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Post by RDF on Sept 7, 2010 13:52:53 GMT -5
If only there were some mechanism to allow the teams that perform really well throughout the season to engage in some sort of limited series of elimination competitions against each other to figure out which of them should play for the national championship. But that's just crazy talk. BRAVO!
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Sept 7, 2010 18:05:25 GMT -5
This BSU dynamic will be annoying all season, like Gonzaga is annoying in college basketball. That being said, I give the coach credit for at least putting decent teams on the schedule, although perhaps not in a way that maximizes the challenge to the team. The difference with BSU is that they play irrelevant programs in conference, which the Alabamas of the world do not have the luxury of doing. I like BSU. Unlike Gonzaga, which tanks when it matters, Boise finished undefeated last year. Exactly. Gonzaga blows because they blow when it matters. Nobody on the Worldwide Leader has to jump up and down and scream Alabama wasn't "into it" against Utah or Oklahoma was "demoralized" against Boise State in their bowl games. The fact is, the SEC has been the only conference head and shoulders above the rest for a half decade now. The preseason favorite in the Big East lost to the projected #2 MWC team and the WAC favorite beat the ACC favorite. That happened because Utah and Boise State have been better than Pitt and VA Tech respectively for about 5 years now. Anyone who argues that playing Baylor or WSU or any of the bottom half of the Big Ten is some murderers row that can't compare to non-BCS conferences is fooling themselves. And we all could fool ourselves right up until Utah went undefeated twice and Boise St. beat Oklahoma. And if that's not convincing, every Boise State win is a step closer to the BCS being dissolved. Either way, go BSU.
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Post by FLHoya on Sept 11, 2010 15:14:23 GMT -5
What if Tech ends up with 3-4 losses in the ACC--will that "win" be as impressive? Boise's strength of schedule is NOT going to appreciate this. ;D Now THAT'S the ACC I know and love!
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Post by hoya95 on Sept 11, 2010 15:24:24 GMT -5
What if Tech ends up with 3-4 losses in the ACC--will that "win" be as impressive? Boise's strength of schedule is NOT going to appreciate this. ;D Now THAT'S the ACC I know and love! Wow. I am stuck at work so did anyone how how VA Tech melted down? In reason #6,005 why we need a playoff, the transitive property of sports has a pretty limited value. This doesn't make JMU better than VA Tech. But it does add to the legend that Tech knows how to choke with the best of them. And the ACC will always be embarassing.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Sept 11, 2010 15:37:05 GMT -5
Clutch comeback by West VA over Marshall on Friday night.
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Post by kghoya on Sept 11, 2010 21:22:33 GMT -5
Beamer was determined to ruin Boise State's season. He just found a very creative way to do it.
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Post by RDF on Sept 12, 2010 1:07:14 GMT -5
BTW--how does James Madison beating Tech by 5 pts on the road in Blacksburg factor into Boise winning by 3 on a neutral field--and WTF are these guys ranked in top 3 for--this makes the point for me--it's a joke and the sport needs a Playoff badly.
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Post by kghoya on Sept 12, 2010 1:43:57 GMT -5
BTW--how does James Madison beating Tech by 5 pts on the road in Blacksburg factor into Boise winning by 3 on a neutral field--and WTF are these guys ranked in top 3 for--this makes the point for me--it's a joke and the sport needs a Playoff badly. Of course it's a joke. I'm tired of Saban already lobbying against Boise State based on their conference. You don't have to be in the best conference to be the best team. He should know more than most that it doesn't matter what conference you are in. It's as if he forgot that the last loss he suffered was a beatdown by Utah. Nobody was going to argue that the MWC was better top to bottom than the SEC that year. But that had nothing to do with the way the Utes took the Crimson Tide's lunch money that night in the Sugar Bowl. Have a playoff and stop the stupid arguments for and against every team. I just hope that somebody beats Ohio State this year.
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Post by SirSaxa on Sept 12, 2010 10:03:04 GMT -5
Clutch comeback by West VA over Marshall on Friday night. And Stanford -- on the road -- BLASTED UCLA 35-0!!
