OverRated: The Week in College Football Polls

OverRated: The Week in College Football Polls

Clean up your Messes Edition

 

It’s time to strike camp, pay our debts, and get out of town!  It’s

 

Week Eleven Most OverRated Football Program Results

 

1          Minnesota was not stomped by Penn State

2          Oregon was idle

I got nothing (except that SMU rant from last week which I absolutely stand by).

 

 

Things are going easy for the Committee since both Bama and Penn State fell on their swords.

  1. Ohio State made soup of the Terps
  2. LSU bested Bama at Bama
  3. Alabama hung 41 on LSU but lost anyway
  4. Penn State was upset at Minnesoda
  5. Clemson smoked a pack-o-Wolves at NCSU
  6. Georgia toyed with Mizzou

 

not SMU chicks

Unsolicited memoir:  I was told I was going to a single UGA sorority soirée over the weekend but got suckered into three, three I tellsya soiréeauxeses.  Tickets were row 13 about dead midfield:  I had a better view than ESPN.  It was pretty near freezing as the game ended, which is fine, but the whole point of going to an SEC game is to take in shorts-n-skirts season:  oh well, a certain sort of squandering of a trip to Athens unless you’re into impotent Tigers.

 

But the Committee doesn’t care about that; they had a list to update . . . thus:

  1. LSU is set for Atlanta
  2. Ohio State has Penn State and Michigan before getting to Indy
  3. Clemson is sharpening their skates, waiting for the pond to freeze
  4. Georgia has Auburn before Atlanta
  5. Alabama needs too much help at this point
  6. Oregon can make a statement against the Utes

 

College Football Playoff Oughta Be

Big Ten        Ohio State might see Minnesoda in the championship

SEC                LSU need only handle aTm and Auburn to meet UGA in the championship

ACC                Clemson is pretty much done with the regular season

PAC64             Oregon lost to Auburn, a team UGA could well beat for its third quality win

Big XII            Oklahoma struggled to edge TCU and closed the books on itself for the year

 

Silly Loser Ordination

Alabama                       best one-loss              team in the nation

Wisconsin                    best two-loss              team in the nation

Iowa                              best three-loss          team in the nation

Washington                 best four-loss             team in the nation

Michigan State            best five-loss              team in the nation

South Carolina            best six-loss               team in the nation

Tulsa                             best seven-loss            team in the nation

Northwestern              best eight-loss            team in the nation

Rice                               best nine-loss            team in the nation

Texas Southern           only ten-loss              team in the nation

 

Second CFP Week N + 1 Most OverRated Football Programs

 1          Minnesota was not stomped by Penn State and rockets beyond their pay grade

2          Utah  re-enters the fray but won’t play anyone until Oregon in the Pacific punch-out

3          Georgia re-enters our list after their sudden CFP promotion; remember that they lost to South Carolina who has since lost to Ap State

4          Oregon was idle and is probably not overrated to speak of anymore

 

Honorable Mentions

Things have settled more or less where they belong, so there’s not much to say here.

Toldjaso™ Boise State buoys in the competency vacuum but plays no one for the rest of the year.

Kansas State plummeted after losing to Texas, but I just didn’t have the guts last week to say they were truly overrated; send their files to the basement already.

Formerly-nailed Appalachian State jumped into the rankings, but there’s no real test for them left, so I’m not arguing with the Committee down past two dozen spots.

Psuedotoldjasos:  Already-called Wake Forest and SMU finally fell plumb out of the rankings; we wish to hear their names no more.

 

Year to Date Hides on the Wall

1          Georgia lost at home to the second-best team from South Carolina that almost lost to UNC

         Utah lost to an unrated USC but seems to be coming back

2          Stanford was revealed by USC

2          Syracuse was unranked after Maryland

2          Michigan was blown out by Wisconsin

2          Notre Dame sold off after losing to a highly ranked Georgia

7          UCF was edged by an unranked Pitt and continues to muddle

7          Iowa was no number 15 as Michigan proved

7          Wake Forest allowed Louisville to hang 62 on them

7          Cal was dumped from the AP after losing to Arizona State

11        Boise State lost by three to toothless BYU

11        Iowa State was dethroned before their decent showing against Iowa

11        Memphis lost to possibly 80th best team in the nation Temple and disappeared for a while

11        SMU lost at Memphis fell eight places

15        Michigan State slowly fell out of the ratings, so I was right after all

15        Clemson was dethroned by barely edging Mack Brown retirement project UNC

15        Texas lost to OU (mid-season toldjasos™) and has continued to suck and plummet

15        Texas probably over-paid for losing to titan LSU (early-season toldjasos™), but then they let Kansas hang 48 on them at home

