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if pac 12 got the respect SEC does??? Why does the SEC get respect?? Players dude. Pac 12 doesn’t get them. Sec gets 5-6 of the top 10 recruiting classes every year. 1/3 of 1st rounders every year are from the SEC bro. Last year the top 3 recruiting clssses were SEC. The classes are ranked based on player rankings and average star rating before they are recruited. It’s not some dude saying yhat class is the best. Every player gets a point rating. Bama and Georgia get 5 of the 30 5* guys a year. Ohio state gets a bunch too. Over the past few years the SEC has gotten 2/3 of the rivals 5* players. Why would the pac 12 get respect with only 2 teams in the top 20 of recruiting every year. Geez

USC has yet to beat a top 20 FPI team. In fact the highest rank team they beat was 30th. They finish playing 22md UCLA and 15th Notre Dame but snuck out close wins vs some bad teams. I’d say if 12 team playoff you’d have Georgia, TN, LSU Bama and maybe Ole Miss if they finish strong. Texas is a 7.5 point favorite over TCU LOL. But Texas is rank 6 in the FPI and TCU around 14th. The FPI has Texas as a 5.5 fav over TCU on a neutral field. if you wonder how spreads are made use this tool. Subtract one teams FPI number from another’s and that’s the spread. https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi

the 12 team playoff will fix some of this. Tennessee has the most brutal schedule in the country and then you have a team like Illinois that could get to the conference championship who doesn’t play a top 25 team all year. A few years ago all 7 teams in the SEC west were top 25 FPI. Ohio state is always a legit team but they pretty much just have to win the Michigan game or Penn state if Penn state is decent that year. It’s almost worst in the ACC. Wake forest? NC State?? Come on. Those teams don’t have the talent to battle decent teams every week and then you get a monster blowout and you’re like umm losing by 25 to a 3-5 team?? Yeah they are really the 7th best team….. 12 team playoff fixes all that crap.

Dude Bama misses a FG to beat tennessee. LSU went for a 2 pointer to win. Bama would be at least a TD favorite over everyone but georhia and OSU and those would be Pickems. You can’t compare the record of Illinois with Bama even though they are the same. Bama could easily be undefeated but they aren’t. The 12 team playoff would be bad news this year as no one would want to have to play Bama. OSU was one of the best 4 teams a few years they didn’t make the playoffs but 1 loss plus weak strength of schedule didn’t get them in. Doesn’t mean they weren’t one of the best 4 teams b/c they didn’t make the playoffs.

Just got home and decided to put on Hyryders Saturday stream on FB. 2nd song was hey pocky way. I told meili that this was the 1st song I ever saw DSO play and I didn’t really know it. Then I realized how many dead songs that dso exposed me too. So many 1-5x played songs that are almost impossible to know unless you listen to every dead show multiple times. But dso gives us that deep dive. Now there are a few deep dives like keep on growing that I don’t mind sinking to the bottom, only b/c I think I caught like 8 of the 1st 10 ever played, but so many songs were learned through dso. Hyryder also goes crazy deep and teaches people lots of dead.

the sport is cyclical but programs like Texas, Georgia, Florida, LSU, OSU, Clemson, Florida state are capable of assembling monster rosters. Alabama could be mediocre for a few years but they will always be a true top 20 team at the very worse. They lost to TN b/c they missed a FG and LSU went 2 point conversion. Alabama won’t likely make the 4 team playoff but they will be better than several who do. Our hotel was 200 feet from the venue so at setbreak we hit the hotel. Walk in and it says OT. Got to see everT play of that OT. Nutty finish. Was awesome. Got to watch most of the 1st half before show. Lsu has a lot of talent like always and night games in Death Valley are about as hard w place to play as any. It was a great setbreak for us lol. Cocktail and end of game then back to show 2 mins before dso took the stage you had 17 4-star freshmen come in and the 6th ranked class. You actually had a better class than Clemson.

You didn’t have the D line. That’s where it all starts. Get to the QB. I didn’t know you had 9 actually drafted. But what did you have behind them. Georgia has more 1st rounders who weren’t eligible to be drafted. You had a magical season. But you weren’t national champion material. Football is one of those sports where the small guy won’t win it all. You can have great seasons but 2 straight vs the best wont happen.

