The 150th Edition of College Football - Discussion and Pick 'Em Thread

[GeorgiaModerate]

NCAA released their top preseason top 25

https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2019-07-02/college-football-rankings-preseason-top-25-2019-season

Their top 4 is:
1. Clemson
2. Alabama
3. Ohio State
4. Georgia

To be clear, that's not an official NCAA ranking, just that columnist's opinion.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Coaches poll is out: https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings

1. Clemson
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Oklahoma
5. Ohio State
6. LSU
7. Michigan
8. Florida
9. Notre dame
10. Texas

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/08/06/top-25-preseason-rankings-polls-alabama-clemson Sports Illustrated made the interesting choice to put Alabama at #1 over Clemson.

Of course I'm rooting for Georgia, but I'll be happy if anyone but Clemson or Bama wins the championship.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Do we just post our picks in this thread?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Florida vs. Miami
Arizona @ Hawai'i
UCLA @ Cincinnati
Georgia Tech @ Clemson
Utah @ BYU
Wisconsin @ USF
UMass @ Rutgers
Colorado State vs Colorado
Akron @ Illinois
Indiana State @ Kansas
Toledo @ Kentucky
Ole Miss @ Memphis
South Carolina vs UNC
Duke vs Alabama
Northwestern @ Stanford
Virginia Tech @ Boston College
California vs UC Davis
Georgia @ Vanderbilt
Oregon vs Auburn
Virginia @ Pittsburgh
Fresno State @ USC
Houston @ Oklahoma
Notre Dame @ Louisville

FCS:

Youngstown State @ Samford
Towson @ The Citadel

Which will be a bigger blowout, Duke/Bama or GT/Clemson?

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I'll post my picks in the next day or so, pumped for the season to start!  Quick roll call on whom everyone roots for??

I, of course, cheer for the ever-frustrating Illinois Fighting Illini.

The University of Georgia Bulldogs!

[GeorgiaModerate]

I believe it was a Miami-Florida game that ended with my all time favorite score of 31-4.  Yes, the loser (Florida, I think) got two safeties and nothing else.  And both safeties were on punts from near the goal line where the ball was snapped over the punter's head and out the back of the end zone!

Edit: yep, it was Miami 31, Florida 4.  1987.

[GeorgiaModerate]

and now for a look at the standings after Week 0:

JGibson - 3
SunriseAroundTheWorld - 2
PragmaticConservative - 2
RINO Tom - 2
Sjoyce - 1
Illiniwek - 1
Sprouts Farmers Market - 1
Green Line - 1
GeorgiaModerate - 1
dfwlibertylover - 1
Ninja0428 - 1
YE - 1
Dereich - 1
Coastal Elitist - 1
ExtremeRepublican - 1
tmthforu94 - 0

Week 1 games remain unchanged, we will be playing 22 of those since we combined weeks 0 and 1, 21 FBS and 1 FCS.

I'm just lulling you all into a false sense of security.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Should I add AP/CFP rankings to the teams in the initial pick em post starting in week 2?

I'm for it.

[GeorgiaModerate]

#21 Iowa State down to FCS school Northern Iowa 13-10 in the 4th quarter.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Not sure why I thought Ole Miss would be any better lol

Memphis offense was shaky, but their defense looks much much better than last year.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Fun fact--The Missouri Valley Conference is a really old conference and predates many of the modern conferences.  The Big 8 (now Big 12 with 10 teams) spun out of it long ago.  So, it's kind of a lol reunion weekend for former members Kansas and Iowa St.

Wow...I didn't realize how many former members the MVC had!

Current members:

Bradley
Drake
Evansville
Illinois St.
Indiana St.
Loyola-Chicago
Missouri St.
Northern Iowa
Southern Illinois
Valparaiso

Former members:

Butler
Cincinnati
Creighton
Detroit
Grinnell College
Houston
Iowa
Iowa St.
Kansas
Kansas St.
Louisville
Memphis [State]
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico St.
North Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma A&M [now State]
St. Louis
Tulsa
Washburn
Washington U (St. Louis)
West Texas
Wichita St.

Source

[GeorgiaModerate]

Boise State scores the last 23 points of the game to upset Florida St. 36-31!

[GeorgiaModerate]

Down year for the SEC?

Tennessee is down 28-23 to Georgia State in the 4th.
Arkansas is down 10-6 to Portland State at halftime.
Ole Miss lost to Memphis.
Florida beat Miami, but looked awful doing it.
Alabama is up big on Duke late, but they were scoreless after the first quarter.