15        Appalachian State got a case of the Statesboro Blues and fell over six slots

20        Auburn over-paid for losing to Florida

20        Texas A&M probably over-paid for quality losses against Clemson and Auburn . . . or maybe not

20        Washington State was de-ranked after becoming lowly UCLA’s first win

20        Virginia continues to lose after losing to can-play-with-UGA Notre Dame

24        Oklahoma lost to Kansas State . . . inexcusable

25        San Diego State didn’t make the Committee’s list at all

 

Year to Date It-Would-Seem Blown Calls Because They’re Doing Okay Really Well

1          LSU (that was a typo or something, I swear)

2          Florida seems to have earned their status by defeating top-ten Auburn

3          Oklahoma is no longer a blown call because Kansas State

4          UCF is now a skin on the wall after Pitt

5          Michigan is no longer a blown call because Wisconsin

6          Washington State is no longer a blown call because UCLA

 

Our year now stands at 25 2 – 4.  The week endeth thus!

 

 

links to older opinions:
2019-11-07                  2019-10-31                  2019-10-24                  2019-10-17                  2019-10-10
2019-10-03                 2019-09-26                  2019-09-19                 2019-09-13                 2019-09-06
Disclosure of sources of bias:  your correspondent has attended the University of Tennessee, Memphis State and the University of Memphis, Christian Brothers College . . . and he sleeps with an alumna of Georgia whose parents met at Washington State . . . and his son went to Houston . . . and he never met anyone from TCU he didn’t like . . . and he irrationally hates Notre Dame, UCF, Clemson, and Notre Dame.

Comments

274 responses to “OverRated: The Week in College Football Polls”

  1. DEG

    I was told I was going to a single UGA sorority soirée over the weekend but got suckered into three, three I tellsya soiréeauxeses.

    You make it sound like a bad thing.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      where in an essay is the correct place to sneak in a humble brag?

      1. Sir Digby

        Third paragraph, based on Oxford rules.

  2. Nephilium

    Not college football, but allow me to say… fuck the Steelers!

    1. Rhywun

      I guess I’ll root for the Browns, even after last week’s travesty.

      1. Nephilium

        We kept trying to lose on Sunday, FFS how many plays in a row from the 1 yard line with no score, and a turnover on downs? A missed extra point? A safety?

        1. Rhywun

          No idea as it wasn’t broadcast here. Just reflecting on the final score & my reckless prediction beforehand.

        2. Tres Cool

          ..run a play on 4th and skip getting 3 on a FG?

          /from Cincinnati

          1. Nephilium

            Hell, 90% of us in the bar were cheering for going for it… until we turned it over.

          2. Tres Cool

            Well, we’re the Brown of the past 2 years

          3. Nephilium

            Oh I thought you were talking about our plays last week.

          4. Nephilium

            Oh gods… it’s happening again…

          5. Nephilium

            And it did not. Landry was wide open.

            We haven’t looked this good since we beat the Ravens.

          6. Rhywun

            Heh – not this time

          7. Jarflax

            Dudes, we live in Ohio. The NFL exists to make us sad. Give it up, it isn’t getting better. The Reds may be good again, the Indians may win next year, even the Cavs had a moment, but the NFL is always going to suck out your soul if you let it.

          8. Nephilium

            Jarflax:

            I’m allowing my self a chance to cheer for a team that may be on an upswing. I remember a time the Browns were good, of course, that was back in the 80’s.

          9. Sir Digby

            Ah, the 80’s: Back when people weren’t so let down.

          10. Jarflax

            Yeah, they’ll sell you on the ‘upswing’ and you’ll start buying in, then the Steelers will cheap shot your QB by rolling his knee just as he completes a 30 yard pass, and you’ll be off to 0-7 and the playoffs. Oh, wait sorry, I’m projecting.

  3. Not Adahn

    Tulsa best seven-loss team in the nation

    I have an extreme fondness for the Golden Hurricanes. They never locked their music building, so if you were a young high school male with a date and a need for privacy, they were a godsend. Plus, they were close to The Metro, which is the first restaurant I went to that served sides of gravy for their fries. (which were great for refuelling for rounds 3+)

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      top ten mascot/logo

  4. Alabama best one-loss team in the nation

    I’m picking on Bama here, but it applies across the board. If you want to make the playoffs, playing an FCS team should count as a loss. There are plenty of lowly FBS teams to scrimmage against without turning it into a glorified bye week.

    1. Drake

      Thank you.

      I saw Saban lying about their ridiculous schedule a few weeks ago. Just schedule back-to-back series with real teams like everyone else you pussy.

      1. I wish the B1G had held firm on the no FCS on the schedule rule. As it is, 9 conference games and no FCS when you have 7 home games is much better than other conferences, but they need to be the change they want to see.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        And travel.

  5. Spudalicious

    You keep capping on Boise Don, I’m going to have to come through the interwebs and do some damage.(Boise is not a top 20 team)

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      The Committee has the Stangs at 21. I’ve got them behind A&M, UCF, and a bunch of other twenty-somethings. Where you putting ’em?

