BB73 said:

The back-to-back factor. If Ryan Day finishes this season 16-0 he won’t be getting much grief from reasonable folks.

The all-time Back-to-Back club is fairly exclusive in the AP poll era (1936 on):

Bernie Bierman, Minnesota
Red Blaik, Army
Bear Bryant (twice at Bama)
Pete Carroll, USC
Bob Devaney, Nebraska
Frank Leahy, ND
Tom Osborne, Nebraska
Darrell Royal, Texas
Nick Saban, Bama
Kirby Smart, UGA
Barry Switzer (including 1974 while on probation at Oklahoma)
Bud Wilkinson, Oklahoma

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I knew you would know this without looking it up since you were in your 40s during Bierman's run.

Thump said:

'College GameDay' put its thumb on the scale

The Lane Kiffin saga showed what happens when "GameDay's" big personalities attempt to sway the conversation.

awfulannouncing.com

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That could have been 2 paragraphs. It said the same thing over and over. I agree with it though.

DZ83CK said:

Miami actually just beat Pitt by more than ND did, and I think it was even admitted by Pitt they were focusing on their ACC games (and not ND) because they were trying to win the conference knowing it was their only shot at the playoff. Nothing ND has done is worthy of being ranked ahead of Miami.

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Miami also has lost to 2 unranked teams since mid October. I kind of agree with h2h not being the end all when the h2h occured so early

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Just sayin': I thought Hartline was supposed to be calling the plays.....

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If the Head coach can't decide what to do on 4th down in The Game, then I dont know what he's supposed to be able to do. The buck stops with DAY period. And he destroyed those assholes even without coms.

Ryan Day Says Ohio State’s Fourth-Down Touchdown Play Call is One It Had Saved For Key Moment​

One of the biggest turning points of The Game on Saturday was Ohio State's 35-yard touchdown strike on 4th-and-5 when it trailed 6-3 in the first half.

The slant-and-go route run by Smith put his defender on skates and Ohio State in the lead after Michigan had taken early momentum on a field-goal drive and an interception that led to another field goal. Julian Sayin put the ball in a perfect spot.

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On his weekly Buckeye Roundtable appearance with 97.1 the Fan, Day dove into his decision to go for it in that spot and shared some extra insight on the play call. It was one that Ohio State was keeping in its back pocket for a critical late-game moment, but Day felt then was the time to strike. It's hard to argue with the decision after a 27-9 Buckeye win to end their curse in The Game.

Day also discussed his offensive line's performance and did some more previewing of the Big Ten Championship Game vs. Indiana during the segment.

• On the decision to go for it on 4th-and-5: "It was a play that I felt like we were gonna use later in the game in a spot like that, but we didn’t start the way we wanted to. ... I made my mind up that we were going to go for it on third down. ... We got the coverage that we expected. The corner was sitting at the sticks at five yards and Jeremiah ran a great route."

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Just sayin': I thought Hartline was supposed to be calling the plays.....

Staying with Fl.

“Hooooold you horses everybody, we got a flag on the play”

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Him flipping is a shame. He high points the ball and makes contested catches while also having good speed.

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That looks about as trustworthy as a power outlet on the visitor’s side of that big ol’ toilet bowl up north.

OHSportsFan said:

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Early postering and internet idiots running with this possibility.

No chance.

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Game is at Texas next year. Way too much money to give up.

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Early postering and internet idiots running with this possibility.

No chance.

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Good. I hope they pull out and then lose 2 games again, with 1 being to a shitty SEC team and sit on the outside wondering how it happened. Did it fucking help Vanderbilt to play no one and lose 2 games?

Thump said:

Basically like scUM fans.

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More like Texas fans but picking nits. They all look up to tsun fans.

did someone save all of Urban's tweets where he bitched about having to play Oklahoma the year he lost to Iowa?

RuGettinIt said:

They were all over NC when I lived there.

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I didn’t say there weren’t any in The CSA.

I said as many.

Nutriaitch said:

I've never been to Oxford (yet), but I have gone to Starkville.

and I'm not even slightly exaggerating when I say it was like going back in time.
That place is legit still Mayberry (if Mayberry was a trailer park).

it is absolutely small town USA.
and the people there are ridiculously friendly and polite to a fault. Like almost creepy how genuinely nice those guys are.

judging by the people who travel to Baton Rouge from Oxford, and the Ole Miss grads I've met over the years (I could tell you some disturbing stories from some of those guys) traveling the south for Cattle Sales, Oxford is definitely NOT that. at all. in any way.

good lord those guys have a very high opinion of themselves.
and are very very open about it. will voluntarily tell you how perfect they are.

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Basically like scUM fans.