The 150th Edition of College Football - Discussion and Pick 'Em Thread

[GeorgiaModerate]

That had to be the worst no-call on a face mask I've ever seen in the SMU-Memphis game.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Oregon State beat Arizona 56-38....did anyone pick them???

[GeorgiaModerate]

Oregon State beat Arizona 56-38....did anyone pick them???

My laptop with the spreadsheet is asleep for the night, but I think one person did.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Oregon State beat Arizona 56-38....did anyone pick them???

My laptop with the spreadsheet is asleep for the night, but I think one person did.

yeah Green Line did.

Cincinnati losing to ECU 40-28 last I checked....whelp

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Oregon State beat Arizona 56-38....did anyone pick them???

My laptop with the spreadsheet is asleep for the night, but I think one person did.

yeah Green Line did.

Cincinnati losing to ECU 40-28 last I checked....whelp

Cincinnati leads by 3 now. 

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Oregon State beat Arizona 56-38....did anyone pick them???

My laptop with the spreadsheet is asleep for the night, but I think one person did.

yeah Green Line did.

Cincinnati losing to ECU 40-28 last I checked....whelp

Cincinnati leads by 3 now. 

Cincinnati won on a last second field goal.

[GeorgiaModerate]

The SMU-Memphis game is nuts.  Defense?  What's that?

[DINGO Joe]

Even though I'm not participating in the pick 'em this year, I just wanted to stop by and brag to everyone that I got good seats for the UGA/UF game in Jax this weekend.

My prediction:

Georgia 24
Florida 17

Well, you win the week

[GeorgiaModerate]

WEEK 10 RESULTS

That thudding sound you heard was everyone else's hopes of catching sjoyce.  He tied for the top this week with 1184AZ.

This week:

17 1184AZ, sjoyce
16 ExtremeConservative, Illiniwek
15 Dereich, Sprouts
14 dfw, Green Line, Sunrise, YE
13 RINO Tom
12 GeorgiaModerate, JGibson

The average score was a not-so-great 14.5.  There were four unanimous picks, all correct: Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Oregon, and Boise State.  There were five games with one dissenter:

Nebraska-Purdue (dissenter was right)
Kansas State-Kansas
Air Force-Army
Arizona-Oregon State (dissenter was right)
Tennessee-UAB

And in case anyone was wondering, Northern Illinois (who YE picked even though their game wasn't on the list) lost to Central Michigan.


Overall results:

182 sjoyce
167 GeorgiaModerate, Green Line
163 Dereich, Sprouts
161 ExtremeRepublican
156 JGibson
155 RINO Tom
153 Illiniwek
145 1184AZ
142 dfw
141 SunriseAroundTheWorld

People who haven't played every week:

76 peenie_weenie
68 YE
49 Ninja0428
17 Coastal Elitist, tmthforu94
13 Gorguf

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Note: This is AP rankings, the first CFP Rankings come out on Tuesday Night.

Week 11 FBS/FCS matchups

Friday, November 8th

Washington @ Oregon State 10:30 PM EST FS1

Saturday, November 9th

#5 Penn State @ #13 Minnesota Noon EDT ABC

#11 Baylor @ TCU Noon EST FS1

Western Kentucky @ Arkansas Noon EST SECN

Texas Tech @ West Virginia Noon EST ESPN2

Purdue @ Northwestern Noon EST BTN

Florida State @ Boston College Noon EST ACCN

Stanford @ Colorado 3 PM EST PAC12

#1 LSU @ #2 Alabama 3:30 PM EST CBS

#20 Kansas State @ Texas 3:30 PM EST ESPN

#22 Wake Forest @ Virginia Tech 3:30 PM EST ACCN

Louisville @ Miami (FL) 3:30 PM EST ESPN2

USC @ Arizona State 3:30 PM EST ABC

UAB @ Southern Mississippi 3:30 PM EST NFLN

Illinois @ Michigan State 3:30 PM EST FS1

#18 Iowa @ #16 Wisconsin 4 PM EST FOX

Florida International @ Florida Atlantic 6 PM EST

Missouri @ #6 Georgia 7 PM EST ESPN

Appalachian State @ South Carolina 7 PM EST ESPN2

Washington State @ California 7 PM EST PAC12

Tennessee @ Kentucky 7:30 PM EST SECN

Iowa State @ #9 Oklahoma 8 PM EST FOX

Wyoming @ #21 Boise State 10:15 PM EST ESPN

FCS:


