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Strong offenses: Oklahoma, ND, Baylor, North Carolina, Oregon, Stanford, Mississippi. Notre Dame needs to find a few offensive guys that can play defense. They could switch over 2-3 guys and still not miss a beat on offense. I think Hunter might make the switch. Maybe one of the younger OL guys could move as well.

The overall quality of college football is down this year. Notre Dame is #8 and 4 points away from being #1 with a really bad defense. Clemson and likely MSU are headed to the playoffs with fairly weak offenses. But yeah, the BIG is the best conference this year. Indiana doesn't go 2-6 in any other conference.

I wouldn't be mad if the Sox went that far to get Zobrist, but I wouldn't be mad if they didn't.

Illinois in line for a bowl bid.

Just say, "I haven't really liked any candidate since Ross Perot." They won't know how to respond.

I think in any given locality, the minority party is less prone to corruption because the system does not have their back.

I agree it shoudn't be just about wins this year, but if you're 0-12 your program is in rough shape. You just can't pick up an 0-12 team. Even if they had gone 4-8 you could have justified taking them given the past 3 seasons.

Central Florida just went 0-12. Not the time to pick them up.

The Big 12 needs to get back up to 12 with the two best programs they can get. Houston is a good get. Also, Houston is a big market whose 3 closest schools (Houston, Rice, A&M) are all not currently in the Big 12, so it would help that market. Yes, there are UT fans all over the state, but there are a lot of Houston and A&M fans in Houston so getting Houston makes even more sense with A&M gone.

My wife's cousin's son was on the Center Grove team that won the Indiana 6A championship and ended the year with a national Top 25 ranking.

About 250 miles, and not being a voter in Illinois.

It's that easy, isn't it? You just decide you want a guy traded and one of the other 29 teams magically agrees to a trade.

I doubt UNC was expecting to be in this position when they made their schedule.

THIS is what people should be protesting about.

Yeah, in any year the Rose and Sugar aren't playoff games, they are still obligated to take teams from their conferences, even if their champions make the playoff. Probably gets a 3-loss Mississippi team into the Sugar Bowl while a bunch of teams ranked ahead of them miss out. If Houston wins the AAC, even they will be ranked higher than Mississippi. Alabama is a good team, but the rest of the conference was very weak this year. Lots of teams could have gone 11-1 with Alabama's schedule.

Patriots deserve every bad break they get.

If the favorites win all the championship games, this is what I think the final rankings are: 1 Clemson 2 Alabama 3 Oklahoma 4 Michigan State 5 Ohio State 6 Stanford 7 Iowa 8 Baylor 9 Notre Dame 10 Florida State After you put the top 4 in the playoff, the Rose automatically gets Stanford as PAC 12 champs. Rose is also obligated to take highest ranked BIG team to replace MSU and that's OSU. Sugar is obligated to take highest ranked Big 12 and SEC teams to replace their champions, which would be Baylor and (probably) Mississippi. Fiesta then gets two highest ranked teams left, which is Iowa and ND. Peach now gets the highest ranked team left, which is FSU, and the AAC winner which is Houston or Temple. The Fiesta is a Jan 1 bowl and automatically gets the higher ranked teams unless it creates a rematch of a regular season game from this year or a bowl game from last year. Now, I'm just guessing at these rankings and ND might fall below FSU which would swap their bowls, but they still wouldn't be playing each other.

Oklahoma is 100% in. Probably in even if ND won but the ND loss sealed it. PAC-12 champ has at least 2 losses and no 1-loss non-champion is getting in over Oklahoma. Iowa-MSU winner is 100% in. Alabama is in if they win. If they lose Ohio State is in. Most interesting case is if Clemson loses. Ohio State might be able to make a case over North Carolina, even without the conference championship.

Playoff/bowl projections: Orange: Clemson vs Michigan State Cotton: Alabama vs Oklahoma Rose: Ohio State vs Stanford Sugar: Baylor vs Mississippi Fiesta: Iowa vs Notre Dame Peach: Florida State vs Houston

I was one hundred percent rooting for replay to overturn that TD. I knew thirty seconds was too much time left.

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Check in online exactly 24 hours before the flight to get the best possible boarding number. You board in number order and then seats are first come first serve.

No trade assets and a very small amount of financial assets to create a catching platoon that should, at worst, be league average and should be slightly above it. Now use the bigger assets to fry the bigger fish.

Career 110 OPS+ vs RHP