Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

Author: Don escaped Two Corinthians

  • OverRated: The Week in College Football Polls

    While Indiana was getting reamed, nothing else happened in the NCAA!

    Few tilts have spoken to us at this point; conference play has only been hinted at, and, frankly, it’s still hot as hell and hard to believe anyone is padding up for scrimmage already.  That said, we have results from another week . . . but, sadly, no news whatsoever.

     

    Week Three Most OverRated Football Program Results

    1        Utah                annihilated who-knew-there-was-an Idaho State

    2        Florida             escaped a solid Kentucky with a fourth quarter resurgence

    3        Notre Dame     flexed their way past New Mexico

    4        Auburn            curb-stomped Joe Walsh (the rocker) alma mater Kent State

    5        Boise St           galloped past alphabet people’s studies heavyweight Portland State

    5        Oregon             mauled the Montana Grizzlies

    7        Texas               beat Rice for the 70th or 80th time

    8        Georgia           bravely blanked the Fighting Osteopaths of Arkansas State

    8        Clemson          took it to formerly over-rated Syracuse

    8        Oklahoma        handled winless UCLA

    So there’s just nothing in the way of take-downs to high five anyone over.

    Off topic:  Penn State almost got shown up at home by Pitt.

    Not rated and not worth mentioning:  The University of Tennessee bulldozed an University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, but no copyrighting was attempted.  Reportedly, 1996 third round 49er draft pick Terrell Owens watched every snap over popcorn.

     

    So we await next Saturday’s scrums with few changes to the OverRated other than the odd addition.

     

    Week N + 1 Most OverRated Football Programs

    1          Utah           must run a gauntlet of 20-ish rated PAC8, 10, or 12 teams

    2          Cal             same as Utah, must endure hellish, SEC-like conference; welcome!

    3          Iowa          escaped the Cyclones; welcome to our list, latest national sweetheart

    4          Washington St re-enters the list; Houston was much tighter than the score shows

    5          Florida        may live up to their vaunted spot . . . but has not yet

    5          Notre Dame     must put up or shut up at Athens; somebody’s gotta lose that game

    5          UCF            might well run the tables and get to a very nice bowl

    5          Georgia       would be humiliated by a loss to the Irish ‘twixt the hedges

    9          Clemson      can only screw up; anything shy of perfection is unacceptable

    9          Oklahoma     is solid and should have a thoroughly nice season

    11        Oregon          PAC10 anybody as the best cage match this fall anywhere?

    11        Auburn          starts a grueling, PAC8-worthy loop through neighbors and cousins

    11        Boise St        can’t fail in the regular season unless they lay an egg somewhere

    14        Texas           has a comfy few weeks until the Red River rivalry resumes

    Year to Date Hides on the Wall Ratings

    1          Stanford          was revealed by USC

    2          Syracuse          was unranked after Maryland

    3          Iowa State       was dethroned before their decent showing against Iowa

    4          Texas               probably over-paid for losing to titan LSU

    4          Texas A&M    probably over-paid for losing to titan Clemson

    4          Florida             was ranked down after silly pre-season enthusiasm (but are back up now!)

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

    1          LSU

    2          UCF

    3          Michigan

    4          Washington State . . . but we get another bite at this apple !

     

    So closes another week.

     

    links to older opinions

    2019-09-13

    2019-09-06

     

    Disclosure of sources of bias:  your writer 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.

     

     

  • Over-rated: The Week in College Football Polls

    Here’s another week’s snark from the peanut gallery as to who’s too big for their britches in the NCAA game as it is assessed and ranked and reported.

    Speaking briefly of galleries instead of team rankings, we wish to note that BYU this week played in front of their fifth largest crowd ever:  92,000.  We don’t wish to note that they won, taking the Vols to 0 – 2 on the year, but we do note that (our) coach Jeremy Pruitt will make $3.8M this year all the while UT continues to pay former coach Butch Jones $2.4M per year net of the fabulous $35k he was raking in last year as an analyst at Bama.

    Ranking college football teams remains contentious stuff.  Last week I had a fresh slate of opinions, and now there are results; let’s take a look!

    Week Two Most OverRated Football Program Results

    1        Iowa St            our new king simply spent the weekend napping

    2        Florida             stomped accounting powerhouse UT Martin

    3        Utah                bested Northern Illinois exactly by the margin expected

    3        Syracuse         lost to Maryland by over forty 

    5        Texas               lost to LSU but only to the degree we expected

    5        Michigan St    sent Western Michigan crying back to western Michigan

    5        Georgia           blasted nationally ranked normal school Murray State

    8        UCF                punked local directional patsy Florida Atlantic

    9        Notre Dame     rested up since big bad New Mexico is coming to town soon

    9        Texas A&M    lost to Clemson by the margin expected

    9        Auburn            washed over Tulane

    12        Stanford         lost by 25 to USC

    12        Clemson          see Texas A&M

    12        Oklahoma        destroyed doctor and lawyer mill South Dakota

    12        Oregon                        owned Nevada

    Off topic:  Michigan wasn’t necessarily over-rated, so I didn’t have an opinion on them, but they notably underperformed by a baker’s dozen by edging Army by only 3.  Washington was obviously over-ranked, but I completely failed to notice and so get zero credit for their loss to Cal at home.

    I’m going to call Syracuse and Stanford my first hides on the wall for the year:  their deep humiliations prove they had no business being ranked whatsoever.  I’m also going to reclass Washington State from last week from a blown call to a small win because they were downgraded seriously (thanks:  forget who pointed that out) after my call, so I really wasn’t wrong to call them over-ranked; it’s a spike, not the sort of buck one would have mounted, but the meat is going in the freezer nonetheless.

