Losers from last week, look at the rankings. This is what you have made me do. It is all your fault. Think about it. And here is sloopy’s mandatory link.
Dubious Rivalries of the Week
Old Dominion @ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
The commonwealth throwdown. The Battle for Madison’s Shoe. The Founding Fight. This rivalry has many names, which is amusing as they have never played in football. Here is hoping that “The Battle for Madison’s Shoe” catches on.
ODU didn’t play football between 1940 and 2009, so at least it is understandable.
Tailgate of the Week
Kent St @ Louisville, Louisville, KY
My old stomping grounds. Tailgating at the actual game isn’t anything special, but I know the spots to booze up around town. Also, Louisville punches well above its weight when it comes to the restaurant scene. And its relatively cheap.
I will be eating here this Saturday. I haven’t tried it before, I will let you all know how it goes.
Beer: In my opinion, the best beer bar in the USA is Holy Grale. Built in a former Unitarian Church, it has a great selection of craft beers that you probably won’t see many other places. Plus a great burger.
Booze: Mint Julep Recipe – Henry Watterson
Pluck the mint gently from its bed, just as the dew of the evening is about to form on it. Select the choicer sprigs only, but do not rinse them. Prepare the simple syrup and measure out a half-tumbler of whiskey. Pour the whiskey into a well-frosted silver cup, throw the other ingredients away, and drink the whiskey.
Really, don’t drink that crap. If you have to adulterate your bourbon, I recommend ice. If you really, really need something else, make a Manhattan.
Game of the Century of the Week
Mississippi St @ University [sic] of Georgia, Athens, GA
After their thumping of LSU in this game last week, Mississippi St makes a surprising return. Here is hoping that they do the same this week, only more so. History suggests it is unlikely, as Georgia leads the all time series 17-6. That isn’t many games for two teams that have been in the same conference forever.
Top 25
1. Duke (3-0) 4.597 +3
2. Michigan (3-0) 4.490 +6
3. Iowa (3-0) 4.476 +10
4. Utah (3-0) 4.466 +1
5. Clemson (3-0) 4.444 +4
6. Mississippi St (3-0) 4.419
7. Maryland (2-0) 4.411 +10
8. Virginia Tech (3-0) 4.410 +11
9. Georgia (3-0) 4.393 +1
10. California (3-0) 4.390 -3
11. Southern Cal (3-0) 4.382
12. Georgia Tech (1-1) 4.352 +12
13. Oregon (3-0) 4.322 +3
14. Michigan St (2-0) 4.306 +9
15. Texas Tech (2-0) 4.300 -3
16. Alabama (3-0) 4.290 -1
17. Washington St (3-0) 4.246 +5
18. Miami FL (1-0) 4.235 NR
19. Vanderbilt (3-0) 4.233 +2
20. Wake Forest (3-0) 4.212 NR
21. Indiana (1-1) 4.209 NR
22. UCLA (2-1) 4.183 -21
23. Oklahoma St (3-0) 4.183 +2
24. Oklahoma (3-0) 4.165 NR
25. Colorado (3-0) 4.151 NR
Falling out: South Carolina, LSU, Ole Miss, Illinois, Tennessee. A bloodbath for the SEC, although 3 of the 4 were due to in-conference losses.
Comments
115 responses to “Week 4 College Football Preview”
I’m done with college football after what the SEC did to my team.
So your poll thinks Iowa would best Clemson in a game?
No, it thinks that Iowa has a tougher Strength of Schedule.
*EDIT FÆRIE HELP*
UH oh…I think I hear wings flapping….incoming Edit Faery?
leave my drunkin ramblings alone.
Is that top 25 for basketball?
I’d let her sport my balls.
BTW, this is how I feel about the vast majority of professional sports.
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The PIGGERS? Hm…
This is why I watch NWSL. Soccer girls are fit and there are plenty of lesbian couples to ogle while watching the game. If the Orlando Pride get the W Saturday, they move into the semifinals.
Semi related: The Oatmeal is the most retarded, unfunny, stupid, uncreative, piece of shit webcomic/agitprop on the web. That is all.
He’s good when he’s dealing with non-political topics he can randomly muse about, but he’s overwhelmingly bad when it comes to anything outside of his random pop culture and ‘things I looked up on wikipedia’ knowledge.
