College football

[billy.pilgrim]

Thanks to the acc ref who stopped play before Cal could run the fumble into the end zone.

They made a FG out of it, so ref saved us 4 points.

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7-42 Lafayette beat the spread! Drop Duke in the rankings.

You may have to beat the spread to drop rank. We beat it.

"Drop" means get a worse ranking. I already posted that Duke should LOSE votes, regardless, but Lafayette did beat the spread thus reinforcing my point.

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New page.

GoCubsGo

Saturday, September 9, 2023

12:00 PM FOX
@22 Colorado (-3.0) > Nebraska
Tickets as low as $298
Colorado 36 > Nebraska 22. GOFather&SonSandersGO!
Shedeur Sanders 31/42, 393 YDS, AVG 9.4, TD 2, INT 0. 6 TDs and 900+ yards in 2 games vs Power 5 opponents!
2023 69/89 77.5%, 10.1 AVG, 0 INT, 185.0 RTG
https://www.espn.com/college-football/p ... ur-sanders

3:30 PM

ESPN2
@24 Tulane > 20 Ole Miss (-7.0). Knock them out of the Top 25
20-37

ABC
@Miami > 23 Texas A&M (-3.0). Knock them out of the Top 25.
48-33 Go O Really Go!

BTN
@Northwestern (-1.0) > UTEP. GO GoCubsGo GO! 38-7 Congrats!
Tickets as low as $2

4:00 PM ESPNU
@East Carolina > Marshall (-2.5)
East Carolina was leading until Marshall's 21 point 4th. 13-31.

5:00 PM PAC12
@8 Washington (-32.5) > Tulsa. 43-10 Congrats!
I won't count a win in my tally, but GO Huskies, GO Lady O. They even beat the spread by 0.5
Tickets as low as $7

5:15 PM ACCN
Appalachian State > @17 North Carolina (-19.0). Sorry, O Really.
17-10 in the 3rd! Spread, what spread?
UNC misses a walkoff 39 yd FG, 27-27 OT!
34-40 Congrats.

6:00 PM ESPN+
New Mexico State > Liberty (-10.0). NO RW god NO. 17-33

7:00 PM

ESPN
11 Texas > @3 Alabama (-7.0)
Game of the day? Texas is killing it early in the 4th, 27-16.
34-24 Guess MTSU wasn't a good warmup TuscaLOSER

FOX
13 Oregon (-6.0) > @Texas Tech
Late pick-6, then a game-ending INT at the goal line, 38-30

FS1
@Boise State > UCF (-3.5). Bluefield is a mousetrap.
Hah, BSU TD with 1:49 remaining. Grrr, allowed a drive and a walkoff FG, 16-18.

FCS, ESPN+
3 Montana State > @1 South Dakota State. 13-13 tie in the 4th!
Montana State took the 3 point lead with 2:04 left, gave it up on 2 long pass plays with 1:30 left. Montana State drove to the SDSU 24, but that was it, 16-20

7:30 PM

ABC
@Loyal Washington State > 19 Wisconsin (-6.0), but I don't hate Wisconsin.
31-22. Making a strong bid for a Power 4 offer. Bye-bye Top 25.

NBC
@Maryland (-24.5) > Charlotte. I won't count a win in my tally, but GO Terps!
Tickets as low as $2. Ouch. 38-20

CBS
UCLA (-13.5) vs @San Diego State. Go football.
35-10. Sorry, O Really.

8:00 PM CBSSN
@Sam Houston > Air Force (-13.5). Deploy the Sam SAMs. Nope, 3-13

8:30 PM ACCN
Southern Miss > 4 Florida State (-31.0)
I won't count a loss in my tally. 13-66

9:00 PM FCS, ESPN+
13 Montana > @Utah Tech. GO Griz! 43-13, sorry
LOSERS: #3, 5, 6, 7 (stomped by Western Carolina ), 11. Top 10?

10:30 PM

FOX
Stanford > @6 USC (-29.5)
I won't count a loss in my tally. 10-56

ESPN
@California > Auburn (-6.0)
Go Bears, shred Tigers. Sorry, billy.pilgrim.
WarDamnBeagle has never won in CA, 0-3.
Now they've won, 10-14, but it was sloppy and , befitting 2 mediocre teams.
Will Auburn get more than 3 votes? The Internets of Meaningless Rules mandates fewer votes.
Miami (OH) 41, Massachusetts 28 That's gonna hurt WDE's strength of schedule

7-8

Also:

10 Notre Dame (-7.0) 45 > NC State 24. I'm okay with that.
@Oregon St 55 > UC Davis 7. Loyalty pays.

[O Really]

I must be living my best life for football so far. Heels win, The U wins, Huskies win, Aztecs stumble but whatever. And for bonus Bammer goes down.

