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They wouldn’t need OL help at #1 overall long-term, presuming both Slater and Alt don’t have career-altering injuries. Both are out right now so it appears to be a mess, but it’s not if they’re both not compromised long-term.

Jeremiah Smith would probably make sense (Chargers passed on Nabers for Alt, so that pick would essentially be filling that vacancy), or trade down to a team that’s desperate for a QB. There’s not a QB in this class that’s definitively better than Herbert.

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Right before that the ref announced to reset the clock to 45 seconds. Tv didn’t adjust that and instead kept the clock at 40 seconds and simply didn’t run it for 5 seconds

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I actually saw TV reset it to 45 but it was as the teams were heading back on the field after the timeout, much later than it’s normally reset. They never showed the ref announce it and you couldn’t hear the ref say anything in the background over the crowd and/or Fowler/Herbie.

I had initially noticed at least three seconds went off (I saw the ref motioning his arms at 43, before the clock stopped at 40), but I guess it was actually at 45 when the TO was called.

But the chances of ND scoring from the 9 with one more play is like 10%. From the 2 if PI was called, maybe it’s 50% at best. And regardless, it shouldn’t overshadow BYU played better last night.

I’m actually not a McAfee hater / think he can be entertaining and overall does a nice job with his main show and brings some levity to College Gameday in comparison to Saban/Herbie’s more “traditional” analysis.

But he has no place in the booth as a color commentator on a main (i.e., non-multicast) NFL game broadcast.

I think by this point in the season, it shouldn’t be predictive at all, just based on results (but “results” isn’t just your strength of record, it’s also how good/bad you look in wins/losses, if they’re close or blowouts, etc.).

I think it should still be mostly predictive after week 1, and then gradually move towards more weight on results each week until prob around the end of Sept (after week 4 or week 5) when it should be completely 100% only based on results from that point on.

Dude got two feet in, embarrassing from the official.

I saw the 13-0 for a second and was like, is my YouTubeTV extremely behind? :lol:

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You can still get this info

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I wasn’t trying to imply you couldn’t search for it, but it used to be easily accessible / displayed on the app itself. Like not displaying nutritional information on a food item at the grocery store, but being able to Google it.

Mahomes-Purdy is one instantly.

Trying to think if Brady faced one or two B1G QBs ever…

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However, BYU is ranked 8 because the media and the CFP committee need a high ranked win other than a Miami loss for ND.

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Did the committee “need” a win like that to rank ND at #5 (seeded #7 due to format then) in 2024? Even further, do you think this committee, which just last year had ND as the literal last team out, has some sort of bias toward ND? Why would Hunter Yurachek be beholden to ND?

Occam’s razor, the AP ranked BYU #14 in preseason (seems as reasonable a preseason spot as any, especially in hindsight if you look at the 5-6 teams directly behind) and has just gradually moved them up as others ahead have lost, and will continue to adjust accordingly as the season progresses, without some overarching conspiracy that has anything to do with ND.

The AP has 70 individual voters. It’s not a committee that comes together to “decide” BYU should be ranked top-10. The (only) voter with BYU the highest ranked is Kirk Bohls at #7. Bohls went to Texas and currently covers Texas. Bohls has ND ranked #6, one of only 15 out of 70 AP voters that doesn’t have ND top-5. Do you think Kirk Bohls seems like a guy who has BYU ranked that high in order to try to prop up ND?

If ND goes 11-1 with a loss to Miami, it’ll almost certainly be ranked between 5-8 and hosting a CFP game without a bye, regardless of if BYU is 12-1, 11-2, 10-3, 9-3 or 8-4. 12-0 ND will be a bye.10-2 ND will be out.

This happens in the NHL all the time. Wouldn’t be shocked if it’s relatively common in the NFL too, and he just got caught.

ETA: LINK :lol:

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Nothing against them, but I want it. ND fans trying to prop up BYU and shite Methodist University is so, so pathetic. Just have the stones and say “our schedule is a pathetic disgrace and we have a 1-game regular season.”

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I don’t know why you’ve been lying so much in recent weeks when you weren’t this summer. The schedule sucks (compared to the SEC, which, yes, is different than comparing it to an average ACC/Big 12 schedule, let alone of course non-P4). I’ve said that multiple times.

That’s why ND has to go 11-1. Just like last year. ND was top-5 in essentially every power ranking/predicative measure. ND will again be this year. Even despite that, ND has to go 11-1 bc the SOS won’t be good enough to get us in at 10-2/(10-3), unlike meh OU/Bama last year.

If ND gets in, we will be one of the 7 or so threats to win it all. From there it will just depend on matchups/individual-game performance, for each of those ~7 teams.