the new college futbol thread!

um, that's disturbing.

w/o doing more reading on the upcoming season, all i have to say is jasper and casper brinkley.

The thing is McFadden's to lose, I think.

do people use this thread w/ regular frequency during the season?

if so, i will be drumming up much conversation about my beloved miami hurricanes.

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that's all.

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maybe u guys prefer this
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UGH
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plz do jordan there is not enuff ncaa talk on here! not that i am helping lol~

i am somehow in a pick'em pool even though the team i follow most closely(read: can name more than one player on) is the uconn football huskies...in other words, tell me whose gonna cover them spreads this week!--or, insert joek about phil fullmer being fat.

ok real talk time.

am i the only one wholly unsold on usc being a unanimous, runaway number 1? i have no logic (as of right now) to back this up, just a gut feeling that this may be the year something srsly funky goes down w/r/t the national title.

i mean lsu has managed to blow national title predictions every year since they last won it, and something about john david booty seems... off to me.

basically i'm saying, i'd bet my right foot that the national title won't be usc-lsu, which seems to be the general consensus of about 85% of college football writers/prognosticators.

Longhorns are a sleeping giant. Just wait. And I'm not even a Texas fan or anything.

Likewise, I think the strengths of West VA outnumber the weaknesses by a great deal.

This year, it's gonna be Big 12 vs. Big East for the trophy.

Florida won't repeat a national title win, but they might beat LSU in the SEC title game. Iffy defense (and loose cannon QB) will be the x-factor. There won't be an undefeated SEC team this year, though. The field's levelling off all over the conference.

The result of Saturday's Cal/Tennessee game will determine whether or not I pay attention to college football this year. I am a shameless "I only care about college football when my team is good" asshole.

LSU had some problems in last night's game. Probably nothing they can't overcome as the season progresses, but MSU (MSU!!!) held them to 3 points for almost all of the first half.

i was stoked about tech last year and, well, we know how that turned out. i just wanna see them beat GA :[

A bunch of analysis hacks have boners for GA this year, but I won't be convinced until I see proof.

yeah i think stafford's development is prob the most interesting thing happening there. i still root for GA against other teams, but i always liked tech more cuz they're actually in atlanta, uga always felt so distant 2 me~ (cooler unis tho)

(polyphonic i am exactly the same btw)

i mean LSU isn't typically an offensive juggernaut.

and tho it was against a DII team (or whatever), louisville looked mildly terrifying last night.

T-30 minutes til another terrible UW Huskies season. The line says +3 versus Syracuse tonight but I don't believe it.

Just so everyone's aware, I'm the annoying Tide fan that pisses in everyone's punch every year. Brace yourselves for a lot of "Saban is God" and "the countdown to a 2009 national title starts now" stuff.

nick saban is a v. wanted man in my hometown.

Fuck the Big Ten Network. So the only way to see Ohio State's non-conference schedule is to subscribe to Direct TV? unbelievable

oh, it's also available on AT&T's U-verse(?) . Why not just show it on Space Shuttle flights?

someone gimme the thoughts of an east carolina player today.

LOLZ xpost.

also huge lolz @ espnu for putting larry coker on the miami/marshall game.

this is almost unlistenable.

like, a miami drive just stalled in the redzone and coker goes "this is miami's problem. when they get into the redzone, they just have trouble scoring."

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE THE FUCKING COACH.

Whoa what if Appalachian State beats Michigan.

bombshell.

doesn't look like it's gonna happen though.

Let me turn on the Big Ten Network and I'll give you my opinion of App. State vs MI. ARRGHGHGRHRGHHRHGHRHGHRHGHRH

lolz i hope they switch it onto espn or something.
will chad henne survive the week if they end up losing?

OH MY FRICKIN GOD

wololverinez

seeing highlights for the first time on espnnews: last block FG was insane!! mich pass d looked godawful.

their wrs were beating mich's dbs by 40 yds on straight line runs. wwttff.

ahaha omg i wonder if rich eisen is weeping rn

ps. choice4heisman!

r.i.p. notre dame

Lose Like a Champion This Season

hooooly shit desean jackson.

#1 APP Beats Michigan Tee New!

Appalachian winning is a great excuse to re-post this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg

After watching the games on Saturday, I think Call has a shot at beating SC. Their offense is scary good.

