RocketBuckeye
Don't Tread On Me
If they didn't do the stupid "bUCkeye state" thing or the script cincy thing, I could probably root for them. But their fans seem really obnoxious, so fuck 'em.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Jaxbuck;1614183; said:
As Tebow is my witness, nothing could be more true!
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Is there a main UC football board one might go and take guilty pleasure in surfing right now by any chance?
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JXC
17-4 since 2001
How great is this? Today's win over Pitt was the greatest victory in school history. So it should be the greatest day of your life, right?
Nope, what just happened in the Texas game. With the game looking like it was over and the clock read 0:00 you had to be so excited and think that you may have a shot at a NCG, and instead they put a second back on the clock. Texas wins. And you cry.
And now you are sick to your stomach of what was so close. And you end the day with it being a very sad. Don't get me wrong, I was rooting for Nebraska. But knowing that cincy fans are sad, it's a good consolation prize.
Nope, what just happened in the Texas game. With the game looking like it was over and the clock read 0:00 you had to be so excited and think that you may have a shot at a NCG, and instead they put a second back on the clock. Texas wins. And you cry.
And now you are sick to your stomach of what was so close. And you end the day with it being a very sad. Don't get me wrong, I was rooting for Nebraska. But knowing that cincy fans are sad, it's a good consolation prize.
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Honor&Glory
Paper,Rock, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
JXC;1614419; said:
sorry, not really sad. Never thought UC would jump ahead of TCU any way. But whatever you gotta tell yourself so you can get to sleep tonight.
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Buckeye Maniac
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This made me lol...How delusional can you be?
UC vs Florida???
Another Gem, and H&G, I believe this is the type of fan that JXC was talking about being giddy about them crying, because they certainly will be tomorrow.
UC vs Florida???
Another Gem, and H&G, I believe this is the type of fan that JXC was talking about being giddy about them crying, because they certainly will be tomorrow.
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JXC
17-4 since 2001
Cincy isn't your #1 team. So I wouldn't expect those feelings from you. I have a few friends that love all the math in this stuff. And they said that while UC was 4th in the computers and TCU 5th before today, with Texas and Florida losing, UC would have moved to 2 in the computers, but Texas and Florida would have stayed ahead of TCU and Boise in most of the computers, so TCU's computer average would have been around 4 or 5. It would have been more than enough to move Cincy past TCU in the BCS standings, even with TCU being #2 in the human polls.sorry, not really sad. Never thought UC would jump ahead of TCU any way. But whatever you gotta tell yourself so you can get to sleep tonight.
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JXC;1614452; said:
Cincy is only in the top ten in the computer rankings if you constrain the rankings to recognize only their absolute performance. That is, to ignore their relative performance against teams by excluding the margin of victory.
On that basis, Ohio State drops from #8 in the Sagarin ratings to #24. Do we really believe that 23 teams are better than Ohio State? That is, do we believe a 5-loss Georgia, Arkansas, or Cal team is better? Four-loss Arizona, Oregon State, USC, or Stanford? Are 31 teams really better than Penn State?
Supposedly, discontinuing margin of victory was supposed to stop top teams from running up the score on weaker teams. That is commendable but, in practice, nothing has changed. Instead, we have a ranking system that fails to include an important piece of information: how much better was one team than another?
There are two immediate problems to this approach. If a good team has a key injury or fails to recover from a tough game the previous week, so that it loses by one point to a team over which it is greatly favored, then...
- The close loss counts just the same as if they had lost by 50 points in a blow-out.
- The losing record of the (lucky) weaker team against even weaker foes is carried throughout the schedule.
As an example, Ohio State is ranked so lowly because USC fell apart after Ohio State and we lost to a weak team. The fact that we lost both games by a total of nine points has no relevance to the BCS ranking.
Even after Cincy's win yesterday, Ohio State is ranked higher (#8 vs. #12) on the Predictor ranking scale, which is his most accurate predictor of victories and which takes winning margin into account.
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Honor&Glory
Paper,Rock, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
Buckeye Maniac;1614446; said:
oh, I know. I was just having a little fun. Last night the 'guru' at ESPN said that had Texas lost that TCU would have gotten the nod over UC. I have felt all along that TCU was the 'darling' this year and deservedly so. Damn good football team that, in my opinion, would have given Alabama all they could handle and would have creamed Texas.
As for the initial projection of UC v. Fla in the Sugar Bowl...
man, its hard not to predict a 'plunger rape' at the hands of the Gators. The only saving grace here is that I can't see Urban Meyer going out of his way to drop 60 on his alma mater. Urban still claims to follow UC and talked to the team at Brian Kelly's request last. I think Urban calls off the dogs early and keeps the game in the 14-21 point range.
...OR...he puts the pedal to the metal and tries to win by 35. But I don't think he will. Still has family around here who supports UC. Heck, Meyer even wrote the forward for the book released earlier this year about UC's 'dream' season last year.
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