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I'm not sure why you guys think UGA has a good defense. they lost 8 starters from last year, plus a couple are out for this game for suspension and injuries. it's going to be a shootout. whoever gets the most pressure on the qb and forces the most mistakes wins. or whoever has the ball last. also glad to see Zapp firing shots at Dave. about time someone else joined me. that's what college football is all about.
Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 30, 2013 11:34:20 GMT -5
So, Texas A&M's backup QB should get some good practice while Manziel serves his half game suspension against Rice. I'm ready to see if they can pull another upset on Bama next week, but expect Saban to be better prepared this time around.
I'm not sure why you guys think UGA has a good defense. they lost 8 starters from last year, plus a couple are out for this game for suspension and injuries. it's going to be a shootout. whoever gets the most pressure on the qb and forces the most mistakes wins. or whoever has the ball last. also glad to see Zapp firing shots at Dave. about time someone else joined me. that's what college football is all about.
It's a bit misleading to say the Bulldogs returns only two starters on defense, since five defenders have started at least five career games
Yeah, the NFL is like watching a 22-player chess match. Good call.
it's not as exciting to me. if you don't agree get out. there's an NFL thread.
Now there's a mature response. You act like comebacks, high scoring games and excitement are specific to NCAA football, it's mind-numbingly close-minded to say sh*t like that.
I'm not sure why you guys think UGA has a good defense. they lost 8 starters from last year, plus a couple are out for this game for suspension and injuries. it's going to be a shootout. whoever gets the most pressure on the qb and forces the most mistakes wins. or whoever has the ball last. also glad to see Zapp firing shots at Dave. about time someone else joined me. that's what college football is all about.
It's a bit misleading to say the Bulldogs returns only two starters on defense, since five defenders have started at least five career games
Just get to know Jordan Jenkins, Sang. Tajh Boyd sure as hell will.
I'm not afraid of their defense at all. we'll score plenty. it's all on our defense. the defense improved all year last yea and will be better this year. I hope they can slow down that UGA offense just enough to win.
Tennessee Aug. 31 Austin Peay W Sept. 7 Western Kentucky W Sept. 14 at Oregon L Sept. 21 at Florida L Sept. 28 South Alabama W Oct. 5 Georgia L Oct. 19 South Carolina L Oct. 26 at Alabama L Nov. 2 at Missouri W Nov. 9 Auburn L Nov. 23 Vanderbilt W Nov. 30 at Kentucky W
This is exactly how I feel about the season. I will be completely fine with a 6-6 finish. I just can't wait to tune into the Sports Animal when we're 3-5 at the October (and we will be) and hear all the Chicken Littles whining about Jones. The future is bright; the first two months of the season, not so much.
I am not a huge College football fan. The only reason I pay attention is to see the future players of the NFL. As College Football fans don't you feel the season is all for nothing. I mean what's the real incentive in watching? To receive a bid to some consolation bowl? Or to hope that general opinion and some computer selects your team to play in a National Championship? Without a legitimate playoff system, I feel like the College Football season is really just a tryout for the pros. What keeps you guys interested?
Tennessee Aug. 31 Austin Peay W Sept. 7 Western Kentucky W Sept. 14 at Oregon L Sept. 21 at Florida L Sept. 28 South Alabama W Oct. 5 Georgia L Oct. 19 South Carolina L Oct. 26 at Alabama L Nov. 2 at Missouri W Nov. 9 Auburn L Nov. 23 Vanderbilt W Nov. 30 at Kentucky W
This is exactly how I feel about the season. I will be completely fine with a 6-6 finish. I just can't wait to tune into the Sports Animal when we're 3-5 at the October (and we will be) and hear all the Chicken Littles whining about Jones. The future is bright; the first two months of the season, not so much.
Go Vols!