Yeah but the defense isn't that great. Tennessee didn't even try to throw it down the field. I'm happy about the win and feeling pretty optimistic, but USC is a much better team than Tennessee.

My guess is that the "Draft Gruden" signs are coming out again on campus today at Notre Dame.

app st. goosebumps

come on CLEMSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5JPeJnRi6s

the radio call from the appalachian state win. i seriously still lose my shit when i hear it

That last blocked kick in that Appalachian State/Michigan game is a thing of beauty. Next time you watch that clip, check out the vertical lift on the entire left side of the line. Even beyond the guy that got the kick, those guys were throwing everything to get up on that ball.

Appalachian State's last two games against DIV I games were both competitive. I think the last game they lost was to Maryland and it was only by either 10 or 13 points. Their QB definitely can fly and will be someone that I think the pros will check out, at least to play at another position.

Will somebody please tell me why the FUCK did Appalachian State kick the field goal on first down with 36 seconds left??? Nobody is talking about this!!

i know they were out of TOs...don't know how many mich had, could app have run plays, forced UM to blow some, whatever...yeah, if that had cost them the game it wouldve sucked..

i'm going to oklahoma this weekend to see miami v. oklahoma.
no one is talking about this game. FUCK PENN ST. AND NOTRE DAME. FUCK TCU AND TEXAS.
anyway, i'm getting v. fearful of oklahoma steamrolling us. 79 points against north texas is still 79 points.

b/c no one cares about the big 12!

Oklahoma WILL steamroll you.

Tide/Vandy will be a corker.

ah, tide/vandy...let the lionel ritchie jokes commence!

You guys all have to read this amazing article about Randy Shannon:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/09/04/shannon0910/

polyphon otm

"kirby freeman brings more athletic-cism to the miami offense"- doug flutie

oh man, Michigan is getting destroyed by Oregon. I love it!

it's a rout. Michigan looks horrible. Lloyd Carr is done.

USF just squeezed out a win in Auburn, which means Alabama is now #2 in the SEC West. w00t!

WTFWTFHOWAREUSCTROJANSSTILLNUMBERONEINBOTHTOP25POLLS?!!!!!!!

I think the whole system is fuX0red if a team can get more 1st place votes than anyone else even when they don't play.

LOLVERINES

how sweet? either michoakan or notre dame will be 0-3 next week! wonderful.

ok so notre dame is the worst team I've ever seen play football. they are Indiana bad. Touchdown jesus cries bitter tears ;_:

thing is, I like Notre Dame.

My dad tells the story of the time that Notre Dame and Michigan were playing on TV, back in the late '40's or early '50's. My grandfather didn't own a TV at the time so he decided to buy one, simply to watch them play. It cost something like $500, which is 5,000,000,000.00 in todays money.

Back to the present, looking at the spread for today's game it was the LOCK OF THE WEEK.

omg, anyone here remember the Sunday playback of the Notre Dame football game back in the 70's, where they only showed ND's scoring drives? It was a post church viewing experience along with Laurel & Hardy and Wrestling (Bobo Brazil vs. the Sheik). RIP

Chicago Kevin would remember, I know for sure,

/atheist catholic apologist

/drunk

/redundant

Alabama squeaks out a third win (second in conference)!!! YAY!!!

shuttup

meanwhile auburn lost again, and louisville lost to kentucky. i'm on suicide and/or cardiac arrest watch for my dad and stepdad tonight.

louisville vs. syracuse tomorrow! first college game i've been to in who knows how long!

bc has army this week, total trap game. bc's run game is suspect and army's 7th in the nation in pass defense (something like 116 ypg?). hope matt ryan can stay healthy.

ok, for the second time in two weeks i've seen the same kid on the high school football highlights. i still didn't catch his name but he plays for mount carmel high in chicago and both times i've seen him he's been by far the fastest player on the field, it's not even close. when you see linebackers and dbacks taking what should be the correct angle but just getting beaten to the spot by the running back it's kind of fun to watch. i've got to find out who this kid is and where he's going next year.

hopefully not stateville or joliet.

hi, louisville is the worst college football team in the entire fucking country.

What happened to them? Jeezus!

lsu/so. carolina game is a good one, switch to that!

no it's not, s. carolina is toast. i'm watching michigan/penn state.

south carolina was up when i wrote that! they went in the tank immediately after.

i love love love fake kicks

that was a doozy

It was especially fun to watch because even Spurrier had a smile on his face.

i think that was a wince.

matt ryan was over 350 yeards for the third time in four games.

