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But what the vast majority want is sane system where all teams have a chance to get via winning your conference like every single other playoff is set up.

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I think what's getting lost in the shuffle here, winning the conference isn't important.

Remember last year's playoff final, where Miami had a shot to win the title on their last drive?
Miami was the only ACC team in the playoffs.

Miami didn't even make the conference championship, that was between Duke (who won), and Virginia (who was the ACC 1 seed).
Neither Duke nor Virginia even got into the playoffs.

I'm an LSU fan. I went to games in the 80s when we had no chance at a national title, best we could get was to occasionally get a big bowl (and lose). If you hoped to win a bowl, best chance was a mid tier one.
Didn't kill my fandom then.

Now, the bowls are dead on the vine. If you dont make the playoffs at a big school like LSU, half the team opts out of the bowl.

If LSU slides in as #19, at least I will probably be able to see our starters, unlike the bowls now. Maybe it's a play-in vs JMU, don't really care. It will be better than trying to guess who's the QB in the Texas Bowl.

And you know what, you never know what can happen.
2001, LSU was 8-3, only made the SEC championship because the West was down. Didn't matter, we beat Tennessee (who was #2), then won the Sugar vs #7 Illinois. I know this, ain't nobody in college would have wanted LSU in their bracket had there been a playoff that year, record be damned.

I'd say South Carolina is the most passionate. They maintain a fantastic atmosphere for games, while being mid-tier at best most seasons.

I'd also say LSU used to be the most passionate fanbase in the SEC, maybe the country, back before Saban came. That's where the reputation of Tiger Stadium was built. People here loved those teams, even when they would lose the big games. They were still heroes who fought valiantly vs USC, Nebraska, etc (if you're a longtime Tiger fan, you know the games I'm referring to). That all faded away after we went on that streak with Saban and Miles, to where there's a big segment with massive insecurity, that gives up as soon as it looks like the team may not win the title.
Kelly was an arse, but ironically I think he touched a nerve when he said our fans were spoiled. We know there's a group that is, that bitch and moan when things aren't super-great, and they don't like being called out on it.

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Hearing something 3 times in a row is supposed to make it harder to forget.

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Speaking of which, there's that radio commercial where the guy says like a 5 second description of the service (I can't remember what it is, maybe a tax thing), then repeats the 800 number continuously for about 20 seconds.
That's pretty damn annoying

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According to this article LSU tried it in the opposite direction.

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That's hilarious, mainstream media has "LSU is bad" on the brain :lol:

Every controversy has to be done by us, in their minds.

We must have a hell of a good flight crew and airplane, to get us out to Knoxville for that play and still get back to BR in time for pregame warmups.

Re the play, I looked it up, and it's a carryover from rugby.
Seems on a kickoff, the ball has to touch the ground. Either on a tee, or a dropkick. In olden days they used to make dirt mounds or "tees", then after WW2 started allowing actual tees. You couldn't punt (without it hitting the ground) due to some "unfair advantage" rule.
People used the tee instead of the dropkick, because you got more distance and accuracy (the ball used to be rounder, so it had a more uniform bounce. Now that it's oblong, you can get a weird bounce and really shank it. So, the tee was an advantage for the kicking team.
According to google ai, the kicker should have stood motionless at the 35 to do it, he was back a couple yards.

I hope they don't go and eliminate the rule due to this. I like there being random "hidden" things you can do. I absolutely despise the NFL kickoff, just as I hate the NFL extra point rules too. Those rules completely eliminate fakes on conversions, as well as surprise onside kicks. And note, teams didn't do either a lot because it was well-established that you had a better chance at getting the extra point on a kick while you took a bigger chance of missing on a 2 pt play, and if you didn't recover the onside kick the other team starts damn near in scoring territory.
Just play the game the way it has been for decades, the game that became so popular.

I really hate how they feel the need to keep adding rules to games. It's like baseball wanting to eliminate the shift... leave it alone. If they want to put all your infielders between 1st and 2nd, and pull your outfielders in super shallow, let them do it, the batter can just try to hit the ball to the massive open spaces that creates.

Same thing with this. If you have a guy who can competently kick a dropkick with some control (as an Aussie football guy can), let him do it. You won't see it often at all, because everyone figured out a long time ago the best way to kick off is from a tee.

So, Hologram Hal is going to mentor John, be his father figure (nice arm comment).

Also looking like Hal was indeed the guy who busted Sinestro out, and has him stashed on Anton's planet. Only way I could figure him having the wormhole set up to there. And it seems like that's how he got Sinestro out in the first place; went to that planet first, to set up where Sinestro would go. Then removed the "wormhole ball" after Sinestro went through it, took it back to Earth and set it in the lockbox.

How, without the ring? Or, why did Sinestro wait so long to escape after his last visit, if he did it then (presumably the way Guy said it, it was a recent escape)?
Or is Hal being set up for the fall?

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Nationally

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Wasn't the OP

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Now do Texas Tech and BYU.

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Not SEC, so unranked

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They won't admit it, but he hurt his ribs against LSU.

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I'm wondering if that's what is going on.

With Lacy out, you ABSOLUTELY need to protect Chambliss, or the season goes down the toilet.

It looked terrible, but it wasn't targeting. Guy grabbed Watkins and slung him down, and the other guy was coming in.

Leavitt will be a pro. He's fricking money when he's forced to stay in the pocket