NCAA Football Week 5: Paul Hornungs' Single Bar Facemask

Not this shit again.

 

'Least we made it five weeks ...

 

OK, please to continue with the weekly brown bunny of all things SEC. Apparently that's OK, all 13 weeks of the season.

Boise State 35, Georgia 21. At Atlanta. And it wasn't anywhere near that close. Just sayin.'

 

Great. They'd still get curbstomped by LSU or Alabama.

 

So does everybody else in the SEC.


Didn't you guys also promise that Alabama would curbstomp Utah in the Sugar Bowl too? 8)

 

You're bragging that they beat the fifth or sixth best team in the SEC? If you were in the SEC you'd have to do that kind of thing just to stay in the race.

 

Boise's been gunning for full professional status for close to decade . . . and they're just about there. They'd fit right in.

 

These arguments are always based on the assumption that what football teams were like in the last game (or several games before that) is what they are going to be like all year. Straight-line projection. It's a fallacy. Every football coach I have ever heard on this subject, including multiple college and pro Hall of Famers, has stressed that teams are an exercise in developmental biology and change dramatically, hopefully for the better, as the season progresses.
The polls are very loath to admit this fact, which is why they are an exercise in low comedy before Halloween.
As I noted earlier on this thread. There's an easy way to shut up the tedious Boise argument once and for all. Put 'em in a BCS conference and have done with it. I do note that amidst the reshuffling, no BCS conference has entertained this idea. Wonder why? Someday the Justice Department might wonder, too.

 

Michigan-Michigan State is a noon kickoff. Damn. Now I have to drive up at 6 am.