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ummmm........
Extremely normal.
Especially when it's . . .
ZERO DARK THURSDAY
ZERO DARK THURSDAY
Wrymouth3
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Louisville gives up 3 offensive touchdowns in 3 minutes. That takes some real damn skill!
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
I'll admit, I stopped watching at 28-7. I used up all my faith on UNC last night. Glad to see UCF pull it out at the end though . . .
EDIT: I've been fixated on FSU/Clemson and then the weeknight games this week, but there's a lot of good football tomorrow before FSU/Clemson kicks off. I did mention Missouri/Florida in the early slot. It may not be exciting football but it will put one team in sole possession of their own destiny in the division. Then in the second slot we've got A&M/Auburn and UCLA/Stanford playing simultaneously . . .
EDIT: I've been fixated on FSU/Clemson and then the weeknight games this week, but there's a lot of good football tomorrow before FSU/Clemson kicks off. I did mention Missouri/Florida in the early slot. It may not be exciting football but it will put one team in sole possession of their own destiny in the division. Then in the second slot we've got A&M/Auburn and UCLA/Stanford playing simultaneously . . .
Yeah, that's when I stopped watching too. UCF is a good football team and all, and they could very well win out, but man, what a HUGE choke job by Louisville. Now it's possible that a team that good could find itself totally out of the BCS!
Wrymouth3
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Shameful coaching decisions by South Carolina just lost them a game they had everything to lose in.
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
The East is just a mess. Every team except Georgia -- whose injury woes are well documented -- has seen their starting QB lose significant snaps to injury. Missouri takes their freshman QB in his first start and totally dominates Florida, extending their lead over everyone else in the division to two games, virtually locking up their spot in the conference title game. In week 8 . . .
Missouri never had it so easy in the Big 12 North.
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
I wouldn't call it easy. They've got the head to head over Georgia and Florida, but the South Carolina game next week is still important. I was very impressed with Missouri today and I'm on the bandwagon for the moment, but I still wouldn't pick them to beat Johnny Football & Co. to close out the season. So if they lose to SCAR, there are going to be a whole mess of two-loss teams competing for the title shot . . .
I wouldn't expect them to beat Johnny Football & Co. Missouri struggled against the Big 12 South.
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
But Auburn didn't. Incredible game from their D-line. The dream of every Alabaman for the past twenty years is one step closer -- this may finally be the season that the Iron Bowl decides the West . . .
EDIT: Of the six SEC games today, Alabama/Arkansas was the only one that followed the script. Everything else was an upset except Mizzou/Florida, which still felt like an upset . . .
Highlight of the day was the graphic EPSN threw up there with 1:18 left to go in the game: Alabama committed no turnovers, no penalties and didn't allow a sack or a point. Derrick Henry promptly reeled off an 80-yard TD run on the next play. We've outscored Arkansas 104-0 in the last two games . . .
And we appear to have lost Vinnie Sunseri for the year . . .
"We won the football game, that's the only thing I care about," - Brady HokeMichigan's defense is depressing me.
And there's your problem.
Wonder if any 2 loss SEC teams stay in the top 10 this week.
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
Reminds me of Tuberville . . ."We won the football game, that's the only thing I care about," - Brady Hoke
And there's your problem.
Could be. LSU and A&M will drop, but so will Clemson, Louisville, UCLA and maybe Miami. South Carolina's eleventh, hard to drop any of those past them. Baylor, Stanford & Missouri will rise. Georgia is out of the top 25 I'd imagine. That's last week's top 15. TT and Fresno still haven't played anybody. Oklahoma? VT? Auburn? We're running out of teams here . . .
EDIT: Top 25 time!! YAY!!!
We're down to ten undefeated teams. There are exactly fifteen one-loss teams, so, as is my custom, I will begin including the one-loss teams in my ironclad, definitive rankings. Here they are . . :
1. Alabama -- Dominant, mistake-free football. We may be peaking too early, but no one can beat us when we're playing like this . . .
2. FSU -- Dominating win, but I feel like I expected it so I'm a little underwhelmed. Also, I don't feel like they have any chance to pass Alabama or Oregon until one of them loses. They may deserve to, but I don't think they will . . .
3. Oregon -- I feel like Oregon is unfocused. Think how scary they'd be if they weren't. They may want 'Bama, but they'd do well to remember they've got six games to play between now and then . . .
