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It's not the like Bluebonnet…

It's not the like Bluebonnet Bowl was "meaningful" in 1985. The difference is those teams played at full-strength. Point well taken.

I like the bowl games, but college football survived and thrived without 40+ of them for decades. They survive monetarily because they gouge the participating schools for tickets. As long as that racket continues, there will be a bunch of them around.

Doesn't the public address…

Doesn't the public address announcer make an announcement about who is eligible in the NFL? Did that person say #70 was eligible? If so, the Lions have to take some responsibility for this. 

NFL rules and procedures regarding unbalanced formations and eligibility of OL aren't very good in general.

Not sure Joe Buck…

Not sure Joe Buck understands covered / uncovered. If Decker had reported as eligible, he can be the end man in an unbalanced formation.

Allar was waiting for the…

Allar was waiting for the deep post to start getting across the field and he never did. So he then just hucked it up there.

Mizzou ran for about 240 if…

Mizzou ran for about 240 if you take the sacks away.

I feel Day should have gone…

I feel Day should have gone with some Wildcat with Henderson. They were having some, not great, success with the run early in the 1st half. 

Mizzou's defense hasn't been great all year. They've had moments. They've also given up some big numbers. Getting them to defend something they haven't seen all year was a risk worth taking.

Cook can't throw, JJ can. A…

Cook can't throw, JJ can. A lot less risk for Mizzou.

OSU's achilles heel on…

OSU's achilles heel on defense has been the run. Notre Dame, Michigan. It took Mizzou 2 and a half quarters but they finally took the ball out of Cook's hands in terms of the pass and started to drive the ball down the field.

North Central might run for…

North Central might run for about 500 yards and lose.

North Central's DBs are…

North Central's DBs are terribly coached. Not sure how you can stand on the goal line on 3rd and 4 from the 10 and play man.

Iowa's defense is so, so…

Iowa's defense is so, so hard to judge because functional offenses know they don't need to take risks to move the ball. And Iowa didn't play a ton of functional offenses. It's the most skewed team (offense / defense) maybe in the history of college football. 

Bama has played a much tougher slate of offenses: Ole Miss, LSU, Texas, Tennessee. Michigan has played the better slate of defenses. If the Bama against Ole Miss and Georgia shows up, I think Michigan is the underdog. If it's the Auburn Bama, Michigan wins by double digits. 

Alma has better offensive…

Alma has better offensive skill players than Iowa. 

Brian Ferentz isn't the answer, but Iowa's problems on offense run a hell of lot more deeper than him.

Does nobody remember Bo Nix…

Does nobody remember Bo Nix at Auburn? Meh at best. He's a perfect fit for what Oregon does, but that doesn't make you the best player in the country.

Jayden Daniels is spectacular as a college QB. LSU's defense is bad. They have 3 losses to teams that have combined to go 33-3. They lost to Ole Miss 55-49, Bama 42-28, FSU 45-24. Nobody's stopped him, maybe FSU in the first game of the year. They've just outlasted him.

That Rutgers team I believe…

That Rutgers team I believe 0-fered in the Big Ten. Iowa might somehow win 8 games!!

The other possibility is that Penn State is really damn good.

1989 Fiesta Bowl over West…

1989 Fiesta Bowl over West Virginia?

That's probably too harsh, but your point is well taken. It hasn't been that many.

In the meantime, Iowa seems…

In the meantime, Iowa seems to have found a way to run 33 plays for 76 yards and 4 first downs.

Iowa's ability to waste a top 10 defense year after year boggles the mind.

Ryan Day doth protest too…

Ryan Day doth protest too much. It doesn't take a genius to see the defense isn't the best tackling team in America.

Unless you rep the crap out…

Unless you rep the crap out of it, rushing 3 is just begging for trouble. The zones are slightly different and decent QBs can look good with a lot of time.

The teams that major in it can be really good at it. 

Bring pressure and live with…

Bring pressure and live with it. It had worked when you had done it.

I just saw that also. I…

I just saw that also. I think Iowa has run like 28 plays and we're in the 4th quarter.

I'm not. All these teams…

I'm not. All these teams that prioritize offense end up with soft defenses. Lincoln Riley is Exhibit A through Z.

And if you score 50 a game, great. If you don't, it's a problem. 

I don't know who #8 is for OSU but that guy doesn't want to tackle anything.

OSU is S-O-F-T. Same defense…

OSU is S-O-F-T. Same defense as last year. Won't be able to handle the physicality of Michigan or will have to sacrifice coverage for run defense.

I didn't explain that well…

I didn't explain that well. If you blitz him up the middle he will see it and either panic throw (as we saw) or start scrambling. If you blitz him off the edge, he won't see it and actually sit in the pocket and make his reads (the late throw on his last "controversial" turnover).

If you can contain him on the edge, you should blitz him in his face as much as possible.

What are you arguing? It was…

What are you arguing? It was one call in a game of thousands of little calls. Even the people watching here don't agree.

I'll add this. I believe it…

I'll add this. I believe it's the responsibility of the trailing team to "give up." Meaning they need to start running the ball and burning clock. That's not the leading team's job.

