Board 8 > College Football Discussion Topic - Part 2

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OU has also struggled in almost every game. Ohio State doesn't have a marquee win that matches Cincinnati's either but they're certainly getting the benefit of the doubt in a way OU isn't.

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Wow Auburn choked hard. Nice win though Michigan, I'm used to Harbaugh losing that type of game.

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If TOSU or Michigan wins the Big Ten, they make it to the CFP. Whoever wins their matchup in two weeks is playing in the Big Ten Championship for that spot. Even though I'm a Badger fan, I don't see us making it to the CFP even if we pull off that upset, even though we've corrected a lot of the problems that plagued us earlier in the season (gotta work on reducing turnovers more, though).

Georgia is a shoe-in, barring a shocker. Bama is 100% making it with a single loss, but not if they lose again (unless it's a 3-point game against Georgia). Oregon and Cincy both have a shot too. One of those five is gonna be on the outside looking in.

The media loves the SEC and Alabama routing a team as elite as New Mexico State is part of the reason why.
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ya go my Vols, this game is already a success

Unlike Miami who turned the ball over 3 times in the first quarter against FSU

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yeah I don't like going for it on 4th and 4 there for Tennessee

take the FG

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Ohio State's offense is working overtime to prevent being "Purdue'd"
Ohio State's defense is hell bent on ensuring the team is "Purdue'd"

That defense will get them massacred eventually.

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It already did get us killed. Against Oregon.

I mean... there's a reason why there's always a question whether Purdue or Purdon't will show up. And it seems like Purdue showed up against TOSU.

That score is insane.
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hey at least they didn't give up over 50 points to Samford

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Florida has its national titles to console it.

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I'm pretty sure Florida actually isn't happy about not winning a national title in 15 years

the only thing that will console them about this season is running Dan Mullen out of town at the end of it


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https://youtu.be/EaE3ligeo4E

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LeonhartFour posted...

I'm pretty sure Florida actually isn't happy about not winning a national title in 15 years

the only thing that will console them about this season is running Dan Mullen out of town at the end of it

Meh, it has been a lot longer for a lot of other sec schools.

Also it has only been 13

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Ohio State survives Purdue. But, will the defense survive Michigan St.?

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This UGA/Tennessee game went about as I expected, unfortunately. We just aren't ready for a team of this caliber yet. Tennessee has been able to get a few big plays, but Georgia wasn't going to let us have any freebies. And when you can't consistently move the ball with a high tempo offense, it just leaves your defense on the field for too long, and our defense is practically depleted as it is.

I do think Heupel has the team moving in the right direction. He just needs another year or two to rebuild the talent.

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wow Milton completed a deep ball

this is the most stunning play of the game

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Iowa survives Minnesota.

Most important play was a blocked field goal.

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congrats Vols on becoming the team who has now scored the most points on Georgia all season

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Meh, it has been a lot longer for a lot of other sec schools.

Also it has only been 13

This has always been a weird thing for me to think about because almost every school would kill to have OUs accomplishments in the last 15 years, but (using the AP poll era as a starting point 1939) we are in the middle of our longest championship drought right now.

This is also why I disagree with the takes that OU moving to the SEC makes it more difficult for us, as while we might not be a 10 win team as often, those times we have really great teams should be much more prepared for playoff games

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Yeah, OU has been one of the most consistently successful programs this century (they've won or shared 14 conference titles, 15 top ten finishes, and literally have not won fewer than 8 games in any season since 2000), but they've almost become kind of a laughingstock because of underwhelming postseason performances. It's a weird space they occupy.

I think they'll do fine in the SEC, for what it's worth. Texas is the one I'd worry about.

