11-23-2009, 03:07 PM | #251 |
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one thing i heard was that tom coughlin LOVES notre dame
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11-23-2009, 03:13 PM | #252 | |
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11-23-2009, 03:20 PM | #253 |
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lol nice - you ruined my deleting of the post jackass. hey...gotta take pride in what we can. we may not admit the idiot athletes who can win national titles, but you can be damn sure your student-athlete is a student-athlete and not a semi-pro athlete.
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11-23-2009, 03:51 PM | #254 |
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11-23-2009, 06:31 PM | #255 |
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All the top teams win out. In the SEC Championship, Florida beats Alabama in a nail-biting overtime game by a 2-point conversion. Texas struggles mightily with Nebraska but wins. Does Alabama have a chance at going? They would have a superior schedule than Texas and many more quality wins. Their only loss would be to the #1 team in the country in a very close game. |
11-23-2009, 06:36 PM | #256 |
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11-23-2009, 06:37 PM | #257 |
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11-23-2009, 07:01 PM | #258 |
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The only way Alabama goes is if they win out, assuming they play Florida in the conf Champ game that pretty well locks it. Any loss will drop them behind Texas and no matter how pathetic Texas' schedule was this season they would get the nod.
Personally I hope they destroy Florida. I'd take Texas/'Bama over Florida/anyone any day of the week. |
11-23-2009, 07:04 PM | #259 |
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But why wouldn't they? Their resume would appear to be much stronger even with a loss against Florida in a tight game.
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11-23-2009, 07:11 PM | #260 | |
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Edelson column: A season’s work wasted | Scarlet Scuttlebutt "Rutgers should have been ready for anything with so much on the line. Defensively, they had no clue what to do when the Orange came out and started running the triple option, stealing off with 21 quick points before the Scarlet Knights got their bearings. Again preparation – and they had nine days to get ready for this one – is of the utmost importance with so much to play for." The writer seems to think they were running the triple option. My 10 years in pro and collegiate football leads me to believe it but I forget how smart this board is sometimes.
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11-23-2009, 07:14 PM | #261 |
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11-23-2009, 07:48 PM | #262 | |
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#1 Pollers like Texas, not big fans of 'Bama with a loss. #2 No one wants a rematch of FLorida - 'Bama in the BCS title game, 3/4 of the country wouldn't bother watching. No tv viewers, no revenue, no revenue == not gonna happen. |
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11-23-2009, 07:59 PM | #263 |
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11-23-2009, 08:34 PM | #265 | |
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You mean the team that had Arkansas and Utah back out of agreed upon games that were scheduled for this season?
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11-23-2009, 09:02 PM | #266 |
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And how is their resume much better then Texas'? I mean, top two aside, the SEC is looking just as average as other conferences this year...besides florida, who in the SEC is better then what Texas has faced? And dont say LSU, because I will laugh
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I find it hard to believe that Texas was unable to secure a game against an opponent tougher than Wyoming, UCF, or whatever FCS school managed to fall on their schedule. |
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11-23-2009, 09:07 PM | #268 |
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Texas didn't have a good OOC schedule. But they did to those teams what elite teams do to poor teams - blow them out. They've only had one close game all season, and they've put a hurting on some above average teams in Oklahoma State and Mizzou, and a 10 point win on an above average Texas Tech team.
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11-23-2009, 09:11 PM | #269 |
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SEC is much better than Big 12. Alabama also beat Virginia Tech out of conference. It's a down year for them, but it's a really down year for the Big 12. The Big 12 is the worst BCS conference this year.
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11-23-2009, 09:15 PM | #271 |
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Fun fact-- In the last 2 seasons Iowa has not lost a game by more then a TD.
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11-23-2009, 09:17 PM | #272 | |
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There was supposed to be a Texas trip to TCU in 2010, but it got scuttled for the same reason the Utah game did. When TCU moved to the Mountain West, it caused an extra conference game to be added to the MWC schedule. I'm not really sure who you thought Texas could get instead of Wyoming, when Arkansas backed out 5 months before the start of the season, and most schedules are nailed down two years in advance. At least they didn't go the FCS route.
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11-23-2009, 09:33 PM | #273 | |
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Are you sure about the 2010 thing? TCU had two Big 12 teams on their schedule next year until Texas Tech pussed out to play Weber State instead. They had also been actively pursuing Notre Dame and Ohio State and I thought were close to deals with both at some point. Seems like if Texas wanted to get something done, they could. And the rumor in Texas was that when Arkansas backed out, TCU offered to play them on the open date. Maybe knowing Hughes would be gunning for McCoy early in the year gave them second thoughts. Last edited by RainMaker : 11-23-2009 at 09:34 PM. |
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11-23-2009, 10:15 PM | #274 |
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But in your scenario, Alabama would've lost in the SEC Title game to Florida. That's enough in my book to slide them below Texas in terms of teams deserving to go to the BCS Title game.