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Post by hoyainspirit on Sept 12, 2010 11:40:39 GMT -5
Clutch comeback by West VA over Marshall on Friday night. And Stanford -- on the road -- BLASTED UCLA 35-0!! Yep! Watched that one, too. Loved it. That Michigan, Notre Dame game was a barn burner, also. Way to go Wolverines. Combine all that with a Saints win and an LSU win and it makes for a nice football weekend.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 12, 2010 22:39:02 GMT -5
And Stanford -- on the road -- BLASTED UCLA 35-0!! Stanford looked really good, too, based on the (small) portion of the game I watched. In the late game time slot I mostly watched the other team from Los Angeles play all sloppy against U. Va. There's a totally different attitude at SC this season, and that's not a good thing. Not sure how Matt Barkley is supposedly in the Heisman trophy conversation according to the talking heads. (And why are we even having this Heisman trophy "conversation" in SEPTEMBER? Is it really a conversation if it is just Disney-affiliated network people talking to themselves?) It's too bad for hoyarooter that UCLA is still terrible, because a power shift is occurring in the Pac 10, and SC won't be at the top when it's finished. I guess that's nothing new for Trojan fans, whose program history is full of boom-and-bust cycles. Pac 10 looks as if it will probably be the most interesting conference to follow again this season. I hope the conference championship is decided by the Civil War again this season -- that was a great, fun game last year. Michigan has a 2-0 start and a favorable schedule. Wolverine fans should get used to the phrase "Coach Rodriguez." Texas is going to lose some ballgames early this season, and may well lose in Lubbock next weekend. However, I still like the changes to the offense, and I love Garrett Gilbert (although he's still making some mistakes as well) It looks like a slow start/strong finish type of season (knock on wood) for my team. After two weeks, the New Mexico Lobos have given up 124 points. I smell a midseason sacking of a defensive coordinator.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Sept 12, 2010 22:41:56 GMT -5
Agree completely re: UT, Austin. I think this team is more fun to watch than last year's team because we don't have the Jordan Shipley bailout that we had last season. We're forced to find answers more, and that will serve us well over the long term, especially on the offensive end. I'd like to see another receiver emerge to go with Williams. Maybe Davis is that guy.
The defense is not as tight as it was last year, but I see that more in the secondary than elsewhere. Chalky (phonetic) Brown has a Braswellian quality to him.
BSU does not have a stretch like we do with UCLA, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
My $.02.
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Sept 13, 2010 5:55:34 GMT -5
i am very happy about the win for michigan but remember, they started 4-0 last year. the conference record will determine if they keep rodriguez, not wins over uconn and nd in september. denard is amazing but he won't make it through the whole season rushing 25+ times a game. hopefully, he'll get a rest the next 2 weeks against umass and bowling green. someone else on the offense has to step up. they don't have any sort of threat at rb. the defensive backfield will get exposed by some of the more experienced qb's in the big 10 and i am still not sure they can stop a power running game. if crist doesn't miss the majority of the first half, who knows how that game would have played out. lots of mistakes by michigan against nd and much more work to do.
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Post by theexorcist on Sept 13, 2010 6:18:39 GMT -5
Boise's strength of schedule is NOT going to appreciate this. ;D Now THAT'S the ACC I know and love! Wow. I am stuck at work so did anyone how how VA Tech melted down? In reason #6,005 why we need a playoff, the transitive property of sports has a pretty limited value. This doesn't make JMU better than VA Tech. But it does add to the legend that Tech knows how to choke with the best of them. And the ACC will always be embarassing. So, on Facebook I "like" Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling. On Saturday afternoon, he posted something to the extent of "Saw the game, congrats to JMU on a hard-fought victory. As for VT, what a hard loss, but they can come back and win the ACC." I wanted to respond to the effect of "We all know they can still win the ACC, but that's primarily because it's a crappy conference".
