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Topic: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)

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ELA

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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #168 on: July 25, 2019, 02:45:43 PM »
sloppy joes being called barbecue
My mom did this growing up, and that's all I knew them as until I was in my teens, and wondered why.  I've literally never heard anyone but her (and her parents) call them that

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« Reply #169 on: July 25, 2019, 04:06:20 PM »
that doesn't happen around here, but

many call the grill a barbecue 
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #170 on: July 25, 2019, 05:44:04 PM »
I hate when that happens.  I get snitty.  I had a GF once from Long Island walking about barbecuing swordfish.  I was perplexed.

She had great legs.  She was a bit crazy though.  I seem to have stumbled across crazy females until I met the current wife.

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« Reply #171 on: July 25, 2019, 06:46:14 PM »
this is why some Husker fans really really dislike Texas
the other stuff isn't important enough to build really really strong dislike
I thought this was why....

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« Reply #172 on: July 25, 2019, 06:47:00 PM »
My mom did this growing up, and that's all I knew them as until I was in my teens, and wondered why.  I've literally never heard anyone but her (and her parents) call them that
She called sloppy joe's bbq?  
I like a sloppy joe, if I make the sauce.  But it ain't BBQ by a damn sight.
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #173 on: July 25, 2019, 08:22:43 PM »
I thought this was why....


nope, many fans of other teams think the 1-9 record vs the Horns is the reason.  It's not.
It was the formation of the Big 12 and all the 11-1 votes.  The most important being the end of the battle of the Big Reds annually
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #174 on: July 26, 2019, 09:53:07 AM »
In following up with my earlier post about great Saturdays in college football, I next submit October 15, 1994, with 5 games between ranked teams (including two games between top 6 teams, which included #1 going down at home), and a pair of helmets suffering upset losses, plus the 3rd Saturday in September

#6 Auburn 34, #1 Florida 31 (@Gainesville)
#2 Nebraska 17, #16 Kansas State 6 (@Manhattan)
#3 Penn State 31, #5 Michigan 24 (@Ann Arbor)
#4 Colorado 45, #22 Oklahoma 7
#10 Alabama 17, Tennessee 13 (@Knoxville)
Rice 19, #12 Texas 17
#14 Arizona 10, #20 Washington State 7 (@Pullman)
BYU 21, #17 Notre Dame 14 (@South Bend)
who is the 3rd sat in sept? only one that pops up on google machine is uf/tenn, but they didn't play that weekend.

bama/tenn did, which is the 3rd sat in oct (actual name of rivalry).

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« Reply #175 on: July 26, 2019, 09:58:57 AM »
I hate when that happens.  I get snitty.  I had a GF once from Long Island walking about barbecuing swordfish.  I was perplexed.

She had great legs.  She was a bit crazy though.  I seem to have stumbled across crazy females until I met the current wife.
I've yet to meet a sane one.  Well, a sane one that was also interested in me.

I blame myself...
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« Reply #176 on: July 26, 2019, 10:30:11 AM »
In following up with my earlier post about great Saturdays in college football, I next submit October 15, 1994, with 5 games between ranked teams (including two games between top 6 teams, which included #1 going down at home), and a pair of helmets suffering upset losses, plus the 3rd Saturday in September

#6 Auburn 34, #1 Florida 31 (@Gainesville)
#2 Nebraska 17, #16 Kansas State 6 (@Manhattan)
#3 Penn State 31, #5 Michigan 24 (@Ann Arbor)
#4 Colorado 45, #22 Oklahoma 7
#10 Alabama 17, Tennessee 13 (@Knoxville)
Rice 19, #12 Texas 17
#14 Arizona 10, #20 Washington State 7 (@Pullman)
BYU 21, #17 Notre Dame 14 (@South Bend)

That Texas -Rice game was actually played on Sunday, October 16th.  That was during the baseball strike of 1994, the network was supposed to have a World Series game that Sunday night but didn't, so they asked the SWC if Rice and Texas would be willing to play on Sunday evening instead of on Saturday.  For some idiotic reason, we agreed.

It was a weird, rainy, miserable day in Houston.  The concessions stands at Rice Stadium ran out of pretty much everything, we were soaking wet, and I ran out of whiskey in my boot flask before the end of the 2nd quarter.  Oh, and Texas crapped the bed.  That was a horrible day all the way around, and I blame stupid MLB and its stupid strike for  most of it.

Eff MLB.

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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #177 on: July 26, 2019, 10:34:53 AM »
now we know the rest of the story
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #178 on: July 26, 2019, 09:41:18 PM »
And that was Rice's only win vs Texas since 1966.  
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #179 on: July 27, 2019, 08:47:24 AM »
Here is an odd stat, if not already mentioned.  The SEC career passing yardage leaders are QBs one from school at spots 1, 2, and 5. 

Few would guess which school, but of course you might imagine which is most run oriented traditionally and suggest that.

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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #180 on: July 27, 2019, 02:12:39 PM »
They're 1,3, and 6 now.  
And yardage can just mean you're behind a lot of the time.  Not a great measuring stick stat.


UGA has 2 QBs with 72+ passing TDs...Florida has 5.
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Re: Random Revelations (college football stats & stuff)
« Reply #181 on: July 27, 2019, 04:52:50 PM »
It can mean you were behind most of the time, but those teams weren't of course.  It really reflects playing four years in college with a pretty balanced offense.

UGA is not known for superlative QBs, or WRs.  To me, it's an odd stat whatever the reason.  Most odd stats have some kind of asterisk of a sort.

 

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