Andy

You shouldn't be. No one in the South has a chance of challenging them for the division. They should get a first round playoff bye with 6 games against those guys + the 49ers and Rams. You can add the Chargers, Raiders, and Skins to that craptacular mix. I have a lot of trouble seeing how they lose more than 3 games. 2 to go. It was probably like 1983 or something the last time a QB took that many helmet-to-helmet shots without gaining a single penalty yard out of it. Thanks, NFL.

After just about everything went right for Carolina last year (until the game that mattered of course), I'm a bit nervous for this season.

Number of playoff wins since that idiotic decision gifted STL a series win: 0 I don't root against them or anything, but I'm not shedding tears for them either.

We never do it. I'm not sure I even remember one of our players being in position to do it. Maybe Soler once or twice.

I've been seeing these Tweets on here for a while and have never seen a "0% call same" before, I don't think

Top 25 games ------------------------------ Western Kentucky at (1) Alabama (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Troy at (2) Clemson (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Charleston Southern at (3) Florida State (12:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Tulsa at (4) Ohio State (3:30 pm, ABC) UCF at (5) Michigan (12 pm, ABC) Lamar at (6) Houston (12 pm, ESPN3) Idaho at (8) Washington (5:30 pm, Pac-12 Network – Regional) Nicholls State at (9) Georgia (12 pm, SEC Network) Akron at (10) Wisconsin (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) UTEP at (11) Texas (7 pm, Longhorn Network) (13) Louisville at Syracuse (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) UL Monroe at (14) Oklahoma (7 pm, Pay-Per-View) Arkansas at (15) TCU (7 pm, ESPN) Iowa State at (16) Iowa (7:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Virginia Tech vs (17) Tennessee – in Bristol, TN (8 pm, ABC) Nevada at (18) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC) Wofford at (19) Ole Miss (4 pm, SEC Network) Prairie View at (20) Texas A&M (12 pm, SEC Network – Alternate) Jacksonville State at (21) LSU (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Central Michigan at (22) Oklahoma State (12 pm, FS1) SMU at (23) Baylor (3:30 pm, FS1) Virginia at (24) Oregon (10:30 pm, ESPN) Florida Atlantic at (25) Miami (6 pm, ESPN3) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Maryland at Florida International (7:30 pm Friday, CBSSN) Penn State at Pittsburgh (12 pm, ESPN) Wyoming at Nebraska (12 pm, ESPN2) Cincinnati at Purdue (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Howard at Rutgers (12 pm, BTN – Regional) NC State at East Carolina (12 pm, ESPNU) Indiana State at Minnesota (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Rice at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Boston College at UMass (12 pm, ESPN3) Stony Brook at Temple (1 pm, ESPN3) Utah State at USC (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) Ohio at Kansas (2:30 pm, FSN) Mercer at Georgia Tech (3 pm, ESPN3) Kentucky at Florida (3:30 pm, CBS) Illinois State at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Wake Forest at Duke (3:30 pm, ESPNU) UConn at Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN) North Dakota at Bowling Green (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Eastern Illinois at Miami (OH) (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Old Dominion at Appalachian State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Middle Tennessee at Vanderbilt (4 pm, SEC Network – Alternate) Ball State at Indiana (4 pm, ESPNEWS) Idaho State at Colorado (5:30 pm, Pac-12 Network – Regional) North Carolina A&T at Kent State (6 pm, ESPN3) South Carolina at Mississippi State (7 pm, ESPN2) Northern Illinois at South Florida (7 pm, CBSSN) Georgia Southern at South Alabama (7 pm, ESPN3) Maine at Toledo (7 pm, ESPN3) McNeese at UL Lafayette (7 pm, ESPN3) NC Central at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPN3) BYU at Utah (7:30 pm, FOX) North Carolina at Illinois (7:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Arkansas State at Auburn (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Eastern Michigan at Missouri (7:30 pm, SEC Network – Alternate) UNLV at UCLA (8 pm, Pac-12 Network – Regional) New Mexico at New Mexico State (8 pm, ESPN3) Southern at Tulane (8 pm, ESPN3) Texas Tech at Arizona State (10 pm, FS1) Washington State at Boise State (10:15 pm, ESPN2) California at San Diego State (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Grambling at Arizona (10:45 pm, Pac-12 Network – Regional)

You have no idea how good either of these teams are. And neither do I. I don't know what sort of horsefeathering exorcism I have to pull to get this to stop, but that's 3 of the all-time kicks to the nads type losses for ND in the last 11 months. And I was 2 the last time they won a title.

I see everyone else in FBS is just spinning their wheels again. Alabama is going to steamroll everyone

That wasn't smart, Willson. Then again, neither was pitching Wood for the 8 millionth game in a row.

Apropos of nothing, I'm not sure how big the line would have to be for me to bet on Hawaii this week, but it would have to be large. They're literally going halfway around the world from one week to the next.

Same, and this game sounds all kinds of awesome and dramatic. On another note....Heyward looks so much more comfortable lately, not just the results but the PAs. He was holding up against velocity really well in that Dodgers series, just missing Baez a bunch of times in the PAs I saw and fouling them back. As exciting as this year is, to think this [expletive]' team can get a lot better just by him being even his usual self at the plate. He doesn't even need to be his usual self. If he can just be sort of run-of-the-mill bad at the plate instead of what we got from him for the first 4.5 months, it makes us that much better.

Bump so it doesn't get lost before the season begins. Pretty darn excited, folks.

So that was [expletive]

Kris Bryant is breaking baseball.

