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  1. Andy
    Just so this is on the record before kickoff, I have low expectations for tonight's game. ND lost one of their already hilariously thin WR group to an ACL tear in preseason, which means a former walk on is starting and a WR turned safety has been cross training at WR again in camp. Their best offensive lineman is either out tonight or will be playing at like 50 percent with another injury. And their secondary is rather easily the worst unit on the field and oh look an army of 5 star WRs on the other side. It will take an absolutely absurd effort on both lines to win.
  2. Andy
    The latter. You won't have to wait long to see them do it again, it's happening again next year Yeah dropped a home and home against UCLA for...reasons. I doubt its because Michigan shied away from competition considering they have a long history of scheduling a fair NC schedule. They do it one year and suddenly they're an SEC team or something. Personally I hate that its like this the next 2 years but I doubt its a trend. You mentioned ND's NC is bad the next couple of years. Why wouldn't UM and ND have scheduled a game for next year? ND does have Ohio State, @Clemson and a presumably much improved USC next year so they'll be fine at the top, I just hate the SEC cupcake flavor of the early slate. I presume the (or at least one) answer to your question is that ND was already pretty much done with their 2022-23 slates when UM dropped UCLA - which I assume they did because they would've only had 6 home games in 23 if the series had been played as scheduled.
  3. Andy
    This Tweet was sent out before Iowa actually accomplished this feat today, which is extra delicious https://twitter.com/AndyGlockner/status/1566134406653259776
  4. Andy
    The latter. You won't have to wait long to see them do it again, it's happening again next year True, but they play @Texas in 2024 and @Oklahoma in 2025 Now Penn State, THEY have some embarrassing non-conference games coming up over the next 4 seasons I can't send too many strays out, ND starts next year with Navy, an FCS opponent (their first, mega barfs) and Central Michigan. Ohio State after that, but disgusting.
  5. Andy
    Isn’t that what top 10 teams do to G5 schools? Or is this a knock on schedule, which is the only year I can ever remember Michigan not playing a P5/ND NC game. The latter. You won't have to wait long to see them do it again, it's happening again next year
  6. Andy
    It had to be Iowa
  7. Andy
    Jim Harbaugh has mastered routing cupcake opponents and he's getting plenty of chances to flex that skill this year
  8. Andy
    I did some quick searching on the format, is it still Top 4 conference champs get byes, top 6 conference champs get bids, and no other conference limits? I wonder if they're reconsidering the bye thing since the latest realignment/consolidation. EDIT: Looks like Auerbach's saying the Top 6 champs getting bids stays, but no other specifics confirmed in her quick story. I don't think there was ever a limit on bids per conference, and I doubt the bye thing will change, but it could. There certainly won't be a limit on bids per conference now as the SEC and B1G have the luxury now of basically ordering everyone else what to do. If this really does go through, frankly it's kind of a wonder how big a favor it does to everyone outside those 32 schools.
  9. Andy
    As opposed to getting blasted in the quarterfinals, which is the ceiling for all but maybe 18 programs
  10. Andy
    Sounds like they want it to start ASAP - could be as soon as 2024 - but it might still not start until 2026. They've punted that question to the commissioners. I dislike expansion (I'm with UMF that it felt special to make the top 4 in a way it will not to make the 12-teamer) but the model they chose was easily the best one of the bunch IMO.
  11. Andy
    Did they really? Yikes. Zimmer didn't want Mond so he did him no favors but I never thought Kellen would be any more than backup QB in the league at best. Yeah he never impressed me much either. Fell squarely into the 'good college QB but you know he's not going to hack it in the pros' bucket.
  12. Andy
    I have somehow Mandela Effected Sergio Mitre beating Roy Halladay into having occurred in Toronto. I would have put like $100 on the Cubs/Jays series from 2005 having been in Canada. This is the most ridiculous thing ever but the reason I never forget that that game was in Chicago is because Vince Vaughn's character very briefly puts it on TV in the movie The Break-Up. Mitre is shown on screen.
  13. Andy
    He had a stroke 13 years ago and has been bad ever since. It's probably a little worse each year but it blows my mind that people are still surprised by his issues. It's not really surprise, it's secondhand embarrassment. By all accounts, Corso is an absolute prince of a human being, he's of course a GameDay institution, ESPN has said he has a job for life, and of course it isn't his fault he had a stroke, but he actively detracts from the show every second he's on now except for the last 90 seconds.
  14. Andy
    To quote Harry Caray, aren't we all?
  15. Andy
    FAMU nearly bowed out of tonight's opener vs North Carolina because of widespread eligibility issues, apparently, but their players decided to play. They'll be down 20 players and playing with eight offensive linemen. School's gotta get that check.
  16. Andy
    Or horsefeathers the Cubs for not grabbing 2 future HOF for nothing Sent from my motorola one 5G UW using Tapatalk whynotboth.gif Of course, the fact that they are both putting up the best years of their career - Goldschmidt's OPS+ is thirty damn five points higher than any other year and Arenado's is 29 higher - when everything we know about baseball aging curves suggests they shouldn't be (especially Goldschmidt) is still horsefeathering [expletive] regardless of how they got them.
  17. Andy
    Luckily for them Goldschmidt is having the best year of his life at age 34 and Wainwright is still an ace at 41 so it's all good
  18. Andy
    Yeah its weird to see Milwaukee start and end the season but only 2 other series throughout the year. I don't hate it...sick of playing the reds and pirates a billion times a year but it will take some getting used to. Yeah, I think I like it. It makes sense, too, if you're going to have so many wild-card teams they should be playing the same schedules for a fair comparison.
  19. Andy
    I’d still like to know why they think shortening games will bring in more viewers. It also shortens the commercial/ad time, so that’s a revenue loser. I don’t buy there’s x thousands or y millions of people out there that will watch or attend more baseball over games being 20-30 min shorter. The commercial breaks are in the same spots they always are - between innings and pitching changes - so I don't think that part's an issue. Like you, I remain skeptical that casual fans are waiting to watch baseball in droves if the games are two and a half hours 162 times a year instead of three, but as long as the actual gameplay isn't being negatively affected I'm not against it.
  20. Andy
    It's like the zombie 00's Cardinals. Old players revitalized out of nowhere, players coming to St. Louis and suddenly becoming elite players. Do they have a little gritty dude who has no business being good but somehow is decent? I was about to introduce you to Tommy Edman (all these guys always have names that make them sound like 13-year-olds) but I guess his numbers are still pretty bad. However I'm sure he'll pull a 2012 Pete Kozma and hit 6 home runs in the playoffs or something.
  21. Andy
    Seiya isn't currently on your roster/bench. Your bench consists of: Witt Jr, William Contreras, and Trout. Huh, must have dropped Seiya already. Never mind, then.
  22. Andy
    Be more fun if they were spoiling the right Central team, but hopefully they can keep this up.
  23. Andy
    Matt Corral done for the season with a Lisfranc injury, so that about ends his Carolina career since they'll draft a QB next year for sure. Cam Newton's career essentially ended with a preseason injury in New England too so I'm good with never going there again.
  24. Andy
    Why didn't I think of this first Drop Seiya, add Pasquantino to bench.
  25. Andy
    That was the last time his OBP or his SLG was as high as it is this year except for when he slugged one point better in 2015. Who could've seen that coming besides literally anyone who follows baseball.
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