Sorry about the lack of a week 5, combo of vacation at beginning of the week and training at the end of the week did me in. And here is sloopy’s mandatory link.
Dubious Rivalry of the Week
New Mexico St @ Appalachian St, Boone, NC
This is a conference matchup. Next week the Mountaineers travel to Idaho for another ridiculous conference game. Lovely Moscow, the heart of the Sun Belt.
This is the last year for those teams (New Mexico St and Idaho) in the Sun Belt before Idaho drops to FCS and NM St goes independent and irrelevant, so enjoy these matchups now.
Tailgate of the Week
Missouri @ Kentucky, Lexington, KY
I have been to a lot of UK games over the decades. Too many, in fact. Lots of losses. Some I can’t unsee. If it was higher def and you froze it, you can probably spot me in the background at the peak of the pass.
Which leads to the need for the following:
Beer: West Sixth or Country Boy? Your call, but as there is a glib meetup on Friday at W6, hit up Country Boy on Saturday.
Liquor: We ain’t mixing nothing today. This is bourbon straight. I don’t think I have ever attended a UK game in which, at some point during the game, bourbon wasn’t spilled on me. In other words, the tailgate doesn’t stop in the parking lots. In ye olden days, you could get a pass out to go to the parking lot during halftime, which made the second half a special kind of drunkenness.
Game of the Century of the Week
Wake Forest @ Clemson, Clemson, SC
You probably didn’t think this game was a big deal in 2006 either. Here is a list of teams whose last ACC title was more distant than Wake’s in 2006: Virginia 1995, Duke 1989, UNC 1980, NC St 1979. Miami, Louisville, Syracuse, Pitt, and Boston College have never won it.
As for the 2006 ACCCG, I don’t want to talk about it.
Top 25
Once again, this isn’t a prediction but based on assuming the team wins out. Which explains GT being ranked so high even with a loss: their 7 remaining games are all against teams in the top 21.
- Michigan (4-0) 4.440 +1
- Clemson (5-0) 4.347 +2
- Georgia Tech (3-1) 4.295 +2
- Georgia (5-0) 4.271 +4
- Utah (4-0) 4.210 +1
- Duke (4-1) 4.183 -5
- Miami FL (3-0) 4.150 +5
- Washington St (5-0) 4.121 +2
- Oklahoma (4-0) 4.096 +9
- Virginia Tech (4-1) 4.088 -7
- Alabama (5-0) 4.087 +2
- Notre Dame (4-1) 4.073 +4
- Virginia (3-1) 4.071 +7
- Wisconsin (4-0) 4.059 NR
- Penn State (5-0) 4.056 +8
- Maryland (3-1) 4.018 NR
- Ohio State (4-1) 4.003 NR
- Washington (5-0) 3.997 +6
- Auburn (4-1) 3.968 +6
- Southern Cal (4-1) 3.939 -13
- Wake Forest (4-1) 3.928 -10
- Oregon (4-1) 3.909 NR
- Texas Tech (3-1) 3.897 -14
- North Carolina St (4-1) 3.897 NR
- Michigan St (3-1) 3.892 NR
Falling out: Indiana, Cal, Minnesota, Iowa, South Carolina, and LSU.
Comments
101 responses to “Week 6 College Football Preview”
Lovely Moscow, the heart of the Sun Belt.
They had to go somewhere after the WAC fell out from under their feet. Water finds its own level.
Side note, are cheerleaders less hot these days than in the past, or did I just have an over-idealized conception of them before?
I heard that as you age your testosterone levels decrease. So, yes to both.
That low T is why Kimmel be crying.
*Sheds tear for the 2013 Oregon Ducks Cheerleading Squad*
Did you at least note the alternative text?
I left a puzzle of sorts.
Stop it autocorrect.
google image search yielded some pleasant results.
She looks fun 😀
I don’t care about basketball but I’ll gladly take the cheerleaders.
Seconded.
The cheerleaders are the only thing worth watching when football or basketball are on.
Even more true for the [homeless] Chargers of the NFL.
Man, I’m stupid sometimes. The other night, I was watching a college game thinking, “Wow. All those cheerleaders, not one of them’s older than 23. Does it get any better?” How on Earth did I forget about high school games?
I’m confused because the title mentions college football but the rankings appear to be for some other sport. Is there women’s college football now? That would explain how Michigan could be number 1 since all their women are sasquatch’s.
STEVE SMITH PERK EARS
THAT NOT ONLY THING OF STEVE SMITH THAT IS PERKED
“And now to robc on sports…”
Ugh, I hate this channel. [switches over to pro wrestling]
Glad the Trojans made the cut again.