D'OH! The Saban honeymoon is over (but the marriage is still amiable).

can't blame saban for a pretty great play. it wasn't a matter of the dude not being defended, either.

but yeah anyway lol @ tide.

Oh yeah, it's not Saban's fault. I'm just saying the citizens of T-Town might now realize he's a man and not a god.

lol @ cards.

hey man at least we got a good basketball team.

Not that it matters a whole lot, but the Tide made it to the second round last year.

futbol = soccer

did somebody say something?

angryfatteysayswhat?

who's angry? u?

Notre Dame are losing AGAIN, this time to Purdue. Will they win a game this year?

I'm not sure they will.

Maybe they should play Div. II schools next year?

I think they should probably beat Duke, Navy and Stanford, but the rest of the schedule looks pretty tough.

they should beat duke. navy might be tough for them (seriously), are they playing stanford in south bend?

wow, this has been an upset-tastic weekend.

I don't think FL or USC will lose, but still...4 in the Top 10 falling this week, wow!

I'm pumped about the Wildcats, second year in a row, and this time on the road.

The end of the Cal/Oregon game was unbelievable.

Damn, I was wrong! That makes FIVE Top 10 teams falling in one weekend!

I don't think FL or USC will lose, but still...4 in the Top 10 falling this week, wow!

-- Johnny Fever, Sunday, 30 September 2007 01:01 (2 hours ago) Link

LOL @ U, FLORIDA SUX

Sad for Oregon, happy I guess for Wisconsin (34 points given up? at home? to MSU? really?).

war eagle

Why KU is getting more votes in the coaches' poll than Kansas State is beyond me. I guess we'll settle this next week the old-fashioned way.

the turnover in the top 10 this week pretty much shows exactly why the championship should be decided via playoff. the voters don't know shit.

If every conference just had a playoff like some of them do, national playoffs wouldn't take very long and polls wouldn't even be necessary.

Yeah, after #1 and #2 the rankings are complete guesswork.

college football wtf

Booty, flakes

Haha!

It's not over yet, but it's looking like LSU might fall too.

the spread was 41 points :O

still early! although Fla's offense is kinda neato

xpost

I guess KU proved the coaches poll right. Bleh.

The LSU game was pretty awesome, though. In the first half, Tebow looked godlike. In the second, he looked like a college qb.

14. Arizona State 6-0 752
15. Cincinnati 6-0 705
16. Hawaii 6-0 634
17. Kentucky 5-1 612
18. Illinois 5-1 595

21. Florida State 4-1 307
22. Auburn 4-2 248
23. Texas 4-2 136
24. Georgia 4-2 131
25. Tennessee 3-2 90

still, tebow is kind of freakishly good, huh?

Yeah, they made a couple Vince Young comparions during the game last night that I don't think were at all offbase.

he reminded me of rex grossman (in college)

way to go #4 bc. should beat notre dame next week then a showdown vs. virginia tech that will be their first test since week 3.

so charlie weiss's gastric bypass surgery didn't take or what? looks like a snowman wearing dockers out there.

Two years from now every NFL team would be smart to pass on Tebow. How many big name Florida quarterbacks get drafted in the early rounds and then proceed to suck royally? Love to watch Tebow now though. He plays quarterback like an insane linebacker.

wow, bc is doing their best to keep notre dame in the game. ill-timed penalties then ryan throws a pick deep in his own territory that's returned for a td.

look at rocket isamil!!! he's fucking baked!!!!!

between the glassy red eyes and the insane pep talk he's not hiding it very well either.

notre dame is apparently operating under the assumption that the running back is an ineligible receiver. with 13 and a half minutes to go he's got 10 catches for over 90 yards.

c'mon kentucky, you can do it!

fuck the wildcats, man. don't root for those bunch of powder blue homos.

don't be sad just because louisville's been exposed as one year wonders, h.

triple OT.

oooooh don't be all cocky cuz your team beat notre dame, one of the worst teams in the country.

that is, if bc is your team, i have no idea.

i'll root for anyone over nd. seriously though, anytime the number one team has a chance to be knocked off i'll root for the underdog. unless the underdog is notre dame.

what the fuck was that though?

SNAP THE FUCKING BALL.

haha

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open

touchdown!!!!!!

c'mon, get this game over, i've got baseball to watch!

and a cigarette to smoke.

louisville state university style d on that td play.

