Man, two weeks in and Messrs. Massey and Peabody ain’t foolin’ around about the likely CFP field:
There is a clear Big Five right now — Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson and Oklahoma — that have separated themselves from the pack, and all have between a 61 percent chance (Georgia) and 44 percent chance (Oklahoma) of making the playoff. The next best: Penn State at 15 percent.
And to think there are people worried about what player compensation would do to competition.
5 teams spread across the country with chances of playing for a national title historically speaking is a competitive healthy field. Hopefully the NCAA can win their legal battles and keep the landscape from changing.
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What, no Auburn? Thought everybody loved Auburn
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I’m thinking it must be their schedule…but it’s just like Bama’s at this point..cept Bama doesn’t have to play Bama….
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…and Bama doesn’t have to play Georgia during the regular season.
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Or win anything of meaning to still get in. That’s been established.
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Well…I concur. But if the tables are reversed this year, they better use the same precedent.
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I’m sure they will. LOL
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I won’t hold my breath
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now, Nate. They BEAT VANDY LAST YEAR, WHAT DO YOU WANT? Of course, they beat us, too, eventually, but regular season? That Vandy win is a definite high point.
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footnote…Tyler Simmons was not off-sides.
(this should be a mandatory footnote whenever that ‘Bama “victory” is mentioned).
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True, just looked, they get Mizzou and UT of course…easier, like you say.
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Rebar, reading further in the article they make their case concerning Auburn. They even reflect on the small difference between OK and Aub and I agree. Sounds logical.
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A lot of football left to be played
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Thank goodness for that. I doubt it shakes out exactly like we think.
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Ohio St going down Saturday……
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Grammar isn’t fair either, Stewart. Bruce Feldman and I. Brude Feldman and I.
-That Guy
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This is the wrong thread, but Stewart Mandel’s usage was correct. It would be Bruce Feldman and I if they were the active subject of the sentence. You should always use the term that would be used if the extra name, Bruce Feldman in this case, was not there. Proper usages would like:
Bruce Feldman and I are ostensibly informed writers.
Ostensibly informed writers like me and Bruce Feldman were wrong.
To make is a little more obvious, check the following.
People like I are old. vs People like me are old.
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/Hanging head in shame
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Pruitt seems too smart and too savvy to fall for Phil’s okie doke. It would be different if Phil were some brilliant tactician but his genius in coaching was getting players from Georgia and Alabama while the flagship schools there were being mismanaged. Richt sorted us out and Phil wasn’t really successful against Bama until Stallings left.
Maybe it is Pruitt who is playing the long con and he will usurp the usurper, either way it will be fun to watch.
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Free education, free room and board, free books, the shame of it all. how do they survive? Liberals crack me up. I guess because its “free” means they aren’t being compensated properly….
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Get back to me when you’re willing to settle for the same deal at your job.
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Valid argument for the 90s
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I’m no liberal, but the freedom to use one’s own likeness and image for myself rather than another entity profiting from it to the tune of millions of dollars is a property-rights case, and any conservative should favor the athlete in this equation. I don’t know how this issue turned into an example of liberalism-run-amok.
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Um, it’s a classic “labor vs management” problem. So, right wingers always side with management and the money; never with labor or collective rights.
Ideology made easy!
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There are more attractive hills for the ‘dyin.
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/Bans self
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Honest question, how is Fulmer allowed to coach? Doesn’t that break the league rule on number of on field coaches?
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I am jumping on board with the Senator. Let’s have a completely free market with this caveat: schools can choose the free market model or the scholarship model. Likewise for athletes. But athletes that are subject to the free market model are also subject to a draft. That fixes the parity problem.
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Some of my best ideas come right after my 4th Buffalo Trace.
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Note the absence of a PAC 12 team from that list. Maybe the best team out there on the left coast this year is the Pirate’s team—if he has a qb.
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