I’m stuck doing computer training and it requires you spend a certain amount of time on each section. So I read the module in about 1 minute and have to wait 10 minutes to take the test. On top of that it keeps losing the connection to the server and I have to start the wait time again. Anyways, go local sports team!
My internet is working just fine this week. Thanks for asking.
We weren’t asking.
Yes we were.
Missouri @ Kentucky, Lexington, KY
‘I have been to a lot of UK games over the decades. Too many, in fact. Lots of losses. Some I can’t unsee. ‘
I wouldn’t worry too much about this one. Mizzou is hot garbage. I’d be surprised if their coach lasts the season.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Arkansas_vs._Kentucky_football_game
One of the greatest footballs games ever played.
This is the greatest football game ever played. And I never want to see it again. Fuck the NFL. Fuck football.
OK
I was at that one too.
Missed Q from the afternoon links:
Q Continuum on October 5, 2017 at 3:05 pm
I’ll take numbers 2, 4, 5, 14, 20, 21, 33, 35, 39, and 41.
Big appetite today, I swear working harder does something to you.
Butthole? Earhole?
Nao mais futebol.
Argentina sixth in CONMEBOL with one match left.
Go Ecuador.
Those poor, exploited cheerleaders
What the fuck is this? I’m a gonna have night terrors.
AHHHHH!!!!!!!
Hillary Soros?!
*sprays lighter fluid in eyes and strikes a match*
I drank a bottle of Evan Williams a couple of months ago. It was sort of by accident because it was Sunday and the only place I can buy liquor within a mile of here on Sunday is at a little deli with a small stock of booze. And it was during a Jewish holiday and they get wiped out on those weekends. Not bad for a cheaper liquor. But then again, I like Jack Daniels and Ezra Brooks. I mean, not as good as I like the more vintage stuff, but still…
I finished the rest of the story in my head.
I didn’t actually mean that I finished it all in one sitting.
But I do have some stories. One of the best is when (keep in mind this was in my younger and more foolish days) I wound up standing in a swamp with no shoes on, middle of night, pitch black dark outside, in water about half way to my knees. Not a fucking clue how I got there or where I was. And people were looking for me. That is a defining moment in don’t drink that much, again, ever. I managed to figure it out and walk back home, barefoot, no thanks to the sleeping assholes who were supposed to be looking for me. I still don’t know what inspired that walk about, well alcohol played a part, ok, all the part. I never found my shoes, but I assume they came off when I was walking through the swamp.
I remember one guy I knew who told me he got really drunk at a party and just took off running through the neighborhood. Late at night, of course. He then found a fenced off construction sight, climbed the fence, and managed to find the keys in a Bulldozer, which he fired up and decided to drive through the fence and down some city streets before hearing some sirens and then hopped off and started running, eventually finding his way back.
Alcohol is a dangerous drug, my friends. And pot is illegal, lol.
I remember one guy I knew who told me he got really drunk at a party and just took off running through the neighborhood.
I had a college girlfriend like that. She’d get really drunk and she’d either try to abuse me or she’d take off running into the darkness. After a couple times of chasing her through the neighborhood, I just let her go one night. Didn’t hear from her for 2 days after that. Turns out the little attention seeker got pissed when I wouldn’t play her game.
I dunno, man. There is something a little different about alcohol. Not only is it the only drug that is legal pretty much worldwide, but it has some special attributes about it. It seems to have a unique tendency to provoke risky behavior and violence. I’ve too many times seen friends and family beat each other senseless and bloody because alcohol seems like some sort of liquid rocket fuel for humans. I love the stuff. Maybe because I’ve never killed myself or harmed anyone else because of it. But if there is a drug that is high risk to society, it has to be alcohol. I’d never advocate banning any substance used for harmless pleasure, but the fact that weed is illegal and alcohol is not, is beyond laughable when doing so is pretending to protect the public. *drinks to that
liquid rocket fuel for humans.
I had to 100% quit drinking any kind of brown liquor several years ago. I don’t know what it is about the stuff, but it goes down way to easy and I drink way too much of it. I have done some pretty shitty and embarassing things when drinking the brown stuff. Beer and wine, I can handle. I can even drink vodka or gin or tequila. If it’s whiskey, bourbon, or rum, there is 100% chance I’m going to do something I regret.
You’re right, the amber stuff will fuck you up. Or Tequila regardless of the color. Hey, who is the insane mofo who decided to make alcohol from desert roots? You see what happens? Crazy mofos.
Mas Tequila
The stories are myriad. I had a friend who thought he was superhuman when drunk. He jumped through a 2nd story window and disappeared for the night, coming back the next day all bloody and not knowing what happened all night. He also single-handedly fought 4 random guys for the fuck of it and had the bruises to prove it.
Another guy would lay out newspapers on his bedroom floor and had a second vacuum cleaner specifically for vacuuming puke.
Yet another woke up in a random bush in Panama City during spring break.
Another had a habit of stealing random shit when drunk, usually traffic barricades.
I was the boring one, I cleaned the kitchen when I was drunk.
I mean, yeah, I know, this is what I’m talking about.
Panama City?
I actually had a friend wake up drunk in Panama.
There was a time when a local bar to me did what they advertised as a “Blind IIPA tasting”, as a fan of hoppy beverages, I went. It wound up being a blind IIPA single elimination bracket… with 16 different starting beers. The pours were 3-4 oz. pours, and there were several other people I knew at the table, and none of us would let any of the damn good beer go to waste. The only food that was available was saltine crackers to cleanse the palate between rounds. Needless to say, by the end of the brackets, we were all wasted. And we all decided to go upstairs and have at least one pint of the winner to celebrate.
I don’t remember walking home that afternoon, but I remember waking up and finding out that drunk me had ran and emptied the dishwasher and cleaned up around the house.
And just to keep this relevant, here’s an XKCD about different types of alcohol.
How I wish I had that problem.
Not so much a problem as having a very regimented schedule and habits. This means that I always know where my keys, wallet, money, and phone are… because I always put them in the same spot every time I set them down. Habits can be good.
I had a friend in college that used to get way too loud and chatty when he got drunk, but was the quietest/mildest personality of anyone I knew. With enough liquor in him, he was impressionable enough to decide that getting a mouthful of potpourri and chewing on it made sense. Same night he described the sound of Tom Petty’s singing as similar to “someone shitting on a plate.”
If he’s talking about a salad bar plate, he’s absolutely right.
“I wound up standing in a swamp with no shoes on, middle of night, pitch black dark outside, in water about half way to my knees. Not a fucking clue how I got there or where I was.”
And that, kids, is how Trump became president.
*Closes Grimm’s fairy tales*
in seriousness:
in TN, when i lived there, Evan Williams was more commonly consumed than either Jim Beam or Jack. Even if it were cheaper (it might have been), it wasn’t really seen as “well whiskey”… (i.e. the stuff they put below the bar rather than on the shelf), it was just a slightly less ‘mass market’ bourbon. The cheap shit at the time was… Heaven Hill and Old Grand-Dad if i remember right. George Dickel was somewhere in between: lower-class than Evan or Jack or Jim… but not as seedy as well-whiskey.
Jack’s friends call him John.
I always loved Ezra Brooks. I always thought it was the better Jack Daniels. I like that sour mash taste. Bought a bottle of it once to try with the wife and she doesn’t like it. Acquired taste maybe. We typically drink Chivas Regal or good Cachaca for liquor. I like vodka and gin too, but I’m a sole drinker of that in this house.
Jack Daniels is just harsh enough to keep me in check. The trash known as Jim Beam isn’t very good, but it is significantly smoother and goes down quicker. It’s trouble.
Heh, yeah. I’m sort of immune to that. Some of the Cachaca I regularly keep stashed here is 40-50% and it goes down like water with honey. Was drinking Wild Turkey 101 during my cold. That’s harsh, especially during the peak with my sore throat. Lots of people don’t realize that the most dangerous part of a flu is the secondary bacterial infections which can actually kill you.
I’ll say that the Evan Williams is a decent cheap bourbon. I was more surprised when I asked for a Bulleit neat at a bar in Vegas, and the cocktail waitress thought I was using some new slang term for bourbon, and not a brand.
Must not be Stallone fan.
Meh….nerds gonna nerd. I’m totally going back for a box of DC and at least one indie box…and maybe some more Spider-Man.
Anyone play madden? I don’t really want to buy 18, but could be convinced.
Madden 18 new features – realistic graphics and the take a knee during the anthem option.
lol
u think he joking bro?
..i was hoping
+1 wokeness rating 92
Look, I don’t wanna be a dick (prepares to be a dick), but I just don’t no care no way at all. Only article I don’t read before hitting comments. But that’s ok, I know others really like this column, and, is still a place to post and have witty repartee and read interesting things and stuff.
But, for the liver of God (autospell I’m leaving in), what happened to Jewsday Tuesday? Is OMWC ok?
OMWC was just here a day or so ago. Skip back through the articles.
I can’t make it thru maritime law ones. To each his own.
Frankly they are just slightly modified versions of some old term papers – #lazybutkindainspired
I read your articles fish, but it’s a subject that I know so little about that I have a hard time comprehending. Maybe I’ll do a little basic reading on maritime law sometime and then try again.
Liver of god?
Always leave it in, even if you’re trying your dumbest.
Meh. Oklahoma State has a bye, so I will just watch hockey and baseball. Or do something worse but more productive…
Gigity…
I can respect UK fans that are die hard for the football team. Basketball fans on the other hand…..
