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Topic: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff

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MarqHusker

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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2019, 07:39:56 PM »
I drank a lot of gin that day.  Not my finest hour
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2019, 08:05:06 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on February 26, 2019, 07:39:56 PM
I drank a lot of gin that day.  Not my finest hour

So, hours then?
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2019, 08:35:24 PM »
Twas back when one could go back to back w/o consequence.   Of course I was out all night the night before on NYE.  We really hit it hard in the 2nd half of the Citrus.  Tanguearay martinis.  I still love gin but never again tanguearay.   Out of it by end of Rose but made a triumphant return for 2nd half of Orange.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2019, 08:36:10 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on February 26, 2019, 07:39:56 PM
I drank a lot of gin that day.  Not my finest hour

In fairness, none of us expected to still be around on that day
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2019, 08:38:41 PM »
thankfully, the computer world did NOT come to an end
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2019, 08:41:28 PM »
Quote from: ELA on February 26, 2019, 08:36:10 PM
In fairness, none of us expected to still be around on that day
Hah!! I remember watching people at the stores buying water (for 5 times the normal price) while I was buying lobsters and steaks. 

Admittedly, I did sanitize and fill up my bathtubs with water, and I did buy a few tanks of propane. Heh. At least the propane got put to use for cooking.

Y2K my ass.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #20 on: February 26, 2019, 08:50:19 PM »
Quote from: ELA on February 26, 2019, 02:26:52 PM
That was probably the worst FSU defense of the peak Bowden years right?

But that offense was terrifying.  I do think Nebraska eliminates Vick in the semis, but that would be a hell of a game.  Noles over Huskers in the final.

Florida State was the #1 offense by Connolly's metrics, but who was #2?  8-4 Georgia Tech, led by Joe Hamilton.  That was a super fun team.  They scored 35 or more in 2 of their 4 losses, but allowed 31 or more in 4 of their wins, including 51-48 over Georgia, and 45-42 over Clemson.  
Yes, specifically the pass D.  Among national championship-level teams and elite 1-loss type teams, the pass D was putrid. The Noles allowed over 70% of passes to be completed against them - an unheard of stat among good teams.
Michigan also had a bogus pass D, so I wouldn't start waxing poetic on them, either.  And Tom Brady wasn't great in college - PLEASE learn how to differentiate, people!  For his era, and believe me I've done some comprehensive deep-dives on this stuff, I start to consider a QB "good" or "very good" north of a 140 passer rating.  Bad or really bad is 120 or less.  Elite, great, is 155+.  Brady's '99 season was at 138.  
Mr. GOAT wasn't good enough not to be outplayed by Kurt Kittner in a loss to Illinois.  Besides his NFL exploits, Brady gets a halo effect because of how bad or pedestrian Henson was that year.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #21 on: February 26, 2019, 08:52:44 PM »
Kittner was a very good college player. Brady not so much.


I voted for FSU in this thing.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #22 on: February 26, 2019, 09:01:49 PM »
That Citrus Bowl makes me want to drink.  From the weather to the halftime show to 5'8" Cromartie "covering" 6'6" Burress - not a fun bowl experience in person.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #23 on: February 26, 2019, 09:04:02 PM »
Boy, Peter Warrick was good.  I hope those clothes he got from Dillards were worth losing the Heisman.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2019, 09:14:03 PM »
Warrick was special .  I need to watch that sequence when Beamer tried a fake fg and chose to run option with his kicker and holder with Vick standing aghast on the sideline. 
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2019, 10:04:51 PM »
Oh yeah, that Michigan secondary was horrid too.  Burress went for over 200 on them I think.

I'm not saying they would have won, but they might have.  Once they finally put the Henson thing to rest they played well down the stretch.  That was a loaded Big Ten, went 9 deep.  Probably the only year of my fanhood I think it was the best conference.  7 ranked teams, OSU in 8th, Randle El and Indiana in 9th.  Only free passes that year were Northwestern and Iowa.
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2019, 10:18:37 PM »
10 Rec, 255 Yds



Ehh, that Michigan team also only averaged 3.2 yards per carry.  That's reeeeeally bad.  
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Re: VOTE - 1999 College Football Playoff
« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2019, 08:56:29 AM »
All four teams every year are very very good (duh) and any of them COULD win a playoff (maybe 95 Nebraska excepted).

If the best team has a 70% chance of beating the other teams singly, they still have less than a 50% chance of beating both.

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