[GeorgiaModerate]

I had the Arkansas score backwards...they were up 10-6 at the half, now up 17-6.  But Georgia State just went up 35-23 on Tennessee with a little over 4 minutes left.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Holy cow, what a finish in Auburn-Oregon!

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Here are a few stats from the first week, based on what I've read in this thread.  These are unofficial, since I'm not running the game (and I don't mean to steal dfw's thunder; I just like fiddling with this kind of information).

There were 17 players total, but not everyone picked all games.  YE apparently overlooked the Cal-UC Davis game, Coastal Elitist didn't pick the Towson-Citadel game, and peenie_weenie picked too late for all the Thursday/Friday games and also overlooked Towson-Citadel.

Games picked unanimously (all correctly, if Notre Dame wins):

Clemson over Georgia Tech
Wisconsin over USF
Rutgers over UMass
Kentucky over Toledo
Alabama over Duke
Georgia over Vanderbilt
Oklahoma over Houston
Notre Dame over Louisville

Games with only one dissenter:

Arizona-Hawaii (dissenter was right)
Colorado-Colo. St.
Kansas-Indiana St.
South Carolina-North Carolina (dissenter was right)
Cal-UC Davis
USC-Fresno St.

Most divisive games:

Memphis (7) over Ole Miss (10)
Towson (9) over Citadel (6)

[GeorgiaModerate]

WEEK 1 SCORES

Pulling everyone's picks out of the thread is a manual process.  I've double-checked, but it's still possible I've made a mistake.  So if you see a discrepancy in your score, please contact me!

Here are the results:

GeorgiaModerate   22
RINO Tom   22
ExtremeRepublican   21
Ninja0428   20
sjoyce   20
Dereich   19
JGibson   19
Sprouts   19
1184AZ   18
dfw   18
Illiniwek   18
SunriseAroundTheWorld   18
Coastal Elitist   17
tmthforu94   17
Green Line   16
YE   15
peenie_weenie   12

I posted this after my 1-2 start on Thursday night:

I'm just lulling you all into a false sense of security.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Army @ Michigan
Syracuse @ Maryland
Old Dominion @ VA Tech
UAB @ Akron
WVU @ Mizzou
Vandy @ Purdue
USF @ Georgia Tech
Texas A&M @ Clemson
Nebraska @ Colorado
Illinois @ UConn
SDSU @ UCLA
UCF @ FAU
North Texas @ SMU
BYU @ Tennessee
Coastal Carolina @ Kansas
WKU @ FIU
LSU @ Texas
Arkansas @ Ole Miss
Miami @ UNC
Arkansas State @ UNLV
Cal @ Washington
Stanford @ USC
Oregon State @ Hawai’i

FCS:
The Citadel @ Elon
Chattanooga @ Jacksonville State

[GeorgiaModerate]

We have only two unanimous picks this week: Michigan over Army and Virginia Tech over Old Dominion.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Number of picks for each team:

Michigan-Army 16-0
Syracuse-Maryland 10-6
Virginia Tech-Old Dominion 16-0
UAB-Akron 11-5
West Virginia-Missouri 5-11
Vanderbilt-Purdue 4-12
USF-Georgia Tech 3-13
Texas A&M-Clemson 1-15
Nebraska-Colorado 11-5
Illinois-UConn 15-1
SDSU-UCLA 5-11
UCF-FAU 14-2
North Texas-SMU 7-9
BYU-Tennessee 6-10
Coastal Carolina-Kansas 1-15
Western Kentucky-FIU 7-9
LSU-Texas 11-5
Arkansas-Ole Miss 8-8
Miami-North Carolina 12-4
Arkansas St.-UNLV 5-11
Cal-Washington 1-15
Stanford-USC 13-3
Oregon St.-Hawaii 2-14
Citadel-Elon 3-13
Chattanooga-Jacksonville St. 5-11

[GeorgiaModerate]

I can't be the only one who thinks if the troops wanted to they could put together a football team and dominate the B1G TEN

They're doing a pretty good job so far.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Army just stuffed Michigan on 4th down for at least the third time today.  Army ball at their own 42, tie score, 2:32 left in the game.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Also wow lol Syracuse was nuked out of orbit

So was West Virginia.

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https://twitter.com/Mi_OSullivan/status/1170416728054128641