Towson @ Stony Brook 2 PM EST

Dartmouth vs Princeton (Bronx, NY) 3:30 PM EST ESPNU

[OSR stands with Israel]

So A Georgia team who lost to a worse team than Oregon gets ranked higher . That’s is 100% BS

[Terry the Fat Shark]

So A Georgia team who lost to a worse team than Oregon gets ranked higher . That’s is 100% BS

The more important rankings come out on Tuesday anyways.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

FSU fired their Head Coach....

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

2 best teams are LSU and Ohio st and one will win title

[GeorgiaModerate]

2 best teams are LSU and Ohio st and one will win title

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet."

-- Hugh Keough (often quoted by Damon Runyon)

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

So A Georgia team who lost to a worse team than Oregon gets ranked higher . That’s is 100% BS

At the end of the day, Georgia will have to prove it by beating Auburn. Technically, Georgia > Florida > Auburn > Oregon in my book, but the Auburn loss was in the swamp, and I have mad respect for the talent on Oregon. SP+ basically agrees with that assessment including the fact that Florida got lucky by not playing in Alabama. FPI only agrees with Georgia, but I believe has been much less reliable. You can still count it as a win, but Wazzu had Oregon beat. This sport is not just wins and losses but how you win and lose.

Perhaps the part of the rankings that I find most confounding is Michigan over a Wisconsin team that murdered them. Give me a break with Illinois. Going to OT with The Army is worse than losing to Illinois while trailing for zero seconds.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I am so excited to be going to the Game of the Century this weekend, which will certainly determine this year's champion. In fact, it may be one of the most important football games ever played between unblemished teams, at least in my lifetime. I am very dismayed by ESPN's decision not to join us for the pregame festivities (perhaps they forgot their origins as Eastern Sports Programming). Not even as a dual site GameDay to quell Dixie's rabble-rousers should they become outraged -- Phooey! One of the most classic of all rivalries in such an iconic and historically significant locale put aside for...*shivers*. It should be front and center on every television across our nation.

[OSR stands with Israel]

So A Georgia team who lost to a worse team than Oregon gets ranked higher . That’s is 100% BS

At the end of the day, Georgia will have to prove it by beating Auburn. Technically, Georgia > Florida > Auburn > Oregon in my book, but the Auburn loss was in the swamp, and I have mad respect for the talent on Oregon. SP+ basically agrees with that assessment including the fact that Florida got lucky by not playing in Alabama. FPI only agrees with Georgia, but I believe has been much less reliable. You can still count it as a win, but Wazzu had Oregon beat. This sport is not just wins and losses but how you win and lose.

Perhaps the part of the rankings that I find most confounding is Michigan over a Wisconsin team that murdered them. Give me a break with Illinois. Going to OT with The Army is worse than losing to Illinois while trailing for zero seconds.

Oregon choked that Auburn game badly , just like Georgia choked against SC but Oregon is better than Auburn . If Oregon beats Utah that will beat any win by Georgia by the way because Florida Hasn’t beaten anyone as good as Utah .


Oregon was robbed in 2012 by a biased system favoring the SEC and Oregon was the best team that year .

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

If Oregon beats Utah that will beat any win by Georgia by the way because Florida Hasn’t beaten anyone as good as Utah .

