College Football 2018 (non-meltdown thread)

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Brian really wants someone to talk about James Franklin, guys.
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I hope Lil'Jordan Humphrey becomes a big, bright, beautiful star in the NFL because his name will never not make me giggle.
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rass wrote: Sat Nov 03, 2018 5:54 pm I hope Lil'Jordan Humphrey becomes a big, bright, beautiful star in the NFL because his name will never not make me giggle.
He’s probably gonna because he’s really good.
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I don't follow the NCAA too closely, but I sure do like seeing Bobby Petrino fail spectacularly.

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Pruitt wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:54 am I don't follow the NCAA too closely, but I sure do like seeing Bobby Petrino fail spectacularly.

Fire Bobby Petrino
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A_B wrote: Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:14 pm Brian really wants someone to talk about James Franklin, guys.
I can't speak for brian, but Franklin really gets under people's skin a lot. And he really is spectacularly bad on the sidelines at times.

His assistants had to hold him back from calling a TO last week on a change of possession.
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Looking forward to the end of the Meyer era at tOSU.
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It's so much that he's a bad coach. Lord knows there's a lot of those out there, but he might be the biggest example of a coach at a Power Five school who seems to never take as much flack as he should from both the team's fanbase and national writers for being really bad at one of the most important aspects of being a coach.

Recruiting is important too of course and he's a fantastic recruiter, but at some point a dude is just Ron Zook if he's recruiting four and five-star players and getting nothing from them on the field (or worse, getting something, but actually reducing the chances for Team X to win by being a dope with his in-game decisions.)

I actually think Franklin seems like a pretty good dude and he was great at Vandy so I don't have too much of an axe to grind w/r/t him personally.
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tennbengal wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:36 am Looking forward to the end of the Meyer era at tOSU.
I'm not. Because I'm terrified he's goign to go to the Browns.
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A_B wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:40 am
tennbengal wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:36 am Looking forward to the end of the Meyer era at tOSU.
I'm not. Because I'm terrified he's goign to go to the Browns.
If the stress at tOSU is killing him, it's much worse at the NFL level so I imagine if he pulls the pin he might really be done-zo for good.
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brian wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:41 am
A_B wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:40 am
tennbengal wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:36 am Looking forward to the end of the Meyer era at tOSU.
I'm not. Because I'm terrified he's goign to go to the Browns.
If the stress at tOSU is killing him, it's much worse at the NFL level so I imagine if he pulls the pin he might really be done-zo for good.
Nah... He'll take a couple/few years off, "get healthy", make promises to his family, then end up as Notre Dame's next coach whenever they have their next opening.
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phxgators wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:44 am
brian wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:41 am
A_B wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:40 am
tennbengal wrote: Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:36 am Looking forward to the end of the Meyer era at tOSU.
I'm not. Because I'm terrified he's goign to go to the Browns.
If the stress at tOSU is killing him, it's much worse at the NFL level so I imagine if he pulls the pin he might really be done-zo for good.
Nah... He'll take a couple/few years off, "get healthy", make promises to his family, then end up as Notre Dame's next coach whenever they have their next opening.
It's the Meyer circle-of-life.
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Maryland RB McFarland has 214 yards rushing against tOSU after 17 minutes. On pace for 700 yards for the game.
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I turned it on and osu immeadiately threw a long td. I’ll turn it back to Harvard Yale.
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Bama also tied at halftime with the citadel. Which is likely to be bad for the citadel, but still.
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ESPN announcers basically openly pulling for Ohio state.
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I made a bunch of money loading up on in-game bets on tOSU. No way was the Big Ten gonna let them lose.
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brian wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 4:13 pm I made a bunch of money loading up on in-game bets on tOSU. No way was the Big Ten gonna let them lose.
I still think there’s a really good chance OSU sneaks into the playoff. They’re going to beat Michigan next week.
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Maybe a hot take but I think Ohio State handles Michigan surprisingly easily next week.
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brian wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 5:37 pm Maybe a hot take but I think Ohio State handles Michigan surprisingly easily next week.
I hate the matchup for Michigan, since they have a very conventional offense that lacks big play ability. Ohio State would get massacred by Alabama or another stout defensive team that runs a good spread offense. But this feels like a game where Michigan’s defense holds up most of the way before Ohio State scores a couple of time late to win something like 27-20.
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Ohio state is fucking awful.
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Even in Columbus, I expect the better team wins. That team is Michigan.
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tennbengal wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:24 pm Ohio state is fucking awful.
Their defense is certainly awful but the offense is still really good. Regardless, West Virginia losing yesterday put a big dent in OSU’s playoff hopes. Now the Big 12 title game matchup will be Oklahoma/Texas if Oklahoma beats WVU next week. That would give Oklahoma the chance to avenge its only loss. A 1-loss Oklahoma team with a subsequent win over the only team to beat it would get in over a 1-loss OSU.
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As it should be. The only reason to hope for the buckeyes in the playoff is to want see them get beat 70-0. Actually now that I think about it, disappointing they would get left out.

