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College football's offseason is long and it is finally over. Sort of. NCAA football begins a week from Wednesday (!) when Abilene Christian takes on Georgia State. With that little time, i figured it would be the right time to start talking about games and players and coaches and all of that. NCAA FOOTBALL STUDY GUIDE 2014 No more BCS, now a playoff  The BCS spent the better part of 16 years being a subject of debate. It tried to match up the two best teams in the country to play for the title through a combination of human and computer polls. It was not well-received, as a tournament format existed in every sport at every level in the NCAA. Now, there IS a playoff. It is all of 4 teams. At the end of the year, a selection committee (like basketball) will pick what they deem the four best teams in the country to play for the Championship. Polls will still exist, but like basketball, they will simply be a measure of how well a team is doing at the time. The semi-finals will be on New Year's Day and will be at the Rose and Sugar Bowls. The winners from these games will advance to the championship game at AT&T Stadium. Much like the BCS era, there are still big payout bowls, or what are known as "contract bowls". If you win your conference but do not advance you may participate in these bowls: Orange Bowl: ACC vs. highest ranked team from SEC, Big Ten, or Notre Dame Sugar Bowl: SEC Champ vs Big XII Champ Rose: Big Ten Champ and Pac-12 Champ With the Rose and Sugar being semi-finals this year, the displaced teams (either champions or at-large from conferences) will go to either the Fiesta, Cotton, or Peach Bowls. Let's say UCLA beats Stanford in the Pac-12 CG and advances to the Playoff. Stanford would go to the Rose Bowl in a normal year. This year, Stanford would most likely end up in the Fiesta Bowl. The Fiesta, Sugar, and Peach bowls must also take the highest-ranked team from a non-contract conference. Conference Shifting  Re-alignment happened again and hosed poo poo all up. The SEC, Big XII, Pac-12, and Mountain West are all the same as last year. ACC GONE: Maryland. The Terps decided to bolt for the Big Ten. HERE: The ACC brings in Louisville as a full-time member. Notre Dame will also play a rotating schedule of ACC opponents. Big Ten GONE: Legends and Leaders. Now there's just "East" and "West" with Indiana as the dividing line. Hoosiers are in the East division, Purdue in the West. HERE: Maryland joins the Big Ten and so does....Rutgers. Yes, Rutgers. Now, to the fun part. American Athletic Conference GONE: Rutgers and Louisville. HERE: East Carolina, Tulane, and Tulsa. C-USA GONE: Tulane, Tulsa, ECU HERE: Western Kentucky, and ODU emerges as a full-fledged member after a transition year Sun Belt GONE: Western Kentucky HERE: Idaho, New Mexico State, Appalachian State, Georgia Southern (provisional) I think this covers what you need to know. Football is here. 
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Baylor Football. Bryce Petty. Antwan Goodley. KD Cannon. Shawn Oakman. New Stadium. 13 Days. I am beyond ready.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:01
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N: Michigan is going to start a true freshman, Mason Cole, on the offensive line. V: I don't even care any more. They were so bad last year I'm game for anything. I don't expect Michigan to end a season ranked before 2020 anyways.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:06
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 Football's almost here!10 more days until ASU kicks off the season against Weber State 
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Aug 18, 2014 21:06
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gently caress a Bison.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:11
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This year the oldest stadium in the FBS, Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, will serve as the home stadium of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for the 101st consecutive year. We will celebrate this by going 4-8 and getting Paul Johnson fired. Yes to the Playoffs. Yes to Football.  (So in)
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Aug 18, 2014 21:21
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My body is ready for Rice to get throttled on national television by Notre Dame and Texas A&M.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:23
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Slate Action posted:This year the oldest stadium in the FBS, Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, will serve as the home stadium of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for the 101st consecutive year. We will celebrate this by going 4-8 and getting Paul Johnson fired. Hopefully one of those losses will be to Tulane. I think the funniest improbable thing that could happen in Tulane's schedule would be to beat Ga Tech, Duke, Rutgers and lose to SE Louisiana.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:24
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I am prepared for Kansas's one win this year against SE Missouri State, which I refuse to believe is an actual college. I am also ready for the upset of the decade when West Virginia beats the poo poo out of the Crimson Tide opening week. Go Mountaineers.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:29
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Slate Action posted:This year the oldest stadium in the FBS, Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, will serve as the home stadium of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for the 101st consecutive year. We will celebrate this by going 4-8 and getting Paul Johnson fired. Georgia Southern's beating Paul Johnson. You know this to be true.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:30
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Iowa will be ugly and boring and frustrating and I will not be able to stop myself from wasting perfectly good Saturdays where I could be hiking or at the beach or doing literally anything else living and dying with every snap because I am a dumb child with a nonsensical committment to something that was forced on me as an infant due to factors completely outside my control. Welcome back, football. MourningView fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Spacebump posted:Hopefully one of those losses will be to Tulane. Anything can happen in a traditional SEC matchup.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:35
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Probably Magic posted:I am also ready for the upset of the decade when West Virginia beats the poo poo out of the Crimson Tide opening week. Go Mountaineers. Hell yes. Roll drat Moonshine.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:35
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Thoguh posted:gently caress a Bison. I saw a bunch of Bison in Yellowstone not too long ago and they are pretty cool IMO. Go NDSU
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Aug 18, 2014 21:35
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gently caress yeah football.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:38
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Reminder that there's college football this weekend. (I don't remember who originally posted the link, otherwise I'd give credit.)
