October 15th, 2023 at 6:43 PM ^
The AP. Fortunately there's no edit.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:49 PM ^
I will say the guy from Tampa has an article about his decisions. But it's behind a paywall. So it sounds like it's all about click baiting for him. His vote should probably be revoked, but I didn't pay for his subscription to see if there's actually any reasoning.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:00 PM ^
This is what he says:
So why Ohio State? The Buckeyes have the fewest knocks against them. Their weakest win was a 20-point road conference game in the opener against Indiana. That’s better than Washington (a seven-point win at Arizona), Oklahoma (a 14-point win at Cincinnati) and Florida State (a two-point win at Boston College). I also think Ohio State’s win at Notre Dame is comparable to the best wins of anyone else in the top tier, and a blowout over Maryland helps, too. Advanced metrics also put the Buckeyes at or near the top — they’re No. 1 in ESPN’s Football Power Index — so I’m keeping them there for now.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:07 PM ^
Blowout over Maryland* **
*It was a 3-point game entering the 4th quarter
**Maryland just lost to Illinois, giving the Illini their first win over a P5 team... so I'm not sure the Maryland/OSU game is going to hold up as a quality win by the end of the season
October 15th, 2023 at 9:39 PM ^
Maryland is a dangerous team as they have a very good offense. Their problem is their block head HC. I still can't believe that idiotic onside kick yesterday to start the 2nd half. It basically ended up being the difference in the game.
October 16th, 2023 at 10:40 AM ^
Maryland seems to be getting worse every game. Reminds me a lot of last years Miami team.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:20 PM ^
They happened to beat ND because Marcus Freeman is an idiot and shot himself in the foot. It's sure as hell not cuz OSU is a tough team.
October 15th, 2023 at 10:00 PM ^
Should change his name to Marcus Fr11man, just so he never forgets.
October 16th, 2023 at 6:27 AM ^
And never mind the half dozen picks that McCord almost threw. I don’t think PSU is any better than last year, but I think PSU wins in Columbus. Or frames gets out his scratch pad and they get their asses handed to them. Either way, Michigan is the only team who stands out in the conference this year. Yes, we haven’t played anyone outside of Indiana to compare to the buckeyes, but we throttled them and every other opponent to line up in front of us. Our 3rd team probably could have beat every team we’ve played and that says a lot. Meanwhile OSU struggled against Indiana almost as much as they did against every team they’ve played. I’d still bet my house that we beat ND by 4 scores.
October 16th, 2023 at 9:45 AM ^
Slow down Speed Racer. The "our 3rd team probably could have beat every team we’ve played" comment not only makes you sound like an SEC slappie, but is flat-out wrong. Our benchwarmers are the ones who have given up TDs and often failed to score vs tired out opponents.
October 16th, 2023 at 9:36 AM ^
Yeah might want to revisit that Maryland "blowout". Maybe watch the game?
October 16th, 2023 at 9:41 AM ^
Thanks for posting that. While it's hilarious that this voter thinks the ESPN PI is worth using as a data point, the fact that they think OSU's win over ND means as much as or more than OU beating Texas, Washington beating Oregon, or even FSU beating LSU shows they're just an uninformed fan with a vote.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:00 PM ^
from his comments it looks like he hasn't even watched games
https://archive.ph/Ni1EK#selection-1125.0-1141.37
October 15th, 2023 at 7:27 PM ^
"Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel"
October 16th, 2023 at 8:31 AM ^
That's believable if he's just going along with fpi.
October 16th, 2023 at 10:18 AM ^
Interferes with his drinking so...
October 15th, 2023 at 7:22 PM ^
there's simply way more money in being inflammatory than truthful or insightful today
thus is the medium. sorry internet dorks and news dorks, media and/or technology is simply not the way
i can't remember which sociologist is was but he showed the the strongest, most effective form of birth control (plummeting pregnancies/fertility) was actually: smartphone ownership/usage, above anything (e.g. birth control, condoms, education, etc.)--and clearly news isn't communicating any truth either, the population is clearly now schizophrenic.
we live in the age of the grifter, from politicians to celebrities to billionaires and apparently even universities/medicine
October 15th, 2023 at 8:32 PM ^
i can't remember which sociologist is was but he showed the the strongest, most effective form of birth control (plummeting pregnancies/fertility) was actually: smartphone ownership/usage
Ehh... you got a source for that? You have some of the words right and all of the implications all wrong from what I can find.
October 16th, 2023 at 1:14 AM ^
Correlation between communication technology usage and contraceptive technology usage, but where the prevalence in the populations is 47% and 22% respectively, it probably isn’t particularly meaningful to the developed world.
October 16th, 2023 at 9:28 AM ^
The findings also note that owning or having access to a smart phone meant having access to healthcare apps and a higher likelihood of using birth control (often found or researched via the health apps.)
So, saying smartphone ownership is the greatest form is birth control is a supreme bastardization of the study, but certainly everything is still the fault of media and grifter politicians because cell phones.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:53 PM ^
I thought the most effective form of birth control is having a niece or nephew...tic...
October 16th, 2023 at 9:13 AM ^
I thought the most effective form of birth control was not having sex, there is only one time that didn't work.
October 16th, 2023 at 9:47 AM ^
Says Mary.
