08-09 ncaa football thread

zomg love it

"its that puke inside of a pumpkin orange. and i dont like pumpkins."

i dont like dogs or pumpkins either :D

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/ncaa/08/01/stoops.dismisses.jarboe.ap/index.html

actually getting arrested for having a gun is aaiight, but RAPPING about having guns... well son, you shoulda seen it coming

dude is supposed to be fire btw i hate oklahoma

fwiw i think the gators are winning it all again this year >_<

USC vs Florida Gs?

i hate them both so much, though i think i actually hate UF more now

meyer is probably the biggest prick in college football, for one thing

I don't know, Rodriguez is right up there.

idk, saban's a real contender for that crown imo

georgia ranked no. 1 in usa today preseason poll, makes me a lil nervous, florida prob has more legitimate claim to top spot - better defense, offense probably not as good but a more well-rounded team. uga's 2007 was probably their best season since i've been alive - first time since herschel was here that they beat auburn and florida in the same year! - we'll see if they can repeat some of dat ~*magic*~ i guess

challops-lite: paul johnson will be the best hc in the acc w/i 2 or 3 years. not expecting much from tech this year, flush w/defensive talent but i think they'll miss jon tenuta's crazyass schemes a lil. not much else to say imo~

whoa welcome back cank

georgia no longer close to #1

Petrino wins any "biggest prick in college football" competition, doesn't he?

I'm just happy to see the Tide ranked pre-season (even if it is 23). The fact that Auburn is 10 is pretty laughable, though.

1. Georgia (22) 0-0 1,528
2. Ohio State (21) 0-0 1,506
3. USC (12) 0-0 1,490
4. Oklahoma (4) 0-0 1,444
5. Florida (6) 0-0 1,415
6. Missouri 0-0 1,266
7. LSU 0-0 1,135
8. West Virginia 0-0 1,116
9. Clemson 0-0 1,105
10. Auburn 0-0 968
11. Texas 0-0 966
12. Texas Tech 0-0 786
13. Wisconsin 0-0 771
14. Kansas 0-0 707
15. Arizona State 0-0 631
16. Brigham Young 0-0 590
17. Virginia Tech 0-0 578
18. Tennessee 0-0 509
19. South Florida 0-0 496
20. Illinois 0-0 483
21. Oregon 0-0 366
22. Penn State 0-0 293
23. Wake Forest 0-0 227
24. Alabama 0-0 89
25. Pittsburgh 0-0 85

(oops, Tide is 24th, but still..)

laughably low or laughably high? i think auburn takes the west this year

High. Tiger fans are in for a year of disappointment.

agree strongly w/ canks assessment of pj btw

I only say that re: Auburn because they have a lot of talent going out and not enough coming in. Saban has been swallowing up all the state's top recruiting.

Tiger fans are in for a year of disappointment. - lol how many teams on bama's sched will this apply to this year? a guy i know who knows alot more than me has bama taking the west w/ the iron bowl probably deciding it. if there was a playoff i'd take the dawgs to win but since there ain't (i'm anti-playoff ftr) i'd say florida over ohio state is my guess as of this date.

I think LSU will take the west this year, with 2009 being the first year of Bama's real re-emergence. Auburn's already hurting tho.

Picking Gators for the east, but I know it could as easily be the Dawgs.

i don't know why but crazy (and i mean crazy = insane not crazy = enthusiastic) bama fans don't annoy me at all whereas crazy (just meaning 'really really devoted') gators or esp god esp vols fans i detest so so so much. anyhow never get tired of posting this -
http://www.rammerjammeryellowhammer.com/weblog/archives/AUBearGuys.jpg

and found this while looking for that

http://static.flickr.com/24/59354087_9d1aa9ff5b.jpg

Vols fans are the scum on the SEC pond.

i was gonna do bowl predictions, but i dont know the picking rotations and shit so

acc: vt- they've got rb problems, but the coaching staff is so solid + i'm wary of clemson's acc road games in the second half of the season: @ wake, @ bc, @ fsu, @ uva. i'll believe clemson can do it when they actually do it

big 10: ohio st- zzzz, i think they'll lose two games, but they should be able to lose one and still get in the rose bowl

big 12: oklahoma- really really really good team, i think they're in the national title unless they fuck up the title game once again

big east: west virginia?- i think uconn could sneak in here. usf has a brutal road schedule

pac 10: usc- it's gonna be a while, isn't it?

