Week 9 Thread

[catcheryea]

1 hour ago, beekay414 said:

lol this is why I hate coaches and tend to side with the players. Such stubborn friggin' beasts. It's never their fault for calling a ****ty game.

in the first half (maybe even first quarter. i think this was literally the first down of the giants i saw this year) of week one joe judge sent his offense out on 4th down to try and draw the defense offside. it was 4th and 18

ok i looked it up and it was their first possession of the season

Edited October 31, 2021 by catcheryea

[thrILL!]

2 hours ago, DirtyDez said:

I thought Chip would kill at UCLA.  Idk why he couldn’t win big there especially with USC down.

It’s bcuz he tied his anchor to DTR who has never been a good QB. 

[Oregon Ducks]

13 hours ago, DirtyDez said:

I thought Chip would kill at UCLA.  Idk why he couldn’t win big there especially with USC down.

He doesn’t care anymore and his offensive scheme isn’t unique anymore.

[D82]

13 hours ago, beekay414 said:

lol this is why I hate coaches and tend to side with the players. Such stubborn friggin' beasts. It's never their fault for calling a ****ty game.

Herm Edwards is still coaching? 

[CWood21]

Expecting the top 6 on Tuesday to be:

1.) Georgia
2.) Cincinnati
3.) Alabama
4.) Michigan State
5.) Oklahoma
6.) Ohio State

[beekay414]

6 minutes ago, CWood21 said:

Expecting the top 6 on Tuesday to be:

1.) Georgia
2.) Cincinnati
3.) Alabama
4.) Michigan State
5.) Oklahoma
6.) Ohio State

I fully expect

1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Michigan State
4. Cincinnati
5. Oklahoma
6. Ohio State

[Oregon Ducks]

If Ohio St. is over Oregon at this point, the system needs to be blown up.

[beekay414]

21 minutes ago, Oregon Ducks said:

If Ohio St. is over Oregon at this point, the system needs to be blown up.

Why exactly? I don't abide by the "one team beat the other team" nonsense. Y'all would be in front of them if you hadn't lost to a hapless Stanford team.

[Oregon Ducks]

1 hour ago, beekay414 said:

Why exactly? I don't abide by the "one team beat the other team" nonsense. Y'all would be in front of them if you hadn't lost to a hapless Stanford team.

Same record and we have a much better win (which just happens to be away against them). If they run the table and beat MSU and Michigan, then I can see them over us considering how mediocre the PAC-12 is. I also think we both get it we both win out.

[beekay414]

6 minutes ago, Oregon Ducks said:

Same record and we have a much better win (which just happens to be away against them). If they run the table and beat MSU and Michigan, then I can see them over us considering how mediocre the PAC-12 is. I also think we both get it we both win out.

And the much worse loss. That plays a factor as well. Since the h2h, one team has looked damn good and beat a top 20 team while the other has lost to a .500 team and needed a 4th quarter comeback to beat a 1-4 team at home.

I'll always take the overall resume into consideration and not just a September h2h result.

Edited November 1, 2021 by beekay414

[MWil23]

I bet Cincinnati is out it the Top 4, because I don’t see them moving them out if they keep winning, whereas they’ll use their SoS to keep them at 5 the whole time.

[BobbyPhil1781]

26 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

 

I'll always take the overall resume into consideration and not just a September h2h result.

As you should especially when one team was extremely inexperienced and has been playing much better ball lately. The mindless "we beat you, we're better than you, and need to be ranked higher" thought process is what needs to be blown up. Context is important

[beekay414]

18 minutes ago, MWil23 said:

I bet Cincinnati is out it the Top 4, because I don’t see them moving them out if they keep winning, whereas they’ll use their SoS to keep them at 5 the whole time.

I just don't see who could possibly have an argument over them in the top 4 outside of the obvious 3 (Georgia, Alabama, Michigan State). They have a better resume than Oklahoma, beat Notre Dame and Ohio State, Oregon and Michigan have no business being over them with 1 loss either.

There is no legitimate reason to have Cincinnati outside the top 4 right now. You have them at #4? Fine, there's reasoning in that. Behind Okahoma and at #5? That's laughable.

[NateDawg]

Take past precedent out of it and I still can’t figure out why Alabama is getting some of the love that they are getting over undefeated teams. Not that it matters because they still play Georgia, so it will be decided. But they beat a 4-4 UF team by two points, they lost to Texas A&M. They looked pretty human against Tennessee also. Don’t get me wrong, if they run the table and win a championship, it would be highly unsurprising based on the past. But I’m not sure why they would be ranked somewhere in the top three outside of the letter on their helmet. You have multiple undefeated teams from major conferences even and one loss teams with similar resumes. For instance, if you put Alabama at two or three, why is there a gap that jumps a few spots to MSU, Oregon, or Ohio State? If you have them slightly ahead, that’s fine. But if you have Alabama 2 and then teams like Cincinnati, Oklahoma, then Michigan State, Ohio state, Oregon, I don’t really get the separation from Alabama to the other 1-lossers. If we’re talking about résumé and what we have seen out there so far this season. 

If it’s me, I would have Georgia as the obvious number 1. Cincinnati at 2, followed by MSU, OU, then in whatever order Oregon, Bama, OSU, UM, and ND. Michigan state and the Big Ten teams will work themselves out obviously. Same can be said for the Georgia versus Alabama matchup down the road. Oklahoma you can kind of say the same thing. They have a couple of decent matchups ahead, which will either validate what their current record is or reveal that they have just been bad teams and are what they are. So if they do run the table, they deserve to be in the playoffs. As an undefeated team I will give them the benefit of the doubt right now despite some clear deficiencies. I just hope that whatever the committee decides on Tuesday has some semblance of logic. 

Edited November 1, 2021 by NateDawg

[NateDawg]

I share some of the same concerns that the committee will not respect Cincinnati. I hope they do. We have seen in the past that the committee tries to keep these teams out of the playoffs. If they put them in the top four, they make it very difficult not to keep them there. My prediction is that the committee chair will say some stuff about how they showed weaknesses the past couple weeks blah blah blah and have them and Wake Forest connected.