Is there a rule in the SEC that proper clock management is not allowed? How does it take almost 20 seconds for LSU to use a time-out at the end? Did Les have the 4 and wanted to keep it safe in case Ole Miss got the ball back and became insanely creative? I guess Wisconsin is out of the other Big Ten team taking a BCS bid discussion. God Made the Oceans God Made the Lakes God Made Charlie We all Make Mistakes. I hope he doesn't even go on the plane to the slaughter at Stanford. And, if it causes Claussen to leave, well, they lose a guy who puts up big numbers and a losing to mediocre record.
I thought EJ gave it away with that last interception. Two backup qbs that had to run to be effective. Difference was EJ had Greg Reid on his side. Heck of a true freshman we got there.
I really don't want to hear about UConn's QB being a better QB then Clausen, he is lucky they have a great running game and ND's defense sucks. He was pretty terrible. Charlie is gone, as is Clausen and Tate as well 27 seniors. Norte Dame has got to go out and get the recruits Lou got ie ones with not great academics and high talent. Its time for ND to go dark side.
LSU's lose makes up for all the bad calls they got early on and won. Penn State will get the BCS bid and they will be the subject of scrutiny for once instead of getting the hand jobs for Joe Pa being there forever. The rest of the week was nothing but cupcake games, a very weak day, yes I am including Ohio State/Michigan.
Originally posted by wmatisticI thought EJ gave it away with that last interception. Two backup qbs that had to run to be effective. Difference was EJ had Greg Reid on his side. Heck of a true freshman we got there.
I thought it would be a high scoring game so the first half surprised me. Maryland getting that long INT and then TD on 4th and Goal right before half really kept us in the game, and it's unfortunate we couldn't have punted the ball out of bounds like we were supposed to at the end there. I knew something would go wrong and EVERYTHING did, even that last drive for us was a disaster.
(Yeah, I'm more calm now.)
- Looks like BCS at larges are down to Boise, Oklahoma State, and Iowa. Not sure how Penn State will be in this now that Iowa is ranked ahead of PSU, didn't lose to Minnesota, and Wisconsin lost. It's down to Iowa and PSU, and Iowa beat PSU. No crazy tiebreaker scenario, just Iowa beat PSU and Iowa travels well apparently.
- Northwestern beat Wisconsin. 8 win season for the Wildcats, pretty impressive all things considered.
- The fact people want Weis and Rich Rod fired so badly is almost as sad as the fact people want Fridge fired so badly.
- Oregon beats Arizona in 2 OTs somehow and Stanford loses to Cal somehow (both were great games though), and now the Rose Bowl comes down to Ducks vs Beavers. Awesome. The Civil War is an underrated rivalry and either way I'll be happy to see the Pac 10 shut Ohio State down.
- I can't believe Florida played FIU today. That is embarrassing and SEC defenders can't even explain that one.
- The fact UConn's QB is known as UConn's QB means he's not better than Clausen, but UConn is better than Notre Dame. They have a similar record and just won in South Bend. But hey, take solace Irish fans, your QB is better than UConn's QB.
- Tech 43 Oklahoma 14. Thanks for not doing that last year, assholes. OU is 6-5 with wins over a pupu platter of cupcakes. That's hilarious.
- Texas vs Nebraska in the B12 title game, so I guess Texas will win and be in the national title game. Although Nebraska's defense is nasty, I can see it being 24-10 or something.
- Georgia Tech will finish the regular season 12-1 it seems. I don't see them losing to Georgia or Clemson. 12-1 for GT with a loss to Miami, I bet they wish they had that game back now.
Originally posted by Psycho PenguinStanford loses to Cal somehow
That game might have had the dumbest play call that didn't cost a team the game that I've seen in a long time. 3rd and 8 from inside the 20 with 2:40 to go and Stanford had a time-out, so Cal decides to have the QB just slide the ball over to the other hash mark to set up a field goal to make it go from 31-28 to 34-28. Now, with 24 seconds left this might have made sense. To get it from 6 to 9 this would have made sense. But, in those circumstances you are inviting a loss. Cal gets the break that Stanford goes right through them until they get picked off at the 3 with around a minute and a half left, but still, that was poor decision making at the very least.
