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UCF- why not national champs?


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10 hours ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

I said as the major standard- if you have multiple undefeateds then you must seperate somehow.

 

Feel free to post all the criteria you use before SOS to rank/separate teams from different conferences.

 

10 hours ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

Just stick with Auburn did not care about the peach bowl last year it is a much simpler argument.

 

Auburn lost because of the $7M+ anchor running the team.

And after yesterday's big win over Perdue, I can only hope the Auburn AD feels pressured to give that anchor another big fat extension with even a bigger buyout clause.

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58 minutes ago, Cynical said:

 

Feel free to post all the criteria you use before SOS to rank/separate teams from different conferences.

 

 

Auburn lost because of the $7M+ anchor running the team.

And after yesterday's big win over Perdue, I can only hope the Auburn AD feels pressured to give that anchor another big fat extension with even a bigger buyout clause.

#1 criteria should be an undefeated should be alive until they they are are beaten. once everyone has losses than you can start other discussions. I agree 11-1 in the American is not superior to 10-2 in SEC but to tell an undefeated in 2018 when the talent is so wide spread around college football they do not belong is absurd. I will state this-a small win over a lesser opponent should still be looked at as superior as a small loss to a great team.  I have been to Gator games when they won titles, FSU games when they won titles, Syracuse games when they were top 10 and UCF games the past two years-the best offense I have watched regularly without a doubt is UCF. They can hit you in more ways with more speed than anyone else I have ever seen besides Nebraska with Tommy Frazier. But please tell me why why Auburn was pumped so highly for that  POS bowl game yesterday when last year they could not get up for a bowl game in their proverbial backyard against a  UCF team who was undefeated? oh bad coaching-and I always thought coaching was part of football. 

 

But on seperate note- in 2010 the Oregon Ducks were in the title game despite only beating one ranked team all year-in fact the second best record team they faced was 8-5 in a pathetic PAC 12- so why were they #1 and UCF not top 4 when being undefeated last year and beating 3 top 25 teams in regular season? I know I am all over the place  but I am done with this conversation because I think I proved my point- every argument goes back to who they played not how they played.

 

Lastly if they lose to LSU this week I will be sad and state they did not belong in title game but if they win-back to back titles. Someone has to beat them to make them not Champs. Anyone who loves sports believes you play to win the game and whether by 1 or 80 if you always win you are champs.

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12 minutes ago, row_33 said:

Great game, I would rank UCF the light-heavyweight champion of the year

 

 

I really wanted them to win.   I want the American Athletic Conference to gain some credibility.  They were a bunch of leftover schools that no other conference wanted, so I consider them to be underdogs.  I tend to root for the Bills underdogs.

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4 minutes ago, Gray Beard said:

I really wanted them to win.   I want the American Athletic Conference to gain some credibility.  They were a bunch of leftover schools that no other conference wanted, so I consider them to be underdogs.  I tend to root for the Bills underdogs.

 

Grateful for a good game. 

 

Are you a fan of a team in that conference?

 

 

hope I get two more today.

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3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

Grateful for a good game. 

 

Are you a fan of a team in that conference?

 

 

hope I get two more today.

I have relatives and friends with ties to UConn, UCF and USF so I tend to root for those teams a little, but I don’t really have strong feelings about any of them.

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7 minutes ago, Gray Beard said:

I have relatives and friends with ties to UConn, UCF and USF so I tend to root for those teams a little, but I don’t really have strong feelings about any of them.

 

I watched a few UCF games this year, saw the QB go down.

 

 

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LSU beat UCF and was the better team today. I give them credit that they knew how to challenge and stop Mack who looked every bit the freshman starting his third game. I am happy with UCF as they kept fighting even after making so many mistakes. I though must be satisfied that the NCAA recognizes their title last year.

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1 minute ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

LSU beat UCF and was the better team today. I give them credit that they knew how to challenge and stop Mack who looked every bit the freshman starting his third game. I am happy with UCF as they kept fighting even after making so many mistakes. I though must be satisfied that the NCAA recognizes their title last year.

 

Any teams that can square off for 60 minutes of good football are aces in my book.

 

if it doesn’t happen it doesn’t reflect poorly on the team that won easily.

 

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, row_33 said:

 

Any teams that can square off for 60 minutes of good football are aces in my book.

 

if it doesn’t happen it doesn’t reflect poorly on the team that won easily.

 

 

 

 

Row where did i insult LSU?- I said they were better today. I think they are really good team and did what good teams do- take advantage of the other teams weakness just as UCF tried to take advantage if their CBs.

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3 minutes ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

Row where did i insult LSU?- I said they were better today. I think they are really good team and did what good teams do- take advantage of the other teams weakness just as UCF tried to take advantage if their CBs.

 

I don’t have a clue what you inferred there... I had nothing to pinpoint on your comment....

 

My second comment there meant I don’t blame Bama for a cakewalk win, I wish it was a good game they had to play....

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1 minute ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

My mistake then- i guess i was looking for a debate.?

 

Not on this topic....

 

i usually get into a few more than is wise...

 

Not even a New Years resulution to stop myself....

 

 

I want a good game, getting too old to care about who wins 95 percent of the time 

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2 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

Which teams do you think are the three best? I am not asking you to put them in order.

 

Bama and Clemson and couldn’t have cared less for below that the rest of the season 

 

 it gets really greasy past the top 10, it doesn’t really matter any way

 

hoops is far worse as top teams play each other early piling up multiple losses while kidmajors play nobody and wind up with top seeds in March

 Bama was number one by a million miles....

 

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5 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

Bama and Clemson and couldn’t have cared less for below that the rest of the season 

 

 it gets really greasy past the top 10, it doesn’t really matter any way

 

hoops is far worse as top teams play each other early piling up multiple losses while kidmajors play nobody and wind up with top seeds in March

 Bama was number one by a million miles....

