Rankings should never be a joke, sir

ILP is the goodie of college football, if goodie pulled for a team that hasn't sniffed a ring this millennium

Just want to be on the record that Washington, like every team west of the Mississippi, is a fraud and will not make it.

Way too harsh bro. If you've won a ring during the last score you're still one of the cool kids imo.

Luckily for Tulane we are juuuust East of the Mississippi.

disagree that UT is out of it. UF could easily lose both away games against Arky, LSU

On what? On a potential Bama/Mich matchup I think I'd rather take the points and the plus money line at the time rather than lay points now. On the Wolverine/Buckeye game it looks to be close to a pick, depending on upcoming form. I'll pass.

Footnote (just skip it if you don't want a major tangent rant): Recently I took a public speaking class, turned out the professor was a Michigan grad. On one of the assignments we had to go to the front of class, no prep, and talk on one of three subjects she assigned on the spot. One she gave me was Michigan football. Classic ringer situation. I went thru the 10 Years War, the Schembechler era including him virtually coaching the basketball team to 89(?) title, the Moeller, Carr, Rodriguez, and just then starting Harbaugh eras. Touched on their Heisman winners, rare defensive winner (Woodson had picked off somebody twice, Maybe Manning the week of my talk), it was also the week of the freaky "Michigan has lead and ball with 10 seconds to go and blows game to Mich St so I covered that, Michigan bowl difficulties over the decades, aberration of Brady being so overlooked in draft, mentioned that Michigan was the all-time leader in wins in football, etc. Then I sang the fight song and sat down. I passed. And no I'm not a Michigan fan, not picking them for any such reason as that. All in all, go fish on the laying points on Michigan versus Bama game. Try somebody else. Here's a good kicker to the story. I used to be something like the google for sports information before there was google. I missed the following question during a national trivia contest in Las Vegas: "What is the nickname of the University of Michigan football team?" LOL. I total brainlocked it and could'nt come up with it. I won the contest. Missed that one and one hockey question (longest winning streak) out of 100 or so. None of that is the talent ... it's the fallout of the talent which is something else. Pass, pass, pass.

You seem like you know a lot about college football and look forward to your future posts

Something does not make sense here.

Best non-Michigan fan in the multiverse!

I used to know the nicknames of all the D1A teams, but a few more scrubs have been added since then. It's tougher than you think to name all of them.

Wildcats
Tigers
Bulldogs


That's 68% right there

So whoever banned me for talking about sports betting talk, what are the rules.

Can I say ahead of time what lines I feel are inefficient, such as "Nebraska +17.5 is a mortal lock"?

If not I will probably just stop posting about foootball completely.

So let me know. Thanks.

And yes I know there is a sports betting forum. But those guys are mostly jerks and the discussion there is geared more towards trying to become a professional sports bettor as opposed to enjoying the hobby of watching and betting on football, so I don't really fit there at all

Theyre all unwritten rules. You're in the thread every week, just do what others do

It's the fact that you liveblog every bet you made, and talk about how much of a bad beat it was that you lost every time

QB, think of it this way. You get one bad beat story per season.

If you're going to tell us your bets, you need to do it all in one post. And that's all you get for the week. Like Holliday does in the SEC thread every week.

Don't narrate or liveblog from your betting perspective in gameday threads.

It's about volume. If you find yourself making back to back posts, stop.

If you see somebody like GoldenBears getting away with what you think are breaking these rules, sorry, but we are all fine with that double standard. He doesn't break the spirit so he's allowed the leeway. He does it better than you, and he's a baller that we can live vicariously through. That, and we all know him from forever and his presence is part of the pageantry.

and the reason we have such a forum is to keep the sports betting jerks away from those of us that want to enjoy the games; the only thing you seem to not understand is which group you're in as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

like, nobody cares about one or two posts a week about it -- but the constant "OMG that holding penalty in the second quarter just shows this game is rigged against my bet" crap is terrible, annoying, and needs to stop. Honestly, not a single one of us gives a crap about your bets, and not a single one of us is the least bit sympathetic about how a random play might affect your pocket book.

Qb they are simply testing your resolve

Pretty much accepted it will be:

1. Alabama
2. Michigan
3. Clemson
4. Washington

PSU #12

Michigan with wins over the 8, 12, and 15 in CFP rankings by a combined 63 points

AINT PLAYED NOBODYYYYYYYYY PAWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLL

lol Washington

that wild and crazy committee

Penn St. at 12 is some sort of a troll right?