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Another casualty of the expanded playoff. Teams are cancelling big non-conference games because going 7-2 in conference gets you a playoff spot

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You don't have to impress anymore and why play a CCG if you're just probably gonna meet in the Playoffs?

That's the thing, when you go to these big Playoffs...they become the thing and EVERYTHING.

All those little things in the Season that CFB cultivated and built fanbases on...now gone...(see Notre Dame - USC 100 year rivalry)...the game moves forward for the Teens and Twentysomethings whose instant-gratification syndrome ruins everything culturally.

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DB's are just WR's who cant catch the ball consistently. Both are probably the same skill set outside of their hands.

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Uh...

You really underestimate what goes on the defensive side of the ball.



In College, Hayes started as a DE and linebacker at TAMU, then switched to Safety his junior year. It wasn't until he got to the Raiders that they made him a shutdown Corner. You don't just throw WRs out there. :lol:

There's no way Red Grange was 22 years old. He was a ringer in College. :lol:

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Here he is signing his first NFL contract in 1925.

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1. Alabama

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That's like saying Lakers fans are the most loyal.

You get all the love and fawning from the Southern media for Decades, pretty easy to become full of yourselves.

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8. South Carolina

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More accurate, considering they get little in return from the media and product on the field.

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That being said, Golden Tempo was 4 whole seconds off the Derby record. He is nothing special overall but that finish was absolutely amazing.

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The cleanest ride often wins these Cavalry charges that have become the unfortunate standard at the Derby (20 horses!) and his ride was spic n' span.

In Secretariat's TC year, 13 horses in the field.

No muddying the trips, the fastest won.

Rank the current Big10 Heisman winners (post-1980)

2025: Fernando Mendoza (QB, Indiana)
2022: Caleb Williams (QB, USC)
2014: Marcus Mariota (QB, Oregon)
2006: Troy Smith (QB, Ohio State)
2005: Reggie Bush (RB, USC)
2004: Matt Leinart (QB, USC)
2002: Carson Palmer (QB, USC)
2001: Eric Crouch (QB, Nebraska)
1997: Charles Woodson (CB, Michigan)
1995: Eddie George (RB, Ohio State)
1991: Desmond Howard (WR, Michigan)
1981: Marcus Allen (RB, USC)

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That team is one of the reasons the BCS was needed. Osborne was basically given a career achievement award that year.

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He said he was going to retire mid midseason and the writers jump Nebraska in the Poll over Penn State.

News flash, he didn’t retire…not with that loaded crime-blotter team arriving next year.

1994 PSU O is up there with 2005 USC, maybe better.

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Madking

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I think your argument boils down to this:

After 1/9/12...LSU's OT victory in Tuscaloosa in hindsight looked like a cosmic upset. Things fell their way.

LSU had a great season, great record, good victories.

But the stench of the BCS Title game is foremost on the minds of the objective fan and mostly what he remembers...so few would put that LSU team on this list, fair or not.

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that inexplicably lost to a scrappy Oregon State team the weak after crushing a very good Ohio State squad.

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Wasn't inexplicable under Carroll. Always played up and destroyed great teams but seemed to always find a game to play WAY down and lose to a nobody.... ESPECIALLY the Beavers in Cowtown High School stadium in Corvallis. The lights weren't bright enough, I guess to get the team motivated and they consistently slept walked through entire 1st halves against the Beavers.

From 1968-1999 Oregon State couldn't beat USC, then when Carroll took over he consistently struggled to beat the Beavers in Corvallis going 1-3.with that one win being that Fog Bowl with the 2004 Trojans that escaped 28-21 by the heroics of Bush.

So yeah, after destroying #5 Ohio State 35-3 , the next weeks game in Corvallis was ripe for a predictable upset by "the giant killers" (as Oregon State was famous for), in beating OJ- led 1967 National Champions USC, 3-0 in Corvallis.

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My HS biology teacher was Australian and came over on a tennis scholarship to Arkansas, coincidentally enough.

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Yeah...no problem with that, in fact that's sort of the achievers America used to look for.

Better than criminals sneaking over the border.

American Universities went International long ago, where's Mac's been at....just look at the Olympics, whenever you watch it seems like we train half the World at our Universities and then they rep their birth Country or Momma's home.