One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
--Albert Einstein
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
--Richard Dawkins
Be kind to all, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
--Philo
I'll defend Utah here and say while Bama's defense is better, no way do we allow a QB like Jake Coker to average nearly 14 YPA. That said, Clemson was handicapped significantly with key injuries in its secondary. At full strength there, Clemson probably wins. Alabama had no answer for Watson, which is the case for 100 percent of college teams facing a dual threat Heisman finalist QB.
great stuff from Jon Wilner about expansion (Big XII and PAC-12) on twitter today.
Wilner made the mistake of telling BYU if they had any value they would be in a P5 conference already. And then Wilner had to defend himself from an onsluaght of Y tweets for the next couple of hours. Great stuff I didn't know about the PAC-12 expansion a few years back. Wilner said at one point the conference had a 24 school model