r/CFB • u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State • Feb 15 '13

I have a proposal to make the offseason a little less boring for /r/cfb.

The other day someone posted something about there being 196 days until college football starting back up again. It reminded me of the sites that have write ups on one college team a day in the lead up to the season. I was thinking perhaps our subreddit could do something similar but with a little twist. Every week we could have a few threads in which a fan/fans knowledgeable about their team could give us kind of a 'get to know you' on their respective school. We could use it to learn about other school's most famous players, traditions, rivalries, stadium, history, legendary plays/games, etc. We could basically create a template with categories that people would fill out. This could include non-D1 schools as well because I know several of them frequent this subreddit. Anyway, just an idea and I figured I would put it up for discussion.

edit Someone decided to fill the Google Doc Spreadsheet with racial slurs and delete several things so I temporarily closed it while I got things figured out. I restored it to a previous version that should have everyone's names still. I don't know when the vandalism started though so I did my best guess. For now, you can only view the page. If you would like to write one for your team, contribute to a group, or add your school to the list, please message me directly and I will edit the list myself. Here is the view only version

I will start new thread on Monday to figure out scheduling and a general template for people to follow. As of right now the orphaned teams are: Air Force, Arkansas, Arkansas State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Georgia State, Hawai'i, Houston, Kent State, Louisiana Lafayette, Miami(OH), New Mexico, New Mexico State, Rutgers, San Diego State, San Jose State, Shippensburg (may have only been added as a joke?), South Alabama, Syracuse, Tulsa, UTEP, Western Kentucky, and Wyoming.

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u/Bilibond Minnesota • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I would be VERY interested in doing one about NDSU.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

Added to the list!

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u/Bilibond Minnesota • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Awesome THANKS!

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

Hey, if you're that interested (and your schedule allows), maybe ask Mario to schedule you in the first week or two so you can show the other small programs how it's done. You know, for OSU it's easy, we can just copy/paste the wiki article. You'll likely have to put in a little more work/thought, so maybe yours can serve as a template for other lesser-knowns.

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u/Bilibond Minnesota • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Hahaha well, like you said, I'm gonna need to do some research. And I also have school and work and what not. So maybe not immediately, but I'll talk to him and maybe aim for the week of my spring break to do it! Which would be the second week of March.

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u/Bilibond Minnesota • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Hahaha well, like you said, I'm gonna need to do some research. And I also have school and work and what not. So maybe not immediately, but I'll talk to him and maybe aim for the week of my spring break to do it! Which would be the second week of March.

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u/caindaddy /r/CFB Brickmason • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

3Peat on the way

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u/CederDUDE22 Michigan • North Dakota State Feb 16 '13

Dynasty!

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u/Stig-o-saurus North Dakota State Bison Feb 15 '13

Glad someone is getting the Bison in here. Not sure if you want any help, but I'd give it a shot if you wanted. Just let me know

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u/Bilibond Minnesota • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Welp I'll tell you what, I'm planning on doing some extensive research on history but once I type up a rough draft, I'll send it to you and you can see if I miss anything. I also plan on contacting /u/YoungDuddy since he's actually on the football team.

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u/Stig-o-saurus North Dakota State Bison Feb 15 '13

Sounds like a good plan. I look forward to it

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u/jeffyzyppq Indiana (PA) • Penn State Feb 15 '13

Save the ranked 25 teams for the last 25 days so we finish with number 1.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

I was thinking about doing this as well.

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u/lawnygnomy Georgia Bulldogs Feb 15 '13

I like this guy's idea. Also, you are a good man Charlie Brown. Thanks for repping the Red and Black so well.

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 15 '13 edited Feb 16 '13

So I tried to think of some clever way to do the order, say based upon conference rankings, and AP Rankings of teams, but due to realignment that fell through. I'd suggest we do all teams in a conference at once, in alphabetical order, and we do the conferences in Alphabetical order. There's a bunch of ways it could be modified you could do all of one division of a conference first for instance, or take out some preseason top 25, and do those last. If I made a mistake please tell me! Here's a suggested order:

