College football week 14 thread: The Last Boise Scout

[playthrough]

I'm looking forward to Ryan Day being handed the national championship trophy and being told he has been fired while still holding it.

Was on the road all day yesterday so just catching up, and maybe this was already said, but Ryan Day got his just desserts for his run-up-the-score TD against IU. "That's how we finish games at the Ohio State University," he said. Yep, gotcha. Take your buyout and get lost.

 

[TigerVols]

Franklin's answer for the late score. What say the jury?

Clearly the best remedy is to replace point differential with a select committee comprised mostly of SEC ADs, amirite?

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

My favorite "flag planting" incident of yesterday was when Arizona State tried to plant their trident on Arizona's field and a couple of Wildcats took offense and tried to start something...but they lost 49-7 and some of their coaches were like "oh now you wanna fight?" and they walked away in embarrashment.

Truthfully if you lose a rivalry game at home by 42, you need to get your ash in the locker room.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

That's a possibility.

Miami
Good wins: at Florida, at Louisville
Bad loss: at Georgia Tech
OK loss: at Syracuse

Alabama
Good wins: vs. Georgia, vs. South Carolina, vs. Mizzou, at LSU
Bad losses: at Vanderbilt, at Oklahoma
Fine loss: at Tennessee

The loss at Oklahoma -- and how it unfolded -- should be disqualifying. I guess we'll see where the rankings shake out on Tuesday. If Miami is still ahead of Bama, I think you're right, the Canes get in. Miami was 6, Bama 12 this week.

Depending on which metric they are using, and it changes from minute-to-minute. There's certainly a case that South Carolina is playing better football than both Miami and Bama. Bama did beat SC by two points off the basis of a missed field goal, but that was weeks ago. South Carolina dragged the same Oklahoma team in Norman that Alabama got whipped by.

Like I said the metric they use will change by the minute and when it suits them to get in who they want.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Oklahoma went from 7-2 last year in the Big 12 to 2-6 in the SEC. How much of the drop off off in the record was from a decline in talent and how much was simply moving to a tougher conference?

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Oklahoma went from 7-2 last year in the Big 12 to 2-6 in the SEC. How much of the drop off off in the record was from a decline in talent and how much was simply moving to a tougher conference?

I know the Sooners pretty much lost their entire receiving corps early in the season and that had plenty to do with the pash game and the offense in general. Defensively I thought they held up fine in the SEC for the most part, but the offense couldn't do much. And then there were games like South Carolina where I think the Gamecocks had 2 or 3 defensive touchdowns.

 

[Cosmo]

Depending on which metric they are using, and it changes from minute-to-minute. There's certainly a case that South Carolina is playing better football than both Miami and Bama. Bama did beat SC by two points off the basis of a missed field goal, but that was weeks ago. South Carolina dragged the same Oklahoma team in Norman that Alabama got whipped by.

Like I said the metric they use will change by the minute and when it suits them to get in who they want.

The more I think about it, I don't know why Miami should be ranked of SMU in the next rankings. SMU went 8-0 in conference, Miami went 6-2. SMU has lost only one game overall. Both Miami and SMU's best win is at Louisville. I think Miami is going to drop to at least 10 in the CFP rankings, since Georgia, Tennessee, SMU and Indiana all won this weekend. Unless SMU gets boatraced in Charlotte, it shouldn't drop below Miami in the final rankings, since Miami has no way to improve itself.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Oklahoma went from 7-2 last year in the Big 12 to 2-6 in the SEC. How much of the drop off off in the record was from a decline in talent and how much was simply moving to a tougher conference?

Some of it is injury issues. At one point, I think their top six receivers were out.

 

[tapintoamerica]

I'm going to be interested to see how many top 25 wins the bubble teams will have. My guess: not many.

 

[HanSenSE]

My favorite "flag planting" incident of yesterday was when Arizona State tried to plant their trident on Arizona's field and a couple of Wildcats took offense and tried to start something...but they lost 49-7 and some of their coaches were like "oh now you wanna fight?" and they walked away in embarrashment.

Truthfully if you lose a rivalry game at home by 42, you need to get your ash in the locker room.

How about a pregame stomp? About 20 years ago, some San Jose State players started to dance on the Boise State logo at midfield. Not tha SJS had a chance, but when the game started, it was what they call a Supreme scientific ash kicking by the Broncos. And we'll deserved.

 

[DanOregon]

I still can't believe Arizona was a pre-season top 25 team. It surprised me at the time.

And this might be the rare year when none of the pre-season top 25 teams fire their coach (though there certainly are grounds for a few of them).

 

[Hermes]

Was on the road all day yesterday so just catching up, and maybe this was already said, but Ryan Day got his just desserts for his run-up-the-score TD against IU. "That's how we finish games at the Ohio State University," he said. Yep, gotcha. Take your buyout and get lost.

Not the week for Indiana fans to be whining about running up the score after faking a punt up 38-0 against a Purdue team that was laying on its back with a white flag in its mouth.

But I'm sure that was somehow different. Fans' hypocrisy knows no logic.

Cignetti is just as big of an ashhole. He'll be perfect in the SEC in two years.

I root for a program that got raided by all these psychos, including Rourke. They can all go to hell. At least my alma mater will be playing on Saturday, unlike Day or Cignetti.