      For the record, their bowling ZeroU over was one of the funniest games of all time. And I love it when the center is also an eligible receiver.

      1. Spudalicious

        21, or 22 works for me. I am not a Brian Harsin fan.

  6. Tundra

    Go Gilded Rodents!

    Minne sports fans are conditioned to expect the worst, but that was one hell of a good game.

    1. Gender Traitor

      Looking forward to the Big 10 Champeenship game if current division leaders meet!

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        ^—————-this is gonna be awesome————————^

  7. LJW

    AOC slams WH adviser Stephen Miller as ‘white nationalist’ after recent report, calls for his resignation

    Anyone have any facts regarding this story? I don’t trust anything the SPLC releases. Seems like all of the news sites are just citing the SPLC claims but aren’t providing links to the emails.

    1. mikey

      Miller is Jewish. He couldn’t be any whiter without being Asian as well.

      I don’t think I’ve ever seen accusation of “white supremisist” or “racist” being backed up by anyting more than “he disagrees with me.”

    2. Drake

      He was caught reading a VDare article (not kidding).

      1. Sir Digby

        Shoulda had it tucked into a Penthouse, to avoid raising suspicions.

      2. LJW

        I’ve never even heard of vdare until today.

        1. Jarflax

          VDare, named for Virginia Dare, the first English ancestry baby born in America.

    3. Rhywun

      Nope, and I’m not willing to roll around in the mud to find out.

    4. Drake

      https://vdare.com/articles/yes-splc-and-ayatollah-ahmari-of-course-stephen-miller-reads-vdare-com-just-not-enough

      He emailed links to Steven Sailor articles. I assume that’s Unz, VDare, or Taki Mag. Either way, he must be evil.

      1. Jarflax

        VDare sometimes strikes me as Jezebel from the right. Similar ‘everything is the most awful crisis ever style, nuance is collaboration’. That said, it is not worse than Jezebel, so I’ll agree that people should lose Government jobs for reading it when people start losing Government jobs for reading Jezebel and Vox and DU.

    5. DenverJ

      Oh no, the SPLC is totally believable, bra.

  8. Tulip

    Hey MikeS, I would like to join your art challenge. When are we to post pictures?

    Thanks

    1. straffinrun

      Think you’re talking to me, no? I’ll write up something and submit it this weekend. I’ll set out the guidelines and y’all can post in the comments. Hopefully, TPTB approve.

      1. Tulip

        Ahh, my apologies. Thanks for planning it.

    2. MikeS

      I’ve been trying to decide just how perverted of a reply I should drop here, but I like Tulip. So, I’ll just say that tasteful nudes are always welcome.

      Also, who the hell is Art? I don’t know anyone by that name.

      1. CPRM

        I know a couple of Arts. Then there is some childhood rhyme I can’t remember about Art and something something fart.

        1. MikeS

          I’ll take “What do you call a man with no arms and no legs hanging on a wall” for $200, Alex.

          1. Nephilium

            Old series of jokes…

            What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs in front of a door? Matt

            What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs in the water? Bob

            Etc… etc…

          2. I know.

            They were not particularly funny.

          3. Gender Traitor

            What do you call a woman with one leg shorter than the other? Eileen

            What do you call an Asian woman with one leg shorter than the other? Irene

          4. Favorite: What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs in a pile of leaves?

            Russell.

          5. CPRM

            A Poster Boy?

  9. DenverJ

    28th!

    1. Sir Digby

      4rd!

      1. DenverJ

        I like 4rd. Had me a ’78 Bronco once. 351 Windsor with a 4 barrel Holly. Yup. Got about 6 miles to the gallon, going downhill, but man, what a ride. Ideling, it’d sound almost liquid, you know? Like a blub blub blub.
        Sweet ass interior, too- you know the custom wood console? Big tires. Brush guard and steel bumpers, with an after market sunroof.

        1. DenverJ

          Oh no! It wasnt the Windsor, it was the Cleveland, and it’s important, and the Cleveland was better.

          1. Sir Digby

            No….still only understood about, oh, 8 words in your story.

          2. DenverJ

            Windsor was small block, Cleveland was big.
            It was a muscle truck. Very fast, very loud. Very expensive to use as a work truck…

          3. Sir Digby

            Muscle truck

            I hope your LP said LUV MUSL

          4. Don Escaped Texas

            Cleveland had huge, round exhaust ports

            / Chevy guy, but those were some honking heads

          5. DenverJ

            ^This guy gets it

          6. Don Escaped Texas

            <———— this guy squandered his entire childhood learning to rebuild carbs, sharpen an ax, and solve non-linear differential equations. All dat shit has been replaced by anemometers and solar voltaic.

          7. DenverJ

            My new bestest friend. Or at least a fellow motorhead.

