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Lasagna Pilot posted:When is the Big Ten switching to 9? 2016 and Thoguh is correct
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Nov 21, 2014 02:26
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Rooting for duke so hard. gently caress playing gt to hell. Not because they're difficult, but because all they do is cut block and it hurts people.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:26
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Lasagna Pilot posted:When is the Big Ten switching to 9? Nebraska's season: Florida Atlantic University (3-7) McNeese State (6-4) Fresno State (4-6) University of Miami (6-4) University of Illinois (4-6) Sparty (8-2) Northwestern (4-6) Rutgers (6-4) Purdue (3-7) Wisconsin (8-2) Average opponents' wins: 5.2 Number of FCS opponents: 1 (McNeese State) Arkansas' season: Auburn (7-3) Nicholls State (0-11) (lol) Texas Tech (3-7) NIU (9-2) Aggie (7-4) Bama (9-1) UGA (8-2) UAB (5-5) MSU (9-1) LSU (7-4) Average opponents' wins: 6.4 Number of FCS opponents: 1 (Nicholls State) ???
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Nov 21, 2014 02:28
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pillsburysoldier posted:Rooting for duke so hard. gently caress playing gt to hell. 
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Nov 21, 2014 02:29
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Lasagna Pilot posted:When is the Big Ten switching to 9? 2016? I mean, for sure that's true about comparing individual teams' schedules (especially with these super conferences allowing for a lot of variance in SoS within a conference), but if you shuffle 7 more losses into the SEC, LSU's schedule wouldn't necessarily look like such a meat grinder. It's hard to picture when you compare Big 10 to SEC, but the Pac 12 might be getting hurt by it this year.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:31
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Emron posted:Nebraska's season: Arkansas doesn't get to play themselves though? (oh christ they're going to dominate my team)
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Nov 21, 2014 02:33
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Why is everyone mad that teams are playing cupcakes now? Everyone schedules cupcakes anyway so why should it matter who does it when? As long as everyone keeps it to one cupcake per season it should be fine. The way the SEC is set up, if they wanted 9 conference games per they would need one more cross division game or to add two more teams. Since they already hinted that if they were to add teams it would be from non-represented states that doesn't really give a lot of decent teams to choose. Also most big 10 teams should count as a cupcake
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Nov 21, 2014 02:37
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Spintzel posted:Why is everyone mad that teams are playing cupcakes now? Everyone schedules cupcakes anyway so why should it matter who does it when? As long as everyone keeps it to one cupcake per season it should be fine. Mississippi State has four. I don't get why Baylor gets poo poo for their schedule but Miss St doesn't.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:39
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I think we're gonna get delayed again lol
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Nov 21, 2014 02:40
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Spintzel posted:Why is everyone mad that teams are playing cupcakes now? Everyone schedules cupcakes anyway so why should it matter who does it when? As long as everyone keeps it to one cupcake per season it should be fine. Well, the issue is twofold: one, these teams aren't just playing one cupcake. Teams like Alabama and Georgia are playing two or three. Two, they're all playing a cupcake the same weekend. This week's CFB lineup is pretty pathetic because the big teams want what is practically a bye week before rivalry week.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:40
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Spintzel posted:
Excuse you. Northwestern, a fairly weak big 10 team has beaten the same amount of ranked teams as FSU and more currently ranked teams. 
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Nov 21, 2014 02:42
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Pakled posted:Well, the issue is twofold: one, these teams aren't just playing one cupcake. Teams like Alabama and Georgia are playing two or three. Two, they're all playing a cupcake the same weekend. This week's CFB lineup is pretty pathetic because the big teams want what is practically a bye week before rivalry week. Also, starting the season with a cupcake can be almost justified as an exhibition game to get the kinks worked out as an extended practice. By now all teams should be running at maximum efficiency, so there's not really a justification for playing a cupcake this late.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:45
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Deteriorata posted:Also, starting the season with a cupcake can be almost justified as an exhibition game to get the kinks worked out as an extended practice. That's almost a worse reason to schedule a cupcake. You're setting up 2 rationale here: fear of losing to a good team, or taking a break before the end of the season/a rivalry game. Both are lame if you just object to cupcake games in general, but "if we're going to schedule one, let's make it early so we won't lose right off the bat" isn't a very good defense!
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Nov 21, 2014 02:48
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Thoguh posted:Mississippi State has four. I don't get why Baylor gets poo poo for their schedule but Miss St doesn't. I had no idea they had such an easy schedule! Wowwwwwww. No wonder they weren't ranked before LSU
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Nov 21, 2014 02:51
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Emron posted:That's almost a worse reason to schedule a cupcake. You're setting up 2 rationale here: fear of losing to a good team, or taking a break before the end of the season/a rivalry game. Both are lame if you just object to cupcake games in general, but "if we're going to schedule one, let's make it early so we won't lose right off the bat" isn't a very good defense! I never claimed 'not losing right off the bat' was the reason. The whole point of scheduling a cupcake is 'not losing' so that much is irrelevant. A cupcake could have a use besides being an easy win if it's at the start of the season, as it can give some extended live practice to work out the details that fall camp didn't quite address. There is no point whatever to having one late in the season other than just record-padding.
