WEEKS 7 AND 8 RESULTS AND STANDINGS

[Walter]

It was a wild week for me and not only did I not get the week 7 results in, I didn't even get my week 8 picks in.
But here they are.

WEEK 7 RESULTS

TOTAL PICKS 150
PICKED CORRECTLY 76
PERCENTAGE 50.7%

RESULTS

11 GATR55
9 TRNYERHEAD
8 MSCOTT
8 WALT
7 CBISBIG
7 DOCJENSEN
7 MICKEY34JB
7 NU5NVBIGRED
6 OUJOUR
6 CWGBUCKEYES35


STANDINGS
TOTAL PICKS = 1110
PICKED CORRECTLY = 511
PERCENTAGE 46.0%

MOVIE: HORRIBLE BOSSES

56 WALT
55 MSCOTT
54 CEWBUCKEYES35
53 OUJOUR
52 GATR55
50 NU5NCBIGRED
48 TRNYERHEAD
47 CBISBIG
47 MICKEY34JB
46 DOCJENSEN

WEEK 8 RESULTS

TOTAL PICKS = 140 PICKS
TOTAL PICKED CORRECTLY = 64
PERCENTAGE = 45.7%

MOVIE: MASH

MSCOTT HAS A BIG WEEK. TRN, ON AUTOPILOT, FOLLOWS CLOSE BEHIND
WALT’S RINGER HAD MEETINGS AND NEVER PHONED IN HIS PICKS…

RESULTS

10 MSCOTT
9 TRNYERHEAD
8 CWGBUCKEYES
8 MICKEY34JB
7 NU5NCBIGRED
6 GATR55
6 OUJOUR
5 CBISBIG
5 DOCJENSEN
0 WALT

WEEK 8 STANDINGS

TOTAL PICKS = 1250 PICKS
TOTAL PICKED CORRECTLY = 575
PERCENTAGE = 46.0%

MSCOTT TAKES OVER THE LEAD WITH CWGBUCKEYES TRYING TO MATCH HIS PACE.

65 MSCOTT
62 CWBGUCKEYES35
59 OUJOUR
58 GATR55
57 NEFNCBIGRED
57 TRNYERHEAD
56 WALT
52 CBISBIG
55 MICKEY34JB
51 DOCJENSEN

[AlaCowboy]

How many picked Texas (and lost) to win their SEC debut? Georgia popped their cherry on their own field!

[Mickey34jb]

Oct 21, 2024 8:46:48 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

How many picked Texas (and lost) to win their SEC debut? Georgia popped their cherry on their own field!

The SEC also welcomed Texas to their first SEC fine of $250k for throwing water bottles and trash on the field for a targeting call.

[AlaCowboy]

Oct 21, 2024 10:01:42 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Oct 21, 2024 8:46:48 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

How many picked Texas (and lost) to win their SEC debut? Georgia popped their cherry on their own field!

The SEC also welcomed Texas to their first SEC fine of $250k for throwing water bottles and trash on the field for a targeting call.

That fine was for giving the officials an excuse to reverse that PI call. The University of Georgia General Fund will use that money wisely.

[oujour76]

Oct 21, 2024 10:01:42 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Oct 21, 2024 8:46:48 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

How many picked Texas (and lost) to win their SEC debut? Georgia popped their cherry on their own field!

The SEC also welcomed Texas to their first SEC fine of $250k for throwing water bottles and trash on the field for a targeting call.

That was a BS move by their fans. And then the refs rewarded them by overturning the original call. Bizarre sequence.

[Mickey34jb]

Oct 21, 2024 11:29:47 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Oct 21, 2024 10:01:42 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

The SEC also welcomed Texas to their first SEC fine of $250k for throwing water bottles and trash on the field for a targeting call.

That fine was for giving the officials an excuse to reverse that PI call. The University of Georgia General Fund will use that money wisely.

Reversing a targeting call__buckeyes feel Kirbys pain..

[Mickey34jb]

Oct 21, 2024 12:12:28 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Oct 21, 2024 10:01:42 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

The SEC also welcomed Texas to their first SEC fine of $250k for throwing water bottles and trash on the field for a targeting call.

That was a BS move by their fans. And then the refs rewarded them by overturning the original call. Bizarre sequence.

Browns fans wished referees would have reverse the call in 2001 vs Jacksonville AKA Bottlegate....a low point for NFL Referees

[Walter]

Oct 21, 2024 12:12:28 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Oct 21, 2024 10:01:42 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

The SEC also welcomed Texas to their first SEC fine of $250k for throwing water bottles and trash on the field for a targeting call.

That was a BS move by their fans. And then the refs rewarded them by overturning the original call. Bizarre sequence.

The call was flat wrong, and the students were probably mostly drunk.
It's college football after all.

That reminds me of a college football game at USC my freshman year.

