WEEK 8 NCAA FOOTBALL, top 25, POWER RATINGS, games this week
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This is the deepest and best overall Bama team I have ever seen. A&M will be fortunate to come close to covering the 17 whatever point spread. These guys are going to roll everybody this year OSU included if they end up playing.
Right now beating Bama would require a whole set of weird things to happen in one game like bad calls, strange ball bounces, a really fired up road opponent, suspensions, injuries (although great teams tend to be deep) and who knows what else. Plus the elite coaches (Saban, Meyer et. al.) tend to negate those types of distractions.
I'd put Ala -7 vs OSU on a neutral field right now, maybe more. But in sports never say never.
Right now beating Bama would require a whole set of weird things to happen in one game like bad calls, strange ball bounces, a really fired up road opponent, suspensions, injuries (although great teams tend to be deep) and who knows what else. Plus the elite coaches (Saban, Meyer et. al.) tend to negate those types of distractions.
I'd put Ala -7 vs OSU on a neutral field right now, maybe more. But in sports never say never.
And as you may be seeing today, -7 is a major underestimation of Bama.
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Right now beating Bama would require a whole set of weird things to happen in one game like bad calls, strange ball bounces, a really fired up road opponent, suspensions, injuries (although great teams tend to be deep) and who knows what else. Plus the elite coaches (Saban, Meyer et. al.) tend to negate those types of distractions.
I'd put Ala -7 vs OSU on a neutral field right now, maybe more. But in sports never say never.
And as you may be seeing today, -7 is a major underestimation of Bama.
ALA favored by -17'or -18 and won by 19, 33-14. I didn't see the game both with 164 yards passing but Alabama outrushed them appeared to control the clock kind of a methodical win.And as you may be seeing today, -7 is a major underestimation of Bama.
I'll be watching #2 OHIO STATE -19' at Penn State tonight at 8 pm on ABC. One of those freaky PSU night white outs might not bother the players but I hate to watch it on TV!
....edit add, let's look at the POWER RATINGS for this game:
OSU 59 5 4
PSU 40 2 4
So based on personnel OSU +19 Coach +3 HF -4 so the line should be about OSU -18 in round numbers, I just checked vegasinsider.com before kickoff the consensus is OSU -17' (NOTE the ' is bookie slang for 1/2 point).
So it generally is pretty close, how about that.
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Why?
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2016 Week 8 AP Top 25
RK TEAM REC PTS TREND (+/-)
1 Alabama(60) 7-0 1524
2 Ohio State 6-0 1457 <--- OSU lost all #1 votes
3 Michigan(1) 6-0 1368 1 <--- "m" got one
4 Clemson 7-0 1337 1
5 Washington 6-0 1304
6 Texas A&M 6-0 1218
7 Louisville 5-1 1168
8 Nebraska 6-0 1037 2
9 Baylor 6-0 1021 2
10 Wisconsin 4-2 935 2 <--- still 4 B1G in top 10
11 Houston 6-1 766 2
12 West Virginia 5-0 744 8
13 Florida State 5-2 733 1
14 Boise State 6-0 694 1
15 Florida 5-1 626 3
16 Oklahoma 4-2 612 3
17 Arkansas 5-2 584 5
18 Tennessee 5-2 550 9
19 Utah 6-1 479 2
20 Western Michigan7-0 285 4 <--- WM?
21 Auburn 4-2 277 2
22 North Carolina 5-2 254 NR
23 Ole Miss 3-3 188 11
24 Navy 4-1 163 1
25 LSU 4-2 123 NR <--- hey LSU back from the dead, below NAVY
As I see it ONLY those I have highlighted have any realistic chance of winning the National Championship.
As I see it ONLY those I have highlighted have any realistic chance of winning the National Championship.
as I said somewhere else (forgot where) I believe LSU would beat most teams ranked out of the top 3
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As I see it ONLY those I have highlighted have any realistic chance of winning the National Championship.
as I said somewhere else (forgot where) I believe LSU would beat most teams ranked out of the top 3
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As I see it ONLY those I have highlighted have any realistic chance of winning the National Championship.
as I said somewhere else (forgot where) I believe LSU would beat most teams ranked out of the top 3
as I said somewhere else (forgot where) I believe LSU would beat most teams ranked out of the top 3
They already lost to Wisconsin and Auburn....neither of whom are in Top 3....and never were rated that high. So that disprooves that theory.
Who have they actually beaten? The three Mississippi schools (Ole Miss/Miss. St./So. Miss), Missouri and Arkansas, and a cream puff. Are any of them even a .500 team?
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as I said somewhere else (forgot where) I believe LSU would beat most teams ranked out of the top 3
They already lost to Wisconsin and Auburn....neither of whom are in Top 3....and never were rated that high. So that disprooves that theory.
