College Football Bowl Season 2018-19

Kudos to Heather Dinich, who had 450 words or so posted on espn.com before Ralph Russo got off his ass and filed for AP about 12:05 -- a gamer he could have have written by the end of the third quarter. As usual, thanks for nothing AP.

 

Power 5 conference teams vs. members of other Power 5 leagues, 2016-18
Big Ten: 34-26, .567
It Just Means More: 35-35, .500
ACC: 34-36, .486
Pac 12: 21-23, .477
Big 12: 21-25, .457

Nothing wrong with going .500, mind you. But if you're going to build an ad campaign that proclaims your supremacy, you might want to do more than break even.

 

I’m surprised they played so many P5 games.

 

No surprise there. Heather always does a great job.

 

Very well plugged in and playfully but artfully mocks ESPN's devotion to the SEC in its writing cast.

 

I am curious how Clemson did it. I get the sense that they don't cheat (any more than anyone else does), they don't have one major sugar daddy and they've only had one recruiting class in the last five or six years ranked in the top 5 (4th) so it isn't like they're just getting better players than everyone else. Figure if they were going to get busted due to their ascent it would have happened already.

And as much fun as it is to bag on Saban - when he loses, he owns it (unless he's still campaigning for a spot in the playoff).

 

I just want my Laz-E-Boy girl to wear a Clemson cheerleader outfit for me. With the sequins. And the orange. And the purple.

That’s all.

 

Somewhere, I think Clemson just looked at the landscape and decided to put all the resources into football. Basketball is an afterthought.

Add in a coach who has built a national championship program and doesn’t appear to want to leave Clemson.

And don’t discount the marketing of this. I have no connection to Clemson or the region. However, my son has Clemson on his short list if they’ll let him walk-on for soccer. Because he’ll already get substantial merit aid at Clemson and “it looks like a pretty good time”.

I just want him to take a visit so I can score one of those shiny cheer uniforms.

 

TPIUWOP

 

Buffets man.

 

I had Clemson winning 38-34 or something like that. Never in anyone's wildest imagination did anyone figure on a shit-housing like this.
Finebaum is going to be inconsolable today.