          8. Don Escaped Texas

            I can’t explain how much I love it. Grinding valves. Degree-ing in a cam. All the little johnny does and johnny don’t. The 5/8 socket I broke with an 8″ ratchet back when I was a bad-ass: I still have it just because I don’t want to forget that.

            And I’m trying to forget the year I spent trying to get stamped rocker arms to survive at 6000RPM.

          9. DenverJ

            Oh stop. You had me at “grinding valves”.
            To me it’s the sound, toy know? Like, I can hear if the timing is off, or if you’re running rich, right? And a perfectly tuned engine is like a perfectly tuned guitar, and the harmonics of a casual strum simply portend the fury to come. Or I’m drunk. That’s possible.

    2. straffinrun

      Your cycle is up? Tin men can have periods, too.

  10. straffinrun

    *Checks news* “Why don’t the Republicans have an open mind on impeachment!” *Closes window*

    1. Sir Digby

      I hear that, when straffinrun closes a window, he opens a door.

      I have no idea if this is true.

      1. straffinrun

        I’m like the wind in a Patrick Swayze song.

        1. Jarflax

          Don’t spoil it, but I picture Straf living in a cool wooden house with ricepaper walls and highly polished floors. Periodically he crosses his garden to the dojo wherein ancestral swords sit on a shrine above the practice floor.

          1. Sir Digby

            I’ve never encountered him in meat space, but this is totally correct.

          2. Tejicano

            Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

            Cool story bro.

          3. Jarflax

            You on the other hand I picture living inside an ultra modern factory/office building. You have a large apartment on the top floor wherein the evil twin of Straf’s sword sits on a shrine above a water feature. You carefully change from your Italian suit into traditional robes (black of course) before kneeling before the sword and swearing vengeance.

          4. OneOut

            Life in a luxury RV in a marina and fish in my back yard for flounder and redfish every day.

            Is that the same thing ?

          1. straffinrun

            LOL. Sorry, but that is a prerequisite.

      2. Gender Traitor

        ::looks at straff’s avatar:: He’d best be careful when he closes that window.

        1. Sir Digby

          He’s gonna set off the glass breakage alarm, for sure.

          1. Gender Traitor

            He’ll be lucky if it’s the glass that gets damaged.

          2. Sir Digby

            Yeah–he could possibly lose that sweet sex-haunting gig he has.

        2. If he’d stop goose-stepping around he’d not have that problem.

          /willfully obtuse.

          1. Jarflax

            It’s ducks that are hung.

            /counterobtuse

      3. Spudalicious

        Wow. That’s deep, man.

        *passes Sir Digby the bong*

        1. Sir Digby

          Oh, I never touch the stuff.

          Anyone have any steel wool? I, uh…I got dirty dishes.

          1. Jarflax

            Thought you were supposed to use copper? Isn’t there some awful thing you can get from using steel wool?

          2. Sir Digby

            High.

          3. Yusef drives a Kia

            No it’s copper that’s bad
            / Old stoner

          4. DenverJ

            Yup. And all the old pre-legal pipes were made from lamp parts, I shit you not. Mostly copper, some brass. Remember the old chamber pipes with a lid that had a hole in the middle? Lamp parts. Full of copper. With copper screens from the faucet.

  11. Yusef drives a Kia
  12. Jarflax

    OK, damn it Straf has now passed HM in screwing up my youtube. Somehow Google has decided to autofill youtube and make the youtube icon link to that damn video of crazy big jaw guy.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      I will double my efforts.

    2. Spudalicious

      Thanks, Jarflax…

      1. Jarflax

        *hangs head in shame, kicks pebble.

        Sorry

  13. Don Escaped Texas

    This ran at 7? Another slow news night.

    I’ll scan back up.

    1. Gender Traitor

      I know I’m a nerd, but I’ve been craving another acrostic since last night, when I expected another puzzle to post.

      1. DenverJ

        Hmm. Here’s something to tide you over: what is the sound of one hand clapping?

        1. Oh that’s easy.

          *rapidly closes fingers against palm*

          1. DenverJ

            So kind of a “scritch scritch scritch”?

          2. You have short fingers and long nails if that’s the sound you get.

            pat pat pat pat is a closer approximation.

          3. DenverJ

            “You have short fingers and long nails if that’s the sound you get.”
            Who you been talking to?

        2. Gender Traitor

          You must be a member of the Koanist Club.

          1. Nephilium

            I figured everyone here would be a Yen Buddhist.

      2. Don Escaped Texas

        #MeToo

        I took a serious run at the NYT Sunday: I think I understand their editor a little better than Hyperbole.

        I get Hyperbole’s crosswords, one way or the other. No such recovering is available in acrostic.

        1. Gender Traitor

          I used to do them years ago when the previous Mr. (Rev.) GT and I subscribed to Harper’s for a short time. Not worth subscribing just for that though – just like it’s not worth subscribing to The New Yorker just for the cartoons.

