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Georgia Tech is not a good team. And they didn't have Alvarado the last couple of games. We've got a long ways to go and it's got to start with the fundamentals. Gave them way too many blocked shots. Couldn't make a free throw. And if you're going to live and die by the three, you better lock down on defense. That said, let's just see where the next game takes us. Learn from it, then move on to the next. Would be great to see this team gelling by the end of the season, even if it doesn't result in the win column. Going to need some solid camaraderie going into next season.

Looks like USC couldn't get Urban Meyer. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2613288001

Game #07 neut. South Florida Results (74-67 W) Picked NU: 27 (61%) Average NU Score: 73.8 Average Opp Score: 72.5 Average HHCC Score: 20.4 Median HHCC Score: 19.5 Mode HHCC Score: 43 1 AuroranHusker -27 2 jimmykc -27 3 Vinny -27 4 brfrad -1 5 emwilliams 1 6 Huskerpapa 1 7 thrasher31 1 8 huskers29 4 9 Silverbacked1 4 10 pmd9 9 11 throwback 9 12 demone 10 13 hskr4life 10 14 hhcmatt 12 15 Red Don 12 16 twinswingohuskers 14 17 LNKtrnsplnt 15 18 Nebrasketball1979 15 19 HuskerFever 18 20 Neon Budreau 18 21 basketballjones 19 22 BjoeHusker 19 23 75unlgrad 20 24 aphilso1 20 25 Handy Johnson 24 26 nuhusker7 24 27 1sdpad2 29 28 Crush78 30 29 MichHusker 31 30 Buglem 32 31 UnicamMan 32 32 bb33ch 35 33 Jurgey 36 34 Noah121 36 35 REDZONEDAN 36 36 Cazzie22 37 37 TheGov21 39 38 KenPom 40 39 Bugeaters1 43 40 colhusker 43 41 Mr. Red 43 42 TheNovice 43 43 ConkintheCorner 46 44 tcp 70

Game #06 neut. George Mason Results (66-85 L) Picked NU: 39 (74%) Average NU Score: 75.7 Average Opp Score: 72.5 Average HHCC Score: 62.5 Median HHCC Score: 69.0 Mode HHCC Score: 73 1 1sdpad2 5 2 Cazzie22 36 3 UnicamMan 36 4 BjoeHusker 39 5 BLB115 39 6 REDZONEDAN 39 7 bigred4 42 8 cjbowbros 42 9 northwillriseagain 42 10 aphilso1 44 11 tcp 45 12 Buglem 48 13 ConkintheCorner 48 14 Crush78 48 15 NWUhusker 65 16 Silverbacked1 65 17 thrasher31 65 18 HuskerFever 66 19 Vinny 66 20 basketballjones 67 21 hskr4life 67 22 pmd9 68 23 Red Don 68 24 Bugeaters1 69 25 HolyBobpilgrimage 69 26 Neon Budreau 69 27 nuhusker7 69 28 Huskerpapa 70 29 Mr. Red 70 30 colhusker 71 31 demone 71 32 hhcmatt 71 33 huskers29 71 34 TheNovice 71 35 twinswingohuskers 71 36 AuroranHusker 72 37 hal9000 72 38 Handy Johnson 72 39 MichHusker 72 40 Nebrasketball1979 72 41 75unlgrad 73 42 brfrad 73 43 emwilliams 73 44 jimmykc 73 45 Jurgey 73 46 LNKtrnsplnt 73 47 Ralph Wiggum 73 48 TheGov21 73 49 bb33ch 74 50 Noah121 75 51 throwback 75 52 KenPom 76 53 SkersHoops 76

