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I'm pretty sure most coaches prefer a tune up type game to figure out the depth chart before playing the big boys and I doubt Kiffin is much different there.

Going in game 1 against a tough opponent puts a lot of faith and trust you made the right depth chart decisions in camp where they hardly even touch one another these days.

Extremely lopsided but I think more people thought that would happen (maybe not to that degree) so it wasnt really a big surprise or anything. TCU was simply outmatched basically everywhere. The only thing surprising about TCU was actually beating Michigan the previous game who had just romped OSU a few games prior and was undefeated. But TCU was coming off an embarrassing loss to 3-loss KSU in the B12 CCG just prior to that so TCU certainly seemed like a highly vulnerable team.

UGA was like a 2 TD favorite headed into that game and the largest spread in a title game in history (since they started back in 1998).

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Just saw Arkansas kept their whole HS class out of the draft. Kinda insane for a top end SEC school

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Not to rib hard on them but they don't really compete recently with top SEC classes.

They had just 1 player in the mlb top 250 this draft in their class and was #202 and Javorski lanes son (someone highly likely to always come to school)

By comparison we had 9 or 10 guys in the top 250. (Before davis pulled out i think he made 10), and brought in half of them with all of them ranked higher than #202.

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I’m with Chase and have the original Chase freedom so I’m trying to decide between Chase Freedom Unlimited and Chase Freedom Flex. They are almost identical except Unlimited has 1.5% cash back and Flex has 1% but Flex has some little things that Unlimited doesn’t have also.

From what I’ve read, it sounds like it benefits to use both. Use the unlimited on your monthly bills and then use the flex when certain things like groceries and gas are part of bigger kickbacks during their quarter.

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You should have both, they are both free to hold and serve very different purposes. Use the Flex for the rotating categories every quarter, use the freedom unlimited for everything else basically if thats your 2 (or 3 card with the O.G. Freedom) setup.

Both have like $200-$250 sign up bonuses for only $500 in spend in 3 months so make sure you get both of them and hit both those bonuses.

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Chase has fallen very far.

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I actually think quite the opposite here, it's one of my most valued currencies and the CSR is such strong card right now to top it off. I get ridiculous value beyond year 1 (got the 150k bonus this year) on it still.

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Plus they devalued Hyatt transfers to 4:3.

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Only for CSP, not for CSR holders. They really want you to hold both now.

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For the most part my redemptions are going to hit 2cpp and business class will be higher.

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This is the part I struggle with people running around chasing ridiculous redemptions. I would rather things play into my travel plans and still only mostly redeem for what makes sense (as long as it's north of 1cpp, makes sense on paper) than splurge for something that's just that, but not call a 1st class flight for 100k points that cost $6k in cash, "whoa dude, i got 6cpp in value on that" - well not really. On paper sure, but would you have spent $6k on that flight? No, well that's not 6cpp value to you, you are just splurging on something, okay to just say that. I may splurge for a 1st class international seat one day just to do it, but I would so rather take 3-4 economy class flights for the same redemption value in the end even if those are "only 1.2-1.6cpp" vs. 2-10 cpp in business/1st.


You are right though Bilt is the most broken system (3.33x-4.33x on everything on the Palladium) and super valuable partners right now overall. I havent gotten into it because we are churning 3 cards right now (AMEX biz gold, Chase Sapphire Preferred and Delta business AMEX gold). Churning still beats even the palladium, but that would be my end game if it stays where it is right now (which I doubt).

I still value AMEX highly with the 4x on the AMEX gold i have and my wife's business gold now and we are ATL based so Delta and all (even if they are never "impressive" redemptions, it's what we fly, and direct to everywhere).

It's such a personal game though in the end. Some people love Cap 1, we've had a Venture card for nearly a decade and never once found a useful transfer partner for our travels. It's basically a 2% back card for us and that's it. Right now Chase and AMEX are where we've built up the most and continuing to do so. Looking forward to this potential high end Hyatt card potentially coming this year. We have the IHG Premier One which is OP IMO with the free night and huge SUB they generally offer.

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It’s the dead period, sounds like one school isn’t following the rules.

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Dead period doesnt mean no contact, just no in-person contact by coaches

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Why are yall acting like Dardar wasn't good? His numbers were fine. He just wasn't available most of the time.

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His numbers dropped off a cliff from KSU, not even close

Was he a BAD player? no, but he definitely wasnt good especially combining his lack of bat a the plate we expected combined with his poor fielding

Is this the MLB Top 250 overall (meaning high school + college) rankings each year?

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It is all based on mlb.com rankings

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War in the ME definitely sucks for gas
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Nationally gas peaked at $4.50/gal for regular back on 5/11, this was after being under $2.80/gal earlier this year in Jan before Iran. Gas was just over $5/gal for 1 week back in 2022. Not a ton of difference.

Gas was falling each week since 5/11, down to $3.78 a few weeks ago, but last 3 weeks it's been going back up ($4.10 last week)

Luckily I only fill up like 1x a month in my car. We just did a road trip (>1k miles) in my wifes premium V6 SUV and that hurt a bit :lol:

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Stanfield would be nice in a perfect world but I don’t know who you cut to add him even if he wanted to come back.

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Hard to imagine where a lot of those guys would find homes if a ton of rosters are pretty set with hard caps in place. If they had some weird 1 year exception for them they all count as DSA or something that would be different and dont count toward any roster hard count.