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« Reply #714 on: July 25, 2025, 11:47:31 AM »
SoS can only be determined AFTER the season is over, IMO.  It's fun to discuss pre-season, but nobody really knows.  
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« Reply #715 on: July 25, 2025, 11:55:24 AM »
I think it fair to note that say Florida seems to be looking at a lot of higher ranked teams (preseason).  UGA last season played a lot of tough teams on the road, this year that is reversed, same opponents, most in Athens (Tenn in Knoxville).  Texas as usual plays nobody ...
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« Reply #716 on: July 25, 2025, 07:02:24 PM »
It's interesting that 9 of the 10 teams in the rankings I posted are in the SEC.

As I posted, I don't know the methodology for computing those rankings. Nor do I know the methodology for the "Power Rankings Guru" rankings that Utee posted.

I can see two distinct different ways of computing these rankings. One would be to use power rankings. The team with the highest average power rankings of its opponents would seem to have the most difficult schedule. But "strength of schedule" doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as "difficulty of schedule."

If my team has the highest power ranking, and its 12 scheduled opponents are ranked #2 through #13 in power rankings, my team surely has the highest strength of schedule. But if my team is power-ranked #50, and its opponents are ranked #20 through #31, I'm probably going to have a harder time running the table than I would have in the first example.
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #717 on: August 04, 2025, 07:40:19 AM »
Happy Aggie Day everyone!  8/4. It’s also my Anniversary, 24 years married. 
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« Reply #718 on: August 04, 2025, 10:31:35 AM »
Happy anniversary!

"Aggie day" sounds made up and I refuse to celebrate it. :)
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« Reply #719 on: August 04, 2025, 01:51:31 PM »
As expected, Texas is #1 preseason UPI or whatever they call it now.  That isn't a terrible thing, the #1 team usually has a very good season and top ten finish.

I have a notion the rankings may be less predictive than usual this year, I can see some second ten teams have a fine season.
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« Reply #720 on: August 04, 2025, 01:58:06 PM »
Horns are DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMEEEDDDD!
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« Reply #721 on: August 04, 2025, 11:04:30 PM »
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Re: SEC Front Porch
« Reply #722 on: August 06, 2025, 03:43:28 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 04, 2025, 10:31:35 AM
Happy anniversary!

"Aggie day" sounds made up and I refuse to celebrate it. :)


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« Reply #723 on: August 06, 2025, 04:03:15 PM »
Oh.  Ha!  Sorry I missed the joke and made you explain it.  That always kills the humor...
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« Reply #724 on: August 07, 2025, 11:52:21 PM »
So I watched the Netflix show “ Any Given Saturday”. It was……meh, ok. Bama, OU, Texas, Missouri, Ole Miss, opted out. 

They showed quite a lot of South Carolina. And Vanderbilt. LSU got some nice screen time in the first two or so episodes. Florida got a little in the first episode or two. They barely showed Arkansas.  They didn’t even touch Tennessee until the last episode. And they hardly showed anything at all about A&M until the second to last episode and they completely ignored the excellent start we had to the season and the very big win over LSU. They basically FF until when we had our late season collapse. Mississippi St got as much screen time as A&M. Kentucky barely got a mention. 

It was just very uneven. I did come away impressed with Shane Beamer. 
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« Reply #725 on: August 07, 2025, 11:55:54 PM »
It was kinda weird too that they gave Johnny Football as much time as any current player. Dudes been gone for 12 years. 

Our season ended when Leveon Moss went down and they didn’t even show it. 
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« Reply #726 on: August 08, 2025, 11:00:40 AM »
I hadn't even heard of it.  Sounds like I don't need to watch it.
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« Reply #727 on: Today at 04:10:48 PM »
Listening to Fox Sports Radio late last night, and the two national weeknight hosts – Jason Smith and Mike Harmon – began their casual look ahead to the upcoming college football season by talking LSU:

“If you think all the pressure is on Arch Manning and Texas, nah, nah, nah. The most pressure, in the country, without a doubt, is on LSU head coach Brian Kelly. We get the news today that Garrett Nussmeier who is a sure fire NFL first round pick – we find out today he’s dealing with patellar tendinitis, but is not going to miss any significant time. Brian Kelly making this announcement earlier today at his press conference. Looks like for now Nussmeier is fine…just something to clip and save, oh everything’s fine, everything’s fine.”

“Nussmeier getting hurt obviously would be the worst thing for LSU. But even if Nussmeier is healthy, if this isn’t a playoff season for LSU they will find what is going to be about fifty million dollars to buy out Brian Kelly. Sure there’s guys under pressure – sure you want to talk about Kalen Deboer – but Brian Kelly, this is year four and he’s not had a year with less than three losses so far. It has not been a great marriage. It’s been awkward. He had a highly publicized tantrum at his players last year. He’s not really gotten that hug from LSU fans.”

“If it’s another year of LSU of no playoffs and another three- or four-loss year, that’s going to be it for Brian Kelly. Especially with Nussmeier. The best quarterback they’ve had since Joe Burrow. LSU will find the fifty million to buy Brian Kelly out. Another year of three or four losses? What are you paying Brian Kelly for? You’re paying him for what he did at Notre Dame, and now despite the fact that he has more resources, more ways to get players in – and his words when he jumped were ‘hey I’m not hamstrung by the things that hamstrung me at Notre Dame’ and oh by the way, Notre Dame got to a National Title game before Brian Kelly did at LSU. This is a playoff-or-you’re-fired year for Brian Kelly.”

It’s one thing for us diehards to share our Brian Kelly misgivings, but it’s reached another level of sports-world consciousness when national radio hosts have the rap sheet on Brian Kelly.

The only other offseason story receiving more attention than the pressure Brian Kelly is under is North Carolina hiring Bill Belichick. Anyone else notice the LSU @ Clemson opener is receiving more attention than the #1 Vs #2 Texas Vs Ohio State opener?

Can’t wait!

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