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Those numbers are meaningless.

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If you are talking about who wins a game or how the season went? Sure. If you are talking about the future of college athletics though you couldn't be more wrong. That list shows why Super Conferences can't be stopped and are coming fast. Essentially the SEC and B1G have almost every valuable program, just need to add a few of the stragglers to complete the picture.

You can love or hate the idea of Supers but they are happening. Be thankful that in the SEC we are haves. I do wonder if they just blow up the Big 2 completely and add and drop some schools. I am not advocating for it but money is money and NIL has made it so that in order to compete programs have to have monster checkbooks long term. Also those teams with monster checkbooks and the networks that pay to have them want to make sure they are playing.

Doesn't help that the 2 G5's were blown out and looked like September warm up games as expected. Doesn't help that they are being treated as farm clubs for NIL and for poaching coaches openly.

As to who is #1 vs #20 it doesn't matter much.

Reveille with the eye patch was robbed.

I actually think Women's VB is one of the very few sports that is more entertaining than Men's. The power is just so overwhelming in Men's that you rarely get long rallies, it's a lot of thunder and short plays. Women's is a lot crazier. They also tend to be fundamentally very strong and athletic and the sport is fast paced.

Compare that to Women's BB for instance. Most Women's BBall in college or beyond is the quality of Middle School Boys. Very little athleticism and true basketball skill. I can appreciate the ladies are working hard and trying their best but it's just hard to watch much of the time.

For someone who was at the game it is hard to overstate the impact of the wind, worst wind I've seen at a game in a very long time and it was swirling and unpredictable. Passes and kicks looked like knuckleballs. Goalposte were swaying back and forth constantly. Even screen passes were off on both sides. No excuses for A&M losing but neither team could throw the ball worth a shite. That is what made it into a defensive focused and run focused game that turnovers were huge in. It even impacted the volume, you could see people yelling their asses off but it didn't have the deafening effect you normally see at Kyle.

We lost and didn't deserve to win that game but there was no chance that game was going to have a lot of points in it in those conditions and with 2 good defenses.

frick the NFL. No reason for them to put on Saturday games to mess with College Football. FWIW I would never watch NFL over college ball anyway.

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More impressive to me is the SEC Billion Dollar Brand Club with 7 members & 2 more on the cusp.

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Lots of positive in this. I know many will get their panties in a wad but the reality is the SEC having so many power programs with so much value gives us incredible leverage. The only frustration is Sankey signed that longer term deal with ESPN. SEC has the product people want to see and it's across most sports not just football. Baseball obviously. Basketball is down some this year but overall the programs are getting stronger every year. Even have an All SEC Volleyball Championship.

This also shows how close we are to Super Conferences and how inevitable they are. Put the SEC and B1G together and it's just a few leftovers.

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being in an FBS bowl. FBS needs to contract. FCS needs to grow.

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I couldn't care less about who plays in low level bowl games, P4 schools now rarely have any star players that will even play in them anymore or even starters. It's just bad football.

Johnny's doing ok. Has a bar in CS and a podcast and seems to be rebuilding his image. He would actually be entertaining as hell on SECN as he can speak well and is actually pretty intelligent and certainly entertaining. Still a loose cannon though.

Boz is great in the Dr Pepper commercials and he always tried to use his image to the fullest.

Well my entire happiness with A&M football rides on ClemsonKitten thinking we are good, I'm on pins and needles. :lol:

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North Carolina makes geographical, historical and cultural sense. Kansas does not under any circumstances. Duke's constituency doesn't really either, but I guess if we have to take them to get Carolina we do.

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NC State makes a lot more sense than Duke. NC State is far larger and a Land Grant Public school that fits culturally with the SEC. UNC and NC State are also part of the same University System and are tied together in many ways.