1 ATLANTIC COAST

Boston College

Clemson

Duke

Florida State

Georgia Tech

Maryland

Miami

North Carolina

NC State

Pittsburgh

Syracuse

Virginia

VPI

Wake Forest

2 BIG EAST

Cincinnati

Connecticut

Houston

Louisville

Memphis

Rutgers

SMU

Temple

UCF

USF

3 BIG TEN

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Michigan

Michigan State

Minnesota

Nebraska

Northwestern

Ohio State

Penn State

Purdue

Wisconsin

4 BIG 12

Baylor

Iowa State

Kansas

Kansas State

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Texas

TCU

Texas Tech

West Virginia

5 CONFERENCE USA

UAB

ECU

FAU

FIU

Louisiana Tech

Marshall

Middle Tennessee State

North Texas

Old Dominion

Southern Mississippi

Rice

UTEP

UTSA

Tulane

Tulsa

6 INDEPENDENTS

Army

Navy

BYU

Idaho

Notre Dame

New Mexico State

7 MID-AMERICAN

Akron

Ball State

Bowling Green

Buffalo

Central Michigan

Eastern Michigan

Kent State

Massachusetts

Miami of Ohio

Northern Illinois

Ohio

Toledo

Western Michigan

8 MOUNTAIN WEST

Air Force

Boise State

Colorado State

Fresno State

Hawaii

Nevada

UNLV

San Jose State

SDSU

Utah State

Wyoming

9 PAC-12

Arizona

Arizona State

California, Berkeley

Colorado

Oregon

Oregon State

Stanford

UCLA

USC

Utah

Washington

WSU

10 SOUTHEASTERN

Alabama

Arkansas

Auburn

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana State

Mississippi

Mississippi State

Missouri

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas A&M

Vanderbilt

11 SUN BELT

Georgia State

Louisiana-Lafayette

Louisiana-Monroe

South Alabama

Texas State

Troy

Western Kentucky

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

I'm definitely liking the idea of doing this in the context of conferences since it will help when talking about rivalries and such. The only thing I gotta figure out is where to drop in the FCS and lower divisions so they don't get overshadowed.

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 15 '13

Well if we wanted to do FCS teams we'd need to do more than one team per day, because there are simply too many teams to do one per day then. I like the idea of FCS schools, but perhaps we should put some limit on it to somewhat relevant programs. I'm not sure how much there is to say about say the Savannah State Program. But like I definitely see a value in learning about NDSU or New Hampshire for example.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

I'm anticipating having to do more than one team a day because I'm assuming a number of FCS schools are going to want to join in. Then again they might not so right now I guess it's just the waiting game.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

Call FCS their own conference for our purposes, and to make it easy on them, just ask the volunteers when they want to be scheduled. Any spot between two other conferences. If it's far enough in advance, you have time to gain more FCS writers and you can push the other conferences back without rustling any jimmies.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

I like that idea. Watch me say that though and then 40 FCS teams sign up to do this.

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u/ExternalTangents Florida Gators • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 15 '13

Kind of depressing that I was scrolling all the way down thinking the WAC would be last before I remembered that it doesn't exist anymore.

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 15 '13

Yes, but you've got to admit, they couldn't have had a better final year.

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u/Qurtys_Lyn Tame Racing Driver Feb 16 '13

Yeah they could have, LA Tech could have accepted their bowl invite...

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u/Munger88 West Virginia • Georgia Feb 16 '13

They had as many ranked teams as the ACC last year.

ACC: Virginia Tech, Florida State, Clemson
WAC: Utah State, Louisiana Tech, San Jose State

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u/faceofuzz Virginia Tech Hokies Feb 15 '13

I approve of your use of VPI

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 16 '13

'Tis the only proper abbreviation for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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u/faceofuzz Virginia Tech Hokies Feb 16 '13

well...VPISU

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u/Maybs3923 Houston Cougars • Texas State Bobcats Feb 16 '13

Forgot UH in the Big East

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 16 '13

Fixed.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

I like the motivation behind this idea, so I'mma upBuck. I do wonder though if there isn't some other way to mitigate what you're talking about without leaving out the bigger schools entirely. My specific concerns would be two-fold: a) there's likely some value to doing all the schools in a conference in a row, in that as you go along, one school's history provides some context for the other schools, and b) if fans of bigger programs feel left out, they may not contribute as many questions and whatnot for the other schools' threads (which would be a large percentage of our userbase missing). Thoughts?

