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Purpose of this topic is to discuss games during the ongoing 2022 season. Last weekend was awesome for college football on a multitude of levels. Recommendation. Full Ride is about to air on XM Radio 84. Rick Neuheisel is a brilliant commentator. It's about to start. If you can listen and aren't, adjust your schedule.

Out of curiosity, while they got destroyed, did they at least play better?

I'm going with more than 4 scores while at the same time predicting the Zips play better than last weekend. If MSU gets up early, it could be a long day for the Zips. MSU goes to Seattle next weekend to play Washington. They need to get their starters in game shape for a 4 quarter game next weekend so I don't see them calling off the dogs, regardless of the score, until the end of the 3rd quarter. In fact, with the exception of Maryland, their schedule is pretty brutal through the end of October. I like the 9 game Big Ten schedule. It is a sign of a conference confident in the product they are selling. Call me crazy, but I think the MAC is offering a good product and I'd like to see them do the same.

"until then" is 4 seasons away. Think about how much has changed in the last two. Is it so far out of the world of reality to believe they couldn't narrow college football at the highest level down to 30:40 teams? It's entirely possible and they are heading that way. So, what access do the rest have right now? The answer is, zero. The people at the television networks currently running college football don't give a hoot about anything other than maximizing shareholder profits. These people are much smarter than the athletic directors they are currently running over. Does anyone really think these monsters care about what happens to G5 schools? It's time to wake up before it's too late.

Television networks, the ones driving these decisions, want to give themselves time to figure out which 30-40 teams will be in their super conference. Four years might give them enough time.

Thanks for the question. Easy answer. Access to the invitational tournament provides the G5 schools with a level of delusion about a future in college football in which they will not be a part. This delusionary state prevents them from taking the actions necessary to find a spot in the world where they can find better success.

I hope you are correct and I'll get to that in a minute. It won't change the MAC. It will only make it worse. I don't hate G5. I love it and fixing whatever people think their problems are will not be accomplished with an automatic bid. My wish is for anyone who thinks the MAC should get an automatic bid. I wish these people would be required to be taped to a recliner in their living rooms and forced to watch the MAC winner get destroyed by the likes of Alabama for the entire game. If you promote trash, you should be forced to watch it. G5 schools should take the next four years to figure out what they want to be. Ready.....Set.....Go!

UNC finished below. 500 last year. They will again this year. Prediction: Mack Brown gets fired. Bonus Prediction:. This off season there will be more than one fan base that thinks Mack Brown is the solution to their coaching problem making Brown the new Jim Grobe.

Fair enough. I'll be in the ever increasing group of people not watching the crap they are shoveling through the television. It won't be long until players opt out of invitational tournament games also.

If you think winning bowl game is nothing more than a trophy and t-shirts, you have never experienced a bowl game. There are thousands of people a year who travel to bowl games with nothing at risk other than the experience. They are awesome. Players, students, alumni and fans get to travel around the holidays for a game and friendship around their school. We should encourage this experience. How many fans can really afford to travel to 2-3 bowl games? Almost none. By the time the invitational tournament is over, the stadiums will be empty. Enjoy watching Alabama blow out the likes of Utah 50-0 in these "meaningful" games.

Americans get to have more trash shoveled into their living rooms during the holidays. Awesome!

This is the best description of events surrounding a game I did not attend I have ever read. Well said. How people feel while at a game, in part, is what you might consider to be the "customer satisfaction". My customer satisfaction requirements, in order, are: 1. Good football. For me, squeaking out a win against an average 1AA team is not very satisfying. 2. Good parking. There is pretty good parking around The Big Dialer. Beer provides me with plenty of entertainment so I don't really look to anyone else to provide me with any entertainment while I get loaded. 3. Good food. I'd love a report on the quality of food at the stadium. 4. More beer. Is the beer in the stadium good? 5. Clean bathrooms. I'm a stickler for a clean bathroom. Were the bathrooms clean because points 2 and 4 lead to the bathroom. 6. Was the stadium generally clean? 7. The other stuff. This is are where the scoreboard comes into play. I shouldn't go to a D1 football game and see a semi-functioning scoreboard. All the other bells and whistle such as sound effects don't do anything for me. I find most of it stupid, but people like it and I'm pretty good at ignoring it. If they got points 1-6 right, I'd be cool with missing on 7 unless it was just as horrible as described. If I was a casual fan, it wouldn't keep me from attending a future game.

Akron won a game it should be able to win and that's great. The problem is, SFU is an average IAA program and even in an off season we should be able to win with relative ease. Improvement is needed...and fast, or it could be another loooooong season for Zips fans.

Where I am, 10-10 four minutes from half. SFU is garbage. Run the score up. Recruits don't want to go to schools where the scores are close against SFU. Destroy these guys in the second half.

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This is the key.

If the Zips get a chance to beat them 100-0 they should take it. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

I cannot predict the Zips, but I can predict StFU. They stink. If the Zips come out and play hard and limit mistakes, they should destroy them unless Joe calls off the dogs.

So many great things go on at UofA. I'm glad we have a President willing to highlight those things to the public so people actually know what their tax dollars are going towards. These are a great public service.

I'll pass my Pirates memory down to another generation, not give it away in a parking lot full of drunks. Except for the flag, the Wake junk has been thrown away long ago.

Saving a bunch of crap like this is the kind of behavior that lands someone on Hoarders.

Zips win by more than 4 scores. I'd be shocked if Joe didn't have the team well prepared.

People will never again record their life memories in this manner and that's really sad. In my bonus room is a framed collection of two of my favorite spots memories. On one side is a photo of me, Mrs. GP1 (the luckiest woman in the world) and my now deceased parents at the last Pirates game at Three Rivers Stadium along with our ticket stubs. In the same frame next to it is a photo of me and Mrs. GP1 (the luckiest woman in the world) and our ticket stubs from the first game at PNC. Not getting real tickets stinks.

I thought of Myron Cope watching Frost blow that game while "playing not to lose". Years ago I heard him say that everytime a team plays not to lose, they always seem to lose.