OT: The Other Sports Thread Part X

[PredsV82]

Kentucky failed to put Iowa away when they had the chance in the first half and now they are getting manhandled...

 

[Armourboy]

My Hogs did their part.

 

[PredsV82]

Kentucky's defense is decimated. Currently playing two guys who already entered the transfer portal.

Not scoring TDs from inside the 10 twice in the first half is gonna be their downfall

 

[PredsV82]

Ho Lee Shit.

Kentucky football has completely flipped their historical script. No way any UK team of the past wins that game.

 

[Armourboy]

Arkansas with 353 yds rushing against Penn St.

 

[triggrman]

My Hogs did their part.

They did and Trey had 2 catches! Woohoo

 

[Armourboy]

They did and Trey had 2 catches! Woohoo

Always forget there is a guy from murfreesboro on the team. Pretty rare to see middle Tennessee guys there.

 

[PredsV82]

Holy crap what was the O/U for the Rose bowl?

 

[Predsanddead24]

Damn Corral with a serious injury in the Sugar Bowl. That’s the exact reason so many guys opt out nowadays.

 

[PredsV82]

Damn Corral with a serious injury in the Sugar Bowl. That’s the exact reason so many guys opt out nowadays.

Have they said for sure what the injury is? I know it didnt look good.

 

[Armourboy]

Have they said for sure what the injury is? I know it didnt look good.

Supposedly according to Kiffin the x-rays came back negative but it was apparently his ankle area.

 

[LCPreds]

Lots of activity today regarding opt outs and I assume the Corral injury is the trigger. College football has been big money for everyone but the players for a long time so I get it. If you're a 1st rounder willing to play in a non-championship bowl game then I can respect that. I can also respect why you might not want to take that risk.

Maybe they should just start profit sharing with the players, especially on the bowl side of things. The whole sanctity of college football crap has finally been broken so why continue with the charade (unless you're in on the profit side already of course).

 

[Armourboy]

If I was a player guaranteed to be drafted there would be no way in heck I would be playing. Now if I was looking at borderline or not being drafted I would.

This isn't the 80's where college players were making so much under the table some of them were rumored to be taking pay cuts to go to the NFL.

 

[LCPreds]

This cracked me up.

 

[adsfan]

The Big10 went 6-4, the SEC 5-6. The SEC will win the championship again and have a 6-7 bowl record even with both teams in the final. The Big 12 is 4-2. The American is 3-1.

 

[LCPreds]

The Big10 went 6-4, the SEC 5-6. The SEC will win the championship again and have a 6-7 bowl record even with both teams in the final. The Big 12 is 4-2. The American is 3-1.

Conference bowl records are interesting as they can be used as a metric but don't always really tell a great story. One might think the Big 10 is better than the SEC simply based on the bowl record. With that said we also know that Georgia beat Michigan, Kentucky beat Iowa, and Arkansas beat Penn State. Purdue did beat Tennessee in OT.

What is really interesting is that the SEC was bad (winless) in the earlier bowl games but very good starting December 30th. 5-2 if my count is accurate, though that Ole Miss loss should definitely come with a huge * considering the Corral injury.

Considering the games before December 30th would be an interesting thing to examine as well. I'm guessing a lot of those SEC teams were playing against better teams. I mean would it really shock anyone to learn that Florida lost to UCF? That Houston beat Auburn?

 

[Armourboy]

Basically once the better SEC teams started playing we started getting wins. Arkansas end up going 9-4 and the only loss of those I feel was kind of bad was to Auburn. The other three were Alabama, Georgia and Ole Miss which was a one point game where we decided to go for 2 to end it rather than going to OT.

After years of just being bad, you can't really complain about the job Sam Pitman has done at Arkansas.

 

[LCPreds]

Well this day couldn't have gone better for a Titans fan.

Titans win.
KC loses.

All they have to do is beat Houston to lock up the 1 seed and a bye week. It's the kind of game the Titans have struggled with all season long.

 

[Armourboy]

Cincy takes out Kansas City. Just gotta win out and we have the #1 seed tied up.

 

[Armourboy]

Well this day couldn't have gone better for a Titans fan.

Titans win.
KC loses.

All they have to do is beat Houston to lock up the 1 seed and a bye week. It's the kind of game the Titans have struggled with all season long.

I think the difference is that one will mean everything so those guys will be up and ready to go. Now whether they execute is a different matter.

 

[Adz]

Supposedly according to Kiffin the x-rays came back negative but it was apparently his ankle area.

Don't believe him.

 

[LCPreds]

I think the difference is that one will mean everything so those guys will be up and ready to go. Now whether they execute is a different matter.

Yeah and to be fair I'm pretty sure in all of those other losses, other than the 1st one, the roster was severely depleted in some way. The Titans basically have everyone back now other than Henry. If they can lock up the bye he'll definitely be back for divisional round. Julio was out today due to Covid so barring any injuries that occurred today, and whatever might occur next week, this will be the healthiest the Titans have been since that crazy midseason stretch of big wins they had.

 

[Legionnaire11]

The Titans and Predators are making it really fun to be a Nashville sports fan this season!

 

[Armourboy]

Gotta wonder if Antonio Brown will even have a job come tomorrow morning. Dude just can't get right and stay that way.

 

[jumb0]

Well, very happy to be wrong on my KC prediction. Let’s take care of business next week and lock up that #1 seed. Give Henry and extra week to rest and get him fresh and ready to roll in the playoffs.

@Armourboy AB is done. Arians already said he’s gone. He won’t play in the NFL again.