Game #05 neut. Washington State Results (82-71 W) Picked NU: 32 (63%) Average NU Score: 76.0 Average Opp Score: 74.8 Average HHCC Score: 29.8 Median HHCC Score: 25.0 Mode HHCC Score: 46 BONUS: # players 10+ points: 5 # of HHC member bonus: 6 1 twinswingohuskers -24 2 Red Don 2 (-5 bonus) 3 Handy Johnson 5 (-5 bonus) 4 AuroranHusker 10 5 nubest79 10 6 throwback 10 7 Huskerpapa 12 8 pmd9 13 9 Vinny 13 10 Neon Budreau 14 11 HolyBobpilgrimage 15 (-5 bonus) 12 NebrasketballJake 15 13 huskers29 16 14 jimmykc 16 (-5 bonus) 15 Jurgey 17 16 75unlgrad 19 17 Cazzie22 19 18 REDZONEDAN 19 (-5 bonus) 19 nuhusker7 20 20 bb33ch 21 21 bigred4 21 22 emwilliams 21 23 hhcmatt 22 24 Silverbacked1 24 (-5 bonus) 25 TheNovice 24 26 hal9000 25 27 Nebrasketball1979 25 28 demone 27 29 hskr4life 29 30 Bugeaters1 30 31 KenPom 32 32 cjbowbros 43 33 northwillriseagain 44 34 UnicamMan 45 35 1sdpad2 46 36 Buglem 46 37 HuskerFever 46 38 LNKtrnsplnt 46 39 SkersHoops 46 40 thrasher31 46 41 ConkintheCorner 47 42 tcp 47 43 BjoeHusker 48 44 Crush78 48 45 Mr. Red 48 46 TheGov21 48 47 Ralph Wiggum 50 48 colhusker 51 49 aphilso1 54 50 Noah121 58 51 BLB115 61

It's hard to believe that we're already a month into college basketball season. Creighton's football season is now officially over and the blue sweaters are starting to come out in full bloom. And it's December, which means the NCAA volleyball tournament is starting and Big Ten basketball is about to start way too soon. We survived the Cayman Islands Classic with only one blunder on the scorecard and now the team is heading back to the winter wonderland. HHCC Standings - End of Week 04 1 jimmykc 261 U5 2 throwback 265 D1 3 Vinny 271 U15 4 hhcmatt 278 D2 5 AuroranHusker 288 U24 6 huskers29 299 U5 7 pmd9 300 U7 8 BjoeHusker 303 D3 9 emwilliams 304 U3 10 Red Don 304 U10 11 Nebrasketball1979 313 D4 12 Cazzie22 315 U10 13 REDZONEDAN 319 U11 14 aphilso1 323 D5 15 twinswingohuskers 330 U31 16 Handy Johnson 335 U14 17 Silverbacked1 343 U24 18 1sdpad2 347 U26 19 Buglem 347 NC 20 HuskerFever 347 D4 21 UnicamMan 347 U10 22 demone 350 U13 23 LNKtrnsplnt 351 D6 24 75unlgrad 353 U10 25 Mr. Red 355 D21 26 KenPom 358 D13 27 bigred4 360 D19 28 hskr4life 361 U14 29 Crush78 373 U9 30 Huskerpapa 377 U22 31 Bugeaters1 379 U2 32 bb33ch 380 U8 33 TheNovice 380 U4 34 brfrad 386 D8 35 cjbowbros 388 D25 36 colhusker 388 D13 37 basketballjones 398 D12 38 ConkintheCorner 401 U5 39 MichHusker 402 D24 40 tcp 404 D4 41 HolyBobpilgrimage 407 D14 42 Jurgey 411 U8 43 nuhusker7 412 U11 44 Noah121 418 D5 45 BLB115 427 D17 46 Neon Budreau 431 U12 47 thrasher31 431 U10 48 SkersHoops 439 D27 49 TheGov21 441 D1 50 Ralph Wiggum 454 D18 51 trickey 473 D48 52 hal9000 492 U3 53 northwillriseagain 495 U3 54 NebrasketballJake 497 D3 55 jayschool 549 D10 56 Blindcheck 555 D9 57 nubest79 564 U3 58 4NUfans 567 D9 59 NeeandMe 581 D6 60 HuskerPower #nato73 624 D1 61 NU Follower 641 NC 62 NWUhusker 658 U12 63 big red22 661 D1 64 36red 664 D1 65 Busch Light 679 D1 66 huskerbaseball13 680 D1 67 NUtball 682 D1 68 MJW82 685 D1 69 huskerbill85 687 D1 70 Chuck Taylor 688 D1 71 Tallbaby21 689 D1 72 khoock 691 D1 73 Jugular 692 D1 74 millerhusker 692 D1 75 swoof 695 NC 76 hguy44 710 NC 77 Nighthawk 712 NC Biggest Rise twinswingohuskers U31 Biggest Fall trickey D48 (U# = Up, D# = Down, NC = No Change)

