College Football

We've only got a few more weeks of this topsy turvy season. Wild things are happening all over the country, how do we shape our ballots? Vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8NFsNvzr51rjxe5WE_WRWbrhkAMrX6pWjex1dacaiplQSsQ/viewform?fbzx=39910275387990179

For when a lineman gets an interception and scores a touchdown. Just needed to share.

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| | 1 | Indiana | 72 | 2 | +1 | | 2 | Ohio State | 71 | 1 | -1 | | 3 | Texas A&M | 70 | 0 | - | | 4 | Alabama | 67 | 0 | - | | 5 | BYU | 59 | 0 | - | | 6 | Ole Miss | 57 | 0 | +2 | | 7 | Georgia | 55 | 0 | -2 | | 8 | Texas Tech | 52 | 0 | +2 | | 9 | Virginia | 48 | 0 | +3 | | T10 | Oregon | 42 | 0 | +1 | | T10 | Texas | 42 | 0 | +12 | | T12 | Memphis | 31 | 0 | +6 | | T12 | Oklahoma | 31 | 0 | +13 | | 14 | Utah | 28 | 0 | +4 | | T15 | Georgia Tech | 25 | 0 | -8 | | T15 | Vanderbilt | 25 | 0 | -6 | | T15 | North Texas | 25 | 0 | NR | | T18 | Louisville | 22 | 0 | -1 | | T18 | South Florida | 22 | 0 | +5 | | 20 | Notre Dame | 21 | 0 | -2 | | 21 | USC | 19 | 0 | NR | | 22 | Michigan | 15 | 0 | +2 | | 23 | Miami (FL) | 13 | 0 | -10 | | T24 | Tennessee | 12 | 0 | -8 | | T24 | San Diego State | 12 | 0 | NR |

Dropped Out: Cincinnati (14), Navy(15), Houston (18)

Others Receiving Votes: Iowa (11), Houston (8), Cincinnati (3), Washington (3), Navy (2)

Nothing really surprising, but it's the first official list.

This week @Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world takes the competition behind the barn going nearly perfect in their ballot (only missing the result of the ASU - Iowa State game). @Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world is starting to pull away, can anyone stop them?

Week 11 Pick 'Em (This week we're going to the Kibbie Dome!): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNMrnW2TL8VXyW-KaXDnvrHZEQ8f6dzpeTzSLXG32sJUAqwg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Week 10 was a bloodbath, and just when our ballots were starting to settle down. How does that change this week? Vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8NFsNvzr51rjxe5WE_WRWbrhkAMrX6pWjex1dacaiplQSsQ/viewform?fbzx=39910275387990179

Well that one stung. But we are who they thought we were. All week I was chugging the rat poison. Everyone saying our offense can roll, OUs offense can't stack pillows, vols by fiddy, all of it. And I knew it was rat poison, I even pointed it out when I saw it. But there was so much. It overcame my tolerance. And when we went up 7 early my I totally let my guard down. And then it happened. That game was a special kind of oof. Here are a few of the things I'm feeling as a vol.

"Our defense is bad" "How bad is it?" "Its so bad it cost us a season". Seriously, the offense is certainly not infallible (we'll get there). But it is absolutely good enough to win any game with decent defensive play. But outside of the dline we are below average at best. I get that the outside is young because of injury, but that doesn't excuse dreadful play there and throughout the secondary. Blown coverages and missed tackling are the defining characteristics of the Tennessee defense. Not turnovers, TFLs or defensive points like it could and should be.

We've found Aguliar's ceiling. And he's good enough to win when he's given time. But Sanders going down certainly revealed our oline woes. This has been the biggest weakness of the vols year over year and I have confidence it's getting better. But a good dline like OUs is primed to blow us out of the water. And when Joey is under pressure and playing from behind he will make poor and poorly informed throws. I think at one point we were minus three in the turnover department last night. 2 picks and a strip sack. But even then Heupel can scheme up a win. But the play-makes gotta make plays and just when I was ready to say our receivers are catching balls one of the most heartbreaking plays I've seen drives in the dagger. I'll update this post with the sideline reaction when I find it.

And the last 10 minutes of this game were insane. The football gods were just taunting us. Keeping us just barely in the game but constantly acting as Lucy to our Charlie Brown right when I thought we might somehow do it.

That was a tough one, still some fun games ahead of us. But that one stung. I'm working today so banner and sidebar updates won't come until tonight. Have fun vol h8rs.

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| | 1 | Ohio State | 96 | 1 | - | | 2 | Indiana | 94 | 3 | +1 | | 3 | Texas A&M | 91 | 0 | - | | 4 | Alabama | 85 | 0 | -2 | | T5 | Georgia | 75 | 0 | - | | T5 | BYU | 75 | 0 | +1 | | 7 | Georgia Tech | 72 | 0 | -1 | | 8 | Ole Miss | 71 | 0 | +1 | | 9 | Vanderbilt | 64 | 0 | +2 | | 10 | Texas Tech | 61 | 0 | - | | 11 | Oregon | 59 | 0 | -3 | | 12 | Virginia | 52 | 0 | +2 | | 13 | Miami (FL) | 43 | 0 | +2 | | 14 | Cincinnati | 39 | 0 | +8 | | 15 | Navy | 36 | 0 | +1 | | 16 | Tennessee | 32 | 0 | +2 | | 17 | Louisville | 29 | 0 | - | | T18 | Notre Dame | 27 | 0 | - | | T18 | Memphis | 27 | 0 | +6 | | T18 | Utah | 27 | 0 | +6 | | T18 | Houston | 27 | 0 | NR | | 22 | Texas | 21 | 0 | -2 | | 23 | South Florida | 18 | 0 | -10 | | 24 | Michigan | 15 | 0 | NR | | 25 | Oklahoma | 13 | 0 | -13 |

Dropped Out: Missouri (21), Arizona State (23)

Others Receiving Votes: Nebraska (11), Iowa (10), San Diego State (7), Boise State (7), Missouri (5), USC (5), Washington (3), UNLV (2), Tulane (1)

Link to Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u35gZ-_AAeVcici24eKSJxlMRxa_ENm3T8qCgqzvTJc/edit?gid=109618283#gid=109618283

Was going through and watching some of the other games from last weekend when I saw this.

