NCAA Week 15

[Chef2]

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Friday, Dec. 6
Utah (-6.5) (50) vs. Oregon (Pac-12 Championship Game in Santa Clara, CA) | 8 p.m. | ABC

Saturday, Dec. 7
Oklahoma (-9.5) (63.5) vs. Baylor (Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington, TX) | 12 p.m. | ABC
Appalachian State (-6) (56.5) vs. Louisiana (Sun Belt Championship Game) | 12 p.m. | ESPN
Miami (Ohio) vs. Central Michigan (-6.5) (53) (MAC Championship Game in Detroit) | 12 p.m. | ESPN2
Florida Atlantic (-7.5) (48.5) vs. UAB (Conference USA Championship Game) | 1:30 p.m. | CBSSN
Memphis (-10) (58.5) vs. Cincinnati (America Athletic Conference Championship Game) | 3:30 p.m. | ABC
LSU (-6.5) (56.5) vs. Georgia (SEC Championship Game in Atlanta, GA) | 4 p.m. | CBS
Boise State (-15) (63.5) vs. Hawai'i (Mountain West Championship Game) | 4 p.m. | ESPN
Clemson (-29) (54.5) vs. Virginia (ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, NC) | 7:30 p.m. | ABC
Ohio State (-16.5) (53.5) vs. Wisconsin (Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis, IN) | 8 p.m. | FOX

 

[Chef2]

Clemson giving 29 seems like a lot.

 

[Cosmo]

It does, but I think Virginia put everything into beating Tech last week and simply doesn't have the secondary to hang with Clemson's offense. Add in Dabo's general pissiness right now, and you've got the makings of a blowout. Still wouldn't touch that line, though.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Hawai'i will be in Boise on the warmest day of the week. Weather will be rainy and slightly above 40 degrees at kickoff. I still think those kids will say "**** this" and I'll take the Broncos and the points.

 

[BTExpress]

Is it standard on the mainland these days to spell Hawai'i with the okina?

 

[playthrough]

Central Michigan was 75-1 to win the MAC at the start of the year.

 

[Big Circus]

It does, but I think Virginia put everything into beating Tech last week and simply doesn't have the secondary to hang with Clemson's offense. Add in Dabo's general pissiness right now, and you've got the makings of a blowout. Still wouldn't touch that line, though.

I attach myself to the Hokie gentleman's analysis, word for word.

 

[Batman]

Is it standard on the mainland these days to spell Hawai'i with the okina?

That seemed to start around the same time people started spelling it "Kyiv."

 

[BTExpress]

Thought it was another one of those "see how woke I am" thingys.

 

[swingline]

That seemed to start around the same time people started spelling it "Kyiv."

Until just recently, I thought Kyiv had two syllables and was pronounced key-Ev.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Call it the Law of Unintended Consequences.

On this date in 2014, about 2 p.m., I was outside the UAB Football offices, a converted 1960's dentist office, when the coaches broke the official news to the football team that the team had been disbanded. I saw big strong kids with tears of pain and disbelief streaming down their cheeks. I saw them after the next meeting, with UAB President Ray Watts, (who wielded the knife), streaming tears of rage and frustration. I was also there for as close to a student campus riot as I have ever come, as he scurried to his university vehicle afterward.






On this date in 2014, UAB administration killed the football, bowling and rifle programs. Since reinstatement in 2015, with play beginning in 2017, UAB Football has:

-- 2 C-USA championship appearances (2018, 2019)

-- 1 C-USA title (2018)

-- First bowl win (2018)

-- 3 bowl appearances

-- Record of 28-11

-- 18-0 at home

-- Top 25 ranking

-- Most C-USA wins (19)

-- First 8-win season, 1st 9-win season, 1st 11-win season

-- Bill Clark 2x National Coach of the Year

-- Multiple NFL players

-- New $22m football facilities

-- New stadium on the way

-- C-USA 3-year attendance average leader (Phrased that way because we missed being first this season by 300 or so)

Bowling and Rifle also have achieved championships and rankings.


Ray's actions inflamed what former University of Alabama Chancellor Robert Witt referred to as "The vocal few", some of whom were in the video above. I know people who proudly wear a "Vocal Few" tattoo today.

Thanks, guys, for awakening the sleeping giant.

I also learned that you can't get a university president fired for doing what his Board of Trustees orders him to, no matter how you try. Watts is still the UAB President, and he now shamelessly takes credit for the current renaissance of UAB Football.

