11/14/16 The Sun Belt Ted! (Hint: it was App State)

Hah! You thought I was done but turns out I just had a BYE week… and apparently so did Michigan’s offense, but we’ll get to that.  Bad news guys.. It looks like we’re at option 1.  The good news is that not only is the Big Ten bad at football, but so is every other team except for Alabama.  The bad news is that once again the team with the highest payroll is going to steamroll everyone on their way to the championship…  The NCAA should really have a salary cap to make things more even.

So MSU beat Rutgers.  Another team that is thankful that the great treaty between Rutgers and Ohio State fell through.. I know I said the treaty was broken by a treacherous Ohio State, but it turns out that both teams were too illiterate to sign it so it was never valid in the first place.  For those of you who don’t know, I’m in another one of these leagues.  Everyone left picked MSU this week, so this game either cost me $68 or made me significantly more, depending on how my picks do the rest of the season.  The rest of the Big Ten did what they are supposed to.  The bad (based on my theory…) teams beat the worse teams.  Penn State had a last second scoop and score against TeamChaos that makes that game look less terrifying.  Now some of you may say “But Doug, this is college football.  Anything can happen.  They’re 18-22 year old kids that can have one off week.  You can’t put too much on one game.”  That’s not how this works. (It’s totally how this works.)  “The Big Ten has 5 ranked teams, 4 in the top 10 and 2 in the top 5.  They’re actually really good this year.”  One of those teams is Penn State.  One of those teams lost to Penn State.  Western Michigan is ranked 14.  Troy is ranked 25.  Troy… You don’t even know what conference they’re in do you?  Of course not.. Because it’s the Sun Belt conference… If someone asked you “Name as many college football conferences as you can” you know what conference you wouldn’t remember?  How bout if someone asked you “Name as many teams in the Sun Belt Conference as you can” you know how many you’d get?  One if you’re a Michigan fan.  And One if your a Spartan fan because you’re the reason that the Michigan fan can’t forget that One.  (Hint: it’s not Troy).  SO I get to be all Nancy Negative as soon as things start to go poorly.. Then if things work out I get to make fun of the “elite” SEC because they’re even worse than the Big Ten.  (Because the SEC really has one NFL team, a few decent programs and a bunch of garbage.  And the BigTen is actually pretty good)
In other knews, 2 3 and 4 all lost this week as well as several other ranked schools so the playoff picture hasn’t changed too much… same 5-8 teams are fighting for 4 spots.
Go Blue!

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