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Stidham may be country's best QB
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 11/29/17 at 12:55 pm
Currently Stidham ranks fourth in all of FBS with a completion percentage of 68.5%. He ranks 11th in the country in passer rating.
Who are the three guys in front of him when it comes to completion pct?
1)Baker Mayfield
2)Mckenzie Milton
3)Jake Browning
In terms of passing defense though who have these three QB's played? Are they padding stats against weaker competition?
1)Baker Mayfield has faced ONE top 25 passing defense all year. That was #15 Ohio St.
2)Mckenzie Milton has faced ZERO top 25 passing defenses
3)Jake Browning has faced ONE top 25 passing defense. That was #8 Wash St.
So in relation to these three guys what has Stidham faced in terms of passing defenses?
Stidham has faced the #4 passing defense - Georgia
Stidham has faced the #6 passing defense - Alabama
Stidham has faced the #9 passing defense - Clemson
Stidham has faced the #13 passing defense - Miss St.
Stidham has faced the #24 passing defense - LSU
Stidham most definitely has faced a MUCH harder gauntlet of defenses than these other guys and that does have an effect statistically on you. These others are not even in the same ballpark! That's 5 passing defenses in the top 25 that Stidham has faced while the other contenders have at most faced 1.
So what about the 10 guys in front of Stidham when it comes to passer rating? Are they playing the same level of passing defenses? The 10 guys are:
1)Baker Mayfield - obviously no.
2)Mckenzie Milton - obviously no.
3)Justin Herbert - Has faced two top 25 passing d's
4)Logan Woodside - zero top 25 passing d's
5)Mason Rudolph - zero top 25 passing d's
6)Drew Lock - Has faced 4 top 25 passing defenses. I'm impressed.
7)Jake Fromm - clearly we saw he wasn't on Stidham's level when Auburn played Georgia earlier, but just in case, no, he hasn't faced as many top 25 passing D's as Stidham
8)JT Barrett - Has faced two top 25 passing defenses
9)Jordan Ta'amu - umm no just no
10)Will Grier - Has faced one top 25 passing defense
11)Stidham has faced 5 top 25 passing defenses.
Based on level of competition I don't see how you could make a reasonable argument for anyone over Stidham. Lock might have a case but no one else is even close.
Who are the three guys in front of him when it comes to completion pct?
1)Baker Mayfield
2)Mckenzie Milton
3)Jake Browning
In terms of passing defense though who have these three QB's played? Are they padding stats against weaker competition?
1)Baker Mayfield has faced ONE top 25 passing defense all year. That was #15 Ohio St.
2)Mckenzie Milton has faced ZERO top 25 passing defenses
3)Jake Browning has faced ONE top 25 passing defense. That was #8 Wash St.
So in relation to these three guys what has Stidham faced in terms of passing defenses?
Stidham has faced the #4 passing defense - Georgia
Stidham has faced the #6 passing defense - Alabama
Stidham has faced the #9 passing defense - Clemson
Stidham has faced the #13 passing defense - Miss St.
Stidham has faced the #24 passing defense - LSU
Stidham most definitely has faced a MUCH harder gauntlet of defenses than these other guys and that does have an effect statistically on you. These others are not even in the same ballpark! That's 5 passing defenses in the top 25 that Stidham has faced while the other contenders have at most faced 1.
So what about the 10 guys in front of Stidham when it comes to passer rating? Are they playing the same level of passing defenses? The 10 guys are:
1)Baker Mayfield - obviously no.
2)Mckenzie Milton - obviously no.
3)Justin Herbert - Has faced two top 25 passing d's
4)Logan Woodside - zero top 25 passing d's
5)Mason Rudolph - zero top 25 passing d's
6)Drew Lock - Has faced 4 top 25 passing defenses. I'm impressed.