TCU had the 60th rank recruiting class in 2022. They only got 3 4 star and 9 3-star players. Teams like Rutgers smoked them in recruiting. Kentucky had 11 4-star recruits. North Carolina had 2 5 star and 8 4-star recruits. Then you get to the monsters like A&M with the best class in history with 8 5-star and 20 4-star. They ate all freshmen but will be a lot of NFL guys. TCU may have a good system but coming from behind every game will come to an end the games need to be played but comparing Cincinnati last year to any SEC team can’t be done. They don’t play 7 FPI top 20 teams. It’s like triple A. No one has beat an SEC team in the playoffs besides OSU and Clemson and it’s because OSU is a top 5 recruiter like Clemson. You saw the carnage when Michigan state made the playoffs a few years ago when they were the 20th ranked FPI team. You can be coached great but you need talent to beat the big boys.

you mean talent bias. You see it every year. Some scrub makes it in by playing no one and they get crushed. Only OSU and Clemson have enough talent to stick with Bama and GA on any consistent basis. TCU has had a solid season but like Cincinnati they aren’t really a top 4 team. Hasn’t TCU been down by 2 scores in 4+ games and come back?

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My playoff guesses would be Georgia tennessee winner Bama ohio state/Michigan winner Clemson (weak ass schedule. Almost lost to Syracuse who lacks nfl talent) so if tennessee stays undefeated and beats Georgia and loses in SEC champ they are in. Same with Georgia. Bama has to win out and sec champ to get in. Michigan or Ohio state gets in if they win out. The big ten lacks any legit talent outside of Michigan and osu. You can’t recruit high end talent that far north anymore. If I was a 5* guy, I’m not going to a dying program in Michigan state where it’s miserable and cold. USC has lots of potential b/c it’s easy to recruit to LA. That’s where I’d go if I was a star athlete. Best looking girls with perfect weather. You had me at 25% of girls at USC had a boob job. That’s a legit stat. Like 1 in 10 incoming freshmen chicks get one the summer before. But it’s LA so makes sense.

You can’t ever count Bama out. Tennessee played as good as they could and snuck one out. Tennessee’s QB has to be the heisman leader so far. He was great. Tennessee will wear you out. They play soooo fast. I was at a show Saturday so I ignored all news and texts to watch it Sunday and you can’t use fast forward or you miss a play. Heck Bama plays fast too. Bama doesn’t have the O line they are used to or the DT’s they normally have. This is a year that Bama can get beat.

We may do the 3 Deadco Boulder shows. I don’t buy tix 9 months out. There should be a ton on CoT with everyone being forced to buy this early.

that one hurt. Penalty on the go ahead TD with 40 secs left then a fumble on the next play at the 13yd line and a FG would have tied it. We missed 2 XP’s and a short fg as well. Sad loss…

the guys who try to make it as coaches or scouts at 22 get some menial grad assistant job in college and work 18 hours a day studying football. I never had the dedication to care about a 40 hour a week job much less dedicate my existence to something. McVey sleeps like 3 hours a day and is in his office by 3-4am daily. His hot wife sees him an hour a day during the season. (Google her). on that note, Kentucky goes to ole miss today. Let’s see if our 1st round QB and defense can perform.

In 2016 Tony Romo broke his collarbone in the last preseason game which forced Dak into the starting position as a rookie. During preseason Dak lit it up throwing for over 80% completion rate but that was preseason. Dak comes in and loses game 1 to the Giants who had a really good defense. Then we roll off 11 straight wins which was most in franchise history. Romo never saw the field again besides a few snaps in a mop up role. The reason Dak won the job wasn’t that we just won 11 straight. He had 10 of 11 games in that stretch over 100 passer rating throwing 19tds yo only 2 ints plus he had 6 rushing TDs and countless big scrambles on 3rd and long. 3 games that rookie year he had the highest QBR for the week and finished 3rd in QBR for the year. What’s funny is these commenters that hate Dak want to compare us sneaking out 2 wins with the backup to the 2016 performance of Dak. These guys go real quiet when Dak plays great but hundreds come out when we lose. Romo was hurt in 2015 as Dallas went 4-12. Then with Dak the next year we went 13-3. Dak has his warts like most QBs but teams like The Bears have been in QB hell for a decade with constant flops like Trubisky and Fields. In 2016, Dallas tried to draft Paxton Lynch but Denver got him and we got lucky with Dak in round 4. In 2014 Jerry tried to draft Johnny Manziel but per an insider who posts, a few execs threatened to quit if Jerry overruled the 4 person rule where 4 execs have to sign off on a player to draft him. So Jerry didn’t get his guy thank god. There’s the other issue that we’ve converted so much of Daks salary to signing bonus to kick the money down the road that he’s almost assured of getting a contract extension after 2024 or we will eat 30 mil of dead money that’s already on the books for the 2 extra void years of his contract that teams use to kick the can.

