Posted on 11/30/2006 2:29:05 PM PST by MikefromOhio
Weekend Thirteen cleared up the BCS title picture a bit. USC won convincingly against Notre Dame while Florida failed to get the style points needed to make a run at the Trojans and Wolverines. With Arkansas losing to LSU, Florida only theoretically has a chance at the title game. The weekend was not without surprises as Texas lost for the 2nd time in a row while West Virginia eliminated itself from Big East and BCS contention by losing to South Florida. The weekend also featured some great finishes with BYU, Georgia, Oklahoma and Tennessee pulling games out late. This week is Championship Week. The conference championship games for the MAC, Conference USA, ACC, SEC and Big XII will be played. Each of those games, along with the Army-Navy game, is the feature this week.
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The MAC champion goes to The Motor City Bowl in Detroit, MI to face either the 7th best Big Ten team or an at-large team. As the Big Ten is getting 2 into the BCS, it will be the at-large team. Central Michigan can score in bunches while Ohio is on a roll.
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The winner of this game goes to the Liberty Bowl to play against an SEC school while the loser of this game will most likely be heading to Mobile, Alabama for the GMAC bowl against a MAC team (probably Central Michigan). Houston lost a close game to USM earlier this season while it was still in the post-Miami funk after nearly defeating the Hurricanes in Miami.
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I can’t believe I’m actually going to pick this. Wake Forest is the better team. Georgia Tech has the weapons to win, but not the quarterback. Their defense will keep them in this game, but the pick is Wake. The winner goes to the Orange Bowl while the loser goes to the Chick-Fil-A bowl (formerly the Peach Bowl).
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The winner of this game is going to the Sugar Bowl unless Florida wins big and something absolutely screwy happens in the BCS. Arkansas must win this game to get into the BCS at all. Otherwise, LSU is going. It comes down to if Florida will be able to score consistently or if Arkansas will be able to make some plays through the air. Special teams will play a big factor in deciding this game. That favors Arkansas. With LSU not playing this weekend, the loser of this game is probably relegated to the Capital One bowl.
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The winner of this game is going to the Fiesta Bowl. A good old school match-up that will be played in the Big XII championship for the very FIRST time in the 10 year history of the conference. Since the loss to Texas back in October, Oklahoma has been on a roll. Nebraska, minus a slip up against Oklahoma State, has only lost to USC and Texas, which was a much better team at the time of the loss. I have to give the edge to Oklahoma. Bill Callahan gets too conservative in big games like this and I think the Oklahoma offense will be able to move the ball against the Nebraska defense. The loser of this game will go to the Cotton Bowl.
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Army and Navy square off again. This year Navy is the home team. Navy is the better team but Army did almost knock off Texas A&M earlier this season. This game will win Navy the Commander in Chief’s trophy for the best service team. Navy is slated to go to the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina.
(2) USC (-13.5) at UCLA
USC 43 – UCLA 17
(3) Michigan BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Rose Bowl
(5) LSU BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Rose Bowl
Connecticut at (6) Louisville (-27)
Louisville 42 – Connecticut 21
(7) Wisconsin BYE
Next Game: Accepted bid for the Capital One Bowl
(10) Boise State BYE
Next game: projected to be in the Fiesta Bowl
(11) Auburn BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Outback Bowl
(12) Notre Dame BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Sugar Bowl
(13) Rutgers at (15) West Virginia (-10)
Rutgers 22 – West Virginia 20
(14) Virginia Tech BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl (Peach)
(17) Tennessee BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Cotton Bowl
(17) Texas BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Gator Bowl
(20) BYU BYE
Next Game: accepted bid for the Las Vegas Bowl
Stanford at (21) Cal (-29)
Cal 43 – Stanford 7
(22) Texas A&M BYE
Next Game: accepted bid to be in the Holiday Bowl
(25) Boston College BYE
Next Game: projected to be in the Champs Sports Bowl
Texas A&M BYE
Next Game: accepted bid to be in the Holiday Bowl
Florida State BYE
Next Game: Accepted Bid to the Emerald Bowl
Oregon St. at (24) Hawaii (-7.5)
Hawaii 43 – Oregon St. 40
You're right, the kid with the multiple DWI's was last year (or the year before, hard to keep the OU rap sheets straight.) And to his credit, Stoops runs a much tighter and cleaner ship than Switzer did, no shot up dorms these days. But of course some of that is doing a better job of keeping the illegal payments hidden. Until the boyfriend of a girl handling the illegal checks at the car dealership squealed on them on an Aggie message board...
Doncha' just love Oregon State games...
Announcer: "We'll be back to take a look at the beavers after this break".
Lee Corso predicting the Coaches Poll will move Florida to #2 over Michigan. Herbstriet agrees, and says he also thinks they will jump in the Harris poll.
Vegas odds on a mythical Michigan-Florida neutral-field game, Michigan by 6. Just on ESPN2.
I probably would agree with that line. But, i do think florida should get the BCS nod over Michigan because they are a conference champion and Michigan lost to Ohio St. That said, I think if it is Florida, OSU will be a 12-17 pt favorite.
Since when has Corso been right? Herbstreit is another story, and I agree that FL will probably move up. Think about it, contrary to Corso's logic, the coaches are going to vote for FL because they don't want to support the idea of 2 from the same conference playing, since they figure it is far more likely that they might be burned in that scenario than benefit from it. Isn't there an extra payoff for schools in the Myth NC? That gets spread around the conference? If so, more incentive to prevent 1-conference getting 2 teams in.
What would the Vegas odds be for Michigan USC?
Lee Corso has a baby arm.
BFD. Every college team playing has stuff like that. So what? Pick on somebody else. This line of trash talk is getting old.
Heh, two seconds apart.
The boomer is clickable.
Will be good to see AD play. Too, it's been great to see OU play as a team after he got injured. I wonder if he'll change his mind about staying for his senior year.
What's up with the picture quality on ESPN's Hawaii game? Are they filming the game with a camera phone?
Ah, so it is! I don't have sound on this PC. :(
But having a *general idea* what the mp3 is, I just played my own! Thanks!
Oh, about A.D. - I wouldn't predict that one at all - I think it will change back and forth until some time late next summer, lol.
Watching ESPN, their BCS computer expert said that the Computers will be so close that both Michigan and Florida will get the same rating, and that it will come down to what the polls say.
I'm not as concerned about AD playing next year as I am about who we will have for quarterback, isn't this Thompson's last year
So now that they beat Arkansas in a pretty close game, why are they changing their minds?
The bizarro world of the BCS.......
Yeah, fifth year senior. I just wish he would have played for the QB position last year. I never was thrilled with Bomar. Paul Thompson just took command.
If it looks like a rematch, smells like a rematch, and acts like a rematch, then it is a REMATCH. Which means only one thing----IT'S TIME FOR A PLAYOFF!!!!!!!
If not OSU should be a double digit fav over UF. And if it is UM again figure at least a 7-10 point spread there.
It's a good thing that USC won't play either team on a neutral field. They would get drilled this year. Both Ohio and Michigan have pass rushes as tough as UCLA's.....except, unlike UCLA, they both have excellent offenses as well.
Yeah, Thompson's a senior, as kenth said above. Too bad.
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