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[cbisbig]

Nov 19, 2018 10:48:20 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 19, 2018 10:34:37 GMT -5 drjensen said:

Works for me.

love it. just an fyi though that one of those season-ending rivalry games, ol' miss-mississippi state, is thursday. so would need to get the list out by tomorrow if at all possible walt.

other suggestions;

friday
virginia-va tech
oregon-oregon st
ucf-usf
okla-wvu
wash-wash st.

saturday
michigan-ohio state
uga-ga tech
syracuse-boston college
florida-florida st.
purdue-indiana
unc-nc state
auburn-alabama
illinois-n'western
arizona-arizona st
minnesota-wisconsin
tennessee-vanderbilt
s carolina-clemson
uk-l'ville
lsu-texas a&m
notre dame-usc
byu-utah

think it's ok to do more than 15 games this weekend...

Last year's UCF vs USF game was a barn-burner very fun to watch. Also the South Carolina versus Clemson and LSU Texas A&M Games should be very entertaining

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Put Arkansas at Missouri on the list too.

[bamorin]

Nov 19, 2018 15:59:11 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Put Arkansas at Missouri on the list too.

when did that become some type of rivalry?

[mscott59]

Nov 19, 2018 15:59:11 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Put Arkansas at Missouri on the list too.

why?

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It is a forming SEC rivalry to end the season. It is bigger than Iowa/Nebraska.

[mscott59]

Nov 19, 2018 16:08:27 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

It is a forming SEC rivalry to end the season. It is bigger than Iowa/Nebraska.

neither is a rivalry. once formed, after maybe another decade or two in their leagues... maybe. neither is and neither has a bearing on their respective division races. i'd say neither fits, unless you're trying to get to a certain number (25?) of games...

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Nov 19, 2018 16:10:47 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 19, 2018 16:08:27 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

It is a forming SEC rivalry to end the season. It is bigger than Iowa/Nebraska.

neither is a rivalry. once formed, after maybe another decade or two in their leagues... maybe. neither is and neither has a bearing on their respective division races. i'd say neither fits, unless you're trying to get to a certain number (25?) of games...

none of that matters. they are permanent cross division opponents who are seasonally scheduled to close the season as a rivalry game. the last 2 games have been decided by 7 points. the same thing is being done with lsu/texas a&m except as same division opponents.

[AlaCowboy]

Nov 19, 2018 12:59:47 GMT -5 drjensen said:

Nov 19, 2018 11:48:30 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

* are the games I think will be interesting. Did anyone watch any of the Harvard vs Yale game? those guys went after each other like Alabama-Auburn or Georgia-Georgia Tech. No love between those teams.

I'm pretty much in agreement with what you have there Cowboy but I would drop the Illinois/Northwestern game and replace it with Iowa/Nebraska game. If Illinois doesn't fire Lovey Smith after the game it will be a surprise to me. 

Northwestern will win the B10 West. The game is important for that alone, but the NW QB is fun to watch too.

[drjensen]

Nov 19, 2018 16:19:02 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Nov 19, 2018 16:10:47 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

neither is a rivalry. once formed, after maybe another decade or two in their leagues... maybe. neither is and neither has a bearing on their respective division races. i'd say neither fits, unless you're trying to get to a certain number (25?) of games...

none of that matters. they are permanent cross division opponents who are seasonally scheduled to close the season as a rivalry game. the last 2 games have been decided by 7 points. the same thing is being done with lsu/texas a&m except as same division opponents.

