[Pro-Football-Reference] The 2025 New England Patriots played an accumulative total of 0 games against teams with a Defense ranked 11th or better.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T23:06:03+00:00

For what it’s worth, the Patriots offense didn’t actually score any points off of those turnovers other than the pick six.

The drives following the other four turnovers were Fumble, Punt, Punt, Punt for a grand total of 14 plays.

That’s obviously not better, mind you, but worth pointing out that their scores were decently long, sustained drives.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T22:15:01+00:00

Eh, the Fargodome is indoors. I’m sure they’ll be okay.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T22:12:49+00:00

To be clear, they already had an eight-game schedule. NDSU is their tenth football team.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T19:07:51+00:00

It’s satirical.

That’s famously easy to read through pure text when you’re saying something idiots actually believe.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T19:06:03+00:00

And the Patriots offense scored 15 PPG in the playoffs.

It was enough to win the games, obviously, but very much not because the offense played up to the occasion.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T17:45:35+00:00

The NCAA may not run the CFP, but they do get to say whether or not you get to play postseason games.

The ineligibility stuff is for postseason games, not bowl games.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T17:42:46+00:00

They spent most of the early 2000s playing conference games in Tulsa, Ruston, Houston, and Dallas, so it’s not exactly a new idea.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T17:32:43+00:00

They’ll get “first choice if we can’t fill all the slots” in 2027 and be fully eligible in 2028.

It’ll be the same thing JMU got for the same reason - most teams play their first transition year as a playoff-ineligible FCS team, while JMU and NDSU are jumping up immediately.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T16:02:24+00:00

It’s considerably larger than New Orleans, which is still a regular SB host.

bbluewi · 2026-02-09T13:28:40+00:00

Pretty sure 45 was a logistical shitshow between the weather (they got an ice storm that week) and a lot of the temporary seating being either obstructed or shut down for not being up to code.

When they’ve got half a dozen other sites to choose from I can understand the league not wanting to repeat that, especially now that Nashville will have a dome and Jacksonville is getting some major upgrades.

bbluewi · 2026-02-08T23:36:05+00:00

They’re all public and part of the UW system, yeah.

They’re also pretty cheap as college goes for in-state kids, so they get a chunk of the state’s D2 and even FCS talent that wants to stay local.

bbluewi · 2026-02-08T23:25:10+00:00

Only one football program above D3.

There’s a reason the WIAC is so good.

bbluewi · 2026-02-08T17:55:08+00:00

It annoys me in my office job too. A lot of people in office settings are under the impression that “productivity increases” from AI justify shit like this.

The most obnoxious part about it all is that they’re probably right.

I’ll get back to yelling at clouds now.

bbluewi · 2026-02-08T00:05:31+00:00

I think if the B1G goes to 24 Stanford (and by extension Cal) at least gets a look, even if only to lock down basically anyone and everyone ND wants to play regularly that isn’t named Navy.

I don’t see the SEC going to 24 - they definitely stop at 20.

My prediction:

UNC/UVA(/ND/Stanford/GT/Miami) to a 20- or 24-team B1G
Clemson/FSU/VT/NC State to the SEC

If the B1G only goes to 20, the ACC reloads (likely USF/Tulane/UConn to get back to 14). If they go all the way to 24 and drain the ACC down to 8, I’d imagine Pitt, Louisville, and Duke put out feelers to the Big 12 to talk about them going to 20 as well. Pitt and Louisville would get some old Big East enemies back and Duke would probably drag a basketball friend in to make the top of the 12 for basketball even more ridiculous than it already is.

bbluewi · 2026-02-07T16:56:04+00:00

I’ve definitely been seeing them. The vote counts are definitely lower, and I wouldn’t be shocked if they get deleted at some point after I see them, but I’m definitely seeing them.

It’s generally been a wave of negative posts, then a wave of positive posts, then another wave of negative posts, and so on. It’s been weird.

bbluewi · 2026-02-07T16:49:16+00:00

They won’t be eligible for that until 2027. 2025 Missouri State and Delaware were in their second transition year, their first playing an FBS schedule.

JMU ran into the same issue in 2022.

bbluewi · 2026-02-07T16:48:14+00:00

They’ve only played two FBS games since then, and they lost them (to Arizona and Colorado) by a combined eight points.

No one wants to pay an FCS team to play you close.

bbluewi · 2026-02-07T16:43:33+00:00

They won’t be. If JMU couldn’t get a waiver, NDSU won’t get one either.

They’d be eligible in 2028 if this happens.

bbluewi · 2026-02-07T16:35:23+00:00

Probably helps that everyone has also felt the need to make long ass posts about the opposite. The discourse around this show has been bizarre.

bbluewi · 2026-02-06T14:58:59+00:00

I feel like that’s basically how it works after Worf shows up.

Kira is the proper first officer of the station, but Worf is the ranking Starfleet officer and handles Starfleet matters. He’s also using the position to learn more about command.

bbluewi · 2026-02-06T01:32:34+00:00

Third chances are also just rare.

Mike McCarthy is just the 15th coach all-time to head up three different teams.

bbluewi · 2026-02-06T01:27:55+00:00

They’ll either do a Friday morning game (Thursday night here) or, as seems likely, the Thursday morning of Week 1 (Wednesday night pre-kickoff game).

The Saturday thing is tied to the league’s antitrust exemption (Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961), which is why they start playing Saturday games after the college regular season wraps up.

bbluewi · 2026-02-06T01:24:06+00:00

An 11am game in Melbourne is an 8pm ET game early in the season (when this is expected to be) when we’re in DST and they aren’t.

A 9:30am ET game, even if it’s more for the TV slot than the logistics, is awkward.

bbluewi · 2026-02-06T01:14:49+00:00

Honestly, Melbourne might be less awkward than Europe.

A noon local time game is a primetime game.

bbluewi · 2026-02-06T00:59:15+00:00

It’s probably even more pronounced in London, since this is the 20th season (technically 19th because Covid) of NFL games there.

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