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See Red

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  1. FSU got taken to the wire by an injury depleted 5-win Florida team that was playing their own backup QB and would probably lose to Auburn.
  2. I mean in regards to Alabama-FSU. Texas is in, no doubt, in my opinion. This comes down to if Alabama should be punished for scheduling and losing to the #3 team while FSU didn't play a comparable opponent. There's not really a good answer there's no precedent to either getting left out. And the one that makes the most sense on paper (FSU) means putting in the team that would be a heavy underdog between the two. The key here is that the one win FSU can hang their hat on (LSU), Alabama can match. Without that, there's no conversation, imo. I'm indifferent. To me it's the difference between watching FSU get throttled in a playoff game vs having to listen to FSU fans complain about how they were screwed before their team sits out a bowl game and they got throttled by, like, Georgia.
  3. It's a failure either way. Omitting Alabama means leaving out a team that just beat the #1 team in the country and only loss was against the #3 team in the country. Not to mention they can match FSU's best win and would likely be a heavy favorite if they played FSU next week. They're effectively being punished for scheduling a playoff team non-conference. It's easier for the committee to just point to the obvious and say FSU isn't as good as the other four teams than to say strength of schedule doesn't matter and omit Alabama, or H2H doesn't matter and omit Texas. This wouldn't even be a conversation if FSU managed to look even decent, let alone good, vs Florida or Louisville. For what it's worth, BetMGM has Alabama as the second best odds to win the NC right now.
  4. I mean... if you think that's one of the four best teams in the country, I don't know what to tell you. Even with some sketchy officiating, that was ugly. Plummer for Louisville really challenges my belief that having a fifth or sixth year QB is a cheat code. That guy is terrible.
  5. Seems completely plausible to me that FSU gets left out with the way this game has gone so far. I don't know why we're still pretending all of the P5 conferences are built equally. This FSU team wouldn't be undefeated in any other conference. I know we're expanding to 12 and it will matter less, but the committee needs to recognize this as it's only going to get worse when the SEC and Big Ten get significantly better while the ACC somehow managed to expand and get worse. There's been some questionable calls going FSU's way so far. Seems insane to me these conferences are left to handle their own officiating when there's so much money at stake depending on who wins and loses. Decades ago, FSU chose to join the ACC over the SEC in part because it was easier for them to compete for National Championships and that decision is still paying dividends. edit to add that the Playoff Committee rules specifically say they pick the four BEST teams and I don't see how anybody can argue that FSU is one of the four best teams at this point.
  6. What is CFB’s concussion protocol because Rodemaker played last week after the head injury that’s keeping him out this week. And LSU tried to put Daniels back in after his head injury a few weeks ago. edit: College football has reached peak absurdity with this game having playoff implications.
  7. If it's four best teams, it's 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Alabama but I don't see how an undefeated ACC team gets left out, even with how weak the conference is. If Travis wasn't hurt for Florida State, it wouldn't be a discussion but he is hurt and personally, I don't think they're one of the four best teams with him. They're certainly not without him.
  8. Yeah, but they’re not 6-5. I think their luck will run out eventually, but they’re still very good. Also, *adjusts tin foil hat* the league wants another Kelce brothers Super Bowl with Taylor Swift in attendance so they’re going to keep benefiting from the most one-sided officiating I’ve ever seen.
  9. The first three Super Bowls were more Belichick than Brady. After that it gets foggier but the league changed and Belichick let Brady cook. Even then, though, the defense was always competent and won them Super Bowl LIII. Somewhere along the way Belichick became the worst personnel guy in the league, but I feel like that was pretty late in the partnership. If I remember correctly, they were always kicking the can down the road with regards to the cap and it finally caught up to them around the time Brady left. Then Belichick went mad or stopped caring or whatever it was and made Matt Patricia his offensive coordinator. Worth noting Brady's last season in New England was Belichick's otherworldly defense carrying Brady's lifeless offense to a 12-4 record. For as much as he turns the ball over, which is way too much, I think Josh Allen is the only reason the Bills are even relevant. And frankly, he deserves zero blame today. If Gabe Davis makes the correct read on an option route, they win that game in OT.
  10. Broncos looked like the worst team in the league when they lost to Miami by a thousand points but now they’re sitting at 6-5 and right on the edge of the playoffs. Offense is still iffy but that defense is legit.
  11. The entire UAA needs the pressure washing. The whole thing just becomes more of a bummer when you realize they're not going to fire Stricklin because they don't care enough to. That's why we were late to the facilities race, that's why we weren't serious about NIL, etc. They'd rather be great in a bunch of sports that nobody actually cares about than commit to becoming a championship-contending football program again. If Georgia possibly winning three straight national championships while we suffer three straight losing seasons doesn't light a fire in the boosters/UAA, nothing will. They just are not serious about sports that matter.