Agreed. One of my co-workers listens to sports talk all the time. He constantly comes at me with some horrible "news" about the team which spells doom for the entire program. When I ask him where he heard it, he invariably responds that he heard it from some guy who called into a show on sports talk. He tried to dispute me a couple days ago when he said he heard it from a show on CSS but had to back down when I asked if it was the show where people call in. Apparently, it being on film makes these people's insane theories more credible. My favorite recent one was that they held off on the announcement regarding the starting QB because Dobbs was going to transfer if he wasn't named starting QB his first game as a true freshman. That's right. The guy who got sold on coming here because of the quality of our engineering program was going to leave because he wasn't a first day starter.
I think UT's season fortunately/unfortunately will be decided in the last four games. I can't really see them being anything but 3-5 going into Missouri. Those last four games will all be competitive and will make the difference between a bowl game and staying home again.
I am not a huge College football fan. The only reason I pay attention is to see the future players of the NFL. As College Football fans don't you feel the season is all for nothing. I mean what's the real incentive in watching? To receive a bid to some consolation bowl? Or to hope that general opinion and some computer selects your team to play in a National Championship? Without a legitimate playoff system, I feel like the College Football season is really just a tryout for the pros. What keeps you guys interested?
It's funny. I read this and hit the quote button. I then sat here thinking about it for 10 minutes without a clear definable answer. For me anyway, it's like asking why water is wet, so this may not be the greatest answer.
Not encroach too much on the Flanz vs. sang_xcx war about the differences between the two, but I think there is a difference in scale between the NFL and college football. There are 125 football teams (just shy of four times the amount of teams in the NFL). The likelihood that you are going to win the national championship in any given year is therefore significantly lower than it is in the NFL, so it makes less sense to look at it from the idea that your team has a legitimate shot at the title. You take your team's victories on a smaller scale, i.e. conference championships, bowl victories and rivalry victories. Even the lowest teams have the ability to work their way to earn something to be proud of. The Sun Belt is a sh*tty conference, but every team there is looking to win that because it means something for them. For example, UAB has zero chance of winning the national championship. The annual budget for their entire athletics department is $21 million. Alabama's, on the other hand, spent $37.7 million last year on football alone. UAB just can't keep up with that. They can keep up with the other teams in the Sun Belt though. Also, making a bowl game is a big deal for some teams. It's a kind of achievement that many teams go a lot of years without seeing much less an actual bowl victory. If you make it, your athletic department gets a nice payday. The players get a trip somewhere, get on TV and get a better chance to catch the eye of some NFL scouts. It ends up a nice bonus for everyone. If you look at it as a national championship being the only real payoff to a season, you're probably going to be disappointed, but that's not the only victory you can take in my eyes.
Tennessee and Alabama already had 11 games played in their series before the Bears (the oldest NFL franchise that is still operating and such a funny coincidence) were established. In short, that means my great grandfather wasn't born yet when Tennessee and Alabama started playing. Very few teams in the NFL can boast that kind of history. I don't know about my great grandfather, but I know my grandfather started watching Tennessee football well before the first NFL franchise made it to the South (Atlanta in 1966), so the connection spans a lot longer for families here much like I would assume things operate there (My supervisor is from right outside Chicago, and he has told me that his two football options growing up were the Bears or being told to get the f*ck out). I don't mean to say that fandom is more or less intense in either. I have met psychotic and lukewarm fans on both sides of things. It's just that college football fandom is more established here. I like the Titans and all, but it feels more like fandom by default for me rather than something I can really get behind since it is "new". Going along with the idea of history and small victories, teams in college football go through their ups and downs (like NFL teams, I know, Flanz). Tennessee is not going to win the National Championship, the SEC or the SEC East this year. We might be better though and therefore one step closer to getting back to those titles. For me, that keeps me watching as you watch your team develop and improve or struggle and eventually be born again. As that article steph posted pointed out, Alabama was f*cking horrible before Saban. They had a series of underwhelming coaches who didn't succeed and got back on top because they happened to be looking for a coach at the same time Saban was looking to coach in college again. Not that many years later, Alabama is going through one of the most intense dynasties in recent memory. Add to that, your team totally recycles every 5 years at max. Your team may be terrible now, but you can start building with a new coach and field a totally different team in a short period. For example, one of the reasons people have come to love Jones after an initial meh period is that he is bringing recruits in. It gives you something to look forward to and hope that the future is going to hold something brighter for your team.
