The 2014 Running Football Thread (College & Pro)

Started by bayonetbrant, February 07, 2014, 10:21:37 AM

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bayonetbrant

Holy shit - y'all needed to see the end of the WKU-CMU game in the Bahamas Bowl.  Wow.

I had just finished watching FF"s Sonic Highways Seattle episode and turned on the game just in time for the last play.
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endfire79

#466
Anybody see this one?


"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

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Steelgrave

Wow, DENIED! Seriously, I'm not gonna be surprised in any way should the Seahawks repeat as Super Bowl champs.

endfire79

Have to admit, they still got it.  I think NFC will be a close call this year
"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

Bison

Not a good day for Mississippi football teams.  TCU proved today they got bent over and screwed by the bowl $election committee. 

MetalDog

It's looking more and more like I am going to have to concede to Brant that the SEC, ESPECIALLY the West, is not near as good as it's reputation.  That's going to suck!  :(
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Bison

Well it certainly looks like the SEC may have been a touch overrated, which is why if a #16 beats a #1 based on human or computer rankings the better team won.  I want a full playoff like FCS even more now.

MetalDog

I don't think you need more than eight.  Six might do, too.  The five league champions and a wild card.  And just because 16 beats 1 does NOT make 16 better than 1.  It just means they were better that day.  Just ask your self, if they played that game ten times, how many would 16 have won?  That's a much better indicator.  There are numerous examples of a team coming in uninterested and losing to one that isn't as good as they are.  It's still on them for losing, but it doesn't make the team that beat them better than they are.
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Bison

Doesn't matter.  Isn't that the point of any game?  To be better than the other team on the day you play?  Nor does it change the fact that the original ratings are arbitrary in nature anyway.  It's not a quantifiable fact that this team is #1 and that team is #22 and that team is #7 this week and #3 next.  It's an opinion.  It's a projection.  It is not fact.  The only fact is when two teams meet for a game; one wins and one loses.  That is a fact.

bayonetbrant

Quote from: Bison on January 01, 2015, 08:54:06 AMThe only fact is when two teams meet for a game; one wins and one loses.  That is a fact.

Settle it on the field, right?

I present to you, your 2011 rematch champions...
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MetalDog

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Bison

Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 01, 2015, 09:36:04 AM
Quote from: Bison on January 01, 2015, 08:54:06 AMThe only fact is when two teams meet for a game; one wins and one loses.  That is a fact.

Settle it on the field, right?

I present to you, your 2011 rematch champions...

Exactly my point.  Alabama should never have been in the 2011 Championship game if season games have any meaning.  At this point, the NCAA selection committee should just cancel all foreseeable seasons and just let the computers and ADs from the "big" schools pick the championship game in September and be done with it.

MetalDog

That sounds like a bunch of sour grapes from someone who -thinks- he wants what's best.  But when you get Boise State versus Marshall for the National Championship, you won't watch, you won't care and you'll wonder why, "USC, Alabama, Ohio State, fill in the blank," isn't in the championship game. 

I'm with you on the Committee being dunderheads.  A bunch of biased people who don't have to explain how they got to their conclusions.  But what's the alternative?  The BCS?  According to you guys, they failed by giving us a LSU/Alabama rematch in 2011.  Maybe we should go back to a 'mythical' National Champion as voted on by the AP.  Oh, wait.  We had ties in that system, giving split National Champs.  Even a playoff system isn't perfect.  Regardless of what number you limit it to, there will always be a team or six that could argue that they were just as deserving as, x, and they should have gotten in instead of x.  And there will DEFINITELY be times in a playoff where the best team DOESN'T win, they just got outplayed that day.  A key turnover or injury.  Some one we never expected, playing out their mind in a once for the ages performance.  It happens.
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bayonetbrant

Quote from: MetalDog on January 01, 2015, 12:36:58 AMIt's looking more and more like I am going to have to concede to Brant that the SEC, ESPECIALLY the West, is not near as good as it's reputation.  That's going to suck!  :(

From ESPN's article about GT-Miss St
QuoteIt was the fifth time this season an ACC team beat a nonconference opponent ranked in the top 10. The rest of the country has just two such wins. For the season so far, the ACC holds a 5-3 record against the mighty SEC.
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MetalDog

Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 01, 2015, 10:24:57 AM
Quote from: MetalDog on January 01, 2015, 12:36:58 AMIt's looking more and more like I am going to have to concede to Brant that the SEC, ESPECIALLY the West, is not near as good as it's reputation.  That's going to suck!  :(

From ESPN's article about GT-Miss St
QuoteIt was the fifth time this season an ACC team beat a nonconference opponent ranked in the top 10. The rest of the country has just two such wins. For the season so far, the ACC holds a 5-3 record against the mighty SEC.

Up until yesterday, I would have poo-pooed your ACC claims.  Reminded you that your best beat our worst.  And Mississippi State gives up 452 yards and gets their ASS handed to them!  Good win by Georgia Tech.  It's still a gimmick offense, but, it's the one you have to beat and State didn't do it.  Kudos.  I gotta ask though, how did Louisville do?
And the One Song to Rule Them All is Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


"If its a Balrog, I don't think you get an option to not consent......." - bob