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Why do you equate the absence of money to wholesomeness, innocence and fun? If I recall correctly Millionaire Bo Nix and his wife were handing out free donuts at the dorms on the first day of class, he discusses his faith, and he's having plenty of fun on the field still.

This. I've always thought that the argument "There are only 4 good teams that could win anyways" is a bad argument. It's a self fulfilling prophecy is what it is. Increase the playoffs to 12 teams and every year thee will eventually be 12 competitive teams as recruits redistribute themselves to playoff contenders that offer a better chance to play. Increase it to 16 same thing Maybe over 20 and you will just be having spoilers in there every year, but that's a long ways from 4. As others have said, you will have lower ranked teams that are hot at the end of the season that could potentially beat anybody, like an Arizona team and it's worth capturing them in the playoffs.

I'd like think I'm seeing continuous improvement in deficient areas from last season to this season and during this season. Therefore I am optimistic that players and coaches will do better in this game than the last time we played them. I don't think you can say the same for UW as a team. Yes, they are excellent at playing up to the moment, but I don't think it will be enough to overcome a Duck team that has improved holistically.

I am so sick of every game being a playoff game. Good riddance. I just want to enjoy my team playing and feel happy when they win, rather than feeling relieved they didn't lose.

I'd love that. Go Bama and FSU this week!

If FSU is #2 and we are #3 don't we play them? And 1 plays 4?

Interesting that you have to get down to #13 to see a team with a worse record placed above a team with a better record. Then you think about the situation with FSU and with Texas and Bama... This committee puts a lot of weight into who is most deserving. More than years past for sure.

I think this is correct. The fact FSU didn't budge tells everyone FSU is in unless they lose. Regardless of the eye test we won't jump them with one loss.

You'd have to think that short yardage/finishing drives is the biggest focus for the offense this week. Players and coaches. UW defense rises to the occasion, we need to too. Isn't it great we get one more day to prepare than UW?

This is UW coach on the end of the game and how Penix is doing: Washington OC Ryan Grubb comments on Michael Penix Jr.’s health, reaction to game-winning FG SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM Washington offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb comments on Michael Penix Jr.'s health ahead of the Pac-12... I've got no further comment on this subject. We'll just have to see how he plays and how the game goes. It would really stink if he's played like crap in all of the games since we played him and suddenly balls-out against us again.

Thank you so much! Who can take the points per drive and 60 minutes extrapolation data and post in Twitter per the original post in this topic? Could be both a thread with the methodology and breakdown as well as a single tweet with just comparison of the totals (pts per drive, and extrapolated totals if they'd played the full 60 minutes of every game). Header for the tweet could be: "Bo Nix and Jayden Daniels stats aren't so different once you normalize them to the number of opportunities they had."

I think it will be UW 3, FSU 4, OSU 5 and Oregon 6 Texas 7 Once Oregon beats #3 they will jump to 3 due to improved SOS and SOR while, OSU will jump 4 at best as UW drops behind the Texas-Alabama. If FSU is moved lower it shouldn't matter to us, but it will be the talk of the country if it happens.

So many players break the tape nowadays, but DAT was the OG.

This is excellent too! Bo doesn't have to beat Jayden Daniels straight up on the stat lines, it just has to be somewhat close.

This article is why we need to do this exercise! Jayden Daniels for Heisman: LSU touts QB leading 25 of 30 categories as ‘the guy, and it’s not close’ WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Jayden Daniels for the Heisman Trophy is coming down to the stretch run. Can somebody help do Jayden Daniels' game time adjusted stats like we did Bo Nix so we can get an apples to apples stat comparison to send out to the masses please?

I was heartened to see them go back to putting James in for the short yardage specialty. He's so good at picking up a few yards like a bowling ball breaking through legs like pins.

Awesome! Thank you so much. I'm curious how they will compare to Jayden Daniels adjusted numbers, but those numbers by themselves are outrageous!

Always feel bad for the employees, but they will find another job at a better organization. I'll never shed tears over PAC12 after bedtime. It's criminal to do that to 20 year old athletes in school along with their fan base.

Michigan State is also the place where they did nothing to stop the sports doctor that molested the entire US Gymnastics team after doing the same to the MSU gymnastics team for years if I remember correctly.

I have assumed the same. Personally I'm from the school of thought to kick it high to the 5 yard line to bait the runner into taking it out. Analytics should show you fair catch it every time unless you need a miracle.

It looks like Daniels was pulled early in games vs Grambling St., Miss State and Army. He wasn't pulled at all against Georgia State to pad his Heisman resume, which is another reason why we need to do this exercise.

Thank you Log Haulin! Here are the stat multipliers for each game: PSU: 1.93 HAW: 1.76 COL: 1.40 STAN: 1.22 CAL: 1.30 ASU: 1.67 Next we need someone to pull Bo's stats for every single game, whether he was pulled early or not.

I'm short on time to do this myself, but if one or more people here could help to do the following it could make a difference in Bo's Heisman voting: Step 1: Watch you tube summary video (there is typically a 25 minute game summary video) on every game Bo played and document time of game for Bo's last play, where Ty Thompson came in and relieved him the next series. Step 2: write downs Bo's stats for each game: Total yards passing Total yards rushing Total completions Total touchdowns Total Interceptions Step 3: Multiple each games stats x 60 divided by total game minutes played Step 4: Add each games playing time adjusted stats for a regular season playing time adjusted (extrapolated) stats. Step 5: Do the same for JD if he was ever pulled early during a blowout. Step 6: compare playing time adjusted (extrapolated) regular season stats. Step 7: Post comparison of playing time adjusted stats as Twitter replies to major post as a Twitter reply to a major networks Twitter posts on Bo vs. Daniels Heisman comparisons. Step 8: Send complete analysis to Oregon beat Twitter Posters like Geoff Schwartz, so they can independently verify and send out as well.

It's all relative. He was the Heisman front runner through the game against Oregon. Compared to that level of play, a 55% completion percentage, nearly 3 picks, and crying off the field under a cover after a win is in possibly broken territory to me.

The wiser man picked the under for both teams. Congratulations!