If we end up being good enough to go 11-1 or 12-0 then I think that would mean we have a punchers chance of hanging with like the 3rd or 4th best SEC team, depending on who that team is and if the matchups somehow worked out that way in the CFP. We would still be underdogs and there’s a good chance we would get pasted, but still a chance. I’m thinking of getting matched up with like Ole Miss or a talented but flawed LSU in this scenario.
Against a typical schedule, yes. Against this year's cupcake schedule, no.
You and me both.
You wouldn’t be happy with 12-0 because of how easy the schedule is?
See, this is why I think all this "cupcake" schedule talk is premature. Everyone looks at Ga Tech and says, "we have more talent than those guys." Well, FSU has a lot more talent than those guys, but Haynes King is a hell of a QB if he is not throwing interceptions.
Exactly. Average teams with an average coach, which is what Mack is now, tend to produce average records.
I’m with you, sleehrat. I don’t go over there much, but I’m sure I will when the season starts.
If a quality basketball thread emerges here I won’t go back.
It will. I predict by Thanksgiving this board will have nascent, but robust, forums dedicated to sports, politics, and “general” (or some such). There’s a nine page music thread. A celeb gossip has lingered on page one. Missed Connections, Wordle, Finance, and Retirement remain popular subjects.
That same logic would have got you in a lot of trouble last year. Just pick a number and stick with it. No variance based on the first game.
Well mathematically even if every game is completely independent of all the other ones, a win in the first game increases our expected win total by about 0.5 wins since we’d be taking a 50/50 toss up game and putting it in the win column.
Yeah. But that isn’t how season predictions work. Just pick a number and stick with it. No equivocating.
