College football week 14 thread: The Last Boise Scout

Watch it, now. You'll get them Left Coasters and Biggies all riled up again.

 

Well a former Pac-12 team dominated the Big Ten and two former Pac-12 teams controlled the Big 12. Guess the league wasn't total garbage.

Texas didn't have any dropoff going to the SEC.

Good teams are good teams, regardless of their league. Cal and Stanford sucked in the Pac-12, too.

 

Well, we don't really know.

They didn't play Tennessee. Or Alabama. Or Missouri. Or South Carolina. Or Ole Miss.

They did play Georgia. At home. And got whipped.

But they're definitely better than Kentucky, Mississippi State, Arkansas and Vanderbilt (barely).

 

Mississippi State and Arkansas gave Texas a surprisingly hard time.

 

The first flag-planting brouhaha I remember was after Oklahoma went to the Horseshoe in September 2017 and won. The SE I worked for got giddy about it and made me try about 20 screen grabs off Twitter to get the best one.

 

Say what you want about Steve Sarkisian, but this was a good move. I think Texas came out and celebrated later, but at least he prevented a potential brawl.

 

From the moment the reconfigured league schedules were released, everyone knew Texas was being given a glide path to success while OU was getting bent over. Excluding the Red River Shootout, Georgia was the only team considered elite in the preseason that the Horns played (A&M was No. 20 to start).

Meanwhile the Sooners got five other SEC teams besides Texas that started in the Top 15. Some welcome wagon.

Oh, and they each get to run back these same schedules in 2025 with home field reversed. Happy prove-it season Venables!

 

They can only play the schedule they're given.

A ninth conference game would have alleviated some of that schedule disparity. But that would have cost Louisiana-Monroe a big paycheck and we can't have that.

 

As long as Pry buys into Watson in a way that Fuente refused to do for Hendon Hooker, the Hokies should be all right, although Pry playing Charlie Fuckaround with game management can always be counted upon to cost them a minimum of one win a season. They'll open with South Carolina in ATL next season and if they can pull that one off, they should be set for their best year in a while.