4. Stanford -- There's no shame in losing at Utah I guess. It's one of those trap games you're always reading about. And they do have some pretty good wins and they're a pretty good football team to boot. So here they sit . . .
5. Baylor -- I think they're doing it with smoke and mirrors. Alabama/FSU/Oregon would annihilate these guys . . .
6. UCLA -- I felt better about the way UCLA got pushed around at Utah after Stanford lost at Utah. And they hung in with Stanford through most of three quarters. And they whooped up on Nebraska pretty good, for what that's worth . . .
7. Clemson -- Soooo, that was embarrassing. They still have the good win over Georgia back when they were healthy, and while they didn't exactly exert their will against NCState or BC, those games weren't really in doubt either. They'd probably be favored over any other one-loss team not in the Pac-12. What they've got to watch out for now is not letting that one whipping snowball. Road trip to Maryland next week . . .
8. Missouri -- I'm impressed. Florida is injured, but they've still got one of the best defenses in the country. They certainly didn't look like it today. Even without my crimson-colored glasses, I do not think Mizzou would fare well against Alabama in the conference title game. But they've got a great shot to get there . . .
9. Ohio State -- Another win that was closer than it should have been, but they're getting credit for the streak as much as anything -- nineteen straight is tough against anybody . . .
10. Virginia Tech -- The Florida of the ACC. Can't score, can't be scored upon. Only gave up 21 to Marshall in four quarters and three OTs. OTOH, Marshall took them to three OTs. I just love defense
I wish these guys played Clemson or FSU. Preferably Clemson . . .11. Oklahoma -- I've given up trying to figure out the Big XII. I'm putting Oklahoma here. You can move them to any slot occupied by any other Big XII team
12. Oklahoma State -- They lost to WVU, and Oklahoma didn't. Behold logic and tremble, college football ! ! !
13. Auburn -- I don't know what to do with Auburn. The team that beat them just lost to Ole Miss, but OTOH Auburn beat Ole Miss. They've got close wins over Miss State and Washington State which aren't exactly confidence-inspiring, but those are from earlier in the year. I guess what it comes down to is that today's Auburn/A&M game makes me feel worse about A&M than better about Auburn. Maybe that's not fair
14. Miami -- Why won't this damn team lose? I'm giving them props just for irritating me at this point . . .
15. TT -- They don't get points for irritating me until they play somebody that doesn't suck . . .
16. Michigan State -- I'm not sure I've seen a single play from a Michigan State game this year, which is weird. But they lost to Notre Dame. How good could they be . . ?
17. UCF -- Good loss to SCAR. Decent win over Penn State. Good win over Louisville. Embarrassing scare at Memphis sandwiched in there . . .
18. Nebraska -- They got beaten up pretty good by UCLA, and they almost lost to Wyoming. This maybe isn't fair, but I feel like UCF deserves to be ahead of somebody good . . .
19. Michigan -- I don't feel guilty about this one at all. They should probably be behind Louisville . . .
20. Louisville -- This is the kind of crap Oregon could pull. Mess around with weaker foes like Kentucky and Rutgers, then slip up when they face somebody who won't lie down . . .
21. Fresno State -- They almost lost to Hawai'i. And Boise. And Rutgers. And they don't play anybody . . .
22. Northern Illinois -- Almost lost to Iowa. And Eastern Illinois. And Akron. And they don't play anybody. They do have that spiffy QB though. Maybe I should bump them back up one . . ?
23. Houston -- A one-point loss to BYU isn't exactly embarrassing. The five-point win over Rice is probably worse, really. But they don't have any decent wins. They do still have UCF and Louisville on the schedule, but don't get excited . . .
24. Oregon State -- Wait, what? Eastern Washington? My brain is melting. They do seem to be improving as the season progresses though. So there's that . . .
25. Ball State -- Crappy loss. No really good wins. Virginia? Toledo . . ?
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Yeah, Ohio is way too high.
ummmm........
Extremely normal.
Well, they're at six if you don't count the one loss teams . . .
Would you think they have "played anybody" if they had played Vanderbilt or Tennessee or Mississippi?
AP poll out - 4 legacy SEC schools ranked, 7 legacy Big 12 teams ranked. Looks like Colorado got relegated to the wrong conference.
Wrymouth3
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New rankings are out. Really mind blown at how much Mizzou and Auburn jumped, but i'm truly mystified as to how little SCAR actually dropped. If I was a voter, I wouldn't even have them in the Top 30.
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