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

[GeorgiaModerate]

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

[Terry the Fat Shark]

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

knew I should've put that one on the pickem rather than like...Clemson GT lol

[Dereich]

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

knew I should've put that one on the pickem rather than like...Clemson GT lol

Very glad you didn’t.

[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.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Down year for the SEC?

Tennessee is down 29-23 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.

Mississippi State had an underwhelming win too....they better hope Auburn beats Oregon...

[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.

[7,052,770]

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.

And Missouri (basically SEC in name only anyway) is getting blown out by Wyoming right now

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Wyoming upsets Mizzou 37-31! Kelly Bryant couldn't save them apparently....

[7,052,770]

Wyoming upsets Mizzou 37-31! Kelly Bryant couldn't save them apparently....

Not a shocker. I always suspected Bryant won all those games at Clemson because of the other talent, not because of himself.

I suspect (although we don't know for sure yet) that Mississippi State got lucky when Bryant didn't pick us, opening the door for us to later get Tommy Stevens instead.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Holy cow, what a finish in Auburn-Oregon!

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Holy cow, what a finish in Auburn-Oregon!

A Sad(!) one!

[Donerail]

S! E! C! S! E! C!

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

The SEC is "down" because talent consolidated to allow the conference to have five of the top eight teams in the country (top 10 at worst). [No, this does not include Florida.]

Very excited for what Jimbo and Ed O will do this year.

(No, this is not exactly what happened since all teams continue to dominate recruiting rankings including the likes of Tennessee and coaching variation is a greater explainer. But I did want to highlight the unparalleled strength at the top that no other conference comes close to.)

[7,052,770]

S! E! C! S! E! C!

It's 2019. We don't do that anymore.

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Even though we still have games tomorrow and Monday, I will post the week 2 pick em sometime tomorrow/today (if you are in eastern time), the rankings will be based on last week's AP Poll since the new AP poll isn't until Tuesday (as a result of OU and ND on Sun and Mon )

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Wow! If OU wins tomorrow then the Big 12 will have gone 10-0 against OOC this week!

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Laughing at UT united the Vandy and Georgia fans at the game tonight!  I'm usually all about cheering for our SEC compatriots, but Tennessee losing to Georgia State is an exception!  So funny!!

[Coastal Elitist]

Ugh the SEC sucks

Sunday pick
Oklahoma

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Week 2 FBS/FCS Matchups:

Saturday, September 7th

Army @ #7 Michigan Noon EDT FOX

#22 Syracuse @ Maryland Noon EDT

Old Dominion @ Virginia Tech Noon EDT ESPNU

UAB @ Akron Noon EDT CBSSN

West Virginia @ Missouri Noon EDT

Vanderbilt @ Purdue Noon EDT BTN

South Florida @ Georgia Tech 2 PM EDT ACCN

#12 Texas A&M @ #1 Clemson 3:30 PM EDT ABC

#24 Nebraska @ Colorado 3:30 PM EDT FOX

Illinois @ UConn 3:30 PM EDT CBSSN

San Diego State @ UCLA 4:15 PM EDT PAC12

#17 UCF @ Florida Atlantic 7 PM EDT CBSSN

North Texas @ SMU 7 PM EDT ESPN3

BYU @ Tennessee 7 PM EDT ESPN

Coastal Carolina @ Kansas 7 PM EDT ESPN+

Western Kentucky @ Florida International 7 PM EDT ESPN+

#6 LSU @ #10 Texas 7:30 PM EDT ABC

Arkansas @ Ole Miss 7:30 PM EDT SECN

Miami (FL) @ North Carolina 8:00 PM EDT ACCN

Arkansas State @ UNLV 10:00 PM EDT

California @ #13 Washington 10:30 PM EDT FS1

#25 Stanford @ USC 10:30 PM EDT ESPN

Oregon State @ Hawai’i 11:59 PM EDT

FCS:

The Citadel @ #21 Elon 2 PM EDT FLOF

Chattanooga @ Jacksonville State 7 PM EDT ESPN+

(Note: Rankings are based on today, AP doesn't come out again until Tuesday)

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Clemson open up as a 19.5 point favorite over Texas A&M....

[7,052,770]

[Coastal Elitist]

Notre Dame

[GeorgiaModerate]

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)

[RINO Tom]

Gettin' my picks in order now, but I believe you have Western Kentucky/FIU listed twice, and therefore there are only 24 games this week?  Just wanted to clarify, thanks!

[Terry the Fat Shark]

Gettin' my picks in order now, but I believe you have Western Kentucky/FIU listed twice, and therefore there are only 24 games this week?  Just wanted to clarify, thanks!

whoops....I replaced one of them with Arkansas State @ UNLV, thanks for pointing them out