FormerHoya
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Post by FormerHoya on Oct 29, 2012 11:45:12 GMT -5
No time to do the picks right now, but Notre Dame loses by 17 in Norman. Muchas Gracias.
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 30, 2012 15:56:53 GMT -5
It's extremely windy in NW Indiana today. How many cameramen will have to die so that Coach Kelley can get a good aerial shot? But, the Irish are winning so it's all good.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Oct 30, 2012 17:07:55 GMT -5
Week 9 Results for Games That Mattered: Louisville over Cincinnati for the Keg of Nails N. Carolina over NC State Miami (OH) over Ohio in the Battle of the Bricks UGA over Florida in the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party for the Okefenokee Oar K-State over Texas Tech Notre Dame over Oklahoma Alabama over Mississippi State Week 10 Picks for Games That Matter: Michigan over Minnesota for the Little Brown Jug Mississippi State over TAMU Air Force over Army in a Commander-In-Chief Trophy game Central Michigan over Western Michigan for the Golden Cannon in a Michigan MAC Trophy game Kent State over Akron for the Wagon Wheel Ohio State over Illinois for Illibuck (it's a wooden turtle) Texas Tech over Texas for the Chancellor's Spurs Louisiana-Monroe over Louisiana-Lafayette in the Battle on the Bayou Wyoming over Colorado State for the Bronze Boot Oregon over SC Fresno State over Hawaii for the Golden Screwdriver K-State over Oklahoma State Alabama over LSU Speaking of trophies, does anyone know if this one is still in the case at McDonough? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Dean_Memorial_Trophy
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 4, 2012 8:56:18 GMT -5
Pitt sucks. They had ND. They played not to lose instead of to win in the 4th and OT. LSU shut down the Tide the entire second half, except when it really counted. Way to go Stanford!
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Post by SirSaxa on Nov 4, 2012 14:10:14 GMT -5
Looks like the Cardinal finally found their Luck replacement.
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Post by joepa on Nov 5, 2012 9:36:19 GMT -5
The IRISH arev still over-rated. 3 OT's to beat lowly PITT
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 5, 2012 9:41:17 GMT -5
The IRISH arev still over-rated. 3 OT's to beat lowly PITT Welcome, joepa!
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Post by rosslynhoya on Nov 5, 2012 9:46:35 GMT -5
The IRISH arev still over-rated. 3 OT's to beat lowly PITT Welcome, joepa! Give him a break, he's had his hands full for most of the last five years.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Nov 5, 2012 12:31:45 GMT -5
The IRISH arev still over-rated. 3 OT's to beat lowly PITT Notre Dame deserves credit for gutting out that win, but I don't think the Irish are good enough to be the No. 3 team in the nation. Speaking of overrated, let's look at the big conferences and talk about what makes a "strong conference" in the 12-to-14-team conference era. For example, Alabama plays in the SEC, which everyone agrees is the best conference in college football. The SEC is very, very good at the top (Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina). How many of those five teams are on Alabama's schedule? One, which almost beat the Crimson Tide on Saturday despite having an anemic offense. (For the record, I wasn't able to watch the game; my statement about the LSU offense is based on suffering through the LSU-TAMU snoozefest a couple weeks back.) How about Oregon, which plays in the Pac-12? The best teams in that conference are the Ducks, Oregon State, Stanford, and SC. How many of those teams has Oregon faced so far this season? One; and SC hung with the Ducks fairly well on Saturday in Los Angeles. Unlike Alabama, Oregon gets the short end of the divisional imbalance in its conference, though it does get to skip a resurgent UCLA team. At least give Nebraska (who else can I talk about in the Big Ten other than the overrated probationers in scarlet and gray) some credit; in its first year in the conference it skips Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana while facing Ohio State, Penn State, and Wisconsin in cross-divisional play. So, in an era where we can crunch strength of schedule numbers easily and efficiently, why does Alabama get extra credit for playing in the Southeastern Conference when its SEC opponents so far have a combined record of 24-21 (8-19 SEC)? Related question: should we expect Mike Slive or Jim Delany to tinker with the schedule in the future to ensure that a conference's "big brand" schools have favorable in-conferences schedules?
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Post by Boz on Nov 5, 2012 13:30:05 GMT -5
Related question: should we expect Mike Slive or Jim Delany to tinker with the schedule in the future to ensure that a conference's "big brand" schools have favorable in-conferences schedules? You don't actually need an answer to that, do you?