I’m personally still getting over xkcd posting a Clinton propaganda comic just before the election. I mean, Christ man.
If the edit fairy wants to fix this link and delete my responses I wouldn’t complain.
…. I cannot say the new link is worse than the original one.
I…uh…um…
I got nothing.
Just for the record that was not my original link. I got Hm’ed
Damn, we’re all a bunch of racists
h/t Radley Balko who calls it “spot on”
What is it that the kids say, “Citation needed”?
What does he even mean by that? That we don’t oppose the drug war hard enough? Or that we don’t oppose it for the totes woke right reasons? Fuck these people.
That we don’t oppose it for the woke reasons.
I find this more interesting because it’s absolute horseshit. Like, there was no opposition to the economic policies of FDR? The mainstream conservative movement begrudgingly accepted the new status quo after being out of power throughout the ’30’s and 40’s. Meanwhile, the welfare state was initially implemented with the same racialized rhetoric employed to start the drug war.
It’s embarrassing that the the supposed leaders of the libertarian moment at this point, the ones most connected to the DC establishment, have decided that their best course is to lecture actual libertarians on how they haven’t embraced identity politics enough. It’s not policy disagreements being questioned here, but intentions.
This is why the ‘libertarian movement’ needs to distance themselves from the DC elites as much as possible. The war that is coming is the libertarian version of gamergate, the atheism+ idiocy and what is currently going on in comics today. The base needs to stand firm and say ‘fuck this social justice nonsense, you do not represent us’ and continue on without them.
The entire essay was one long, boring argument against a straw yokel.
You’re only allowed to oppose it on racial grounds. It’s the same as the Black Lives Matter shit. You’re only allowed to point out police brutality in terms of race, which of course causes the cop-suckers to trot out statistics about blacks committing more crimes.
It’s why I always try to post stories of cops thugging on white people to cop-suckers. So can almost see the mini-explosions in their heads when you argue that cops are thugs period, regardless of race.
What do you call a libertarian with no principles?
A reason writer? An LP candidate?
He is right. My objection to the drug war has nothing to do with race.
+ 1 Super Predator
Yes. Being a free speech absolutist means that you are always going to be supporting people who are rallying for horrible shit like white supremacy and pedophilia. Because even though they are wrong, they are free to be wrong. Although, you know, not actually harm other people.
But speech is violence, there being wrong is literally hitler.
What matters is that it might look bad to disingenuous neo-Puritans who have no means of counter-argument but guilt by association.
Speaking of racism:
this exchange is from a WSJ article about the Evergreen State kerfuffle from earlier in the year
i.e. “the sense of your words is unimportant and will be ignored: instead, we will seek some angle related to the form of your argument, and declare it the product of a sinful oppressor”
par for course. this shit is just going to get more common.
the article this is from
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-madness-at-evergreen-state-1506034740
“There’s no talk of the culture of dependence among farmers,”
riiiight.
All hail the labia! (I just come here for the cheerleader pics)
Now with alt text!
*The Edit Faerie Blesses You*
Someone’s weekend started early I see.
The wife wanted daquiris with dinner.
Tell her to make them herself while she makes you a sammich.
they were originally done by the editor fairy, but I liked it so much, I started picking them out this week.
Nice work. I always forget to look for alt text.
I drink mint Juleps ironically while wearing linen.
Yes, yes. That’s fine for both weeks of winter, but once spring comes, you need something cooler.
I do that un-ironically.
I planted mint in my garden so mixed some Juleps. The mint is fine, I could do without the sugar. Side note; why is linen clothing so hard to find. I don’t want blends damn it!
because actual linen both stains and tears easily?
(shrug) i have plenty of linen shirts. my linen pants/+suits have all died violent, bloody deaths related to either wine, cigarettes, dancing, or some combination of the three.
I have one pair of linen shorts I wear when I know I’m going to be out in the heat. I’ve kept them spotless for about a year. Now I’m going to be paranoid when having a glass of red wine after your comment.
my fave pair of linen shorts was sort of a slightly-darker-than-khaki color, which ate up minor stains well. over time they took on sort of a rumpled, sunwashed patina which was nice.