Congrats this week to @WVbrU@lemmy.world for another winning performace as well as first time scorer @njm1314@lemmy.world both scoring 4 points in what turned out to be a brutal week. We had several ballots only scoring one or two points!

Week 10 Pick 'Em: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRS4lhsdmHr9G5N6Xr2KMkKYlXo7lMkHnpC62oqA-tRwCn7A/viewform?usp=publish-editor

A perfect weekend for our top 10, we're getting to the final stretch, ballots are starting to take shape. Vote for next week's poll here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8NFsNvzr51rjxe5WE_WRWbrhkAMrX6pWjex1dacaiplQSsQ/viewform?fbzx=39910275387990179

SEC teams seasons are dropping like flies and everyone is looking for the culprit. Little do they know, the culprit is about to find them. A jilted barbersho...

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| | 1 | Ohio State | 98 | 2 | - | | 2 | Alabama | 92 | 0 | +2 | | T3 | Texas A&M | 90 | 0 | +4 | | T3 | Indiana | 90 | 2 | -1 | | 5 | Georgia | 79 | 0 | +3 | | T6 | Georgia Tech | 72 | 0 | +5 | | T6 | BYU | 72 | 0 | +3 | | 8 | Oregon | 62 | 0 | +5 | | 9 | Ole Miss | 58 | 0 | -3 | | 10 | Texas Tech | 57 | 0 | -5 | | 11 | Vanderbilt | 55 | 0 | +9 | | 12 | Oklahoma | 54 | 0 | +3 | | 13 | South Florida | 50 | 0 | +5 | | 14 | Virginia | 47 | 0 | - | | 15 | Miami (FL) | 45 | 0 | -12 | | 16 | Navy | 30 | 0 | +8 | | 17 | Louisville | 27 | 0 | NR | | T18 | Tennessee | 24 | 0 | -8 | | T18 | Notre Dame | 24 | 0 | NR | | 20 | Texas | 22 | 0 | - | | 21 | Missouri | 17 | 0 | NR | | 22 | Cincinnati | 13 | 0 | NR | | 23 | Arizona State | 12 | 0 | NR | | T24 | Memphis | 11 | 0 | -12 | | T24 | Utah | 11 | 0 | -7 |

Dropped Out: LSU (16), Nebraska (19), USC (22), Washington (23), Michigan (25)

Others Receiving Votes: Michigan (10), Nebraska (9), LSU (8), Tulane (8), Illinois (6), San Diego State (3), Boise State (2), USC (2)

Link to Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u35gZ-_AAeVcici24eKSJxlMRxa_ENm3T8qCgqzvTJc/edit?gid=998248577#gid=998248577

What's this? Officiating accountability? Better be careful SEC, listening to the fans and preserving historic rivalries might be next.

Closing the gap this week are our winners @olmecSSB@retrolemmy.com and @WVbrU@lemmy.world, each getting 5 correct games (although GT @ Duke was a gimmie that everyone got).

Week 9 Pick 'Em: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCHatiERzTUFgYYX7ISZ_W7TTi9j9hrLpaWNWIBYKWsVGUWw/viewform?usp=publish-editor

It doesn't matter who you ask, this week was full of chaos. Who do we reward? Who do we punish? Vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8NFsNvzr51rjxe5WE_WRWbrhkAMrX6pWjex1dacaiplQSsQ/viewform?fbzx=39910275387990179

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| | 1 | Ohio State | 98 | 3 | - | | 2 | Indiana | 89 | 1 | +3 | | 3 | Miami (FL) | 84 | 0 | +4 | | 4 | Alabama | 83 | 0 | +4 | | 5 | Texas Tech | 82 | 0 | -1 | | 6 | Ole Miss | 81 | 0 | -4 | | 7 | Texas A&M | 80 | 0 | +2 | | 8 | Georgia | 68 | 0 | +6 | | 9 | BYU | 55 | 0 | +6 | | 10 | Tennessee | 53 | 0 | - | | 11 | Georgia Tech | 52 | 0 | +2 | | 12 | Memphis | 45 | 0 | +6 | | 13 | Oregon | 44 | 0 | -7 | | 14 | Virginia | 41 | 0 | +6 | | 15 | Oklahoma | 36 | 0 | -12 | | 16 | LSU | 35 | 0 | +9 | | 17 | Utah | 34 | 0 | +4 | | 18 | South Florida | 30 | 0 | NR | | 19 | Nebraska | 25 | 0 | +2 | | T20 | Vanderbilt | 24 | 0 | -8 | | T20 | Texas | 24 | 0 | NR | | 22 | USC | 23 | 0 | NR | | 23 | Washington | 20 | 0 | +2 | | 24 | Navy | 14 | 0 | NR | | 25 | Michigan | 11 | 0 | -8 |

Dropped Out: Missouri (11), Illinois (16), Iowa State (19), Louisville (23), North Texas (23)

Other Receiving Votes: Illinois (10), Louisville (9), UNLV (5), Notre Dame (4), Missouri (1)

The sterilization of CFB continues...