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Except the schedules aren't the same. SMU played 2 ranked teams and lost to both. Alabama had two bad losses that SMU didn't have (completely fair criticism!) but they also beat Georgia, South Carolina and MIssouri, who are all ranked.
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Georgia gets more yards on one drive with the backup than they had the entire first half.
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This Georgia-Texas game is thrilling. 6-3 at the half.
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And a PAC 12 team winning the Big 12 (Arizona St).
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Semi-bold predation: Spurs will have a new manager in the 25-26 season.
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And this is where the eye test/margin of victory matters. If Indiana had lost by 10 points or less to OSU, made the Big 10 title game and did the same against Oregon, okay, I think that would at least somewhat prove they were legit. I didn't realize how many good teams Texas missed either. Didn't play Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, LSU or Missouri. Of their 8 conference games, 6 were against the bottom 7 teams in the SEC. I mean, they brought back a ton of talent and made the 4-team playoff last year so I'm pretty sure they're good. But if we're evaluating based on who you beat this year, that resume isn't great.
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There will be imbalanced schedules every year just because of how many teams are in each conference. I’m sure there will be some years where the top teams in each conference have relatively similar strengths of schedule. But I bet most years, at least one conference will have a team in the title game that got there in part because of a soft schedule. And I know that happened in the old system (often the Big 10 West) but the difference is before if the underdog pulled off the upset, they were virtually guaranteed a playoff spot like they are now.
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If teams played a similar/the same schedule (like if everyone played every other team in their conference) I would lean towards it not mattering much and not punishing a losing team. But I think in this case it should become a data point. SMU, as you mentioned, hasn’t beaten a team that’s currently ranked. Didn’t play Clemson, Miami or Syracuse during the regular season. So if they lose to Clemson, they wouldn’t have a bad loss but they wouldn’t have a good win either. Would they be 11-1 if they had played all three of those ranked teams? Maybe. Indiana would have been in a similar boat. If they had made the title game and gotten handled by Oregon, I would have been fine leaving them out. A team shouldn’t avoid punishment for a championship game loss if they potentially only made the championship game in the first place because they had a lucky schedule draw.
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So we’ve basically got the field, outside of the 1-bid leagues like the Big 12 and Group of 5. Bama is in unless Clemson beats SMU. And even then they probably get in over SMU.
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Ugh we’re stuck with this idiot as commissioner for at least 4 more years too.
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You mean you didn't like them just barreling straight ahead on 3rd and 4th and goal from the 1 in a jumbo formation so Texas would know exactly what was coming?
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Miami has 35 points and over 500 yards of offense, including 349 passing yards with 9.7 yards per attempt. They're down 42-35 and they have 4th and goal from the 9 with 3:42 left. Critstobal decides to kick the FG which means rather than having to score a TD, Miami now still has to score a TD. Plus it cost them 16 yards of field position (assuming an incomplete pass) since on the kickoff, Syracuse fair caught it so the ball was at the 25 rather than the 9. Auburn also had a weird decision right before the half earlier. They're down 14-3, 4th and goal from the 2. They run the offense out there to ... draw the defense offside? They ended up not snapping the ball, taking the 5 yard penalty and kicked the FG. I don't know why they didn't just send the FG unit out there and let the clock run out anyway. I wouldn't think moving forward 1 yard would convince them to then go for it. It's not like they could get a 1st down. I mean, they should have just gone for the TD in the first place but doing what they did was strange.
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Announcers during the Georgia game kept saying that a conference title game loss won’t be held against a team. Assuming that’s correct, what happens if today, Indiana wins, Penn St loses and Oregon beats Indiana by 3 TDs. It would seem harsh on Indiana to drop them out but at the same time, they would have gotten rolled by the only two playoff caliber teams on their schedule.
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I love that they switch sides in the OTs. So when it gets to the 3rd OT and it's only 2-point conversions, each team has to go to the other end of the field in between OTs.
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Well they're in the SEC title game already so that would be how.
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Bears Week 13 at Lions on Thanksgiving morning, 11:30 on CBS
soccer10k replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Other Sports
I’d call the timeout immediately. Get your best play that can pick up 10 yards so you’re in FG range. You should have enough time to run the FG team out there if you can’t get out of bounds. -
Blake Snell signs with Dodgers 5/182 (not a placeholder)
soccer10k replied to CubsLeaf's topic in General Baseball Talk
How hard is it to just have the rule be “the contract is for X years and $XXX total therefore the luxury tax hit is $XXX/X”? Defer however you want to but it’s not going to change the luxury tax hit. If that means Shohei’s deal is only $450M or whatever actual dollar figure it was, then fine. This deferral stuff is horsefeathers. -
Man City was up 3-0 at home to Feyenoord through 74 minutes. It’s now 3-3.
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So, are City broken? First time Pep has ever lost 5 straight games in his career. The underlying numbers aren't good either so it's not like they're just crushing teams and getting unlucky. I mean obviously they're not going to lose every game and they'll still finish top-4. But something clearly isn't right. As for Spurs, their ability to get results against City always baffles me. They've got the second best record against Pep for teams he's faced more than 5 times, behind only Liverpool. And while Liverpool makes sense because they had Klopp for almost all of those games, Spurs have churned through managers and all of them have beaten Pep. Poch, Jose, Nuno, Conte and now Ange all won at least 1 game against City. Also, they're going to lose to Fulham by exactly a goal next week because that's what they do. If these idiots had just beaten Palace and Ipswich, who have a combined 0 wins this year in 21 games when not playing Spurs, they'd be second right now.
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Browns have 3 wins this year and two of them are over Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Makes total sense.
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Here's a fun one and from a couple angles. If you're the ref, what do you do here? Salah is denied an obvious goal scoring opportunity, which is a red card. However, the ball rolls to Nunez, who scores. What if he shanks the shot? Can you then go back and give a red card because they didn't score or do you just have to let it be? If you're Liverpool, what's the ideal outcome? Would you rather take a 1-0 lead at home with 70 minutes to play or be 0-0 while playing up a man for 70 minutes? I think the ref did the right thing by letting it play out, but that's a really tricky situation if Nunez doesn't score there.
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I will say, I do like how the new format makes the schedules a bit more even. I mean, it’s never going to be anywhere close to fair, but before, teams in Pot 1 and 2 had an advantage getting to play 4 of 6 games against generally weaker sides. So when a team like Newcastle gets stuck in Pot 4, it’s going to be rough. But now each team from all four pots gets 2 games against every pot. So there are still going to be unbalanced schedules, but the gap has narrowed.
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Congrats in advance to the Dodgers for signing Roki Sasaki this offseason.
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Sporting, Monaco and Brest are 2-3-4 in the UCL, just like we all predicted. Meanwhile, Man City, Arsenal, Bayern and Real aren’t in the top-8.
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Indiana, Oregon and Penn State are all undefeated. They also don’t play each other. It won’t happen but it’s possible that an undefeated team might not even play for its conference championship. Great sport we have here.
