NCAA Football, 2014-2015

[alfred russel]

As an Oregon fan I would rather play fsu in semis rather than Alabama

If you look at some of the advanced statistical approaches to ranking teams (looking at play and drive outcomes in addition to raw scores), FSU is not highly rated. Their F/+ rating heading into last week's game was #9. Alabama was #1.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feiplus

Thank god statistical models don't play the game

No, but they do provide our best projection of what will happen in future events. But don't worry, the models show that FSU should beat the remaining teams on their schedule, and the playoffs don't start until 2015. I'm sure 2015 will be the year that math stops working.

[Valmy]

From 2-4 to 6-5!  Beat TCU!

What'd you think of the metallic logo?  I thought it was alright, just had a tendency to get a little washed out by the lights. 

That was my basic criticism.  I didn't think it added much, just made it harder to see the Longhorn logo.  I hope recruits thought it was cool, but I don't think people come here for the Oregon-esque flashy unis.

[Admiral Yi]

The classy uniforms are the second best part of the Texas program.  They shouldn't fuck around with it.

[dps]

As an Oregon fan I would rather play fsu in semis rather than Alabama

If you look at some of the advanced statistical approaches to ranking teams (looking at play and drive outcomes in addition to raw scores), FSU is not highly rated. Their F/+ rating heading into last week's game was #9. Alabama was #1.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feiplus

Thank god statistical models don't play the game

No, but they do provide our best projection of what will happen in future events. But don't worry, the models show that FSU should beat the remaining teams on their schedule, and the playoffs don't start until 2015. I'm sure 2015 will be the year that math stops working.

Don't need any kind of sophisticated statistical models to figure that out. 

[Rasputin]

As an Oregon fan I would rather play fsu in semis rather than Alabama

If you look at some of the advanced statistical approaches to ranking teams (looking at play and drive outcomes in addition to raw scores), FSU is not highly rated. Their F/+ rating heading into last week's game was #9. Alabama was #1.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/feiplus

Thank god statistical models don't play the game

No, but they do provide our best projection of what will happen in future events. But don't worry, the models show that FSU should beat the remaining teams on their schedule, and the playoffs don't start until 2015. I'm sure 2015 will be the year that math stops working.

so answer the great question

is it better to be a has been than a never was?

[alfred russel]

so answer the great question

is it better to be a has been than a never was?

Wake me up when FSU has 5 national titles, or takes the lead in the FSU-Miami series.

Teams have ups and downs. Miami is going to be just fine. Miami almost got FSU this year even though it was coached by a retarded fat guy in a tie with a true freshman QB and FSU was QBed by a reigning heisman trophy winner.

[Rasputin]

so answer the great question

is it better to be a has been than a never was?

Wake me up when FSU has 5 national titles, or takes the lead in the FSU-Miami series.

Teams have ups and downs. Miami is going to be just fine. Miami almost got FSU this year even though it was coached by a retarded fat guy in a tie with a true freshman QB and FSU was QBed by a reigning heisman trophy winner.

I'll put that down as a decided vote for has been status.

Illinois also has five college football national championships. Does that make them relevant?

[Ed Anger]

Jeff George Jr. Will lead the Illini to glory again.

[CountDeMoney]

For Valmy, in all its beautiful '80s production value.

http://youtu.be/yCcrggG8u_8

[alfred russel]

I'll put that down as a decided vote for has been status.

Illinois also has five college football national championships. Does that make them relevant?

Illinois claims 5 national titles and I'd say 4 of them are made up. The last came in 1951, which is one of the made up ones, and the last of the rest came in the 1920s. The relevance isn't the same as a team that won its titles in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

ITS ALL ABOUT THE U!
BELIEVE IN THE U!
U CAN'T TOUCH THIS!

[dps]

I'll put that down as a decided vote for has been status.

Illinois also has five college football national championships. Does that make them relevant?

Illinois claims 5 national titles and I'd say 4 of them are made up. The last came in 1951, which is one of the made up ones, and the last of the rest came in the 1920s. The relevance isn't the same as a team that won its titles in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

ITS ALL ABOUT THE U!
BELIEVE IN THE U!
U CAN'T TOUCH THIS!

That's what the ACC thought in 2005.  They're still waiting for Miami (and to be fair, VT, too) to prove them right.

[CountDeMoney]

That's what the ACC thought in 2005.  They're still waiting for Miami (and to be fair, VT, too) to prove them right.

trUth.

[Eddie Teach]

Illinois claims 5 national titles and I'd say 4 of them are made up. The last came in 1951, which is one of the made up ones, and the last of the rest came in the 1920s. The relevance isn't the same as a team that won its titles in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

ITS ALL ABOUT THE U!
BELIEVE IN THE U!
U CAN'T TOUCH THIS!

So, why didn't going to a different school cause you to change your childhood allegiance again? 

I mean, I liked 'Bama when I was 10. The elephant was cool, and I had lived in the state a couple times.

[alfred russel]

So, why didn't going to a different school cause you to change your childhood allegiance again? 

I mean, I liked 'Bama when I was 10. The elephant was cool, and I had lived in the state a couple times.

I went to a non combatant undergrad (Emory) but yeah my allegiances have split. It is just that I had just started going to grad school when I got banned and I only have enough energy to be a superfan of one school on this forum, and I'm sort of locked into Miami at this point.

I was a Miami fan because on my mother's side, my grandfather went to school there, all five of his kids went to school there, 3 of the 5 married people who went to school there, and some (including my mother) did post grad there. We had season tickets growing up and everyone was sort of a superfan.

[dps]

Illinois claims 5 national titles and I'd say 4 of them are made up. The last came in 1951, which is one of the made up ones, and the last of the rest came in the 1920s. The relevance isn't the same as a team that won its titles in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

ITS ALL ABOUT THE U!
BELIEVE IN THE U!
U CAN'T TOUCH THIS!

So, why didn't going to a different school cause you to change your childhood allegiance again? 

I mean, I liked 'Bama when I was 10. The elephant was cool, and I had lived in the state a couple times.

I've lived in NC for almost 7 years now, and it hasn't caused me to become a fan of any of the in-state schools.  Of course, in football, it's not like there's a lot here to be a fan of.  The 7 FBS schools in the state are a combined 32-28, which doesn't sound that bad, but if you take Duke--hardly a traditional football power--out of it, the record drops to 24-26.  Basically, NC is a hotbed of college football mediocrity.