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*** Official 2015 College Football Thread *** (3 Viewers)

Your buddy had connections or got really lucky. If he was paying attention he could have bought more and paid for his trip.
I don't see the Florida Athletic department selling tickets in that link. He went in and got his tickets...part of Florida's allotment to the game :shrug:
:thumbup: see bold.

I'm assuming UF's allotment went quickly...ergo the lucky comment.
In my experience, quickly usually doesn't mean they can pick up tickets the week of the game after they've been on sale for several weeks.

 
gump said:
First GameDay in The Grove this weekend...should be cool.

Although I wonder if they bring this up:

Ole Miss Athletics under NCAA investigation
The grove is the most overrated tailgating ever. It's more of a "spectacle" vs. actual tailgating. Like something you would watch with a microscope.

The women are phenomenal though. Hands down the best per capita in the SEC, and I would assume one of if not the best in the country.
yeah, OM has spent all their time and effort convincing everyone how great the Grove is. Everyone in the SEC has similar tailgating. No open flames and no generators??? More like a big picnic.

Man I can't wait for Saturday.

TF, I have a feeling you guys take Auburn pretty easily. Though I kind of wish they would win, just to remain unbeaten coming to Starkville next week. That would give us a shot at knocking off 3 top 10 teams in 3 games.
i won't be surprised either way vs. Auburn. Just glad we'll get to see Harris

 
Are you trying to convince yourself? I think MSU wins and is the better team. But y'all have a stud RB no doubt!
Relevant to discussions we had a page or two back. I think Nebraska will surprise a lot of people this year. Much better leadership among the players in that locker room and Pelini appears to have had a sea-change in temperment as coach. He still gets angry, no doubt, but he seems a lot more in control and a lot more of a supportive Tom Osborne-type towards his players than in years past. I think all of the bad press and near firing last year changed him.

 
Pretty good article. The biggest question for me heading into the game is that same as it was coming into the season - how will the back 7 on defense hold up? It helps tremendously having Gregory and co. bringing pressure up front but that secondary is young at key positions and the LB corp has been thinned out by injury.

As I said earlier in the thread, this is also a huge game for Armstrong. Those runs that have been 7-8 yard chunks are probably going to be more like 2-3 on the road this weekend. He needs to make good decisions on 3rd downs, and above all not turn the ball over. If he does he also needs to be able to shake it off. When he threw the pick-6 against McNeese it clearly affected him the rest of the game. Obviously can't happen this weekend if they are going to pull off the win.

 
I have a feeling Nebraska wins by two touchdowns, unveiling the facts:

that MSU is not as good as they claim to be,

that Oregon beating them at home was not so special,

and that Nebraska is one of the top 5 teams in CFB.

Discuss.

 
I have a feeling Nebraska wins by two touchdowns, unveiling the facts:

that MSU is not as good as they claim to be,

that Oregon beating them at home was not so special,

and that Nebraska is one of the top 5 teams in CFB.

Discuss.
MSU's defense is overrated and has a rep built off last season. However, the offense is a lot better and Connor Cook is an elite QB. I think they're fairly accurately rated right now.

Granted, they haven't played a lot of games that are really good measuring sticks. They lost at Oregon, but so would pretty much everybody. Then they beat 3 cupcakes at home, and while you shouldn't take too much from that, they absolutely destroyed all 3. None of this beating McNeese State by 7 nonsense ;)

 
I have a feeling Nebraska wins by two touchdowns, unveiling the facts:

that MSU is not as good as they claim to be,

that Oregon beating them at home was not so special,

and that Nebraska is one of the top 5 teams in CFB.

Discuss.
Eh, I'm still in the cautiously optimistic booth, rather than the "we're #1(-5)!" camp. This team has loads of potential but still makes too many mistakes to be a title contender. That said, no one has looked like a clear-cut leader in CFB this year, IMO.

 
I have a feeling Nebraska wins by two touchdowns, unveiling the facts:

that MSU is not as good as they claim to be,

that Oregon beating them at home was not so special,

and that Nebraska is one of the top 5 teams in CFB.

Discuss.
MSU's defense is overrated and has a rep built off last season. However, the offense is a lot better and Connor Cook is an elite QB. I think they're fairly accurately rated right now.

Granted, they haven't played a lot of games that are really good measuring sticks. They lost at Oregon, but so would pretty much everybody. Then they beat 3 cupcakes at home, and while you shouldn't take too much from that, they absolutely destroyed all 3. None of this beating McNeese State by 7 nonsense ;)
Too soon.

