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[Monroeski]

I'm enjoying NIU being in a BCS bowl solely because it seems it pisses ESPN the hell off for some reason. That team has Vickie Guerrero level heat with ESPN's commentators.

I can sit back and laugh at it now that I know that them kicking OU out of the BCS didn't screw over Tech in the bowl invites. I had thought that we were Holiday or Meineke if OU was in the BCS but we would drop to the lower Pinstripe/Heart of Dallas/Liberty Bowl tier if NIU bumped them to the Cotton (we ended up getting Meineke in Houston). Looks like we got bailed out by OSU dropping further than anybody thought.

Here's hoping OSU and Purdue have a better attendance turnout than Tech and Northwestern had a few years ago when I went to that game. 11am kickoff on New Year's Day in freezing cold weather against a team none of our fans care about made for a pretty terrible turnout; official stats say attendance was about 40k but trust me it was NOWHERE close to that.

 

[KingGondo]

I can sit back and laugh at it now that I know that them kicking OU out of the BCS didn't screw over Tech in the bowl invites. I had thought that we were Holiday or Meineke if OU was in the BCS but we would drop to the lower Pinstripe/Heart of Dallas/Liberty Bowl tier if NIU bumped them to the Cotton (we ended up getting Meineke in Houston). Looks like we got bailed out by OSU dropping further than anybody thought.

Here's hoping OSU and Purdue have a better attendance turnout than Tech and Northwestern had a few years ago when I went to that game. 11am kickoff on New Year's Day in freezing cold weather against a team none of our fans care about made for a pretty terrible turnout; official stats say attendance was about 40k but trust me it was NOWHERE close to that.

I think we were locked into the Alamo as long as KSU and OU made a BCS bowl. As soon as OU got bumped, all the other bowls had made plans and we were left with the leftovers.

I understand it's politics and all, and it could definitely be worse--it's a New Year's Day bowl against an opponent we should beat, and it's in our recruiting territory (and tickets will be cheap, although I'm not sure if I'm going).

 

[Sirpopopop]

Gem of a post from Cyan:

Harbaugh? Well... he can't do much worse than Harris.

 

[andycapps]

:jnc

Only Garcia.

Andy: I remember reading that a while back, and just thinking that would totally happen to Garcia.

If it were anyone else, I'd think it was an Onion article. But with Garcia, you know that whatever crazy thing it is, it's true.

 

[SerArthurDayne]

I have updated the BCS picks and we already have a winner!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoCjjUJu6yrHdGNaR2M0SV9GSTh2WVA0ak90OXhUYWc


Congratulations to BattleZone, here are the standings prior to the champ game:

BreastZone 13

So an early victory. That is what Lonestar gets for being a Bama homer. Did we ever decide on a prize? Moral victory?

Thanks. I was wondering what happened to everybody's favorite frat bro.

:jnc

Only Garcia.

I tried to emulate the injury. I did these because despite liking my hands, I know this is an impossible injury. I know this so much that I even did it with my right hand. Garcia must love peace much harder than I love knowing things.

 

[bucknuticus]

From the Big10 blog:

The announced attendance for Saturday's game was just 41,260, or about 23,000 fewer fans than at last year's inaugural title game. Whole sections in the upper end zones and corners of Lucas Oil were empty, especially on the Wisconsin side. The Big Ten anticipated a smaller crowd than last year because of the unusual circumstances of the Badgers' season, but the league was hoping to cross the 50,000 mark through strong walk-up sales. By comparison, the ACC title game -- usually the butt of bad-attendance jokes -- drew 64,778 on Saturday.The Pac-12 title game between UCLA and Stanford was held at Stanford on Friday. The announced crowd: 31,622.

 

[Battlezone]

BreastZone 13

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Battlezone should be D/Q'd for believing in USCw!

I got in after the deadline, too!

 

[Sirpopopop]

From the Big10 blog:

The announced attendance for Saturday's game was just 41,260, or about 23,000 fewer fans than at last year's inaugural title game. Whole sections in the upper end zones and corners of Lucas Oil were empty, especially on the Wisconsin side. The Big Ten anticipated a smaller crowd than last year because of the unusual circumstances of the Badgers' season, but the league was hoping to cross the 50,000 mark through strong walk-up sales. By comparison, the ACC title game -- usually the butt of bad-attendance jokes -- drew 64,778 on Saturday.The Pac-12 title game between UCLA and Stanford was held at Stanford on Friday. The announced crowd: 31,622.

Ouch!

 

[ChanDangle]

Rumors circulating that Florida picked up Joker Phillips as a wr coach. Go Gators!

