
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"They're not doing much with a frosh QB" is.

ChuckHoneywood said:
Blackman is a beanpole frosh QB who hasn't even been on campus for 2mos. FSU will be lucky to win the ACC.

My only hope left for the season is to keep the winning streaks vs UF and Miami going.
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His frame worries me. But y'all will be fine.

andycapps said:
Defense has an input on offensive stats, clearly. But if I showed you the stats from Bama and you weren't a fan, I'm assuming you wouldn't be impressed.

A good offense makes a good defense have worse stats than normal. Let's see as things go if opponent adjusted stats make Bama's offense look better or worse than future opponents like Miami, Clemson, and Louisville.
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Of course we'll get better, but our performance in game 1 was what it was because of who we faced. (And even then, could've been better. Jalen was a DPI and a dropped pass away from having 3 TD passes on the night, for example).
 
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andycapps

Member
MugiwaraCole said:
Of course we'll get better, but our performance in game 1 was what it was because of who we faced. (And even then, could've been better. Jalen was a DPI and a dropped pass away from having 3 TD passes on the night, for example).
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Of course you'll get better because you're not playing great defenses every week. But we can see through stats against FSU's future opponents how Bama actually did.
 
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