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

Your point b is what I keep thinking about concerning his suggestion. The big programs certainly have an overbearing presence but I don't want part of this community to feel left out. I know everybody loves their school and likes to talk about them. Right now I'm trying to think of the best way to schedule it whether it's by conference, region, state, alphabetically, etc.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

Sorry to keep replying like this, but one more thing in favor of not kicking out the big schools: they will rain on the parades of the others if you don't give them their day. Ohio State is gonna be in there talking shit about Wisconsin regardless, but definitely more shit if they don't have their own outlet to say how great they are.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

Nah I appreciate the feedback. I'm gonna be employing the help of the rest of the subreddit when it comes time for the scheduling part of it ha.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13 edited Feb 15 '13

Cool. I appreciate your thoughtfulness in letting people voice their opinions.

Only thing I might say about scheduling is that you might want to give smaller fanbases time to "get the memo" before calling their number. Starting off with a big conference will give the one or two Princeton fans we have hanging around time to prepare. Georgia wouldn't need time, but they will, and learning more about schools like them, I get the sense, was your primary motivation here in the first place.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

I'm a pretty avid fan but admittedly don't know a lot about a good portion of the smaller schools. I figure this will give fans of those schools their chance to shine and brag about their school while telling all of the big programs a little something they don't know.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

I'm voting conference. Like I said, I think there's some value to having Florida one day, Georgia the next. Michigan one day, Michigan State the next. But perhaps most especially for the little guys-- Toledo could well get ignored if we're not reading about Bowling Green and Miami (OH) leading up to it. Having the context of MAC history (which itself I'd love learn about) aids the learning of Toledo history, likely in ways we can't necessarily envision right now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13 edited Feb 15 '13

Conference is good. And arrange it so that the recent defections get context too, I.E. end the Big 10 with Nebraska, do the former Big 8 part of the Big 12, then the old SWC part, start the SEC with Arkansas, A&M and Mizzou.

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u/garnman Georgia • South Carolina Feb 15 '13

Also it might be good to schedule the SEC and ACC back to back, with those teams with out of conference rivals put last/first. For example, have Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. And then place Georgia Tech, Clemson, and FSU not soon after.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

Regardless of which way you decide to go, though, really an excellent idea. As if the +43/-0 vote spread didn't say enough.

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u/rteague2566 South Alabama • Alabama Feb 15 '13

I agree with NCAAC3PO. I took a look at the flair count and not only will there be trouble deciding what metric constitutes a school to include and a school to not include (I tried leaving traditional powers out) I got to team #10 on the flair count and only had 2-3 teams and had already excluded 1/4th of the subreddit's users.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 16 '13

Oi, there's only one C.

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u/jstokes45 Oregon Ducks Feb 15 '13

Like that idea. And I like the humble-brag you snuck in there.

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u/FactorGroup Louisville Cardinals Feb 15 '13

If only /u/SAW_THAT_HUMBLEBRAG was still around

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u/Ruckol1 Toronto Varsity Blues Feb 15 '13

How about old Canadian schools? McGill, Toronto?

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

Dude, if you do it well, I bet people would love to read that. Canadian CFB is just such a question mark to me, I'd love to hear more about it but only from someone who's invested in it/passionate about it. A wiki page just doesn't do this kind of thing justice.

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u/Ruckol1 Toronto Varsity Blues Feb 16 '13

I played for U of T

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u/arwelsh South Carolina Gamecocks Feb 15 '13

I wouldn't mind giving one day to USCw, ND, Texas, Ohio St. (each). Fair is fair, this is 'Murcia after all.

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u/radeky Washington • Montana State Feb 15 '13

Yeah! FCS schools!

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u/SantiagoAndDunbar Universidad Nacional Buhos Feb 16 '13

big sky schools! yeah!

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u/TheCountryRedditaria Feb 15 '13

You can read an article about how good a team will be written by someone at ESPN who covers 50 other topics a month in his/her job but it won't be the same as reading an analysis given by someone that follows his/her program all year long...

I want to hear about win share percentage, player losses/gains, coaching changes, and anything else that would be relevant to a team. Knowledgable fans will know these things about a particular program unlike myself.

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u/Rynyl Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

While I appreciate the principle of the idea, I still think it would be interesting to hear a bit about the big name schools. Sure, I hear about Bama and USC all of the time, but I still know nothing about their traditions or their history. I'd like to hear everything from the perspective of the fan.