DIDN'T MAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, assuming cal wins bc should be #3 in the country? bananas.

burn lexington, burn.

oh fuck, fox i've got no fox reception!!!!!

and i appear to have developed an exclamation point dependency!!!!!!!!

lol @ u i gotz digital cablez.

i have a dying tv that only gets about 5 channels and only two consistently.

go to a bar

still unemployed, i has no money. i jerry rigged something, it's snowy but i can see it.

go to a bar where friends work and/or drink at, don't worry about money.

it's good enough, i've got 8 more cans of pabst and i can see the ball so...

UK/LSU...wot a game.

UK's reward for beating LSU is that they get Florida next weekend. The SEC is definitely deep this year.

louisville beat cincinnati! top 25 here we come! er...

holy crap, cal lost. 1 & 2 both lost. bc at #2 behind ohio st.?

Cal lost?! I cut the football watching after the UK/LSU game, but damn...does the Top 25 even have any worth this year? The championship might be ACC and Big East this year, ffs.

i think it's been so long since bc faced a GOOD football team they're gonna get shanked by virginia tech. tech's a good team and bc hasn't played anyone decent since week 3.

the top 25 poll looks like something from the 7th year of a dynasty on NCAA Football 2005. where do we stand on this season? is the hyper-parity good or bad?

i'm all for some real topsy turvy shit this year, and this year only. i'll be ;_; if this is a trend and not an anomaly.

it's funny tho that the national championship is just going to end up being lsu-ohio st.
1 loss is the new undefeated.

no way usf-bc, ohio state will lose.

i think it's good, there have ALWAYS been over rated teams in the top 25 who were there solely because of their reputation or conference affiliation. i mean, look at bc, they've won something like 7 straight bowl games and always finish the year in the top 20 but they're never in it at the beginning of the season because they don't have the tradition of a team like michigan. teams like usf or rutgers get penalized when they lose, dropping lower in the polls than a team like texas or usc for reasons that usually have nothing to do with the talent of their rosters.

yeah idk i was just saying that w/ how much is being made of parody, the nat'l title is just gonna end up being the best one loss teams, someone from the group of like oklahoma, ohio st, lsu, cal/usc i.e. teams we would have guessed all along.

if i had to wager right now, i'd put my money on oklahoma-ohio st. (oklahoma's remaining sched= October @ Iowa State, Texas A&M, Baylor , @ No. 22 Texas Tech, Oklahoma State + Big XII title. they should navigate all those games, stoops usuallly rules texas tech.) i'm kinda in the boat that bc hasn't played anyone and will eventually lose and usf won't make it undefeated thru their last 4 games (cincy, @ cuse, louisville, @ pitt)

xpost to hstencil.

if bc wins on thursday they're not going to lose all year.

ohio state hasn't played anyone except purdue, who aren't that good. i could see them losing twice, maybe. michigan should beat them.

oh man that would be sweet. the bar manager at my local is from columbus and is the biggest osu appologist. the only decent teams bc has played have been wake forest (killed them) and ga. tech (beat them soundly). they'll be tested every week from here out though facing va. tech, fsu, miami, maryland but not in that order.

out of the top 5 right now, oklahoma has the easiest remaining sched (tho the big 12 champ. game is a wild card) then probably usf (but they're the worst team in the top 5).

ok i didn't realize ohio st has such a tough schde coming up. @ penn st (night game), wisco, illinois, @ mich. if they make it tru penn st, they'll walk over wisco/ill. michigan beating an undefeated ohio st in the big house in the last game of the season would be some really crazy upset full circle shit.

and w/r/t to what was said upthread: poll bias can be seen w/ the fact that ohio st is #1 over usf even tho they've beat 0 currently ranked teams compared to usf's 2.

that of course brings up the question of do you rank based on who you think the best teams are or what is 'objective.'

exciting usf/rutgers game so far...

rutgers winz MORE BCS CHAOS

wheeeee! bc moves to #2 by not playing!!

usf...ha!

i like their qb and i like mike ford, but the big east is kind of a fraud. i mean, there are some good teams in the big east, but in lower half of the top 25 kind of way.

best thing about usf is their d-backs.

i'm gonna be seeing (lol) bc vs. umd in 3 weeks

I'm one of the few people here that will speak up for the Big East, but I'll admit Syracuse and Pitt blow. Dave Wannstedt has recruited some good freshman talent, but if the wins don't come soon he won't be around much longer.

i know hpencil won't want to hear it but GO KENTUCKY!!!

i am watching this game tho i can't decide whether i hate kentucky or florida more... i was in lexington last night hanging with sugarpants and nickalicious and wow, that was weird.

what's a sugarpants?

there are few teams i dislike more than florida. but wow, tebow...

