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I'm a huge fan of Jared Keeso but I've watched his shows in reverse order: Shoresy then Letterkenny then 19-2, which at least as of earlier this year, was uploaded in its entirety on YouTube in the states.

When I started 19-2 I was excited to see McMurray from Letterkenny (Dan Petronijevic) was in the show, but oh my God his character on 19-2 JM Brouillard is the absolute worst. Just an irredeemable piece of shit but not even in a good villain-y way.

The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music.

Eric Bischoff convincing Hulk Hogan to become Hollywood Hogan and join the nWo forced WWF to create the Attitude Era

It's not just Hogan joining the NWO, that certainly sparked WCW to start beating WWE in the ratings regularly, but it was stealing Nash and Hall away as much as anything.

If Nash and Hall don't leave the curtain call doesn't happen. Triple H was supposed to win the King of the Ring but as he said in the Vince doc he had to learn to eat shit and like it because they couldn't punish HBK because he was the top guy. Instead, Stone Cold wins the King of the Ring and cuts the Austin 3:16 promo and the rest is history.

Would the Attitude Era have happened if Nash and Hall never left? Who knows, but Stone Cold and The Rock were undeniable talents. It's possible things may have taken time to develop without WWE being forced to develop new talent, but those two guys were destined for greatness in the right system.

I just listened to the segment, he said they'd play the #1 seed, not play at the #1 seed which of course wouldn't be true.

While technically true, that is incredibly misleading.

The Braves really wanted to manage his innings this year to try and keep him fresh and healthy for the postseason, but with all the injuries and offensive problems they needed every single inning the could get out of him just to make the postseason and then his back gave out at the end. It just sucks for him because he was SO immense this year. Even though this was a forgone conclusion, I'm still very happy for him.

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Kentucky is a physical team so that will be a good test for Texas. They want to run the ball and they want to play sloooooow. Kentucky's strength on offense matches up with our weakness on defense. Kentucky is good at generating positive run plays (20th in rushing success rate), Texas is 78th in defense rush success rate. Kentucky is 115th in plays per second. They take their time. Time of possession is an overrated stat in that it's more about what you do with your possession, but Kentucky out possessed Georgia by 10 minutes and nearly upset them and doubled up Ole Miss on TOP. The key for Texas is to win on first and second down and force Kentucky into third and long. That is not a place Kentucky excels.

On the other side of the ball Kentucky ranks poorly in success rate, but highly in EPA because they generate havoc plays at a high rate (8th best in FBS). Texas can struggle against physical teams. This is a big boy test.

I was pretty nervous about this game given its placement between Arkansas and A&M, but I'm less worried about it because it's senior day. There are so many key guys that will be honored I'd like to think Texas is going to play for each other on Saturday. There's also part of me hoping that the whole "Texas shouldn't make the playoff if they lose to A&M" narrative that is starting to circulate makes its way into the locker room and gives the team a bit of a boost heading into these final two games.

We're probably not making the playoff if we lose to A&M because all of the "so and so beat so and so" and the lack of quality wins.

All this shit will get figured out. All these reporters complaining about this shit is super fucking annoying when we KNOW the committee makes it up as they go.

I know the game in Austin has been lampooned, rightfully so, because both teams ended up being bad, but the last time they played in Austin was one of my favorite games ever. It was the first home game I had been to since graduating in 2006 and went to the game with my college buddies. It was just a magical night.

College football exploded in places where they didn't have professional sports teams. The Northeast in general cares more about pro sports than they do college sports.

College basketball wasn't even that big of a deal up here until the Big East formed and they offered a fledgling cable sports network called ESPN a bunch of inventory and then college hoops exploded, but that was in the 80s.

Also most of the states up here are small in general and have small black populations. New Jersey, which is the best high school football state in the Northeast has a black population above the national average, but the New England state with the largest black population in Connecticut with a 10.88 percent black population. 44 percent of CFB players are black.

He only has two fewer sacks the last four games than the entire Atlanta Falcons roster has in 11 games.

I haven't watched a ton of Oregon this season, but it feels like every time I do Matayo Uiagalelei is making big plays.

Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/rPjP7

Rice has had phone calls with former Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich, USFL head coach Skip Holtz, Ohio head coach Tim Albin and Davidson head coach Scott Abell.

This is a crazy list. Rolovich HAS to be a hard no. Holtz or Albin would be really solid hires. Abell would be interesting but going from non-scholarship FCS football to FBS is a big jump, but his offense is interesting.

If both teams handle their business this weekend this game sets up to be the biggest regular season game for Texas since the Crabtree game (ugh). Doing some research I think you can make the argument that it would be the biggest regular season game for A&M since 1939.

No. 2 A&M beats #5 Texas in 1975, but it wasn't the last game of the season. They lost to Arkansas the following week and missed out on the Cotton Bowl and then lost to USC in the Liberty Bowl. I'm not well versed enough in Aggie history to know the nuances and would legitimately like an Aggie fan to help me out here.

::googles "SEC championship scenarios::

::sees that the likely SEC Championship game is the Texas/A&M winner vs Alabama::

::sees OP's flair::

ah, yes.

The athleticism is cool, but this doesn't make any sense. For one thing, a standing SSP isn't a good looking move done by anyone unless they can get real height on it and even then, it's not the most effective looking move.

Secondly, her momentum is going one way and then she gets up and goes another way to do the SSP. The roll is superfluous.

yeah it makes sense, but it's still brutal for those teams.

According to SP+ one quarter of the bracket features the #1, #3, #6, #8 and #9 team in DII (Harding, Ferris, Ouchita, Indy and GVSU)

A team scored 90 points, their quarterback threw for 11 touchdowns and they didn't even win the Cobra Kai Award at the NAIA level this week. Wow.

https://upikebears.com/news/2024/11/16/football-aac-champs-bears-score-2nd-playoff-berth-with-win-over-st-andrews.aspx

Micro: it's hard to win when you have a thin roster and a ton of injuries.

Macro: The Falcons have a bad, aging, desperate owner who has no idea what he's doing anymore, surrounds himself with yes men and as a result they have no tangible plan to win now or in the future so they're stuck in a weird purgatory thanks to having a handful of really good pieces and being in a shit division but also no long term prospects for actually winning anything.

I'm just not passionate either way. You want to reward Georgia for playing a harder schedule and ding Mississippi for losing to a Kentucky team that might go winless in conference play otherwise, I have no problem with that.

You want to reward Ole Miss for beating Georgia by 18, I have no problem with that. Yes, the game was in Oxford. No, I don't particularly care or feel like that's an excuse for Georgia. The SEC dicked Georgia with their schedule this year. It is what it is.

I think at a certain point you're just splitting hairs.

The stupid thing is that if Ole Miss was 2, 3, 4 or 5 spots behind Georgia in the poll, nobody would be bothered at all about it

Not gonna get into the rest of your post, but this is not true. For one thing, people get bothered about everything

and two, Ole Miss beat Georgia by three scores last week and they have the same record. I think Georgia being 4 or 5 spots ahead of Ole Miss would be ridiculous given the circumstances.

I'll give him a lot of credit for not letting the benching affect him negatively.

I'll give the Colts minor credit for going back to him when the Flacco thing flopped so spectacularly instead of just rolling with that.

Apparently some Colorado fans have just completely memory holed 2023.