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That Oklahoma-WVU total is gonna be nuts. Probably like 82 or so.
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So Miami has no scholarship tight ends healthy for this weekends game against Pitt. They had 2 freshmen playing. Both got hurt and now will roll with a walk on and eligible lineman. Guessing they will be playing out of the spread.
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I don't understand a prediction where OSU "handles" Michigan easily. They just aren't that good this year. I think this game is going to look a lot like playing MSU, where things just stay kind of ugly for 3 Qs and one team makes plays at the end to win.

MI is vulnerable to slants, they are not vulnerable to screens (team speed on D is off the charts.) OSU's defense is terrible. Harbaugh and the staff have a bunch of stuff they've been able to keep off tape because they've rolled everyone other than MSU since NW 6 or 7 weeks ago.

MSU was a weird game and that's how I think this game will go down. But handle easily? I'll take that bet.
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It's Michigan-Ohio State week.

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So yeah...McKenzie Milton's knee just blew - the fuck - up.

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Like that injury could be career ending.
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CMU fired their coach, Brian. Can’t say I’m surprised.
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On the "Against All Odds" podcast, Cousin Sal took the Oklahoma/West Virginia over 80 as his pick of the week.

I thought it sounded insane...
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Square Rob wrote: Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:34 pm CMU fired their coach, Brian. Can’t say I’m surprised.
Yeah, I’m a little heartbroken but I understand the decision.
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EnochRoot wrote: Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:51 pm Like that injury could be career ending.
It could be even worse than that, as it’s the type of injury that could result in permanent disability. Milton’s injury is really a stark illustration of the immorality of the NCAA’s system of “amateurism” for big money sports. Milton undoubtedly generated a ton of revenue for UCF and it’s conference over the last two years with his stellar play. And not only was he unable to share in that windfall, he also suffered a potentially life-altering injury.
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Seems like we say this regularly, but if Michigan/tOSU actually gets exciting, I think Gus Williams is going to have an aneurism.
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I know people don’t like him but there’s no one else I’d rather have doing a big game
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Meyer is always gonna pull a rabbit out of his hat no matter how bad his team looks all season.
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brian wrote: Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:24 pm Meyer is always gonna pull a rabbit out of his hat no matter how bad his team looks all season.
Their offense hasn’t looked bad at all though, which is why I really thought OSU would win this game. I like Harbaugh a lot, but his teams are always slogging it out on offense. At least Oklahoma won last night and they just need to beat Texas to spare us OSU in the playoff.
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I am extremely here for the meltdown from the Big 12 and B1G that’ll happen if Bama loses to UGA next week and still gets in over Oklahoma and tOSU.
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Sadly won’t spare us Meyer’s whining that they deserve to be in the playoffs. And whine he will
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