    No Longer OverRated Because I was Wrong

    nothing new this week

    LSU from last week

    Okay, the pollsters saw those games, so they have new opinions . . .  so I have new opinions:

     

    Week N + 1 Most OverRated Football Program Results

    1        Utah                  is skyrocketing in the vacuum just because they haven’t lost

    2        Florida             is also buoyed in the over-ratedness by the national blandness

    3        Notre Dame    has a great schedule that will tell much

    4        Auburn            getting that undeserved SEC love?

    5        Boise St         joins my list of the damned

    5        Oregon             will play Washington St, U Wash, and USC this year

    7        Texas               their stock is getting much closer to right after the loss

    8        Georgia           continues over-loved at least a little

    8        Clemson          can’t be tested if they don’t play anybody

    8        Oklahoma        will play the Horns, but nobody else that matters

     

    Iowa State fell completely out of the ratings, so I’ll take that as another tepid told-ya-so.

    Texas A&M fell four spots and is no longer over-rated, another good call.

    UCF seems to be on their way and maybe wasn’t over-rated; I’ll accept the miss on this one.

    Michigan State is cooking along, so I’ll take this as another miss.

    Score YTD:  4 to 3 with 10 opinions outstanding

    I’ll continue to have opinions (shock!) and will heckle the AP poll in particular.  Eventually the committee over at the College Football Playoff will start to publish their rankings, and we’ll then switch to heckling them.

    So closes another week.

     

     

    Disclosure of sources of bias:  your writer 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 particularly hates Notre Dame, UCF, and Clemson.

  • Don Escaped Texas Tries His Hand at a Glib Crossword

    Dear all: I was inspired by our first crossword and have attempted another. Without cool software, I soldiered through this attempt in Excel; NewWife checked it after a fashion, but there still may be mistakes . . . hope not. The first crossword was small and tight, but I went for big and funny, so crossing for clues will be harder . . . it couldn’t be avoided.

    Indeed, the clues are seldom easy because this group has proven itself wise, widely read, and witty. A couple are extremely hard, one because I’ve never seen the word on the site before; otherwise, the clues will be somewhat clear and accessible. Notice the question marks: those are for jokes or sarcasm; it’s hard to tell what qualifies as normal in a Glib crossword, so maybe every clue should end in a question mark? Anyway, this is written only for us, so assume your normal shitlord posture and read into everything in the most cruel, selfish, and kinky way you can achieve.

     

     

    Click to download the whole package as a pdf. (Spoiler alert: Contains solution on the last page!)

     

    Check the solution here!

  • Over-rated: The Week in College Football Polls

    Ranking college football teams is contentious stuff, and since I love football and math and human nature, this is one of my favorite topics.

    Since I’m a jerk, I like making fun of people, and over-rating things is easy pickings.  People are optimistic; they run in herds (so do lemmings), and they are bad at math and statistics.  So, since figuring your own ratings takes time while poking fun at the overly optimistic is easy (sports is a target-rich zone), I just point out rankings that are likely to be too high.  I’ll get some of these wrong (shrugs:  so does everyone, that’s how the pointy ball bounces), but I’ll also get to point and Nelson-laugh a time or two most weeks.

    To get us started, I stuck my neck out and had some opinions last week and was brave enough to put them in writing.  Like most first weeks, this one didn’t tell us much, but a couple of teams failed to handle their cupcakes well.

    Week Zero Most OverRated Football Program Results

    1 UCF                         played nobody

    2 Northwestern           oops; see below
    3 Washington St         played nobody

    4 Florida                      barely survived Miami
    5 Utah                         did not man-handle BYU
    6 Syracuse                   hung 24 on Liberty!
    7 Iowa St                     edged North Iowa . . . edged!
    8 Texas                        played nobody
    8 Stanford                   hung 17 on Northwestern!
    8 Georgia                    handled Vandy
    11 Clemson                 destroyed hapless Ga Tech
    11 Oklahoma               was sorely tested by Houston
    11 LSU                       played nobody

     

    So not much news, irony, or missteps . . . as we would expect.

     

    I honestly can’t figure out why I had an opinion about them

    Northwestern:  how’d they get in my list last week!?  I have no idea. . . . . . let’s get back to business.

     

    So I had a clerical error and a few insights for the first week.  Since the weekend, the AP re-racked its votes and came out with a new top 25, so here’s, predictably,

    Week Two Most OverRated Football Program Results

    1        Iowa St            how our new king is still ranked at all?

    2        Florida             no one will admit they were wrong yet

    3        Utah                they know something or I do; we can’t both be right
    3        Syracuse          holding steady, their news yet to come
    5        Texas               the Notre Dame of southwestern over-ratedness

    5        Michigan St    joins our list after stomping little Tulsa
    5        Georgia           is good, but more than two teams are even better

    8        UCF                opinions and facts are coming together slowly

    9        Notre Dame     perennially over-rated, they finally join our list

    9        Texas A&M    joins the list after blowing up Texas State at home

    9        Auburn            is suddenly slightly over-rated after defeating Oregon

    12        Stanford          proved enough to be somewhat less over-rated
    12        Clemson          it’s always easy to say the number one team is slightly over-rated

    12        Oklahoma        is plenty deep, solid, and might justify the hype eventually

    12        Oregon                        got spanked in the ratings but is still barely over-rated

     

    No Longer OverRated Because I was Wrong

    LSU                            I think this was a brain fart, but I should have caught it so my bad

    Washington St            proved enough to come off my list

     

    So closes another week in silly season.