It doesn't help that they're left without Alvarado right now. Georgia Tech hasn't played very inspiring basketball this season and I can't imagine their coach, Pastner, will be holding onto a job there much longer (all scandals aside).

Baylor SOS: 58 SOR: 8 GC: 11 FPI Rank: 15 Utah SOS: 54 SOR: 12 GC: 9 FPI Rank: 11 SOS: Strength of schedule played, from perspective of an average FBS team. SOR: Strength of record - Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule. GC: Game control - Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would control games from start to end the way this team did, given the schedule. FPI: Football Power Index that measures team's true strength on net points scale; expected point margin vs average opponent on neutral field.

Definitely not inspiring football by Clemson. They get to choose 4 of their games each year and those opponents went 26-22 (19-13). Of the ACC opponents, they went 26-38. Clemson's schedule went 71-73 (45-51) this year; only 5 opponents had a winning record (ACC x2, CUSA, SEC, and Southern).

Just to wrap a bow on this season: There are 79 bowl eligible teams for 78 spots. Nebraska was 2nd in line based on APR, behind 5-7 Duke for a bowl.

Are you talking about Adrian Martinez or Taylor Martinez?

Both TCU and Troy lost today. Eight more games to go on Saturday. If only 1 of those teams win tomorrow, then Boston College and Nebraska take those final two spots. I've done worse things than this before, like watching Delaware State and Marist games in March, so it is what it is for one more day.

Starting a game where the opponent has extensive film and is game planning against you vs. coming in for some snaps here and there will provide different stats. Or at least it should. Certainly better to be on the plus side of the stats for those snaps than the other way around!

Here's the 2019 season: W - South Alabama: 1-10 (0-7), Arkansas State remaining L - Colorado: 5-6 (3-5), Utah remaining W - Northern Illinois: 5-7 (4-4) W - Illinois: 6-5 (4-4), Northwestern remaining L - Ohio State: 11-0 (8-0), Michigan remaining W - Northwestern: 2-9 (0-8), Illinois remaining L - Minnesota: 10-1 (7-1), Wisconsin remaining L - Indiana: 7-4 (4-4), Purdue remaining L - Purdue: 4-7 (3-5), Indiana remaining L - Wisconsin: 9-2 (6-2), Minnesota remaining W - Maryland: 3-8 (1-7), Michigan State remaining L - Iowa: 9-3 (6-3) Assuming South Alabama holds onto the win, Colorado loses to Utah, and both Ohio State and Michigan State win here's where our season finishes up: 68-66 opponent record with 6 of the 12 teams with a losing record.

I actually see the bowl landscape changing in the next 10 years. With athletes being able to profit off their likeness, I'll bet you some of the bowl revenue goes to the players and you'll see a lot more players decide to play rather than sit for the draft. And because there's more money in it for the players, there's probably going to be fewer bowls to go around (only the ones that can sustain those types of budgets would survive). Ergo, "meaning" would come back to what a bowl game signified.

The Pac-12 has a clause that mandates its teams to have 6+ wins to accept a bowl bid.

For what it's worth. Teams to root against for bowl eligibility: Friday: TCU, Troy Saturday: Army, Boston College, Colorado, Liberty, Michigan State, North Carolina, Oregon State, UL-Monroe Boston College is the only team ahead of us in APR academic rankings. So if there are 2 openings left after this week, we would get a bid for a bowl.

Surprisingly, this is the highest unclaimed bowl teams this late in the season since we made a bowl at 5-7 back in 2015. So it's a bigger shot than you may expect. We'll see. Not a great attitude to think "we could make a bowl even if we lose," but that reality is a possibility.