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Topic: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)

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MarqHusker

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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #154 on: July 24, 2019, 09:46:19 PM »
My neighbor who went with us had a super serious music student roommate who wondered why were getting up so early to fly to Manhattan on Saturday.  Why didn't we go on Friday for the weekend?  Uh, wrong Manhattan dude.  2ish hours away and we're all wearing red, cuz this school you attend has a football team you know.
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« Reply #155 on: July 24, 2019, 11:16:29 PM »
Rice.  Has Rice ever been good?  Have they ever mattered?  What in the hell are they doing in FBS? 

Doing some research....


they made some Cotton Bowls and a Sugar Bowl in the 40s and 50s.  But look at this - Rice hasn't been ranked at all, during any week, since 1962.  What are they doing?  What's the point?  Sure, they're in whatever conference now, but they were in the SWC....which means they went 33 years in a P5-like conference without being ranked even once.


So I'm an SEC guy, and naturally my brain goes to Vanderbilt.  Technically, Vanderbilt hasn't gone 33 years without being ranked - only 29....but for only one week.  They started 4-0 in 1984 and proceeded to lose to garbage-shit Tulane and many others.  The point is, Vanderbilt has only that one week from 1959-2007.  48 fuggin' years of irrelevance. 


I DON'T GET IT.  Why are they a thing?  Why isn't Vanderbilt a Chicago-type thing?  I mean, when there is no progress over decades, what are you doing???


Anywho, yeah, Rice.  WTF?
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« Reply #156 on: July 24, 2019, 11:22:01 PM »
Lest we forget Rice's 1994 Co SWC championship.   A five way tie for the crown at 4-3, thanks to the Aggies being ineligible despite the 6-0-1 mark.
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« Reply #157 on: July 24, 2019, 11:52:02 PM »
The crazy thing about that is A&M only beat Rice 7-0 that year.
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« Reply #158 on: July 25, 2019, 10:26:24 AM »
which led to the Big 12

the SWC was in bad shape
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« Reply #159 on: July 25, 2019, 12:45:49 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 25, 2019, 10:26:24 AM
which led to the Big 12
Which led to the end of the annual OU-Nebraska game.
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #160 on: July 25, 2019, 12:48:17 PM »
Which led to cats sleeping with dogs, sloppy joes being called barbecue, credit card debt, cell phone plans, and the end of life as we know it.
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #161 on: July 25, 2019, 12:52:02 PM »
Don't forget the Doobie Brothers breaking up.
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« Reply #162 on: July 25, 2019, 01:05:34 PM »
Dadgum Big 12.
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« Reply #163 on: July 25, 2019, 01:25:55 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 25, 2019, 12:45:49 PM
Which led to the end of the annual OU-Nebraska game.
this is why some Husker fans really really dislike Texas
the other stuff isn't important enough to build really really strong dislike
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« Reply #164 on: July 25, 2019, 01:26:38 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on July 25, 2019, 01:05:34 PM
Dadgum Big 12.
I and many blame DeLoss Dodds and Texas
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« Reply #165 on: July 25, 2019, 01:35:42 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on July 25, 2019, 01:26:38 PM
I and many blame DeLoss Dodds and Texas
Yes, but OU sided with Texas at almost every key decision point.  So you can blame David Boren too.
In any event, it's water under the bridge.  Like the Yalta Conference.
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« Reply #166 on: July 25, 2019, 01:47:46 PM »
We all know this, but we all assume the DeLoss put a spell on Boren or blackmailed him or threatened to kick his puppies or something
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« Reply #167 on: July 25, 2019, 01:49:02 PM »
That's as good an explanation as any.
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