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USA Today's Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020

Blackshirts BLVD

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How the fvck am I suppose to remember posting that.

So you're memory only lasts for a month, got it.

Have you ever heard of Obama? You may not remember this, but he was your absolute favorite president and you once touted his wife as one of the most beautiful women you've ever seen. I believe there was a lot of 'want to bone' type of phrases coming from you about her.

Oh and you despise the current president in Donald Trump choosing to sport him in your avatar ironically.


That is all.
 

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Teams on this list that play an 8 game conference schedule are a disgrace.

I assume this means they scheduled OOC games that way since every one of them play at least 8 conference P5 conference games. I know the Tech folks around here have been bitching about their OOC for a while.
 

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If you give a team outside the top 15 that schedule, most teams are going to lose 5 games. It's tough for a team considered in the 20-25 range to beat 4 top 10 teams. And a top 15 team. If they would have been able to play a team like Utah in the bowl game, they would have finished ranked after beating them.
Yes, they are. As did Texas A&M. Nothing suggests they should've finished ranked though. They lost to the only good teams on their schedule, beat the bad ones (including barely escaping against arguably the worst P5 team last year), and narrowly won against a decent team in a bowl game.
 

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How the fvck am I suppose to remember posting that.

So you're memory only lasts for a month, got it.

Have you ever heard of Obama? You may not remember this, but he was your absolute favorite president and you once touted his wife as one of the most beautiful women you've ever seen. I believe there was a lot of 'want to bone' type of phrases coming from you about her.

Oh and you despise the current president in Donald Trump choosing to sport him in your avatar ironically.


That is all.

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Yes, they are. As did Texas A&M. Nothing suggests they should've finished ranked though. They lost to the only good teams on their schedule, beat the bad ones (including barely escaping against arguably the worst P5 team last year), and narrowly won against a decent team in a bowl game.

Those good teams are more than good, aside from Auburn. Who I'd consider good. The other 4 are elite. All those G5 teams at the end of the final top 25 wouldn't have that record against that schedule. Also, A&M won comfortably against Oklahoma State IMO.
 

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Those good teams are more than good, aside from Auburn. Who I'd consider good. The other 4 are elite. All those G5 teams at the end of the final top 25 wouldn't have that record against that schedule. Also, A&M won comfortably against Oklahoma State IMO.
A&M beat one team with a winning record, and winning by 3 is not winning comfortably. My guess is you didn't watch that game. They did nothing to earn a top 25 ranking, and there's literally nothing that would support your notion that all the G5 teams in the final top 25 couldn't have gone 8-5 against that schedule, considering they only beat one team with a winning record for the year, unless you're citing SEC bias, because that's the only way it makes sense. Washington had a far, far better case for being a top 25 team.
 

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A&M beat one team with a winning record, and winning by 3 is not winning comfortably. My guess is you didn't watch that game. They did nothing to earn a top 25 ranking, and there's literally nothing that would support your notion that all the G5 teams in the final top 25 couldn't have gone 8-5 against that schedule, considering they only beat one team with a winning record for the year, unless you're citing SEC bias, because that's the only way it makes sense. Washington had a far, far better case for being a top 25 team.

I actually watched most of that game. Oklahoma State scored with like a minute left or something to make it look closer. It's not SEC bias. Why would I have SEC bias? They played 4 top 8 teams. No G5 school is winning against that. I'm not even sure all those G5 schools would have been as competitive in those games either. And this is knowing A&M wasn't competitive in all of them. But App St lost to Georgia Southern so based on that, they could have easily lost to a Miss St and Oklahoma State. Navy lost by a million to ND, who was worse than all 5 of those teams. And didn't have a win as good as Oklahoma State. Same with Cincy, Air Force, Boise State and UCF.
 

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I'd love to have Utah's schedule. Don't blame the Pac 12 for wanting to play more conference games because the league isn't any good. Can't get exposed OOC if you never play the games. Like Oregon vs. Auburn, USC vs. ND, Stanford vs ND and UCF, UCLA vs Cincy, and half the league vs the MTN West.

I find it odd how playing an extra PAC12 team is only a stumbling block to other PAC12 teams … and that is the strength of their conference pride.
 
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