Vern

Reading some of these is bringing back some trauma from the last couple years. If we have a bad snap again this game, my head may just explode.

Alright, I guess the Illinois starting position wasn't as bad as I remember it being. Here's their starting field position for our 7 kickoffs: 29 34 (including 5 yard penalty on nebraska) 34 (including 5 yard penalty on nebraska) 35 (including 5 yard penalty on nebraska) 14 (after illinois holding penalty) 41 27 avg = 30.6 Didn't know that. I don't think I've ever seen a team use the 2nd option.

This might actually be a good idea. I'm pretty sure giving them the ball on the 35 would be better than the average starting point for Ilinois on our kickoffs last game. Anybody have the data for that? Plus, it takes away the possibility of a big return.

Maybe some rain will make it so they don't want to attempt field goals either.

Saw this last year and thought it was pretty funny: "An Ohio State University"

Sounds reasonable to me. I would be for that.

My point is that as long as the CFP committee are making the rankings I really don't think an 8-team playoff is big enough to get an undefeated g5 team in. 16-team playoff would be big enough but then you're getting into too many games territory.

I'm going by CFP rankings: http://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/21/week/15/year/2017/seasontype/2 Those teams were all ranked higher than UCF even after losing their conference championship game.

Okay, so if you go that way and disqualify teams that don't make their conference championship instead of disqualifying the losers of the conference championship games. Then the 3 at-large teams would have been: Auburn Wisconsin Miami UCF would still miss out.

So if the 8-team playoff happened this year, and we use p5 champions plus 3 at-large (which seems to be the popular opinion). The eight teams would be: conference champs: 1. USC (pac12 champ) 2. Georgia (SEC champ) 3. Ohio State (Big10 champ) 4. Oklahoma (Big12 champ) 5. Clemson (ACC champ) Now if we disqualify any of the losing conference championship teams (Stanford, Auburn, Wisconsin, TCU, Miami) and you go by the CFP rankings (http://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/21/week/15/year/2017/seasontype/2) The 3 at-large bids would go to: 6. Alabama 7. Penn State 8. Washington UCF would have been next in line after Washington bud sadly would have missed out even with this system.

It seems like everyone thinks an 8-team playoff is the answer. But UCF would not have even made an 8-team playoff this year. They were ranked #12 at the end of the season. We need a 16-game playoff!

I'll be happy if next year... 1. I'm excited for each game and think we at least have a shot at winning each game. 2. I can stomach to watch the second half of each game. My advice is to try to keep your expectations low. It's the key to happiness.

People are just too dang sensitive nowadays. Everything has to be reviewed for political correctness to make sure some delicate snowflake doesn't get offended. This is why Saturday Night Live isn't funny anymore. Our AD whining about this only adds to the problem. *Almost* any publicity is good publicity. Do we prefer that Fox Sports not have Nebraska in their promotional material? I don't think so. The ad is fine.