Buying and Selling: Week Four – We Won’t Back Down Edition

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Here we go again:

Buying – The Portal Can Make Teams

Miami, Missouri, Vanderbilt…you name it, there’s a team out there benefitting from portlaneditions on a wholesale level. And they are thriving. Granted, those teams have some seniors contributing, but the portal works in mysterious ways. To note: a portal running back scored the only touchdowns in two contests with Texas last year, and our current leading wide receiver is a portal pickup. I wished Sam Pittman was in the portal. I keed. No I don’t.

Selling – Transfers are Worse Off than Where They Came From

Yes, you could argue that Carson Beck didn’t have a great game against Florida. To be fair, I don’t think Cristobal thought he’d need Beck to do much to beat them, either. Beck is just fine.

Knowing that Florida and Lagway are ass and then deciding to spare you possible first round quarterback to just run down their throats is definitely an ethos. Missouri won and Damon Wilson accounted for a half sack but was mentioned more than once on Saturday.

We’ve entered the business world of college football, and it seems to work for others. You can’t be mad, especially if you consider it’s not all about clout and status but could be about giving your family something that’s not guaranteed with the crap shoot that is the NFL and the combine. Just ask Coach Amazon Prime. They’re fine, but if they weren’t, well.

I blame the Cavinder chick.

Buying: Game Results Still Matter, But the SEC Still Means More

Tech beat Clemson. Clemson is now 1-3, getting ass whipped by Syracuse this past weekend. Maybe Tech’s, and LSU’s, wins against the “transfered from high school” Swinney’s doesn’t seem to be that great now does it? Indiana beat the hell out of Illinois (sorry to our Illini fan) but does that make Indiana a CFP 12 team? Possibly. Possibly Illinois at #9 was vastly overrated. Was it because they beat an SEC team in a bowl game to conclude the 2024 season? Absolutely.

Illinois outscored their first three opponents 135-22. Said opponents? Western Illinois, Duke, and Western Michigan. But they were #9. Why? Who the hell knows, but I’m guessing it was because they beat South Carolina – last year.

For all the folks who say the SEC is overrated, they certainly put a lot of stock in beating the SEC. Indiana appreciates your SEC bias, folks. They beat Illinois 63-10. Meanwhile, a Buckeye win against Texas looks good on the FPI, but there are questions about Arch Manning’s acumen as a quarterback. Speaking of…

Selling: Texas – and Arch – are back

Seriously, why do Sankey even continue to allow these assholes in the conference?

It was Sam Houston State. Jesus. But the Texas contingent are acting as though the win is a signal that the Longhorns are back in championship form.

I’m going to call it. Texas is the worst and most delusional fanbase out there. I won’t say in the SEC, because I still can’t accept that for the rest of us.

Buying – Send Dawgs Anywhere But to the Falcons

What’s worse than being the worst team in the league? Getting shutout by them, 30-0. Good God.

The only similarity we have with the Falcons is red and black, and that’s it. Hell, sell the team to someone else. Georgia might as well sell every professional team they have at this point.

Selling – Attempting Bet on College Football

Kudos to you guys who are doing well in the Fabris Pool. For the life of me, I can’t get a solid line on any college football game anymore. If this is parity, then I’d imagine folks who bet on sports for a profession are having to do some PhD level analysis to be successful nowadays.

Buying – The Regular Season Means Less

Thinking about this weekend, I wondered if the Alabama game was a make or break for the Bulldogs. To be fair, we lost last year and again in Oxford and we still won the SEC and a bye in the CFP. As much as I hate to admit it, a team can afford a loss (remember, make it a good loss) and can still be fine. Ohio State had one of the worst and won the national championship. Indiana got in without a win against a team with a viable pulse.

While it definitely diminishes the urgency and importance of each game, it also means the game has changed, and should Alabama continue the curse this weekend, it’ll be a “learning experience” and the Dawgs will have to find a way to move forward. If we win, that’s awesome and it may well spell the end of Alabama’s hopes, but the committee and polls can still see that Bama lost to two top ten teams, and could sneak in if they can somehow run the table…but they have Vandy left on their schedule.

Let that sink in for a second.

15 thoughts on “Buying and Selling: Week Four – We Won’t Back Down Edition”

  1. Hmm, Arkansas 2-2 going into the conference schedule? Pig fans longing for the return of warm hearted Bobby Petrino? Sam Pittman/Peter Principle? He’s 63. Maybe he’d be happy with a nice stable assistant coach position. Outplacement assistance (free moving van) to Stacy Searels?

    Nah. Never happen. Sigh.

  2. I wonder what Texas’ record would be if they had Florida’s schedule. If there is any justice, and that is a heavy lift in CFB, they will reap the whirlwind next year when the schedule flips.

  3. The Aggies were right. We were warned not to let Texas in. I blame Sankey not sure how it’s Bobo’s fault too. I’m sure others will fill in that blank.

    For years we wanted the Falcons to draft Georgia players. As long as Arthur Blank owns them please don’t.

    Why does first Texas and now UO get the officials help betting legacy SEC teams.

    The league office did OU no scheduling favors. Texas I’m looking forward to your first real SEC schedule.

    Don’t see how Napier survives this season. The recent hot flavor of the week on their wanted future coach list is Fran Brown. I hope that doesn’t happen.

    In classic b10 beat writer form the SEC is weak because they beat each other. The mighty b10 top teams crush opponents. Yeah on their Charmin soft intentional scheduling. Hate is a strong word. It’s not enough to describe my feelings for the b10 and flag wavers.

    Auburn 😂🤣😂another creative way to let another one slip away.

  5. In hindsight, we dodged a bullet with Arch not coming to UGA, and even more so, dodged a Japanese bullet train with “super douche” Dylan Raiola choosing Nebraska instead.

  6. Not sure why Miami’s OC didn’t open Beck up to go downfield against fu, but beat FSU this week and the rest of their season is a cakewalk. He’s completing 73+% of his passes. Biggest crowds I’ve seen at Miami games in a long time. If they let Beck pad his stats, like the school record 15 straight completions against Bethune Cookman, he’ll be a top contender for the Heisman too. I wouldn’t call it a steal… yet. But so far, Miami signing Beck is looking like a pretty solid deal.

    Buy the way, Damon Wilson is 2nd in the sec with 3.5 sacks. Not a bad deal at all for Mizzou. I’d go so far as to consider him a 1st rounder next year.

  8. Coaches already had an open portal so now players do too with about the same level of success…some hits, a lot of misses.

    What’s really irritating about Texass is how fair weather their fans are. Pre-season it’s always “We’re Back!” Then the problems get exposed and by the time they lose the RRR the fans are boasting about women’s volleyball, basketball, baseball, etc. as if they don’t even play the last few games. They are not an SEC team, no shared heritage and aren’t even trying to be like the rest of us. # FTMF

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