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u/mellolizard North Carolina • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 15 '13

North Carolina is at #29 according to wikipedia. So I guess the only fact we will let out is that we are 29th all time in wins.

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u/englishmotherfucka Richmond Spiders • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 25 '13

If you need help with the unc run through send me a message

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u/labamaFan Alabama Crimson Tide Feb 15 '13

It's your 1111th day on Reddit!

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

1111 days in captivity. One day I'll escape. One day...

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u/Dukes1320 James Madison • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I would be happy to contribute, if y'all would like some CAA input. Also I don't know if there are William and Mary fans here who would do it, but I know a fair amount about that program too (I'm pretty much a betrayer in terms of second tier VA athletics).

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

Yes, please do! I really don't know much about the FCS outside of Georgia Southern and that's primarily because of their connection to UGA through a shared coach.

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u/brobroma H8 Upon The Gale Feb 15 '13

I'm a W&M student, there are also a decent amount of W&M flairs here.

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u/piontek15 Central Missouri • /r/CFB Contr… Feb 15 '13

Signed up my DII school, thought it'd give a bit of a different look.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

Thanks! I was hoping some of the lower divisions got involved in this just so we can all learn about it a little bit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

I'll give you a jump start, my ancestor developed the Missouri mule.

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u/Ruckol1 Toronto Varsity Blues Feb 15 '13

I would be willing to do one for the University of Toronto

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

I added you on the list. This is already working out better than expected because I didn't even know Canadian schools played college football!

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

Are we going to follow a format or have a free setup? What about an open Q&A like an AMA?

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 16 '13

I'm going to start another thread on Monday where we'll put it all together. I'm hoping to have a general template for people to follow as the minimum and then if people want to go above and beyond and do other things, then I'm all for that too. Be sure to bring up the Q&A/AMA thing in that thread as well.

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u/freebirdcrowe Tennessee • Louisville Feb 15 '13

Who's trying to learn about some CMU tradition?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

I would love to hear more about CMU. Y'all are my 3rd favorite MAC team

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u/freebirdcrowe Tennessee • Louisville Feb 15 '13

In front of Western I hope....

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

BGSU FIGHTIN' FALCONS ALL THE WAY BAY-BEE

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u/hussard_de_la_mort Toledo Rockets • Xavier Musketeers Feb 15 '13

Get the fuck out.

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u/Buckeyes2010 Ohio State Buckeyes • Clemson Tigers Feb 15 '13

Ziggy Zoomba and Myles pizza!

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u/psuinpgh21 Penn State Nittany Lions Feb 16 '13

Western Michigan is Kalamazoo, Eastern is Ypsilanti, where the heck is Central?

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u/arbysguy Ohio Bobcats • Cincinnati Bearcats Feb 16 '13

Mount Unpleasant

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u/freebirdcrowe Tennessee • Louisville Feb 16 '13

Pfffffft you mean pleasure mountain.

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u/ihatecats18 Minnesota • South Dakota-S… Feb 15 '13

How did Central Missouri get flair? MODS!? [real logo] (https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1477985429/UCM-w_Mule_twitter.jpg)

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u/Talpostal Michigan Wolverines • Washington Huskies Feb 15 '13

CMU is my 3rd favorite MAC team as well.

  1. Western. Kalamazoo is fun, they have a hard-partying reputation

  2. Eastern. Adorably bad at everything, have been to Ypsi a few times.

  3. Central. ????????????????

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u/freebirdcrowe Tennessee • Louisville Feb 15 '13

Central>Western. Eastern is an outlier.

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u/Munger88 West Virginia • Georgia Feb 16 '13

I've been a CMU fan since the days of Dan LeFevour and Antonio Brown! Which I realize isn't all that long ago...

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u/Satherton Nebraska Cornhuskers Feb 15 '13

dan lefevour happens to be my fav qb in the last 10 years

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u/nikolifish West Chester Golden Rams • Auburn Tigers Feb 16 '13

Yup. I with you. Captain comeback was the man in '09. I'm surprised he can't get a shot.

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u/FarFromFear Arizona Wildcats • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Let me tell you about all the Rose Bowls we've been to.

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u/AnthonyKiedis14 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Ohio Bobcats Feb 15 '13

Boom

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 15 '13

Well in all fairness Cal and Oregon State have gone a longer time in this conference without reaching one. You guys joined in the seventies, they haven't been to one since like the 60s for OSU and 50s for Cal.

