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Rivalries Are The Best Thing In Sports

Week 13 also known as rivalry week, because of the amount of instate matchups, is always known for having the best games and this year was no exception. This week everything from upsets, to classics, to possibly the greatest and craziest game of all time. This weekend also produced many, many points as defence was almost non existent the whole weekend. Image result for texas a&m lsu

#7 LSU vs #22 Texas A&M is undoubtedly the best game of the year and possibly the best college football game ever. In a stunning 7 overtime shootout, Texas A&M beat LSU 74 – 72 in the highest scoring game ever in college football. A&M was down by 7 with 2 seconds to go and with 0:00 on the clock they scored the game tying touchdown to send it to an overtime thriller. From there another 84 combined points were scored in overtime with the game officially ending when Kellen Mond connected with Kendrick Rogers for the two point play securing the win. If you love defence then this game definitely wasn’t for you as there were so many completely open catches and if it’s anything to do with the score the defence did not show up in College Station. If you weren’t able to watch the game live, I do recommend you go back and watch the highlights for this game as it truly was something special and there might never be another score this high ever again.

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The second biggest game this weekend was “The Game”, between archrivals #10 Ohio State and #4 Michigan. Ohio State was on a 6 game winning streak in this rivalry with Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh having never won “The Game.” Ohio State extended their winning streak in this historic rivalry to 7 games as the trounced Michigan 62 – 39. Michigan came into this game with the #1 ranked defence in the nation but for whatever reason they could not stop Dwayne Haskins and the high scoring Buckeye offence. Michigan were the favorites going in to this game as they had looked super dominate the past couple of weeks and Ohio State was not looking impressive as there defence had just given up 51 points to Maryland. However, something must have changed in the past week and Ohio States defence looked fast and playoff ready. This game does pose a problem for the playoff committee because if Ohio States does go on and win the Big 10 Championship game, it will be difficult to allow them into the playoff with them having a terrible blowout loss to Purdue.

Overall this weekend was a super exciting weekend with contains all the best games of the year. Going forward, next weekend we have all the conference championship games, which will have the biggest impact on who makes it to the college football playoff. Depending on who wins and who loses it could make the choices made by the committee on who gets in either really straight forward or they’ll have to cut a few surprising teams.

Conference Championship Games:

 

Pac-12 Championship Game:

#16 Washington vs #17 Utah

ACC Championship Game:

#2 Clemson vs #24 Pittsburgh

Big 12 Championship Game:

#6 Oklahoma vs #14 Texas

AAC Championship Game:

#9 UCF vs Memphis

SEC Championship Game:

#1 Alabama vs #5 Georgia

Big Ten Championship Game:

#10 Ohio State vs #19 Northwestern

Mountain West Championship Game:

#23 Boise State vs Fresno State

 

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Process Post Week 12

Does privacy matter anymore? This is a question that can be very controversial and is more irrelevant than ever with society being in the state it is as a result of technology. Technology has lead the way of a more public society and now more than ever things are less private. For example, 50 years ago, if someone did something out of the ordinary in public they would maybe have a few people give them a glance but nothing much would change. Nowadays with almost everyone having access to a camera on their phone, the person who did something out of the ordinary is now a Youtube viral sensation and is getting booked on The Ellen Show for the following week. Technology has been a big component of the decrease of privacy in the world as with the click of a button anything can be sent to millions of people, thus there being little privacy. Privacy should still matter in this world because that person someone is taking a photo or video of might not want to be put on the internet and they should have that right to privacy and not have to be thrown into the spotlight. Now I believe, that if you got nothing to hide, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about privacy as there is nothing wrong your doing. However, this does not give anyone the right to take our privacy away from people as we don’t know if someone wants what they did shot in to the media. Overall, we still need privacy in this world as if we didn’t people would lose the basics of keeping something to themselves.