Iowa/Nebraska might not be considered a rivalry to some of you, but for those of who are football fans in the Cornbelt it has become a heated rivalry. Much more I think than Arky/Missouri. If  you are talking about the last 2 games of the Iowa/Nebraska series you are terribly mistaken. Iowa has won the Heroes Trophy the last 3 years by scores of 28-20, 40-10, and last year in Lincoln 56-14. A bit of the rivalry is fueled by the fact that most of the fans of our neighbors to our west have nothing to brag about except what Nebraska once was under the Devaney and Osborne eras and we hear about it all year long. Their mentality is that Scott Frost is the Second Coming of Christ, therefore when they started the year at 0-6 it was amusing listening to their excuses. In the past few years listening to Cornhusker fans bitch and moan and complain about their lack of success on the gridiron gives anyone within hearing an earache. All this week we have heard about the tremendous victory in Lincoln last week by the Huskers over the Michigan State Spartans, the final score being 9-6 with Nebraska getting a couple of FG's in the 4th quarter to pull it out. Whether the game is put on the board this week really makes no difference to me, I just hope the Hawkeyes put an ass whoopin on Nebraska much like we did last week against Illinois.

[daleko]

Nov 19, 2018 16:03:43 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 19, 2018 15:59:11 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Put Arkansas at Missouri on the list too.

why?

Agree. Just another game w most fans here in Mizzouland.

[mscott59]

Nov 19, 2018 16:19:02 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

Nov 19, 2018 16:10:47 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

neither is a rivalry. once formed, after maybe another decade or two in their leagues... maybe. neither is and neither has a bearing on their respective division races. i'd say neither fits, unless you're trying to get to a certain number (25?) of games...

none of that matters. they are permanent cross division opponents who are seasonally scheduled to close the season as a rivalry game. the last 2 games have been decided by 7 points. the same thing is being done with lsu/texas a&m except as same division opponents.

but it's not a rivalry. they just play at the end of the season now. lsu-texas a&m i'd put on the list because both have had successful seasons to date. not the case for mizzou-hogs. same goes for iowa-unl.

[drjensen]

Well Walt, I guess everyone is in agreement that you should put more than 15 games on the regular season finale. As to which games are rivalries or not is a matter of opinion mainly decided by geography. So, in reality it doesn't matter which games you put on the board, because they will all still be played. This year, I would venture that some of the games that normally would be considered close and possibly have implications in conference or national standing will end up being rather lop-sided, ie, USC/Notre Dame. (unless USC would pull an upset and I doubt that will happen, so we will all just have to decide whether USC can cover what should be large spread). FWIW, I think you should just pick however many you want to pick and hopefully most of us will have an idea of who the two teams are and can make some type of educated guess as to who will cover and who won't. We may not agree politically or socially, but you do a pretty good job of running the football pool and initially that is what us all together. 

[gatr55555]

What he said^^^^^^^^^

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Nov 19, 2018 18:02:17 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 19, 2018 16:19:02 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

none of that matters. they are permanent cross division opponents who are seasonally scheduled to close the season as a rivalry game. the last 2 games have been decided by 7 points. the same thing is being done with lsu/texas a&m except as same division opponents.

but it's not a rivalry. they just play at the end of the season now. lsu-texas a&m i'd put on the list because both have had successful seasons to date. not the case for mizzou-hogs. same goes for iowa-unl.

Tell that to the SEC schedulers and the two schools involved who have set these up as end of season rivalry games...…….

[Deleted]

Nov 19, 2018 18:23:35 GMT -5 drjensen said:

Well Walt, I guess everyone is in agreement that you should put more than 15 games on the regular season finale. As to which games are rivalries or not is a matter of opinion mainly decided by geography. So, in reality it doesn't matter which games you put on the board, because they will all still be played. This year, I would venture that some of the games that normally would be considered close and possibly have implications in conference or national standing will end up being rather lop-sided, ie, USC/Notre Dame. (unless USC would pull an upset and I doubt that will happen, so we will all just have to decide whether USC can cover what should be large spread). FWIW, I think you should just pick however many you want to pick and hopefully most of us will have an idea of who the two teams are and can make some type of educated guess as to who will cover and who won't. We may not agree politically or socially, but you do a pretty good job of running the football pool and initially that is what us all together. 

The more the merrier. Please keep it to FBS as many of us don't keep up with FCS and DIV II.