Yeah they won 90 games despite being outscored for the season. Then kicked our ass in the playoffs to boot.

They're an insane 27-8 in one run games. It means nothing but imagine if we had that kind of fortune right now and what our record would be

He's going to hit 20-25 dongs the next 5 years with elite defense and how's Jeff Samardzija doing, I forgot

That's completely made up, right? Unfortunately, only a slight exaggeration, as NPC pointed out.

Yeah, but I really want both to miss the playoffs and a Mets sweep is the best way to further that goal right now. Oh, definitely. I wasn't making a value judgment on who to root for.

As much as I hate STL, and that is a LOT, I am enjoying the Mets' collapse after how shitty their fans were last year (yes, Cubs fans outside this board probably would've been just as bad, don't care)

And said ace goes against Hendricks in game 3, which is hardly a huge disadvantage for us.

Apparently the gun was Max Redfield's, and he was already suspended for last year's bowl for a behavior issue. So he was kicked off the team. Devin Butler suspended indefinitely, the other four subject to internal/school discipline but no suspensions - yet.

Since like 70+ percent of the games are on ESPN anyway and that's how they display them on the bottom line. Figure Central time math is pretty solid on this board.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Alabama vs (20) USC – in Arlington, TX (8 pm, ABC) (2) Clemson at Auburn (9 pm, ESPN) (3) Oklahoma vs (15) Houston – at NRG Stadium in Houston (12 pm, ABC) (11) Ole Miss vs (4) Florida State – in Orlando (8 pm Monday, ESPN) (5) LSU vs Wisconsin – in Green Bay (3:30 pm, ABC) Bowling Green at (6) Ohio State (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Hawaii at (7) Michigan (12 pm, ESPN) Kansas State at (8) Stanford (8 pm Friday, FS1) Appalachian State at (9) Tennessee (7:30 pm Thursday, SEC Network) (10) Notre Dame at Texas (7:30 pm Sunday, ABC) Furman at (12) Michigan State (7 pm Friday, BTN) South Dakota State at (13) TCU (8 pm, FSN – Regional) Rutgers at (14) Washington (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) (16) UCLA at Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS) Miami (OH) at (17) Iowa (3:30 pm, ESPNU) (22) North Carolina vs (18) Georgia – in Atlanta (5:30 pm, ESPN) Charlotte at (19) Louisville (7 pm Thursday, FSN/ESPN3) SE Louisiana at (21) Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, FSN) Northwestern State at (23) Baylor (7:30 pm Friday, FSN) UC Davis at (24) Oregon (5 pm, Pac-12 Network) UMass at (25) Florida (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- California vs Hawaii – in Sydney (10 pm Aug. 26, ESPN) Tulane at Wake Forest (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Maine at UConn (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Presbyterian at Central Michigan (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) UT Martin at Cincinnati (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Indiana at Florida International (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) William & Mary at NC State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN3) South Carolina at Vanderbilt (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) Oregon State at Minnesota (8 pm Thursday, BTN) Rice at Western Kentucky (8 pm Thursday, CBSSN) Southern Utah at Utah (8 pm Thursday, Pac-12 Network) Montana State at Idaho (9 pm Thursday, ESPN3) Mississippi Valley State at Eastern Michigan (6 pm Friday, ESPN3) Army at Temple (7 pm Friday, CBSSN) Colgate at Syracuse (7 pm Friday, ESPN3) Albany at Buffalo (7 pm Friday, ESPN3) Ball State at Georgia State (7 pm Friday, ESPN3) Colorado vs Colorado State – in Denver (8 pm Friday, ESPN) Toledo at Arkansas State (9 pm Friday, ESPNU) Boston College vs Georgia Tech – in Dublin (7:30 am, ESPN2) Missouri at West Virginia (12 pm, FS1) Howard at Maryland (12 pm, BTN – Regional) Western Michigan at Northwestern (12 pm, ESPNU) South Alabama at Mississippi State (12 pm, SEC Network) Fordham at Navy (12 pm, CBSSN) Eastern Kentucky at Purdue (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Boise State at UL Lafayette (12 pm, ESPN3) Liberty at Virginia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Villanova at Pittsburgh (1:30 pm, ESPN3) Kent State at Penn State (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Murray State at Illinois (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Texas State at Ohio (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Richmond at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Louisiana Tech at Arkansas (4 pm, SEC Network) Florida A&M at Miami (6 pm, ESPN3) NC Central at Duke (6 pm, ESPN3) Western Carolina at East Carolina (6 pm, ESPN3) Austin Peay at Troy (6 pm, ESPN3) Savannah State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN3) VMI at Akron (6:30 pm, ESPN3) San Jose State at Tulsa (7 pm, CBSSN) Rhode Island at Kansas (7 pm, ESPN3) SE Missouri State at Memphis (7 pm, ESPN3) South Carolina State at UCF (7 pm, ESPN3) Towson at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN3) Southern at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Southern Miss at Kentucky (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Fresno State at Nebraska (8 pm, BTN) Eastern Washington at Washington State (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) Stephen F. Austin at Texas Tech (8 pm, FSN – Regional) BYU vs Arizona – in Glendale, AZ (10:30 pm, FS1) Northern Illinois at Wyoming (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Northern Arizona at Arizona State (10:45 pm, Pac-12 Network)

Non cryptic version: The annual preseason purge continues! Very uninformed speculation I'm hearing is that the gun belonged to Dexter Williams. I'm realllllly getting sick of this horsefeathers.