Neverending Mountain West region college football thread - Page 176

seventwenty · #**3501** Posted **Sep 18, 2017, 2:53 AM**

21-42, but CU gave UNC a sniff of a win at one point...

If we play like that against Washington we're gonna get devoured.

Cirrus · #**3502** Posted **Sep 19, 2017, 2:44 PM**

I expect CU will lose to Washington, but they haven't looked unbeatable either. They're good but they also have obvious and serious weaknesses (for example, no running game). They're not Alabama.

I predict a low-scoring game that comes down to turnovers.

seventwenty · #**3503** Posted **Sep 24, 2017, 8:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

I expect CU will lose to Washington, but they haven't looked unbeatable either. They're good but they also have obvious and serious weaknesses (for example, no running game). They're not Alabama.

I predict a low-scoring game that comes down to turnovers.

Well your prediction was very true for 30 minutes. Then Montez kept turning the ball over.

wong21fr · #**3504** Posted **Oct 23, 2017, 4:58 PM**

Man, CU Football shows again that last year was an outlier and has regressed to the mean for the program, i.e. a bottom conference standing.

sphinx88844 · #**3505** Posted **Oct 23, 2017, 5:52 PM**

From coach of the year to going for it on 4th and 10 to running down the sideline to scream at ref for the next 10 minutes....this program is falling apart...yuck.

seventwenty · #**3506** Posted **Oct 28, 2017, 8:10 PM**

Good Montez may be back!!

(sorry for jinxing it)

sphinx88844 · #**3507** Posted **Oct 30, 2017, 9:21 PM**

Don't jinx it!

But - Last weekend might have been one of the most entertaining games I have watched in Boulder in a long time - even the games against WSU and Utah last year weren't as fun as the 100+ yard pick 6 or 65yd. bomb that Montez threw to "Big Play Shay". The weather was perfect for football and the atmosphere was fabulous for the retirement ceremony for #19 in honor of Rashan Salaam.

Let's hope the good buffs are here for the rest of the season - it would make that 2pm kick against USC a lot more fun for senior day!

JMK · #**3508** Posted **Oct 31, 2017, 5:10 PM**

seventwenty · #**3509** Posted **Nov 6, 2017, 6:44 PM**

Cirrus, I still blame you.

Cirrus · #**3510** Posted **Nov 6, 2017, 8:26 PM**

Going 0-for-Arizona is embarrassing.

Anyway, the Colorado/Utah game will probably be a play-in game for a bowl berth, for whichever teams wins. IIRC that's two years in a row the game will be meaningful to both teams. What can we do to cement this rivalry?

wong21fr · #**3511** Posted **Nov 6, 2017, 9:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Going 0-for-Arizona is embarrassing.

Anyway, the Colorado/Utah game will probably be a play-in game for a bowl berth, for whichever teams wins. IIRC that's two years in a row the game will be meaningful to both teams. What can we do to cement this rivalry?

That bottom ranked conference teams, both scraping .500) can compete for a bowl appearance shows that a) there's too many goddamn bowl games (40 I believe), and b) the PAC is riding on some historical coattails this this year.

Playoff expansion is so needed with corresponding bowl reduction. The chaff needs to slink off into the offseason if they aren't challenging in a conference division, not playing in the Sam's Tuscon Bail Bonds Dumpster Bowl

bunt_q · #**3512** Posted **Nov 6, 2017, 11:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

What can we do to cement this rivalry?

Probably kick them back down to the Mountain West where they belong and promote CSU, that might do it.

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

The chaff needs to slink off into the offseason if they aren't challenging in a conference division, not playing in the Sam's Tuscon Bail Bonds Dumpster Bowl

Oooh. December in Tucson sounds fun.

Cirrus · #**3513** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 6:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

there's too many goddamn bowl games

Yes.

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Originally Posted by wong21ft

Playoff expansion is so needed

No.

mhays · #**3514** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 6:43 AM**

Playoff discussions generally avoid the piddling little detail that college is about education.

wong21fr · #**3515** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 12:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

Yes.
No.

Yes. Eight game playoff. Conference champions from the power 5 (or 6 if that should happen) with the other slots being at large invites.

bunt_q · #**3516** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 1:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

Playoff discussions generally avoid the piddling little detail that college is about education.

Is it? I am pretty sure college is about entertainment (for all ages) and money. And perhaps also just keeping a generally useless demographic out of the workforce for 4-5 years longer.

There wouldn’t be communications degrees if colleges were about education.

Cirrus · #**3517** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 3:15 PM**

I am fully opposed to any playoff scheme that regularly results in teams with 2 or more losses making it in. Those teams have played their way out of a national championship and do not remotely deserve the chance to get hot at the end and win it all. I would sooner go back to the BCS.

I only grudgingly accept a playoff scheme where 1-loss teams regularly make it in.

Atlas · #**3518** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 3:44 PM**

I think a 6 team playoff could work, with first round byes for numbers 1 and 2.

wong21fr · #**3519** Posted **Nov 7, 2017, 9:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cirrus

I am fully opposed to any playoff scheme that regularly results in teams with 2 or more losses making it in. Those teams have played their way out of a national championship and do not remotely deserve the chance to get hot at the end and win it all. I would sooner go back to the BCS.

I only grudgingly accept a playoff scheme where 1-loss teams regularly make it in.

Given the usual standings in the Power 5, that shouldn't be a problem.

sphinx88844 · #**3520** Posted **Nov 8, 2017, 7:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Atlas

I think a 6 team playoff could work, with first round byes for numbers 1 and 2.

Agreed - that allows for all power 5 champions and 1 at large (ND perhaps). It would also allow for one of those undefeated group of 5 teams to potentially play which could be fun and give them something to play for.