          1. DenverJ

            Hell, the cartoons are the reason to unsubscribe from the New Yorker.
            “I don’t get it” that’s because you’re dumb, see, everybody else gets it.
            It’s like, literally, a retelling of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.

          2. Gender Traitor

            For the five minutes Rev. GT & I subscribed to TNY (before we subscribed to Harper’s) the cartoons were all I had time to read. Jeeminy criminy, those articles are so freakin’ LONG!

      3. I submitted one late Monday, It’s scheduled for a Tuesday drop.

        1. Gender Traitor

          Woo hoo! I’ll sharpen my pencil!

  14. Eff me. I’ve been working on this patent for 13 hours straight, and I probably have another 2 or 3 before it’s done. Engineer glibs, don’t torture your friendly neighborhood patent attorney, submit your invention more than a week before your conference.

    1. Where’s the fun in that?

      /guy who’ll likely never have a patent to file.

      1. The fun is in the check they get cut when I file this thing. Everything other than that is the opposite of fun.

        1. Check? Normal people still use checks?

          1. Technically the check on my paystub is nonnegotiable, but it’s still a check.

    2. Don Escaped Texas

      I wonder how many millions I owe in licenses for things I “invented.”

      1. You aren’t liable if you don’t get caught.

        It’s all mutually assured destruction for the big dogs anyway. Why would we sue our big competitors? We have 10k patents, they have 10k patents, and we’re both infringing like hell. By the time we were done paying the lawyers, we’d be right back at square one, but millions of dollars poorer.

        1. Don Escaped Texas

          good-natured, well-meaning co-worker: you oughta patent that!

          Don: I don’t want to spend $20k to just find out I owe someone royalties; just run it and keep your trap shut

        2. Chafed

          Sounds good to me.

          /lawyer

  15. Rhywun

    Jeebus… ever since my cats discovered the easy way up to my desk a couple months ago they are tag-teaming jumping up a dozen times each every night. C’mon, you’re supposed to be aloof and sleeping.

    1. Gender Traitor

      I miss having a kitteh! : ( We’ve decided we should probably wait until after Christmas before we adopt another, since we’re going to be out of town for a few days. With any luck, I’ll get to fuss over some of my sis & BIL’s kittehs on Thanksgiving.

      1. Gender Traitor

        Don’t know if I even want to put up our Christmas tree this year. It won’t be the same without a kitteh underneath.

        1. Well thar’s your problem, your kitteh had no legs 😛

          (Yes, I am familiar with the ‘bread loaf’ positon cats take)

          1. Rhywun

            When I was little we called that the “peanut”.

          2. Don Escaped Texas
          3. Rhywun

            Heh!

          4. MikeS

            What did I miss? Why is Baldwin back?

            (I know; complaints from turkey-finger should probably be ignored)

          5. Nephilium

            What about Beagle or Bagel?

      2. Rhywun

        Ugh I’ve been fussing over these gals for 13 years… JK but they can be trying at times 🙂

  16. Yusef drives a Kia

    I bought a few air mattresses to keep us off the ground, they leaked first night, turns out the inflation valve was loose, duh,
    Sore hips ….

    1. Gender Traitor

      Ugh! Was the problem fixable?

    2. Rhywun

      My first bed in NYC 🙂
      OK, actually Hoboken.
      Pump every day…

      1. Sir Digby

        Pump every day…

        That’s part of the Porn Credo, isn’t it?

        1. Rhywun

          I almost went with “blow every day” but thought better of it.

          1. Gender Traitor

            That discussion was last night. I was glad I’d gone to bed so no one could ask me about my…umm…position.

    3. Don Escaped Texas

      I gave up and went with solid ground rolls after a few years camping all over west Texas.

      I never had much trouble with cactus, but those tiny needles work their way into stuff and are just part of life. Sooner or later, an inflatable gets a leak. I found one in a golf bag five years after escaping Texas: they won’t go away.

  17. commodious spittoon

    Man I know I don’t post as much but you don’t have to make me sign in every day.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      help! was that an appeal for better articles . . . . or worserer ones?

    2. Don Escaped Texas

      also:

      the new round of avatars are funny

      I imagine most folk have no idea where they stole their original image two years ago

      the brilliance in finding new way to express one’s self and match the humor here is quite good

      I continue to adore this site

      1. commodious spittoon

        Come to think of it, I can’t make sense of yours. Guessing pilgrim attire, but the stars? And Orange?

        1. Don Escaped Texas

          Here’s my base avatar: top-hat on a tri-star

          The tri-star comes from the three thirds of Tennessee as shown on “our” flag.

          https://www.volunteertraditions.com/collections/rifleman-collection/products/tristar-applique-crewneck-sweatshirts put it in Volunteer orange, another thing for which I might owe some license payments.