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Nov 21, 2014 02:55
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Spintzel posted:I had no idea they had such an easy schedule! Wowwwwwww. No wonder they weren't ranked before LSU
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Nov 21, 2014 02:58
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this sucks, this is miserable
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Nov 21, 2014 03:03
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Deteriorata posted:I never claimed 'not losing right off the bat' was the reason. The whole point of scheduling a cupcake is 'not losing' so that much is irrelevant. Or, by your own wording, an extended live practice before a big rivalry game. Also, I don't see how an easy win is ever NOT "record padding," regardless of where it falls in the season. A cupcake is a cupcake, dude. I'm saying this as a fan of a school that's playing 2 this year. The reason is really always the same: because you want an easy win. I'm arguing with you because pretty much any justification of it for anything other than "easy win" is kind of dumb.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:07
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:this sucks, this is miserable Gonna take this opportunity to go into a thread from about a month ago when you got real mad that I said you'd end up with 4 or 5 losses and end the season unranked. BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Uh, just which three teams do you think are going beat us there, bub? BI NOW GAY LATER posted:"They're going to be a five loss team (cause they're gonna lose to my mighty cyclones), so they don't deserve to be ranked higher based on their current record." ~ Thoguh.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:09
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:this sucks, this is miserable I'm just gonna assume you're talking about cupcake chat.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:11
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To be fair, I don't think any of us thought that Texas was going to dunk on WVU like that.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:11
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Spintzel posted:Why is everyone mad that teams are playing cupcakes now? Everyone schedules cupcakes anyway
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Nov 21, 2014 03:16
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game cancelled 3 nights in a hotel like 10 hours on a bus no game lm b o
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Nov 21, 2014 03:17
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kittenmittons posted:I'm just gonna assume you're talking about cupcake chat. Kittenmittons you are really cool. All of your posting tonight has made me happy.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:19
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This thread talks about the SEC more than ESPN, and it's not even the SEC posters doing it.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:19
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Detroit_Dogg posted:game cancelled Hey, not everybody gets to spend three days in Buffalo. Count yourself lucky.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:21
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Detroit_Dogg posted:game cancelled lo ciento, goon
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Nov 21, 2014 03:24
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PostNouveau posted:2016? The committee can fix this but they have to give teams with multiple losses more credit and stop ranking teams just for W/L record. Like LSU has a "bad" loss to Arkansas, and then losses to ranked teams that are all better than Missouri, so why is Missouri ranked above LSU when Missouri's bad loss is to a worse team than Arkansas and when Missouri doesn't have any wins as good as Wisconsin or Ole Miss.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:25
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Detroit_Dogg posted:game cancelled Still a better deal than sending Lowtax ten dollars
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Nov 21, 2014 03:25
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i wonder how much we just spent on these buses and hotel rooms and food and holy poo poo what a loving joke ahahahahhahahahahhahahaha
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Nov 21, 2014 03:26
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Detroit_Dogg posted:i wonder how much we just spent on these buses and hotel rooms and food and holy poo poo what a loving joke ahahahahhahahahahhahahaha drink the pain away
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Nov 21, 2014 03:29
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Lasagna Pilot posted:The committee can fix this but they have to give teams with multiple losses more credit and stop ranking teams just for W/L record. I mean, in this case, having another SEC conference game would solve the problem. Throw out one of Mizzou's cupcake wins like South Dakota St. and make them play an additional SEC game. The possible opponents for that game are: Alabama Auburn LSU Mississippi St. Ole Miss. So now you're looking at a Mizzou team that has 3 losses, no good wins, a loss to Indiana, and in all likelihood a total butt-loving from one of those teams. Thoguh posted:Gonna take this opportunity to go into a thread from about a month ago when you got real mad that I said you'd end up with 4 or 5 losses and end the season unranked. Since we're doing some petty score settling, after W.Va. hung around with Bama in Week 1 and ESPN was like "WVU is clearly now the front-runner in the Big 12," I said WVU wasn't even gonna sniff the Big 12 championship and Andichu called me a dumbass for it.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:38
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PostNouveau posted:Since we're doing some petty score settling, after W.Va. hung around with Bama in Week 1 and ESPN was like "WVU is clearly now the front-runner in the Big 12," I said WVU wasn't even gonna sniff the Big 12 championship and Andichu called me a dumbass for it. I think I did too, WVU has baffled me this year, man.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:40
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gently caress Akron tho
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Nov 21, 2014 03:40
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NippleFloss posted:This thread talks about the SEC more than ESPN, and it's not even the SEC posters doing it. Let's talk some more about the SEC. Take a guess the only teams in the top 10 that don't have two or more wins against currently ranked opponents?
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Nov 21, 2014 03:41
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PostNouveau posted:Since we're doing some petty score settling Its all I have left.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:44
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the wvu-isu rivalry is the best
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Nov 21, 2014 03:52
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"hanging with bama" is a nebulous concept this year.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:54
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pillsburysoldier posted:"hanging with bama" is a nebulous concept this year. Reminder: Emron's avatar is a thing that exists because Bama always plays deceptively lethargic
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Nov 21, 2014 03:56
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pillsburysoldier posted:"hanging with bama" is a nebulous concept this year. "hanging with bama" has traditionally turned out very poorly for minorities
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Nov 21, 2014 03:57
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