 

Based on the strength of their opponents I agree.

 

Clemson  doesn't play anybody but they are stacked with talent and can win on the 7th.

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3 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

Based on the strength of their opponents I agree.

 

Clemson  doesn't play anybody but they are stacked with talent and can win on the 7th.

 

To each fan it’s a mix of what you watch and read up on and cheer for, reputation of the last 100 and the last 2 years adds in.

 

there is no way to argue that a team running the table in the SEC the last few years could possibly sink below 2nd, at the worst, Auburn was pegged third more than a few years ago years ago based on history.

 

The Clemson machine has earned the benefit of the doubt recently to me, it’s mostly about the coach in college sports these days anyways.

 

Ohio State played poorly in more than a few games this year, rhe suspension and dark cloud also bit on the Buckeyes, fair enough 

 

 

 

 

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35 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

UCF gave LSU a better game than UGA 

LSU had 9 out of 11 defensive starters out today, 2 of which are All Americans. By the end of the game we had WR’s playing defensive back. I was really worried about our defense in this game, but man our DC Dave Aranda pulled off a miracle to shut their offense down with 2nd and 3rd string.

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23 minutes ago, CajunBillsBacker said:

LSU had 9 out of 11 defensive starters out today, 2 of which are All Americans. By the end of the game we had WR’s playing defensive back. I was really worried about our defense in this game, but man our DC Dave Aranda pulled off a miracle to shut their offense down with 2nd and 3rd string.

My guy Joey Burrow held it down for ya’ll. He took a hell of a hit. 

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30 minutes ago, CajunBillsBacker said:

Yep, proud of that guy, he is one tough SOB. He responded from the pick six and blind sided cheap shot with two TD drives. Glad we get another year with him as starter.

It was not a cheap shot- more than absolutely necessary but it was to a guy trying to make a play. It is same as logan Thomas on phins db.

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50 minutes ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

It was not a cheap shot- more than absolutely necessary but it was to a guy trying to make a play. It is same as logan Thomas on phins db.

 

It was blind sided and a helmet to helmet hit on the ground 

 

Ive seen a dozen booted out of college games for way way less than that

 

 

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10 hours ago, row_33 said:

It was blind sided and a helmet to helmet hit on the ground 

 

Clean legal hit.

 

10 hours ago, row_33 said:

Ive seen a dozen booted out of college games for way way less than that

 

IMO, Targeting is probably the most inconsistently called and enforced penalty, and needs some serious tweaking.

But even I saw there was nothing in that hit that could be classified as targeting.

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11 minutes ago, Cynical said:

 

Clean legal hit.

 

 

IMO, Targeting is probably the most inconsistently called and enforced penalty, and needs some serious tweaking.

But even I saw there was nothing in that hit that could be classified as targeting.

 

i know you were cheering 2000% for UCF, but they got away with a few that were totally ejectable-worthy in the first quarter....

 

the inconsistency of the application of the rules for targeting and ejections is frustrating, they got them dead right a few times as the game went on.

 

 

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25 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Imo the targeting rule needs overhauled. There needs to be separate categories for targeting with intent and non- intent. To me it is obvious when each occur. Non-intent should be a 15 yard penalty but no ejection. Intent should be ejection. 

 

doesn't work that way with human nature, review booths do whatever the heck they want to no matter what is patently obvious to disinterested viewers

 

last year.... i think it was a tOSU defensive captain who was clearly shoved and fell back, a full second after the play was over, and hit the helmet of the QB on the ground, not even having a clue what was going on.

 

and then TTUN lost a captain on D another week for something even more pointless.

 

This hit was the textbook example for bye-bye, from Opening Night...

 

 

 

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it's interesting how the secondary in college has adapted to the 15-yard max PI call and takes out the receiver gladly on 40 yard routes, saw it more than usual during this bowl run.

 

 

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11 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

Imo the targeting rule needs overhauled. There needs to be separate categories for targeting with intent and non- intent. To me it is obvious when each occur. Non-intent should be a 15 yard penalty but no ejection. Intent should be ejection. 

Idk...if there is no intent why a penalty? The Dulpit targeting was a bad call imo. Flag should have been waved off.

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35 minutes ago, row_33 said:

You can’t call intent, you call the contact and the result of it.

 

 

 

Oh wait, you can judge intent watching on TV, always finding it against the team you aren’t  cheering for.

 

Did you see the dulpit call? The receiver came down from making the catch and landed against dulpit. It was a bad call. And clearly dulpit had no intent for their helmets to make contact. They've had intent verbiage in their rule book before.

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27 minutes ago, Bfanlc said:

Did you see the dulpit call? The receiver came down from making the catch and landed against dulpit. It was a bad call. And clearly dulpit had no intent for their helmets to make contact. They've had intent verbiage in their rule book before.

 

Okay

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1 hour ago, iinii said:

Looks like LSU shows why.

 

They can have 128 teams in a big playoff tournament, but the talent and power of a legit top team won’t be toppled or challenged.

 

The weeks off after the conference title games let the injured heal and strengthens the best teams, as they prepare for the next game.

 

the talent gap between the top 2 and the rest of the field is usually immense.

 

it may be that big between 1 and 2 as well come Monday night.

 

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6 hours ago, row_33 said:

the talent gap between the top 2 and the rest of the field is usually immense.
 

 

This. IMO, the one thing the CFB playoffs has spot lighted is that 2-3 teams every year separate themselves from the rest of the programs.

Note, this was the same way pre-CFB playoffs, but the playoffs have made it more visible.

So instead of accepting reality, the current cry is to expand the playoffs.

 

Yet, nobody can give a logical rationale why including even weaker teams will fix the problem.

 

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