 
I have a feeling Nebraska wins by two touchdowns, unveiling the facts:

that MSU is not as good as they claim to be,

that Oregon beating them at home was not so special,

and that Nebraska is one of the top 5 teams in CFB.

Discuss.
Not sure I would go that far. Nebraska has been known to drop a game they shouldn't lately.

 
I have a feeling Nebraska wins by two touchdowns, unveiling the facts:

that MSU is not as good as they claim to be,

that Oregon beating them at home was not so special,

and that Nebraska is one of the top 5 teams in CFB.

Discuss.
MSU's defense is overrated and has a rep built off last season. However, the offense is a lot better and Connor Cook is an elite QB. I think they're fairly accurately rated right now.

Granted, they haven't played a lot of games that are really good measuring sticks. They lost at Oregon, but so would pretty much everybody. Then they beat 3 cupcakes at home, and while you shouldn't take too much from that, they absolutely destroyed all 3. None of this beating McNeese State by 7 nonsense ;)
The kid is very good and worries me. He also has some big targets to throw to.

 
The Commish said:
Not to get in the way of the :hophead: but my BIL swung by Gainsville on his way up here and picked up Florida tickets at face value for this weekend's game in Knoxville. That was Monday afternoon.
Your buddy had connections or got really lucky. If he was paying attention he could have bought more and paid for his trip.
How is this a big deal? These two teams are terrible.
I'm not saying it's a big deal. I'm saying people who didn't luck into getting them from Gainesville ticket allotment are paying $250+ for them.

Was just saying that if they're that easy to get at $75ea, I would do it and sell them on the strip and pay for your trip pretty easily. :shrug:

ETA: Nobody is arguing that UT and UF are anything more than middling teams right now. Thankfully UT is on the way up while UF is on the way down.

 
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The Commish said:
Not to get in the way of the :hophead: but my BIL swung by Gainsville on his way up here and picked up Florida tickets at face value for this weekend's game in Knoxville. That was Monday afternoon.
Your buddy had connections or got really lucky. If he was paying attention he could have bought more and paid for his trip.
How is this a big deal? These two teams are terrible.
I'm not saying it's a big deal. I'm saying people who didn't luck into getting them from Gainesville ticket allotment are paying $250+ for them.

Was just saying that if they're that easy to get at $75ea, I would do it and sell them on the strip and pay for your trip pretty easily. :shrug:

ETA: Nobody is arguing that UT and UF are anything more than middling teams right now. Thankfully UT is on the way up while UF is on the way down.
Heh. I wish a couple of tickets could pay for this trip.

 
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Need some advice guys. My dad and I have 4 tickets to the UCLA- Oregon game the week after next. It's at the Rose Bowl, 12:30 pm PST. We have excellent seats on the 25 yard line, Oregon side, about a third of the way up. My dad and I are going but we've decided to sell two of the tickets (which we've never done before.) Questions:

1. Is Stubhub the best way to go? Ebay? Some other venue? Or should we wait until we're there?

2. This will be a game between two top 10 teams, both likely undefeated, likely sold out as well. How much should we sell these tickets for?

thx
I just bought 9 tickets today for this game through the Oregon ticket office. $71 apiece in Oregon section. Not great seats but needed 9 together. My family and my buddy's family are driving over from Phoenix for the week. Kids have Fall break. Looking forward to the game. Hopefully they both take care or business with no injuries this week.
Jesus Christ... No wonder nobody takes pac12 schools seriously.Ole miss / BAMA is $300 to get in the door.

TN / Florida is $250...

You guys can pick up 9 tickets at face value still?!! Wow.
Aren't those games in two days? UCLA-Oregon isn't this week and he bought them through the block of tickets set aside for Oregon to sell.

The distance between Gainesville and Knoxville is 189 miles. The distance between Oxford and Tuscaloosa is 164 miles. The distance between Eugene and Pasadena is 858 miles.

Pac-12 fanbases admittedly aren't anywhere near as rabid as those of the SEC's, but the logistics of traveling to away games based on the Pac-12 schools' respective locations aren't remotely similar to the SEC's. In 2013, the average SEC football team traveled 407 miles per game over the course of their schedule. The Pac-12 schools averaged 729 miles traveled per game and several averaged close to 1000 (Oregon, Southern Cal, UW and Stanford were all at or within 100 miles of that). Georgia didn't travel 1000 miles on the season.