Fantastic to see UConn finally get a big win (even after the refs tried to put it in the bag for the Irish). Even better to see it happen against Charlie & Co. on Senior Day.
Certainly wish that stinkbomb against OSU would seal the deal on Rich Rod, but he'll get another year. Although....
Originally posted by JobbermanWhy should the SEC defend scheduling FIU?
Teams the ACC had on its schedule this year:
James Madison Jacksonville State Elon Kent State Coastal Carolina Richmond North Carolina Central Citadel Murray State Gardner-Webb William&Mary
I agree it was a useless game, but it is hardly just an SEC problem.
1) None of those teams were Florida. 2) None of those games happened one week before the regular season finale. 3) Florida's already played a FCS team in week 1. Name how many ACC teams played 2 FCS teams.. just Dook I believe. (and Dook is Dook, Richmond shut them out last year, and the NC Central game was for political reasons and actually ended up hurting them.)
My fault there, but still. I got Alabama and Florida's games confused for some reason. Anyways, I think it's dumb for Florida to be scheduling all these lame duck programs. They ducked USF to play FIU. It's good they are staying in state but they're the Gators, they should be above playing FIU in their 11th game. I'd be fine with week 2, but week 11? Come on. Alabama also. Chattanooga? Come on.
Originally posted by JobbermanWhy should the SEC defend scheduling FIU?
Teams the ACC had on its schedule this year:
James Madison Jacksonville State Elon Kent State Coastal Carolina Richmond North Carolina Central Citadel Murray State Gardner-Webb William&Mary
I agree it was a useless game, but it is hardly just an SEC problem.
1. Name how many ACC teams played 2 FCS teams.. just Dook I believe. (and Dook is Dook, Richmond shut them out last year, and the NC Central game was for political reasons and actually ended up hurting them.)
(edited by Psycho Penguin on 23.11.09 1239)
NOTE: All this is accurate up to week 11.
NC State played Murray State and Gardner-Webb in consecutive weeks.
As you mentioned, Duke lost to Richmond and beat NC Central.
North Carolina beat Citadel and Georgia Southern.
Going on to the SEC, they played:
Charleston Southern Tennessee Tech Eastern Kentucky SC State Western Carolina Missouri State Furman Jackson State And Mississippi played both Southeastern Louisiana and Northern Arizona.
Three other schools that played two FCS teams: Kansas State (Mass, Tennessee Tech) Rutgers (Howard, Texas Southern) South Florida (Woffard, Charleston Southern)
Originally posted by JobbermanWhy should the SEC defend scheduling FIU?
Teams the ACC had on its schedule this year:
James Madison Jacksonville State Elon Kent State Coastal Carolina Richmond North Carolina Central Citadel Murray State Gardner-Webb William&Mary
I agree it was a useless game, but it is hardly just an SEC problem.
1. Name how many ACC teams played 2 FCS teams.. just Dook I believe. (and Dook is Dook, Richmond shut them out last year, and the NC Central game was for political reasons and actually ended up hurting them.)
(edited by Psycho Penguin on 23.11.09 1239)
NOTE: All this is accurate up to week 11.
NC State played Murray State and Gardner-Webb in consecutive weeks.
As you mentioned, Duke lost to Richmond and beat NC Central.
North Carolina beat Citadel and Georgia Southern.
Going on to the SEC, they played:
Charleston Southern Tennessee Tech Eastern Kentucky SC State Western Carolina Missouri State Furman Jackson State And Mississippi played both Southeastern Louisiana and Northern Arizona.
Three other schools that played two FCS teams: Kansas State (Mass, Tennessee Tech) Rutgers (Howard, Texas Southern) South Florida (Woffard, Charleston Southern)
(edited by Zeruel on 23.11.09 1344)
NC State played Murray State and Gardner-Webb in consecutive weeks. - In state schools I do believe
As you mentioned, Duke lost to Richmond and beat NC Central. - already explained
North Carolina beat Citadel and Georgia Southern. - in state school, pretty good FCS school
I'm not attacking the SEC, I'm attacking Florida. Florida schedules slightly better than UNC and Dook, congrats to them.
