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COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2019: LSU wins, it's now the offseason, where nothing ever happens
ASimPerson
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Hey kids that's right, we're right on the cusp of another season of America's most absurd major sport: college football!
Your Official Narratives for 2019:
- Does anyone other than Clemson or Bama realistically have a shot at the title?
- Is Texas back?
- Can those scrappy upstart Michigan Wolverines breakthrough and finish higher than third in the Big Ten East?
- Hey, remember that time Bama ran a fake field goal with the kicker as the lead blocker in the national championship game?
- Will Southern Cal start the season 0-6?
- More mysterious: that Kansas offered Les Miles the head coaching job, or that he took it?
This is where YOU come in! Help me fill in the rest of the narratives, and we'll see how they hold up as the season progresses!
In addition, as the subject alludes to, the SE++ College Football Thread Pick 'Em will be back for 2019! Once again @Nirya and I will pick the games and you'll pick the results (of those games).
I'll spice it up for y'all. For the Week 1 pick 'em, I will also allow you to submit your predicted Week 1 Playoff. I won't make you pick the seeds, so you just need to guess four teams. For each of your teams that appear in the playoff, you'll get 1 point. (Also, there won't be a Week 0 pick 'em.)
PICK 'EM RULES
Nirya and I will pick 10 games every week. We will not pick games that occur during the week, with one major exception: our rivalry week pickstravaganza that occurs every Thanksgiving. Each correct pick counts for one (1) point, except for one contest we designate as the GAME OF THE WEEK (GOTW), which is worth two (2) points. Though it's not usually the case, for all intents and purposes you should consider our picks to be arbitrary, because it's easier for everyone that way.
For games that are Against the Spread (ATS), we will designate a spread (or line) that is usually an average or thereabouts of whatever spreads I can find at the beginning of any particular week. Spreads will be in this format:
Utah State @ Nevada (-7)
This means that Nevada is favored by 7 points. If you pick Nevada, you are saying that they will win by at least 7 points. If the final score is Nevada 31, Utah State 24, picking Nevada wins and picking Utah State loses. If the final score is Nevada 30, Utah State 24, picking Nevada loses and picking Utah State wins. To reduce confusion on this point, I try to use half-points to make this clear (i.e., Nevada (-6.5)) as often as possible.
Your Official Narratives for 2019:
- Does anyone other than Clemson or Bama realistically have a shot at the title?
- Is Texas back?
- Can those scrappy upstart Michigan Wolverines breakthrough and finish higher than third in the Big Ten East?
- Hey, remember that time Bama ran a fake field goal with the kicker as the lead blocker in the national championship game?
- Will Southern Cal start the season 0-6?
- More mysterious: that Kansas offered Les Miles the head coaching job, or that he took it?
This is where YOU come in! Help me fill in the rest of the narratives, and we'll see how they hold up as the season progresses!
In addition, as the subject alludes to, the SE++ College Football Thread Pick 'Em will be back for 2019! Once again @Nirya and I will pick the games and you'll pick the results (of those games).
I'll spice it up for y'all. For the Week 1 pick 'em, I will also allow you to submit your predicted Week 1 Playoff. I won't make you pick the seeds, so you just need to guess four teams. For each of your teams that appear in the playoff, you'll get 1 point. (Also, there won't be a Week 0 pick 'em.)
PICK 'EM RULES
Nirya and I will pick 10 games every week. We will not pick games that occur during the week, with one major exception: our rivalry week pickstravaganza that occurs every Thanksgiving. Each correct pick counts for one (1) point, except for one contest we designate as the GAME OF THE WEEK (GOTW), which is worth two (2) points. Though it's not usually the case, for all intents and purposes you should consider our picks to be arbitrary, because it's easier for everyone that way.
For games that are Against the Spread (ATS), we will designate a spread (or line) that is usually an average or thereabouts of whatever spreads I can find at the beginning of any particular week. Spreads will be in this format:
Utah State @ Nevada (-7)
This means that Nevada is favored by 7 points. If you pick Nevada, you are saying that they will win by at least 7 points. If the final score is Nevada 31, Utah State 24, picking Nevada wins and picking Utah State loses. If the final score is Nevada 30, Utah State 24, picking Nevada loses and picking Utah State wins. To reduce confusion on this point, I try to use half-points to make this clear (i.e., Nevada (-6.5)) as often as possible.
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Alabama
Clemson
Oklahoma (Hurts will do just fine keeping them rolling at QB)
Georgia (mayyyyybe Michigan?)
What am I missing
USF!
Also Notre Dame will make it because [reasons].
Nah, I'm just a hopeless USF fan that likes to pretend we have a chance because we got all the way up to #2 awhile back before losing to Rutgers and going back to mediocrity.
Don’t turn that dial!
They’ve got it all on
UCF
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I'm not sure we have a defense. Can throw the hell out of the ball though!
Hope you guys are ready!
3DS: 2981-5304-3227
I have to admit the way we've been doing it the past couple of years, we usually just take any line that's less than a field goal and make those the straight up games unless we really needed to balance it one way or the other. (We pick the games before we look at the lines, usually.) Given that, I figure that having everything ATS doesn't effectively change anything.
I support it.
Big12 always covers because no one plays defense
The second thing makes no sense.
Also Michigan is going to experiment with Big 12 football this year, I think.
It's really all about pace. The Big 12 plays faster than every other conference and the Big Ten is waaaaaaay slower.
You don't get a lot of like, 70-55 scores outside the B12. Or at least thats my perception. I'm sure someone has done the stats.
EDSBS may be dead, but now afootballwebsite.com exists with basically the exact same staff + the other SBNation college football writers, so we’re still good.
3DS: 2981-5304-3227
Will there be someone there to tel me how much shit USC sucks?
The Fullcast crew is all still there, and they've been saying for weeks that USC is going to start 0-6, so you're in good hands.
Don’t worry, I will personally be here to tell you how much shit USC sucks.
3DS: 2981-5304-3227
The less I care, the more I want it to be ATS
And Army covering is a gimme.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades