Sports Containment Thread: Sponsored by G.I. Joe Pavelski, Real American Superhero (ELIte)

[agdci981]

All Tim Tebow does is win games and get the haters absolutely furious.

[dkgojackets]

agdci with a 100% accurate post

[LKJ]

In before Gus throws a tantrum about the media having the audacity to cover Tebow's latest win.

[Christophersen]

big ten championship game bought, going to indy this weekend

[diskoteque]

oh, timothy tebow

[LKJ]

I always enjoy sports teams or players who a sizable number of people just actively try to contrive legitimate reasons to hate because they want to.

[dkgojackets]

I pull against bad fanbases like the steelers/eagles. tebow I like since he gets haters steaming mad.

[LKJ]

Being an old AFC West guy, I really don't like the Broncos so I can't say I'm inclined to root for them at all...but most of the hate for Tebow is totally irrational so I'm happy to argue that nonsense down.

[Vintage00]

What the ****?

How did Sparty jump to #13 and UGA drop to #14?
Sparty's losses: Notre Dame (out of conference, NR), Nebraska (#19)
UGA's losses: Boise St (ooc, #7) and SCar (#12)

I know MSU beat Wisconsin, but I don't see any other feasible reason why they should have moved up after being unranked Northwestern last week.

[LKJ]

If it helps you feel better, it absolutely does not matter.

If Sparty wins the Big Ten title game, they'll rightfully be above Georgia. If they don't, they won't anymore anyway.

[dkgojackets]

sparty has two wins over top 15 teams, uga has beaten absolutely no one and lost twice at home while msu was on the road. seems pretty fair based on merit to have them ahead right now. you can argue uga is playing better right now but looking at the whole season lolsparty has been better

[GoCubsGo]

Originally Posted by Christophersen

big ten championship game bought, going to indy this weekend

sweet dude that'll be super fun. only down side is that it's in indy of all places. what were they thinking?

[Vintage00]

Originally Posted by dkgojackets

sparty has two wins over top 15 teams, uga has beaten absolutely no one and lost twice at home while msu was on the road. seems pretty fair based on merit to have them ahead right now. you can argue uga is playing better right now but looking at the whole season lolsparty has been better

This is a decent point, but in that case why weren't they ranked higher than UGA in week 13?

I'm not saying that UGA is absolutely better. I think it'd be a good game for sure. I just don't see how week 14 specifically made them flip flop when they quite literally had an identical game (31-17 wins on the road) vs Northwestern.

[LKJ]

Originally Posted by GoCubsGo

sweet dude that'll be super fun. only down side is that it's in indy of all places. what were they thinking?

Most central location common to the whole Big Ten, with an indoor NFL stadium which I'm sure was a significant consideration for a game perpetually played in December. Not hard to see why they picked it at all.

[dkgojackets]

Originally Posted by Vintage00

This is a decent point, but in that case why weren't they ranked higher than UGA in week 13?

I'm not saying that UGA is absolutely better. I think it'd be a good game for sure. I just don't see how week 14 specifically made them flip flop when they quite literally had an identical game (31-17 wins on the road) vs Northwestern.

i dont look into week to week much but you could argue that their top wins rank better with wisky crushing and michigan winning. has uga beaten anyone thats even getting votes? they havent beaten anyone in sagarins top 30