7)Jake Fromm - clearly we saw he wasn't on Stidham's level when Auburn played Georgia earlier, but just in case, no, he hasn't faced as many top 25 passing D's as Stidham
8)JT Barrett - Has faced two top 25 passing defenses
9)Jordan Ta'amu - umm no just no
10)Will Grier - Has faced one top 25 passing defense
11)Stidham has faced 5 top 25 passing defenses.
Based on level of competition I don't see how you could make a reasonable argument for anyone over Stidham. Lock might have a case but no one else is even close.
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re: If you can't win your division or conference, you can't be "National" Champion
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 11/28/17 at 9:34 am
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This is stupid. The best teams should play for a NC. Just because one team happened to lose one game to someone in conference doesn't mean they're not better than a team that lost two or three games, but won their conference. And, I'm not saying that in a bid to get Bama in. I don't know that we are one of the four best teams this year. I just mean in general. Conference champions aren't always better than other teams out there.
You're creating the logical fallacy of false dilemma here. Teams who aren't the best team in their conference have no right to claiming to be the best team in college football. And also, Alabama did not deserve to play for the championship in 2011. Oklahoma St. did. Just because the people in charge looked past that in 2011 doesn't make it right. Oklahoma St. played the tougher schedule in 2011. They won their conference in 2011 while Bama did not. AND, their loss was better. They lost on the road by a field goal. Alabama lost at home by a field goal. Furthermore, the non-biased BCS computer ranking agrees with me. Alabama simply got in because of the bogus non-defensible "eye test" crap. Have a look.
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re: List of top five active coaches in college football
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 11/27/17 at 12:20 pm
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No he didn't. Jimbo won that game.
He's not talking about that game. He is referring to 2010 due to people giving Gus credit for the victory over Chizik.
re: Bear Bryant, Pat Dye and the famous hunting photo
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 11/23/17 at 4:52 pm
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Research Auburn's season records......
Before the early 80's Auburn did not know what elite football was
That's simply not true. Auburn was a terror under Mike Donahue. He is Auburn's most successful coach ever. Auburn won the states first championship in 1913. In 1914 we went undefeated again not even allowing a single point all year. Donahue went undefeated 3 times at Auburn. Auburn used to control the Iron Bowl.
re: Tailgate Music
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 9/1/15 at 1:14 pm
Must get primal
re: A statistics nerd on Reddit plugged all 128 teams into a computer model
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/25/15 at 6:43 pm
Here, I've got a better model and this model is always 100% correct on how the teams are ranked preseason. It has never been wrong once in where it ranked them prior to the season. It has also correctly gotten the national champion correct the majority of the time. The only shortcomings of this model are a small detail that involve its need to properly weight head to head outcomes. That's it. You will never be misled by this model. You will know exactly where your team stacks up preseason compared to the others. So here it is.
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re: Auburn vs. Florida Rivalry: The SEC Needs This One To Come Back
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/24/15 at 6:40 pm
Some things of note about Auburn and Florida.
1)Auburn and Florida have played each other more times in their history than Florida has played FSU.
2)Auburn had played Florida about the same number of times that Florida had played Georgia prior to expansion. Georgia has been able to pass that mark since expansion but prior to that, Auburn was just as much of a rival to Florida as Georgia was.
3)Florida is more Auburn's rival than Alabama is. Auburn and Florida have played each other a great deal more than Auburn and Alabama have even with expansion killing the rivalry.
Auburn was one of Florida's biggest rivals until the SEC fricked us on that one. Auburn belongs in the east with our main rivals, Georgia and Florida. Missouri rightfully belongs in the west where they are geographically located and Auburn belongs in the east where they are geographically located.
1)Auburn and Florida have played each other more times in their history than Florida has played FSU.
2)Auburn had played Florida about the same number of times that Florida had played Georgia prior to expansion. Georgia has been able to pass that mark since expansion but prior to that, Auburn was just as much of a rival to Florida as Georgia was.
3)Florida is more Auburn's rival than Alabama is. Auburn and Florida have played each other a great deal more than Auburn and Alabama have even with expansion killing the rivalry.
