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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Which <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CFB?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CFB</a> teams have the best chance to reach the <a href="https://twitter.com/CFBPlayoff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CFBPlayoff</a>? <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ESPNStatsInfo</a> has officially debuted the 'Playoff Predictor' metric. <a href="https://t.co/rBz3yJZKdh">pic.twitter.com/rBz3yJZKdh</a></p>— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) <a href="https://twitter.com/finebaum/status/1027671533467123717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WOW! 4 points behind Bama and UGA.
 
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Could you imagine a final four this year of Clemson, UGA, bama and Notre Dame??? .... yeah..... about that......
 
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I was wondering when the hypefest would start.
 
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Hyperbolize much?


Missed out on the daily dose of koon and doom?

Wimbush shortcomings?

Kelly is STILL head coach?

OMG the OLine doesn't have a practice game to gel before they meet college football's all-time best defense?

Lack of veteran RB?

There's more whine on this site than MSNBC.
 
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Streetman's Playoff Predictor suddenly rolled out:

2018: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia
2019: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia
2020: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia
2021: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia

Teams which don't give a sh!t about anything but winning:
2018-2021: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia

Post-2022 Playoff Prediction:
None. NFL B-League formally comes out of the Closet.
(FSU, Miami, LSU, A&M, Auburn, OK State, PSU, Miss State, OleMiss, Florida, and new organization --- Southern California AC --- join to form 16 team league. Several "schools" rebuffed and thoroughly p!ssed off.)




Paul Finebaum 2018-2021: defining jerkism at Olympic proportions
post-2022: depression (can't lie about it anymore.)
 
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"We were just convinced that this place was on the verge of something special", but what he really meant was "A&M offers me more money and I'm a money whore". Also, your new HC is the king of recruiting low character individuals so hopefully you can use your pay raise for bail money for your players.
 
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It's just coach-speak, he left for money and because it's an easier situation being able to recruit whoever
 
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Sea Turtle said:
So is this a slap at Kelly and ND? The Aggies on the verge of doing great things but ND isn't? It's odd that he left after one year and that new coaches who are putting together a new coaching staff feel ND is a place where they can poach coaches into making a lateral move.

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/t...ains-why-he-left-notre-dame-for-texas-am/amp/
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Pretty sure they gave him a big bump in salary and made him one of the highest paid in the country. I really can't blame him for that.

We'll see how they do, but the pond they fish from, is much larger than ND's.
 
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Huge pay raise, work for a championship winning coach (as HC and AC), coach in the toughest league in football, no state income tax, more stability (Kelly is one 7-5 season from being fired), etc...
 
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Old Man Mike said:
Streetman's Playoff Predictor suddenly rolled out:

2018: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia
2019: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia
2020: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia
2021: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia

Teams which don't give a sh!t about anything but winning:
2018-2021: Clemson/Alabama/Ohio State/Oklahoma/Georgia

Post-2022 Playoff Prediction:
None. NFL B-League formally comes out of the Closet.
(FSU, Miami, LSU, A&M, Auburn, OK State, PSU, Miss State, OleMiss, Florida, and new organization --- Southern California AC --- join to form 16 team league. Several "schools" rebuffed and thoroughly p!ssed off.)




Paul Finebaum 2018-2021: defining jerkism at Olympic proportions
post-2022: depression (can't lie about it anymore.)
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Yeah, it gets really old knowing before the season starts that the playoffs will consist of those teams every single year.

And I could definitely see a bunch of teams breaking off from the NCAA and forming a new division. They probably should and it wouldn't break my heart.
 
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I'm going with Bama, Clemson, Washington, PennSt.

I'm also half inclined to put Miami in over Clemson.
 
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I know I've seen brief discussion on here and maybe in a depth chart but I can't recall.

Do we have any idea who is returning kicks and punts for sure? Is Finke still PR? Just curious.
 
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Some Irish Bloke said:
I know I've seen brief discussion on here and maybe in a depth chart but I can't recall.

Do we have any idea who is returning kicks and punts for sure? Is Finke still PR? Just curious.
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Finke is PR.

Coleman and Crawford have been looks at KR (maybe Finke too?)... KR seems like it was still a battle as of two weeks ago.
 
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FightingIrishLover7 said:
Finke is PR.

Coleman and Crawford have been looks at KR (maybe Finke too?)... KR seems like it was still a battle as of two weeks ago.
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Really? I find this so interesting. I feel like we have a lot more flashier options than these two.

I would have assumed Lenzy, maybe C'bo, at least, from the freshman class would have been in the mix.
 
