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HLB, go back to page 12 of this thread, You posted that claim on September 10. At least three of us quoted you. Also, you include FSU among the "elite" teams that will easily dispatch Washington or Oregon? Perhaps you don't recall the last (and only) time Oregon played the Seminoles, who at the time were undefeated defending national champions with a Heisman winner at quarterback? I don't think FSU is a lock to beat Louisville, if/when that game happens. I'd also pick Washington or Oregon over Texas in a heartbeat.

Fuck you Don! 😀 Iirc, the ASU game two weeks after the Wazzu debacle was similar. I still have a copy of this cursed issue.

So therefore the Pac-12 has tough no teams, even though it had the best OOC record? None? For example: WSU played OSU and UCLA UCLA played Utah Stanford played USC and Oregon Arizona played Washington and USC Colorado played Oregon and USC (I'm sure I missed some.) How it is that "no one team in this conference has faced a tough opponent'? Do you care to elaborate on what your research indicated that led you to your UW pick?

Essentially, everywhere is truck country anymore. I was commenting on the size of American trucks these days, rather than on the practicality of having AWD in Utah. I wonder, if a scholarship player gets dismissed from the team, does some walk-on get his truck along with his scholarship?

I know I'd be thrilled to have another 85 stupidly oversized trucks on my local roads. 🙄

Fair enough, but this exactly what I'm referring to.

Coach Prime, Coach Prime, Coach Prime, Coach Prime, Coach Prime, Coach Prime, Coach Prime. Do they ever call him Deion, or Coach Sanders, or Coach Neon? Why is it Coach Prime, every fucking time? On another note, I loved Jonathan Smith's impromptu "Milk the Clock" signal.

I wrote that Stanford "consistently gives Oregon fits," not that they do it every time. But yeah, I was being cautiously optimistic. You whiffed on Utah, you whiffed on USC (actually I think they were gassed, not asleep.) and you whiffed on UW. It did, but not the way you predicted.

You know very little about the Pac-12, even in its final iteration. Utah is going to have a hard time winning in Corvallis on a Friday night, with or without Rising. USC will beat Colorado, but I seriously doubt they're going to win by 41 points. The line is SC -21.5, but the Trojans' defense is looking worse than last year, and kickoff is at 9 a.m. PDT. I think the Buffs might cover. Cal is -12 versus ASU. I think the Bears win. Stanford might be the worst team in the league, but they consistently give Oregon fits, even when they're bad. I think the Cardinal cover the 27-point spread. The Dawgs do not like playing in the desert. I expect they'll win, but not by 36 points.

If you picked the Buffs to win at Autzen, go ahead and guzzle an ice cold mug of shut the fuck up.

"Trump in a landslide." - HLB

"Do we need 47 photos of 'Fun dinner at Pams?'" Yes I meant the realignment/portal DP Commercial.

I hate the new clock rules. As many are saying, they don't shorten the games, they just increase the number of commercial breaks. If I'm not invested in a game, I probably won't watch it, it's just too much. I will admit that the new Fansville Dr. Pepper commercial is pretty funny.

Fuck Oral Roberts. That is all.

What are the odds he ever returns to this forum? “[N]ot every injustice or transgression amounts to a criminal offense,” he wrote.

I quoted you. You wrote, "Speaking for the 80% ... " And yes, inventory is important, and it equates to money. So Mike Bellotti has "an impending sense of doom" and is "teetering on the brink." He also once infamously said following a CW loss: "We didn't lose, we just ran out of time." In case you weren't aware, not all college football games are "marquee match ups." Does a Mississippi State @ Vandy game have more appeal than Oregon State @ SDSU? I think most fans of college football who watch games in which they don't have an emotional investment just want to see an exciting game, I know I don't really care who the participants are.

I'm not sure you can legitimately speak for 80% of the nation, but everyone knows SDSU and SMU don't have the cachet of the LA schools. It's not a secret. What they do bring is inventory, which is important to media companies. SMU is less popular in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex than UT, A&M, OU or TCU, but in the PAC they won't often have to compete directly with those schools for regional viewers, and a 9 p.m. start in Dallas is a solid timeslot. I think they can move the needle - eventually.

About 50K on race day, not too bad for NASCAR in LA.

The Umpire was the MVP on that play. If he hadn't ducked in time, Nix's pass would have drilled him in the face. But hey, Duck, duck, DOINK worked out!

It's because the other teams in the Pac-12 suck balls, and SEC teams tower above us.

Congrats to the Beavs. Back in the Tebow days, I used to dream of playing those guys, hated them. It was nice to live vicariously through Oregon State's success.

He did answer eventually, but quoted another poster so I didn't see it for awhile. Something about more talent around him and he wasn't that great anyway. In other words, he just dodged it.

In the SEC? Aren't you torpedoing your own argument with that statement.

I was more than a little drunk when I posted that,, but yeah, I guess I was off put by the sort of "little guy" attitude. My apologies. I'll try to avoid posting in a stupor going forward. 😬

I mean no offense, but I'm sick and tired of this "little guy" Utah persona. It's bullshit. You're not WSU or OSU. You have a very strong Pacific Islander connection - mostly thanks to Mormon missionaries - which makes your OLs and DLs incredible. You're in the Pac-12 for a reason, because you're well-funded and well-positioned to compete. Utah should be competing at the highest level of this conference, and they are. Knock off the "We're doing more with less" crap. That's not who the Utes are.