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College football week 11 thread: Last MACtion Hero

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by dixiehack, Nov 4, 2024.

  1. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    Will look into the team's execution and get back to you.

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  2. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Feels like he deserves more than 3 seasons, but I can get where OU fans are expecting a ton more out of Venables.

    They had the same lead time as Texas to join the SEC, but how are they so far behind where Texas is when it comes to being competitive in the conference? And I'm a Mizzou guy, but for OU to lose to Mizzou's second-string QB has to be about the biggest blow to OU's ego as there is.

    Like Tapin alluded to, thank goodness Lincoln Riley is failing badly at USC. Same with Oklahoma State. But that's all the Sooners have to cling to right now.
     
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  3. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    If you're at Oklahoma (or any blue blood program) and you go 6-6 with a bowl loss following the predecessor's 11-2, 10-3 with a bowl loss and what is almost certainly going to be 5-7 since Bama and at LSU are left, with the current way the sport is I don't know how much more leash one can get.
     
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  4. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Oklahoma was also the earliest prominent example of a departing coach picking his old roster clean like it was the last hot wing. They never had a plan to recover from that and until that moment it probably hadn’t occurred to anyone in the sport to develop one so soon after free transfers became available.
     
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  5. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Feels like they had a plan at QB, at least, with Dillon Gabriel.

    Seeing him stroll into the CFP at Oregon can't be helping OU fans' state of mind right now.
     
  6. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I think Okie Lite lets Gundy finish the year, then that will be that.
    Norvell and Riley both have their schools by the balls. Unless 3 or 4 of their super boosters decide to right a really big check, they’ll just suck for a while. Riley buyout north of 80 million.
     
  7. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Army has allowed 93 points in nine games, with 28 of them coming in one game. That's silly. That probably changes against Notre Dame, but still.

    Miami still controls its path to the ACC championship game, as long as it beats Wake and Syracuse. No H2H with Clemson, but first tiebreaker is win percentage against all common opponents, so Miami beating Louisville -- which beat Clemson -- gets the Canes the nod.

    I still think we're getting a Ducks-Buckeyes rematch in Indy. Hoosiers have had a fine season, but I just don't see them going into Columbus and winning. If that's Indiana's only loss, I think it's safely in the playoff field, considering the cannibalism that's going on in the SEC.

    As for the SEC ... I just don't think three-loss teams are going to get an at-large, so Georgia is in elimination mode from here on out. As is Ole Miss, Bama, and aTm. LSU is toast.
     
  8. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    I would hate any three-loss team getting in, but it may put the committee in a dicey spot if a two-loss team loses its conference title game and is competing with two-loss teams that didn't make the title game. Those games are not supposed to hurt you, but . . .
     
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  9. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    That's a fair point. Should amend it to say three-loss regular-season teams.
     
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  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I wonder if teams will start holding back coaching dollars and put them into NIL. Because we know that these folks aren't that amazing as "recruiter$)"
     
  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    That's coming, as is the day when there are coaches who are getting paid less than their stud player.
     
  12. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Yeah, but even then . . . get waxed 42-10 in your conference title game, and you can't look very appealing with so many teams banging at the door for so few spots.
     
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