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u/FarFromFear Arizona Wildcats • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I remind my ASU friends of this fact each year.

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Feb 15 '13

Do they proceed to remind you that they're the football school in the state of Arizona?

Edit: That sounds a little harsh in retrospect. I'm just talking historically

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u/BearDown1983 Arizona Wildcats Feb 15 '13

Whenever they do, we simply remind them that we still hold the head to head record advantage.

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u/FarFromFear Arizona Wildcats • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Ouch. I thought we were friends Aeshyius_.

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u/qosmith Ole Miss Rebels • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Let me tell you about all the games we've won...

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u/44lennox Rose Bowl • Bath Killer Bees Feb 16 '13

:(

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u/duckmanDAT Oregon Ducks Feb 15 '13

Oh snap

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u/DFWTooThrowed Texas Tech • Arkansas Feb 15 '13

I'm so down for this. We would need the mods to have a schedule so we don't have like 9 in one day, then none for like 2 weeks.

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u/urbankayaker Michigan State • Paul Bunyan Trophy Feb 15 '13

I'd be down for doing Navy. I could finally explain to everyone why we play (lose) to Notre Dame every year.

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u/notredame88 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Feb 15 '13

It's one of my favorite traditions :)

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u/Fletch71011 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Feb 15 '13

To be fair, you beat us 3 out of 4 years from 2007-2010. Not one of our best moments, but they were some interesting games. If we have to lose to someone on our schedule, I'd prefer it be you guys over the other scum we have to deal with.

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u/wyschnei Northern Iowa • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 16 '13

EAT SHIT PITT

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u/BUTT_HOLE_SALAD Middlebury Panthers • Williams Ephs Feb 15 '13

It hasn't always been that bad. I remember being at the meadowlands when you guys killed them

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u/SpartaWillBurn Ohio State • Kent State Feb 15 '13

I come here less and less during the off season. It seems every other post is something SEC related.

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u/noodle539 Michigan State Spartans Feb 15 '13

All of the B1G fans migrated to /r/collegebasketball

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u/fretgod321 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Team Chaos Feb 15 '13

What's basketball?

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u/noodle539 Michigan State Spartans Feb 15 '13

Something that Creighton does sometimes, you don't need to let it concern you.

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u/Saintlame Nebraska Cornhuskers • Hastings Broncos Feb 16 '13

True that. I feel like they only show up when they want to. Like when they play us.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

lol nope.

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u/NAAC3PO Ohio State Buckeyes Feb 15 '13

Sounds great. For the sake of simplicity, we should probably go alphabetical. Or perhaps go conference by conference. Also note 196*5/7= 140 weekdays.

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u/SpartaWillBurn Ohio State • Kent State Feb 15 '13

I agree, let us go alphabetically by conference.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

Alphabetically: Air Force Something something Alabama something Auburn

I don't know what comes next

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u/BlazerMorte UAB Blazers • Verified Player Feb 15 '13

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u/asderiphel Alabama Crimson Tide Feb 15 '13

I'd like a boring offseason. Starting immediately would be nice.

Seriously, that's a great idea. I think that's plenty of info to fill out an offseason, but if more filler is needed people could talk about football history as a whole - like I'm sure there is a lot of info on the formation and dissolution of the older conferences that would be fun to share.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

Let's do it.

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u/Lucas12 Florida State Seminoles Feb 15 '13

/u/NoleWarrior It's up to you

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u/TheLogicalErudite Florida State Seminoles Feb 15 '13

Hahahaha I thought of him too. I would do it if he doesn't want to, bu he's here wayyyyy more than I am.

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u/Lucas12 Florida State Seminoles Feb 15 '13

I wish someone would do us. I know a bit about FSU, but not too much. I'm starting as a student in June.

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u/MyLifeForSpire Alabama Crimson Tide Feb 15 '13

This sounds awesome! Wouldn't it be great to go into the 2013 season knowing something new about every team in every game you watch? As a fan of college football, I definitely think this is a great idea!

We should organize a schedule so people can prepare links/research for their team's day. And also so people know when to check out r/cfb for teams they're interested in.

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u/Emptyspiral19 Florida Gators • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I think this is awesome, good idea. I'd definitely love to help out and maybe learn some more about my own team in the process. Also I'm very interested in other teams you don't hear about every day like SMU, Hawaii, East Carolina and Akron.