There was a similar bad call, and some clown threw an empty bottle of something onto the field.
The PA announcer came on and said something like, "Please do not throw anything on the field." or some such normal announcement.
So the student section somehow decided that everyone should instead register their anger at the call by passing their empties politely down to the field level to be stacked in a row on the bottom wall that separating the stands from the field. Hundreds upon hundreds of empties got stacked up like soldiers on that wall as the game continued.

It became a bit of a tradition for the student section for a while to register complaints about bad calls and also a sort of thumb in the eye of the admin's 'no alcohol' policy at games.
Eventually they started checking for bottles at the gate, so that ended that.

[AlaCowboy]

Oct 21, 2024 12:16:33 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Oct 21, 2024 11:29:47 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

That fine was for giving the officials an excuse to reverse that PI call. The University of Georgia General Fund will use that money wisely.

Reversing a targeting call__buckeyes feel Kirbys pain..

No. They called PI on the Texas DB, marked off the penalty, set the ball and signaled ready to play, then the Texas fans started throwing bottles and cans. So the officials huddled and decided there was no PI. Guess they were scared.

[AlaCowboy]

A Florida fan posted, "Texas got fined for throwing garbage on the field against Georgia." He then said, "Florida has been throwing garbage on the field against Georgia for the last three years and never got fined."

[mscott59]

Oct 21, 2024 22:57:51 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

A Florida fan posted, "Texas got fined for throwing garbage on the field against Georgia." He then said, "Florida has been throwing garbage on the field against Georgia for the last three years and never got fined."

lol. obviously the officials have never gathered in jacksonville to give uf a chance to reverse it.

[mscott59]

Oct 21, 2024 22:55:14 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Oct 21, 2024 12:16:33 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Reversing a targeting call__buckeyes feel Kirbys pain..

No. They called PI on the Texas DB, marked off the penalty, set the ball and signaled ready to play, then the Texas fans started throwing bottles and cans. So the officials huddled and decided there was no PI. Guess they were scared.

the reversal decision I get. that happens and it was a debatable call. that said, instead of the refs gathering together to voice any concerns amongst themselves first, marking off the penalty and then gathering while some texas fans littered the field was, at best, awful optics that opened the door to a delay causing the reversal.

[AlaCowboy]

Oct 23, 2024 8:47:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Oct 21, 2024 22:55:14 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

No. They called PI on the Texas DB, marked off the penalty, set the ball and signaled ready to play, then the Texas fans started throwing bottles and cans. So the officials huddled and decided there was no PI. Guess they were scared.

the reversal decision I get. that happens and it was a debatable call. that said, instead of the refs gathering together to voice any concerns amongst themselves first, marking off the penalty and then gathering while some texas fans littered the field was, at best, awful optics that opened the door to a delay causing the reversal.

Kirby said in his after game press conference that it sets the stage for fans to do this any time they don't like a call. The officials should have called a Delay of Game penalty on Texas but didn't. I think they were scared of what might happen to them after the game. The Referee also lives in Texas and has a business there and depends on the public for customers. No official at any game should officiate in the same state they live in, or have gone to either school in the game. There used to be a referee that was a Georgia Tech alumnus and owned a car dealership in Atlanta that officiated SEC games and the Georgia-Georgia Tech games. Georgia always got penalties at the most opportune times for their opponent when he called a game.

[oujour76]

Oct 23, 2024 8:47:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Oct 21, 2024 22:55:14 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

No. They called PI on the Texas DB, marked off the penalty, set the ball and signaled ready to play, then the Texas fans started throwing bottles and cans. So the officials huddled and decided there was no PI. Guess they were scared.

the reversal decision I get. that happens and it was a debatable call. that said, instead of the refs gathering together to voice any concerns amongst themselves first, marking off the penalty and then gathering while some texas fans littered the field was, at best, awful optics that opened the door to a delay causing the reversal.

Had mixed emotions. On one hand, had game not been delayed, the call stands, as it wasn’t reviewable. And that’s the way it goes sometimes. On the other, you want the right call. What bothered me most is reversing the call the way they did rewarded the fans actions. In the end, it didn’t matter in the outcome, so it’s a dead issue.

[oujour76]

Oct 23, 2024 10:15:23 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

Oct 23, 2024 8:47:51 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

the reversal decision I get. that happens and it was a debatable call. that said, instead of the refs gathering together to voice any concerns amongst themselves first, marking off the penalty and then gathering while some texas fans littered the field was, at best, awful optics that opened the door to a delay causing the reversal.

Kirby said in his after game press conference that it sets the stage for fans to do this any time they don't like a call. The officials should have called a Delay of Game penalty on Texas but didn't. I think they were scared of what might happen to them after the game. The Referee also lives in Texas and has a business there and depends on the public for customers. No official at any game should officiate in the same state they live in, or have gone to either school in the game. There used to be a referee that was a Georgia Tech alumnus and owned a car dealership in Atlanta that officiated SEC games and the Georgia-Georgia Tech games. Georgia always got penalties at the most opportune times for their opponent when he called a game.

Kirby has a point. And imo, the penalty should have been unsportsmanlike conduct plus delay of game. But, is what it is at this point.