Florida has beaten Auburn. What is Utah's case for being a good team? Narrowly beating unranked Washington? They are 1-1 against the top 40. Yet we agree they probably are better than Florida because of how we judge teams.

This debate is never about quality of wins. You can't track quality wins over the course of a 12 games schedule. For over a century, this sport has subjectively and objectively used metrics like like Strength of Victory (and more recently yards-based and turnover-based measures) to award national championships or rank the best teams. Without that support, Clemson would be nowhere near consideration.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

If Oregon beats Utah that will beat any win by Georgia by the way because Florida Hasn’t beaten anyone as good as Utah .

Florida has beaten Auburn. What is Utah's case for being a good team? Narrowly beating unranked Washington? They are 1-1 against the top 40. Yet we agree they probably are better than Florida because of how we judge teams.

This debate is never about quality of wins. You can't track quality wins over the course of a 12 games schedule. For over a century, this sport has subjectively and objectively used metrics like like Strength of Victory (and more recently yards-based and turnover-based measures) to award national championships or rank the best teams. Without that support, Clemson would be nowhere near consideration.

Or going undefeated in a supposedly power 5 conference even though the AAC has more ranked teams than the ACC at this point lol
(AAC = 4, Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, and Navy) (ACC = 2, Clemson and Wake Forest)

[GeorgiaModerate]

If Oregon beats Utah that will beat any win by Georgia by the way because Florida Hasn’t beaten anyone as good as Utah .

Florida has beaten Auburn. What is Utah's case for being a good team? Narrowly beating unranked Washington? They are 1-1 against the top 40. Yet we agree they probably are better than Florida because of how we judge teams.

This debate is never about quality of wins. You can't track quality wins over the course of a 12 games schedule. For over a century, this sport has subjectively and objectively used metrics like like Strength of Victory (and more recently yards-based and turnover-based measures) to award national championships or rank the best teams. Without that support, Clemson would be nowhere near consideration.

Or going undefeated in a supposedly power 5 conference even though the AAC has more ranked teams than the ACC at this point lol
(AAC = 4, Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, and Navy) (ACC = 2, Clemson and Wake Forest)

After the last few years, it's weird that the AAC has four ranked teams -- and UCF isn't one of them!

[Donerail]

Or going undefeated in a supposedly power 5 conference even though the AAC has more ranked teams than the ACC at this point lol
(AAC = 4, Cincinnati, Memphis, SMU, and Navy) (ACC = 2, Clemson and Wake Forest)

After the last few years, it's weird that the AAC has four ranked teams -- and UCF isn't one of them!

Give it a little bit of time — UCF's top of "also receiving votes" at the moment and none of the AAC teams have a particularly difficult matchup this weekend (SMU has ECU, Cincy UConn & UCF's at Tulsa, Navy & Memphis are on a bye), so I wouldn't be surprised to see them jump up if, say, Iowa gets blown out by Wisconsin or something.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Trump is going to attend the LSU-Alabama game.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Trump is going to attend the LSU-Alabama game.

Freaking traitor. Maybe the second deck of Franklin Field will finally crumble.

[Donerail]

Week 11

Friday, November 8th

Washington @ Oregon State

Saturday, November 9th

Penn State @ Minnesota
Baylor @ TCU
Western Kentucky @ Arkansas
Texas Tech @ West Virginia
Purdue @ Northwestern
Florida State @ Boston College
Stanford @ Colorado
LSU @ Alabama
Kansas State @ Texas
Wake Forest @ Virginia Tech
Louisville @ Miami (FL)
USC @ Arizona State
UAB @ Southern Mississippi
Illinois @ Michigan State
Iowa @ Wisconsin
Florida International @ Florida Atlantic
Missouri @ Georgia
Appalachian State @ South Carolina
Washington State @ California
Tennessee @ Kentucky
Iowa State @ Oklahoma
Wyoming @ Boise State

FCS:
Towson @ Stony Brook
Dartmouth vs Princeton (Bronx, NY)