It's much easier to fill a 90K seat stadium when the other school's fans can drive there in the time it would take me to get to San Diego from LA.

 
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Uhhhh Gainesville to Knoxville is 545 miles.

(Driving there in the morning).
That seemed waaay off, but I went with it. I have no idea what I typed into google maps.

My mistake. The point still stands, though.

ETA: Auto-fill...Gainesville, GA. Didn't know there was a Gainesville, GA.

 
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One of the best weekends in college football I can remember in years

6 matchups of ranked vs ranked teams.

This is essentially a playoff week for college football.

:popcorn:

 
Ill add.

This is why you DON'T expand playoffs.

Week 6 becomes a playoff week in theory....

Why ruin the regular season by letting 8/16/32 teams in?

Stupid. No one is watching UConn vs Iona in November in NCAA Hoops. Everyone is watching football this weekend because it is the playoffs. Every week practically is.

 
Third time I've seen this ref/crew this season. They did Colorado's game at UMass, and the ASU/UCLA game last Thursday. Haven't been impressed.

 
Good timing with Mushnick's latest column about these LOOK AT ME! clowns. Can't wait to send him the video of what just happened in Oregon.

The cord that binds what we call our modern “sports culture” — the difference between now and then, whenever “then” was — is the removal of common sense. Sense has been beaten senseless by style.

In baseball, posing at home plate is now standard. That such hopeful or expectant preening has no upside, that the player risks embarrassment, often settling for a base or two less than where he should be, while placing his team’s goals in peril, makes no impression significant enough to inspire change.

And if there’s a manager, general manager or team owner who insists, as a matter of common sense, that such counterproductive fashion statements cease, I figure we all would know about him by now.

In basketball, players risk the same personal and team peril by eschewing easy layups and dunks to perform wild, twisting, SportsCenter-op slams. And if you don’t injure yourself or make a fool of yourself by clanging it, you don’t get back on defense, you give the TV camera beneath the basket a bad-### stare — even if there is no TV camera.

In hockey, upon scoring a big goal, you now bolt to the nearest corner and throw yourself, with a jump, into the boards and glass. On skates. It’s the fad. You risk the risk, you “board” yourself, commit a high-speed physical act on yourself that would draw a penalty if perpetrated by an opponent.

All of the above have been copied by what players saw — then saw again and again — on TV. As spontaneous acts, they’re bereft of spontaneity, but worthy of slo-mo replays and promos.

Then, there’s football.

In an irony-rich collision of circumstances, Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes was voted the 2009 Super Bowl MVP when he as easily could forever be known as the most infamous all-about-me stylist in Super Bowl history.

With the Cardinals up 23-20 and under a minute left, Holmes caught a pass, then ran to the Arizona 6. The clock was running; Pittsburgh had one timeout left. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger desperately waved his team to the line, perhaps to spike the ball to stop the clock …

… but then, he spotted Holmes, who was beyond the new line of scrimmage, engaged in an obligatory self-impressed routine. He was too busy me-dancing to think, know or care about anything else.

The Steelers had to use their last timeout. With 35 seconds left, Roethlisberger threw the winning touchdown pass — to Holmes.

Mike Tomlin was Pittsburgh’s coach then and now. And nothing has changed. Tomlin’s teams still regularly provide aid, comfort and 15 yards for misconduct to the enemy. No change from Holmes, either. He brought his me-first act to the Jets.

Sunday, after catching a touchdown pass from Roethlisberger, Steelers receiver Antonio Brown did his best to enable the previously 0-3 Buccaneers’ stunning upset in Pittsburgh.

Brown, who in 2012 was fined $10,000 for excessively immodest and taunting unsportsmanlike conduct, spun the ball on its tip, then, in a continuing, plain stupid performance, stood at attention, then fell like a tree, as if he still hadn’t gotten over himself.

Fifteen yards.

Anyway, Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch, who hadn’t missed a game in over eight seasons, is out for the year, having wrecked a knee performing a wild dance designed to mock Aaron Rodgers, who he just had sacked.

However, Tulloch, a college man who had full scholarship to North Carolina State, claimed he suffers from neither embarrassment nor regret.

“Hell, no,” he told Detroit’s Free Press, “I’d do it again, brother. You do it every time. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.”
 

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