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Didn't know where to put this, but Forbes came out with their best colleges list and I found the FBS schools in the rankings. Pretty interesting stuff. Louisville & Mississippi State take the cake as the worst power 5 schools academically. Bama's position is pretty ugly. Georgia was a pretty big riser up the rankings. The usual of Stanford, Duke, Cal, Northwestern, and Notre Dame being the best of the best.

1 Stanford
2 Duke
3 Cal
4 Northwestern
5 Notre Dame
6 Michigan
7 Army
8 Rice
9 USC
10 Navy
11 Vanderbilt
12 Virginia
13 Air Force
14 UCLA
15 UNC
16 BC
17 Illinois
18 Maryland
19 Wake Forest
20 UF
21 Washington
22 Texas
23 Wisconsin
24 BYU
25 GT
26 Miami (FL)
27 UGA
28 SMU
29 Minnesota
30 Texas A&M
31 Tulane
32 VT
33 PSU
34 OSU
35 Purdue
36 Colorado
37 Indiana
38 Clemson
39 Michigan State
40 Rutgers
41 NC State
42 UConn
43 Pitt
44 Iowa
45 Miami (OH)
46 FSU
47 Syracuse
48 TCU
49 Tulsa
50 Mizzou
51 UMass
52 Oregon
53 Buffalo
54 LSU
55 Auburn
56 Oklahoma
57 Baylor
58 Arizona
59 ASU
60 South Carolina
61 Utah
62 San Diego State
63 Alabama
64 Tennessee
65 Colorado State
66 Iowa State
67 Kansas
68 Nebraska
69 Washington St
70 Oregon State
71 USF
72 UCF
73 Arkansas
74 Texas Tech
75 Oklahoma St
76 San Jose State
77 Appalachian St
78 Cincinnati
79 Temple
80 Kentucky
81 Nevada
82 Houston
83 Kansas State
84 Wyoming
85 Ole Miss
86 Utah State
87 Hawai'i
88 UAB
89 West Virginia
90 Louisiana Tech
91 Ohio
92 Mississippi St
93 Louisville
94 Fresno State
95 FIU
96 FAU
97 Charlotte
98 East Carolina
99 Texas State
100 Ball State
101 UNLV
102 North Texas
103 Old Dominion
104 Louisiana-Lafayette
105 Georgia State
106 Georgia Southern
107 Western Michigan
108 New Mexico
109 Northern Illinois
110 Bowling Green
111 UTEP
112 Central Michigan
113 Toledo
114 Western Kentucky
115 Boise State
116 South Alabama
117 Southern Miss
118 UTSA
119 Kent State
120 Middle Tennessee
121 Memphis
122 New Mexico State
NR Coastal Carolina
NR Arkansas State
NR Louisiana-Monroe
NR Eastern Michigan
NR Troy
NR Marshall
NR Akron
 
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Schools like Michigan and UNC ranked so high is just a freaking joke. Yes they are good academic institutions but they hide their athletes from those educations aggressively. I remember looking up Michigan's roster in the 90s and something like 75% were kinesiology majors. Virtually no diversity in areas of study for the whole team. The whole UNC thing should have them ranked at dead last out of pure principle. Screw those guys.

More relevant to me would be to rank the lowest denominator at various schools and evaluate how easy it is to skate by. Or like above, how diverse/rigorous are the degrees earned by graduating athletes. Take all the ND kids getting a top tier business degree against all the Michigan players all prepped to be PE teachers - but they are next to each other in this ranking? FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK Michigan.
 
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RDU Irish said:
Schools like Michigan and UNC ranked so high is just a freaking joke. Yes they are good academic institutions but they hide their athletes from those educations aggressively. I remember looking up Michigan's roster in the 90s and something like 75% were kinesiology majors. Virtually no diversity in areas of study for the whole team. The whole UNC thing should have them ranked at dead last out of pure principle. Screw those guys.

More relevant to me would be to rank the lowest denominator at various schools and evaluate how easy it is to skate by. Or like above, how diverse/rigorous are the degrees earned by graduating athletes.
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Miami sitting right outside the top 25... I mean, yeah but,...

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Didn't know where to put this but, who wouldn't love to be at this table??

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just touched down in South Bend and it feels good to be home. Come say hello at the Duncan Student Center at 1130am. <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NDFootball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoIrish?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoIrish</a></p>— Justin Tuck (@JustinTuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTuck/status/1035530759896014848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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dublinirish said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just touched down in South Bend and it feels good to be home. Come say hello at the Duncan Student Center at 1130am. <a href="https://twitter.com/NDFootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NDFootball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoIrish?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoIrish</a></p>— Justin Tuck (@JustinTuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTuck/status/1035530759896014848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Tuck's journey has been interesting to me. I've seen him comment openly a couple of times how he didn't really enjoy ND as a student and couldn't wait to leave but as time went by he gained a great appreciation and love for ND and now loves going back and misses it and such.
 
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