[Diddle E. Squat]

Without a playoff, its all just figure skating and beauty pagents.

[Diddle E. Squat]

schadenfreude bump

[Methos8]

Yeah, whatever (you are right to a large degree). GO GATORS!

[montomike]

USC can give Oklahoma a game!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Amen!

[JZoback]

Miami is the second best paid team in college football, right behind Oklahoma.

[smith288]

Go Bucks! (ducking)

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thought you'd notice this.

[razorback-bert]

I am suffering through five repeat five overtimes.

[Central Scrutiniser]

I flew out from Phoenix to Miami a few years back to see Arizona State beat Miami, the fans there were jerks, almost as much a bunch of A%#$oles as Nebraska fans.

[Luis Gonzalez]

MIAMI AS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NO. 1
The Hurricanes have played in 44 games all-time while holding the AP's No. 1 ranking and have forged a 39-5 record in those contests. Miami has won 15 straight as the nation's top-ranked team. Prior to the Alabama loss (34-13) in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, UM had won 12 straight games when it held the top spot in the polls dating back to the 1991 season. o In the regular season, UM has been ranked No. 1 by the AP in 40 games and has recorded a 37-3 mark. UM last lost a regular season game while holding the No. 1 ranking in the 1990 season opener at BYU, 28-21 on Sept. 8.

MIAMI'S RECORD ACCORDING TO AP RANK
UM is 206-40-2 all-time in games while holding an AP national ranking. Since 1983, Miami is 141-20 as a top 10 team and 113-12 as a top five team. The Hurricanes are 39-5 as the nation's No.1-ranked team. Miami has won 29 of its last 30 while ranked No. 1.

[GeronL]

gee, stop holding back and tell us what you really think.

=o)

[Luis Gonzalez]

Let's post some facts about this "overrated" team...shall we?

You can add a few more wins to all those numbers, they were put together before the end of last season.

How did last season end?

Be right back.

[Arkinsaw]

Take a look at the Arkansas/Kentucky game......Kentucky has had a real gutsy performance.

[Physicist]

I considered making a thread, but I've been waiting for putupon to start one. He's usually so interested in Tech.

[gonewt]

The BCS is fine. That's right... I said the BCS is fine & we don't need a playoff.

The reason college football is so great is that the regular season is HUGE (unlike college basketball, which DOES have a tournament).

The BCS could use some improvement (notably removing the "Losses" component and beefing up the strength-of-schedule component). But I like it, and it can work fine.

That said, I'm THRILLED Miami lost. Brock Berlin is no Ken Dorsey. But Ken Dorsey was no Gino Torretta. heh heh.

[xzins]

There are not that many Division I football teams. That's why it's not so hard to pick out the top 25.

In any case, a playoff would be a cinch.

But it won't happen anytime soon.

[r9etb]

Without a playoff, its all just figure skating and beauty pagents.

When all is said and done, who really gives a crap who's the "national champion" college football team? Most of these "college students" don't even graduate -- they don't belong in college to begin with.

I do love hearing about legitimate scholar/athletes -- but they're not in the majority.

[Moonman62]

Watch media favorite Miami hardly drop in the polls, despite the complete thrashing.

Gee, I wonder if winning 39 straight regular season games could have had something to do with them being meadia favorites. Nah!

I knew after seeing Brock Berlin play his first couple of games that Miami would probably lose two or three regular season games, although I wouldn't pin this loss on him -- he played his usual mediocre game and that's as good as he'll ever be. Compare this game to Miami's win at FSU. Against FSU, Miami got all the breaks. Miami and VT are very similar teams -- most of their talent is on defense and special teams. Miami also has a couple of very good players on offense, but not a QB. Brock Berlin is going to get Roscoe Parrish killed by the end of the season. The other problem Miami had against VT was they came out very flat. I can only imagine that Larry Coker chewed their asses over the last ten days about making penalties. That's about the only thing I've ever seen to take the enthusiasm out of the Miami players. It didn't seem to work either. I'll be very happy if Miami can finish out the season with one loss. They've got the talent to do it.

I'm a fan of the Hurricanes for one reason -- I can remember back in the 1970's when they truly sucked. The university almost killed the program, but decided to give it one more shot. Three years later they were the National Champions, which reminds me of the 2003 Marlins -- from near death to champions in a very short period of time. Eat your heart out.

[SevenofNine]

YEAH Gangstra of Miami CHOKE

LOLOLOL

[RabidBartender]

I'm with you. All throughout the 2nd half, the brain dead announcer kept lamenting that Miami was going to have to drop in the rankings, but "they shouldn't be lower than Florida State (who beat Notre Dame 37-0 today), because Miami beat them already". The idiot failed to remember that by that logic, Virginia Tech (with only 1 loss) should be ranked higher than Miami then.

My predicted rankings:
1. Oklahoma (9-0)
2. Southern Cal (because apparently, they hate to be called Southern Cal now) (8-1)
3. Miami (7-1)
4. Florida State (who I think should be #3) (8-1)
5. LSU (8-1)
6. Ohio State (where I think Miami should be) (8-1)
7. Virginia Tech (7-1)
8. Georgia (7-2)
9. Michigan (8-2)
10. Washington State (7-2)
53rd or something. TCU (8-0) (just kidding, I think they were ranked 15 or something this week).