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On 1/18/2018 at 11:03 PM, Downthefield said:

The metric makes no sense.  In the 1960's, college teams were playing ten game seasons, and there were far fewer bowl games.  So 9+ wins really meant something.  By the mid-1970's, teams had eleven game seasons and there were a few more bowl games.  There were twelve games in the 1980's, and by the 1990's, thirteen for teams playing in their conference championship or having a game in Hawaii ... and we were moving toward the current total of 40 bowl games. 

You can't compare nine wins in the 1960's to nine wins today.  At a minimum back then you would have had to show a 9-2 record after a bowl.  Today the record could be 9-4 or even 9-5.

this is the same bad logic that talks about 20-win basketball seasons, comparing years when teams played only 25 games with now, when there are more than 30.

Agree...perhaps winning percentage is the best way to measure a school's success then?

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2 hours ago, Jalapeno said:

Agree...perhaps winning percentage is the best way to measure a school's success then?

As long as you don’t count Colorado’s high school, mining school, and truck driving academy opponents.  Just spitballing Modern era winning percentage multiplied by opponent’s winning percentage (excluding schools in lower divisions) works as good as anything.

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i tweeted at mops telling him i've missed his updates during basketball games, noting there's nowhere else on twitter that i can find a guy willing to tell his thousands of followers that a game is 76-66 going into overtime (if you follow mops on twitter you know that he's never once tweeted out an accurate score). he tweeted back to shut the "f" up ("f") with a smiley face. 

glad he and his family are doing better. 

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Louisville led #1 Virginia 66-62 at home with 0.9 seconds left.  Lousville lost.  

Trailing 66-62, Darius Perry fouled Jerome on a three point attempt, sending him to the line. He made his first two and intentionally missed the third, but Mamadi Diakite was called for a lane violation. This gave the Cardinals the ball under the basket, up two, with .9 seconds left. Deng Adel moved on the baseline when he wasn’t allowed, turning the ball over. The Hoos got the ball to Hunter who got the shot up and off the backboard for the win.

 

UVA 9-0 on the road in ACC.  First time it’s been done since 18 conference games schedule introduced.

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It’s a pretty good deal, especially since it’s a fair catch  — I think many will take it & hope for the additional roughing-the-fair-catcher penalties (pac-12 refs, after all.)

Anyone want to do the research and figure out what the average non-touchback return  length & 1st-down yardline was over the past few years?

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