FBC: Week 5 running thread

Neither was NC State-East Carolina...

 

My bad. I'll take....hmmm.....Ball State?

 

Will SEC officials be used in Athens next year in the return game? Of course they will.

Georgia gets Pac-10 refs once every 50 years. Pac-10 teams get them every week. You're not telling anyone on the West Coast anything they don't already know. Pac-10 officiating is horrible, and 99 percent of the time it screws a Pac-10 team.

Of course, Georgia would know all about how the officiating sometimes favors the home team in an intersectional OOC game if it would actually play one more than every 50 years or so. (leaving the county for games in Atlanta doesn't count as intersectional.)

BTW, watch the replay. The ball isn't in the end zone when Moreno's knee hits. The guy called for tripping did whip his leg. I've seen Pac-10 refs call leaping and landing before, on a last-second field goal that was missed, giving the guy another chance. He missed again, from 15 yards closer. It's a ticky-tack rule they love to call.


One other note: I don't expect Oregon State to defeat USC on Thursday. But USC's last 3 trips to OSU are loss; 8-point win; loss. Could be interesting.

 

Georgia scheduling continues to recede from Utter Selfservingland
in the coming years. The Dooley scheduling model is kaput.

 

Hey, don't blame me!

 

Georgia actually had more yards in penalties in an SEC game worked by SEC refs the week before at South Carolina (11 pen, 112 yards) than it did at ASU (12-104).

In three games leading up to ASU, Georgia had been penalized 31 times for 252 yards in three games. So just maybe the problem isn't completely the officials' fault.

 

What choo doin' comin' round here with facts?

 

Sigh, I'd love to put down some money.

 

Rehab (if that's what's stopping you) is for quitters. Me, I don't have the money to lose, absolutely hate losing to begin with, and have no confidence in my handicapping ability.

 

Nah, no rehab. I pick a lot more winners than losers. I pick 7 out of 10 most weeks. But many times I pair the wrong teams, which is the bitch of parlays. I'll get 3 out of 4 or 2 out of 3. It's a pissah.

So instead of just giving away hard-earned money, I'm going to start enjoying it.

Watch, I'll pick like 10 good ones this week in my head and they'll all hit.

 

Parlays and teasers are moronic. If you can pick 7 out of 10, you will be a winner every week on straight bets.

 

LSU got this called against them either two or four years ago in a game at Auburn, which turned out to be what cost the Tigahs the game. It seems like a cheap call, but it is on the books and I had no problem with it being flagged in the UGA game.