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Peer Review #3 – Red Lasiste

My peer review is on Red Lasiste’s website, Business School Prescriptions which is where he talks about what he has learned in his business education. When I first entered the website I was greeted by a full page photo. At a quick glance the website looks very well put together and shows a lot of work was put into creating it. All of the articles showcased a vast amount of knowledge and were very enjoyable to read. The navigation and design of the website looked to be well thought out and help make the website what it is.

The navigation through the website I would say it is really easy. It is so easy because there are so many tools accessible to help find what they are are looking for. If someone is on a post’s page, there are links on the side to archives which one can choose a certain month, categories on various topics and a list of recent posts. These are all extremely useful and give a user whether new or returning an easy way to get around the website. It’s also super easy to find any of the Publishing 101 work as its just as easy as clicking on “Pub 101” in the bottom right on the home page and it shows the various types of Pub 101 work which can be clicked on. However, the best feature especially for returning users is the search icon up in the top right. Most returning users will either want to come back to an article they have already read or they want to read something new. Well luckily if they are looking for something they have already read before it is as easy as just searching for it. One thing that was a bit confusing when I first got into the website was actually finding an article to read. I was lost until I finally figured out that clicking on the titles that as I scroll through the home page, takes me to the article. A suggestion would to maybe under the title add a little snippet of text from the article under the title to make it a little easier to understand.

As far as the design of the website goes I really enjoy it and think it is very unique. The big full page pictures make the website very unique, and I’ve never seen another website do something like it before. All the photos are really good quality photos and match with the website’s business theme perfectly. I also like the small but nice feature on the website when hovering over a title with the mouse, the titles color turns yellow which catches a reader’s eye and likely will help draw them into that article. When on an articles page the design flows through and definitely does not disappoint. I found when reading the article, “Why Case Competitions Are Crucial to Your Professional Development,” it was super easy to read. For starters, the font, gap between lines and line length are all really good and make it easy to read. Also I thought it was a great idea to bold the topics of each paragraph so a reader can easily see what each paragraph is about and if they want to just read a specific one then can find it and read it. Articles are super easy to read and that is one of the most important parts of any website.

 

Overall, the website looks very professional which fits the business theme because when most people think of business they associate it with being profesional which the website encapsulates. This is a great website and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about business.

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Process Post Week 10

After looking at my Google Analytics of my website, its kinda sad how few people have seen it. Now I know there are billions of websites on the internet, but I would have expected at least of few people to have miraculously fallen upon my website. Having only had 10 users at the time of writing this it surely makes me think of what I could do to get more people to view my website. Most of those 10 people are probably not even going to the website for the purpose of reading college football. Most likely those 10 are either me, people doing peer reviews or teachers looking in to the website. With this I need to focus on overall just getting people to know of my website.

I might not have the most unique website out there as there are much bigger websites such as theScore, ESPN and Bleacher Report that talk about college football, but I thought with the market being so big I could get a few people to pop by and read. Going forward I need to make sure that my topics in which I talk about are unique and not a copy of something said on one of the big CFB websites in order to make myself stand out. I also need to try market my website better. I could create an Instagram and Facebook account where I post more information on college football. I will have my website linked, so if people want to read more and learn more they can go to my website. Overall, in order for the numbers to go up on my website I need to make more unique content and market it better.

 

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Best Remaining Games This Season

With week 11 in the books and all teams in the top ten winning this week, there are not many big moments to talk about. The best teams stayed dominant and overall the standing are looking the same. With this we are going to look at the top matchups for the remainder of the season.

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Week 12 looks like it can be fairly boring as the only big match up will be between #3 Notre Dame and #13 Syracuse. Even though Syracuse is ranked 13th in the nation Notre Dame is still favoured -9.5 going in to the game and they should have no problem beating Syracuse. This game will also be Notre Dame’s final real test before the playoffs, and if they win this game then they should be set for the playoffs. This game will also be special for another reason, as it will be played in Yankee Stadium. Notre Dame will also be wearing New York Yankee inspired jerseys (as seen above) which in my opinion look very cool and I can’t wait to see them on field.

