College football week 14 thread: The Last Boise Scout

[Slacker]

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?

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

 

[micropolitan guy]

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.

 

[BTExpress]

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

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).

 

[playthrough]

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.

I can make a distinction between a third-quarter fake punt and punching in a last-minute TD after a guy had slid at the 2. Yeah, college football is dirty and messy and in a lot of ways despicable. But I'm not apologizing for soaking up one good year at my alma mater -- which remains the losingest program in D1.

 

[Batman]

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.

 

[Twirling 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.

 

[Batman]

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.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[dixiehack]

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!

 

[Batman]

 

[micropolitan guy]

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).

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.

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

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 forkaround 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.

Non-playoff news, but pretty happy with the smackdown the Hokies put on UVA last night. Pry buys himself another year, for sure. I don't know if there was any chance Tech pulled the plug after this year, but 5-7 with a talented team and a home loss to UVA at the end of the year would have made it an uncomfortable conversation. Hokies may have found something in Pop Watson at QB, though he is a little smallish.