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Discussion in 'Community' started by DarthPoppy, Nov 16, 2006.

  1. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    lol @ Auburn (also, that UCF team should now get some respect -- certainly they should not have been in the playoffs, but #12?)
     
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  2. cubman987

    cubman987 Friendly Neighborhood Saga/Music/Fun & Games Mod star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Congrats to UCF, great game and season for that team. Wish there was a system where they got a shot at the title, don't necessarily think they'd beat any of those top 4 teams but they deserve a chance to find out.
     
  3. LloydChristmas

    LloydChristmas Baseball and Three-Time Jedi Draft Champion star 5 VIP - Game Winner

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    Why should they not? Alabama got in and couldn't even beat Auburn. If it's about winning the games in front of you over strength of schedule (because otherwise, the Bucks get in easily), then really...why?
     
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  4. DarthIntegral

    DarthIntegral JCC Baseball Draft/SWC Draft Commish star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    The AP should award their title to UCF
     
  5. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Muschamp continues to build in Columbia. He's unlikely to outshine Dabo, but getting 9 wins out of this team (who lost their best player in the 2nd game) is really something.

    Georgia loses 30+ seniors next year, but Kirby has a stunning recruiting class coming in. Mullen may not be a national contender in year 1, but no way Florida is a pushover any more. I think the next few years will see the East make up a bit of ground on the West, as LSU, Ole Miss, and MSU recede.
     
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  6. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    UCF's schedule was... bad? Like really, really bad?

    NO top-25 wins, until their conference championship (#20 Memphis) which was a team they'd already destroyed as an unranked team weeks earlier. Two fewer games due to cancellations from the hurricanes this year. 1 win against a Power-5 conference team (and that was Maryland).

    Of the two games cancelled, one was a second FCS opponent (Maine) and one was another (terrible) Power-5 team they elected not to replay (GT).

    They should have been higher than 12; they should not have been in the playoffs.

    The OSU / ALA discussion isn't remotely comparable to UCF's. I think OSU should have made it in, but by all metrics of statistical analysis Alabama's not a "wrong" choice. Though I do think people overlook the Bosa/Iowa explanation more than they should...
     
  7. LloydChristmas

    LloydChristmas Baseball and Three-Time Jedi Draft Champion star 5 VIP - Game Winner

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    I think it's relevant since the dominant explanation bandied about for Bama getting in is that they took care of business against their opponents, however weaker they might've been. If you extend that to UCF-- and in hindsight use the Auburn win vs. Bama's loss-- I honestly don't see how you keep them out. As soon as you start to separate Bama from UCF for resumé reasons, you're kinda also separating tOSU from Bama.

    I just think it would've been 100000x more fun if the Cotton/Peach Bowls had also been playoff games, but I'm also a Buckeye fan who is somewhat-hypocritically salty about Bama getting in on what is essentially Nick Saban's name.

    [​IMG]


    EDIT: Also full disclosure I have a buddy who played at TCU and so I have to be very self-aware about my salt levels given 2014... [face_whistling]
     
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  8. Nanaki

    Nanaki Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    What ever happened to Bill Parcells saying "you are what your record says you are?"

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  9. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    In pro football, where there is one and ONLY one league? Absolutely true.

    In college football where there are not only a multitude of conferences eligible for the playoffs, but a whole 3 other levels (1-FCS, II, and III) of teams a team could play to pad their records... yeah, no.
     
  10. darth_gersh

    darth_gersh Force Ghost star 7

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    Fantastic game so far.
     
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  11. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    this game is absurd
     
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  12. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    That was a phenomenal game...
     
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  13. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    i'm an sec homer, believer in lord saban and his dark arts, and am grossed out by clempson people

    but under no circumstances do i want another all-sec national championship

    so go clemson
     
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  14. LloydChristmas

    LloydChristmas Baseball and Three-Time Jedi Draft Champion star 5 VIP - Game Winner

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    HOLY **** THAT WAS AWESOME
     
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  15. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    I was rooting for OU, but holy crap I can't even be mad...
     
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  16. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    there have been a few duds, but the rose bowl game has been collectively pretty phenomenal over the last 20 years.

    i'd still give the edge to the vince young run, but this is probably second.
     
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  17. dp4m

    dp4m Chosen One star 10

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    Anything better than OU/BSU Fiesta Bowl in your opinion? That's still my tops, I think...
     
  18. DarthIntegral

    DarthIntegral JCC Baseball Draft/SWC Draft Commish star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    More like Chokelahoma.
     
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  19. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Hoo. Yeah, that's definitely top 3 for me. I'd say the Vince Young/SC game, the Statue of Liberty game, and that OSU/Michigan game when I was in college when they were 1 and 2. It's hard for me to distinguish between those three. And Kick Six is up there, too.
     
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  20. DarthIntegral

    DarthIntegral JCC Baseball Draft/SWC Draft Commish star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    I rank the Vince Young Rose Bowl over the Boise State Fiesta Bowl simply because the stakes were higher. That game, for the National Championship, hasn't been topped IMO.
     
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  21. CT-867-5309

    CT-867-5309 Chosen One star 7

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    Can anyone explain why the Georgia kicker wasn't called for a false start or illegal motion on the tying extra point?
     
  22. ma_petite

    ma_petite Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Big man catches a TD pass! I love seeing fun stuff like that!


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  23. DarthIntegral

    DarthIntegral JCC Baseball Draft/SWC Draft Commish star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    Well

    At least I'll be free next Monday night
     
  24. ma_petite

    ma_petite Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Currently trying to decide if I should bother to keep watching or go to bed.


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  25. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Clemson put up 21 on Bama in the 4Q last year.

    No Watson, but they're not finished.
     
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