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Week 4 College Football Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Chef2, Sep 21, 2020.

  1. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I just noticed that we haven't started a weekly runner yet.
    Now we have.
    entertainment only.
    est.
    9.24
    UAB at South Alabama (+6) 7:30 ESPN

    9.26
    7. Notre Dame at Wake Forest (+18.5) 12:00 ABC
    24. Louisville at 21. Pittsburgh (-3.5) 12:00 ACC
    5. Florida at Ole Miss (+13) 12:00 ESPN
    Kansas State at 3. Oklahoma (-27) 12:00 FOX
    23. Kentucky at 8. Auburn (-8) 12:00 SEC
    West Virginia at 15. Oklahoma State (-8.5) 3:30 ABC
    8. Texas at Texas Tech (+16.5) 3:30 FOX
    Mississippi State at 6. LSU (-18) 3:30 CBS
    Georgia at Arkansas (+24.5) 4:00 SEC
    2. Alabama at Missouri (+28) 7:00 ESPN
    Tennessee at South Carolina (+3) 7:30 SEC
    Kansas at Baylor (-18.5) 7:30 ESPNU
    Florida State at 12. Miami (FL) (-10) 7:30 ABC
    Vanderbilt at 10. Texas A&M (-29.5) 7:30 SECALT
    NC State at 20. Virginia Tech (-9.5) 8:00 ACC
    Troy at 18. BYU (-13.5) 10:15 ESPN
     
  2. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    Ooo....a 10:15 game this Saturday...maybe.
     
  3. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    KState @ Oklahoma (-27) is free money. This will be a blood letting.
     
  4. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    University of Racist pizza by 17
     
  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Hmm...maybe. I can see Oklahoma winning, say, 56-24 or something.

    My hunch is K-State has cleaned up a lot from that first game, whereas Oklahoma got nothing out of that first game because it was against a bum.
     
  6. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    If I were a gambling man, I’d take you up on that.
     
  7. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Where’s the odds on which games get called off Friday afternoon?
     
  8. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    None involving Power 5 teams. Too big to fail. There will be no delays until mid-to-late November, when some leagues can postpone games into one week of December if necessary. But they've got to hold off on that impulse for now. They have to save that December week to accommodate the games and teams that really matter.
    By now, schools have also figured out that there's no way to trace an entire chain of infection. This is why people like conference commissioners are thumping their chests and saying, "There are no cases on any of our teams directly tied to playing football. All positives in our league came from contact with other students and away from practice or competition." Nobody can disprove it.
    Football has been declared to be safe. And so it shall be.
    This thing has exposed and will continue to expose the chasm between Power 5 and everybody else. Those who can test thrice weekly will play.
     
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  9. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    I'll take K-State and the points as well. Sounds like TCU's QB is back against the Spinning Cyclones.

    It's been a cluster to try and figure out these college games. I'm playing more overs than I have in the recent past.

    So where do we have new coaches on their first game? Fade them right away -- new systems, likely weren't a good team to begin with. Look at Florida, LSU, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas (no, don't look at Kansas), Miami.
     
  10. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Why the overs? Because the preseason probably featured less blocking and tackling than normal?
     
  11. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    Conditioning also plays a role. I think tackling and defense fades late in these situations.

    I fully expect the big boys of the SEC to be relentless against the lower teams that all have new coaches. Alabama and Georgia will put up style points, especially Georgia as they go up against a guy who has never been a HC.
     
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  12. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    We didn’t even make it to Friday afternoon.


    And in Provo:
     
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