I participate in the Dallas cowboys SB nation blog. It’s pretty disgusting. There’s so many people who have hated Dak from day 1 that with week 1’ playing bad before the line gave up a broken thumb and the backup winning 2 straight, these people want him replaced. What’s funny is the whole blog wanted us to sign a better backup than cooper rush but with 2 straight wins they are like get rid of Dak. The 6 year backup has been cut by us and the giants in his career and still hasn’t posted a 100 passer rating game even though Dak had 10 last year which was 2nd behind Aaron Rodgers. Gotta assume the Texas racists don’t like a black guy as the face of the team.

His son is one ugly human being. He’s a billionaire but he’s the football version of Harvey Weinstein looks wise. If Harvey looked like Brad Pitt, no girl is calling the cops on him. Not being sexist but I doubt he gets rejected much especially if he tried to date up and coming actresses.

If they were doing 2 shows we’d have been there. That’s a fun outdoor spot

Several ties to app state on the board. 1 Alum plus a parent of a freshman at app state.

so John cougar is still putting down 5 packs a day? That’s a crazy habit. Even if you’re dosed up and chain smoking, 5 packs is nutty.

Kentuckys defense looked solid against Florida. We’ve had 4 DL guys drafted over the last few years so I didn’t expect us to smother Florida like that at Florida. steve sarkisian turned Texas around quickly. That defense looked great. Jimbo fisher only had the number 1 recruiting class plus another couple top 5 ones and he can’t do crap. He’s a horrible coach. A&M bought the best players there were to buy and the giant killer app state still took them down.

Wow. Just finished the Florida state LSU game. There was a lot of talent on that field. Crazy crazy finish. Deep into the rule books to finish the game. Player didn’t get OB with 1 sec left like the play was called. It was then overturned which should have ended the game but b/c it was a review after the 1st down clock stoppage, then the clock starts on the snap and not the whistle. LSU had to go 50yd in 20 secs with no TOs and did it then missed the XP for overtime. Well FSU blocked the XP as the TE let a dude come through his hole blocking a guy further away. 2 evasive running QBs made for one of those games where anything can happen on any 3rd and long.

I was shocked that Ohio state didn’t rout ND. Ohio state has the most loaded offense in the country. I don’t know about Ryan Day. Osu has been an extreme letdown the past few seasons. They recruit as well as Georgia and Bama and those 3 are only 3 teams in that elite recruiting group. Well actually 4 now since A&M has the highest paid group of freshmen and the number 1 class. That App state game was insane. I paused it after they missed the 1st 2 point conversion only to see that 4 plays later each had scored a TD. There were 3 TDs in a 22 second span. Is that a record? Nutty finish. i just finished watching Florida v Utah this morning. That was a tough game to beat. On 4th down, Richardson of Florida avoids a sack at the 15 and must get the ball in the end zone and does it. Then Utah moves down the field with the help of 4 timeouts along with a clock error that stopped the clock for them and they throw an int from the 3yd line to seal the game. Wow. Georgia looked better on offense than last year, albeit weaker on defense considering 3 D line guys were drafted in the 1st round with picks 1, 17 and 31. That’s a huge talent drain. They are still loaded with NFL talent but they won’t have college’s best all time defense like last year. This was the 5th time in the last 16 games they didn’t allow a TD and the 13th time they didn’t allow a rushing TD. Wow.

saw Roger waters at Bridgestone arena in Nashville last night. Pretty great time and awesome show and sound. There were lots of unsold seats so we went down lower level to a good spot and melted. He’s very political and the 1st thing that scrolls across the screen is if you don’t like rogers politics he doesn’t give a fuck. He pretty much hates everything to do with the military industrial complex and your engulfed in violent images. But come set 2, he melted faces. He finished Dark side starting with money so that was a 25 minute meltout. I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the songs I didn’t know. There are speakers behind you pointed at the stage to create his quadraphonic sound and during brain damage I was on another planet being in this bubble of sound coming from all directions at you. if he’s coming to your town, you should definitely go. Set 1: Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd song) The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Pink Floyd song) Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (Pink Floyd song) Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 (Pink Floyd song) The Powers That Be The Bravery of Being Out of Range The Bar Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd song) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song) Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) (Pink Floyd song) Sheep (Pink Floyd song) Set 2: In the Flesh (Pink Floyd song) Run Like Hell (Pink Floyd song) Déjà Vu Play Video Déjà Vu (Reprise) Is This the Life We Really Want? Money (Pink Floyd song) Us and Them (Pink Floyd song) Any Colour You Like (Pink Floyd song) Brain Damage (Pink Floyd song) Eclipse (Pink Floyd song) Two Suns in the Sunset (Pink Floyd song) The Bar (Reprise) Outside the Wall (Pink Floyd song)