The B12 (XII) Forum, home of the 'Front Porch, y'all' at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

The stylistic differences between conferences is interesting.  Now that LSU and perhaps Alabama have come up with wide open offenses, I wonder if the SEC will shift some as well.

LSU 46 Alabama 41
Auburn 48 Alamaba 45

It's already happening.

 LSU appears to have gotten it right. The SEC will likely need to start scoring points to remain competitive.

IF LSU beats UGA something like 52-10, it might propel it further, but OTOH, if UGA wins say 26-24, nyet.

I've always liked UNC.  That'd be a good one. 

They finished 6-6 this year, which isn't much of course, but it's a minor bowl game.  I watched them a bit the past 3 years or so and thought they were soft and very injury prone.  My suspicion was they didn't do a good job with S&C and perhaps they didn't practice hard.  I can see a coach watching starters getting hurt in practice and pulling back from tackling and actually having the team less able to avoid injury in games because they have little experience hitting and being hit.

I'd guess Mack brought in more mental and physical toughness and took a team with marginal talent up to being mediocre.  He's also getting some talent in now.  I suspect they might be am 8-4 team in 3-4-5 years when Satterfield takes them over.

Kitchenaid or Bosch perhaps.  The wife wanted a quiet DW when we remodeled in the old house and I got one with low DBs listed.  The problem was we'd open the thing after the other person had started it it was SO quiet.  I realize I'm late to this topic, whatever.  I think it was a Samsung because she liked the outside and it matched the fridge.

Aesthetics.  We put in a Bosch range here to get an inductive cook top, but the current DW seemed to be OK so we left it.

Ive got a Bosch and its great

I think most folks "wash" their dishes before they put them in the DW, I know the wife does.  If I get hot water to the sink I usually just wash them and put them up to dry.  She puts them in the DW.  For some reason it takes a long time to get hot water to the kitchen while it comes to the half bath 12 feet away in seconds.  We have hot water from the building, two boilers on the roof apparently.  They also provide hot water to our heat pumps which operate off water not air.  Maybe they just use cold water for them, I don't know for sure, they are strange heat pumps to me.

I never worked on dish washing products back in my day, I did spend some time working on laundry products.  Of course, we learned some about other stuff.  Back when, Cascade was mostly "builder" with very very little surfactant, as bubbles in a DW were very bad for the pump.   We used a phosphate builder, and today I think they are all zero P, I don't know what they use.  I've noticed the stuff often doesn't work that well.  The wife likes the pod thingees, and they sometimes don't dissolve, I told her to run the hot water until it got got before starting the DW.

Phosphate is a magical cleaning ingredient, specifically tripolyphosphate.  It apparently is bad for something.