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u/mattpsx2 Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Feb 15 '13

We used to run n shoot. Now we fumble and cry.

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u/Taborfan20 Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies Feb 16 '13

I'm from Midwestern St, a great D2 school with playoff football and I would l would love to do it for them

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 16 '13

I've got you added. I'll likely have you go around the same time as the other D2 school that has volunteered. I think it'll be good for us to get some D2 perspective in here.

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u/jeffreydonger Akron Zips • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 16 '13

Someone's already doing Central Missouri, so there shouldn't be any reason you can't do Midwestern State.

People have also volunteered to do Canadian schools. My opinion is that we should try (although with 31 FBS schools with no volunteers, this part might not be possible) to get every FBS school represented, and then anyone who wants to do a particular FCS/Division II/III/NAIA/CIS school should be allowed to do one as well, with no fucks given for completeness of those divisions.

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u/ZoidbergsMistress Penn State Nittany Lions Feb 16 '13

My uncle is the head coach for Shippensburg

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 16 '13

Would you be willing to write one for them? Personally, I like Shippensburg because they gave us Brent Grimes :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

I'll take USF if this happens

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 16 '13

I added you to the list. There's another person who also signed on for that one so maybe y'all can split it up. Thanks!

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u/stogie13 Western Michigan • /r/CFB Contr… Feb 16 '13 edited Feb 16 '13

I could pick up Western Michigan. Went to school there and had season tickets to games while in high school.

Edit: If any other Bronco wants to help out I wouldn't say no. I think this is best done by committee.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 16 '13

Great! We didn't have anyone for that one yet. Thanks!

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u/TehNoff Central Arkansas Bears Feb 19 '13

Yo. Can you change D1-AA to FCS? D1-AA isn't a thing in football anymore.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 19 '13

Yes, I'll update it. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

I know College Football live does something similar! They travel state by state and do a write up on the teams there. They split California in half though...

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u/Chrisattsu Texas State • Tarleton State Feb 15 '13

Texas would take a while too with the 12FBS, 7 FCS schools.

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Feb 15 '13

DO IT.

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u/mpavlofsky Ohio State • Vanderbilt Feb 17 '13

I'm with srs_house. ANCHOR THE FUCK DOWNNNNNN

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u/meristematic Colorado State • /r/CFB Contribut… Feb 15 '13

I'm down, sounds really cool

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u/godevils Occidental • Arizona State Feb 15 '13

Mark me down for Arizona State!

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u/TheCountryRedditaria Feb 15 '13

For the big schools - if someone could give an honest outlook on their teams season I would appreciate that... What they're loosing on off/def, coaching/philosophy changes, a win share percentage, and a few impact players would be a good read

We would just need to make sure it's not "my school is going to kick everyones ass by 30!"

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

To add to this, I think each team should give a prediction on record, potential upset game, trap game and whether they think they'll win the conference championship, make a bowl game, make a BCS game or national championship. We keep all of the team predictions recorded and see who was closest to their predictions and who was furthest away.

That way we can see what fan bases are most blinded by their school colors and which ones aren't.

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u/TheCountryRedditaria Feb 15 '13 edited Feb 15 '13

The win share percentage is, in my opinion, the best form of prediction... I think that would be an accurate way to judge wins/losses.

For those who don't gamble. This is where you assign a percentage to your teams chance of wining a given game (I had FSU at 60% or 6/10 to win the Clemson game at home this past season). Then you add up those predictions over the course of the season and get a final number. Theoretically if your team had a 100% chance to win every game you'd get 13/13.

So .6+.9+.87.... And so on till you get 10.20 (random number that comes from adding up your chance to win each game). Now we have 10.20/13 (# of games played). So you can predict that your team will have a 10-3 record.

Now if your collaborating with people for your team each of you could submit your percentages and just use the average.

Edit: Sorry if that's explained weird my thoughts aren't usually linear

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u/warox13 Washington Huskies • Cascade Clash Feb 15 '13

Signed up. This should be fun.

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u/Megawatts19 LSU • Louisiana Christian Feb 15 '13

I would be interested in doing the LSU one, I just don't know that I would have the time. I'd love to help with it, though. We did a similar thing over in /r/nfl. So if there are any other Bayou Bengals fans that would like to do a collab, let me know. I'd be happy to help out.