Suck on that, Phillip Fulmer!

I'm kind of hoping Auburn takes it to LSU tonight so the SEC West will come down to whichever team wins the ALA/AUB game.

former nb poster, you n00b.

i saw where i posted more than anyone else to ilx last month and i was surprised because except for ilnfl i only read a handful of threads apart from chilx.

i hate to admit it, but tebow probably should win the heisman.

UCLA completely dominated on run offense AND run defense. Cal is spiraling out of the Top 25. :/

LSU loses again! Auburn is having a weird season.

?!

The LSU/Auburn game I saw must've been different than yours.

THE TIGERS WON

(hint: they're both tigers)

Oh I was looking at ESPN and it said the Tigers won and I made an incorrect assumption. Haha

to be fair, with 1 second on the clock LSU was losing.

wow, BC-VT got v. entertaining after about 58 mins boring minutes. BC owes a ton to their D...they were on the field the entire effin game.

i went to a bar to watch the game then they changed it to the world series and i had to go to a show. spent my day puking and just realized i don't know who won the game.

holy fuck, looks like i missed a good game!

who's ohio state playing this week? go you guys.

anyone else watching uga/florida? great game!

u suck s. fla!! go uconn!!!!!!

Florida's dirtiest secret just got revealed in front of the whole country. Tebow IS the offense, and without him they're going to struggle big time.

Oregon taking down USC was so sweet.

let's go penn state.

lol @ the only SEC team with a losing record. Firing Cutcliffe was BAD KARMA.

Look at this ridiculous play:

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3083220&categoryId=2564308

Good lord, that never even works in neighborhood football! Amazing.

haha what!

uga-auburn game's in 2 weeks... fun fact: last time georgia beat florida AND auburn in the same year? 1982.

that video! its like rugby! i tell u guys d3 football is srsly slept-on

play by play dude did a great job following the ball/keeping up with players names!!

The defensive unit was playing Pee Wee football out there.

lol

fuck a deadspin.

fsu travels to the heights on saturday night, broadcast on abc. NO NEED TO GO TO A BAR FOR FOOTSBALL THIS WEEKEND!!!!

deadspin sux but c'mon man check that link, it is funnye

eh, i remember seeing similar events at high school football games almost 20 years ago.

sadly, i do not remember participating in similar events at high school football games almost 20 years ago.

When I was in high school, we actually pulled off a fumblerooski similar to the one that Nebraska did in the Orange Bowl and have it work.

When I was in high school, we actually pulled off a fumblerooski

we had a few slang terms for it but "fumblerooski" was not one of them.

Oh LSU, you did everthing you could to lose and still won anyway. :(

lol notre dame. i mean for fucking real.

man i REALLY wanna watch this bc-fsu game but i'm stuck watching this fucking awful and truly pointless ou-tamu game. argh.

fuck you lou holtz honestly.

seriously his "pep talk" segment in the waay oversized shirt/tie is so creepy

bc is gonna score here. still way too much time on the clock tho.

oh well, only a fg.

fsu looking like a totally competent football team= o_O

Bill Callahan in the worst coach in all of football.

that kansas shit was ijnsane

i totally missed the bc game.

polyphonic otm. how does that man even go out in public in lincoln?

(i went thru #17 only to show uconn above tx, fla, & USC!!)

Bowl Champ. Series Ranking

1. Ohio St. .9900
2. LSU .9400
3. Oregon .9200
4. Kansas .8400
5. Oklahoma .8400
6. Missouri .7400
7. West Virginia .7400
8. Boston College .7000
9. Arizona St. .6900
10. Georgia .6100
11. Virginia Tech .5600
12. Michigan .4900
13. Connecticut .4600
14. Texas .4400
15. Florida .4000
16. Hawaii .3800
17. USC .3800

Look at Kansas being #4. shockah!

i am not just saying this because i go to school there, but if missouri wins out, they will have to beat both kansas and oklahoma. it would be quite the injustice if they got left out of the NC.

and tbh, i think they could beat both oregeon and lsu.

man i am so into the sunday night game on espn lately.

why are non-SEC teams even eligible for the national championship?

