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2020 is definitely an asterisk year.  

Mac Jones is an asterisk quarterback. 

I honestly don't remember much about that season, or Mac Jones' performance.  Everything was such a mess, leagues playing only against themselves so no intersectional matchups, teams having to cancel or postpone games, teams constantly playing at half-strength or worse.  I'm glad they went ahead and found ways to play the season, but all in all, it's just a throwaway year.  

I honestly don't remember much about that season, or Mac Jones' performance.  Everything was such a mess, leagues playing only against themselves so no intersectional matchups, teams having to cancel or postpone games, teams constantly playing at half-strength or worse.  I'm glad they went ahead and found ways to play the season, but all in all, it's just a throwaway year. 

I remember it quite well because it was A&M's best team in ~20 years.  We were talking about the chances of the 2020 team long before the season, the schedule worked out quite nicely, and we had some nice OOC matchups.  Then COVID hit, all the OOC games got cancelled, we won every game except Alabama who rolled us, and then ended up missing the playoff, where Alabama rolled everybody else, including ND in the playoff 14-31 and Ohio St 52-24.  

The reason why I was pissed about it is because ND lost to Clemson 10-34 and still got in the playoff.  I'm not saying that we could have beat Bama the 2nd time, but we played them in our 2nd game of the year and were much improved by the end of the season, whipping a really good UNC in the Orange Bowl.  This is exactly the reason why I was in favor of expanding the playoff because a "Helmet" team will always get the benefit of the doubt.  It would have been nice to get to the playoff and see how far we could have went, instead we didn't get the chance.  Oh, and ND somehow got invited to the ACC Championship game.  I'm still a little confused by that. I know they "pair" up with the ACC, but I'm not sure if that was just a COVID year thing or WTF that was.  I had forgotten all about that.  

Amen, brutha.

We got maybe 1/10th of an inch?  It was enough to stick, and schools stayed closed on Tuesday.  The roads were completely clear by 11 or noon.  

I was "working from home" that day but we had a lot of fun with the kids, hanging out by the fire all day, cooking, eating, doing puzzles, making hot cocoa, and generally being lazy.  With them being 17 and 15 now, I know there aren't going to be many more days like that where we're all together, and I make the most of every opportunity.

Yeah my firstborn was a brand new baby, not even one month old, when we had the Board Meeting at the Texas-Nebraska game in 2007.  That's why I wasn't able to join ALL the festivities that weekend.  I only had a hall pass for the tailgate party on Saturday.

 

Congrats, Shiner!

We're taking my oldest to visit the A&M campus in a couple of weeks.  And the UT campus the week after that.  Of course, she's already been to both, numerous times.  But never as a prospective student.

I don't really "root against" other teams aside from direct conflict.  I will root against other teams ranked higher than my own, but not because of who they are, other than Eastern Michigan.