This is how I also feel. Also, John Calipari is a douche.
I know right. Though I will give him credit, my son wrote him a letter and he sent him back a signed photo and a team photo of the Anthony Davis year team. But yeah, he a douche
Top thread is always fair game for breaking news, right?
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump is refusing to certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-expected-to-refuse-to-certify-irans-compliance-with-nuclear-deal-1507250613
Preliminarily, my understanding is that if Trump refuses to sign off, then it would throw a number of questions before congress–including the possibility of reinstating sanctions.
The left is sure to run around in circles like discombobulated chickens over the prospect of congress becoming involved in something like a treaty. Whoever heard of such a thing?
Reinstating sanctions would be ineffective at this point 1) given Iran’s improved foreign reserve position and 2) unless the EU was willing to reinstate sanctions, as well–but they’ve moved on. The sanctions were effective when Iran had burned through their foreign currency reserves and were suffering an annual inflation rate of some 45%. Now that they’ve had access to world oil and credit markets and the end of sanctions released their funds out of country, that game is played out.
Oh, and Inflation is back down under 10%.
The most important part of that agreement was always about giving Iran the right to enrich their own uranium, but the other parties to the NPT aren’t likely to take that back at this point. Recall, Russia won’t abstain again, being knee deep in Syria with Iran, etc.
Obama traded all our leverage away for magic beans and two plane loads of cold hard cash, and we’re not getting that leverage back anytime soon. Still, it’ll be nice to see this go in front of congress where it should have been anyway.
Well not his monkeys and not his circus…for once
Look, Playa, we’re all gonna die, and the Earth will be destroyed someday. Obsessing over it just means that you’ll die anxious and unhappy instead of ignorant and happy.
Seriously though, here’s the thing: the genie was let out of the bottle almost eighty years ago, and was instantly stolen by the USSR, who was a much bigger threat than Iran.
The fact is, that we have not been conducting research into a missile shield; we have been finding committees to look at the concept. If we had started building when Reagan proposed the idea, then we wouldn’t really give a shit if Iran or North Korea got the bomb and a delivery system.
has anyone seen Trumbo? and – ignoring whether or not the film is politically a shitshow – is it good?
I’ve read some good reviews of it (although I may also be thinking of another blacklist-themed film that came out recently with a different title): http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/70412/trumbo/ (something about “Midnight”?)
I thought DVDSavant (now cinemasavant) had reviewed it too, but can’t find it on his new page. He’s a great reviewer, but his political opinions are starting to get a little more directly transferred to his reviews – even for very old flicks.
Whelp, the Yankees looked like ass tonight AND they couldn’t buy a call to save their lives. Bauer pitched plenty well on his own – he didn’t need the Eric Gregg Memorial Strike Zone on top of it.
Just for you.
On a related note, the only reason I know about this song is that a local radio station played it before every Indians game. My girlfriend didn’t believe it existed during the last word series run, so I had to hunt it down for her.
Totally 70s!
Yes! It was glorious, wasn’t it?!
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
I came of age in the 70s and 80s when the rules about crashing your truck into the liquor store were different
My journey now will be to learn about myself and conquer my demons. You heard me, demons- I am challenging you to tequila shots
“Challenging Demons to Tequila Shots” should be the next hit by The Gorillaz.
What’s that a reference to?
Harvey Weinstein’s statement which purported to be an apology for a bunch of sexual harassment claims against him. He blamed his actions on “coming of age in the ’60s and ’70s”
My 78 yr old aunt bought it, and agreed the Hollywood casting couch isn’t a new thing…the shit old people say can be disturbing (not because they are wrong, but because you don’t want to hear it coming from their mouths)
Harvey Weinstein’s rambling excuse.
So tonight turned out to be an excellent sports night. The Yankees and Red Sox lost and the Penguins got humiliated.
Two outta three is ok
I’m not trying to mock people for making poor choices. But they made some poor choices.
BURN IT WITH FIRE!!!
That’s more than I make. I’ll try to find my sympathy.
If Ken Burns were a crackhead: he’d have made a documentary about Old Dirty Bastard’s Native American Heritage and how the Government Put a Chip in His Brain. All sourced via firsthand interviews with fucked up people from his projects all making vague claims about shit distant relatives said.
I miss the days when I hung out with UNLV cheerleaders. 🙁
Pictures or it didn’t happen
God bless cheerleaders that demonstrate how wide they can spread their legs. God bless ’em.
OK, OT, but, the ‘US Diplomats’ in Cuba that were attacked by some ‘sonic weapon’, were spies. Put in Cuba under Obama, seemingly attacked only after Trump won.
It’s funny to go back and read old comments.