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Post by FormerHoya on Nov 5, 2012 15:43:59 GMT -5
The IRISH arev still over-rated. 3 OT's to beat lowly PITT Notre Dame deserves credit for gutting out that win, but I don't think the Irish are good enough to be the No. 3 team in the nation. Speaking of overrated, let's look at the big conferences and talk about what makes a "strong conference" in the 12-to-14-team conference era. For example, Alabama plays in the SEC, which everyone agrees is the best conference in college football. The SEC is very, very good at the top (Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina). How many of those five teams are on Alabama's schedule? One, which almost beat the Crimson Tide on Saturday despite having an anemic offense. (For the record, I wasn't able to watch the game; my statement about the LSU offense is based on suffering through the LSU-TAMU snoozefest a couple weeks back.) How about Oregon, which plays in the Pac-12? The best teams in that conference are the Ducks, Oregon State, Stanford, and SC. How many of those teams has Oregon faced so far this season? One; and SC hung with the Ducks fairly well on Saturday in Los Angeles. Unlike Alabama, Oregon gets the short end of the divisional imbalance in its conference, though it does get to skip a resurgent UCLA team. At least give Nebraska (who else can I talk about in the Big Ten other than the overrated probationers in scarlet and gray) some credit; in its first year in the conference it skips Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana while facing Ohio State, Penn State, and Wisconsin in cross-divisional play. So, in an era where we can crunch strength of schedule numbers easily and efficiently, why does Alabama get extra credit for playing in the Southeastern Conference when its SEC opponents so far have a combined record of 24-21 (8-19 SEC)? Related question: should we expect Mike Slive or Jim Delany to tinker with the schedule in the future to ensure that a conference's "big brand" schools have favorable in-conferences schedules? Truth be told, the ND almost loss was your fault. Not picking the game is tantamount to a ND selection by you, hence the close call. I'm certain if you actually pick ND this weekend (and isn't there some dumb trophy between them and BC?) BC will pull the shocker.* *Will not happen. BC looks like a pick 'em game against Georgetown this year. ACC fever, catch it.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Nov 5, 2012 15:58:13 GMT -5
(and isn't there some dumb trophy between them and BC?) Actually, there are two "dumb trophies" for this game, which I agree the Irish will win handily.
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 5, 2012 22:23:46 GMT -5
I watched the second half of the Bama/LSU game (was watching the Bredders Cup and the Oregon/USC pinball machine game priior to that), and I thought LSU's quarterback played really well. In fact, LSU dominated teh second half until that final Bama drive. Too bad, was hoping to get Les Miles back in the spotlight. That's always good for a laugh or two.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Nov 19, 2012 18:13:05 GMT -5
I'll catch up on the old games tomorrow (and my apologies to anyone who noticed that I haven't posted in this thread for two weeks), but here are your...
Week 13 Picks for Games That Matter
Nebraska over Iowa for the Heroes Trophy LSU over Arkansas for the Golden Boot Utah over Colorado in the Rumble in the Rockies Wazzu shocks U-Dub for the Apple Cup Arizona over Arizona State in the Duel in the Desert for the Territorial Cup Purdue over Indiana for the Old Oaken Bucket UGA crushes Georgia Tech in the Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate game for the Governor's Cup Virgina Tech over U. Va. for the Commonwealth Cup Northwestern over Illinois for the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk Land of Lincoln Trophy Michigan over overrated Ohio State Tennessee over Kentucky for the Beer Barrel Oregon State over Oregon in the Civil War for the Platypus Trophy Alabama over Auburn in the Iron Bowl for the James E. Foy/V-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy MTSU over Troy in the Battle for the Palladium for the Palladium Trophy Florida State over Florida for the Florida Cup Oklahoma State over Oklahoma in the Bedlam game for the Bedlam Bell Southern Miss over Memphis in the Black-and-Blue Bowl for its first win of the season Stanford over UCLA Mississippi State over Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl for the Golden Egg S. Carolina over Clemson in the Battle of the Palmetto State for the Hardee's Trophy Notre Dame over SC for the Jeweled Shillelagh and a shot at the National Championship Alabama State over Tuskegee in the Turkey Day Classic Southern over Grambling State in the Bayou Classic
Recap of FCS Rivalry Week games and other games coming soon.
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 23, 2012 23:08:40 GMT -5
Austin, nice call on Wazzu. They are awful, so I would never have seen that coming. And not only did they win, but they rallied from 18 points behind to do it.
And I don't want to hear that they rallied against UCLA. That was more UCLA going to sleep with a huge lead than a true rally.
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Post by CAHoya07 on Nov 24, 2012 17:57:29 GMT -5
Both #18 Rutgers and #20 Louisville lose (to 5-6 teams Pitt and UConn), so Thursday's showdown in Piscataway for the Big East title and a BCS berth might be between two unranked teams. Yikes.
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Post by hoya95 on Nov 25, 2012 1:50:38 GMT -5
Notre Dame won all their close games, so they get to go to Miami. I'm not happy about it, but there is not much you can say.
But I am compelled to say this: Lane Kiffin must never be allowed to coach another team at any level under any circumstances. He is the Bernie Madoff of coaching. He's built a ponzi scheme of brashness, trash talking and recruiting violations. He has now gotten three jobs based on the theory that he looks the part and acts the part, so he must know what he is doing. The end of tonight's game should finally dispell that forever. First, he runs on the field to call a time out to stop his team from scoring. Then he pulled off the comedy of errors from the one yard line. And if you are the 2nd most penalized team out of 120 or so, that's saying something. If Chip Kelly or Will Muschamp ever run into this clown, he'd better start running.
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Post by rosslynhoya on Nov 26, 2012 11:11:28 GMT -5
If the alternative for the title game is yet another SEC team that didn't even win its own division, then I'm perfectly at peace with Notre Dame's victory and its chance to play for the crown.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Nov 26, 2012 12:29:21 GMT -5
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 26, 2012 12:46:45 GMT -5
New York City, obviously.
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