Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I honestly don't know the QB situation at Bama.
Which is a bad thing.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I actually write descriptions for every college football game that's on TV every week on my website thingy, but it's not my forte. I can run the actual mechanics, you can do the descriptions, and we can divvy up picking the games?
I do like the format we had, with 9 games and a Game of the Week. Generally speaking, I'd like to keep the split of doing 5-6 games featuring ranked teams, and 4-5 more obscure teams. I can try to cook up something with Google Forms to automate pick submission, but I actually like having the picks in the thread because it gives us something to talk about. (If I did the Google Forms thing, I'd could probably make it spit out a BBCode formatted post as well...)
Once we agree on something, I'll spin up a new thread since I can't delete the poll in this one.
Yeah, I think that'd work. I don't know if we want to do anything against the spread, but it's an option to mix things up as well.
Yeah, I was debating with myself earlier whether we should do ATS again this year.
So let's put it to a vote:
Did y'all like picking against the spread last year? Would you like to do it again?
I switched several games to ATS last year for the exact reason RME said. It made some games that were not pickable straight up more fun to pick on. I think the combo worked well (there was no set # of games on either style of picks).
I give multiple thumbs up to the Google Form. I would suggest UCLA instead of California-Los Angeles.
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I vastly prefer the spread, and for it to be about games that we are gonna want to watch.
Because yeah, we might be fans of certain teams, but we all know that betting on a winner ain't the same as betting on a team.
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There's an r/cfb post with sec teams as harry potter characters. USC got 'Ron Weasley. It took them a while to be recognized as an important player and they're not really ever going to be the lead, but Spurrier's got that whole comedic relief thing going on.' and I ain't even mad.
I'm down with however you guys want to run it (ATS vs Straight). The form looks good as well, though yeah, didn't recognize UCLA at first either. Will there be a way to switch mid-week just in case of injuries/general shenanigans?
True story. Someone the other day was talking about the Georgia Institute of Technology and I was wondering for a few seconds "huh, where in Georgia is that?" until it clicked. I have a degree from that university.
I give multiple thumbs up to the Google Form. I would suggest UCLA instead of California-Los Angeles.
One of my, um, "things" is that I like to type out the full names of schools usually referred to as abbreviations. So Southern California, Louisiana State, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, etc.
I do leave "Techs" as is, though, partially because I'm a Georgia Tech fan and partially because being arbitrary is occasionally fun.
In 1963, the 58th Legislature of Texas approved of Rudder's changes, and officially renamed the school "Texas A&M University",[30] specifying that the "A" and the "M" were purely symbolic, reflecting the school's past, and no longer stood for "Agricultural and Mechanical".
The bad part about the pre-season poll is it always filters into the regular season. "We predicted USC to be #3! I know they've lost four in a row, so they're only at #13..."
Beckman fired from Illinois with a week before the season starts. That . . . that can't be good.
He was telling players to hide injuries from the medical staff and pulling seniors' scholarships for their Spring semester (you know, the one you'd graduate in). So yeah...
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"Eh, they'll attribute it to SEC bias. Stick with it."
Counterpoint: Tennessee will be actually good this year.
Counterpoint: Nothing sucks like a big orange.
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LET'S GET IN THE SPIRIT WITH EDSBS!
WHAT ABOUT OUR COUSINS TO THE WEST AND THEIR OWN BRAND OF 'FOOTBALL' AND REFEREES IDIOTS?
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Every time you guys complain about subpar reffing I just sit and laugh because you have not experienced the prolonged suffering that is Pac 12 Refs.
I didn't believe it until that post there where the guy called the play dead because someone got blocked too hard.
Dumb shit like this happens every single week.
Also Pac 12 teams always end up near the top of penalty yards, and then as soon as they get to play a game with non-Pac 12 refs, they end up with 0 penalties. HMM I WONDER WHY.
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Probably not, we lost too much defensive talent.
I have not been keeping up during off-season at all.
Which is a bad thing.
Yeah, I was debating with myself earlier whether we should do ATS again this year.
So let's put it to a vote:
Did y'all like picking against the spread last year? Would you like to do it again?
I give multiple thumbs up to the Google Form. I would suggest UCLA instead of California-Los Angeles.
Because yeah, we might be fans of certain teams, but we all know that betting on a winner ain't the same as betting on a team.
There's an r/cfb post with sec teams as harry potter characters. USC got 'Ron Weasley. It took them a while to be recognized as an important player and they're not really ever going to be the lead, but Spurrier's got that whole comedic relief thing going on.' and I ain't even mad.
Looking forward to the season.
Also also, Snoop Dogg's kid (a 4 star recruit) has decided to give up football but still wants to stay at UCLA.
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One of my, um, "things" is that I like to type out the full names of schools usually referred to as abbreviations. So Southern California, Louisiana State, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, etc.
I do leave "Techs" as is, though, partially because I'm a Georgia Tech fan and partially because being arbitrary is occasionally fun.
Huh. Well, that's no fun.
http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll/2015/1
EDIT: It is possible the Dave Bliss thing makes them think twice about it though.
"So we need to fill out the bottom five slots..."
"Darts on a board?"
"Darts on a board."
"Oh, shit, we hit Tennessee."
"Eh, they'll attribute it to SEC bias. Stick with it."
Counterpoint: Tennessee will be actually good this year.
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If I'm being honest, I probably should just be grateful that Marshall and Memphis didn't manage to sneak in there.
Speaking of which; WKU getting one vote while Marshall isn't even mentioned gives me life.
Yeah, it's pretty great. I also can't wait for them to start the season 2-2.
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He was telling players to hide injuries from the medical staff and pulling seniors' scholarships for their Spring semester (you know, the one you'd graduate in). So yeah...
North Dakota state at Montana!
It's been so long, but the wait is finally over.
Counterpoint: Nothing sucks like a big orange.
WHAT ABOUT OUR COUSINS TO THE WEST AND THEIR OWN BRAND OF 'FOOTBALL' AND REFEREES IDIOTS?
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2015/8/26/9211689/edsbs-glossary-pac-12-after-dark
LET'S FIND OUT!
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I didn't believe it until that post there where the guy called the play dead because someone got blocked too hard.
Dumb shit like this happens every single week.
Also Pac 12 teams always end up near the top of penalty yards, and then as soon as they get to play a game with non-Pac 12 refs, they end up with 0 penalties. HMM I WONDER WHY.
3DS: 2981-5304-3227