The stuff i think that suffers the worst is the pressed, cream-colored, “nice if you’re posing on your yacht” variety. I like the stuff that is perpetually wrinkled/unironable.
WineAway. Learn it, love it.
Though linen wrinkles if you look at it cross-eyed.
I planted mint in my garden years ago. Now it tries to take over every year.
like friggin grapavines, eh. Those damn this are everywhere, and not one edible grape.
I will be eating here this Saturday. I haven’t tried it before, I will let you all know how it goes.
If you get the deviled eggs, fried pickles, the Reuben and finish with the pickled jalapenos and can hot box your wife in a way to make her leave the room you will be a superstar.
Did I mention I am divorced?
Fun fact I left out: the odu qb is still 17 years old.
Ohio Dialectic University? Or Oregon? Ontario?
That’s THEE Ohio Dialectic University.
*opera applause*
pansies at Tech wanted no part of JMU this season.
You mean Vippie Sue? There is only one Tech.
So I saw the Trump tweet of him knocking Clinton down with a golf ball.
Verdict: Fucking hilarious
Yeah, most folks today just don’t have a sense of humor…or a sense of self-awareness (of course that’s both redundant and “goes without saying” wrt the media).
What’s that? You don’t want your entire week wrecked? Well too fucking bad.
Baby of mother with brain cancer who chose to give birth and die instead of abort and fight it has died.
…shit.
Fucking pollen in the air today.
Now that is a brave selfless act.
Single parent children tend to have worse life outcomes.
That really sucks.
Shit.
Watching Orville now… First time, first take: Seth MacFarlane just wanted to do a Star Trek, and he is not doing a bad job at all. It’s a Star Trek ep punched up with modern lingo and updated moral quandries… Still has MacFarlane comedy (shit, Steve Smith is at the helm) but he still is utilizing the Sci Fi Is A Thought Experiment aspect to talk about shit.
Which is fine, as long as he doesn’t use it to proselytize, which I know he will, because he’s Seth MacFarlane, Eternal of the 80s, child of TANG, which had no problem of jumping from Thought Experiment to Moral Play. MacFarlane wants to do the same thing
TNG, not Tang. As in, Star Trek The Next Generation
Goddamn phone, I won the battle of ‘proselytize’ but lost to TANG
We’re all children of tang.
Honestly I think I would enjoy the show more if it we’re just a parody of star trek. RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES tv is goddamn exhausting
Yep, I was right. USS Morals, flying around the galaxy, fucking shit up. Zooooom!
It kind of depends on how much MacFarlane is involved in the writing. After all, American Dad was supposed to be a Family Guy version of All in the Family, and it just ended up as The Roger Show, with McFarlane as just another Voice Actor.
It kind of mirrors DS9, since the creators were busy elsewhere, some sci-fi writers managed to sneak in some decent writing while the people in charge weren’t looking.
Speaking of that top 25…
vandy is only on there due to a quirk in scheduling. A month from now, they will be 3-4 (and shortly thereafter, 3-5)
SaturdaySep. 23
Crimson Tide Alabama
SaturdaySep. 30
Gators at Florida Gators
Saturday Oct. 7
Bulldogs Georgia Bulldogs
Saturday Oct. 14
Rebels at Ole Miss Rebels
Vandy will win 1, maybe 2, of those.
I think that’s a bit ambitious. I’d take “0”. but then i haven’t actually watched them much this year (except the very first MTSU game)
I had some Tröegs Dreamweaver.
vintage Swedish pron represents the pinnacle of Nordic culture.
Links or we can’t debate
Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
Is your internet down again?
These church conversion bar/restaurant combos are friggin’ everywhere and always puntacular.
UC Berkeley produces lots of whiny bitches who are loose with facts. This one writes a sports column.
(USC didn’t buy the Bush family a house. An agent rented one for the scumbags unbeknownst to the school, for which the program received a more severe penalty than the school that let a coach use the facilities to ass-rape kids.)
You band sucks, your cheerleaders are ugly, and your team is going to get a beatdown.
Look what I found.
So she is going to start a marketing firm called KISS, like Gene Simmons?
