College Football 2014-15
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Asshat Brando
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I don't know what people are expecting. Just look at the other conferences:
Big Ten - Horrible outside of MSU and OSU for years now, conference wins give almost no indicator of the teams quality
Big East - LOL
ACC - FSU and then again just total trash
Big 12 - Looks solid, just from year to year you never know what you're going to get
Pac 12 - Ever since the NCAA neutered USC it's just be Oregon that's been consistent.
Big Ten - Horrible outside of MSU and OSU for years now, conference wins give almost no indicator of the teams quality
Big East - LOL
ACC - FSU and then again just total trash
Big 12 - Looks solid, just from year to year you never know what you're going to get
Pac 12 - Ever since the NCAA neutered USC it's just be Oregon that's been consistent.
Genjiro
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No different from the SEC. Nobody respects any school from Mississippi.....its just a matter of time before they have a couple losses imo. And the power teams this year like Alabama aren't what they were in the past...ffs they beat Arkansas which is shit by 1 point and lost to one of those Miss schools. LSU isnt good, the entire SEC east is shit.
A bigger playoff would settle it all on the field, but hey, at least this is a start. As the Rolling Stone article pointed out, garbage teams like South Carolina carry a high ranking into the season and beating that awful team causes horrible teams to leap up by double digits. At least the publications like RS are pointing out this circular logic coming from ESPN etc.
A bigger playoff would settle it all on the field, but hey, at least this is a start. As the Rolling Stone article pointed out, garbage teams like South Carolina carry a high ranking into the season and beating that awful team causes horrible teams to leap up by double digits. At least the publications like RS are pointing out this circular logic coming from ESPN etc.
radditsu
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Arkansas had a great gameplan. Press coverage Cooper and load the box to shut down the run. It worked great. Then dumbass Texas A&M decide to give the 2nd best reciever Bama ever had a 10 yard cushion and get destroyed. Bama doesnt have a QB who will make a 2nd read. He could hit TE seams all day long.
That being said they are Playoff bound.
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South Carolina hasn't been "garbage" the past couple years, 11-2 three years in a row, winning decent bowl games. This year though is a different story, the defense blows and Dylan Thompson likes to throw int's. We are all biased on our teams.
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The thing that I'm most unsure about is how going to these games is supposed to work for fans. In a fantasy universe for the sake of argument, if Auburn is 2 or 3 at the end we'll have to play in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl. If we win then we play next week in Dallas? No way am I making both trips. If we're #4 then we can hit up the Sugar Bowl and Dallas. From a fan perspective it seems like this will create problems. No idea how NFL fans handle this (even though they're a little better by being hosted at teams' fields, not random bowl locations).
radditsu
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Oh fans are supposed to go to these things? No this stuff is like the Super Bowl. Tons of Corporate blocks of tickets sold to people who really could care less about the game, with a much smaller subset of feverant fanboys who go to every game anyway.
Joeboo
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Exactly. In a 4-game playoff each game will have no issues selling out no matter where it is located. Only about 10,000 fans from each team will get tickets and the rest will all be sales to local people & sponsors. Now, once they go to a 8 game playoff or more, you're going to have to have local home games for the higher-seeded teams in the first round or two, and that will be great. Fanbases will be PUMPED to have a home playoff game in December.
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Amazingly enough, Louisville pretty much started that trend. Basically allows coverage so they are not competing with other Saturday games and full attention is just on them. A lot of it had to do with the paywall that NFL Network had, so people that didn't want to pay for NFL Network to watch a Thursday Night NFL game could watch Louisville instead. It also helped becauseback-in-the-day, ESPN and etc would rather show B1G, B12, ACC, etc instead of a AAC or Big East game during primetime Saturday coverage (aka: show the conference games that will generate the most money). Pretty good idea overall, just sucks if you want to go to the game as you won't be home until 1AM in the morning.
Joeboo
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Makes sense. It does seem like when the Thursday night trend started to really get going that it was always a Big East, Mountain West, WAC, MAC type matchups. Nowadays you do see a few Big12/Pac12/ACC games on there mixed in too. Heck, I'm all for it. If it wouldn't be such a horrible scheduling issue I'd be fine with college football every night of the week
I'm definitely a Cardinals fan tonight, you guys need to beat rape/theft/assault U
I'm definitely a Cardinals fan tonight, you guys need to beat rape/theft/assault U
Lost Virtue
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Not sure if you guys were aware, but FSU held a practice in Louisville yesterday. It was right on what we call the "Great Lawn," basically a waterfront park (they also hold all the concerts here, where the Derby Festivals are like 'Thunder over Louisville', etc) area in downtown Louisville. And this is FSU team after practice, directly right next to the "Great Lawn." I absolutely got a kick out of this!Makes sense. It does seem like when the Thursday night trend started to really get going that it was always a Big East, Mountain West, WAC, MAC type matchups. Nowadays you do see a few Big12/Pac12/ACC games on there mixed in too. Heck, I'm all for it. If it wouldn't be such a horrible scheduling issue I'd be fine with college football every night of the week
I'm definitely a Cardinals fan tonight, you guys need to beat rape/theft/assault U
Guess Jameis needed his fix? Funny part is, the coaching staff and players kept harrassing the locals that were trying to takes pictures/videos of their practice. It is a publicly funded Park that is open to anywhere (and 24/7), you guys think you're such hot shit that it needs to be shut down for you to practice? The local news had a field-day about it, aswell as our Card Chronicles SB Nation site.
(Joe's Crab Shack is directly to the right of this shot about a half mile)
Hmm... Interesting...
Lost Virtue
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Believe they were kicked out. But it funny regardless.
Hopefully Louisville wins tonight, it is half-price crab legs at Jeff Ruby's and half-price "Seminole" rolls too if they do!
radditsu
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Report: UConn lost $1.8 million at Fiesta Bowl - Connecticut Post
Bowl Games Are Not Always Winners For Schools CBS Miami
Since I'm a Bama Homer:
The Alabama Crimson Tide, which has no problems packing a stadium, ended up losing a combined $3.76 million in the 2010 and 2012 BCS National Championship games. Auburn also lost nearly $615,000 on its BCS National Champions game appearance in 2011, according to the Hearst Foundation.
They make it back in merchandise. But still its not all its cracked up to be. The Bowls make the money in bowl games.
radditsu
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We need tuesday/wednesday games. Maybe then my cable bill will be worth paying.Makes sense. It does seem like when the Thursday night trend started to really get going that it was always a Big East, Mountain West, WAC, MAC type matchups. Nowadays you do see a few Big12/Pac12/ACC games on there mixed in too. Heck, I'm all for it. If it wouldn't be such a horrible scheduling issue I'd be fine with college football every night of the week
I'm definitely a Cardinals fan tonight, you guys need to beat rape/theft/assault U