Auburn was one of Florida's biggest rivals until the SEC fricked us on that one. Auburn belongs in the east with our main rivals, Georgia and Florida. Missouri rightfully belongs in the west where they are geographically located and Auburn belongs in the east where they are geographically located.
re: Worst ref calls that went against your team
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/24/15 at 12:13 pm
Well now that I see that angle. Oh boy did we ever get away with one there. LOL.
re: Worst ref calls that went against your team
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/24/15 at 12:08 pm
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Bama-LSU 2004. LSU defender literally shoved Keith Brown down while the ball was in the air and then intercepted it. There were three refs watching. No call
I'm trying to remember that one but drawing a blank. You have a screenshot of it or a short clip? Was the pass behind the LOS or was it downfield?
re: Worst ref calls that went against your team
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/24/15 at 10:07 am
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What call are the Mizzou fans going to be upset about?
Colorado given 5 plays to make first down.
Worst ref calls that went against your team
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/24/15 at 9:58 am
This is your chance to whine about calls you know were wrong that went against your team. It could be a poor spot. A Td that shouldn't have been. A bad personal foul that went against you when the other team was actually guilty. Anything really involving the refs.
Please provide some context or evidence via video or otherwise. I could list several for Auburn but I'll contain this to just one. This is quite possibly the worst call I have ever witnessed that went against Auburn. Tell me yours. Check the video link to see what I'm talking about. I already know what I'm going to hear from Mizzou fans. So let me hear everyone else's gripes. Here's the youtube link to the call as it pertained to Auburn.
Bad Officiating
Please provide some context or evidence via video or otherwise. I could list several for Auburn but I'll contain this to just one. This is quite possibly the worst call I have ever witnessed that went against Auburn. Tell me yours. Check the video link to see what I'm talking about. I already know what I'm going to hear from Mizzou fans. So let me hear everyone else's gripes. Here's the youtube link to the call as it pertained to Auburn.
Bad Officiating
re: Has your team ever started a true FR QB?
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/20/15 at 11:12 am
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Auburn was undefeated in 1993 and recognized with an MNC.
By whom?
National Championship Foundation
Has been a selector for a long time now. There are others.
The point I was making is that, the Bama fan was making an appeal to authority argument. An Appeal to authority is an argument which has the following form,
A is an authority on a particular topic(the AP or coaches poll here)
A says something about that topic(FSU is the NC)
A is correct
It is a logical fallacy.
Fallacious examples of using the appeal include any appeal to authority used in the context of logical reasoning, and appealing to the position of an authority or authorities to dismiss evidence, as authorities can come to the wrong judgments through error, bias, dishonesty, or falling prey to groupthink. Thus, the appeal to authority is not a generally reliable argument for establishing facts. In this case, Auburn was undefeated in 1993 while FSU was not. Just because the AP or coaches poll said something about the season does not make it true.
re: Has your team ever started a true FR QB?
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/20/15 at 10:36 am
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Florida State was the national champion in 1993.
Just like Alabama was the National champs in 1973 when they lost to undefeated Notre Dame? Or in 1978 when they lost to USC at home who ended the year with a better record to boot? Or in 1964 when they won it with an inferior record to Arkansas(undefeated) who beat the team they lost to? Look, just because some authoritative figure says something to be the case does not make it true. Auburn was undefeated in 1993 and recognized with an MNC. FSU lost during the regular season.
re: SEC Network panel ranks league's Top 5 QBs
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/20/15 at 6:33 am
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SEC Nation's Top 5 Quarterbacks
1) Dak Prescott, Mississippi State, Sr.
2) Joshua Dobbs, Tennessee, Jr.
3) Jeremy Johnson, Auburn, Jr.
4) Kyle Allen, Texas A&M, Soph.
5) Brandon Allen, Arkansas, Sr.
All 5 of these quarterbacks started against SEC competition last year.
