AbuTheMonkey

We’re going to Norman, baw.

Can’t wait to face that shithole offense.

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quote: When the SEC doesn’t win a national championship for the third year in a row again this year, what’s the excuse going to be?An SEC team wasnt good enough, short of something egregious. I bet you thought OSU was a lock for this game. Admit it.

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Find me a post predicting OSU would dominate. You can’t because I didn’t.

We played both those teams last year. IU was / is better than people give them credit.

They are both better than every SEC team except Georgia. You’ll find out shortly.

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Those are power rankings. If you want to look at it where FEI thinks teams should be ranked for the season, then you need to look at the SOR stat. Going into tonight that had Alabama 7th and Notre Dame 13th. FPI has Alabama #8 and Notre Dame 13th. I would use a different formula, but that's what SOR is supposed to be.

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No, you dummy. If you want to look at what they think they should be ranked, look at their rankings.

FPI has ND at 3 and Alabama at 6 (before tonight). Try again.

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Was Beck the only injured player for UGA? Yall play no one all year. Quit kidding yourself. You don't belong. The 1940s are over.

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So injuries are part of the sport or not? Did Notre Dame not win by two scores then when considering all the injuries to both teams?

Is having potentially the best player in all of college football hurt enough to be limited to a handful of touches also a meaningful factor? Or is it just UGA replacing a pretty good but not great QB with another pretty good but great QB?

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quote: You want to start cherry picking stats? How about you check out FPI? Sagarin? FEI? You’re not very good any longer. Learn to accept it. Those were FEI.

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Ok then. FEI Ratings:

Notre Dame - 4th
Alabama (before today) - 9th

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quote:Neither team has been punched in the jaw yet this season to show they can recover….One of the disadvantages of playing Charmin soft B1G schedules.You are exactly right. Actually, they haven't really had a glove laid on them. UGA, Aggie, Ole Miss would beat both. OU's defense would stifle, but their offense is so anemic I don't know if they could win.

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Both these teams would absolutely frick up every SEC team sans Georgia. You idiots learn nothing from last year?

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quote:We are a much better team than Alabama is now. We’d be something close to a pick em against UGA on a neutral field. How does anyone know that you’re better than Bama is now? Because the way you closed out the season against Navy, Pitt, Syracuse, and fricking Stanford!? Who the frick WOULDN'T look good playing those bums?

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Bama has looked terrible over the last month. SC, Auburn, tonight. They can’t even beat the mediocre and bad teams on their schedule with ease.

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We’d be something close to a pick em against UGA on a neutral field Holy frick you’re delusional lol

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Want to bet, dawg?

Alabama isn’t that good. Don’t get confused that you beat a top 20 ish team handily. Watching the rest of these games, it’s obvious. IU and OSU would both shite all over them.

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this is typically what I saw when I looked out of the window of the car as a kid




it's not so nice looking from december-april though

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The weather is a trade off. The summers are incredible. There's a reason there is so much great golf in Wisconsin and Michigan. Every time I go somewhere in the rural Midwest, especially the Upper Midwest, I am blown away by how well kept and nice things are.

The big leg up I think the rural South has over the rural Midwest is the topography. Not just in or near the Smokies, the rural South has mountains, hills, river valleys, gorges, you name it for hundreds and hundreds of miles. As a reference, the topography in northern Alabama (probably not typically thought of as a top tier destination area) absolutely blows away anything in the Midwest. The best topography the Midwest has is probably the western and northwestern parts of Michigan, especially along the Lake (Sleeping Bear Dunes and the like). Boundary Waters NP and the UP in Michigan are also good, but again, both pretty flat places. The South has the Appalachians, the Cumberland Plateau, the Bluegrass regions of central Kentucky and Tennessee, the Ozarks, the Low Country, on and on.

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A big difference I’ve noticed between Nebraska and the south is the farms.

Nebraska has picture perfect farms with painted barns, older equipment that’s kept in like new conditions, shop yard clean and organized.

Farms down here will have random dilapidated barns, sheds, shotgun houses that serve no purpose, junk equipment strewn everywhere, shop yard not clean or mowed, million dollar newer equipment that looks like shite. Hell I’ve seen farmers leave broken down or burned up combines in the field and just plant around it next season

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It is very noticeable if you've spent a lot of time in the rural parts of both places.

The farms in rural Wisconsin and Michigan are absolutely beautiful. Wisconsin in particular is like a postcard with the picturesque farms with glacial lakes everywhere.