          Everything else has been some turn on that them: tri-star was replaced by a pumpkin for Halloween. I think if you change your stuff, it needs to track so folks don’t lose track . . . . just sayin*

          * actually, I don’t really care and find I keep up rather well other than I need Rhywun to be Rhywun because I’m so used to his name and avatar . . . . something about it.

          1. Rhywun

            That sounds like a challenge.

          2. Don Escaped Texas

            I noticed !

            although that avatar works for you, too

          3. commodious spittoon

            Wait… Rhywun’s a dude??

          4. Rhywun

            100% cis-dude. Youse got a problem wit’ dat?

          5. Yes. That you would use the superfluous prefix ‘cis’.

          6. Rhywun

            Personal point of privilege – my pronouns are he/him.

  18. Nephilium

    I’m not going to argue with that ejection…

    1. Gender Traitor

      IANAD, but if that dude was really bleeding from the ear, that can’t be good.

      1. Nephilium

        No, that would be most likely a concussion. Then the Browns decided to regress to week one penalty problems…

  19. OneOut

    What is it with all this semi- pro football chatter.

    Can’t you guys realize that college football is just as dominated by money as the NFL ?

    Armature athletics in college football doesn’t exist.

    I know for a fact that Billy Sims received 30k in a paper sack.

    The other schools in his conference weren’t disturbed because of the fact he got a sack full of money.

    The were pissed because the powers that be had determined that Billy’s market value was 20k at that time.

    They were pissed that PK had raised the price by 10k.

    I know it for a fact. I was involved.

    1. I’ve always been curious, how deep does it go? Is it just the nationally relevant teams, or is it all of the P5 schools? Or all of FBS?

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        What is hysterical is A&M or Ole Miss getting the book thrown at them and having nothing to show for it.

        Reggie Bush’s mom got a house, and USC got The Trophy.

      2. OneOut

        I played at Texas A & I for 1 year in the late 70s.

        A$I was Division NAI at the time.

        Head Coach Gil Stenkie had won 2 National Championships in 3 years at that time.

        Our starting QB drove a Grand Torino.

        A&I was a school where players without any scholastic qualifications could play college football .

        You might be amazed at the star NFL players came out of there.

    2. OneOut

      I tried to clarify several times but kept getting kicked out.

      I was secondarily involved. Hearsay for my boss actually which is a better way to say it. I had nothing to do with the payment and wasn’t there when it happened but worked for someone who actively did at the time and filled many sacks with 100s.

      Sims got 10k more than market value at the time to go to OK rather than ATM or Texas

      1. CPRM

        When I was at UNLV the quarterback, a black kid from Compton, had (nice) three cars. I’m just pissed that none of the guys on the football team that I knew got kickbacks, or at least that they share any lucre with me if they did.

  20. Yusef drives a Kia

    Well that thread went somewhere,
    It appears my problem was user error, now We are comfy homeless people,
    Odd, we are clean and well fed, not broke yet, but.,,..scared

    1. Gender Traitor

      So very sorry you’re going through this! Any employment prospects? Goodness knows you have skills.

    2. Spudalicious

      Are you still working, Yusef?

    3. R C Dean

      Dude, update?

  21. hayeksplosives

    For those of you who follow Big 12 NCAAF, you know that the annual Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State U game is called Bedlam and is a BF Deal in Oklahoma.

    Tonight’s game is Bedlam 2.0, as former OkState QB Mason Rudolph squares up against former OU QB Baker Mayfield once again.

    Spoiler alert: OU almost always wins the Bedlam game.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Mason Rudolph is Steelers QB and Baker Mayfield is Browns QB.

      I guess I left that tidbit out

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        figured it was something like that

        I usually don’t generalize, but my Pokes have been much better engineers than my Sooners. I still interview everyone on their merits, but I can’t imagine going camping or going halfsies on a race car with a Normanite.

        1. hayeksplosives

          I like the cut of your jib. Do you have a newsletter to which I can subscribe?

          The universal theme of recruiters of engineers when I graduated was that OK State produced far more well rounded engineers with actual hardware experience than what they got from OU.

          I’m a Poke myself.

          1. CPRM

            Pig in a Poke?

            *Runs Away*

          2. Don Escaped Texas

            Tulsa (a Cherokee name, I’m pretty sure) OK and Philadelphia (not really a Greek name) MS are kinda the same place: red clay, pine trees, pickups, gas wells, and Civilized types; so east of the Chisholm I’m pretty comfy in OK. I wouldn’t blink to see Marty Stuart in either place.

  22. CPRM

    South Park took on the the issue of Trans atheletes this week. They were so nuanced I couldn’t tell which side of the debate they took.

    1. commodious spittoon

      Don’t upset the PC babies.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Loved the BOC reference. I think it’s supposed to be?

        1. CPRM

          BOC?

