CFB games - 8/25 weekend

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FBS (I-A) Schedule - 2018 - NCAAF - ESPN

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I like Rice and C State to cover.
I would not touch Wyoming. The injury reports are long for both Wy and NM St
Mass? Who the hell knows anything bout them
 
Secant, tangent, cosine, sine.
3 point 1 four 1 5 9.
Square root, cube root, BTU.
Compass, slide rule,
Go Rice U!

P.S., as taught to me by a fellow high school alum who played scholarship football at Rice. Swift DB type, talented but not very meaty, 2nd stringer. We met up a few years after our college years and I asked him if he ever got to play against Earl.

"Yeah, I'm in the defensive backfield, I see No. 20 sliding out along the line, breaks through, and here he comes. I've got his number, take him on, see the black rubber soles of his shoes go over me, and then as I'm laying on the field I hear that damned cannon go off!" He (my friend) was laughing the whole time he told me this.

Rice is a fine school, brings in a lot of genius types. Had the experience later in my career as I was at the senior professional level on staff; our office manager hired a couple of newly minted Rice grads, science, techkie types. They handed them to me to get billable hours on one of my projects.

I laid them out on what I thought was a simple task --- taking recent groundwater analytical results from the lab, poring through it, comparing to previous quarter, and then taking to clerical support for incorporation into a new table in the in-progress next quarterly report.

Next day I stopped by one of their offices; both were there sitting with a stunned look on their face. Hadn't really done much, didn't have a clue.

Got an ivy school grad right now who helps me periodically, real bright, but similar to the Rice grads. Give them the reading assignment, assign homework, give them a written multiple choice test --- 100.

Dump a real world problem on them and ask them to synthesize the pieces of their formal classwork into a working solution, uh, not so much.

I'm sure there are Rice grads who ARE big-picture, problem solvers, but just because one GOES to such a school with an SAT out of the solar system and graduates with a 3.9 doesn't mean they're ready to tear the world up.
 
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RICE, RICE, RICE!!!

LOVE IT!!!

SN leading us in the non-PC Rice Cheer!!! :bow:

I'll catch the evening games with mild interest.... it's a start and better than MLB baseball.
 
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Rice is losing 21-19 at halftime smh
Hawaii looks pretty good too

Good thing my Vegas trip for real is not til end of September so I can see these teams live for a few weeks
 
Rainbow Warriors appear to be a decent team... but me thinks the Rams really suck!!!

37-7 now!
 
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Looks like the coaching change at Rice did not make a difference. I live in Houston and the sports news here reported how the new coaching staff has a lot more $ to work with than the old one. PV almost kicked their butt. UH will have a field day with Rice next week.
 
Remember a few years ago, a Houston radio station did a number of skits, one was "Slocum on a mobile" (I think after he was fired and was doing TV booth commentary), the DJs "interviewed" Slocum.

One game "Slocum" (a spot on voice imitation by the way) talked about was the annual Rice UH "Bayou Bucket" game. Went something like this:

"Yeah, you have the Rice offensive huddle and they'll be doing logarithms....and when the Cougars huddle they're trying to spell 'J Lo'."

These guys also did "Mack Brown on a mobile" interviews (one in which "Mack" commented on how studly Chris Simms abs looked, an Adonis with six-pack abs), one with "Beano Cook". Pretty funny stuff.
 
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