1)Dak Prescott - Passer rating:151.7 QBR:74.1
2)Joshua Dobbs - Passer rating:130.5 QBR:72.9
3)Jeremy Johnson - Passer rating:201.4 QBR:98.8
4)Kyle Allen - Passer rating:139.5 QBR:77.4
5)Brandon Allen - Passer rating:129.2 QBR:68.7
You be the judge.
re: From Petrino, to John L., to Bielema's plan paying off: tFlagship rising
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/13/15 at 3:04 am
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Three years ago, Arkansas was the most dysfunctional team in college football...
Do you really buy this sunshine pumping? 3 years ago there were several teams all across the FBS dealing with dumpster fires. For comparison's sake. 3 years ago Arkansas won 4 games and at least won an SEC game. Auburn could only manage 3 total wins and didn't win a single SEC game, but Arkansas was the most dysfunctional team in college football? Ok whatever this writer needs to tell you to make you feel better about 2 SEC wins in two years under Bret. You just believe whatever you want. Make up whatever narrative you need to to excuse his lack of production where it counts - wins/losses.
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By the end of the season, no one in the SEC wanted any part of this suddenly physically intimidating and dominating program...
Mizzou is an SEC team last time I checked. I believe they beat you at the end of the year when no SEC team wanted any part of Arkansas. But let me guess you drank this writer's kool-aid anyways and completely forgot about that.
re: The only expansion team without a SECCG appearance
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/12/15 at 4:37 am
A&M can win the SEC but they need to have a change in offensive identity to do it. They have the facilities and recruiting base to do so. Sumlin could even be the guy to do it, but not based on their current philosophy.
You have to run the ball in this conference and do so effectively to reach that goal. I don't feel like going back and looking at every SEC champ over the last 20 years, but I did look into it a while back and every SEC champ finished in the top 5 in the conference in rushing for the last 10 years. Most years they were either #1 or #2 in rushing if I recall right.
A&M's best finish in the SEC was 2012. They finished #2 in rushing in the SEC that year. I don't think it's a coincidence that that year happens to also be the same year they rushed the ball the best.
You have to run the ball in this conference and do so effectively to reach that goal. I don't feel like going back and looking at every SEC champ over the last 20 years, but I did look into it a while back and every SEC champ finished in the top 5 in the conference in rushing for the last 10 years. Most years they were either #1 or #2 in rushing if I recall right.
A&M's best finish in the SEC was 2012. They finished #2 in rushing in the SEC that year. I don't think it's a coincidence that that year happens to also be the same year they rushed the ball the best.
re: Heisman contenders for this year
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/10/15 at 11:05 pm
The guy lists his top 5 Heisman contenders. 3 of his top 5 are Rb's including his #1 pick being a RB. And yet, the guy specifically mentions in his own article that the Heisman has turned into a QB award.
"In closing, the truth at the end of the day is that the Heisman has turned in a quarterback trophy."
Based on his own words, why did he make 3 of his top 5 RB's then? Doesn't make a lick of sense.
"In closing, the truth at the end of the day is that the Heisman has turned in a quarterback trophy."
Based on his own words, why did he make 3 of his top 5 RB's then? Doesn't make a lick of sense.
re: Did Duke WIlliams ever make it back to practice?
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/10/15 at 10:50 pm
Well after today's scrimmage, it's pretty obvious that Sean White was not painting any pictures with his balls.
re: The thing that makes Bert's heart smile
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/9/15 at 9:21 pm
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Bielema: We play really well coming out of bye weeks, and to have Auburn coming after our bye week makes my heart smile.
Poor guy. This why Bret won't make it to the Big Show in the SEC. There are literally 8 weeks worth of opponents before he should even be thinking about Auburn, and yet here he is with Auburn on his mind. Auburn is not only taking up real estate in Hog fans' minds but now the coach is obsessing too. Bret needs to be worrying about UTEP, and Texas A&M right now, NOT Auburn.
re: Trivia time: who has lost to lower Div teams in the SEC since 92?
Posted by TruBlu4AU on 8/9/15 at 3:57 pm
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