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CFB Weekly Thread 2017 Week 1 CFB Open Thread

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Intersting stat. Wonder if any followers of Texas high school football would agree with this:

https://sports.yahoo.com/forde-yard...ns-offering-four-playoff-picks-023652435.html

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The clear common thread: All three Texas teams were absolutely pitiful defensively, unable to get stops when they needed stops. Which leads The Dash back to the suspicion that the hurry-up-no-huddling of Texas high school football is having a lasting, damaging effect on the quality of the defense in the state at the college level.

Are there fewer great athletes who want to play defense? Are they being coached as well defensively? Are the best defensive players fleeing the state (and the Big 12) for better programs on their side of the ball?

Even using yards per play allowed, the preferred metric of defenders of the hurry-up style, there has been a pronounced defensive lapse (5) in Texas.

The 2009 season was the last time a team from the state had a shot at a national title. That Texas team led the nation in fewest yards allowed per play, at 3.84. TCU was second. The state’s five most prominent programs (Texas, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor) had an average national ranking in that category of 35th. That stayed constant in 2010, with an average ranking of 38th.

Then the slide began. In 2011 the average was 57th, and in ’12 it was 59th. There was a minor rally in 2013 (49th) and ’14 (52nd), followed by a bigger slide.

In 2015, the five Texas Power Five schools had an average yards per play allowed ranking of 62nd, with no schools in the top 30. In ’16, the average dropped to 68th, with no schools in the top 45.

One week into 2017, the average ranking is 70th. And that’s with TCU (6) holding FCS opponent Jackson State to 1.2 yards per play Saturday.

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Dryden said:
Everybody likes to joke on Ohio State fans for being the jerseyist wearing fan base in the country. Tennessee is a solid #2. And every single fucking one is a Peyton Manning jersey.
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Funny thing is, Tee Martin is the one who got them a title. But I'm guessing some Vols fans wouldn't be caught dead in a Tee jersey.
 
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NFBuck said:
Georgia Tech = useless program.

I can't think of one notable thing they've done since that early nineties half title.
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Reggie Ball throwing the ball away on 4th down against UGA in 2004 is pretty notable (for the laugh factor)



Basically the program is so useless this is what I think of every time I see them.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
Reggie Ball throwing the ball away on 4th down against UGA in 2004 is pretty notable (for the laugh factor)



Basically the program is so useless this is what I think of every time I see them.
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It's odd. Every few years they ride their funky offense into a major bowl, then disappear for two or three years. I suspect this won't be an orange bowl season with that defense.

And Reggie Ball was the WORST quarterback I've ever seen. He was a FOUR YEAR STARTER there. He would have looked great in a clowns uniform.
 
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NFBuck said:
It's odd. Every few years they ride their funky offense into a major bowl, then disappear for two or three years. I suspect this won't be an orange bowl season with that defense.

And Reggie Ball was the WORST quarterback I've ever seen. He was a FOUR YEAR STARTER there. He would have looked great in a clowns uniform.
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:lol: I had to look up his stats. 48..... FOURTY EIGHT percent was his career completion %. 57 TD 55 INT. I'm not sure you could find a worse 4 year starter at the 1-A level if you tried.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Stop me if you've heard this before but Florida and Tennessee are both still ranked because, well..... SEC
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Florida being ranked is a joke. The result would have been about the same even if they had their suspended WR and RB out there. Gotta keep'em close I guess so they can have them nicely in the final top 25 when they ultimately go 8-4 in that garbage division.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
:lol: I had to look up his stats. 48..... FOURTY EIGHT percent was his career completion %. 57 TD 55 INT. I'm not sure you could find a worse 4 year starter at the 1-A level if you tried.
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Frosted Quips says "hi" with some moxie

technically not a 4 year starter and slightly more "accurate" but goddamn if he didn't go after the title with tempo
 
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