Interesting Games Today?
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I feel like we got a tough draw in terms of who play watching these first weeks. Baylor, WV, Houston and TCU all look like hot garbage at this point. I’d be licking my chops if we had KSUs schedule.
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Does the Big 12 pick teams at random for schedules or is there a formula or win/loss weighing system? kjay mentions a draw; I can just imagine the NBA’s bingo machine with the team names on ping pong balls and your schedule is determined by whichever teams’ balls pop up?
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FCS Idaho absolutely wrecked Nevada 33-6. KU should be a pretty big favorite in Reno next Saturday.
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Texas with an 11 point lead in Tuscaloosa early in the 4th quarter.
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The SEC is a dumpster fire outside of Georgia
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@kjayhawks said in Interesting Games Today?:
The SEC is a dumpster fire outside of Georgia
Ole Miss has looked pretty good so far too and picked up a nice road win over a ranked Tulane today.
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Texas Tech took Oregon to the limit tonight.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 a SEC team with probably at least 5 times the NIL budget as Tulane should win.
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Many people are saying the PAC is the new SEC
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@kjayhawks said in Interesting Games Today?:
@Texas-Hawk-10 a SEC team with probably at least 5 times the NIL budget as Tulane should win.
Most would’ve assumed that last year too, but then they went out and beat the eventual Big 12 champs, won the AAC, and then beat USC in the Cotton Bowl. Willie Fritz is a very good coach who many on this site wanted hired here a couple of cycles ago.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 love it. Lets enjoy these fleeting moments while we are still the football underdog, and can appreciate fellowship with other overachieving underdogs.
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So, is Matt Campbell on the hot seat? He had the Cyclones rolling for several years. Maybe Iowa St alums are more patient with rebuilding than most fan bases.
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By the way, what the hell play was Texas trying to run on 4th and 1 in the 4th Q? They had two players lined up behind the center, then the snap was fumbled or never reached whichever player was to receive it. Crazy play that failed miserably at a critical time in the game. Of course, the refs blew it too, but who can blame them when you have so many players behind center it was nearly impossible to even see the ball. Texas got lucky on the replay reversal. Why are KU and other teams struggling with short yardage play calling? Please stop running it up the middle expecting a different result.
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@approxinfinity ya they won’t last a lot longer with the NIL. But does the NIL narrow the gap between the SEC and everyone else? Seems like it may have started to already. The no power conferences will soon be minor leagues per se, have a good year and get called up.
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Willie is a great coach no questioning that. I just didn’t see them holding off a top 5 SEC team. Beating KSU was great for them but was the same KSU team that got spanked in a bowl by the third best SEC team without several starters. That’s what leads jn my question for @approxinfinity.
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@FarmerJayhawk The Pac is a joke to me besides USC. Oregon and Utah whom are probably the second and third best teams in that conference struggled against B12 teams that are gonna be lucky to finish in the top half of the conference.
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@kjayhawks all joking aside, Utah also was on its third QB. There’s not much of a gap between the PAC and Big 12 IMO. It’s actually pretty easy to argue the PAC is better. They have 7 teams ranked, the Big 12 has 3.
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@FarmerJayhawk I personally put more into bowl game results rather than rankings which tend to a popularity contest. To me I realize the B12 wasn’t good in that department last season but I think it was a down year. Seems like when the Pac gets a major bowl birth, it’s ends very badly. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/lists/recent-pac-12-bowl-game-history-further-fuels-laughing-stock-narrative/
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@kjayhawks ah, yeah I’m not really interested in bowl results in the opt out/Covid era. Too often it’s just who wants to be there rather than actual quality
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@FarmerJayhawk we are all fair to gauge it our way for sure but the opting out and Covid are just the last few years. The Pac has struggled in bowl games since Pete Carroll was on the sidelines.
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PAC worst football conference the last few years. No one watches their super late games - makes it hard to recruit or stir national interest. You’d think they would be under ranked and roll in bowl games with the lack of exposure.
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Looking ahead to Saturday Big 12 action, there isn’t a must see game. If I can find it, I’ll watch KSt/Mizzou at 11am and hope KSt crushes, humiliates, gutter stomps them. I guess TCU/Houston and BYU/Ark are OK. At least watching BYU at 6:30 on ESPN2 will give us a heads up on next Saturday’s game. Our 9:30 game will give us some insight into Jalen’s health. Good grief, the sports world is just falling all over itself over Coach Prime. The Colo/ColoSt game gets an ESPN slot at 9pm.
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Deion is interesting. Turned that roster over in a year. He’s also brash and many want to watch him fail. Hate watching is real too. I hope he does well, it’s good for the future big12.
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@stoptheflop You missed the Backyard Brawl tomorrow. Great rivalry and should be a good game.
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@dylans 90% of KSU fans hate watch KU basketball
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@kjayhawks - only 90%? I thought it would be higher.
