2017 College Football Game Thread - Week 3

Bosoxen

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I don't care about the score, that's a win for a Texas team that had no business being in this game and only lost because of awful officiating.

Edit: Ok, maybe not only. If Herman kicks the fucking field goal in the first quarter, this is a completely different game.
 

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Only 3/4ths of a stomach punch on that one as a Texas fan. I liked the grit from Herman's team. Certainly wouldn't bet on USC in the playoff unless they dominate out or something.
 

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Well, congratulations on that win then.

In another, more accurate way, USC is the winner.
Oh hey, there you are. I thought you'd gone away when you were proven to be completely clueless. That was a fun time.
 

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Unless Texas has the greatest defensive line in history, USC doesn't have the o-line to win a championship.
Which is funny, considering the guy you said was completely in the bag for Texas parroted the USC OC's line in the pregame that all five of their linemen are destined for the NFL.
 

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great game. My wife was supposed to be on the sideline for UT but had to back out. It was killing me all game.
 

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Lamar JAckson's chance of repeating as Heisman ended tonight. As did Lousiville's chance at the playoff. ACC is a one-team at most in playoff conference, it seems. even if clemson loses once from here I think they will get in.
Alabama - lock even with loss and not losing to dreg in SEC
Clemson - lock with a loss
Oklahoma - win over OSU gets them in even with loss
Big10 team/OSU/USC
Clemson has answered some questions early in the season. Defense is better. Offense isn't turning it over which is making for a cleaner game. They have talent everywhere, as good as Ben was at LB last year, he couldn't cover and was a liability on the field in passing situations. So the replacements are actually more athletic than some of the guys that moved on. They need experience, but now they've cleared two early hurdles, they get some games to really get better. They look like a solid CFP team.
 

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Lamar JAckson's chance of repeating as Heisman ended tonight. As did Lousiville's chance at the playoff. ACC is a one-team at most in playoff conference, it seems. even if clemson loses once from here I think they will get in.
Alabama - lock even with loss and not losing to dreg in SEC
Clemson - lock with a loss
Oklahoma - win over OSU gets them in even with loss
Big10 team/OSU/USC
It's way too early for these kinds of end-of-season pronouncements. Teams have played two or three games and very few conference games. OSU lost to a bad VT team early and won the NT. Jackson had subpar games last year and won. He could have 9 great games and 2 bad ones and win again. He could also blow his knee; injuries could knock teams out of the running. For the Heisman, there also has to be someone else on the radar.

Saban had it right a few weeks back when he said (paraphrasing) "everyone makes all these predictions, why do we even need to play?"
 
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PaulinMyrBch

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It's way too early for these kinds of end-of-season pronouncements. Teams have played two or three games and very few conference games. OSU lost to a bad VT team early and won the NT. Jackson had subpar games last year and won. He could have 9 great games and 2 bad ones and win again. He could also blow his knee; injuries could knock teams out of the running. For the Heisman, there also has to be someone else on the radar.

Saban had it right a few weeks back when he said (paraphrasing) "everyone makes all these predictions, why do we even need to play?"
I'd tend to agree with you except in this case with Lamar. The way he finished the year and the bowl game created a bunch of talk about amending the voting process. No one believes he wins last year if they vote on Jan 10th. If they play the season in reverse order, he may not have been in top 2. He was out of the discussion 3 weeks ago. Showed up the last 2 weeks and sparked talk of "he's actually better this year". That ended last night. He just reminded everyone why he was off the radar at the start of the season. He's not going to recover from it mainly because a large number of his voters last year would like to change that vote, let alone vote for him again.

He got stats once game was over last night. Clemson traveled 72 players and played 70 of them.

Like I said, normally I'd agree with you if it was generic front runner at the week 2 and 3 mark. But this case is different.