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FearlessF

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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #140 on: September 29, 2020, 11:51:57 AM »
From ESPN's Bill Connelly.......................

The SEC: It Just Means Score

Florida 51, Ole Miss 35

The Gators and Rebels combined for 1,255 yards, 61 first downs and a point total that could have been even higher had the teams not settled for four field goal attempts.

Mississippi State 44, LSU 34

Maybe the most incredible thing about this game is that the pass rushes were both excellent. MSU sacked LSU's Myles Brennan seven times in 53 pass attempts, and LSU brought down MSU's K.J. Costello five times in 65. And yet, after a slow start -- 111 combined yards in the first quarter -- the Bulldogs and Tigers still managed to finish with 1,057 combined yards.

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After LSU's magnificent, offense-driven run to the 2019 national title, SEC schools loaded up on points-friendly coaches. Ole Miss hired Kiffin; Mississippi State hired Leach; Missouri hired Eliah Drinkwitz; and while Arkansas went with lifetime line coach Sam Pittman, he in turn hired Kendal Briles as his offensive coordinator. That's a whole lot of offensive IQ residing in what we assume to be the bottom half of the conference. That, in turn, could result in quite a few Big 12-style shootouts and more potential upsets.

(Remind me how fun this all was when Saturday's huge Auburn-Georgia game, pitting the No. 1 and No. 2 defenses in the country per SP+, turns into a rock fight.)

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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #141 on: September 29, 2020, 01:04:36 PM »
UGA has a "QB controversy", which is not a good thing to have.

D'Wan Matthis - Started Arky game, was pulled near end of first half with Dawgs trailing 7-2..  Not all his fault.

Stetson Bennet - Unheralded 5'11" backup who came in for Matthis and did reasonably well, reliable, sort of like Fromm.

J. T. Daniels - Now clear to play, USC transfer, was No. 3 rated QB out of HS and played a year as a frosh, did reasonably well, ACL surgery.

Carson Beck - True FR.

Of concern (again) was their inability to run block and RTDB against Arky of all people.
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #142 on: September 29, 2020, 01:37:52 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 29, 2020, 01:04:36 PM
Of concern (again) was their inability to run block and RTDB against Arky of all people.
Yeah, we know the floor of a Georgia who can't pass, but can at least run.
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #143 on: September 29, 2020, 06:43:59 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 29, 2020, 06:52:25 AM

Alabama seems to be annually very sturdy, I think they have a mental advantage over opponents in the SEC, at least over UGA.
They don't need that, they have a talent advantage.  Over everyone.  I haven't kept up with the last 2-3 years of top-end recruiting, but at worse, Alabama is on the back end of the most talented rosters of the scholly limit era.  
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« Reply #144 on: September 29, 2020, 06:49:36 PM »
Need it or not they have it

it obviously originated from the talent advantage
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #145 on: September 29, 2020, 07:05:49 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on September 29, 2020, 11:05:40 AM
I'm hoping for an upset to start the Husker's season

There'll be some upset Huskers if there isn't. 
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #146 on: September 29, 2020, 09:15:49 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 29, 2020, 06:43:59 PM
They don't need that, they have a talent advantage.  Over everyone.  I haven't kept up with the last 2-3 years of top-end recruiting, but at worse, Alabama is on the back end of the most talented rosters of the scholly limit era. 

You might want to pay some attention then before stating things like "over everyone", but perhaps data is not your thing.
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #147 on: September 29, 2020, 11:07:09 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 29, 2020, 09:15:49 PM
You might want to pay some attention then before stating things like "over everyone", but perhaps data is not your thing.
Over virtually everyone
Over everyone in recent memory
etc


As in maybe Clemson has more talent, by stars.  If maybe Georgia...well, the Dawgs haven't done much with it.  
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #148 on: September 30, 2020, 03:30:01 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 29, 2020, 11:07:09 PM
Over virtually everyone
Over everyone in recent memory
etc


As in maybe Clemson has more talent, by stars.  If maybe Georgia...well, the Dawgs haven't done much with it. 
"They don't need that, they have a talent advantage.  Over everyone. "

See the difference?  Words matter.  Everyone, without qualifier, is not the same as "virtually everyone".

I'm against all over generalizations.
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« Reply #149 on: September 30, 2020, 06:06:29 AM »
You nitpick and routinely have big, general ideas fly over your head.  It's interesting.


I put the caveat that I hadn't kept up with the last 2-3 years.  If MAYBE 1-2 don't fit the bill out of 130 FBS programs, that's a 1-sub 1% number.  Such an odd thing to toil over multiple posts.
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #150 on: September 30, 2020, 06:15:42 AM »
Words mean something.  Don't blame me for your inaccurate postings.  I merely note them.
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« Reply #151 on: September 30, 2020, 10:23:34 AM »
Okay, list the teams that definitively have more talent than Bama.  Let's gauge how wildly inaccurate I am.
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« Reply #152 on: September 30, 2020, 10:42:32 AM »
how ya gonna measure talent?

recruiting stars - numbers or NFL draft or NFL rosters?

or success in college?  all-conference selections - wins and losses

or all of the above?
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Re: Game day SOC.
« Reply #153 on: September 30, 2020, 08:19:23 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on September 30, 2020, 10:42:32 AM
how ya gonna measure talent?

recruiting stars - numbers or NFL draft or NFL rosters?

or success in college?  all-conference selections - wins and losses

or all of the above?
Don't ask me, Cincy's the one claiming I'm wrong.  
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