Got good news and bad news 4 u guys

greenblood said:

Bad news: You'll get plungered by Rutgers, and then have a late game meltdown against Wyoming

Good news: I see some positive energy after team Gray takes down team Scarlet in the spring game, followed up with some "Can we really go 13-0?" after your encouraging home win over Portland State in season opener.

ybe

beelzebub said:

I try to teach u guys objectivity I can readily admit we probably lose Apple Cup. I knew that would make ur off season

Huh?

RaceBannon said:

NOGAF about the Apple cup

HTH

Yep - good chance that I'll be giving away my Apple Cup tickets this year to head down to watch the Baylor @ TCU game.

dnc said:

Tequilla said:

dnc said:

Tequilla said:

RaceBannon said:

NOGAF about the Apple cup

HTH

Yep - good chance that I'll be giving away my Apple Cup tickets this year to head down to watch the Baylor @ TCU game.

Froog POTD!
















Hard to blame you.

Shocked that that game is going to be on Friday and not a prime time game on Saturday.

I guess it is possible that if the TCU/Baylor game was a noon kickoff in Ft Worth and the UW/WSU game was a 7:30 game in Seattle I could make both ... but the reality is that one is going to be a game between what should be at that point 2 Top 5 teams versus a game where UW maybe is playing to be bowl eligible and the Cougs are a fiery hot mess.

1) No chance you can make both games in their entirety. Enjoy the game you're going to, don't try and kill yourself to catch some of the Apple Cup.

2) There's like a 1.8% both TCU and Baylor will be top 5 teams at that poont. Not going to happen. But it's still far, far superior to the Crapple Cup (lol!).

Baylor's schedule before they play TCU next year:

@ SMU, Lamar, Rice, Texas Tech, @ Kansas, West Virginia, Iowa State, @ KState (Thursday game w/ bye week before that), Oklahoma, @ Okie Lite ... then @ TCU and vs Texas.

The only games in the above that I think that they have any chance at all of losing would be the KState, Okie Lite, and maybe the Oklahoma game. Would be very surprising honestly if they lost any of those games ... but they are Baylor.

TCU is probably the better team but have a little more difficult of a schedule.

@ Minnesota, SF Austin, SMU, @ Tech, Texas, @ KState, @ Iowa St, West Virginia (Thursday game w/ bye week before that), Okie Lite, Kansas, @ Oklahoma, then Baylor (no game after that).

Now that I think about it, could be interesting to try to do the Okie two-step on November 21st. I'm thinking I can live without going down to Oregon State this year and since that will probably be a 7:30 ESPN game, I can probably watch that after the games in Oklahoma.

EwaDawg said:

Tequilla said:

dnc said:

Tequilla said:

RaceBannon said:

NOGAF about the Apple cup

HTH

Yep - good chance that I'll be giving away my Apple Cup tickets this year to head down to watch the Baylor @ TCU game.

Froog POTD!
















Hard to blame you.

Shocked that that game is going to be on Friday and not a prime time game on Saturday.

I guess it is possible that if the TCU/Baylor game was a noon kickoff in Ft Worth and the UW/WSU game was a 7:30 game in Seattle I could make both ... but the reality is that one is going to be a game between what should be at that point 2 Top 5 teams versus a game where UW maybe is playing to be bowl eligible and the Cougs are a fiery hot mess.

Two top 5 teams? Maybe, maybe, maybe two of the top fifteen or twenty five. Did I say maybe?

The selection committee isn't suddenly going to get Grinolds FS. They, like all intelligent football people, realize those that are afraid to play tough non conf schedules or a championship game don't deserve top five status. One, like TCU did last year, could get lucky again. Two? Lets say odds are that other potential top five teams aren't the paper tigers that TCU and Baylor are.


HTH

You're insanely FS if you think that.

The Big 12 can't have a title game due to the number of teams in the league. Same problem with an at-large like Notre Dame if they are in that situation. And let's be honest, if Notre Dame was in that situation they aren't going to be penalized for not having a conference title game.

The reason both TCU and Baylor got excluded last year is very, very simple. TCU was the better team - everybody knew it. Baylor beat TCU. By most sane logic, Baylor was the deserving Big 12 representative - yet wasn't the best team in their conference. They proved as much by losing to Sparty. TCU proved that they were the best team by making Ole Miss look like what Ole Miss looks like most years that they aren't good.

The whole schedule argument is also BS. Both Big 12 teams play 9 conference opponents. TCU has a home/home with Minnesota that they finish up this year. In future years they have home/home series on the schedule with Arkansas and Ohio State. You can criticize them for playing SMU each year until you realize it's a rivalry game that has been played for 100 years. Hard to be overly critical of that one with regard to TCU. Could also be critical of a D2 opponent as well, but until we get critical of everybody else playing one, it's hard to be critical of TCU or Baylor for scheduling those teams. Baylor you can be a little more critical of because SMU isn't a unique rival to them and the only games on their non-conference schedule against a Power5 conference team through 2019 is a home/home against Duke.

And if you can't see that the odds of TCU and Baylor getting to November 21st (the weekend they both play road games in the state of Oklahoma) undefeated being probably better than 50/50, and the odds that both will be undefeated going into their game the day after Thanksgiving are better than Sark's odds of winning the PAC next year, then I can't help you. Even those that like to give me shit for froooging it up will tell you that I'm not blowing smoke on this one.

You do realize that TCU will be a Top 3 team at worst by the start of the season? Most likely #2 behind Ohio State?