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Topic: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here

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longhorn320

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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2022, 10:04:34 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 18, 2022, 09:59:29 AM
I don't care where UGA is ranked preseason either way.  Usually a top three team PS ends up in the top ten with a few exceptions.

I'm somewhat amazed how many youtube videos there are of "experts" waxxing on about Team X.  I will listen to a few for five minutes and get bored.


exactly how I feel about predicting how many hurricanes we are gonna have
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2022, 10:09:08 AM »
Being ranked high, early, makes it easier to stay high.

But the truth is that any P5 team that goes undefeated including winning its conference championship game, is going to end up in the CFP.

And most teams that lose a game, will not, unless their names are Alabama or Georgia.
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #30 on: August 18, 2022, 10:10:05 AM »
The hurricane prediction track record is somewhat better than random picking.  I suppose the mavens are about that on football.  

They do get into minutiae uninteresting to me, and talk way too much about way too little.
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #31 on: August 18, 2022, 10:11:50 AM »
I think a 12-1 P5 conference champ is very likely in the CFP.  

The thing about being ranked high preseason is expectations, which can lead to disappointment.  You can't be too disappointed if expectations are low.

This is a universality.  But in general, your team is better off being ranked high than not.
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #32 on: August 18, 2022, 11:20:52 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 18, 2022, 10:09:08 AM
Being ranked high, early, makes it easier to stay high.

But the truth is that any P5 team that goes undefeated including winning its conference championship game, is going to end up in the CFP.

And most teams that lose a game, will not, unless their names are Alabama or Georgia.
In the CFP era, a 1-loss OU has never been left out.
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #33 on: August 18, 2022, 11:23:10 AM »
Quote from: CWSooner on August 18, 2022, 11:20:52 AM
In the CFP era, a 1-loss OU has never been left out.
Yeah, I was talking more about 1-loss conference game LOSERS, or 1-loss teams that skipped their CCG entirely.  But I didn't specify. :)
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #34 on: August 18, 2022, 11:34:24 AM »
Ah, so.
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #35 on: August 18, 2022, 02:16:50 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 18, 2022, 11:23:10 AM
Yeah, I was talking more about 1-loss conference game LOSERS, or 1-loss teams that skipped their CCG entirely.  But I didn't specify. :)
Huh, I can't recall this ever happening ...
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« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2022, 07:48:08 PM »
Interesting. 

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« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2022, 10:16:03 PM »
Good Lord.  Clickbait nonsense.
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« Reply #38 on: August 20, 2022, 11:28:19 PM »
I mean, isn’t it really all click-bait?  Obviously some posts are more outlandish than others, but Colin Cowherd is somewhat a respected sports journalist and not some bullshit artist. Mostly. 
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« Reply #39 on: August 21, 2022, 12:23:34 AM »
I haven't watched or listened to CC in a decade.  Back then he was a blowhard who acted like he was well connected and knew a lot about the inner workings of college football but was so crazily slanted to SoCal homerism that I couldn't ever listen to more than a sentence or two.   He seemed to know pro sports pretty well, but I don't really give a rat's ass about pro sports so it was never my cup of tea.

Looks to me like he's pursuing controversial takes for clicks.  Which doesn't really scream respected sports journalist to me but your mileage may vary.
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Re: 2022 College Football Season - It's Almost Here
« Reply #40 on: August 21, 2022, 10:04:06 AM »
The above is CB by CC pretty obviously, and it worked.  CFN used to have rankings like this for the same reason.

I saw some mention of it somewhere and ignored it.  But it gets attention.  
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« Reply #41 on: August 21, 2022, 11:22:20 AM »
I really know very little of Colin Cowherd. I don’t follow very many sports journalists. I have no idea if he’s serious or not, just that his rankings definitely differ from the norm right now. 
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