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Are we sure this -31 spread wasn't actually for Kansas? Texas straight up playing like they quit on Sark even if they aren't saying so.

losing to Kansas is generally a fireable offense

also feel free to show up tonight A&M

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thanks for playing, A&M

see ya next year

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Kansas tried really hard to let Texas steal the game from them at the end but they somehow manage to win anyway

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https://mobile.twitter.com/notthefakeSVP/status/1459724034359402503

can't wait

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Alabama jumped Cincy to get to #2, who knew beating New Mexico State would be the thing to get them over the top

OU drops to 12th, right behind Baylor

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now both Pac-12 Washington schools have fired their coaches in bizarre situations

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Both Washington and Washington State fired their head coaches before the Apple Cup, which will make this a particularly legendary apple cup

LeonhartFour posted...

Alabama jumped Cincy to get to #2, who knew beating New Mexico State would be the thing to get them over the top

How can Cinci compete with that high level of competition!

It's not like they have a win over a team currently ranked in the top 6 or something.

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Butch Davis is quitting as the Florida International head coach and is blowtorching the school on the way out, saying the administration is sabotaging the program because they haven't been allowed to recruit on the road during the pandemic, and they haven't spent money to even update the team's uniforms or equipment in a decade.

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Maniac64 posted...

How can Cinci compete with that high level of competition!

It's not like they have a win over a team currently ranked in the top 6 or something.

If Bama lose to Georgia then they are gonna have to put in ND because they have a quality loss but Cinci don't.

Committee has to be rooting for Bama to beat Georgia so they can just not have to deal with Cinci

LeonhartFour posted...

and they haven't spent money to even update the team's uniforms or equipment in a decade.

As a Big 10 fan the idea of having to update the uniform every decade is bizarre.

Iowa has only minimally changed their logo in my lifetime. Penn State hasnt even done that.

Obviously updating equipment is a different issue but to complain about having an old uniform design is so silly to me.

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well schools like that cling to tradition but FIU certainly has no tradition to speak of

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I will say San Diego State's new helmets are the coolest helmet design i have seen.

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and on the flip side holy crap those Kansas helmets were so bad

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Oh yeah I hadn't seen them until this past week and they are ugly.

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ShatteredElysium posted...

Committee has to be rooting for Bama to beat Georgia so they can just not have to deal with Cinci

100% but UGA has looked clearly better than Bama against every common opponent they've shared so far. I guess Bama can outdo UGA against Arkansas this week but I wouldn't bet on it.

of course anything can happen in one game and UGA has lost two games against Bama in recent championship games despite barely trailing in either so who knows

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Miami fires their AD, which means firing the coach probably isn't far behind.

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And now the VA Tech job is open

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Maybe GT can fire their coach and I can continue not remembering who that guy is.
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Top 7 stay the same, OU drops to 13th

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https://twitter.com/PaulCherrington/status/1460769050779213825

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It really doesn't matter because both Michigan teams are losing to Ohio State

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sounds like Michigan State is getting ready to offer the next big "this is an overreaction and we'll definitely regret this contract before it's even halfway done" extension to Mel Tucker, reportedly 10 years for 95 million

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LeonhartFour posted...

sounds like Michigan State is getting ready to offer the next big "this is an overreaction and we'll definitely regret this contract before it's even halfway done" extension to Mel Tucker, reportedly 10 years for 95 million

I'd call that a bad plan even if it were for Izzo.
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Apparently Miami's top candidate if/when the job comes open is Lane Kiffin

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Leonhart4 posted...

Apparently Miami's top candidate if/when the job comes open is Lane Kiffin

don't post that clickbait nonsense

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Leonhart4 posted...

Apparently Miami's top candidate if/when the job comes open is Lane Kiffin

He's the best possible candidate Miami could get. But they probably won't get him. At this point, Ole Miss is a better job than Miami.

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It's a better job but does Lane want to stay in backwoods Mississippi? I think that's what people are betting on.

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If Kiffin could average 8 or 9 wins a year in Ole Miss, they'd treat him like a king. He'd have the same kind of low expectations and job security that Mark Stoops has in Kentucky. Sounds like a great gig to me.

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