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Texas, Florida, Oklahoma looking in…
Nov 11th
Alabama and Texas Tech and their perfect records were on top of the BCS standings Sunday. Texas, Florida and Oklahoma, all with one loss, are lurking and ready to take advantage if the front-runners fall.
Penn State’s loss to Iowa on Saturday left the Crimson Tide and Red Raiders as the only unbeaten teams in the BCS conferences, making it easy to sort out the all-important first two places in the BCS standings this week.
The new rankings are up
Nov 9th
Alabama and Texas Tech are holding the top 2 spots this week…no surprise. And even though UF is #3 in both the AP and USA Today…Texas is #3 in the BCS standings and UF is #4.
Also, went 4-1 this weekend in my predictions… going +7 units. Should have been 5-0 +8 unit…fucking kicker.
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Saturday Games & Picks
Nov 7th
First…please take a second and answer the poll questions to the left.
Now for my picks…(click ‘continue reading’)
No. 1 Alabama at No. 16 LSU
No. 9 Oklahoma State at No. 2 Texas Tech
No. 21 California at No. 7 USC
Illinois at Western Michigan
Thursday Night Game & Pick
Nov 6th
8:00 PM
No. 12 TCU (9-1) at No. 8 Utah (9-0)
Both these teams are undefeated in the MWC and tonight they battle to sit atop the league alone. The Horned Frogs own a win over BYU and their lone loss came to Oklahoma. Utah is undefeated, sitting on top of all other non-BCS schools. TCU only has Air Force left after this game while Utah has #15 BYU in two weeks.
Analysis and my prediction…. More >
Two huge ‘Top 10′ games on Saturday
Oct 31st
Two games. Four top 10 teams. These 2 games may decide at least one of the entrants into the Big 12 and SEC championship games.
And that means the difference between a BCS game or the BCS game
No. 1 Texas (8-0) at No. 7 Texas Tech (8-0), 8 p.m.
This is likely the last chance for anyone to knock off the top-ranked Longhorns before the conference title game, which they would almost certainly clinch a berth in with a win in Lubbock. The Red Raiders have this one at home, which is big, but even a win wouldn’t make them the presumptive favorites for the conference title – they face No. 9 Oklahoma State and No. 4 Oklahoma the next two weeks. Whoever makes the most plays on defense, or even one big play, wins this one.
No. 8 Florida (6-1) vs. No. 6 Georgia (7-1) in Jacksonville, 3:30 p.m.
This one was circled on the schedule even before the season began; in the wacky world of the SEC, it’s impressive that it still has a huge impact. The Bulldogs have won three straight after getting dumped by Alabama and the Gators have romped through three straight wins after being upset by Ole Miss. Plus, Florida’s returning players have a bad taste left from last year’s 42-30 loss to Georgia in which Bulldogs coach Mark Richt ordered his players to get a celebration penalty after the opening touchdown.
Week 2 – Oklahoma, USC too high; Florida too low – SportingNews.com
Oct 27th
This is why we love JoePa. After Penn State’s biggest win of the season Saturday night against Ohio State, the iconic one was asked what this meant to his team in the grand scheme of the BCS rankings.”What, we’ve played nine games?” Paterno said. “We’re 9-0. That’s what it means.”
Let me translate Joe’s 80-something response: There’s a lot of ball to be played, folks.
No. 1 Texas plays at No. 7 Texas Tech on Saturday. Tech, meanwhile, still must play No. 9 Oklahoma State and at No. 4 Oklahoma.
No. 2 Alabama plays at LSU in two weeks and still must win the SEC championship game against either No. 6 Georgia or No. 8 Florida.
The only team sitting pretty? No. 5 Southern Cal, which doesn’t play a team in the BCS rankings the remainder of the season.
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The Initial Rankings….finally – ESPN.com
Oct 19th
by Brad Edwards of ESPN.com
It’s almost as if 2007 never ended.
The first eight weeks of the 2008 season have provided enough upsets and surprises that, for the first time in BCS history (since 1998), the top three teams in the initial BCS standings all came from outside of the AP’s preseason top 10.
No. 1 Texas (7-0), No. 2 Alabama (7-0) and No. 3 Penn State (8-0) may be traditional college football powers, but they weren’t considered by many people to be national title contenders before this season began. The Longhorns started 11th in the AP poll, the Crimson Tide were 24th, and the Nittany Lions began at No. 22.
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BYU likely out of the BCS race
Oct 17th
FORT WORTH, Texas — As chants of “overrated” rang out through the stands of Amon G. Carter Stadium, No. 9 BYU could only hang its head and quietly jog off the field in an overwhelming cloud of disappointment.
The Cougars had thoroughly been beaten, 32-7, by TCU, a team that admitted earlier in the week that defeating BYU had been on its mind since last January.
It was the second-worst loss in coach Bronco Mendenhall’s four seasons and surprising because the Cougars had come into the game as the non-BCS darling. This was the team that was going to storm the BCS and awake the ghosts of 1984 — the year of BYU’s national championship. The Cougars were riding a 16-game winning streak, hadn’t lost a conference game in more than two years and were ranked higher than any other non-BCS team.
But the Cougars ran into a faster, better organized and driven TCU team. It was the first team with a winning record BYU had faced since playing Northern Iowa of the FCS to begin the season, and the first chance BYU had to show naysayers that it was worthy of its top 10 ranking and national media hype.
Instead of dispelling claims that they weren’t as good as their record, the Cougars merely fueled the fire for the chants that ushered them off the field.
“Coach [Gary] Patterson had his team more prepared than I had our team,” Mendenhall said. “They were sharper in every phase of the game, executed at a higher level from beginning to end, and again that comes down to simply coaching and preparation and their staff did a better job than I did for our program.”
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