Will the Buckeyes go down? Oooh, I hope...

Buckeyes Down!!!! Yes!!!!!

The SEC is really stacked this year with so many of the middle of the pack schools having good seasons. They are most likely going to put ten clubs into bowl games. That is crazy.

LSU
Florida
Auburn
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi State
Tennessee
South Carolina (This has to be the best 6-5 club in NCAA football.)
Georgia
Arkansas

mississippi state was awesome yesterday

And Alabama was horrible! :(

left the bc/umd game early in the 4th. that shit was embarrassing. also cold as hell in the nosebleed sec.

It's still early, but we're officially in a Sooner upset alert mode at the moment.

Oooh, it's getting worse. 34-10

OOF! Kansas is the only undefeated team left with a real shot at the nat. championship game. Who woulda thunk that in September?

And Alabama was horrible! :(

-- Johnny Fever, Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:48 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

and who would have thought that missouri-kansas would have been this year's ohio st-boston college

Re: Bama...yeah, WTF! Louisiana-Monroe?!!!

all of louisiana hates saban

http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/i-guess-i-just-wasnt-made-for-these-times/

does anyone know how this^^^(vid at bottom) got by me (and ilx) for a whole week???

Ha! I watched that game, but I must have stepped out the room when that was going down.

they have the illinois state playoff championships on tv all day today and tonight, there's a kid playing qb for tuscola who's going to michigan next year who is so much better than everyone else on the field. these are two small schools (the o-line for galena averages 6-0 183 lbs) but this lefty qb looks like he's about 6-4 220 lbs. the other qb can barely throw the ball 20 yeards but this kid flicks his wrist and throws lasers 35 yards down the field.

kickoff returned for a td by the other qb, about to be a tie game.

close, 6-5 220.

Led by 6-5, 220-pound, Michigan University-bound quarterback John Wienke, Tuscola (10-1) rolled to touchdowns on its first eight possessions. The Warriors scored in three plays or fewer on five of those drives. And Wienke? Believe the hype! The Big Ten recruit completed 13-of-13 passes for 265 yards and five touchdowns to four different receivers.

I'm wary of qbs with the name Wienke.

abc has the colorado/nebraska game on, they just had cartman from south park introduce the buff's offense.

i was gonna say when NU/CU was 7-3 that the defenses looked a little too full of turkey and pts were gonna get large.

back from going out for a bit, it's 35-24...

FUCK YOU FUCKING RAZORBACKS AND YOUR STUPID FACES, YOU JUST KEPT THE SEC OUT OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

aka prepare for the national championship game: fightin rainbows

BWAHAHAHA SUCK IT COON-ASSES.

LOLSULOLSULOLSULOLSULOLSULOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who's ready for west virginia-ohio state?

what a game tho.

I want Kansas to win the national title. It'll be a big fuck you to BCS...be one of the biggest surprises in years.

But it won't happen. They lose once and some team that's already been #1 twice already will move back into the slot and the same for #2

Yes, I'm now officially pulling for Kansas to win it all too.

Kansas's coach somehow makes Ralph Friedgen look healthy.

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/1122/ncf_g_mangino_412.jpg

If the dude that played Bobby Bacala on the Sopranos had ever gotten sick during shooting, this dude coulda been the replacement

he seems like a total bro but i did laugh at the sign behind the gameday crew that read 'Mangino heart's cupcakes'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zmAYpAzNB34

Francione's gone at Tejas A&M, Callahan's out at Nebraska and Orgeron's been dumped by Ole Miss. WHO'S NEXT!

Ole Miss people are just going to pretend the Ed O. years didn't even happen, I imaging. It was a stupid move to fire Cutcliffe in the first place.

nick saban

Wow, one of the security guards' dogs just bit an Auburn player!

still not going to help the tide.

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE THATTTTTT!!!!!! /poor sportsmanship

GO MIZZOU!!!!

(i just heard a firecracker)

THE BORDER IS OURS

mizzO_Ou

i can't even imagine how tense it's gonna be on campus this week.

Whoa what if Appalachian State beats Michigan.

-- polyphonic, Saturday, September 1, 2007 1:37 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

bombshell.

-- Jordan Sargent, Saturday, September 1, 2007 1:49 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

doesn't look like it's gonna happen though.