 

[Tamanon]

So for no particular reason I browsed the bowl selection CFB Gaf thread from 6 years ago. It was a year before I started posting, but other than that most of you guys are all there. There have only been a handful of new faces to join this community in a 6 year time span which amazes me. Collectively we're a kind and accepting group of posters, it's perplexing as to why we have been growing in size the same rate as Detroit.

edit: Cyan, you should look into un-banning threeball. He made some mistakes by being a Microsoft fanboy/troll, but surely he deserves another chance after a 6 year exile.

Huh, that was an unfortunate time. I was banned during the Championship game on my only ban ever. And it was for NFL shenanigans!

 

[Meier]

I am genuinely scared of the NIU game. A loss to Louisville would have been embarrassing but at least they're a major conference (and future interconference) foe. If we find a way to lose to NIU, it'll set us back years..

 

[SerArthurDayne]

Ouch!

Lol. 65,000 for the ACC game. More like 50,000 tickets given away as flyers on college campuses, at your local grocery store, etc. that ended up in gutters everywhere.

Show me the receipts.gif

 

[Tamanon]

Yeah, there's no way there were 65k attending the ACC title game. I've seen more people at a Panthers preseason game in that stadium.

 

[KingGondo]

I am genuinely scared of the NIU game. A loss to Louisville would have been embarrassing but at least they're a major conference (and future interconference) foe. If we find a way to lose to NIU, it'll set us back years..

Don't worry, EJ Manuel's got this.

 

[andycapps]

From the Big10 blog:

The announced attendance for Saturday's game was just 41,260, or about 23,000 fewer fans than at last year's inaugural title game. Whole sections in the upper end zones and corners of Lucas Oil were empty, especially on the Wisconsin side. The Big Ten anticipated a smaller crowd than last year because of the unusual circumstances of the Badgers' season, but the league was hoping to cross the 50,000 mark through strong walk-up sales. By comparison, the ACC title game -- usually the butt of bad-attendance jokes -- drew 64,778 on Saturday.The Pac-12 title game between UCLA and Stanford was held at Stanford on Friday. The announced crowd: 31,622.

No way that many were at the ACC game. Maybe that's how many tickets they sold.

SECCG attendance was 75,624. And those people were actually there.

 

[Meier]

So for no particular reason I browsed the bowl selection CFB Gaf thread from 6 years ago. It was a year before I started posting, but other than that most of you guys are all there. There have only been a handful of new faces to join this community in a 6 year time span which amazes me. Collectively we're a kind and accepting group of posters, it's perplexing as to why we have been growing in size the same rate as Detroit.

I see I was repping my boy Xavier Lee hard back then. Those were dark times for the program. Very, very dark (and no that isn't a racist comments, jackasses). I got to meet him at a Downtown Getdown -- look at him dwarfing over me..

LoBo went out with a helluva bowl game at least. I honestly can't remember if Kara ever "paid up" on the avatar bet. I guess no one won the game now technically!

With how much Meier talked about this Trickett fella in 2006, an offensive line coach (and I can't keep up with alot of coaches) how did that guy turn out?

Haha, been a little topsy-turvy but on the whole, Trick Daddy has done amazing things. I think if Jimbo had ever conceded OC duties, we'd be much better off. Saban alone definitely is a coaching dream team.

 

[zyxwvu4321]

Only 12 hours left for that one dude's tweet about UVa and GTech leaving the ACC.

 

[Affeinvasion]

What kind of jackass wears his Jersey to a party?

 

[Meier]

What kind of jackass wears his Jersey to a party?

It's a pep rally the night before a game. They have a bunch of players meet fans and get up on stage and shit.

 

[Affeinvasion]

Ok that's obviously acceptable. Looked like a guy cruising at a party. Lol.

 

[SerArthurDayne]

Don't worry, EJ Manuel's got this.

So a loss then.

I see I was repping my boy Xavier Lee hard back then. Those were dark times for the program. Very, very dark (and no that isn't a racist comments, jackasses). I got to meet him at a Downtown Getdown -- look at him dwarfing over me..

Hey, man. You can't compete with Drew Weatherford, of the fighting Weatherfords, pride of the Land O' Lakes High School Gators.

Fun fact, Logan Payne, a teammate of Weatherford actually did make it to the NFL. He was (and I guess is) pretty much a practice squad player, but made the Seahawks, who were pretty much a practice squad team at the time (right bluemax?), before he got his knee smashed in like his first game and hasn't made it back.