Who have they actually beaten? The three Mississippi schools (Ole Miss/Miss. St./So. Miss), Missouri and Arkansas, and a cream puff. Are any of them even a .500 team?
They already lost to Wisconsin and Auburn....neither of whom are in Top 3....and never were rated that high. So that disprooves that theory.
Who have they actually beaten? The three Mississippi schools (Ole Miss/Miss. St./So. Miss), Missouri and Arkansas, and a cream puff. Are any of them even a .500 team?
Some people fap it to numbers. Some people actually watch the football games....
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They already lost to Wisconsin and Auburn....neither of whom are in Top 3....and never were rated that high. So that disprooves that theory.
Who have they actually beaten? The three Mississippi schools (Ole Miss/Miss. St./So. Miss), Missouri and Arkansas, and a cream puff. Are any of them even a .500 team?
Some people fap it to numbers. Some people actually watch the football games....
Some people fap it to numbers. Some people actually watch the football games....
And some people actually look at the results of games played.
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Not really though. Considering the narrowness of the losses apparently means nothing to you. The fact that Retard Les Miles showed up to cost them the Auburn game (people that actually watch college football will know what I'm talking about; as for you, look it up) is important. Holding Alabama's offense to 10 points is something no one else has even come close to doing. They destroyed an Arkansas team that just steamrolled Florida, who is a P5 division winner. They ran away with the game against Ole Miss, which is a team that played top 15 FSU close and played Bama really close. They're going to gang rape A&M, whatever that's worth. So they finish with 3 losses, all to top 15 teams, two of which a fired coach is responsible for.
But yeah, some undefeated group of 5 team is obviously better because "look at their record." You're a football layman.
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By the way LSU has only allowed 10 touchdowns on the season and only 6 in the last 6 games. They are the second best defense in the country for my money.
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By the way LSU has only allowed 10 touchdowns on the season and only 6 in the last 6 games. They are the second best defense in the country for my money.
By the way LSU has only allowed 10 touchdowns on the season and only 6 in the last 6 games. They are the second best defense in the country for my money.
LSU USC and STANFORD would be a tough win for any team
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By the way LSU has only allowed 10 touchdowns on the season and only 6 in the last 6 games. They are the second best defense in the country for my money.
By the way LSU has only allowed 10 touchdowns on the season and only 6 in the last 6 games. They are the second best defense in the country for my money.
Who's the first?
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By the way LSU has only allowed 10 touchdowns on the season and only 6 in the last 6 games. They are the second best defense in the country for my money.
Who's the first?
Who's the first?
The Buckeyes
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Please. Alabama by a mile right now.
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You realize the SEC has gone from good defenses to bad offenses, right? How many former Purdue QBs are starting?
With the exception of bama of course. Not that LSU isn't a good defense.
Where do you all put Michigan's defense? Just curious...
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Not really though. Considering the narrowness of the losses apparently means nothing to you. The fact that Retard Les Miles showed up to cost them the Auburn game (people that actually watch college football will know what I'm talking about; as for you, look it up) is important. Holding Alabama's offense to 10 points is something no one else has even come close to doing. They destroyed an Arkansas team that just steamrolled Florida, who is a P5 division winner. They ran away with the game against Ole Miss, which is a team that played top 15 FSU close and played Bama really close. They're going to gang rape A&M, whatever that's worth. So they finish with 3 losses, all to top 15 teams, two of which a fired coach is responsible for.
But yeah, some undefeated group of 5 team is obviously better because "look at their record." You're a football layman.
Not really though. Considering the narrowness of the losses apparently means nothing to you. The fact that Retard Les Miles showed up to cost them the Auburn game (people that actually watch college football will know what I'm talking about; as for you, look it up) is important. Holding Alabama's offense to 10 points is something no one else has even come close to doing. They destroyed an Arkansas team that just steamrolled Florida, who is a P5 division winner. They ran away with the game against Ole Miss, which is a team that played top 15 FSU close and played Bama really close. They're going to gang rape A&M, whatever that's worth. So they finish with 3 losses, all to top 15 teams, two of which a fired coach is responsible for.
But yeah, some undefeated group of 5 team is obviously better because "look at their record." You're a football layman.
Your claim was that A&M could beat every team that was not currently rated in the Top 5. Yet, they have lost 3 times. The last two in a row of those to unranked teams.
So much for your boast. You don't even come up to the level of layman.
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Gipper was right for the wrong reasons. Good luck now haha
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Gipper was right for the wrong reasons. Good luck now haha
I was right about A&M for the reason that if they were good enough to beat anyone but the Top 5, then they would not have lost to both Ole Miss and Miss. St. I don't know if that is the right or the wrong reason, it is just a fact.
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