Bowl Games Discussion Thread
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vball10set
/Con_Alma'dIronman92;1831010 wrote:Oklahoma if they win and USC...or Navy -
vball10setKnightRyder;1831034 wrote:good for them
KnightRyder still goes to all his high school's game (he graduated 10 years ago), so just ignore any of his comments regarding college footballsuperman;1831040 wrote:Don't feed the troll.
He only shows up here when OSU loses. He has no one to root for, only roots against the Bucks. His favorite team has now won 6 games in 5 years. -
superman
But he's just a loser that wants attention. Ignore him and he'll go away.Ironman92;1831042 wrote:Wasn't feeding. Nothing to go off of there. -
vball10setearly Heisman frontrunners... Darnold, Barkley, Hurts, ???
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sleeper
Mike Weber.vball10set;1831057 wrote:early Heisman frontrunners... Darnold, Barkley, Hurts, ??? -
Azubuike24
Baker Mayfield is a very good college QB. He isn't Johnny Manziel on the field. He won't play in the NFL. I also didn't understand why he gets nominated for the Heisman as a pure system QB if you're going to pick and choose. Lamar Jackson winning was dumb enough, but Mayfield over Jake Browning is also puzzling. -
Azubuike24
Well, if you have to have a good team to be a candidate, there will be plenty of good QB's.
Mayfield, Hurts, Browning, Darnold, etc.
Derrius Guice and Saquon Barkley will be the early RB's with a ton of hype.
However, it's hard to imagine Louisville doesn't ride Lamar Jackson just as hard next season. I'll bet he puts up the same or better overall stats. -
vball10set
He prolly will, but if one of the aforementioned players from a higher profile team does anything close, they'll win it...imo, Jackson gad a great season, but it almost feels he won be default. Also, I sure wish they'd wait until after the bowl games to vote--not sure why they don't.Azubuike24;1831076 wrote:
However, it's hard to imagine Louisville doesn't ride Lamar Jackson just as hard next season. I'll bet he puts up the same or better overall stats. -
KnightRyder
and vball10set still thinks there is no football played outside of the cow town in ohio. BTW my favorite is 3-0 vs the all the mighty buckeyesvball10set;1831045 wrote:KnightRyder still goes to all his high school's game (he graduated 10 years ago), so just ignore any of his comments regarding college football -
vball10set
oh, ok, so now you're a Clemson fan...congratsKnightRyder;1831086 wrote:and vball10set still thinks there is no football played outside of the cow town in ohio. BTW my favorite is 3-0 vs the all the mighty buckeyes -
KnightRyder
Wrong, would like to guess again? Clemson is just another team that OSU cant beatvball10set;1831093 wrote:oh, ok, so now you're a Clemson fan...congrats -
vball10set
go awayKnightRyder;1831104 wrote:Wrong, would like to guess again? Clemson is just another team that OSU cant beat -
sleeper
Only shows up after OSU losses. Thankfully we don't lose much and we don't need a rapist at QB to win national titles.
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Heretic
Well, if you want to look at these one-game bubbles, here are a few tidbits! The B1G was 3-7.FatHobbit;1830975 wrote:I get what you're saying about one game, but I thought OSU was really good. They were exposed. I thought FSU would have trouble scoring on Michigan and they didn't. I thought Iowa was decent because they beat Michigan and they sucked. Penn state is looking OK. Wisconsin beat a fucking MAC team. If it was one team I might think they were still a good conference but they were all pretty fucking horrible. (Maybe I'm still feeling the shutout)
1. Three of those losses were unranked B1G teams against ranked opponents. They were 1-3 in those match-ups with Northwestern beating #23 Pitt, but Indiana lost to #19 Utah, Nebraska and their crappy back-up QB lost to #21 Tennessee and Iowa lost to #17 Florida. The only one of those, I'd call a bad loss was Iowa. Nebraska was 2 TD, but when I saw it wasn't Armstrong playing, that was a foregone conclusion.
2. They were also 1-3 in major bowl games against high-ranked opponents. YOU can call WMU a "fucking MAC team", but they were 2-0 against the B1G (including bowl-winning Northwestern) and arguably would have been the fifth-best B1G team this year if they'd been in that conference (behind OSU, PSU, Mich and Wisc, with Minn and Neb at, barely above or barely below them), so that's still a quality win, if not an exceptional one. PSU and Michigan were in evenly-matched games that went down to the wire and were essentially coin flips. OSU was the only bad loss.
3. They were 1-1 when no one was ranked, although I'd say Minnesota's win was noteworthy just because half the team was suspended.
3-7 sucks, but two of the marquee match-ups could have gone either way and the conference was stuck in the position of underdog in most of the intermediate bowls. Ohio State doesn't look like shit in their game and they got 1-of-2 between Michigan and PSU and it would have been a successful bowl year. Instead, it's a blah one that looks worse on paper than in reality, especially considering the number of regular-season quality wins teams in the conference had. -
thavoice
All I am saying is the roles were reversed, and it was the SEC who just went through what the Big10 did, people in B10 country and on this site would be lambasting the SEC as being overrated.Heretic;1831128 wrote:Well, if you want to look at these one-game bubbles, here are a few tidbits! The B1G was 3-7.
1. Three of those losses were unranked B1G teams against ranked opponents. They were 1-3 in those match-ups with Northwestern beating #23 Pitt, but Indiana lost to #19 Utah, Nebraska and their crappy back-up QB lost to #21 Tennessee and Iowa lost to #17 Florida. The only one of those, I'd call a bad loss was Iowa. Nebraska was 2 TD, but when I saw it wasn't Armstrong playing, that was a foregone conclusion.
2. They were also 1-3 in major bowl games against high-ranked opponents. YOU can call WMU a "fucking MAC team", but they were 2-0 against the B1G (including bowl-winning Northwestern) and arguably would have been the fifth-best B1G team this year if they'd been in that conference (behind OSU, PSU, Mich and Wisc, with Minn and Neb at, barely above or barely below them), so that's still a quality win, if not an exceptional one. PSU and Michigan were in evenly-matched games that went down to the wire and were essentially coin flips. OSU was the only bad loss.
3. They were 1-1 when no one was ranked, although I'd say Minnesota's win was noteworthy just because half the team was suspended.
3-7 sucks, but two of the marquee match-ups could have gone either way and the conference was stuck in the position of underdog in most of the intermediate bowls. Ohio State doesn't look like shit in their game and they got 1-of-2 between Michigan and PSU and it would have been a successful bowl year. Instead, it's a blah one that looks worse on paper than in reality, especially considering the number of regular-season quality wins teams in the conference had. -
FatHobbit
I can live with that. I really thought OSU and Michigan were really good this year. I'm not shocked Clemson won, but I'm still pretty surprised they shut them out. I thought Penn st was good but when the game started so poorly I gave up, then they came back and I started to believe and then they choked at the end.Heretic;1831128 wrote: 3-7 sucks, but two of the marquee match-ups could have gone either way and the conference was stuck in the position of underdog in most of the intermediate bowls. Ohio State doesn't look like shit in their game and they got 1-of-2 between Michigan and PSU and it would have been a successful bowl year. Instead, it's a blah one that looks worse on paper than in reality, especially considering the number of regular-season quality wins teams in the conference had.