          1. Rhywun

            Something about cowbell? I dunno, I haven’t watched SP in years.

          2. CPRM

            I don’t have a head for music.

    2. dbleagle

      Do not for the sake of your sanity look at the comments at DU about this SP episode.. I had a peak and they were horrifying.

      1. I can’t say I’ve ever wandered over to that site.

        Probably because I don’t see a benefit in driving up my blood pressure.

      2. CPRM

        *Whispers*You watch Packers games, do you get to see pre-season games in HI? Rich Gannon calls them. That’s why I put the Athelete joke in there *slinks away*

        1. dbleagle

          I watch the Packers but skip the pre-season games since there is no fun in watching people who will never make the team.

  23. dbleagle

    Smedley Butler’s book “War is a Racket” can be downloaded for free from this site in pdf.

    http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2015/11/pdf-war-is-a-racket-by-gen-smedley-butler/

    (This is not to endorse the host website. It is a place for a free download w/o having to register.)

    1. mikey

      Damn, and I just spent like $2.99 on Kindle

    1. Chafed

      Rufus made the first comment!

  24. dbleagle

    Son of a bitch. Cleveland may not piss away this game.

    1. Nephilium

      Shut Up! Shut Up! Shut Up!

      /has switched from beer to bourbon.

    2. hayeksplosives

      It’s the curse of the Poke Choke

      1. Nephilium

        /tries to avoid to talk about the interceptions.

        /tries really hard

        /thinks about a no hitter

        1. Nephilium

          Gods damn! Back to back sacks lead to a fucking riot!

          1. Rhywun

            Well, this is charming.

          2. hayeksplosives

            Holy Hannah.

            So much for discipline.

            What a disgrace! Ruined a good game.

          3. Rhywun

            “Baker, what is your reaction?”

            *changes channel*

          4. Nephilium

            Off to bed, to read all the pieces about it tomorrow. First thought is being annoyed that Rudolph didn’t get a flag for trying to take Garrett’s helmet off in the first place.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      You were saying?

  25. Heroic Mulatto

    I can’t be the only one who thinks that puppy with the tail growing out of its head is a mutant freak that should be put down.

    1. CPRM

      All puppies should be put down. Non-GMO pets are the only pets that should be aloud!

      1. Non-GMO pets are too dangerous to be allowed to speak.

        1. CPRM

          Kick’s pebble mumbles about Ninja Turtles.

    2. commodious spittoon

      Plenty of the folk Geralt meets think him a mutated freak better dead than spoiling God’s green earth with his visage and uncanny abilities.

      1. CPRM

        Then he makes fun of a dwarf and has sex with a red head, proving them right.

        1. commodious spittoon

          Triss is best bae SHUT THE FUCK UP

          1. Jarflax

            I was in that camp until the unicorn

    3. Chafed

      Yes you are.

    1. slumbrew

      Is she on the toilet?

      That does not do it for me.

      1. CPRM

        The Fuhrer haz sad.

        1. slumbrew

          We heil (pffft) heil (pffft) right in der Fuehrer’s face

        1. slumbrew

          I know what it is, Q, I’m just not into it.

          (years ago, I horrified a girl at a bar with my description of a blumpkin as well as an “angry dragon”.)

      2. OneOut

        Who cares what she is sitting on?

        That pic is exquisite.

        I’m sure some filters were involved but I don’t care.

        That pic of that woman is the best I’ve ever seen.

    2. Spudalicious

      Mmmm. Yellow fever.

    3. Chafed

      A screen grab from scat porn?

  26. OneOut

    The end game was the best I’ve ever seen.

    OQ tries to rip the helmet off of a guy who sacked him and was on top of him.

    The D player does rip the helmentvoff the QB and then swings it like a weapon at the subs head.

    Much hilarity ensues.

    Great ending to a boring finish.

    1. slumbrew

      swings it like a weapon at the subs(sic) head

      Let’s be clear: Garrett full-on cracked Rudolph in the head with Rudolph’s own helmet.

      Garrett is looking at a multi-game suspension.

      Pouncey may be, too, for attempting to kick Garrett in the head while he was on the ground.

      1. OneOut

        Didn’t the QB try to rip Garrett’s helmet off though ?

        I thought that is what set him off ?

        1. slumbrew

          Yes, it sure looked like Rudolph was pulling at Garrett’s helmet, but Garrett 1) yanking Rudolph’s helmet off by the face mask and then 2) actually taking an overhand swing and cracking Rudolph in the head with it will result in the larger punishment.

          Not sure if Rudolph will get more than a slap on the wrist – he didn’t manage to actually do anything (and Garrett arguably was guilty of roughing the passer at that point – not sure if that buys any leniency for Rudolph)

          1. OneOut

            You are right no doubt

            I found it entertaining that he tried to rip off someone’s helmet only too find his own helmet hitting him on the head.

