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So we hope Turkey gets bounced.
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Well we're getting a Euro team. Rio just said every group must have a European team.
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Nice, we avoided Italy and Denmark's playoff group. So better odds now we get a minnow.
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I'll take that. So roughly a 3/7 chance we get a minnow in Pot 4. Could be less than that due to the UEFA limitations of 2 per group.
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Yep, they can't draw one of the UEFA playoff teams.
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No Jordan from Pot 4 either. So from that pot we're down to the 4 UEFA teams, New Zealand, Ghana and Cape Verde.
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Downside is we now can't draw Qatar or Saudi Arabia from Pot 3. That's fine though.
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Hell yeah, we got Australia from Pot 2.
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ELO ratings for each Pot. I'm assuming for the playoff teams it's the highest rated team in each playoff.
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Maybe I'm misremembering (or I just tuned in later) but I swear the 2022 draw happened a lot quicker. I seem to remember recording it, starting it late assuming I could fast forward, but checked in here and people were like "the draw is starting already".
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One incompetent corrupt buffoon rewarding another incompetent corrupt buffoon.
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First time we got a group with Egypt, Jordan and Austria, finished 3rd and went out to England in the R32. That would be a bad result.
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I thought the “he’ll have a decision in four days” stuff or whatever was really weird. Like that pretty much means you’re going to leave. Because if he was going to stay he would have agreed to a contract extension. And Ole Miss is in the playoff so you’re interrupting the season regardless (as opposed to if it happened after the regular season but before a bowl game).
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Cal with a 1st and goal.
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With how the Iron Bowls at Auburn usually are, I'm fully expecting Auburn to score here and the game to come down to a 2-point conversion.
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Bama was up 17-0 in the second quarter but because no Iron Bowl at Auburn can be normal, it's now 20-20. Bama's offense doesn't look great either.
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We're going to have to agree to disagree. I don't think you can pick one week out, list a few of the games and extrapolate that out to a full season. All it means is that games involving 2 loss teams are the ones that matter versus games involving 0 and 1 loss teams. Ohio St-Indiana next week means very little to the national title picture. Might not even affect byes. But in the old system, the loser might be out. Did it matter that Texas A&M lost yesterday? Georgia is likely still in the playoff with a loss yesterday too. Like okay, maybe there's a couple more games that matter in the new system because you're including more teams. But I really liked sitting down watching a pair of 8-0 teams play knowing that the loser might not have a shot to play for a title. Now, the loser can win out and they're in for sure. I'll also disagree about any of the ACC games, Tulane and James Madison actually being relevant to people. I know that a couple of those teams are getting in, but nobody thinks any of them have a shot at winning 4 straight playoff games. Maybe Miami but that's it. If they're relevant to you, that's fine. But I doubt the average college football fan cares all that much about any of those games.
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So lets see. 1. Comes out after a ball when he doesn't necessarily need to. 2. Tries to pass to a teammate while falling down rather than just booting the ball out of bounds or up the field. 3. Jogs back to the goal after getting back up (might not make a save anyway but doesn't look good). 4. Throws hands up and yells at a teammate after rather than accepting blame.
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Do more games actually matter or do different games just matter? Like last year's Michigan-Ohio State game didn't actually matter. Michigan wasn't getting in regardless while Ohio State was getting in the playoff no matter what. OSU-Oregon and OSU-Penn State ended up not mattering last year either because all three teams got in the playoff anyway. I get that spots in conference championship games and seeds/byes are at stake, but that's not what we talk about when we say a game matters. It means whether or not you have a chance to play for a title. I'm sure I could do the same thing with the SEC.
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I would think they're behind Bama still. Bama lost at Florida St. Texas lost at Florida. These seem to be relatively comparable losses. Bama lost by 2 at home to Oklahoma. Texas lost by 7 at Ohio St and by 25 at Georgia. Seems to be advantage Bama there. Bama won at No. 4 Georgia, vs. No. 14 Vandy, vs. No. 19 Tenn. Texas won home to No. 3 A&M, neutral vs. No. 8 Oklahoma, vs No. 14 Vandy. Bama also won at Missouri who is barely outside the top-25 so if they win they could be ranked next week. So I'd say slight advantage Texas there, though Bama does have a ranked road win (over the No. 4 team). So Texas having an extra loss, a loss by 25 points and Bama having the best win gives them the nod to me.
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It’s pretty wild. I think I heard somewhere that they’ve played a pretty weak schedule so far but like you said, they haven’t had their second best player at all yet.
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I guess one positive is Mexico is just as likely to get a nightmare group as we are. Guess we just have to root for upsets in the UEFA playoffs then to decrease our chances of a nightmare group.
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If I understand the draw rules correctly, from Pot 4, we'll be unable to draw Curacao, Haiti or either International Playoff winner since both contain CONCACAF teams. Which means there's a 50-50 chance we get a UEFA team from that Pot. That doesn't seem ideal.
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I heard right after Daboll was fired that they’ve blown 4 games where they lead by 10 on the road in the 4th quarter (I think I got the stat right) and the rest of the league has blown 1 game like that.
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I know you’re just throwing out a random hypothetical, but I believe if Norway and Italy end up in the same group, the Pot 1 team would have to be either Brazil, Argentina or one of the three host nations since 3 European teams can’t be in the same group.
