College Football

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Two loss Bama in the mix

Shaping up to be a lot of very good teams with similar win-loss numbers.  Very good discussion by CBS analyst:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-bracket-prediction-georgia-byu-tumble-texas-boise-state-grab-first-round-byes/amp/

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Two loss Bama in the mix

Georgia and Ole Miss are right there behind Alabama and they both have two losses. No one's beaten Indiana in 10 tries, and there are three one-loss teams ranked ahead of them. Makes you wonder.

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Texas has two rivalry games ahead.  Rivalry games often trump standings and such.

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Texas has two rivalry games ahead.  Rivalry games often trump standings and such.

I watched the Game of the Century. Nixon visited Fayetteville and sat with LBJ.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Texas_vs._Arkansas_football_game

And of course, the big brother/little brother grudge match. Reborn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%E2%80%93Texas_A%26M_football_rivalry

Please… please… watch this!

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Thursday night's game between North Carolina State and Georgia Tech turned into quite a slugfest, especially at the end.

There were a combined 36 points scored in the fourth quarter, including 14 in the last minute of the game.

After leading most of the game, Georgia Tech scored the last touchdown and won 30-29 when NCSU's last second, 60-yard field goal attempt was plenty long enough but drifted wide left by mere inches.

Remember what Vince Lombardi used to say? "We didn't lose the game, we just ran out of time."

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Thursday night's game between North Carolina State and Georgia Tech turned into quite a slugfest, especially at the end.

I used to live in Chapel Hill, halfway between Duke and UNC, and never knew which teams I should support.

It struck me just now that people living in areas that host several sports teams must have a similar problem. Something like the UK rivalry between Manchester United and Manchester City, or Rangers and Celtic, or the many London clubs.

Which led me to wonder if, for example, someone supports one local team over the other(s), and one of the teams he/she doesn't support is playing against an "outside" team, does local loyalty trump internecine rivalry?

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Thursday night's game between North Carolina State and Georgia Tech turned into quite a slugfest, especially at the end.

Which led me to wonder if, for example, someone supports one local team over the other(s), and one of the teams he/she doesn't support is playing against an "outside" team, does local loyalty trump internecine rivalry?

That depends on a number of factors. Families have been torn apart by sports rivalries. Sometimes, wearing the wrong jersey is inviting violence on yourself. Sometimes, an entire family will be for a team. I like to believe that rival fans won't fight in the parking lot after a game or that the one white shirt sitting amongst a sea of red won't be attacked, but I've seen both happen.

It comes down to the maturity and commom sense of the sports fans involved.

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Thursday night's game between North Carolina State and Georgia Tech turned into quite a slugfest, especially at the end.

Which led me to wonder if, for example, someone supports one local team over the other(s), and one of the teams he/she doesn't support is playing against an "outside" team, does local loyalty trump internecine rivalry?

That depends on a number of factors. Families have been torn apart by sports rivalries. Sometimes, wearing the wrong jersey is inviting violence on yourself. Sometimes, an entire family will be for a team. I like to believe that rival fans won't fight in the parking lot after a game or that the one white shirt sitting amongst a sea of red won't be attacked, but I've seen both happen.

This happened so long ago that I can't point to a news source, but I do remember that a British football stadium that was troubled by rowdy, often violent, fans came up with a novel solution.

On the advice of a psychologist, they placed one or two women here and there among the sea of male fans on the terraces. Incidents of violence dropped to almost zero, like a drop of female oil on troubled male waters.

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On November 27, 1969, the Texas Longhorns beat the Texas A&M Aggies 49–14 at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. The Longhorns' victory was the most points ever scored against the Aggies at the time.  My dad was a tea sip (as am I). My uncle was an Aggie. The whole family, grand parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered around the television. I thought fisticuffs were going to break out.  But it was a glorious day to be a Longhorn.

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The most interesting thing I learned after last week's games is that Indiana has lost 30 games in a row against Ohio State.

THIRTY straight losses to Ohio State, dating back to 1988.

The last time Indiana beat the Buckeyes, staci wasn't even born yet!!

Indiana's overall record against Ohio State is 12-80-5.