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Official Bowl Games Thread
- Thread starter Duff Man
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You're encouraging the college football to have far less compelling OOC games? Sounds fun.
Never said that, I'm just saying that teams don't necessarily have to play 9 conference games to make it all equal. Even if you say a team has to play, say 10 games against P5 opponents total that can be very subjective. What if your 2 OOC games are against KU and Oregon State going by this past season? In that case your schedule would look better if those 2 games had been against say Boise and App State instead.
This year was an anomaly with 3 undefeated but in most years winning a P5 conference with only 1 loss will get you in regardless of who you played in non-conference. Just look at UW from 2 years ago and that joke of non-conference schedule they had. That schedule didn't hurt them one bit when it came to getting into the playoff.
Fundamentally terrible defensive play for a top 4 team! They do not even look that athletic? Stunning!
And sure enough it was
OU needs to pull out all the stops and create some turnovers. Empty the playbook, on both sides of the ball. Nothing to lose now, house money.
And if that doesn’t work, pound it and launch it!
You essentially are saying that in practice. The whole point is that the SEC is not using the extra space in their schedules to go big.
It should not be hard for the biggest conferences to play 9-game conference schedules. It creates ridiculous schedule imbalances. Bama gets Tennessee/South Carolina from the East next year while Auburn gets Florida/Georgia. Teams in the same conference are not playing each other for EIGHT years at time. That does not pass the smell test.
Bourbon Buff
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Once again, I fail to understand why, under the targeting rule, a ball carrier can use his head as a battering ram while clean, hard open-field tackles by DBs draw the flag and review. That OU defender got whacked.
Good to see Jim Plunkett out and about.
Well, they could quit. Instead of talking **** when you're getting your ass whipped, step up and actually do something.
Sure would be nice to see that style of offense in Boulder.
I'll agree that it's ridiculous for a 14-team conference to only be playing 8 conference games. But ok, what after that? As I said, after that it's subjective when it comes to your non-conference schedule and a P5 opponent in name doesn't necessarily mean much. Going back to UW's schedule from 2 years ago, sure they played 9 conference games but one was against a lousy Arizona team and that was an OT win. They technically played 10 P5 teams since they played Rutgers non-conference but that was a horrendous Rutgers team that went winless in the B1G. But that schedule ended up working for them.
Let's start with every team playing at least 10 P5 teams and see how it shakes out.
And while teams can get unlucky with teams scheduled years in advance tanking, it should not give teams an easy excuse in scheduling.
In 2019, A&M plays Clemson, Georgia has Notre Dame, Auburn plays Oregon, and Alabama plays Duke... at a "neutral" site. It is okay to call Bama out, just like you are calling out Washington.
BehindEnemyLines
beware the habu
Strange call for OU to kick the FG there after a time-consuming drive. Now it looks like Bama is gonna be content to grind clock
Context there matters.
If he was answering a question about the talent differential, he has to answer that way otherwise his team knows that he doesn't believe in them.
If he brought it up unprompted, then yeah, delusional.
No catch.
OU needs to find a matchup they like, hit that sumbitch, and quickly.
HuskerHater
Well-Known Member
wow
Like that one.
Gotta turn them over.
Everyone playing 10 P5 games is fine but it's not going to be an end-all by any means depending on 1) how good your conference is and who you played in conference, 2) who your P5 non-conference games were against, and 3) who your non-P5 games were against. The reason I separated the last 2 is because games against G5 teams can often be tougher games than against some P5 teams.
And sure it's fair to call out Bama's schedule for next year unless they beat every team by 21+ points. But if they win a few of those games in close fashion AND they don't end up having any wins against other top 10 SEC teams then it's fair to question whether or not they are deserving of being in the playoff. At the same time beating an undefeated/1-loss UGA team in the SECCG could offset that.
I never said it was an end-all, be-all, but it would be a real effort to standardize scheduling at least.
So then it must have been coaching?
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
It's not a panacea. It won't solve all problems. It's not perfect. But those aren't reasons to not do it.
Would it be better than what we have now?
White_Rabbit
Well-Known Member
serious. Bama always has amazing RBs/OL, but Tua is incredible and their WRs are really good too.
It's basically pick your poison and hope they turn it over some.