Great Bowl game match-ups

[BornAJacket]

This one I'd live to see.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14254993/college-football-bowl-projections-week-13

Music City Bowl

 

[GTJT622]

Sweet. Schlabach with a nice sense of humor.

I think the NFL should take a cue from college football. Season ends January 3rd. They should then wait about 5 weeks and pit the 3-13 Dallas Cowpunks playing the 5-11 Miami Dolphins around February 6th in the KY Yours & Mine Lube Bowl in Las Vegas. What's on the line you might wonder? Well of course, they play one another for...wait for it...you guessed it...a trophy. Woooooooo. Great stuff. And, the players will get some really cool gifts like electric shavers and hair dryers and junk.

Looking forward to the exhibition season. One of the best wagering opportunities ever. You can usually pick 10 or 12 games where teams just absolutely don't care to be wherever they are and they "play" like it. A bettors' dream.

 

[Buzzforlife]

Who would be coaching the Mutts?
Have to pull for Dah U, in that game.

Hopefully, will be able to tear Stech81 away from his family to go get him drunk while watching some contest like W. Ky. vs. Temple. As we run back and forth from the bathroom to the bar, not missing much with the MEG. Can bet on who falls asleep first?

 

[BornAJacket]

Richt is being announced tomorrow at 10am press conference in Miami so it won't be him.

I suspect that the assistants will stick around, but you never know, Smart may want to come in and get started with his new players. I don't know how many coaches will follow Richt, but I am sure Miami wants him to get recruiting ASAP. I am sure there are a few Miami coaches that he will want to keep. How involved will Richt be?

It'll be strange for sure.

 

[stech81]

Richt is being announced tomorrow at 10am press conference in Miami so it won't be him.

I suspect that the assistants will stick around, but you never know, Smart may want to come in and get started with his new players. I don't know how many coaches will follow Richt, but I am sure Miami wants him to get recruiting ASAP. I am sure there are a few Miami coaches that he will want to keep. How involved will Richt be?

It'll be strange for sure.

Word is Smart will coach at Alabama as long as they are in the playoffs. Too bad uga I feel sorry for you ( no I don't)

 

[GTJT622]

Word is Smart will coach at Alabama as long as they are in the playoffs. Too bad uga I feel sorry for you ( no I don't)

Wonder if the negotiations for the job went anything like this...

Smart: "So, what is our real budget and going rate for paying off a 5-star and then for a 4-star player to my alma mater these days? I mean, on the recruiting trail we (Bama) have had a pretty good idea over the years."

Cesspool AD answers with the numbers.

Smart: "Really? Well, that's gotta change or you can forget me coming over here."

Cesspool AD agrees and advises what the going rates were from his days at Florida and advises he assures he's tapped into the money people at Hell to up the ante to Florida and Bama levels of cheati....errr, giving. Yeah, giving. That's it. Giving.

Smart: "OK. We'll need about 10x what has been paid and that's just to assure we compete for the weak SEC East. If you want to compete for the entire SEC - or what is known as Bama - we'll need the going rate to go up by about 20x. Deal?"

Cesspool AD: "Deal. But, we already know that and have been planning for it."

 

[BornAJacket]

If Smart is sticking around, I wonder if Saban will let him go out on the road recruiting in December? I doubt it.

 

[Buzzforlife]

Young man has cancer, will be praying for him:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ames-conner-cancer-hodgkin-lymphoma/76787234/

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/...University-of-Pittsburgh/stories/201512040284

http://espn.go.com/college-football...s-conner-pittsburgh-panthers-announces-cancer


Since they(Pitt.)are going bowling, didn't want to start another thread.

 

[BornAJacket]

Good spot for it. Hope James Conner gets well soon.

Hope Pitt does well in their next game.

 

[Buzzforlife]

Great Bowl Teams(ready to be matched up)-

Ga. St. defeats Ga. Southern 34-7, knocking Illinois, Rice out of bowl contention:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...gia-southern-illinois-spt-20151205-story.html

Neb., San Jose St., Minn. are going bowling with 5-7 records. The absurdity of it all!

 

[BornAJacket]

Do we really cheer for James Franklin and Penn State?

 

[GTJT622]

Do we really cheer for James Franklin and Penn State?

Absolutely.

 

[GTJT622]

Some early point spreads of note...

Clemson +4 vs Oklahoma
FSU -7 vs Houston
Bama -9.5 vs Michigan State
Ohio State -6.5 vs Notre Dame
Bye -13.5 vs Georgia Tech

 

[BornAJacket]

Absolutely.

I don't know, I get queasy just thinking about it....

 

[BornAJacket]

What's Stanford and Iowa?

 

[BornAJacket]

Pitt will get to see a real offense. That might get ugly for them.

 

[GTJT622]

What's Stanford and Iowa?

Stanford laying 6.5

 

[BornAJacket]

Stanford laying 6.5

seems low, but at times Iowa's defense looked stout against Michigan State.

That RB for Stanford deserves to be the Heisman winner, he's versatile and produces every time he gets the ball.

 

[GTJT622]

Some point spreads of note for upcoming MEG's...

Georgia State +3 vs San Jose State
Georgia Southern +7 vs Bowling Green
Miami +2.5 vs Washington State
Duke +2 vs Indiana
Va Tech -13.5 vs Tulsa
Navy -4 vs Pittsburgh
Air Force +6.5 vs California
North Carolina +3 vs Baylor
NC State +5 vs Mississippi State
Louisville +2.5 vs Texas A&M
FSU -7 vs Houston
Clemson +4 vs Oklahoma
Alabama -9.5 vs Michigan State
Tennessee -7.5 vs Northwestern
Notre Dame +6.5 vs Ohio State
Cesspool -6 vs Penn State

There used to be an old wagerers' rule of thumb that blindly went like this...

...bet on the favorites before Christmas and run with the dogs after Christmas. That formula used to hit about 65% every silly season on the MEG's. Haven't checked it in a while and that formula perhaps has blown up since there are so many MEG's now.

 

[BornAJacket]

Navy - Pittsburg line is interesting. Is Conner playing?

 

[GTJT622]

Navy - Pittsburg line is interesting. Is Conner playing?

With his recent diagnosis of cancer, I highly doubt it.

 

[GTJT622]

Side note, the Seminoles will be preparing for their Peach MEG at Georgia Tech's practice facilities. Think they will have some bad memories of being around the NATS?

 

[GTJT622]

Obscure stats du jour...

...Clemson defeated 4 teams who won 10 or more games this season...
10-2 Appalachian State, 41-10
10-2 Notre Dame, 24-22
10-2 FSU, 23-13
11-2 UNC, 45-37

FWIW, Oklahoma defeated 2 teams who won 10 or more games this season...
10-2 TCU, 30-29
10-2 Oklahoma State, 58-23
(note, Oklahoma also lost to a 5-7 Tejas team)

Alabama defeated 1 team who won 10 or more games this season...
10-3 Florida, 29-15

Michigan State defeated 2 teams who won 10 or more games this season...
11-1 Ohio State, 17-14
12-1 Iowa, 16-13
(note, Michigan State also lost to a 5-7 Nebraska team...though they were hosed by a terrible gutless reversed no-call by the ref at the end...MSU should be undefeated)

 

[GTJT622]

I found this article interesting. Thought you might too... http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/col...ried-something-controversial-1952-got-nowhere

 

[BornAJacket]

The Arizona - New Mexico game was pretty entertaining Saturday.

I didn't catch any of the others.