 

[Draxal]

Only 12 hours left for that one dude's tweet about UVa and GTech leaving the ACC.

President of Gtech denied it that day ... so yeah 247 making up stuff as usual.

 

[Talon]

 

[andycapps]

That's quite a haircut. Looks like Pauly from Jersey Shore.

 

[Cyan]

Cal - Allan Bridgford Senior (maybe?)

Maybe. A lot of people have high hopes for redshirt freshman Zach Kline. We'll see.

 

[Limedust]

Is that Chris Rix Heisman homepage still up?

 

[Lonestar]

Compiled Post Totals & Awards
I'm going to compile this week into the offseason, because Suck It.

Week1: 4109
Week2: 3006
Week3: 3148
Week4: 2922
Week5: 2257
Week6: 3375
Week7: 2671
Week8: 2895
Week9: 3382
Week10: 2594
Week11: 2569
Week12: 2586
Week13: 4172
Week14: 3875
Week14_The Lost Tapes: 6

Top 30

Lonestar 2030
mre 1553
Cyan 1203
bucknuticus 1170
MightyHealthy 1116
cdyhybrid 1062
Yaboosh 1059
SerArthurDayne 1028
andycapps 921
zyxwvu4321 839
bluemax 822
I Push Fat Kids 783
perfectchaos007 736
GoldenEye 007 725
timetokill 721
Skiesofwonder 685
TheNatural 604
Gloomfire 600
jakncoke 595
cashman 570
KingGondo 568
pxleyes 560
ConfusingJazz 551
Alligatorjandro 544
ag-my001 522
caliblue15 492
ChiTownBuffalo 482
bachikarn 477
BertramCooper 473
squicken 462

The Halo 4 Trophy, Sponsored by Mountain Dew and Pete's Pest Control:

Enron 117
Karakand 117

The Honorary Award for Best while also Worst Named End Boss in Video Game Industry:

MarauderShields 11

The MIMIC Award for Most likely to post more once Ohio State Beats Michigan goes to:

MIMIC (33 posts all year leading up to the OSU/Michigan game, 36 posts the week of)

The Jorts Lifelong Award for having his Season High Post total the week of the FSU/UF game (and the last chance gasp of hoping to make the MNC game), then immediately disappearing when ND beat USC, goes to:

It's a Tie!

pxleyes, 103 posts Week 13, to 15 posts Week 14

The Outsider 103 posts Week 13, to 8 posts Week 14 (and 1 in THE LOST TOPIC)

The Camus Award of Resurgance in Posting via railing against the SEC in the last 2 weeks once it became apparent that the SEC was back in the MNC hunt, goes to:

Cyan, posting his 2 highest week totals in the last 2 weeks: 157 & 138

The Napa Know How Conjurer Award goes to:

I've been very disappointed in the lack of Napa Know-how so far in this game.

Help me welcome the incoming Notre Dame fans. These are the posters that are brand new in the last 2 weeks to CFB-GAF!

storybook77*
Alex Anderson*
Amory*
BaltimoreLarry*
BigAT*
BolognaSoup*
Cagey*
CavemanLawyer*
CobbFC09*
CoffeeJanitor*
Corran Horn*
Credo*
cuevas, PhD.*
dmann*
DocTarHeel*
DrFunk*
Ducarmel*
Einbroch*
FuzzyNorman*
GitarooMan*
Gorillaz*
gosox333*
Greg*
Henry Jones Jr*
Hootie*
JesseZao*
KefkaPalazzo*
key*
Khold*
Mr. Sandman*
mxgt*
negreenfield*
Palmer_v1*
pbhawks45*
s7evn*
Saadster*
sharbhund*
shenglongdong*
smokeymicpot*
SunhiLegend*
Tedesco!*
THACHITS*
ultron87*
Volcynika*
Volimar*
Wes*
womfalcs3*
wsoxfan1214*
Zapages*
zero_suit*
ZetaEpyon*



Special Congratulations to Traitor to Heaven, for posting in all 14 weeks of the season, for a combined post total of 17! Thats: 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Even Specialier Congratulations to xeris, for posting in all 14 weeks, for a combined total of 14 posts! Thats: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Even Specialier Congratulations to xeris, for posting in all 14 weeks, for a combined total of 14 posts! Thats: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Is it wrong that I find this impressive?

 

[zyxwvu4321]

Is it wrong that I find this impressive?

That's basically how I was last year. Just posted to make my picks, maybe a couple more. This year I just figured fuck it, I like college football, I'll actually participate.

 

[Lonestar]

Is it wrong that I find this impressive?