[GoCubsGo]

Down goes Bama?

[O Really]

Down goes Bama?

By 10.

[billy.pilgrim]

7-42 Lafayette beat the spread! Drop Duke in the rankings.

You may have to beat the spread to drop rank. We beat it.

"Drop" means get a worse ranking. I already posted that Duke should LOSE votes, regardless, but Lafayette did beat the spread thus reinforcing my point.

You misunderstood the rule. In order to have dropped, the winning team must beat the spread. Auburn beat the spread by 10 or 20 points.

To be clearly

Spoiler:

facetious

I believe it was you who first. set this Rule to the Internets of meaningless rules.

[billy.pilgrim]

New page.

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ESPN
@California > Auburn (-6.0)
Go Bears, shred Tigers. Sorry, billy.pilgrim.
WarDamnBeagle has never won in CA, 0-3.

That's just not true - anymore

Great for rail gates

https://www.missallieskitchen.com/bear-roast/

[Vrede too]

You misunderstood the rule. In order to have dropped, the winning team must beat the spread. Auburn beat the spread by 10 or 20 points.

To be clearly

Spoiler:

facetious

I believe it was you who first. set this Rule to the Internets of meaningless rules.

Ah, I see. You invoke and wield the Internets of Meaningless Rules. Go Duke, climb in the rankings.

[Vrede too]

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[billy.pilgrim]

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I bet the 2010 Iron Bowl hurts more. At least it does if you consider the number of people murdered for failing to hate Auburn enough.

Ahead 24 to zip late in the 2nd quarter, still up 24 to 7 at the half when an Auburn coach observed that Kirby was stealing our signs and we altered our sign system during halftime.
The win was only by 1 point, but it was humiliating for sabin and kirby.

And as the game ended, the sun was setting in an orange and blue sky and Auburn fans were singing the reverse rammer jammer.

[billy.pilgrim]

You misunderstood the rule. In order to have dropped, the winning team must beat the spread. Auburn beat the spread by 10 or 20 points.

To be clearly

Spoiler:

facetious

I believe it was you who first. set this Rule to the Internets of meaningless rules.

Ah, I see. You invoke and wield the Internets of Meaningless Rules. Go Duke, climb in the rankings.

Who won?

[O Really]

Dimbo Fisher complains that Miami was cheating:

"After the game, Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher accused Miami players of some less-than-honest tactics prior to his team's missed two-point conversion attempt late in the third quarter.

"There was a snap early," Fisher said, via On3. "They clapped. They simulated our snap count and our guys heard the clap, and they snapped the ball. We had a whole play, like a goal-line play. What happened was the ball got snapped early because they simulated the snap count and clapped their hands and our center snapped the ball."

Translation: Our clueless center fell for the football equivalent of "swing batta, swing batta, swing batta, swing!

[billy.pilgrim]

Dimbo Fisher complains that Miami was cheating:

"After the game, Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher accused Miami players of some less-than-honest tactics prior to his team's missed two-point conversion attempt late in the third quarter.

"There was a snap early," Fisher said, via On3. "They clapped. They simulated our snap count and our guys heard the clap, and they snapped the ball. We had a whole play, like a goal-line play. What happened was the ball got snapped early because they simulated the snap count and clapped their hands and our center snapped the ball."

Translation: Our clueless center fell for the football equivalent of "swing batta, swing batta, swing batta, swing!

Did it happen, idk, is it illegal, yes it is in college for a 15 yard penalty
It is funny, oh so very

[O Really]

Did it happen, idk, is it illegal, yes it is in college for a 15 yard penalty
It is funny, oh so very

If they had only lost by the margin of the missed 2-pointer, he might have a justifiable whine, but shouldn't' it have been "the refs missed a call" rather than "Miami cheated (or were "dishonest"?) You suppose he considers interference or holding or offsides to be "cheating"?

[billy.pilgrim]

You misunderstood the rule. In order to have dropped, the winning team must beat the spread. Auburn beat the spread by 10 or 20 points.

To be clearly

Spoiler:

facetious

I believe it was you who first. set this Rule to the Internets of meaningless rules.

Ah, I see. You invoke and wield the Internets of Meaningless Rules. Go Duke, climb in the rankings.

Apparently there has been a mid season rule change or there is an Auburn exception.

We won the game but didn't beat the spread. Remember, we were picked to lose, but favored to win - somehow.

