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College Football 2015 Week 8 thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Oct 19, 2015.

  1. Layman

    Layman Well-Known Member

    Honestly? I thoroughly enjoy every college football Saturday....but there's something really special about a BIG Saturday in Vegas. One of my great Vegas memories is sitting in a fake Irish Pub, just off the sports book floor at the Orleans Casino (incredible gem a decade ago, until Boyd Gaming screwed it up), multiple large projection screens, while the Bush Push game was ending simultaneous with Michigan handing Penn State their only loss of the year. There was one other game (can't remember what game......but lots of folks had coin on it) ending at the same time & the place was just bananas.

    This weekend is an ok slate, just not quite the level I'd hoped for. Damned school district....not paying attention to the college football schedule, when picking the weekend for fall break....Pretty sure I'll find enough to bet, to make my weekend interesting.
     
  2. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    I don't give a crap where GameDay goes … means nothing to me.
    It's all hype and BS. I just want my football, an occasional pertinent feature by any network, and the week to recuperate and concentrate on tons of other stuff.
    All this BS you hear each August about "we've waited a whole year for this …" is total crap.
    You waited about 6 or 7 months after it ended in late January or early Feb.
    Geeeeeez ... Just play the games, dammit!
     
  3. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    This guy gets it.
     
  4. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    JackReacher likes this.
  5. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I'm right at even. Maybe up just a hair.....
     
  6. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    You just know that ESPN crew people just love GameDay on the west coast. Getting out there in the middle of the damn night it seems like.......dark when you start the show........
     
  7. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Once-upon-a-time Alabama and UNLV RB Altee Tenpenny dies in a car crash, almost immediately after getting suspended from his third different team (Nicholls St.)

    WSFA
     
  8. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Alabama signed four stud running backs in that 2013 recruiting class.

    Tenpenny is dead.

    Tyren Jones is now at junior college after being kicked off the team.

    Alvin Kamara is at Tennessee after a year in JuCo and visits Alabama this weekend.

    The other one was Derrick Henry.
     
  9. Blitz

    Blitz Active Member

    Dangit, Tenpenny … we hardly knew ya.
    Why was it so tough?
    What was happening all along the way?
    Rest in Peace, young man.
     
  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    13 teams can win their way into the playoff (at least a conference championship) and of those 13, 11 will play at least one other member of that group before the end of the year. The other two (Stanford and Iowa) would do so in the conference championship game, and we've got five weeks left in the season?
     
  11. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    I know it seems like there's going to be chaos at season's end, but it's worth noting that since the BCS era began in 1998 there have been only two seasons (2004 and 2009) in which more than two power conference teams came out of championship weekend undefeated. And many times, there's been one or fewer undefeated power conference teams headed into the bowls.

    It will sort itself out.
     
  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    You guys are no fun bringing logic, facts and history into college football talk. What if everybody did that? About 200 weekly hours of ESPN programming would go down the drain, and Trevor Matich might have to get a real job.
     
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