  12. Hard to believe how talent-poor, undisciplined, and terribly-coached this Florida team was. I was hopeful when Napier was hired because he seemed to get it, and he does seem to with recruiting (except the recruiting can't overcome the losing anymore). It's just the on-field product is so terrible. This was a winnable game that we pissed away with poor discipline and lousy coaching, just like the last three games were winnable games that we pissed away with poor discipline and lousy coaching. Now we just play the waiting game until he's fired after next season and do it all over again. Please dear god fire Stricklin first, though.
  13. I like Ryan Day and the idea of Ohio State firing him is ludicrous to me but Jim Harbaugh was right that he was born on third base. I'm not sure anybody has taken over a better situation than him. There's only two teams in that conference that can really compete with Ohio State -- one of them makes a habit of crapping the bed in big games and the other has beaten him three straight games. Neither really recruits at the same level as Ohio State. I don't know much about Michigan's roster but I'd assume they, like FSU, are benefitting from the covid year and kids that should have already graduated by now? This little run they're on may not be sustainable.
  14. Eh, not really. They only cut it to one score with 40 seconds left. Never really felt like the Packers were in any danger after they went up.
  15. The confusion is clearly on your end. His presumption of innocence means he is not in jail. It is not relevant towards anything else. There are a number of peer-reviewed studies on this. You can prove they’re incorrect if you’d like. There’s not a pool of 7m people here. The pool is not everybody in the Houston area. The pool is women who have given Deshaun Watson a massage. It’s significantly smaller. This isn’t that difficult.
  16. As you’ve been told countless times now, sexually assault is incredibly difficult to prove. How would you go about proving somebody pushed your mouth or hand to their privates or forced you to give them oral sex? Keep in mind that in this scenario, you’re a 110 pound woman and he’s a professional athlete. Ignoring the sketchiness of seeing that many message therapists to begin with…the percentage of false accusations are somewhere between 2% and 10%. What do you think is the likelihood of finding 20+ women willing to falsely accuse him of sexual assault? Pretty low. Now what’s the likelihood of finding 20+ Houston area massage therapists who can prove they’ve given him massages that are willing to falsely accuse him? It’s impossibly low. This guy doesn’t deserve to be defended.
  17. For one, innocent until proven guilty applies to the justice system, not to HR departments. Second, there’s a reason people are declared “not guilty” rather than innocent. Innocent = person did not commit the crime Not Guilty = could not be proven without a reasonable doubt that they did commit the crime Those are not the same thing.
  18. It’s not even the age thing to me. Rising’s been in QB rooms receiving coaching for six years already (unlike kids who go on missions and are away from CFB for two or whatever). It’s just such a massive competitive advantage. He’s going to be 25. Time to move onto whatever NFL practice squad he’s going to end up on. The Covid year has had such a massive impact on college football and has impacted kids down the line since the scholarship limit hasn’t increased. Florida State played nine games in 2020 and wasn’t bowl eligible, Wake played nine. Just seems like huge overreactions to give kids like Jordan Travis and Sam Hartman full extra seasons because of it.
  19. Ugh... will be the guys seventh year. Maybe I'm just an old man yelling at clouds but medical redshirt or not, I don't think this should be allowed. I'd be in favor of a five year max, personally. We've seen this year what a huge advantage having one of these sixth year QBs is. I also think the extra covid year of eligibility was a mistake.
  20. I can’t imagine he has much of an NFL future. I’m not just saying this as a rival fan since I’m on the record saying he’s a great college player, but his athleticism won’t be as big of a weapon in the NFL as it is against the future pros in something other than sports he currently plays against and his passing skillset is pretty much just throwing up jump balls to Wilson and Coleman. And frankly, a lot of his success is probably just from having six years of experience in CFB, four of them starting games in the same system.
  21. I'm not going to defend the ACC because that conference is a joke, but as a fan of a team that consistently plays one of the toughest schedules in the country and that, next season, plays the most difficult schedule I've ever seen, it gets a little old seeing this argument. I'd say the average SEC team plays a more difficult schedule than the average non-SEC team. Go after the Michigan's and Oregon's of the world for their joke non-conference schedules. My team, Florida, is pretty mediocre and likely won't be bowl eligible and would probably be a nine or ten win team with Michigan's schedule or Penn State’s. The benefit of having high-performing athletic departments to universities is clear enough and, frankly, there's a large enough separation between athletic departments and actual universities, that yes, schools would be wise to hire athletic directors with an eye on actually be as good as possible at sports, in my opinion. edit: I guess I can't speak specifically about Arizona State's situation but for Florida, for instance, it would absolutely benefit the university to get serious about their academic programs.
  22. Lucky ASU. I wish Florida’s AD would resign.
  23. From what I could tell, he went the smash mouth football route when he should have just handled the defense and hired some air raid guy to continue running some semblance of Leach’s offense.
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