No, they would not. Washington would walk all over them (see what I did there? you make baseless statements, and then I do, and then DISCO!).
The only comparison we have is Colorado. Both teams played CO, UW did better against them overall. Not the best comparison though.
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You could say the same thing about the B1G conference as well - top few are ok/good and the rest of the conf is garbage. I don't want to get into which conf is "tougher" - that only ends in beer and hotwings fights - so outside of conf is the only real way to look. And yeah, UW could have made better choices. Rutgers was the only decent team, and they weren't, the rest was garbage.
It is tough to schedule "tough" non-conf games though - and it's a risk.
Temple's Mat Rhule to Baylor. Interesting; hope he can clean up the program.
Peppers is an odd case. He gets so much attention and love, not just from fans, but from opposing players and coaches when in my personal opinion he doesn;t produce all that much in his extra curricular outside of his defensive role.
Michigan tried to use him out of the Wildcat pretty much every game, and there was never any threat that he'd throw it and even his gains on the ground were not that impressive. His special teams play was outstanding, but college special teams are pretty bad in general, and his pure athleticism mostly carried him there.
He's a special player and I'm going to enjoy seeing what he can do in the pros (and how high he gets drafted) but I don't think he has a legitimate claim or shot at the Heisman. Much as I'd love to see defensive players get more recognition for the Heisman, I don't think Peppers is going to be the follow up to the great Charles Woodson.
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Oh, forgot to add, I think Lamar Jackson runs away with it.
I preferred bowl season before this current playoff and before the BCS anyway, tbh. It was fun to never have a consensus champ and persistently argue about who would have beaten who. It was always part of what fueled college football's provincial fanbases. Basketball has always had nuthuggers from nowhere-close who were self-described Kentucky fans or Duke fans or UNC fans UCLA... etc, imo partly because of the existence of the tournament.
All that said, Ohio State has a good resume and the one game they lost had a lot more to do with them giving it away than it being taken from them. I love seeing Franklin succeed at Penn State, and I think longtime fans of either school can live with the result. One team is in the playoff and the other team gets the Rose Bowl against USC. Those are both really good ways to end a season.
The current system doesn't completely alleviate that issue anyway. Last year, Ohio State played that miserable game against Michigan State in a freezing windstorm and lost, and nobody thought to even mention them during that following week. Then they came out and beat Michigan to death and suddenly the entire Crimson Tide fanbase and staff was up in arms about how there was no way they can let Ohio State into the playoff.
You could say that Ohio State after the Michigan game last year was the only team that really could play with Alabama, but we'll never know because they didn't play regardless of how things looked.
The current controversies are a lot less soulful and fun, however. If I wanted to watch soulless football wrapped in a lifetime of commercials, I'd turn on an NFL game.
In a legitimate surprising twist: Applewhite gets the Houston job, not Kiffen.
Dunno, never watched any UYCSFwhatever games. I think the shine is down for Oregon football.
Per an agent involved in the Oregon coaching search.
Jeff Brohm got one more year and more money (reported $3.3 million) from Purdue than Taggart received from Oregon (reported $3.2 million). Topping off the thought, Brohm came directly from Western Kentucky; Taggart was there 2010-12. Brohm was making about $800,000 at WKU; Taggart was making around $1.8 million at USF.
And yet Purdue outdid Oregon. How crazy would that have sounded if we said that a few months ago?
I'm not sure paying more for a less accomplished HC means Purdue outdid Oregon. This will be a quick turnaround for Oregon. I will be surprised if they don't win 10 games the year after next. In the 2 days Taggart has been with Oregon he has offered 2 of the top prospects in Florida, a top WR for Arizona and went to go meet the top QB prospect in the country (who was a lock to Oregon before Helfrich fucked it up and didn't offer him until he already committed to Alabama. The guy had repeatedly said Oregon was his dream school). He's also offered Charlie Strong the DC position. And while he may not land any of these guys, the aggressive approach is something that has been sorely lacking the last few years.
Then there are the new fans for the team. Tony Dungy, Jim Harbaugh and Oliver Luck all called Oregon to endorse him. Jack Harbaugh said Taggart is hands down the best recruiter he has ever seen. You have casual fans like Damon Stoudamire saying they are now fans. You have NFL players like Richard Sherman saying how good he will be. You have LaMichael James saying he wanted to come back and coach (only half joking he said).
This will be very good for Oregon. And to top it off they are finally taking their assistant coaches seriously. They've allocated at least 4 million for assistants, which would put Oregon in the top 15 in money spent on assistants.
Edit: I'm excited if you can't tell.
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