The fact that Ryan Williams is on there but JJ Smith isn't is an abomination. Smith has more yards from scrimmage and one more touchdown, has scored in every game and never been rendered ineffective. Williams is stellar in every way but did nothing in their last game and relies on big plays to get significant yardage and isn't a possession receiver in any way.

I think 8 could have worked as well, it's just not worth enough money to stick to that number. Being able to accommodate the big bowl games plus have the home-field games in the first round requires more games.

I personally can't wait for the home-field games in Round 1 as I think they'll be incredible atmospheres.

If I had to guess, he won't get it simply because he's a Freshman. But I'd wager a guess that whoever does end up winning it would be chosen after JJ if every single college coach was asked who they would pick first.

It's technically possible, but unlikely, as the conference champion runners up would be all but guaranteed the 5-8 slots, unless they have three losses.

Silly OP thinks this analysis means anything to anyone. The SEC is just better so their non-conference schedules don't matter.

We could not run the ball in the 2nd half at all.

We weren't getting big gains, but we also passed the ball at will in the 2nd half which is promising.

We could not get off the field on 3rd down.

Oregon had 4 total drives in the second half that resulted in: punt, turnover on downs, TD, FG. It's not great but that's certainly not terrible. Oregon went 2/5 in the 3rd quarter on 3rd down conversions. In the 4th quarter they had one 3rd down conversion (Gabriel's TD) on one drive, then the other drive went 1 for 2 on the other drive where we held them to a field goal.

When looking at the drive and play summaries, it is really apparent the second quarter is where everything went to shit. Our defense actually did their job well in the third quarter, extremely well actually. The fourth quarter was subpar but our offense left them hanging by not icing the game at the end of the third. Howard's fumbled snap after a great defensive stand was absolutely brutal. We get any points on that drive and we're up 11 which changes the game completely.

Denzel Burke was dogshit all night, but the defense as a whole actually did pretty darn well considering #10 kept gifting Oregon massive plays. Oregon only scored 10 total points in the 2nd half...and it felt like twice that to me.

Assuming we would be undefeated outside of those two games, our resume would be losses to the #2 and #3 teams in the country, then ranked wins over probably at least 2 teams. I assume we would still be in at that point because we'd have the two "best" losses of any two-loss team by far.

We would own the head to head against all of them so it's an easy in for us.

If you lose one game, regardless of opponent, but win the rest of yours then you should be given a playoff spot. Bama may have lost to Vanderbilt, but they also beat UGA. Anything can happen on any Saturday so a freak loss is something that should be noted but not a nuke to all post-season aspirations, in my opinion.

I'd give the Safeties at least a B. Caleb Downs has been exceptional and doesn't have any big mistakes that I can recall. Ransom has been a force in run pickups and generally played extremely well too.

Is it a garbage stat when 11W shows Howard's performances under pressure vs not? Or when our D-line creates a ton of perceived pressure?

I was just sharing one resource that has come out.

I don't know how PFF or the in-stadium stat person measures pressures. I was just sharing a stat.

Like we all know, it's just a ballpark number. But they can't be completely wrong. Even if they were wrong half the time they were grading, that's still 20% pressure rate.

Trolls that put no effort into their posts are the worst type. Being this wrong intentionally is so sad. As of September 8th this year, Sawyer had 10 pressures.

We put zero pressure on Gabriel last Saturday

He was pressured on 40% of his drop backs, per PFF>

Gabriel was under pressure on 40% of his drop backs...we pressured him plenty.

But he intentionally committed the penalty, just like Oregon. The NCAA will eventually make pass interference a spot foul like NFL. If they had announced they were changing it after this game, what would you have thought about Igbinosun doing that?

Igbinosun got beat bad on a route and grabbed their guy in order to save a touchdown. He intentionally took the penalty because it was a better result than giving up points. That's also gaming the system.

It's also why the NFL made it a spot foul instead of consistent yardage. But that benefitted us in this game.

My point about being favored against PSU was more illustrating the idea that rankings this early in the season come down to: are you undefeated and a "brand name" that was ranked decently in the preseason? cool, you're going to be above everyone else that has a loss.

We dropped below PSU by default, not because people necessarily think we are a worse team.

Even if they didn't play "well" against lesser opponents, you can't expect your starters to play well for 4 straight quarters (and they don't, as we've seen repeatedly) because they'll be exhausted. Even if it's just for a few plays you absolutely have to put backups into the rotation.

Also, if you're afraid to give up yardage earlier in the game so you don't sub out your starters, but then you give up loads of yardage and force zero punts in the 4th quarter when the game really matters, maybe you should look at your priorities. I'd gladly sacrifice 3-4 plays of yardage in the 2nd and/or 3rd quarter so our best players can actually have an impact in the 4th quarter.

You keep moving the goalposts once your point gets debated against and met with any resistance. As fans we're going to find "breaks" in every game, win or lose, because we dissect things to that level.

But, yes, Day has been a victim of both shitty circumstances and poor coaching decisions in his career. Sometimes he beats himself by overthinking and not being ready in crunch time, sometimes he loses because of outside factors (shitty officials calling plays incorrectly).

Day vs Dabo at Dabo's peak is a 1-1 draw. Day beat Dabo at his peak one time and then lost to Dabo and the officials the other time.

Howard may have had the most visible error but he was absolutely not the reason we lost that game. He was phenomenal in every way.

Bad OL? Are you high? They have been fantastic all year.