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
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 arent buying it quite yet. Im 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
The best rivalry was destroyed with the creation of the Big 12 conference,OU-NU.
Just to throw some gas on the fire...
If OU-NU was such a big rivalry, they could've put it in the rules that they HAD to play each other every year.
They did it for Miami/FSU.....you can't tell me that the Big XII wouldn't have done it for NU/OU
:)
I vote we let Super Mario heal up for the next few weeks. (And I'm sure my vote counts....)
The Big 12 should have followed what the SEC eventually did: have two rotating, and one permanent inter-divisional opponent. There was no way the SEC was going to ruin Tennessee-Alabama, Auburn-Georgia, or LSU-Florida because those are always guaranteed to get TV ratings.
I don't know why it stopped, I am sure at the time that the OU AD was looking at the break as a way to get OU back on its feet.
I dont know who screwed the pooch on that, I know Dr. Osborne was against it. The game was a thanksgiving tradition and used to be for who would be next to play for the National Title(or at least it seemed that way), anyways the Big 12, NU and OU all have lost money because of the loss of this game. Perhaps the Big 12 decided they only wanted one marquee rivalry per school.
I don't see UCONN slowing down that running game....
Maybe, but I think they needed a Conference common sense guy.
The ACC needs one too. They schedule FSU - Miami too early in the season.
I think the problem was that while Nebraska was probably the biggest powerhouse in the nation, OU was down in the early to mid-90s. Simarlarly, Nebraska kind of slid while Stoops was turning the Sooners around.
I think the Big XII would be nuts if they didn't bring the game back annually, but outside those two schools their aren't any real rivalries outside of the divisions. Part of it is, IMHO, the fact that all the old SWC schools are concentrated in the southern division and most of the Big 8 schools are in the north. If they had setup games like the SEC did in the beginning, these rivalries would already be interesting.
Thankfully our games aren't seen outside of a 150 mile radius of my house otherwise you wouldn't have been able to see just how bad we looked against Wyoming last week. Yikes.
Anywho...GO UTES!
That's pure dumb if that's what happened. All sports, but especially college sports, live and breath on rivalries. Even if it doesn't make geographic sense, I'd split up the Big XII into two divisions based simply on old rivalries from the Big 8 and SWC. You'd keep OU-Nebraska, but keep a few other rivalries alive instead of dead like they are now.
That works for me too.
LOL
yeah, althought I hadn't heard them called land mines before :)
Assuming I don't catch a zot before next season, I'm going to try to make the icon a bit smaller, and maybe more like a cartoon landmine...
3 wins between them, right?
Must be an exciting game! /sarcasm
Just so you know....Joe Paterno and the Penn State team think your team will lose......and so far, they're the only team to play both.
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