Michael Hopcroft Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 Here is the latest on the subject, from a website covering the Tigers. Apparently the decision will be made in a large part by ESPN, which helped organize the contest. When ESPN has that degree of control, it strikes me that there may be something wrong with college football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 ESPN also owns many of the third-tier bowl games (i.e., the ones the mid-major teams get invited to). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 ESPN also owns many of the third-tier bowl games (i.e., the ones the mid-major teams get invited to). How's that investment going for them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 28, 2017 Report Share Posted August 28, 2017 They keep playing them. It must be going well enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 Next week's BYU-LSU game almost certainly will not be played in Houston next week due to the effects of Hurricane Harvey. Preliminary reports indicate that the two sides are working on relocating to game to either Baton Rouge or New Orleans. Hell, the Astros are on their way to likely making the playoffs in baseball, and they might not be able to play their postseason home games at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Hell, the Astros are on their way to likely making the playoffs in baseball, and they might not be able to play their postseason home games at home. Actually, they plan to at least attempt to play a home series within two weeks at Minute Main Park in Houston, which apparently has not sustained major damage. (Right now they're playing their scheduled homestand at Tropicana Park in Florida). Sports arenas, especially indoor ones, are excellent locations for relief centers due to their sheer capacity. Minute Maid Park, though, is open-air, making it less suitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Yeah, heard that recently, but the key word right now would be-hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 Last weekend's "Week 0" games notwithstanding, the college football season starts in earnest tonight. Tonight's Thermodynamics/Kinetics class has been cancelled because my school is hosting North Dakota (the team no longer humorously known as "The Boys Named Sioux"). BYU is a 15.5 point underdog to LSU in their relocated game on Saturday night. Based on what I saw last week, they have no chance to cover, let alone win. BYU then gets Utah and Wisconsin the next two weeks, albeit both at home. They'll be lucky to win one of those three games. Colorado is favored by 4 over Colorado State in Denver tomorrow night. After watching the Rams take apart Oregon State last week, I think this year they beat the Buffaloes. I think this season will also show CSU to be a solid team, and CU's impressive 2016 season to be a fluke. Any other bold predictions, folks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 31, 2017 Report Share Posted August 31, 2017 I can only hope you're correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted September 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Looking forward to today's Oklahoma game. New coach, opponent should be good enough to put up a fight for a half or so but not good enough to win (UTEP), lots of questions to be answered: how does OU replace the production of Perine/Mixon, has the defense continued to make improvements as it did during the last season, etc. Got my little smokies with BBQ sauce, sausage cheese balls going into the oven shortly, beers in the fridge (bourbon in the liquor cabinet just in case). Didn't fire up the smoker yet (that'll be for next week or later, too hot today) but I'll grill steaks this evening. And here... we... go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Huskies were ... mediocre... against Rutgers last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted September 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Game 1 doesn't tell you much. Oklahoma lost their opener last year and improved steadily to finish 11-2 and win the Sugar Bowl handily against Auburn. Obviously you don't want to lose any games but if you do, lose early in the season. I am not expecting Ohio State to look like they did against Indiana next week, for example. I will be pleasantly surprised if they do though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Colorado State dropped half a hundred on Oregon State last weekend, but could only manage one field goal against Colorado?! Very disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 And Texas is down 27-7 against Maryland? What is going on here? Seriously, Maryland? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted September 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Wow. 30-14 at the half. I am starting to feel sorry for them... That's just wrong on so many levels. I need a shower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted September 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Oklahoma up 35-7 at the half, just avoid injuries at this point . Texas lost to Maryland. That's a pretty good day in college football. Held UTEP to 95 yards offense, vs achieved over 400 yards offense at the half. Good balance on run and pass, spread the ball around a lot. I've watched worse openings. Worried about next week, but on the face of it OU should be competitive at least. Appear much improved from last season opener. Edit: Final just confirmed the first half. Like that the new head coach Lincoln Riley gives much more time for the backups than his predecessor. Good stuff. 56-7 final, almost 700 yards offense (494 through the air, over 200 rushing). 8 different players scored. Contained a decent, but not great UTEP offense. Next week will be a very different opponent. massey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 If BYU plays this way against LSU next week, they're going to lose by five touchdowns. It was even worse than I predicted. Sure, BYU only lost 27-0 (not quite four touchdowns), but they had under 100 yards of total offense, including -5 yards rushing. Worse, they never crossed midfield. Not once. They ran exactly zero plays in LSU territory. Just awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 And once again my Aggies find a way to collapse in the 4th quarter. Unfortunately this loss will probably lead to a coaching change unless he can pull out 2 of 3 vs Bama, LSU and Auburn. and have no more bad losses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 And once again my Aggies find a way to collapse in the 4th quarter. Unfortunately this loss will probably lead to a coaching change unless he can pull out 2 of 3 vs Bama, LSU and Auburn. and have no more bad losses. Is this the coach who utterly failed to restrain Johnny Manziel when he was at A&M? That brings up the question, which is as old as the sport, of what the job of a college football coach entails. Whether you win games seems to be more important than how you do it, and the educational responsibilities of coach to player seem to be becoming less and less significant. And this creates problems for athletes down to road once they leave school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Manziel was an entitled rich boy before he came to school and he left the same way. Some people you just can't help. Sumlin's problem is that he can't get anyone to coach defense and his offense doesn't work well at holding leads. The job of a college football coach is not to educate athletes, it is to win football games. While it should be the other way around, a high graduation rate and losing records is not a formula for long-term employment at the higher levels of college football. Iuz the Evil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Yeah, failure to restrain Johnny Manziel does not make Kevin Sumlin in any way unique. Nobody in the NFL was ever able to do it either. And the problem is certainly not unique to Texas A&M. I remember several years ago it was discovered that the University of Colorado was using paid escorts to lure recruits. This revelation wasn't enough to get Coach Gary Barnett fired--but losing the Big XII championship game to Texas 70-3 was. Iuz the Evil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Howard w/ Caylin Newton at the helm, overcomes being a 45 point underdog and upsets UNLV. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2731991-how-caylin-newton-stepped-out-of-cams-shadow-to-engineer-cfbs-greatest-upset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Texas losing to Maryland made me laugh and laugh and laugh. The meltdown at ShaggyBevo was something to see this week. Iuz the Evil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted September 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Texas losing to Maryland made me laugh and laugh and laugh. The meltdown at ShaggyBevo was something to see this week. yeah, the thread on this week's SJSU game made me snicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Little Girl Pariah turns eight years old in December. Little Boy Pariah turns four years old next month. Neither of them has ever seen BYU win a game against Utah. I don't expect that to change tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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