sec: florida- they might get sunk by injuries but they have the best offense out of the big six conferences, and i'll buy into the "defense is a year older!" thing. they've got DB problems which scares me, but they lost to auburn by 3 last year and lsu by 4 or else they might've been in the nat'l title

florida fans are the worst

i think nat'l title is okla v uf

at larges: mizzou, georgia, byu and... clemson? i guess wisconsin if ohio st gets into the national title?? i think we're looking @ usc vs ohio st rose bowl rematch, though

Raise your hand if you think 2008 will be Paterno's and Bowden's final year.

they've at least got a successor lined up for bowden + he seems to think the writing is on the wall. paterno just seems in denial to me, plus i think he has a complex about the whole thing that bowden doesn't

I think you're right. Bowden seems like he'd be glad to retire, but no one's brave enough to ask him to. Paterno is oblivious to, well...everything.

I'm like everyone else, I don't understand all the preseason Georgia love.
And Pittsburgh at no.25, talent wise I can see it, but Dave freakin' Wannstedt people.

i understand the preseason georgia love, they're insanely talented and have a great coach (they nearly made the championship game last year w/ a freshman o-line), their schedule is just way way too brutal. if the thinking is that no team goes undefeated this year then yeah i could see georgia somehow pulling off a one-loss season and then definitely deserving a spot in the game, but undefeated i can't picture.

how do you pick oklahoma over usc?? did you see mizzou last year, for one thing? theyre the real deal. no one in the pac 10 is in the same league as usc

georgia has like a one in a million shot but like everyones saying UF for sure (at least) is gonna knock them off

so this shit started

kind of a boring day

lol @ vt, usc looked just incredible, michigan looks "interesting"

next week gameday is at uf for fla/miami, which is apparently the game of the week

we don't need that spotlight :(

we being miami

illinois v mizzou & alabama clemson tonight! both must-sees

j0rdan yr at mizzou right are you going to the game?

also how is that game of the week

nah im not going, i don't care enough about mizzou fball to go to stl to see them. i will be watching it though, but since kind of curious about clemson im kinda sad that i wont be able to see much of the game

there aren't any games b/w ranked teams next week, so uf v miami at least has name recognition. also, abc is carrying a nascar game nex sat night and cbs has the us open so uf/miami will be the only cfb game in prime time next week

uf is gonna win by like 30 though

bamas gonna be a monster in 2 years time

ya

kinda lovin this shit right now

happy to see rich rodriguez lose his UM opener. always happy to see wannstadt lose

It's going to be a long season in both Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor.

I haven't seen a Bama team so in control of their own destiny since Gene Stallings was coaching. zomg

yeah im a bama man as of tonight

seems appropriate for a troll to root for roll tide

as we used to say

ROUND THE BOWL
DOWN THE HOLE
ROLL etc

the best thing that could happen for Nick Saban is that he catches some disease and puts his millions (and booster $$) into trying to find a cure

clemson's linemen looked pathetic, though. that game tells you most of why the SEC is the most important conference (and the biggest academic joke, year-on-year)

Admirers of new U-M regime get a reality check early on

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/COL22/808310502

Rodriguez said he couldn't fully evaluate what he saw because he "has to watch the tape," and I think we ought to emphasize "has to."

When Rodriguez walks from his seat to the screen, he will gain more yardage than his running game did in the first half.

if i were to try to cultivate an interest in ncaa football, what would be some likable teams i could start to follow?

oh wow

guys

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c392167bf53f01167c7fabae0005

WTFUTES

f u fox for showing the texas band AFTER EVERY SINGLE PLAY. anyway good game regardless.

yeah the studio guys are really into the bands too wtf get some real analysts

i also have never understood y fox cant hire better broadcasters for bcs games than Matt Vasgersian & Tim Ryan

it's ridic how bad Matt V is

Texas band doing Kashmir -- fuck yeah

o jeez it's a zep medley!

