{"id":165,"date":"2016-10-24T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-11-28T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:52:23","slug":"10-24-16-chicken-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/24\/10-24-16-chicken-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/24\/16 &#8211; Chicken Dinner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a winner!\u00a0 Congratulations to Evan Peters for winning this years\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Big<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Ten<\/span>\u00a0Elimination League!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a wonderful story really.\u00a0 Two years ago Evan was forced to split a Championship (probably after some Scott Frost Lobbying).\u00a0 This year he left no doubt by becoming the first solo champion not determined by tie breakers.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On a sadder note: \u00a0Since all the rest of you are terrible at this game this will unfortunately be the last week of Doug&#8217;s Amazingly Awesome College Football Summary\u2122.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what we learned this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>1. Green is not a lucky color for Football this year. \u00a0(ND, MSU, Oregon, Baylor&#8230; ok that one is less about luck and more about being terrible people)<\/div>\n<div>2. The Coaching Carousel will be interesting this off-season&#8230; Maybe Brian Kelly and Les Miles switch places and continue to suck?\u00a0 Brian Kelly&#8217;s skin tone does go better with that LSU purple&#8230;\u00a0 Maybe Brady Hoke returns to the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Big<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Ten<\/span>\u00a0as Purdue&#8217;s next head coach?<\/div>\n<div>3. Boogers and\/or fingernails are delicious<\/div>\n<div>4. Nobody who was supposed to be good at football is good at football (except probably Alabama).\u00a0 I&#8217;m still convinced last years Bama, Clemson, Oklahoma, Michigan State, Stanford and Ohio State would blow up\u00a0<b>pretty much<\/b>\u00a0any team this year (I&#8217;m not gonna &#8220;chip shot&#8221; (that&#8217;s a joke for our champion) anyone by naming names&#8230;)&lt;&#8211; Nested parenthesis points<\/div>\n<div>5. TeamChaos is now TeamIndiana&#8217;<wbr \/>sDefenseIsBetterThanOffenseWHA<wbr \/>AAT?<\/div>\n<div>6. Ruth&#8217;s Chris serves milk<\/div>\n<div>7. Urban Meyer is on fake heart condition watch after losing to Penn State.\u00a0 Maybe if they hadn&#8217;t broken that &#8220;Powerful Alliance&#8221; with Rutgers they could have won the&#8230; Just kidding.\u00a0 Rutgers sucks<\/div>\n<div>8. Rutgers sucks<\/div>\n<div>9. The\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Big<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Ten<\/span>\u00a0West is actually&#8230; Decent? Solid? Good?<\/div>\n<div>10. Go Blue!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks everyone for playing!\u00a0 See you all in August.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a winner!\u00a0 Congratulations to Evan Peters for winning this years\u00a0Big\u00a0Ten\u00a0Elimination League!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a wonderful story really.\u00a0 Two years ago Evan was forced to split a Championship (probably after some Scott Frost Lobbying).\u00a0 This year he left no doubt by becoming the first solo champion not determined by tie breakers. On a sadder note: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/24\/10-24-16-chicken-dinner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10\/24\/16 &#8211; Chicken Dinner!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigtenelimination.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}