OK - I'm not trying to start the "playoffs vs. BCS" argument over AGAIN. We know how we all feel about it. But since Mike is posting his rankings that don't mean anything (and he knows I mean that in the nicest context), I thought I would post my Playoff Bracketology That Doesn't Mean Anything™.
Methodology: 20 teams. Eleven conference champions automatically qualify. Nine at-large teams. Teams ranked and seeded using six BCS ranking computers, but I take Sagarin's and Massey's ORIGINAL ranking formulae, NOT their BCS-adjusted ones. I try to place the bracket strictly by ranking but I will move a team up or down a spot to avoid two same-conference teams playing as long as possible.
CURRENT QUALIFIED TEAMS Ohio State (10-2) - Big Ten champion TCU (11-0) - Mountain West champion Troy (8-3) - Sun Belt champion
PROJECTED AUTOMATIC QUALIFYING TEAMS (based on computer ranking) Alabama (11-0) - SEC Texas (11-0) - Big XII Cincinnati (10-0) - Big East Georgia Tech (10-1) - ACC Boise State (11-0) - WAC Oregon (10-2) - Pac-10 Houston (9-2) - Conference USA Central Michigan (9-2) - MAC
PROJECTED AT-LARGE TEAMS Florida (11-0) Pittsburgh (9-1) Virginia Tech (8-3) Iowa (10-2) LSU (8-3) Penn State (10-2) Oklahoma State (9-2) Miami-FL (8-3) USC (7-3)
FIRST ROUND (20) Troy at (13) LSU (19) Central Michigan at (14) Penn State (18) Houston at (15) Miami (17) USC at (16) Oklahoma State
SECOND ROUND Oklahoma State/USC at (1) Alabama Miami/Houston at (2) Florida Penn State/Central Michigan at (3) Texas LSU/Troy at (4) TCU (12) Virginia Tech at (5) Cincinnati (11) Iowa at (6) Georgia Tech (10) Ohio State at (7) Boise State (9) Pittsburgh at (8) Oregon
Holy fuck shit motherfucker shit. Read comics. Fuck shit shit fuck shit I sold out when I did my job. Fuck fuck fuck shit fuck. Sorry had to do it....
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Originally posted by Psycho PenguinTroy doesn't deserve a shot at the national title any more than Oregon State would. Why is USC in there and not Oregon State?
USC's computer ranking is 17.333. Oregon State's computer ranking is 17.833. Also, USC beat Oregon State, so it's really not indefensible. I suspect once Oregon and Oregon State play the computers will like the Beavers better either way.
The first five out in order were Oregon State, Cal, Clemson, North Carolina, and Utah.
Holy fuck shit motherfucker shit. Read comics. Fuck shit shit fuck shit I sold out when I did my job. Fuck fuck fuck shit fuck. Sorry had to do it....
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Revenge of the Sith = one thumb up from me. Fuck shit. I want to tittie fuck your ass. -- The Guinness. to Cerebus
I'd like to add that Georgia played this team a mere 2 weeks ago. I thought that was ridiculous timing for such a cupcake opponent, but Alabama and Florida outdid them in that aspect for sure.
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Originally posted by redsoxnationI guess Wisconsin is out of the other Big Ten team taking a BCS bid discussion.
I can't remember hearing anybody up here say they were actually IN the discussion.
That said, I predict Outback Bowl. Even when losing at Northwestern on Saturday, sports folks who were there told me (in the media room @ Lambeau) that the crowd was 60-40 Badger fans.
Bucky DRAWS on the road. The Outback Bowl folks have made mucho bucks in the past when 30,000 or so folks clad in UW red show up to their door...so I betcha they get that spot ahead of Northwestern, despite the Wildcats' slightly better record (8-4 overall vs. UW's 8-3), and even despite Bucky falling out of the top 25.
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