Purdue is clearly still playing hard and throwing the ball downfield. And it looks like they just scored.

Right move. Look at this way…

Right move. Look at this way. Imagine losing by 1 because Purdue managed 3 TDs in the last 3:30 of the game. Shit happens in football. 

I don't think it was going…

I don't think it was going to happen for them regardless.

He has a plus arm and can…

He has a plus arm and can run pretty well, but he has to have a perfect pocket because he sees the rush. Almost all his completions tonight are RPO-like or short game. Ironically you're better off blitzing him straight up the middle than the edges because he can't feel that particular pressure.

Purdue took the ball out of…

Purdue took the ball out of Card's hands (thank god) and found some run game against Wisconsin's light box. 24-10 with a quarter and a half to play.

It took over a half, but…

It took over a half, but Purdue's DC found a blitz on the call sheet and they got a stop.

The Purdue defense looks soft as sh!t.

Hudson Card stares at the…

Hudson Card stares at the rush.

They have zero pressure on Mordecai.

Alabama doesn't have a QB…

Alabama doesn't have a QB and they don't have the defense they've had in the past. They could lose 2+ more.

An underrated Seinfeld…

An underrated Seinfeld episode.

If the US-Mexico 2027 Women…

If the US-Mexico 2027 Women's World Cup bid wins hosting duties, I believe any stadium that can hold 92K+ could break it. That event has absolutely blown up.

Nothing USC did last night,…

Nothing USC did last night, on either side of the ball, made me think they were a playoff team. If SJSU doesn't botch the Williams drop snap that game is tied at half. 

It's one game and teams adapt and improve, but that looked like a 3 loss team.

Caleb Williams is really…

Caleb Williams is really good. He also holds onto the ball forever. He gets away with it most of the time with his athleticism, but he probably takes more hits than he needs to.

Wazzu didn't have…

Wazzu didn't have overwhelming advantages and in theory, USC should have that against the likes of SJSU. And I actually think USC's DL is getting pressure and is often in the backfield, especially after the 1st 2 drives. Maybe Grinch isn't as good as I'm giving him credit for--that 2nd TD was really, really bad.

All of that being said, the common denominator is Lincoln Riley. He's the only common denominator since he took over at Oklahoma.

That 2nd SJSU TD is all on…

That 2nd SJSU TD is all on Grinch. Some disguise Cover 2 with 13 seconds left leaving a wide open fade for a TD. Just get out of the half with a FG attempt. Effin' stupid.

Agreed. But I don't think it…

Agreed. But I don't think it's changing Michigan's wins-losses against the tomato can non-conference schedule.

Clock rules will benefit…

Clock rules will benefit weaker teams that can control the ball on offense, particularly if they can run it. Most weaker teams can't do that. Is losing 45-3 much different than losing 55-3?

USC could, you know, play…

USC could, you know, play some defense and get the ball back for their offense in the allotted 1st quarter time.

But that requires you to stop a 3rd and 22 scramble when not one DB could get off a block of a SJSU WR.

USC's problem isn't scheme (maybe somewhat, but Grinch has had success elsewhere) and it isn't talent. It's how they practice on a Lincoln Riley team where offense is the primary, secondary, and tertiary focus of the program.

I could watch the first 4-5…

I could watch the first 4-5 seasons forever. It's really well done. After that it seems to have lost its way. 

Michigan will run it too…

Michigan will run it too much. Unless it's some Gino Torretta logic--QB on the best team. Corum is the better Heisman candidate.

I'm just not a believe in…

I'm just not a believer in Spencer Rattler. Dude sees the rush and panics.

Any chance you have access…

Any chance you have access to 2021 S&P data for small schools? D2 and D3 in particular.

Are they sanguine about it…

Are they sanguine about it or realistic that what Harbaugh wants isn't the deciding factor? The deciding factor is whether an NFL team will offer him a job.

" . . . all these schools…

" . . . all these schools are desirable enough to be in the "power 5" but somehow not desirable enough together to make the economics work...It still doesn't make sense."

You're right, it doesn't make sense. Oregon and Washington don't make sense either. Neither did Rutgers and Maryland. 

The reality is that as the money continues to get exponentially larger, the schools that actually bring value to the table are going to jettison those that don't. Premier League College Football.

Anybody remember the 16 team WAC of the late 90s? This article spells out some issues: https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-wac-lessons-we-learned-from-the-16-team-conference-experiment/

Not only has this (schools…

Not only has this (schools being jettisoned) been going for a long, long time, but shit changes as well. UCF didn't EXIST as an institution in 1960. It's has the 2nd largest school population in the country today. Why shouldn't they be a P5 institution in a state that has grown like a weed over the past 80 years? 

Larry Scott destroyed the…

Larry Scott destroyed the Pac-12 with his terrible leadership in a time of massive change. I'm not sure a former tennis executive would have been my first choice to run a big-time college athletics conference.

I think if we've learned…

I think if we've learned anything over the last decade of conference realignment is that money has the biggest seat at the table. I think Big Ten institutions would jettison Iowa or Purdue in a heartbeat if it meant the possibility of doubling yearly revenue.