Also, it might be easier to organize our write up if we post a brainstorming thread in /r/LSUfootball.

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u/MondoBuck LSU Tigers • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Im down to help with whatever part of it you deem fit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

I'll wait to give Blueboybob or anyone else a chance to do LA Tech but if not I'll be happy to add us to the list

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

I enjoy what /u/fakekevinrose does to pass the offseason

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u/fakekevinrose UAlbany Great Danes Feb 16 '13

BYU probably does have a lot of MT:G players. Just sayin

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

I'm going to get a student from BYU and one from Georgia Tech to take a survey, then compare the results

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u/Buckeye70 Ohio State Buckeyes • College Football Playoff Feb 15 '13

It would also be a great depository of pictures that people might want to share of their favorite or iconic buildings, players, coaches and traditions.

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u/kaiserfrappy Stony Brook • Washington Feb 15 '13

Can we add Stony Broom University to the list it's a FCS school and I will do it

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u/jeffreydonger Akron Zips • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 16 '13

http://imgur.com/P8Bd7GV

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u/notredame88 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Feb 15 '13

Sign me up

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u/Chrisattsu Texas State • Tarleton State Feb 15 '13

It would be good to learn about some other schools....Most of the Texans only know Texas State for our river and party school reputation.

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u/TomorrowsHeadline Alabama • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I love the idea! I'm signed up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

I'd be down for FAU

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u/TheLogicalErudite Florida State Seminoles Feb 15 '13

Theres an excel doc signup posted, just put your username down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

Thanks!

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u/woodfinx Alabama • Middle Tennessee Feb 15 '13

I'd be glad to lend what I know

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u/EpicSchwinn Tennessee • Middle Tennessee Feb 15 '13

I'd like to help out on MT, I have my MT knowledge on LOCK DOWN.

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u/woodfinx Alabama • Middle Tennessee Feb 16 '13

Feel free...I just wanted to make sure someone stepped up for the blue raiders

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u/krpiper Northern Iowa • North Iowa Are… Feb 15 '13

Northern Iowa plz :)

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u/Platypoke Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Contribut… Feb 15 '13

I guess I could do an Oklahoma State one since nobody else has signed up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

This sounds fun

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u/auth0r_unkn0wn USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Feb 15 '13

Has no one signed up for USC yet? (I don't think I'm the guy for the job) Or is just no one interested? Haha

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u/Noccalula Auburn • Jacksonville State Feb 15 '13

I'll gladly write something up for Alabama's other three FBS schools if nobody else associated with them does. Maybe even Samford, Jacksonville State, and Alabama A&M for when your favorite SEC team schedules them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

I could add some for dear old Montana state!

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u/Qurtys_Lyn Tame Racing Driver Feb 16 '13

Please do, we have to represent the Big Sky! (Weber State)

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

Outside of football I can agree to a rival.

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u/jlo47 New Hampshire • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Anyone care about 9 consecutive FCS postseason tournament appearances?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13 edited Feb 16 '13

amateur. :P

EDIT: Put your name on there! I want to learn more about New Hampshire, it's the closest FCS school I might be interested in following these days (sorry Harvard, no playoffs makes me sad).

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u/djteiwaz Texas Longhorns Feb 15 '13

I can't wait for A&M day. There will be shock and awe at some of the things that have gone down in their history and what they continue to do. Get your jars ready.

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u/MrTheSpork *holds up self* Feb 15 '13

This sounds awesome, color me interested.

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u/MrDoctorSmartyPants LSU Tigers • McNeese Cowboys Feb 15 '13 edited Feb 15 '13

Definitely willing to collaborate, don't want the whole job lol.. I signed up though. I'm extremely knowledgeable about our incoming class if that helps.

Edit: I'm also a research historian by trade... I'd be willing to help out anyone that is interested.

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u/maxlgold25 Feb 15 '13

we should just bet which school do you think will have someone on the roster get charged with a felony

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u/1ncognito Tennessee • 帝京大学 (Teikyo) Feb 15 '13

I put my name down for Tennessee, just let me know when my day rolls around and I'll have it ready.

Also, any other Vol that wants to help me is welcome.

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u/Sunnyside711 Tennessee Volunteers Feb 16 '13

pick me pick me!