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11-23-2009, 10:51 PM | #275 | |
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Sagarin, just to pick one example, ranks Arkansas #23 at the moment, higher than any team on Texas schedule to date. edit to add: That #23 ranking is also the consensus of every major poll, with the exception to the above being that the consensus ranks Oklahoma State #16. http://www.mratings.com/cf/compare.htm
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There definitely will be more of this at the FCS level if it stays as is. The NCAA should probably lower the scholarships there from 63? to like 42.5 or so. They're not competing with the FBS schools for recruits or championships, and its a massive money loser (at UMass 1.5-2m a year) * - seriously, I've played @ Parsons Field and it's a joke. Less seating, parking and amenities than my HS (and 20-30 more in the area I've been to alone.) When Mark Whipple coached at UMass he called it "the Big House". When a reporter called him out and said the Big House was in Ann Arbor he replied this was the only field in the country you could see a big house through the holes in the chain link fence. Quote:
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Normally, I'd love to argue this, but this year I can't. The Big 12 is extremely weak this year. This year should have been a good year for the Big 12, but injuries and teams imploding just obliterated those expectations. Just an ugly season for the Big 12 in football.
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11-24-2009, 08:18 AM | #279 |
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Rich Rodriguez's job at Michigan likely safe for now - ESPN Gut feeling says he gets 5 years unless things continue to go nowhere as the football program gets a lot more press than their basketball team does.
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I've heard the same one (I think it involved JuCo's too), and while there is almost certainly some truth to it (just as every coach will try to get as many borderline players in as possible - and yes from what I've heard Charlie got some leeway that Davie and Willingham probably didn't) I'm sure it wasn't quite that dramatic.
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Oh, I dunno, 2 national championships in 3 years and the potential for a 3rd in 4 years will, I think, give Meyer substantial leyway if they go 9-3.
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Phil Steele on why NO Iowa:
Since the BCS era began in 1998, only three teams nationally have ever made a BCS bowl after losing two or more games after October 31 (as the Hawkeyes have done). Those three teams were Oklahoma in 2002, Miami in 2003 and Florida State in 2005. Of those three teams, zero got at-large invitations. They all got automatic bids. So, if the Hawks get an at-large invite, they’d be the first school ever to do so after losing two games in November or later. |
11-24-2009, 10:03 AM | #283 | |
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your anti-bc position is well noted bishop. not sure what my institution ever did to you, but so be it. it's just kind of amusing that it seems to be your knee-jerk reaction to anything nice i have to say about BC. fact of the matter is that it happened...but it happened so many years ago, and BC was far from the only place where it happened - and there have been other places where worse things happened, so i'm not sure what the deal is. did you lose a ton of money because of it or something?
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In real life I'm friends with a couple dozen BC alums, and I'm sure we'd get along if we ever do meet up. It's just the knee-jerk reaction to BC being brought and me being a UMass and Notre Dame football fan. I don't mean it any more personally than the Oklahoma/Texas, Georgia/Georgia Tech or USC/UCLA posters do when trading insults. (I'll leave Kansas/Missouri out of it, since there does appear to be a little personal animosity there at times.)You'd think so, and I didn't say it would be anything near a majority, but they would be out there. Les Miles at LSU won a title in 2007 and there have been murmurs about him and iirc even resident LSU fans calling for the OC to be fired. Bob Stoops at Oklahoma has people talking about him. Jim Tressel just finished clinching 5 straight BCS games and 7 in 8 seasons and there's a sizable contingent of Ohio State fans that don't like him or his style. Last edited by BishopMVP : 11-24-2009 at 07:04 PM. |
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Just a correction, Texas didn't head to Wyoming to open any new stadium. War Memorial is being renovated as we type, but it's not being replaced. (They're adding luxury boxes. Which is hilarious, really.) You're thinking of a few years ago when Texas went to UCF to help them open their new stadium and managed to lose. The Wyoming game is a three-game series that Texas went to Wyoming this year and the Pokes will make two trips to Texas next year and again two years later I think. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-24-2009 at 07:34 PM. |
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And the Utah-Texas series was cancelled in 2004. When Urban Meyer was still there, because he thought it made the team's schedule too difficult. It would've resulted in a Texas-Utah game last year in Utah had the series been kept up. Texas Tech cancelled a game against TCU for next season and instead chose to schedule Weber State. But I don't see any evidence that TCU cancelled a game with Texas anywhere. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-24-2009 at 07:36 PM. |
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It wasn't canceled, so much as the 2nd game after the 2007 one never got scheduled. I believe that the games were originally discussed in '98 or '99 when TCU was in the WAC, and they were able to keep them when TCU moved to Conference USA, but their move shortly thereafter to the MWC caused the second game to be dropped. Not 100% certain of that, though.
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i'm sure we'd get along great if/when we ever meet up. no worries, i was just curious. lol - and i hardly think i'm arrogant (although i suppose it could come off as that way here) about having gone to bc.
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