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re: Congrats Aggies

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/21/25 at 10:07 am to Cshaw91

I’m pretty sure LSU also failed to score a touchdown yesterday.

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re: G5 needs their own playoff

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/20/25 at 6:49 pm to GeauxTigers1410

That’s exactly what the current CFP will be within 5 years. All of the G5 is in it, it’s organized, and it’s funded. That’s the hard part, especially for the conferences with less funding.

There’ll be some more sorting between conferences, and then the big boys will abandon ship and create their own playoff. What’s left will still generate more revenue than what they had before, and there’s nothing they can do about it anyway.

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re: What’s w all the Notre Dame hate?

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/9/25 at 11:40 am to Russianblue

There’s the historical preferential treatment that has negatively affected many programs over the decades, and fans have long memories.

It seems to be getting worse by the way in the current version of the cfp. Notre Dame gets an equal vote to each FBS conference. Their vote is worth more than Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Tennessee, and LSU combined. Let that sink in.

CFP Governing Board

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re: This is how you want a coach responding to bullshite committee rankings

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/5/25 at 12:08 pm to Tex117

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Which is strange. Are they just trying to prop up other conferences?

Absolutely. Not surprising when you look at how it’s governed: CFP website

11 votes total: one for each FBS conference (10) and one forNotre Dame. Notre Dame has an equal vote to the SEC as a whole, and also each one of the G5. They give the committee its marching orders.

Politically, they'll never agree to give the SEC schedules their due weight in SOS. The SEC needs a commissioner with balls of steel to negotiate that room, and it ain't Sankey.

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re: SEC allegedly working to add Clemson and North Carolina

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/3/25 at 12:13 pm to Ping Pong

The closest college football got to having a good post-season system was 2010. Force the PAC-10 to take two more programs, and the conferences would have been reasonably balanced and regional.

All we needed was an 8 team playoff of the 5 major conference champs, highest ranked other conference champ, and a couple at-large to round it out.

I’m glad A&M isn’t still stuck in the old Big 12, but it would be a hell of a lot better than the mess we have now.

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re: My heart goes out to A&M fans

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/3/25 at 10:37 am to aggressor

The committee is obviously throwing out bs as a smokescreen. Bartoo and Adam McClintock have accurately predicted the committee rankings over the last several years using metrics they claim the committee uses. Nobody could do that if the committee actually used the nonsense reasons they spout on their show.

McClintock’s Twitter post

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re: SOS needs to be an actionable and objective variable

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 12/2/25 at 10:20 am to scottydoesntknow

This may be an unpopular opinion, but SOS is the worst metric to use for ranking teams. In order to establish a strength of schedule, you first have to rank the teams to determine relative strength.

So you have to rank the teams to create a metric to rank the teams. It’s circular. SOS is just a smoke screen to hide whatever formula they used to establish their relative strength.

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re: A&m doesn't play a good team until maybe the Seccg

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 11/13/25 at 4:32 pm to BFANLC

Too many hooks on that lure. You shouldn’t be surprised when it brings in a bunch of trash.

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re: Jersey man unjustly arrested after crashing Delorian loaded with cocaine

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 11/13/25 at 9:46 am to Misnomer

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Couldn’t quite make it to 88, damn.

Well, yeah. That’s why he crashed. One more and he’d have been out of there.

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re: Was Kelly the worst LSU coach

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 11/9/25 at 9:13 pm to BamaScoop

Worst coach, so far

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re: A&M and Alabama: common opponents

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 11/9/25 at 9:58 am to Contra

In this very thread, the argument is simultaneously that A&M is weak because they haven’t beaten certain teams badly enough, and that you can’t judge a Deboer team by margin of victory because they play down to competition and still win. smh

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re: Does NOT look like the are rewarding teams for playing tough OOC games.

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 11/5/25 at 7:05 am to CleverUserName

They’ll use whatever rationale supports the conclusion they want, no matter how inconsistent that ends up being year to year. Same as always

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re: Thoughts on nepotism? Is it all bad?

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 11/4/25 at 3:19 pm to burger bearcat

The value of the family in a family business depends on the values of the family. If you raise your kids right, they should be your best available employees. Otherwise it’s a nightmare for all involved.

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re: Why do people say give over 100%

Posted by Pilgrim Shadow on 10/21/25 at 9:01 am to travelgamer

Perception vs. reality. Most people are capable of much more than they realize. Asking them to give 100% results in them giving all that they think they can give, which is actually leaving a lot on the table. Asking them to give more than 10% extra sounds impossible, but ask for a little extra, and that seems doable. Motivation is not definable with mathematic precision as the term suggests, but it works for most people.

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