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Aug 18, 2014 21:38
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Hey guys, UF is going to throw the ball this year so be prepared for either a) the China Syndrome of dumpster fires or b) an improbably national title run with me leaving a trail of booze vomit and celebratory broken beer bottles. I wish GT was good at football. Dodd is pretty awesome.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:38
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One of my favorite dumb GDT memories was a NDSU/Minnesota game that literally only Gendo and I were posting about/laughing at so I am strongly Team Bison, even ignoring that Iowa State losing to a I-AA team is really funny.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:39
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JesustheDarkLord posted:Anything can happen in a traditional SEC matchup. Both those schools still have won the SEC more times than Kentucky, Mississippi State, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:40
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buddhanc posted:I saw a bunch of Bison in Yellowstone not too long ago and they are pretty cool IMO. Go NDSU Nah, Thoguh's right, gently caress a Bison
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Aug 18, 2014 21:40
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A&M/SC should be an exciting game and I can't wait to go into work Friday hung over. Footbaaaaaaaaaw is back
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Aug 18, 2014 21:43
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Dango Bango posted:Reminder that there's college football this weekend.
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SaltLick posted:A&M/SC should be an exciting game and I can't wait to go into work Friday hung over. Footbaaaaaaaaaw is back I am going to get regrettably well-hammered during that game. Might take my pants off.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:44
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Why would your pants be on? RIP JFF long live Coach Swag!
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Aug 18, 2014 21:47
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Dango Bango posted:Reminder that there's college football this weekend. The glory of college football and the tragedy of summer is that I am excited about this game because it exists.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:47
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MourningView posted:One of my favorite dumb GDT memories was a NDSU/Minnesota game that literally only Gendo and I were posting about/laughing at so I am strongly Team Bison, even ignoring that Iowa State losing to a I-AA team is really funny. http://youtu.be/-XkRxHs4iis Cash Monet fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 21:50
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Dango Bango posted:Reminder that there's college football this weekend. Oh gently caress you're right, I'll definitely watch that. Football!!
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Aug 18, 2014 21:50
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LSU is going to beat us by 30 Joel Stave is going to get broken in 50 pieces holding on to the ball forever like a nimrod Those are my two predictions for week 1
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Aug 18, 2014 21:53
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If we're doing that: If Baylor's where I hope they are on both sides of the ball, we top 60 points and hold SMU to under 20. Extra Point: KD Cannon scores a TD on a pass thrown by Bryce Petty.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:54
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Mixon's out for the entire year.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:02
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Go gamecocks for week 1 and whenever they play UGA!
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Aug 18, 2014 22:07
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Duke lost their starting TE for the season. They weren't supposed to be world-beaters but these big losses are not helping their Coastal division repeat chances.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:07
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:Mixon's out for the entire year. God loving damnit
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Aug 18, 2014 22:12
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How does OU feel about their skill positions on offense, anyway? I'd gotten the impression that it's Knight at QB, Shepard at WR (No DGB until we hear otherwise), and maybe Bell at TE and a bunch of questions/assumptions otherwise - is that about right, or do I need to pay more attention? That's part of why I've been pretty bullish on them, and obviously Mixon going away doesn't help their case any.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:14
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Kentucky named a starting QB, earning themselves the distinction of not being the last team in the SEC without a starting QB named with less than two weeks to go until kickoff. Patrick Towles, a redshirt sophomore, got the nod. He's a tall dude, throws the ball, runs around a little bit. You know, quarterback-like. Other notables on the team include a dude that can (probably) catch the ball, a dude that can run with the ball and some dudes that ostensibly know how to tackle the other team's dudes running the ball. Kentucky is my sleeper pick to win the SEC East based on the strength of their dudes doin' football stuff.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:19
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eat poo poo washington, and then rutgers, oregon, asu, stanford, arizona, oregon state, usc, utah, cal, nevada, and portland state, in that order. god Bless.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:21
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Probably Magic posted:I am prepared for Kansas's one win this year against SE Missouri State, which I refuse to believe is an actual college. I am also ready for the upset of the decade when West Virginia beats the poo poo out of the Crimson Tide opening week. Go Mountaineers. Callin WVU too
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Aug 18, 2014 22:25
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gently caress a Gator, gently caress a Tiger, gently caress a Jacket, gently caress a Gamecock. Go Dawgs. E: and gently caress Notre Dame forever and always, amen.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:25
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Quandary posted:God loving damnit Oklahoma has more than enough people on that team that assault women, I think you guys will be OK.
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UNLV is probably gonna get five or six wins and miss the goal of back to back bowl games But gently caress it I'm all for the ride!
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