-- Jordan Sargent, Saturday, September 1, 2007 1:49 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

that was the slot in their schedule where they paid hawaii to not play them.

gr8080, reporting from colt brennan land.

maybe next year, GT

:'(

yeah, so this is officially the weirdest college football season of my lifetime.

looking forward to the bc/vt rematch! sucks that they have to play AT blacksburg twice in the same year.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gAMtCCezpfU

chan gailey finally got fukkin SAKKED

curtis it turns out a uga girl may have given me chlamydia... i guess there's a lesson in this somewhere~~~

Houston Nutt to Ole Miss?!

Does anyone here really believe that Missouri and West Virginia are the two best teams in the NCAA?

ok the problem is that trying to prognosticate this season is obv pointless, so it really doesn't matter what you think. if you don't think that mizzou or wvu could beat any team in the country right now you're kind of crazy, especially w/ regards to missouri who's only loss is to oklahoma in norman by 10 points in a game in which they were leading in the 4th quarter.

ok btw when i said "it doesn't matter what you think" i mean that both in the proverbial universal you and you, earlnash. just as it really doesn't matter who i think the best teams are. my point is, i don't think anyone who has watched missouri play could honestly say that they couldn't beat any team in the country in the national title game.

I can believe that Mizzou is the best team in the country, yes ... especially after watching them Saturday night... West Virginia, not so much..

west virginia is unstoppable.

i believe their offense can't be stopped.

defense... shakey at times.

does anyone in the US besides college presidents not want a playoff system? I realize this is rehashed every year ad nausem but c'mon was it really necessary for Ohio State to add an extra game to their schedule so they can play another MAC team? There's one playoff game right there!

Anyway, both Mizzou and WVU looked good last weekend. I hope excluding the SEC from the National Championship will rile up their fans enough to demand a playoff.

get better, cankles ;_;

The weird thing about the SEC and the BCS this year? Georgia's #4, yet they're not playing in the conference championship game. Fucked, dudes.

clearly the real lesson of this college football season is always wear a rubber

Georgia's #4, yet they're not playing in the conference championship game. Fucked, dudes.

that tells you how arbitrary the poll system is. settle it on the field, LIKE EVERY OTHER LEVEL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL.

I do not want a playoff system. I love the Bowls. I will watch any random bowl, i don't care. BUT, what I think they should do is just add one extra game for the top two teams that come out of the bowl games. AND, they're basically ALREADY did that, time-wise, when they added that "extra" Bowl game -- the BCS championship game -- which plays a week after Jan 1. But of course they fucked it up by having the teams pre-scheduled and not making it like a playoff type thing. Which in my scenario would really just amount to a 4-team playoff system. But Anything more than that would be ridiculous anyway. You really just want to avoid situations like Auburn a couple years back or whatever.

re: wvu

did anyone see that promo package of noel devine a couple years ago when he was being marketed to recruiters? holy smokes. when slaton is gone, you will see what a phenomenal talent this dude is. in the interim, i sincerely hope you look it up on youtube or somesuch. it is quite a thing to behold.

so keep the bowls and name the playoff games "bowls". who cares? already more than half the teams playing 1A ball play in bowls at the end of the year. divisions 1AA, II, and III all have playoff systems, if the ncaa is so concerned about the well balance of "scholar" and "athlete" why is the playoff system allowable for everyone but 1A?

The NCAA basketball season runs almost 6 months so apparently they're not too concerned with their academics.

hell, baseball season goes past the end of the academic year at a lot of places.

Soo...OSU and LSU. Hmmm...

This is the craziest season EVAR!

it's funny tho that the national championship is just going to end up being lsu-ohio st.
1 loss is the new undefeated.

-- Jordan Sargent, Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:40 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

O_O

Hey P. Plains, what was the reaction in your area when the Tuberville-to-Arkansas rumor hit? (I haven't heard anything since T.T.'s denial, so I assume it isn't happening.)

Actually, Tuberville's denial is worthless. I just haven't heard anything else about it in several days.

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it's weird that the nfl network commentators are focusing so much on who's a pro prospect and the combine in the texas bowl game. its also weird that the tcu kicker is missing like half an arm. i did a major double take.

I think they the NCAA can keep the bowls and have a playoff. I don't see the problem with having the BCS Bowls be the tournament itself, they could have four of the bowls be the round of eight, two of the big ones be the round of four, then have a championship game on the off week before the Superbowl.