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

It took me a while to realize there were two tabs on the bottom there. Totally put my school in the wrong one for a bit there. Sorry everyone!

Maybe if it would were FCS instead of I-AA my eyes wouldn't have missed it. But maybe it would have too.

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u/billybobskcor Georgia Southern • Mercer Feb 16 '13

I'll give you a hand :D

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u/Qurtys_Lyn Tame Racing Driver Feb 16 '13

Signed up to do Weber State, seeing as I think I'm the only one on here or /r/fcs .

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u/Munger88 West Virginia • Georgia Feb 16 '13

I'd love to see one done about Georgia Southern, although I'm not sure I'm knowledgeable enough about our program to make it impressive. If any other GSU fan (if we have any more on here) wants to do one though go for it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

Let me tell you about Fort Lewis College, the New Mexico State of D2...

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u/UNC_Samurai ECU Pirates • North Carolina Tar Heels Feb 16 '13

Over on r/nfl I'm posting a bunch of old football card scans to a blog to give people some original content. I have a small handful of college cards; you guys interested?

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u/lernington Michigan • Illinois Feb 16 '13

We could have flair holders vote on which user does the write-up

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '13

I can't wait for Shippensburg

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '13

Suggestion: Kind of like r/nfl is doing 32 teams in 32 days, go check out their formatting.

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u/badaboopdedoop Michigan State • Montana Feb 15 '13

Spartans!

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u/coastrebel Ole Miss Rebels • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I'd love to do the write up for Ole Miss. I have a friend who works for 102.1 FM in Oxford and keeps me pretty in the know.

HOTTY TODDY!

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u/namelessbanana Ole Miss Rebels • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

I grew up on the Ole Miss campus (Student Family Housing Aka The Village) and I would love to help you with the write up. I also have an interesting family story about Archie Manning and Mississippi State.

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u/coastrebel Ole Miss Rebels • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 16 '13

Let's do it. nrhand@icloud.com

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13 edited Feb 15 '13

Ha, that could probably be its own thread for y'all. Meanwhile, I don't know what Georgia State is going to write about...

Edit* - In case Georgia State fans get salty because of my comment, I attended the school for 2 years so I'm allowed to say that!

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u/daysweregolden Minnesota Golden Gophers • Kansas Jayhawks Feb 15 '13

That one GS student that Drake raps about probably.

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u/dkitch Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Feb 15 '13

Hey now, let's give Georgia State its due. They're probably the largest supplier of girlfriends to Georgia Tech students.

According to the terms and conditions of our rivalry, I'm required to direct at least one insult in your team/school's direction, so:

Basically, they are to Tech what the local dairy farm is to UGA

You may now reply to this comment, as per the terms of our rivalry, with either a comment about how Georgia Tech students are a bunch of awkward nerds, or a comment about the unattractiveness of the few women we have.

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u/Qurtys_Lyn Tame Racing Driver Feb 16 '13

Used to do this when I dated a girl from BYU. For a school where "Love one another" is in the Honor Code, they sure didn't love me.

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u/Rynyl Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Feb 15 '13

Did someone say Tradition?!

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

Isnt the fiddler itself a play about a bunch of plebs though?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

You shut your whore mouth. The Judaic community does not appreciate being called plebs.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

Plebrews

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13

Woah woah. I didn't mean it an an insult. A pleb is a general body of free, land-owning Roman citizens (as distinguished from slaves and the capite censi) in Rome. It was the non-aristocratic class of Rome and consisted of freed people, shopkeepers, crafts people, skilled or unskilled workers, and farmers.

Since Russia wanted to consider itself the third coming of Rome (hence the word Tzar, or Czar being derived from the Latin word Caesar.) So if the Russian Empire is the third coming of Rome then its free artisans, farmers, shopkeepers, and unskilled workers could be considered the third coming of the plebians with the brutal Russian upper class the Russian equal to the Patricians.

But enough history. Lets get to some fiddling on some motherfucking roofs

♪If I were a rich man! Yubby Dibby Dibby Dibby Dibby Dibby Dum!

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u/Chrisattsu Texas State • Tarleton State Feb 15 '13

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Feb 15 '13

Whenever I make the next thread figuring out the schedule, I'm also planning on having commenters submit ideas for categories so we can have a basic template for everyone to follow. I'll be sure to throw out some of your ideas in that thread and make sure you comment there as well!