That was heart breaking. Shea Patterson buys a ton of time in the pocket while looking down field, finds the open guy on 4th down for the game tying TD and it's dropped.
Self-righteousness is incompatible with coalition building.
I died before the Bama game started. I am in Limbo.
Nothing else makes sense. Everything about this is insane and wrong.
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That is uh, one way to score.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Damn. Vols gonna Vol
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I blame myself for that game being so close. Went out to a friends BDay Party right before half time, didn't tune into the game until right before the 4th down stand at the goal line in the second half. My apologies PSU friends and Michigan semi-friends - If I had been watching more it wouldn't have been so close.
Maybe dip shit Tom Herman will figure out how to coach
I’ve been waiting for him to figure that out for a while
I don't think he's on the hot seat, but his seat is getting warmer with each game.
That's four straight games where we looked like fucking dog shit. Especially on defense, but I don't think the offense deserves a pass either
Despite Les Miles, it’s still Kansas.
Then you have Baylor and Iowa St still. Good luck with that
Oh I think we lose to TCU Iowa State and Baylor and end up 7-5 with a shitty bowl.
Wut
This Texas defense is bad and can't stop shit. Kansas basically proved that. And I'm very skeptical of our offense's ability to keep up with the defense not doing jack shit given our problems on the OLine and with the wide receivers dropping passes hitting them in their hands.
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This year's winner is Dabo with $9.315 million, just over $460K of what Saban is making.
Harbaugh and Jimbo are third and fourth with roughly $7.5 million each.
Georgia, Auburn, Texas, Purdue, Oklahoma, and Florida's coaches round off the top 10 with their pay ranging between $6-6.871 million.
Other tl;dr notable info:
Ohio State's Ryan Day and LSU's Ed Orgeron have undefeated teams in the Top 4 for only $4.5 and $4 million, respectively. Sounds like raise/extension time is coming for those guys.
Notable Coaches/Schools in the 2-for-1 buyout range:
Jim Harbaugh/Michigan - $7.5M/$11.687M buyout
Dan Mullen/Florida* - $6M/$12M buyout
Mark Dantonio/Michigan State - $4.4M/$7 buyout
Ed Orgeron/LSU* - $4M/$7.75M buyout
Mike Leach/Washington State - $3.75M/$4.9M buyout
Mack Brown/North Carolina - $3.5M/$3.09M buyout
* yes, I realize these coaches are not in any real danger of being bought out of their contracts and kicked to the curb (based on the year they are having now), just analyzing the facts.
Expect Franklin to get an extension after this year as well. He's probably going to bump up just above $6 million just to keep USC and the like at bay.
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Mike Leach is mostly being paid for prior years’ “success” and not jumping ship to Tennessee.
I have extremely mixed feelings about him because I think the Air Raid offense sucks, he doesn’t care about defense or the run game, and his whole folksy rambling shtick is catnip for national media but grating if you have to listen to it all the time.
On the other hand, he’s the most successful coach we’ve ever had at WSU and there’s nobody better we could reasonably hope to draw here.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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I don't understand why we're giving 14 points to Wisconsin.
I'd also say the biggest point in Ohio State's favor, beyond the whole undefeated thing, is that they've looked incredibly good even against defenses that are supposed to be very good themselves. Like, Ohio State effectively ended their game with Northwestern at the half despite the Wildcats having a top 10 defense. Meanwhile, Bud Elliot at Banner Society pointed out that the average offensive SP+ ranking of Wisconsin's opponents is 94th; Illinois came in with a competent offense at #52, which apparently was enough.
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ESPN is running an article on the 59-0 game. It ends with Joey Bosa saying he isn't worried about Wisconsin because they lost to Illinois.
Sorry Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
I think it’s just not knowing how OSU will respond if tested
Honestly the closest anyone has come to pressuring them was the Fighting Kiffins in week 1
A couple of things about 2019 OSU:
Highest blue chip ratio in history, without including Fields (Urban’s final “gift” I guess)
Day cleaned house on the bad Urban coaches and so far is like the most confident, chillest coach I’ve ever seen and he and his staff have this team mentally locked in
That being said, a big game against the Badgers always raises the anxiety level (PSU is the only team that raises it higher, lately)
WEEK 9: SOONER FANS BLAME TEXAS-ALUM HORSES FOR SCHOONER MISHAP
Straight Up
Duke @ North Carolina (-3.5) - Big game to establish early supremacy here in the ACC. Duke has it's usual assortment of 5-star talents and one-and-dones ready to go, led by a returning Tre Jones, but the question will be who takes over as lead dog now that Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett are gone. The same goes for North Carolina, who have to replace Coby White and 12th year senior Luke Maye. Still, this battle always is a highlight, and it's honestly shocking that College Gameday chose to skip coming here, since they usually spend at least 3 weeks hyping this game up.