It would be worth a gazillion dollars. However much college football's new year orgy makes, a national championship tournament would be even bigger. Football multiplied by March Madness would be insane for making cash, especially if they got buck wild and made it a 16 team bracket free for all.

However in another way, the NCAA and the media are already earning enough fatback cash off of college football and basketball athletes, so it would just be another screw job to the players. College football players, especially the un-heralded masses that fill up squads sometimes get screwed by their schools if they get hurt. People working at fast food joints have better coverage if they get hurt "on the job".

I'm a little tired of the excuse that a playoff would mean the athletes would miss more class and that it could force them to have to reschedule exams.

didn't seem to stop them from extending the length of the regular season.

it's weird that the nfl network commentators are focusing so much on who's a pro prospect and the combine in the texas bowl game.

mike mayock was one of the commentators iirc, and his big 'thing' is as a draft analyst/scout... his combine coverage on NFLN is pretty intense~

^^oh i know mayock is a bro, i didnt actually mind...there wasnt a lot going on in that game drama-wise until the last drive actually.

anyone hear in the uconn-wake game when the commentator (think it was the other dude not andre ware, im blankin on his name) said "you keep pounding that meat long enough and it'll soon become tender?" after a wake td run...? o_O!!!!!

i didn't catch that. i hadn't previously noticed wake's skip prosser pacthes, though. those were kind of cool.

Mich-Fla barn burner in progress...

Mich/Fla was a good game. I hope Hawaii can pull off an upset or at least make it more interesting than the Illini in the Rose Bowl.

lol hawaii will be KRUSHED

USC favored by 14. I would've thought more, Illinois is one of the worst Rose Bowl teams in recent memory.

jesus, did anyone in the goddamn world really want to see this illi-sc game? a ga-sc rosebowl would've been TYTE, better than the national championship imo~~~

also, rainbow warriors get off my mainland and my tv.

The only good that can come from this game is if Fox decides the whole Boise State thing was an aberration, and decides not to renew its BCS contract.

And Georgia's halftime salute to Journey.

florida v. michigan was the best bowl game i've watched. there've been a lot of snoozers this year, though i missed navy!

If they would have matched it up Georgia vs. USC and Hawaii vs. Illinois, we would have had some games.

I think Georgia and USC could have been an excellent matchup.

Hawaii vs. Illinois would've made a nice Holiday Bowl, I guess.

GA vs USC, Missouri, OK, or OSU in any bowl game would've been nice

Can't say I'm excited about this WV/OK game tonight.

oh but u get KU/VT tomorrow to be fired up abt!

it took me a minute to figure out who kansas was playing because i knew my initial reaction of "vermont" wasn't correct. for starters, last time i checked they don't even have a football team at uvm.

even w/o slaton wvu is kicking oklahoma's ass. this is only gonna get worse for the sooners.

i know i've mentioned it before, but...

NOEL DEVINE!

seeing those hawaii kids get humiliated like that kinda made me mad. who comes up with these match-ups? georgia should've been matched against a more competetive team like missou, who also got screwed, and hawaii should be playing a team closer to its own level. the players AND fans had their time wasted by dickbags hoping for boise state magic and going for the storylines, instead of putting together appropriate matchups.

Do you really not know how the matchups work? Basically, the BCS creates a pool of eligible teams (anyone in the top 16 of the final BCS rankings, I think); the championship game gets the first two picks, and then the rest of the teams are basically drafted between the various bowls. So that means you'll never see the 3rd best team vs. the 4th best team in a game. The third, fourth, and fifth best teams each get their own bowls, and each get their own inferior competition (unless it's Oklahoma, haha).

seeing those hawaii kids get humiliated like that kinda made me mad. who comes up with these match-ups? georgia should've been matched against a more competetive team like missou, who also got screwed, and hawaii should be playing a team closer to its own level. the players AND fans had their time wasted by dickbags hoping for boise state magic and going for the storylines, instead of putting together appropriate matchups.

a playoff would've allowed water to find it's own level so to speak.

Ha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqsTYjqGido

lol i just realized phil fulmer is giving birth to a donut up there

chris myers just said that jim tressle told his squad at halftime "we had the lead, we're capable, let's get back to basics."

if you're team needs to be reminded that they conceivably could win the game while you're playing for a national championship then that team is not going to win.

this game is, for 48 combined points, has been pretty unsensational