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The CFP is designed to give the SEC two chances at a national championship

ETA: Thanks to the magic of NCAA Football, Kotaku was doing playoffs with every conference champion, plus bowls for the NIT teams, years ago: https://kotaku.com/5712128/the-2011-video-game-bowl—-and-playoff—-spectacular Read more

First, thank you for digging all that out. That was very edifying. Read more

Thanks for the data! Seriously. And yeah, my inkling on this is that it’s five scoring opportunities, which represent some kind of control over the game, and if you’re kicking a fifth instead of going for a touchdown you’re more likely salting it away or snipping them at the final gun. Read more

Seeing this reminded me of the Giants beating the 49ers with 5 field goals in the 1991 NFC Championship. I wonder what the winning percentage is for teams with a kicker who makes five field goals in a game. I have to think it’s damn good, if not close to 1.000. Read more

This post is also nearly a decade old so, yeah, congratulations, after 10 years I think we can definitively say Left 4 Dead 3 is not coming to PS3. Read more

And yet dipshit NC State takes the bidding war bait and re-ups Doeren at $3M per for 5 years for utterly common results and easily replaceable performance.

“Well gawrsh, y’awl! A-hyuck! Ten-er-sea wants Doeren that must mean he’s good or sumpin’!”

Idiots. No wonder we can’t win a fucking conference title in anything… Read more

Great rangers never get old is the problem. Shit ones neither. It’s them in the middle that last a long time.
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Is it possible to believe that both Manning should sit/be moved out and that this is an extremely dumb decision, given the coach’s impotence and Geno Smith’s disastrous history.

Francesca’s personal offense at this may be a little silly but he’s 100 percent right that McAdoo has no idea what he is doing, and that a… Read more

On the July 4 weekend of 1999 I was invited out to the trailer where a co-worker at the newspaper was living. He had a potato gun so I was asked to bring the ammo. I brought a bag of russets and we had fun blasting those things into the woods before we all started drinking for serious. I left the bag of potatoes… Read more

Not that I’m in any shape to fight, but if you’re gonna do it, try to take the other guy to the ground first. What’s this standing up Karate Kid bullshit? Read more

Carbon ... Read more

That’s factual reporting. He is a fucking idiot, and so is anyone who voted for him. Read more

I guarantee that the limit of this commenter’s Alabama credentials is a t-shirt from Walmart. Read more

I think what Jack is saying is, once upon a time, writers got into opinion gigs (columnist, editorials, whatever) after some stretch of time where they worked as reporters and acquired some familiarity or expertise with a subject.

Today, it’s just a take environment from the first day on the job. Just go straight to… Read more

And if you’re going to argue that a stadium requires crowd control security, yes, I agree. But tell me why David Cutcliffe doesn’t have police protection. Tell me why you don’t see this in the Pac-12. Read more

I don’t exclude State from this. It’s ridiculous. There is no need for state police protection at these games. It’s just propaganda bullshit, extending the state’s authority and prestige over a common entertainment event, the same as playing the national anthem before a game. It’s ridiculous, especially in the… Read more

Goodness what will he do without the state police protection Read more

Pal of mine and his girlfriend went camping, and had very sweaty 20somethings-on-a-camping-trip sex in the back of her parents’ van the morning before they were to return (and hand the van back to her ever-suspicious dad). Read more

The last run, if I’m not mistaken, is taking a clip from Gladiator’s soundtrack Read more

I leave it to others who know more about physics but it figures that thing’s mass would have carried it a lot further on a clean jump Read more