(Also I'm pretty sure I've done this bit about 4 years in a row now and I refuse to stop)
Central Florida (-10.5) @ Temple - So I guess we're going to pretend that UCF is still the UCF of the past few years and not a team that's lost to Pitt and Cincinnati on the road so far this year? And now they're going to play at Temple, a team that plays similarly to Pitt but with a better defense? Sometimes oddsmakers are dumb, and then there are times where they're real dumb, and this is one of those times.
#8 Notre Dame (-1) @ #19 Michigan - The loser of this game is going to have to hear about how they just can't win big games under *insert head coach here* for the rest of the year, and I for one cannot wait.
#24 Arizona State (-3.5) @ UCLA - Ok, full disclosure, when we were looking at the games for the week, this wasn't on the list until I said "I mean UCLA is only a 3.5 underdog and FPI has them as the favorites...." But that's what's very dumb about this game. UCLA looked like an actually-good team for the first time all season in their win over Stanford last week, until you look a little closer and realize the Cardinal were starting their 3rd string QB. ASU, meanwhile, has gotten by on marginally-good play and keeping their opponents in games no matter the quality, until they got blown out by the first good team they faced all year. This game truly does have the potential to flip in either direction; will the Bruins show that the Stanford game wasn't a fluke? Or will ASU show that they deserve their ranking?
Against the Spread
#13 Wisconsin @ #3 Ohio State (-14.5) - Big Nude Football is getting a barnburner this week with this Top 15 matchup. It originally would have been a Top 10 matchup, but sometimes Lovie Smith happens. Anyway, Wisconsin has looked really good against bad competition, while Ohio State has looked really really good against better-quality competition. The Badgers will probably play better after their clear look-ahead loss, but Ohio State is on a whole new level right now. Crazy what happens when you put in a new coach who doesn't want to keep all of the old coach's underachieving friends around.
#9 Auburn @ #2 Louisiana State (-10.5) - You know, in any other week, this game would have been a clear option for GotCotW. But I'm pretty sure both Auburn and LSU have already been in that slot already this year, and I don't know how much we want to reward a Top 10 matchup with a spread this large. Joe Burrow and his ass have been torching teams for weeks on end, and Auburn wouldn't even be in this slot had Oregon not chosen to stop playing football for a half. Still, should be fun if only to see if Auburn fans attempt to fire Gus Malzahn after the game.
Oklahoma State @ #23 Iowa State (-10.5) - OK State is having a rough year. T Boone died, they've lost a series of "competitive" games, and Mike Gundy's mullet just isn't getting the same rave reviews it has in the past. And now they have the indignity of traveling to Ames and being multi-score underdogs to a ranked Iowa State team. The Cyclones have bounced back well from their very-dumb loss to Baylor, rattling off 3 straight victories over middle of the road Big 12 teams.
Maryland @ #17 Minnesota (-16.5) - Alright Golden Gophers, time to give you the credit you deserve. The Gophers are 7-0, and are currently in the lead in the B1G West. Their path to the B1G Championship Game is wide open; assuming Wisconsin loses this week, the Gophers could be two up going into the tough back end of the schedule, but even that is manageable, with the two toughest games (Penn State, Wisconsin) coming at home, and a sure loss as a ranked team in Kinnick still coming. Plus, you get to take a bye week and pick up a nice non-conference victory over an ACC team this week! What more could you want?
Missouri (-10.5) @ Kentucky - People complain about SEC bias and it's easy to brush them off, but then you look up and remember that Missouri was ranked last week despite losing to start the season at *checks notes* Wyoming, and is only unranked now because they went on the road and lost to *checks notes again* Vanderbilt. Then you further realize their best win was probably at home against South Carolina, which is a thing I hear some people struggle with, and you begin to think "yeah, maybe there is some SEC bias here", especially in comparison to Minnesota, who is undefeated against a better schedule and could not buy a ranking for the first 6 weeks. Oh yeah, Kentucky is in this game too.
GAME OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK (Straight Up)
UConn (-10) @ UMass -
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Nirya has gone made with power.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
True story: ASP sent me the list with that game included, I said "hey UConn/UMass should definitely be GotW" to which he replied "I was already planning on doing that".
Given that, I should immediately go invert every selection. But, a sample size of 1 isn't particularly compelling either.
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Duke @ North Carolina (-3.5) Central Florida (-10.5) @ Temple #8 Notre Dame (-1) @ #19 Michigan - GO IRISH!!! #24 Arizona State (-3.5) @ UCLA - AND SUN DEVILS!!!