We won
We didn't beat the spread
But we are now below those Also receiving votes.

https://www.on3.com/news/ap-poll-top-25 ... -michigan/

[Vrede too]

You misunderstood the rule. In order to have dropped, the winning team must beat the spread. Auburn beat the spread by 10 or 20 points.

To be clearly

Spoiler:

facetious

I believe it was you who first. set this Rule to the Internets of meaningless rules.

Ah, I see. You invoke and wield the Internets of Meaningless Rules. Go Duke, climb in the rankings.

Who won?

I am so confused over how to apply my own Internets of Meaningless Rules. Anyhow, Duke failed to cover the spread yet moved up in the rankings.

AP Top 25

1 Georgia(55)
2 Michigan(2)
3 Florida State(3)

4 Texas(2) up6
5 USC
6 Ohio State down2 after winning 2. Do they think they're WDE?
7 Penn State
8 Washington
9 Notre Dame
10 Alabama down7 Hah!

13 Oregon

16 Loyal Oregon State up2
17 Ole Miss up3
18 Colorado up7 GoDeionGo
19 Oklahoma down2, not sure why
20 North Carolina down4. That's an App St dis
21 Duke up3. Playing the FCS has its rewards.
22 Miami New to the rankings, Go O Really Go
23 Loyal Washington State New to the rankings
24 UCLA New to the rankings

(37 tie) Maryland 1 vote

@California > Auburn (-6.0)
Go Bears, shred Tigers. Sorry, billy.pilgrim.
WarDamnBeagle has never won in CA, 0-3.
Now they've won, 10-14, but it was sloppy and , befitting 2 mediocre teams.
Will Auburn get more than 3 votes? The Internets of Meaningless Rules mandates fewer votes.
Miami (OH) 41, Massachusetts 28 That's gonna hurt WDE's strength of schedule

2-0 Auburn got ZERO votes
Also zero votes: UMass , MTSU, Northwestern, SDSU
Dropped from rankings: Wisconsin 19, Clemson 21, Tulane 22, Texas A&M 23

Texas leaps to No. 4 in AP Top 25 college football poll

... Texas received two first-place votes after its biggest regular-season victory in years. The Longhorns are in the top five for the first time since starting the 2010 season at No. 5 and have their highest ranking since finishing No. 2 after losing the BCS Championship Game to Alabama in 2009....

The loss dropped Alabama seven spots to No. 10, its lowest ranking since early last November, when the Crimson Tide also were 10th.

Nice

USC moved up a spot to No. 5, giving each Power 5 conference top-five representation for the first time since Sept. 24, 2017.

Surprising.

No conference has more teams in the Top 25 than the Pac-12, which is in its last season with its current membership before 10 schools depart for other leagues in 2024.

Only the SEC had ever placed as many eight teams in a single Top 25, doing it 21 times with a record 10 in September 2015.

In this week's poll, Washington is No. 8, Utah is 12th, Oregon is 13th, Oregon State is No. 16, and Colorado has risen to 18th. Moving into the rankings are Washington State at No. 23 and UCLA at No. 24.

The Pac-12's previous high was six ranked teams, achieved multiple times, including last week.

It's a Pac-12 funeral party. Playoffs or even the Championship will be ironic.

... No. 22 Miami is ranked for the first time since last September, when it fell out of the AP Top 25 after losing at Texas A&M. The Hurricanes beat the Aggies on Saturday to move back in and knock out A&M.

Go O Really Go

... Clemson also slipped out of the rankings, ending a streak of 21 appearances. The Tigers barely held on to a spot in the poll at No. 25 last week following an opening loss to Duke. Their rout of Charleston Southern on Saturday wasn't enough to keep them ranked.

Yippie!!!

With Tulane dropping out, there are no ranked teams from conferences outside the Power 5. The last time that happened was a little less than a year ago, though three Group of 5 conference teams ended up finishing the season ranked.

Behind the Pac-12's eight ranked teams is the SEC (five), ACC (four), Big Ten (four) and Big 12 (three).

Math much? That's only 24. Maybe they failed to count Notre Dame with the ACC.

[billy.pilgrim]

You misunderstood the rule. In order to have dropped, the winning team must beat the spread. Auburn beat the spread by 10 or 20 points.

To be clearly

Spoiler:

facetious

I believe it was you who first. set this Rule to the Internets of meaningless rules.

Ah, I see. You invoke and wield the Internets of Meaningless Rules. Go Duke, climb in the rankings.

Who won?

I am so confused over how to apply my own Internets of Meaningless Rules. Anyhow, Duke failed to cover the spread yet moved up in the rankings.

