Posted on 10/19/2006 3:09:52 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
Week Seven brought another major upset in the Big Ten and the SEC. Iowa lost to Indiana; Vanderbilt beat Georgia snapping a 53 game losing streak to ranked teams. While this season has been kind of odd in that here have not been very many major upsets, the past two weeks have provided their fair share. The Auburn – Florida game lived up to the hype and went down to the last minute with Auburn winning the game. It was not without controversy either, which is another long running story this year. This week features two games that should get top billing. Texas travels to face Nebraska while Clemson hosts Georgia Tech in a battle for ACC supremacy.
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 – 7:45 PM on ESPN
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(12) Clemson (-7.5) at (13) Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech has the best defense in the ACC. They shut down Notre Dame and have been dominant in each of their other games. Clemson has a chance to really take control of the ACC with a win. Clemson will win this game, but it will be closer than a Touchdown.
Clemson 24 – Georgia Tech 20
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Texas 34 – Nebraska 17
Ohio State 42 – Indiana 6
Iowa at (2) Michigan (-12.5)
Michigan 34 – Iowa 17
(3) USC BYE
(6) Louisville (-17) at Syracuse
Louisville 37 – Syracuse 13
Alabama at (7) Tennessee (-11)
Tennessee 31 – Alabama 17
Tulane at (8) Auburn (-31.5)
Auburn 45 – Tulane 10
(9) Florida BYE
UCLA at (10) Notre Dame (-13.5)
ND 43 – UCLA 22
Washington at (11) Cal (-23.5)
Cal 42 – Washington 17
Fresno St. at (14) LSU (-33)
LSU 48 – Fresno St. 10
Mississippi at (17) Arkansas (-21)
Arkansas 41 – Ole Miss 17
(16) Oregon (-3.5) at Washington State 
Oregon 33 – Washington St. 28
(18) Boise St. (-21) at Idaho
Boise St. 45 – Idaho 10
(19) Rutgers at Pittsburgh (-6.5)
Pittsburgh 23 – Rutgers 17
Colorado at (20) Oklahoma (-14)
Colorado 18 – Oklahoma 14
(21) Wisconsin (-6.5) at Purdue
Wisconsin 35 – Purdue 20
(22) Boston College at Florida St. (-6)
Boston College 33 – FSU 17
(23) Texas A&M at Oklahoma St. (-3.5)
Texas A&M 32 – Oklahoma St. 25
Kansas St. at (24) Missouri (-15)
Missouri 34 – K State 10
(25) Wake Forest BYE
(23) Texas A&M at Oklahoma St. (-3.5)
Texas A&M comes in after a big win for them against Missouri. The line indicates that people aren’t buying it quite yet. I’m a believer.
Texas A&M 32 – Oklahoma St. 25
Record for the year
I'll skip the sob story and just say that if I pick a game one way, you have a better than even chance of being right if you pick it the other way.
117-28 Straight UP
77-64-4 Against the Spread
It wouldn't be like college football unless there were loopholes, bad rules and conflicting information :)
This may be shaping up (finally) for the perfect storm to top the previous BCS screwups. Good chance that everyone has at least 1 loss, or how about this: Undefeated Michigan beats undefeated OSU, but the BCS keeps OSU at #2 for a rematch a month later. Should the Big 12, SEC, Pac 10, and ACC all have a 1-loss team, and an undefeated Rutgers wins the Big Least, oh what a mass of whining will take place!
It's very unlikely that would happen.
First of all, it's highly likely that one of the other one loss teams will eclipse Ohio State or Michigan (whoMever LLLLLLoses) in the polls thereafter.....
Yet we already have a near example of such, where #1 OU lost yet still was backed into the mythical nat'l champ game by the BCS (to play LSU.)
However, they weren't from the same conference.
That will hurt the loser of the OSU/scUM game....
I doubt it's possible to lose a game and not drop in the standings.
Michigan/Ohio State might be the game where the two best teams in the country play each other. But there will be no rematch for the national championship unless a lot of other teams cooperate by losing a game, too.
OU was ranked #1 and lost to K-State in the Big 12 conference championship. Not sure what K-State's ranking was, but am pretty sure that it wasn't top 10, because it was a shocking upset. Yet OU only dropped to #2, ahead of a USC that only had 1 loss (and in fact was the best team in the country that year, not LSU, witness how each had fared against Auburn.)
Lose to #1 and the computers don't drop you much. Look at Texas, they were dragged down by strength of schedule (OSU and OU were the only teams they had played) but now are leapfrogging, getting a boost for a 'quality' win over Nebraska. That suggests that the OSU lost didn't hurt them that much in the computers, because OSU was #1. IIRC, the computers still don't measure margin of victory.
Not saying that my scenario is likely to happen, but Bull Crap System history suggests it is possible.
OU was completely different and LSU was out of conference.
Trust me, this isn't happening with Ohio STate and Michigan.
They severely changed the rules for how BCS teams are ranked following that fiasco.
This from Yahoo sports:
"They are without question the best defense we've played all season," said Iowa quarterback Drew Tate, who faced Ohio State just a few weeks ago.
Joe Paterno and the Penn State team said the same thing.
Two common opponents, countering what you said, but I guess you know better than them.
So, just keep pretending you'll walk all over them.
Cinc-2
USF-0
at the half.
Det- 2
St Louis -0
in 3rd inning
Classic. LOL!
If JoePa feels this way, then he should by all means back it up and vote UM #1 in the coaches poll.
Perhaps you can explain something to me since you advocate the playoff system.
Don't all NCAA Div ! schools get to vote on these things at meetings. It would seem to me that outside the usual top 25 that the Boise States, the Wake Forest, etc etc would demand that the NCAA have a playoff system
It seems to me that one could still maintain the Bowls and have this. What is holding them back? I never understood this
Cin- 2
USF- 0
2:41 left in 3rd quarter
Det- 3
St Louis-0
6th inning
The baseball score is higher than the football one!
Still enjoying the game though...I would love to see it end 2-0, that would be a hoot.
Darn! Cincinatti D recovers fumble and run it in for a TD-Now 9-0
well USF left their pitcher in too long and Cincy rallied with 7 in the bottom of the 6th :)
Some nice ref calls in that game for UT I thought.
yeah but Alabama had their chances to win, but they just couldn't get it done.
If Alabama returns any sort of defense next year, their offense should catch up.
In the end, the school presidents at the D1A level all vote to keep the BCS, since the BCS as it stands, gives them all some money. They are afraid, I guess, of the unknown that is a playoff system.
Had the basketball tournament not been in place when TV became huge for college sports, I'm convinced they wouldn't have that either.
The sponsors and the bowl committees themselves have an inordinate amount of power when it comes to dealing with the conferences.
Since MOST of the colleges in D-1A don't have class during the month of December ANYWAY, it isn't that big of a deal to me.
It comes down to money really.
They get money now. Since people still watch all of the games, they don't see a need to change.
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