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Post by Boz on Sept 13, 2010 8:28:03 GMT -5
This doesn't make JMU better than VA Tech. Actually, I'm pretty sure it does make JMU better than Va. Tech. At least this week. It's not the transitive property. It's the "we just beat your ass" property. As for Michigan...what HoyaFanNY said. While in my very, very biased opinion, Denard Robinson may very well be the best - or at least most exciting - football player in America, it would be nice if people could tone down the Heisman talk until, say, Michigan becomes bowl eligible? Yeah, that'd be nice. Having said that, it is a treat to watch that kid play football. And, as Michigan doesn't have a whole lot of other options (no pun intended), it'll continue to be a treat right up until the point that he runs out of gas.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Sept 13, 2010 10:20:01 GMT -5
Michigan's Denard Robinson reminded me of Michael Vick as a freshman. I saw Vick's first game on TV, had never heard of him, and was quite impressed. Robinson, thus far, has apparently been just as exciting.
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 13, 2010 11:45:32 GMT -5
Thanks for the shout out, Austin. UCLA was abominable Saturday night. They just couldn't stop shooting themselves in the foot. Also, nice coaching job, blowing two timeouts on one play, and then drawing a penalty while trying to make wholesale defensive changes. I thought Kevin Prince showed potential last year, but he's taken a big step back. I don't know if it's due to his injuries and lack of good practice time or not. Might be. One thing for sure, though, I certainly wouldn't include UCLA on Texas's list of impressive opponents.
Agree with hoyainspirit re Robinson. I only watched limited minutes of the Michigan - Notre Dame game, but he was definitely an eye catcher.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 16, 2010 22:35:37 GMT -5
Welcome back to mediocrity, Cincinnati.
It's been a bad season so far for the ACC, but it hasn't been much better for the Big East -- every BE team but Rutgers and West Virginia already has a mark in the loss column. Last year's "juggernaut" has two.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Sept 16, 2010 23:26:32 GMT -5
One thing for sure, though, I certainly wouldn't include UCLA on Texas's list of impressive opponents. Nor would I. However, that date is circled on the calendar of many longtime Texas fans as a revenge game. I'm sure you remember the debacle known as Rout 66, which led directly to the firing of John Mackovic: articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/14/sports/sp-32350The UCLA game is considered a potential problem by some Texas fans for two reasons: 1) it's sandwiched between the Texas Tech and Oklahoma games. Classic trap game, yada yada yada, BS BS BS. 2) The Texas offense, as I suggested above, may still be working out some of the kinks that come with tweaking the offense in Week 4. However, after watching the TV version of the Texas-Wyoming game on DVR this week, I'm convinced the 'Horns will put it together this week in Lubbock, then return to Austin to beat the Bruins by 20. Even if Texas is still low on the learning curve at that point in time, Neuheisel's crew looked flat against K-State, and worse against Stanford. No way UCLA heads home victorious this time. No way.
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 17, 2010 12:28:36 GMT -5
One thing for sure, though, I certainly wouldn't include UCLA on Texas's list of impressive opponents. Nor would I. However, that date is circled on the calendar of many longtime Texas fans as a revenge game. I'm sure you remember the debacle known as Rout 66, which led directly to the firing of John Mackovic: articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/14/sports/sp-32350The UCLA game is considered a potential problem by some Texas fans for two reasons: 1) it's sandwiched between the Texas Tech and Oklahoma games. Classic trap game, yada yada yada, BS BS BS. 2) The Texas offense, as I suggested above, may still be working out some of the kinks that come with tweaking the offense in Week 4. However, after watching the TV version of the Texas-Wyoming game on DVR this week, I'm convinced the 'Horns will put it together this week in Lubbock, then return to Austin to beat the Bruins by 20. Even if Texas is still low on the learning curve at that point in time, Neuheisel's crew looked flat against K-State, and worse against Stanford. No way UCLA heads home victorious this time. No way. Yep, I remember that game very well, and how astonished I was by the outcome. Revenge beats trap any day. I think your 20 point estimate is low. I think 30-40 is more likely.
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