AP Top 25

1 Georgia(55)
2 Michigan(2)
3 Florida State(3)

4 Texas(2) up6
5 USC
6 Ohio State down2 after winning 2. Do they think they're WDE?
7 Penn State
8 Washington
9 Notre Dame
10 Alabama down7 Hah!

13 Oregon

16 Loyal Oregon State up2
17 Ole Miss up3
18 Colorado up7 GoDeionGo
19 Oklahoma down2, not sure why
20 North Carolina down4. That's an App St dis
21 Duke up3. Playing the FCS has its rewards.
22 Miami New to the rankings, Go O Really Go
23 Loyal Washington State New to the rankings
24 UCLA New to the rankings

(37 tie) Maryland 1 vote

@California > Auburn (-6.0)
Go Bears, shred Tigers. Sorry, billy.pilgrim.
WarDamnBeagle has never won in CA, 0-3.
Now they've won, 10-14, but it was sloppy and , befitting 2 mediocre teams.
Will Auburn get more than 3 votes? The Internets of Meaningless Rules mandates fewer votes.
Miami (OH) 41, Massachusetts 28 That's gonna hurt WDE's strength of schedule

2-0 Auburn got ZERO votes
Also zero votes: UMass , MTSU, Northwestern, SDSU
Dropped from rankings: Wisconsin 19, Clemson 21, Tulane 22, Texas A&M 23

Texas leaps to No. 4 in AP Top 25 college football poll

... Texas received two first-place votes after its biggest regular-season victory in years. The Longhorns are in the top five for the first time since starting the 2010 season at No. 5 and have their highest ranking since finishing No. 2 after losing the BCS Championship Game to Alabama in 2009....

The loss dropped Alabama seven spots to No. 10, its lowest ranking since early last November, when the Crimson Tide also were 10th.

Nice

USC moved up a spot to No. 5, giving each Power 5 conference top-five representation for the first time since Sept. 24, 2017.

Surprising.

No conference has more teams in the Top 25 than the Pac-12, which is in its last season with its current membership before 10 schools depart for other leagues in 2024.

Only the SEC had ever placed as many eight teams in a single Top 25, doing it 21 times with a record 10 in September 2015.

In this week's poll, Washington is No. 8, Utah is 12th, Oregon is 13th, Oregon State is No. 16, and Colorado has risen to 18th. Moving into the rankings are Washington State at No. 23 and UCLA at No. 24.

The Pac-12's previous high was six ranked teams, achieved multiple times, including last week.

It's a Pac-12 funeral party. Playoffs or even the Championship will be ironic.

... No. 22 Miami is ranked for the first time since last September, when it fell out of the AP Top 25 after losing at Texas A&M. The Hurricanes beat the Aggies on Saturday to move back in and knock out A&M.

Go O Really Go

... Clemson also slipped out of the rankings, ending a streak of 21 appearances. The Tigers barely held on to a spot in the poll at No. 25 last week following an opening loss to Duke. Their rout of Charleston Southern on Saturday wasn't enough to keep them ranked.

Yippie!!!

With Tulane dropping out, there are no ranked teams from conferences outside the Power 5. The last time that happened was a little less than a year ago, though three Group of 5 conference teams ended up finishing the season ranked.

Behind the Pac-12's eight ranked teams is the SEC (five), ACC (four), Big Ten (four) and Big 12 (three).

Math much? That's only 24. Maybe they failed to count Notre Dame with the ACC.

Auburn is 29 in Coaches Poll.
Could ap be a mistake?

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AP Top 25

Auburn is 29 in Coaches Poll.
Could ap be a mistake?

Could be, there are several major differences:
AP - TAMU listed as getting votes without the number posted
Washington State - AP #23, Coaches (26)
Auburn - AP 0 votes, Coaches 23 votes
Maryland - AP 1 vote, Coaches 14 votes
Wake Forest - AP 0 votes, Coaches 13 votes
UCF - AP 0 votes, Coaches 11 votes
There are other contradictions. Those are just teams I'm interested in.

[billy.pilgrim]

AP Top 25

Auburn is 29 in Coaches Poll.
Could ap be a mistake?

Could be, there are several major differences:
AP - TAMU listed as getting votes without the number posted
Washington State - AP #23, Coaches (26)
Auburn - AP 0 votes, Coaches 23 votes
Maryland - AP 1 vote, Coaches 14 votes
Wake Forest - AP 0 votes, Coaches 13 votes
UCF - AP 0 votes, Coaches 11 votes
There are other contradictions. Those are just teams I'm interested in.

Also - Auburn is usually lower in the Coaches Poll makes me think something is wrong with the ap.