I remember Ben Shapiro saying something his grandparents and great-grandparents were killed in the Holocaust:
I fear the possibility of a tyranny rising in the country in the next 50 to 100 years. Let me tell you something, Piers. The fact that my grandparents and great-grandparents in Europe didn’t fear that is why they’re now ashes in Europe. This kind of leftist revisionist history where there’s no fear of democracy going userpatious or tyrannical, is just that. It’s fictitious.
Sounds like he took a little something different from the Holocaust.
Nah man, the Holocaust happened because Nazis were trying to find the Grail. I seen it on my teevee
I’m pretty sure the Holocaust happened because people didn’t trust their governments enough!
/Hillary
Is she protesting Conjunctivitis?
I can’t get past the Che t-shirt
That’s what makes it so complete. Full circle of life.
Why am I losing this? Who’s asking for a labor day run down in my ear!? Someone in the peanut gallery is out of control. Goddammit. There’s insanity in commentariat tonight. You have insanity in my ear piece. There’s somebody talking on my lines. Every time we go to a sot there’s a woman talking in my ear. Stawp the hammering! Someone go up there and stawp the hammering! Call OMWC or whoever you have to call, but STAWP THE HAMMERING!
It just fucking sucks being out here with this shit. ANY BODY can get into my ear at any time. These fuckin’ things. There’s a reason these posts have to cut precisely.
Do you know what SOT stands for?
Sound on tape?
damnit, you decoded our media lingo! Ruskie spy!
Trump, Russia, Possible, Collusion.
“The first wave of Facebook posts came in disguised as commercial ads, the same way they did in Afghanistan in ’80. But they were crack advertising outfits. They got Drudge to link them.” “So that’s what created the deplorables?””I guess so. They coordinated with the alt-right. The stories were a hell of alot more accurate than we thought. They hacked the DNC servers, key points of communication.””Like what?””Oh, like your conservative aunt’s FaceBook page, Wikileaks, other scary things. “
Just saw Tucker humiliate Meathead on his show. I actually started feeling bad for the guy.
Tuckers show is the same thing over and over again:
– lefty shows up with lefty arguments, expecting to DESTROY ignorant conservadouche
– lefty is shocked to discover right-winger knows all their arguments already
– there is a brief moment of confusion where they realize they are going to have their reasoning cross examined
– then it just devolves into “fuck you”, “no fuck you” for 5 minutes.
Tucker cut his teeth arguing with at least semi sane democrats. He hasn’t really changed, but the democrats have gone batshit crazy. Crossfire was Meh because it was two partisan hacks, but what Tucker is doing lately actually serves a very useful purpose.
It’s still not that entertaining of a show.
Basically once Tucker questions a left-wingers talking point, both sides just fall back into their talking points. So it’s the same problem as Crossfire only with the the most extreme left-wingers. And while he is good at busting their balls, sometimes getting them off message and admit to their real beliefs, like with the giraffe necked professor the other day, it’s not exactly the Lincoln-Douglas debate.
Who is that guy? That voice… he sounds like a WB cartoon, but I can’t remember which one…
Elmer Fudd? Wascalwy wabbit!
We need a column on grownup football, not just this little league stuff.
SP, webdominatrix, and I were at a very good concert tonight, other than the continual lecturing about the evils of the current government abd how wonderful the last one was. Shut up and play, people.
OMWC, I can probably squeeze something out once a week.
I squeeze something out every morning, which is a feat at my age.
And yes, we’d love it.
Was it these guys? I bet it was these guys.
dagummit, meant as a reply to OMWC.
No goddamit, but it should have been.
yahwahdamnit just doesn’t have the same ring to it…ring to it…
Sorry, couldn’t find the scene where the Parson realizes John Wayne is a boxer who killed a man in the ring and the epiphany comes from ‘ring to it…ring to it..’
Long-ish, but funny – Dr. Randomercam’s version of the Soviet National Anthem.
He’s definitely worth checking out time to time.
that was great
*Inner former communist breaks out*
How dare DoctorRandomercam insult the glorious anthem of the Soviet peoples! Our revolution was one of unity, of the workers, not of some pox-marked degenerate bourgeois idiots whining about bathrooms!
*Ahem*.
With all the great Plame twitter yesterday, I completely forgot about this gem.
Oh Sweden, never change.
At least the replies are mostly appropriately angry at one or more of those statements.