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@kjayhawks - unless KU is playing I have never watched a single KSU game. I leave the room if others have the game on. It’s like watching paint dry boring af.
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@kjayhawks said in Interesting Games Today?:
@dylans 90% of KSU fans hate watch KU basketball
Mommy always told me the other kids threw rocks at me because they liked me!
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I cheer any team playing Missouri and crow every Missouri loss. I don’t focus or care about what other fans do or think about KU. I will continue to scream my head off over everything KU(just ask my wife) and root against KU’s rivals, even if it means hoping KState beats Missou. Today, KState is the lesser of the evils and any SEC loss helps the Big 12.
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Ridiculous flop by a Missou special teams player. Stupid and sad that players think they need to cheat with a flop to gain some advantage. Fortunately, the refs didn’t fall for it.
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I’m finding myself watching the K-State/Mizzou game mostly with ambivalence and hope that there’s some way both could lose.
I definitely am rooting against Missouri, but it also feels wrong to feel good when K-State has success.
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Hey look at those Long Island Sharks scoring a TD at Baylor. But, Baylor up 16-7 at the half.
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Big 12 not showing out very well. Iowa State tied with Ohio U 0-0 @ halftime. Baylor not blowing out LIU (16-7 @ half). K-State losing by 3 @ the half to Misery. Ugh.
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@Gorilla72 Fortunately, there’s another half.
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Illinois hanging with #7 Penn state way better than they did with unranked Kansas.
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Oh no! Ohio is ahead of ISt in the 3rdQ 7-0
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Iowa State offensive is worse than last year and that’s saying a lot. I know Dekkers is out suspended
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Misery has passed for 320 yds. I hope KU will take advantage of that weak-ass secondary and end the 14 game losing streak to KSt.
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The mighty MAC Ohio Bobcats beat ISt 10-7. Now does anyone else think Matt Campbell may be on the chopping block?
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K-State goes down to Misery by 3. Fans rush the field like it’s a big game. TV guys say it’s a rivalry game?
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@Gorilla72 said in Interesting Games Today?:
K-State goes down to Misery by 3. Fans rush the field like it’s a big game. TV guys say it’s a rivalry game?
It is a h HUGE GAME for these Schools. - -I LOVE IT couldn’t of happened to anyone better. - -I can’t stand K/State , I will go out of my way to drive around Manhattan - -there is NOTHING in that miserable town that interests me - -way to go Mizzou What a Saturday, HELL YA
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@Gorilla72 said in Interesting Games Today?:
K-State goes down to Misery by 3. Fans rush the field like it’s a big game. TV guys say it’s a rivalry game?
Yes, KSU-Missouri is a rivalry game, not on par with either school and KU, but it’s still a rivalry game. Missouri’s been average the past few years so beating a top 15 team on a walk-off 61 yard FG is absolutely going to cause fans to storm the field as they should for a big win.
If KU beats KSU later this season, I hope our fans storm the field as well because of how bad we’ve been against KSU for basically the last 30-35 years.
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According to jwill they, Mizzou, was chanting fu KU. It was posted.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said in Interesting Games Today?:
According to jwill they, Mizzou, was chanting fu KU. It was posted.
I would expect nothing less from them, lol!
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Some talk this week about Misery dodging KU at the Liberty Bowl. Since we still have 4 hours until KU’s game starts, I looked up the projected payouts of the bowls. Missouri got their ass kicked in the Gazpacho Soup Bowl or some such name. That bowl was scheduled to pay $1,125,000. Whereas, the Liberty Bowl that MU passed up paid $4,700,000. Way to go Misery.
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BYU looking not great against pirate Kansas
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Oklahoma state sucks. KSU showed if you can pressure Howard he will turn the ball over. ISU sucks.
UCF will be a tough game to win. Cincy looks like they’ll at least put up a fight.
Still it looks like this team should go bowling. Nevada, ISU, OSU and BYU should be wins. UCF, TTU, KSU, and Cincy could be wins.
Still feel like we are on pace to see an 8+ win season to me.
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Really stinks gameday already did UT this year. A 4-0 KU in Austin would have been a great gameday.
As of right now I think Gameday should do Notre Dame vs Duke that week. I wish they didn’t do Boulder already or I’d say USC at Colorado.
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BYU looking better against pirate Kansas
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@Kcmatt7 said in Interesting Games Today?:
Really stinks gameday already did UT this year. A 4-0 KU in Austin would have been a great gameday.
As of right now I think Gameday should do Notre Dame vs Duke that week. I wish they didn’t do Boulder already or I’d say USC at Colorado.
Likely wouldn’t go to Austin for KU/Texas regardless because UT has a potentially much bigger match up the following week that GameDay would likely be at if both Texas and Oklahoma are still undefeated at 5-0 and I see no reason to think that won’t happen at this point.