In closing to this barely comprehensible ramble, I don't really see a ton of difference in being a college football fan and an NFL fan. I have no illusions of us running the table this year, but I am totally watching anyway much like Flanz has no illusions of Geno Smith lifting the Lombardi Trophy this year. Is he still watching every Jets game? F*ck yes he is because there are always those little victories that keep you going. Lastly, just because it is a football thread and you have to talk a little crap, I am surprised that a Bears fan would judge a team's season being wasted by not making it the championship game. I mean those two Super Bowl appearances must really be able to sustain you.
I am not a huge College football fan. The only reason I pay attention is to see the future players of the NFL. As College Football fans don't you feel the season is all for nothing. I mean what's the real incentive in watching? To receive a bid to some consolation bowl? Or to hope that general opinion and some computer selects your team to play in a National Championship? Without a legitimate playoff system, I feel like the College Football season is really just a tryout for the pros. What keeps you guys interested?
It's funny. I read this and hit the quote button. I then sat here thinking about it for 10 minutes without a clear definable answer. For me anyway, it's like asking why water is wet, so this may not be the greatest answer.
Edit: or what Juggs said.
I did that too & just sat on it pondering what I could say.
pmo, Dave answered your question way better then I'm about to, but here goes. It's so many things for me. In the South, college football is the biggest thing around. Yes, I know you hear that all of the time, but it's true. With college football, just about everyone you know IRL are fans of your team or of your rival’s. It’s geographical, which isn’t necessarily how the NFL is. It’s our common bond, and it starts early. So, it's about rivalries & bragging rights with other area schools. It's about the social gatherings & the massive tailgates. It's also about heartbreak & joy. Emotion. I know it’s probably just me, but I don't feel real emotion when I watch NFL games. I know that is different for most of y'all. For some people their team is already chosen for them before they are even born (yes, I'm talking about my children), some because of the friends they make in elementary school, and for some it's what happens when you move into a dorm your freshman year & begin a brand new chapter in your life.
I could go on & on with all that ooey gooey feelings stuff, but basically that's why I love college football & prefer it to the pros. I am a girl.
I am not a huge College football fan. The only reason I pay attention is to see the future players of the NFL. As College Football fans don't you feel the season is all for nothing. I mean what's the real incentive in watching? To receive a bid to some consolation bowl? Or to hope that general opinion and some computer selects your team to play in a National Championship? Without a legitimate playoff system, I feel like the College Football season is really just a tryout for the pros. What keeps you guys interested?
College football is great because it's all made up and the points don't matter. I mean, all sports are arbitrary and meaningless in the grand cosmic sense, but I like college football because there's only a vague pretense of legitimacy and we get to argue over the rest of it. It's stupid and fun.
College football is kinda like the headliner thread.
I love college football because I spent 4 (plus) years of my life living, working, and going to school in/at Clemson, and in that time the sheer excitement, energy, and atmosphere surrounding the games sucked me in and didn't let go. It becomes such an integral part of life. I don't feel any such strong obligations to any pro teams of any sport, because I don't feel any true connection to them. They just exist.
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Post by Mista Don't Play on Aug 30, 2013 17:27:51 GMT -5
I love the NFL and college football more than I can describe with words. I don't have to pick a favorite between the two. And I don't feel bad about it.
Post by Mista Don't Play on Aug 31, 2013 10:39:24 GMT -5
FCS teams have won 4 games against FBS opponents already and we haven't even had a full day of football yet.
None of these have been mind blowing, although KSU shouldn't have happened, but as a guy who drove all the way up to the Big House in 07 and got to experience it first hand, congrats to them, its a pretty amazing experience for those involved.