Recent content by DiderotsGhost

LOL, Bud Foster is 66 years old and he's been retired from football for like 6 years. Also Banks has done an incredible job. One of the best defenses in the country last year. If we had last year's D with this year's O, we'd be title contenders.

We were definitely hurting on D with all the injuries. If we're anywhere near full health at the end of the season, we could be a really, really good team by December.

I normally think teams should hold off on big judgments 3 games into the 2nd season of a HC's tenure, but that's the worst P4 team I've seen in the past decade. They don't lack talent. They are horribly coached. It's pretty obvious Foster isn't a P4 level HC. He was hired due to UCLA's...

Even with the L, Joey proved definitively he's the much better QB in this game. We wouldn't have even been in it with Nico.

Shoulder injuries are no joke. I remember in a game once, the announcers were happy a guy merely broke his arm rather than it being a shoulder injury. Sounds crazy, but shoulder injuries are typically some of the slowest to recover. I've had 2 relatively minor shoulder injuries in the past 3...

And I mean ... which games on there can they conceivably win? Maybe @N'western, but I doubt they are going to march into Chicago and win. Maybe vs Maryland. It'll at least feel like a neutral site game with UCLA's 238 fans. Still wouldn't bet on UCLA, but maybe they get lucky and the jet-lag...

This legit looks like a 0-12 team. I knew they wouldn't be good this year, but thought they might win 3 or 4 games. Never thought they'd be getting blown out by New Mexico! Just to put this in perspective, if New Mexico played ETSU on a neutral field, UNM would be about a 4 point favorite...

So Nico went to UCLA for the better offense line and WRs, huh? I mean ... I knew UCLA wasn't going to be good this year ... but losing to New Mexico? This is by far the easiest game remaining on their schedule. They might not get a single win this season! UNM is basically the equivalent of an...

Much more mixed than I expected as well. Which actually feels in line with the game being one of the more evenly matched ones between us and Georgia in awhile. Stockton is a definite downgrade from Beck IMO. I thought Beck got unfairly derided last year and he's actually a pretty good college...

The AP Poll has been such hot garbage early this year. I thought we were ranked too low after Week 1, but somehow they jump us 7 spots for beating ETSU? The end result is closer to where we probably should be, but the logic on how we got there makes no sense. Meanwhile, if we lose by 3 to...

I agree. I thought Beck was underrated and losing him was a bigger deal than people made it out to be. That said, Georgia is still absolutely loaded with talent and could clobber us. But this is also the best I've felt about our chances in years.

While I'd only put so much stock into the quant polls 2 weeks into the season, right now Sagarin suggests that Tennessee should be the favorite next week. 1 Oregon 94.36 2 Ohio State 94.08 3 Penn State 90.93 4 Notre Dame 90.80 5 Alabama 90.39 6 Texas 90.04 7...

Agree with everyone else. It's easier-than-average for an SEC schedule, but still one of the tougher schedules in the country. Only seems "easy" compared to teams like Florida, which has one of the most brutal schedules I've seen in decades of watching football. USF was way better than people...

Meh. Can't really blame Gundy for getting a bigger paycheck. Blame the crap Tennessee ADs who kept pursuing him when they should've known his interest wasn't genuine. As for Gundy, he probably should've accepted one of those jobs. OK State doesn't have the NIL money to compete now that T...

Illinois easily feels like the most overrated team right now. I don't know how they ended up at #11. Sagarin has them at #31 and FPI has them at #38.