          2. Playa Manhattan

            Yeah, the tackle was a bitch move to begin with. Garrett tried to body slam him long after he made the throw.

          3. hayeksplosives

            I gotta side with Rudolph on this one too.

            No excuse for Pouncy though.

          4. Nephilium

            I expect Garrett to be out until next year at the least. And based on what I saw the guy kicking did hit Garrett in the head at least once.

    1. CPRM

      We are human and want to have sex too, disabled women INCELS say

      1. Incels are men and therefore only worthy of contempt and ridicule.

        1. CPRM

          “Women with a disability are viewed as asexual – that we are not human and do not have needs or sexual desires,” And women are lined up around the block to suck a paraplegic guys dick? Jim Jefferies was funny before.

          1. Fatty Bolger

            They’re not saying they can’t get laid, they’re complaining that they can’t get health care for sexual related issues. All the examples are third world countries.

          2. CPRM

            Fuck you MR. ‘I READ THE ARTICLE’! You’re such a piece of shit!

  27. OneOut

    I keep reading the new comments in between going aback up to heck out the beautiful titties on the Asian girl

    I don’t care what she is sitting on

    1. She does have a nice set.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        I’m pretty sure that’s a RealDoll.

        1. Fatty Bolger

          “Looks like a RealDoll” was my first thought.

        2. slumbrew

          *checks again*

          I’m pretty sure you’re correct.

          1. slumbrew

            Who puts their RealDoll on the toilet?

          2. CPRM

            Hitler?

        3. As if you wouldn’t…

    2. OneOut

      If she is on the toilet I would be happy to clean her up.

    3. Chafed

      As long as it’s my face. Hi-yo!

      1. OneOut

        Excuse me for a second.

        I have to go upthread for a second.

        1. Chafed

          Euphemism for an upper decker?

    4. Gustave Lytton

      At least it’s not a squat toilet.

    1. They are failures.

      1. Chafed

        Clearly. But who are they? Who has the time and energy to do this nonsense after they lost on his confirmation? It’s baffling to me.

        1. Rhywun

          Mix of trusties and paid performers.

          1. Chafed

            You’re probably right.

        2. I think some people are unhinged because they’re networked into the MSM/Progressive/coastal left…thing, and Trump winning the election was like a power surge that shorted all their circuits. I think others are hobbyists who do stuff like this as a social outlet. All of them need therapy, or at least to avoid politics for a while.

    2. CPRM

      I fapped to the original Handmaid’s Tale movie. It’s news to me that it had some kind of message.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Nothing to see here, move along.

    2. OneOut

      Look Chafed.

      She said she didn’t do anything wrong.

      Ok ?

      She din du nufing.

      Ok ?

    3. Fatty Bolger

      Don’t they have somebody explain things to the newbs? You pay your dues, and eventually you get dealed in on one of the Ukrainian slush funds.

      1. Rhywun

        I thought you had to be a coke-head washout to get on the Ukraine train.

        1. Chafed

          It’s not mandatory but it does help.

          1. Plinker762

            I thought it was for the white elite

    1. That looks like something you’d use as packing material.

    2. Gender Traitor

      Pumpkin Spice Twinkies or GTFO. /white chick in autumn.

      1. Sean

        Would not. ?

    3. Look, it doesn’t prove anything if it fails.

      And I’m pretty sure it’s going to.

      1. Sean

        “Look, it doesn’t prove anything if it fails.”

        Democrats haz a sad.

        1. That statement applies to this circumstances, and doesn’t apply to others. Failure can prove somthing – like your hypothesis is wrong, or that you’ve found another way that doesn’t work.

          1. Gender Traitor

            …and it’s ALWAYS an option.

      2. Gender Traitor

        …it doesn’t prove anything if it fails.

        Maybe it gives us a tiny glimmer of hope for humankind?

        Nah!

        1. Product launches can fail for a huge number of reasons. That’s why I can’t be more optimistic about what a failure would say.

    1. Seriously? They didn’t have a simple lock on the door?

    2. Gender Traitor

      “[C]ushy confines” my ass! Fuck off, slaver! Live free or die, pussies! I’d rather live on my feet than die on my…haunches.

      That is an awesome cat. Glibs should adopt him – at least virtually – as our mascot.

      1. I’d rather not.

      2. He looks a lot like my biggest cat, Milo. Milo is a… challenging… cat, too.

        Too smart for his own good.

      3. Hyperion

        Glib Kitteh?

        1. Can’t be, it’s not showing its backside.

    3. Hyperion

      Told ya’ll that cats are the real libertarians of critters. Now just try herding them!

    4. R C Dean

      “an important reminder that cats are lawless creatures who can and will betray us the moment they feel it necessary.”

      Can’t argue.

    1. Hyperion

      That’s weather, deplorable denier! How can you tell when it’s global warming and when it’s just weather? We’ll tell you! /your benevolent betters