Hats off to the Beavers and Coach Smith. 10-3 and oh so close to 12 and 1.
When have SEC fans ever suffered an out of conference loss with dignity?
Billy Napier has a long way to go to get this Gators team ready to open the 2023 season in Salt Lake City.
2023 conference title for the Beavs? Williams is back. Penix is back. Nix will likely engineer an improved NIL deal good enough to come back for 2023. UCLA just signed a very good transfer QB out of Kent State.
I think in 2023 the conference will finish with at least 5 teams ranked in PO Committee's final poll.
The usually reliable UF run game was rendered impotent by a fantastic effort from the Beavers D.
10-3 sounds about right. Remember that, while the Beavs could have won the USC and UW games, they also easily could have lost the games to Stanford and Oregon.
You left off Fresno too, but that's not the point, they won. Period. They didn't give up and by all rights both USC and wash should have lost those games as well. Washing was worse to me, they mauled washing on the field for all but the last two drives. The score, and even the end stats dont tell that story accurately. But that's the way the cookie crumbles. If you don't play well enough to remove those "what if" games, then you get to live with em.
I was replying to the OP that said that 12-1 was "oh so close." So was 8-5...10-3 is the right result considering that you're not going to win every close game.
"Good transfer QB out of Kent State"....Kent State is barely FBS and at the bottom of their own conference the Mid-America Conference. I doubt any QB from Kent State was highly sought. So that is a little spin. Gulbranson comes back with another year of experience. A pro style, not an option QB, but with a lot of upside if he can learn to read Ds better. And no one knows what Aidan Chiles, a highly sough 4-star will bring. Plus, I am guessing after a 10-3 season with a dominant bowl win the Beavs will attract a quality QB transfer. They have already addressed their D line with two 4-star recruits. You can think OSU's season was a blip, but they will prove you wrong.
Schee is a grad transfer who had a lot of success facing an incredibly tough series of OOC, money-bag games.
He was ranked ahead of JGU by most sources; usually ranked in the top 3 of the best QBs in the portal. NC St's Leary is a consensus one. He is predicted to go to Auburn.
What did I say about a blip? I said, or intended to say, that the conference will be deep next season with many quality players including the Heisman Trophy winner coming back.
Thank you! That sounds much better: The Pac-12 will be deep with FBS talent. I like that. After spending 30+ years in the B1G I detest the formulaic nature of that conference with Ohio State or Michigan dominating year after year. Much more balance in the Pac-12 and that is good for college sports. We need to push back on efforts to create elitism within college sports. Don't we have enough of that in other parts of life?
Stihl curtain showed up for sure!! 39 total yards from a supposed strong run team is awesome.
Yeah next year should be a banger too, I think Washington is the one to watch out for, but almost all the beavs are coming back and I think they carry this mojo into next year and give everyone a serious run for their money.
Hats off to the Beavers and Coach Smith. 10-3 and oh so close to 12 and 1.
When have SEC fans ever suffered an out of conference loss with dignity?
Billy Napier has a long way to go to get this Gators team ready to open the 2023 season in Salt Lake City.
2023 conference title for the Beavs? Williams is back. Penix is back. Nix will likely engineer an improved NIL deal good enough to come back for 2023. UCLA just signed a very good transfer QB out of Kent State.
I think in 2023 the conference will finish with at least 5 teams ranked in PO Committee's final poll.
The usually reliable UF run game was rendered impotent by a fantastic effort from the Beavers D.
10-3 sounds about right. Remember that, while the Beavs could have won the USC and UW games, they also easily could have lost the games to Stanford and Oregon.
You left off Fresno too, but that's not the point, they won. Period. They didn't give up and by all rights both USC and wash should have lost those games as well. Washing was worse to me, they mauled washing on the field for all but the last two drives. The score, and even the end stats dont tell that story accurately. But that's the way the cookie crumbles. If you don't play well enough to remove those "what if" games, then you get to live with em.
I was replying to the OP that said that 12-1 was "oh so close." So was 8-5...10-3 is the right result considering that you're not going to win every close game.
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"Good transfer QB out of Kent State"....Kent State is barely FBS and at the bottom of their own conference the Mid-America Conference. I doubt any QB from Kent State was highly sought. So that is a little spin. Gulbranson comes back with another year of experience. A pro style, not an option QB, but with a lot of upside if he can learn to read Ds better. And no one knows what Aidan Chiles, a highly sough 4-star will bring. Plus, I am guessing after a 10-3 season with a dominant bowl win the Beavs will attract a quality QB transfer. They have already addressed their D line with two 4-star recruits. You can think OSU's season was a blip, but they will prove you wrong.
Schee is a grad transfer who had a lot of success facing an incredibly tough series of OOC, money-bag games.
He was ranked ahead of JGU by most sources; usually ranked in the top 3 of the best QBs in the portal. NC St's Leary is a consensus one. He is predicted to go to Auburn.
What did I say about a blip? I said, or intended to say, that the conference will be deep next season with many quality players including the Heisman Trophy winner coming back.
Thank you! That sounds much better: The Pac-12 will be deep with FBS talent. I like that. After spending 30+ years in the B1G I detest the formulaic nature of that conference with Ohio State or Michigan dominating year after year. Much more balance in the Pac-12 and that is good for college sports. We need to push back on efforts to create elitism within college sports. Don't we have enough of that in other parts of life?
Stihl curtain showed up for sure!! 39 total yards from a supposed strong run team is awesome.
Yeah next year should be a banger too, I think Washington is the one to watch out for, but almost all the beavs are coming back and I think they carry this mojo into next year and give everyone a serious run for their money.
Penix is the real deal. If he is back, Washington will be tough. But they are almost always good, so nothing new