From the bottom of my heart, **** You, Ray.

 

[playthrough]

Call it the Law of Unintended Consequences.

On this date in 2014, about 2 p.m., I was outside the UAB Football offices, a converted 1960's dentist office, when the coaches broke the official news to the football team that the team had been disbanded. I saw big strong kids with tears of pain and disbelief streaming down their cheeks. I saw them after the next meeting, with UAB President Ray Watts, (who wielded the knife), streaming tears of rage and frustration. I was also there for as close to a student campus riot as I have ever come, as he scurried to his university vehicle afterward.






On this date in 2014, UAB administration killed the football, bowling and rifle programs. Since reinstatement in 2015, with play beginning in 2017, UAB Football has:

-- 2 C-USA championship appearances (2018, 2019)

-- 1 C-USA title (2018)

-- First bowl win (2018)

-- 3 bowl appearances

-- Record of 28-11

-- 18-0 at home

-- Top 25 ranking

-- Most C-USA wins (19)

-- First 8-win season, 1st 9-win season, 1st 11-win season

-- Bill Clark 2x National Coach of the Year

-- Multiple NFL players

-- New $22m football facilities

-- New stadium on the way

-- C-USA 3-year attendance average leader (Phrased that way because we missed being first this season by 300 or so)

Bowling and Rifle also have achieved championships and rankings.


Ray's actions inflamed what former University of Alabama Chancellor Robert Witt referred to as "The vocal few", some of whom were in the video above. I know people who proudly wear a "Vocal Few" tattoo today.

Thanks, guys, for awakening the sleeping giant.

I also learned that you can't get a university president fired for doing what his Board of Trustees orders him to, no matter how you try. Watts is still the UAB President, and he now shamelessly takes credit for the current renaissance of UAB Football.

From the bottom of my heart, **** You, Ray.

I was in Louisville for the first round of March Madness in 2015 when UAB knocked off Iowa State by a point as a 14 seed and remember not just how ecstatic their small fan base was, but how a lot of other fans in the building got on board with them. Which happens anyway with a Cinderella seed, but the football decision was still raw and there was a lot of sympathy.

 

[Neutral Corner]

My wife and I were at that game. It was a helluva lot of fun, that final swinging door play that got Robert Brown open for the winning shot.

The highlight for me was waiting outside for the Alumni Society charter bus to come get us. Ray Watts came out and walked to the curb to be picked up, accompanied by a couple of his yes men. We gave him hell from the time he came into sight until he got into the university Suburban.

Outing alert - I'm the guy in the eyepatch you can briefly see at the start here. My favorite memory of that encounter was the guy at :30 or so. "You're a stain! A stain on UAB!".

We have forgotten or forgiven nothing. We're just stuck with the guy, like a deeply buried tick.



Edit: We deployed the "Fire Ray Watts" chant every chance we got, particularly at away basketball games. When the home team went to the free throw line and things were nice and quiet, a few people chanting "Fire Ray Watts" carried very well over a television or radio broadcast.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Jacksonville U. drops its program. Tough day for the players and coaches.

Jacksonville University discontinues football program

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Jacksonville U. drops its program. Tough day for the players and coaches.

Jacksonville University discontinues football program

Jacksonville ... backsliding in collegiate prominence since 1970.

EDIT: God, what a walk-in title for UCLA that year. The semifinalists were UCLA, Jacksonville, St. Bonaventure and New Mexico State.

 

[Chef2]

After LSU kicks the krap out of Georgia and Oregon beats Utah, that leaves the Big 12 winner to get the 4 seed.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Jacksonville ... backsliding in collegiate prominence since 1970.

EDIT: God, what a walk-in title for UCLA that year. The semifinalists were UCLA, Jacksonville, St. Bonaventure and New Mexico State.

Jacksonville had Artis Gilmore. St. Bonaventure had Bob Lanier. Some walk-in.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Jacksonville U. drops its program. Tough day for the players and coaches.

Jacksonville University discontinues football program

Now if the NFL team can only have the good sense to g0 away, ...

 

[Chef2]

Now if the NFL team can only have the good sense to g0 away, ...

Patience, young grasshopper.

 

[playthrough]

For the degenerates ... I got Under 51 early on Utah/Oregon, and the number has tumbled to 47. Would you take the over and try for the middle?