He comes in, posts his picks, and leaves for 7 days.

Doesn't even come in to revel in his pick em score.

 

[yellowjacket25]

Only 12 hours left for that one dude's tweet about UVa and GTech leaving the ACC.

GT was never going to leave the ACC. I know expansion is fun but I can't believe people keep falling for all of the random rumors.

 

[Jhriad]

I'm disappointed in myself for not making it into the top 30. Oh well.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Das Racist broke up.

I bring this up only because I'm pretty sure they wrote Louisville's fight song, Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

 

[Jeff-DSA]

I forgot to submit picks again this week. I think I missed 3 weeks, maybe 4. Ah well, it was still fun playing.

I guess BYU-SDSU should make for a fun bowl game. My dad and I are considering a trip out to see the game, but those pre-Christmas games are always tough to manage with schedules.

 

[Chris R]

I'm disappointed in myself for not making it into the top 30. Oh well.

I'm not Probably top 50 though which isn't too bad considering I was away on vacation for two weeks.

 

[Draxal]

Hmm apparently Auburn has a 5 star de commit named Dee Liner, that name is great.

 

[Battlezone]

I clicked on that lost Week 14 thread, then hit the pokeball, expecting to find myself in the warm throes of OT. Instead, I found myself in a dark, lonely, unfamiliar place, filled with talk of anime and pop music. What was that strange land?

 

[andycapps]

Lots of text

You should do some type of calculation for "Gata fan that says 'Go Gatas' as their first post every week." I think the winner has to be Alligatorjandro.

 

[Jhriad]

Bo isn’t good enough to get over the hump. He isn’t bad enough to fire. Nebraska is stuck in purgatory.

The future of my beloved program depresses me.



So why does Pelini deserve the benefit of the doubt?

Because of the obvious discipline in the program.

Because of the wealth of high-character athletes and coaches.

Because Nebraska is among only four programs that have won at least nine games per season since 2008. The others are Boise State, Alabama and Oregon.

Nope. Still depressed.

 

[mre]

Hmm apparently Auburn has a 5 star de commit named Dee Liner, that name is great.

WONDER WHO HE IS GOING TO COMMIT TO? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Alligatorjandro]

You should do some type of calculation for "Gata fan that says 'Go Gatas' as their first post every week." I think the winner has to be Alligatorjandro.

Do I get a trophy?

 

[ConfusingJazz]

WONDER WHO HE IS GOING TO COMMIT TO? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

PAWWWWL! Issha conspiracy PAWL! The FBI, Obama, and the tree killer made sure he goes to Alabama! Theys all against us, PAWWWWWWL!


Imma hang up and listen.

 

[Ceebs]

Rumors circulating that Florida picked up Joker Phillips as a wr coach. Go Gators!

No clue if this is a good hire. Has to be better than the Graduate Assistant we had this year though.

 

[andycapps]

PAWWWWL! Issha conspiracy PAWL! The FBI, Obama, and the tree killer made sure he goes to Alabama! Theys all against us, PAWWWWWWL!

Imma hang up and listen.

PAWWWLL WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO GOD'S TEAM?

 

[Cyan]

The Camus Award of Resurgance in Posting via railing against the SEC in the last 2 weeks once it became apparent that the SEC was back in the MNC hunt, goes to:

I'm a winner!

Travel is no big deal I had a job once where I flew around on business trips.

 

[Jhriad]

The continual defensive lapses by this program on the road under a defense-first coach make you wonder. The Omaha World-Herald's Sam McKewon offered this stat Monday: In the Huskers' past 17 games away from home, they are giving up an average of 30.3 points and 400 yards per game. Record in those games: 8-9. (The offense isn't helping much, either, as Nebraska has an unfathomable minus-27 turnover margin and 40 giveaways in those 17 games.)

Nothing quite like a good Monday wrap-up after a weekend of college foo-

 

[LosDaddie]

I might be going to the Orange Bowl. Need to work out the details still, but my bro just called to tell me that he can get tix for the game.

Will be the first BCS bowl game that I attend.

Bo isn’t good enough to get over the hump. He isn’t bad enough to fire. Nebraska is stuck in purgatory.

The future of my beloved program depresses me..

FSU is nearly in the same situation with Jimbo.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Need to work out the details still, but my bro just called to tell me that he can get tix for the game.

No shit.

 

[mre]

No shit.

LOL I was thinking the same thing. I think ANYONE could get you tickets to the Orange Bowl. :jnc

 

[GoldenEye 007]

No shit.

:jnc

Yeah, everyone can always get OB tickets.