October 16th, 2023 at 10:16 AM ^
he showed the the strongest, most effective form of birth control (plummeting pregnancies/fertility) was actually: smartphone ownership/usage,
Whoa there. It just says that "cell phone ownership is significantly associated with modern contraceptive use in Burkina Faso." I.e., those who own a cell phone are likely to also use contraception - not that the phone itself is a form of contraception.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:47 PM ^
Now, that Nevada guy can go join circle jerk with Phillip Fulmer.
Actually, Tucker would like to join as well. What a fucking party!
October 15th, 2023 at 7:44 PM ^
Is it still a circle jerk with only three people?
October 15th, 2023 at 8:01 PM ^
Any three co-planar, but not co-linear, points can be inscribed in a circle.
So… yes?
ETA: and, of course, any three non-co-linear points describe a plane, in Euclidean space anyway. So the first qualifier is a no-op. :)
October 15th, 2023 at 9:36 PM ^
This. The MGoBlog difference.
October 15th, 2023 at 11:52 PM ^
TIL...whatever the hell J. Tedux just said!
October 16th, 2023 at 12:57 AM ^
Yes, but since we live in a four dimensional space-time is Euclidean geometry still applicable here?
October 16th, 2023 at 2:01 AM ^
:D
When you have fewer points than independent coordinates in your geometry, you will, of necessity, have either zero or an infinite number of solutions. (Infinite in the open geometries we're all most familiar with).
But since an infinite number of Mel Tuckers behaving inappropriately sounds like a bad horror movie, let's posit, for the sake of the question, that the querent meant that the individuals were engaging in such behavior at a single, shared point on the t axis. But it's a good question nonetheless. :)
October 16th, 2023 at 9:04 AM ^
Fuck math. I can have a circle jerk with just one person.
October 16th, 2023 at 10:34 AM ^
"Fuck math."
WTH??? You can't say that here! This is MGoBlog fer Crissakes!!!
OFF TO BOLIVIA WITH YOU!!! MOMS!!!!
October 15th, 2023 at 6:56 PM ^
Whatever - we know we're good and all that matters now is taking down Staee and getting to the bye week without further injury.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:57 PM ^
I’m guessing the Nevada guy is a pure resume voter. He’s not voting on who the best team is, but rather the best resume, in which case Michigan won’t crack the top 5 on his ballot until a victory over Penn State.
That said, a resume voter shouldn’t have OSU ahead of Washington.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:03 PM ^
The guy was using moving goalposts for his rationale. First it was bc osu had the best worst win (he never mentioned umich in that reasoning bc umich would have destroyed this rationale), then he justified it w best overall win. The conclusion is he just wanted to find a reason to put osu #1.
October 15th, 2023 at 6:59 PM ^
Brett McMurphy ranks UM, OSU and PSU as 5, 6 and 7 respectively. FSU in front of UM. 😭
October 15th, 2023 at 7:43 PM ^
Honestly I don’t hate it. FSU has had a hard schedule and has come out on top. It seems ridiculous because there’s just so much stock in preseason polls.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:06 PM ^
Which of their games were you most impressed with? Their overtime victory over a terrible Clemson team? The two point victory in Chestnut Hill against the BC Eagles?
Sure, they beat LSU… but that, to me, seems like “so much stock in preseason polls.” LSU’s defense is atrocious. Michigan has given up 47 points in 7 games. LSU gave up 55 (!) to Ole Miss alone, plus the 45 to FSU and 39 to Mizzou in a game they actually won.
October 16th, 2023 at 6:54 AM ^
Eh, I think FSU is a lot of preseason hype and an LSU win that's looking less impressive as the season goes on. They're giving up about 20 ppg including 17 to a bad VT team and nearly getting beaten by a horrible BC team. They'll get exposed eventually
October 16th, 2023 at 9:51 AM ^
The LSU win looks pretty good, certainly not Washington over Oregon impressive, but pretty good, Better than OSU beating ND, IMO.
October 15th, 2023 at 9:44 PM ^
Seriously, who cares? It's almost impossible to compare teams because of their different OOC opponents and strength of schedules. It all starts when we start playing each other - plain and simple
October 16th, 2023 at 1:03 AM ^
FSU ahead of us is really the most incomprehensible. Their “best” wins are against name brand teams having bad years, and close calls against bad teams. To make the playoff, they’ll have to beat Duke, Florida, Miami, and North Carolina (probably) and I just don’t see them running that gantlet undefeated, even though none of them seems undoable by itself.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:18 PM ^
I honestly have no idea what these voters base their rankings on. Is team A likely to beat team B? Yes? Then team A gets ranked above team B. FSU at #1? Almost every team in the top 15 would beat them. SP+ has them at 15 as well. They beat a bad LSU team in a week 1 trap game, and barely escaped a Clemson team that likely will finish 6-6 this year. Week 1 I'd rate them high, but certainly not now.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:22 PM ^
I wonder if the Nevada guy came to Ann Arbor the UNLV game and he felt he wasn’t treated well.
October 15th, 2023 at 8:07 PM ^
He’s from northern Nevada. He’s much more likely to be bitter about Cade than he is to be upset about anything having to do with UNLV.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:25 PM ^
He won't matter after next week. He can choke his chicken all he likes then.
October 15th, 2023 at 7:30 PM ^
Emily Adams knows what’s up, that’s exactly how I would rank it
October 15th, 2023 at 7:32 PM ^
Just win baby