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However, as sad as week 12 is, week 13 definitely makes up for it. Week 13 will have a few major matches that will have an affect on the playoff picture. The first match is #6 Oklahoma vs #9 West Virginia. This Big 12 matchup will be very big as they are both one loss teams that both still have a legitimate chance of making the playoff. However, they will need a bit of help from some other teams in order to make the playoffs. Both teams have top of the line quarterbacks in Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray and West Virginia’s Will Grier and both will contribute big numbers. This game will definitely be really high scoring and will likely come to a shoot out in the end.

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Another big week 13 match will be the the classic Michigan vs Ohio State game. #4 Michigan looks to make their first college football playoff, where as #10 Ohio State looks to hold on to any last hope and have a big win at home. This will be the two team’s 115th meeting dating back all the way to 1897 when the first game took place. Ohio State have won the past 6 meetings and have a good chance at making it 7 in a row in their stadium in 2 weeks.

Week 13 looks will be a great week to sit down and enjoy all the great games and hopefully crazy chaos. Lots of inner state games will also be happening such as Florida vs Florida State and Clemson (located in South Carolina) vs South Carolina. Overall there will be no bigger week then week 13 and who makes the playoff will be decided potentially on this week.

 

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Looks Like Alabama is a Runaway Train

One thing we learned from this weekend was that Alabama is by far the best team in college football. Alabama this weekend had to go into Baton Rouge and face a fierce LSU team on the road in one of the most unforgiving stadiums to play in. However, the deafening crowd soon quieted down after scoring a touchdown 10 minutes into the game. After that, it’s like the wind had left the sails of LSU’s amazing season and they were never able to get their offense going and went on to be shut out 29-0. Alabama looked really well rounded whereas LSU looked good on defence but their offence could not do anything to save their life. LSU only had 12 rushing yards and 184 throwing yards which is nowhere near enough to have a chance against the best team in the nation. Overall, Alabama still convinced us they are the best and LSU now looks on from the outside as they won’t be making the playoff this year.

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Alabama almost has no flaws except for their kicking abilities. Joseph Bulovas, Alabama’s kicker is ranked 74th in the country which is massively lower compared to their other positions. Alabama ranks high in almost everyother category but kicking is not one of them. This could possibly be a problem going forward if they ever get into a close game and they lose because of a couple missed field goals or extra points.

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The rest of the team however, are all on the top of their game and are some of the best in the country. For starters, their quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is the #1 quarterback in all of college football and right now is in firm control of the race for the Heisman Trophy. Quinton Williams (DL) was by far the best player in the LSU game as he posted 2.5 sacks, 7 tackles and 3 assists. Quinton leads a really strong Alabama defence and will most likely be a future star in the NFL. Alabama’s offence would not be complete without their amazing wide receivers and running backs. Jerry Judy ranks #7 in the nation in receiving yards and is surrounded by fellow wide receivers DeVonta Smith and Jaylen Waddle. These guys are used lots in the game as Tua makes it really easy for them to succeed with this near perfect throw. Alabama also has solid ground game as they have a great trio of running backs which they can easily rotate to keeping their legs fresh. Najee Harris, Josh Jacobs and Damien Harris keep the defence on edge as they pose a massive threat where if the defense focuses to much on the quarterback they can easily explode and have a massive gain. This year’s team might be one of the best coach Nick Saban has ever had and that is saying lots as he has won 5 out of the past 9 national championships at Alabama. Only time will tell if another team in the nation will even have a slight chance against them.

My prediction of the week for week 11 will be for the Clemson vs Boston College game. Clemson is looking extremely strong right now after destroying Louisville 77-16 last week and they might be the only team that can compete with Alabama. I expect the game to be a little closer then last weeks game but still Clemson wins, 47-20.

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