What the fuck kind of defense was that, OSU.

damn i really wanted osu to win - yeah matt v is fuckin awful. after that penalty at the end of the game that effectively gave osu the ball at midfield they didn't even mention the significance and instead were already eulogizing the game

ayo thx for the feed back canks

nothing like buying the rights to a major sporting event and then sending out the D team for it. At least ESPN's coverage has personality.

oh yeah that was the first coll. football game i've watched in forever and it wasn't bad.

yeah i almost felt bad for OSU; TX clearly has A LOT more talent but OSU probably should have won last night and was pretty creative on offense to move the ball at all

agreed- I only saw part of it but it was pretty entertaining (that and Texas/Texas Tech were the only decent games I watched)

lil wayne debates skip bayless:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3814076

http://www.slate.com/id/2208108/pagenum/all/

bill james owns the bcs

The problems with the BCS are:

1. That there is a profound lack of conceptual clarity about the goals of the method;
2. That there is no genuine interest here in using statistical analysis to figure out how the teams compare with one another. The real purpose is to create some gobbledygook math to endorse the coaches' and sportswriters' vote;
3. That the ground rules of the calculations are irrational and prevent the statisticians from making any meaningful contribution; and
4. That the existence of this system has the purpose of justifying a few rich conferences in hijacking the search for a national title, avoiding a postseason tournament that would be preferred by the overwhelming majority of fans.

sooners o-line b holdin like carazy

LOL @ belichick hangin out actually looking like he enjoys football

this game is pretty good
tebow making some bad decisions

yeah - thing about tebow is he can pass when their offense is going machine style but if you get in his face and stop the run he gets really fidgety and inaccurate w/ his throws

i thought the score was gonna be 21-10 UF at halftime i was wrong but damn oklahoma is gonna regret those last two drives

SOONERS WHAT ARE YOU DOING BOOMERS

was that INT on bradford? i didn't get a good look at the replay. he looks like a lot better QB than tebow. i dunno why OU had four straight run plays @ the goal line on the previous drive though, commentators asked why didn't they try a play action or something on 3rd down - good question IMHO

damn those two drives will tell the story

that INT was MARK BIZZARO

this florida band is some sorry shit

yeah those play calls were fucked up - never get it to their TE who is their best pass catcher

that dude on that INT wasn't even in the end zone...

i got the sound off but daria otm with the crazy goal line running game plan

i bet some $ on the Okies and am pretty shell shocked right now

FLA gets the kickoff right? ugh

OK running game between the 20's was a thing of beauty tho

WHEN MAJOR RIGHT HITS YOU YOU'LL FEEL IT IN A MAJOR WRONG WAY

might want to put a spy on tebow

so they are basically running the lolcat all the time because their QB is actually a RB?

good drive for fla

u guys i heard one time tim tebow manifested as the angel gabriel rainbows shot out his eyes and everyones toughness and commitment was improved 1m% also hes a skilled and generous lover

even with a -1 ring of passing

:p

http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e4696a0be2b00d10a7c3e028bfa-500pi

wtf was that?

o man nice pick

florida offense is so lame

sooners beaten by qb w/ leprosy

why y'alls gotta hate on the SEC?

u guys i heard one time tim tebow manifested as the angel gabriel rainbows shot out his eyes and everyones toughness and commitment was improved 1m% also hes a skilled and generous lover

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lmao

the part where mussburgler was like THAT'S THE FIRST THING HE'S DONE WRONG IN HIS LIIIIII-FUH after tebow drew the unsportsmanlike was just.... man. what.

http://home.comcast.net/~matchgame/howardcosell/HowardCosell1.jpg

IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SETON HALL BASKETBALL, YOU MUST TALK ABOUT THE FIGHTING NATION OF ISRAEL. . . . STILL FIGHTING AFTER FORTY-FIVE YEARS.

AND YOU, MY DEAR . . .

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. . . ARE A TREA-ZHA

tebow love makes me sick

the only thing worse is ppl talking about how usc might be the best team in the country ugh

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1x1mvb2W23Q/SWdmcH6ZxFI/AAAAAAAAATM/A8wEAOD577k/s1600-h/brennaman+wiki.jpg

ok

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1x1mvb2W23Q/SWdmcH6ZxFI/AAAAAAAAATM/A8wEAOD577k/s1600-h/brennaman+wiki.jpg

Obama calling for college football playoff: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/09/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4709929.shtml

I can't really be hating too much on Tebow, because you know underneath that All-American quarterback boy exterior is a batshit insane linebacker who loves the taste of his own blood.

But I do agree, all the talk about him being the greatest college football player of all time is ESPN stupid. Jim Brown anyone...