re: A&M's schedule

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This is why the Rant exists. Again, why is spewing facts construed as whining? I said good on Aggie for winning, for being undefeated in the SEC, but warned them not to go overboard. When you dive into their schedule, you can see that the record is helped by what I would call, some level of good luck in the SEC & a bad schedule outside of ND. No whining here. They are a good team, well-coached. Mizzou is done & I expected that with the mash-unit. No hard feelings towards A&M. I just think the facts of their undefeated season (so far) should be mentioned.

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Actually A&M played a better OOC schedule than most. ND on the road is no joke no matter how hard you are trying to make it out to be, they have won every game by double digits since then. UTSA beat Tulane by 22 points, that loss probably keeps Tulane out of the Playoffs. Utah State is 5-4 and scored 33 on Vandy.

Prior to the season most people thought A&M's schedule was insanely difficult with road trips to South Bend, Baton Rouge, Austin, and Columbia and having 3 road games in a row against SEC teams. It's also noteworthy that A&M didn't just win all their games this year they delivered the worst loss to most of those teams and those losses pushed some of those coaches that were fired out the door. Everyone knows about LSU but remember UF was coming off a big win over Texas and riding high and A&M suffocated them by 3 scores after UF came out hot. Up until last week we were the only team that had truly thumped Mississippi State. A&M really hasn't had a game in doubt at the end since Notre Dame and that's with some backbreaking penalties that took points off the board that would have made those games even less competitive.

So come up with whatever BS you want to dismiss A&M's schedule I guess if it makes you feel better but the reality is this team just beat Mizzou by 3 scores on the road and we really didn't even play that well.

What a pussy! Now I hope you get your arse kicked. Frick U


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Our schedule is moderately weak near the top end because of our conference draw. But our schedule, due to the overall strength of the conference still is not super weak. We would have a very strong schedule, if say there was just one extra game changed to like Ole Miss, Vandy, or Oklahoma on it (ie it wouldnt even need to be Georgia or Alabama).

I also understand the Texas chirping about it, since the top of their schedule is very difficult by comparison.

You can see this in the the following visualization, which uses Sagarin ratings (nice since its not only a synthesis of multiple formulas and rationales for rating teams but also continues to rate down into the FCS ranks, so its complete for this purpose)

Basically I have chosen a sample of teams, in this case the SEC and Big Ten playoff contenders plus Notre Dame, and I have ordered the 12 games each school plays by the Sagarin rating to evaluate each teams hardest game vs every other teams hardest game, all the way down through each teams easiest game vs every other teams easiest game. So we have 12 tiers with the first being the hardest game on each teams schedule and the last tier being the easiest

If a number is deepest blue, it means that this game is the easiest game on this tier, if it is deepest red it is the hardest game on this tier, and if it is white, it means that it is at the median difficulty.

Pointing out your ignorance and stupidity is not the same as being offended by an insignificant pissant.

So sensitive. Some of you faggies don't handle winning very well. Congrats on your season. Does that make you feel better? Can you go about your day now?

And frick you! I hope you get stomped when you play a top 10 opponent. And congrats on "stomping" a freshman QB in his 1st start. Mizzou's D manhandled your offense for the better part of 3 quarters. Of course they wore down when the freshman (and Kirby Moore's playcalling) put them back on the field over & over. I've said A&M was a good team, but you don't like facts. IF Mizzou was undefeated, we'd have doubters coming out of the woodwork questioning our wins & schedule ten fold.

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Congrats on beating a 3rd string QB, & a 3rd string kicker.

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I have almost 25,000 posts on this board, but this is the first time I’ve heard the “We got blown the F out because of our 3rd string kicker” excuse.

You ever watch football before?! You must have a kicker! If not, you're forced to go for it on 4th down almost every possession that is not in chip-shot range. If not you're punting where you may try a 40-50 yarder. Look at the margin of victory in the SEC this year, under 10 pts. per game I believe & tell me a good kicker is not important.

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You ever watch football before. You must have a kicker! If not, you're forced to go for on 4th down almost every possession that is not in chip-shot range. If not you're punting where you may try a 40-50 yarder. Look at the margin of victory in the SEC this year, under 10 pts. per game I believe & tell me a good kicker is not important.

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But for Elko’s gentle heart, we would have have won by 4 touchdowns.

Did your kicker miss 10 field goals that we are not aware of?

Fricks like you want minimize Mizzou's win against THE OSU in 2023, but when A&M beats a 3rd sting QB that was in no way ready for a top SEC defense, you are going to pound your chest. I give Elko credit. Everything comes around & goes around in college football. Just ask fat Josh how that went. If Mizzou's offense played average football, that is a close game. They were putrid. Did A&M's play good, of course, but having Zollers in, Moore's chicken-shite play-calling, no Norfleet, no kicker, yeah all difference makers. I admitted A&M won big. This argument was originally not about this game, but about A&M's schedule. (that I did not fault them for).

Well, A&M has more money to buy that depth. Congrats. That is all that matters these days. You take away Reed & go down to your 3rd string QB, no kicker and one more key piece missing, now we are talking about a different team. Happens to every team, every season. Is what it is. That being said, the Mizzou team that should have beat Bama earlier this season plays A&M in a tight game that could go either way. I said it for the 2 weeks going into that game, Mizzou would be way better off with Pribula at this point. So many fans got overanxious when Zollers played well late in the Vandy game. I was not ready to anoint him a 4 year starter. He will be fine, but he was not ready for that game & the inexperience showed.