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highland145

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So what do we think? That the girl is just an awkward little booger when it comes to public displays of affection, or that the Facebook screenshot is fake and that this is all a poorly-enacted conspiracy to get the girl out of trouble with her real boyfriend? Personally I don’t know, but what I do know, is that I don’t care. The only way I would find this interesting is if her side-dude was an animal and that she’s actually into bestiality. The Internet has seriously raised the bar when it comes to shocking me, and sadly this doesn’t do it for my masochistic tendencies.
Animals or GTFO.
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Childs

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See, now isn't everyone glad the title game isn't FSU getting exposed by whoever they had to play against? (Ok, that would have been funny, but that happened a few years ago with ND already)

Oregon was the worst matchup for FSU out of playoff teams. Oregon's tempo is just hard to deal with, especially a team dealing with it for the first time. I think Oregon would have done the same to Alabama, just not by as much obviously. FSU played well until that freshman had those two fumbles, and then they just lost their composure. Urban Meyer at least has familiarity with Oregon's system, so he'll have a better shot at dealing with.

My take away from yesterday was confirmation of what I already knew...SEC was overrated. And 4 teams isn't enough. FSU belonged because they were undefeated defending champs. They really need all the major conference champs in. It wouldn't have helped the Big 12 this year, but TCU should have had a spot with the others. But I'm so glad we at least have a 4 team playoff. I wish they had this system when Carroll was at USC. They probably would have 3-4 more titles.
 

positivedoppler

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The weakness of a limited playoff ranking system is that it really doesnt take into account teams getting hot at the end of the season. OS has been on fire since their early lost and almost missed the playoff because of that
 

CPA

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there aren't enough inter-conference games to give out byes to the top teams. you can do it in the NFL because each team plays more than half the teams in its own conference each year.

It needs to be 8. Something I've championed for years. 5 P5 champions, top ranked non-P5 team and 2 at-large.
 

Childs

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That would have been vacated for recruiting practices.

Vacating after the fact doesn't really matter. We would have seen the games and knew who the real champion was. Just looking at the games, USC in that era was always the best team at the end of the year, and I wanted to see them play against whoever was in the title game. They would have at least shortened up the SEC string of n straight championships.
 
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MagickMan

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My take away from yesterday was confirmation of what I already knew...SEC was overrated.

The SEC teams are beat up, from top to bottom it's the most physically demanding conference and every team lost almost half their starters over the year. When another conference comes along and wins 7 titles in 9 years, let me know.
 

MagickMan

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Vacating after the fact doesn't really matter. We would have seen the games and knew who the real champion was. Just looking at the games, USC in that era was always the best team at the end of the year, and I wanted to see them play against whoever was in the title game. They would have at least shortened up the SEC string of n straight championships.

Dream on.
 

Fingolfin269

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Hopefully now that we have a playoff system we don't have to hear so much crap about conference strength. Seems like this only became a thing a few years into the BCS system. Granted I don't expect it to go away entirely until we see expansion beyond 4 teams. There are still people who think that TCU should have been the 4th team instead of OSU and there is really no great argument against that.
 

smackababy

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The SEC teams are beat up, from top to bottom it's the most physically demanding conference and every team lost almost half their starters over the year. When another conference comes along and wins 7 titles in 9 years, let me know.

To be fair, if the NCAA wasn't so corrupt, I think Thug U would have had some of those titles. The Jimmy Johnson, Erikson, Davis, and even into the Coker era Miami was great. Dynasty worthy, IMO.
 

KeithTalent

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The SEC teams are beat up, from top to bottom it's the most physically demanding conference and every team lost almost half their starters over the year. When another conference comes along and wins 7 titles in 9 years, let me know.

Wasn't the team who won last night playing their 3rd string QB?

KT
 

smackababy

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Wasn't the team who won last night playing their 3rd string QB?

KT

And, Alabama on paper should have dominated that game. They hadn't given up a 100 yard rusher the entire season and were playing against a team on their 3rd string QB. Alabama's only glaring weakness was against QB runs, which OSU was unlikely to due, to to QB depth. However, that simply wasn't the case in what happened. OSU played well above expectations and deserved the win. Alabama's defense showed up in the 4th quarter, but the offense stalled and couldn't cash in on a 23 yard field...

I think this has to do with Blake Simms looking like Geno Smith. Anyone who looks like Geno Smith has to fail, it is destiny.
 

Train

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There are still people who think that TCU should have been the 4th team instead of OSU and there is really no great argument against that.

There's plenty of arguments against that. For one, Ohio State proved they can beat Alabama. I'm not convinced TCU would have had much of a change against Bama. Ohio State's two best conf opponents proved they can beat the best of the Big 12 (Baylor, who beat TCU) and one of the hyped up teams of the SEC West (Auburn)
 

Fingolfin269

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There's plenty of arguments against that. For one, Ohio State proved they can beat Alabama. I'm not convinced TCU would have had much of a change against Bama. Ohio State's two best conf opponents proved they can beat the best of the Big 12 (Baylor, who beat TCU) and one of the hyped up teams of the SEC West (Auburn)

I'm not convinced that TCU couldn't have beaten Bama even worse than OSU. There is no way to know otherwise since they were never given the opportunity.

The only facts we have at this point in time are as follows:

Ole Miss 23
Alabama 17

Ohio State 42
Alabama 35

TCU 42
Ole Miss 3
 
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zinfamous

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I remember when NY day was once filled with college football on TV, but there was only one game on all day yesterday: Missouri vs Minnesota.

wtf happened?
 

smackababy

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I remember when NY day was once filled with college football on TV, but there was only one game on all day yesterday: Missouri vs Minnesota.

wtf happened?

I think you missed some games, there man. There 5 games yesterday.

No. 18 Wisconsin 34, No. 19 Auburn 31 (OT)
OUTBACK BOWL

No. 8 Michigan State 42, No. 5 Baylor 41
GOODYEAR COTTON BOWL CLASSIC

No. 16 Missouri 33, No. 25 Minnesota 17
BUFFALO WILD WINGS CITRUS BOWL

No. 2 Oregon 59, No. 3 Florida State 20
ROSE BOWL GAME PRES. BY NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL - SEMIFINAL

No. 4 Ohio State 42, No. 1 Alabama 35
ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL - SEMIFINAL
 

Train

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I'm not convinced that TCU couldn't have beaten Bama even worse than OSU. There is no way to know otherwise since they were never given the opportunity.

The only facts we have at this point in time are as follows:

Ole Miss 23
Alabama 17

Ohio State 42
Alabama 35

TCU 42
Ole Miss 3

"only" facts?

OSU 49 MSU 37

MSU 42, Baylor 41

Baylor 61 TCU 58
 
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