Against the Spread
#13 Wisconsin @ #3 Ohio State (-14.5)
#9 Auburn @ #2 Louisiana State (-10.5)
Oklahoma State @ #23 Iowa State (-10.5)
Maryland @ #17 Minnesota (-16.5)
Missouri (-10.5) @ Kentucky
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Maybe dip shit Tom Herman will figure out how to coach
Michigan was BY FAR the better team in the second half.
tackling the QB and then getting up without kissing his widdle booboo is apparently Unsportsmanlike Conduct now
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I died before the Bama game started. I am in Limbo.
Nothing else makes sense. Everything about this is insane and wrong.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
What IS this game
Our winner this week is @Romanian My Escutcheon! Congratulations!
I’ve been waiting for him to figure that out for a while
Im disowning Owen!
I don't think he's on the hot seat, but his seat is getting warmer with each game.
That's four straight games where we looked like fucking dog shit. Especially on defense, but I don't think the offense deserves a pass either
Uhh, did you hear that Gameday is going to NDSU-SDSU?
Picking chalk was a bad decision this week
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Despite Les Miles, it’s still Kansas.
Then you have Baylor and Iowa St still. Good luck with that
Oh I think we lose to TCU Iowa State and Baylor and end up 7-5 with a shitty bowl.
Wut
This Texas defense is bad and can't stop shit. Kansas basically proved that. And I'm very skeptical of our offense's ability to keep up with the defense not doing jack shit given our problems on the OLine and with the wide receivers dropping passes hitting them in their hands.
This year's winner is Dabo with $9.315 million, just over $460K of what Saban is making.
Harbaugh and Jimbo are third and fourth with roughly $7.5 million each.
Georgia, Auburn, Texas, Purdue, Oklahoma, and Florida's coaches round off the top 10 with their pay ranging between $6-6.871 million.
Other tl;dr notable info:
Ohio State's Ryan Day and LSU's Ed Orgeron have undefeated teams in the Top 4 for only $4.5 and $4 million, respectively. Sounds like raise/extension time is coming for those guys.
Notable Coaches/Schools in the 2-for-1 buyout range:
Jim Harbaugh/Michigan - $7.5M/$11.687M buyout
Dan Mullen/Florida* - $6M/$12M buyout
Mark Dantonio/Michigan State - $4.4M/$7 buyout
Ed Orgeron/LSU* - $4M/$7.75M buyout
Mike Leach/Washington State - $3.75M/$4.9M buyout
Mack Brown/North Carolina - $3.5M/$3.09M buyout
* yes, I realize these coaches are not in any real danger of being bought out of their contracts and kicked to the curb (based on the year they are having now), just analyzing the facts.
I have extremely mixed feelings about him because I think the Air Raid offense sucks, he doesn’t care about defense or the run game, and his whole folksy rambling shtick is catnip for national media but grating if you have to listen to it all the time.
On the other hand, he’s the most successful coach we’ve ever had at WSU and there’s nobody better we could reasonably hope to draw here.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
They had a trap game and fell into it.
I'm terrified about this game.
The computers all love Ohio State. Like a comical amount. They're #1 in S&P+. Which has them as 11 point favorites Saturday.
Also pretty much every coach's press conference after they play you is like "well, fuck, that felt impossible."
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Sorry Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Honestly the closest anyone has come to pressuring them was the Fighting Kiffins in week 1
A couple of things about 2019 OSU:
Highest blue chip ratio in history, without including Fields (Urban’s final “gift” I guess)
Day cleaned house on the bad Urban coaches and so far is like the most confident, chillest coach I’ve ever seen and he and his staff have this team mentally locked in
That being said, a big game against the Badgers always raises the anxiety level (PSU is the only team that raises it higher, lately)
I think the only reason Rutgers is as high on the list is because they got such a head start over everybody else :biggrin:
Straight Up
Duke @ North Carolina (-3.5) - Big game to establish early supremacy here in the ACC. Duke has it's usual assortment of 5-star talents and one-and-dones ready to go, led by a returning Tre Jones, but the question will be who takes over as lead dog now that Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett are gone. The same goes for North Carolina, who have to replace Coby White and 12th year senior Luke Maye. Still, this battle always is a highlight, and it's honestly shocking that College Gameday chose to skip coming here, since they usually spend at least 3 weeks hyping this game up.
(Also I'm pretty sure I've done this bit about 4 years in a row now and I refuse to stop)
Central Florida (-10.5) @ Temple - So I guess we're going to pretend that UCF is still the UCF of the past few years and not a team that's lost to Pitt and Cincinnati on the road so far this year? And now they're going to play at Temple, a team that plays similarly to Pitt but with a better defense? Sometimes oddsmakers are dumb, and then there are times where they're real dumb, and this is one of those times.
#8 Notre Dame (-1) @ #19 Michigan - The loser of this game is going to have to hear about how they just can't win big games under *insert head coach here* for the rest of the year, and I for one cannot wait.
#24 Arizona State (-3.5) @ UCLA - Ok, full disclosure, when we were looking at the games for the week, this wasn't on the list until I said "I mean UCLA is only a 3.5 underdog and FPI has them as the favorites...." But that's what's very dumb about this game. UCLA looked like an actually-good team for the first time all season in their win over Stanford last week, until you look a little closer and realize the Cardinal were starting their 3rd string QB. ASU, meanwhile, has gotten by on marginally-good play and keeping their opponents in games no matter the quality, until they got blown out by the first good team they faced all year. This game truly does have the potential to flip in either direction; will the Bruins show that the Stanford game wasn't a fluke? Or will ASU show that they deserve their ranking?
Against the Spread
#13 Wisconsin @ #3 Ohio State (-14.5) - Big Nude Football is getting a barnburner this week with this Top 15 matchup. It originally would have been a Top 10 matchup, but sometimes Lovie Smith happens. Anyway, Wisconsin has looked really good against bad competition, while Ohio State has looked really really good against better-quality competition. The Badgers will probably play better after their clear look-ahead loss, but Ohio State is on a whole new level right now. Crazy what happens when you put in a new coach who doesn't want to keep all of the old coach's underachieving friends around.
#9 Auburn @ #2 Louisiana State (-10.5) - You know, in any other week, this game would have been a clear option for GotCotW. But I'm pretty sure both Auburn and LSU have already been in that slot already this year, and I don't know how much we want to reward a Top 10 matchup with a spread this large. Joe Burrow and his ass have been torching teams for weeks on end, and Auburn wouldn't even be in this slot had Oregon not chosen to stop playing football for a half. Still, should be fun if only to see if Auburn fans attempt to fire Gus Malzahn after the game.
Oklahoma State @ #23 Iowa State (-10.5) - OK State is having a rough year. T Boone died, they've lost a series of "competitive" games, and Mike Gundy's mullet just isn't getting the same rave reviews it has in the past. And now they have the indignity of traveling to Ames and being multi-score underdogs to a ranked Iowa State team. The Cyclones have bounced back well from their very-dumb loss to Baylor, rattling off 3 straight victories over middle of the road Big 12 teams.
Maryland @ #17 Minnesota (-16.5) - Alright Golden Gophers, time to give you the credit you deserve. The Gophers are 7-0, and are currently in the lead in the B1G West. Their path to the B1G Championship Game is wide open; assuming Wisconsin loses this week, the Gophers could be two up going into the tough back end of the schedule, but even that is manageable, with the two toughest games (Penn State, Wisconsin) coming at home, and a sure loss as a ranked team in Kinnick still coming. Plus, you get to take a bye week and pick up a nice non-conference victory over an ACC team this week! What more could you want?
Missouri (-10.5) @ Kentucky - People complain about SEC bias and it's easy to brush them off, but then you look up and remember that Missouri was ranked last week despite losing to start the season at *checks notes* Wyoming, and is only unranked now because they went on the road and lost to *checks notes again* Vanderbilt. Then you further realize their best win was probably at home against South Carolina, which is a thing I hear some people struggle with, and you begin to think "yeah, maybe there is some SEC bias here", especially in comparison to Minnesota, who is undefeated against a better schedule and could not buy a ranking for the first 6 weeks. Oh yeah, Kentucky is in this game too.
GAME OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK (Straight Up)
UConn (-10) @ UMass -
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True story: ASP sent me the list with that game included, I said "hey UConn/UMass should definitely be GotW" to which he replied "I was already planning on doing that".
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Last time I felt this way, I scored 2 points.
Given that, I should immediately go invert every selection. But, a sample size of 1 isn't particularly compelling either.
Duke @ North Carolina (-3.5)
Central Florida (-10.5) @ Temple
#8 Notre Dame (-1) @ #19 Michigan - GO IRISH!!!
#24 Arizona State (-3.5) @ UCLA - AND SUN DEVILS!!!
Against the Spread
#13 Wisconsin @ #3 Ohio State (-14.5)
#9 Auburn @ #2 Louisiana State (-10.5)
Oklahoma State @ #23 Iowa State (-10.5)
Maryland @ #17 Minnesota (-16.5)
Missouri (-10.5) @ Kentucky
GotCotW (Straight)
UConn (-10) @ UMass