College Football 2009 Thread

[NCCubFan]

North Dakota's playing Michigan? :D

[Derwood]

An overall embarrassing slate of opening games for the Big 10

 

The opponents:

 

E. Kentucky

Montana St.

Towson

Navy

Syracuse

Akron

Toledo

N. Iowa

W. Michigan

Missouri

N. Illinois

[imb]

North Dakota's playing Michigan? :D

 

he was talking about notre dame

[Transmogrified Tiger]

North Dakota's playing Michigan? :D

 

He's referring to the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. They're coached by Charlie Weis, former offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. Weis has been maligned in recent years, by opposing fans for his weight(he had gastric bypass in 2002), and by Notre Dame fans for his inability to repeat the success of his first two years, when he had current Cub Jeff Samardzija playing Wide Receiver.

[Andy]

I have no idea how good ND will be this year, but this is as excited as I've been about the CFB season in some time. I can't wait for them to drive up to Ann Arbor and beat the [expletive] out of Michigan.

I love college football and even if ND loses to Nevada by 20 I will be addicted to the upcoming season.

[Flames24Rulz]

i looked and illinois is a 6-point favorite against mizzou this year. i found that really strange.

 

I don't. I would think this has to be the year Illinois beats Missouri. At least I hope so.

[Keener98]

An overall embarrassing slate of opening games for the Big 10

 

The opponents:

 

E. Kentucky

Montana St.

Towson

Navy

Syracuse

Akron

Toledo

N. Iowa

W. Michigan

Missouri

N. Illinois

 

Except for the Illini, yea thats pretty ugly. However most conferences are as bad as that the 1st week of the season.

[SouthSideRyan]

Wait, Western Michigan isn't good?

[Flames24Rulz]

Wait, Western Michigan isn't good?

 

Tell that to Zook.

[OleMissCub]

An overall embarrassing slate of opening games for the Big 10

 

The opponents:

 

E. Kentucky

Montana St.

Towson

Navy

Syracuse

Akron

Toledo

N. Iowa

W. Michigan

Missouri

N. Illinois

 

That's not too atypical.

 

SEC opponents in opening week:

 

NC State

Miami (OH)

Western Kentucky

Oklahoma State

Jackson State

Louisiana Tech

Missouri State

Charleston Southern

Western Carolina

Virginia Tech

Washington

Memphis

[Derwood]

An overall embarrassing slate of opening games for the Big 10

 

The opponents:

 

E. Kentucky

Montana St.

Towson

Navy

Syracuse

Akron

Toledo

N. Iowa

W. Michigan

Missouri

N. Illinois

 

That's not too atypical.

 

SEC opponents in opening week:

 

NC State

Miami (OH)

Western Kentucky

Oklahoma State

Jackson State

Louisiana Tech

Missouri State

Charleston Southern

Western Carolina

Virginia Tech

Washington

Memphis

 

at least that's a higher # of BCS schools

[NCCubFan]

North Dakota's playing Michigan? :D

 

he was talking about notre dame

He's referring to the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. They're coached by Charlie Weis, former offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. Weis has been maligned in recent years, by opposing fans for his weight(he had gastric bypass in 2002), and by Notre Dame fans for his inability to repeat the success of his first two years, when he had current Cub Jeff Samardzija playing Wide Receiver.

I knew it meant Notre Dame; hence the smiley (I suspect you actually both know that). My post was a reference to this poll from around a year ago.

[Tracer Bullet]

Wait, Western Michigan isn't good?

 

that won't necessarily stop them from beating Michigan this year.

[Derwood]

Week 2 has a Big 10 team playing Eastern, Western and Central Michigan.

 

What, no Northern or Southern Michigan to round out the schedule?

[hawkeyecub]

With the addition of the 12th game, most teams play at least one lower level D-1 school and one 1-AA school. The Big Ten is at least average or better in terms of non-conference scheduling.

[Derwood]

I wouldn't mind seeing a rule stating that every BCS school has to play at least 2 other BCS school OOC, but we all know that'll never happen (re: $$$$)

[imb]

North Dakota's playing Michigan? :D

 

he was talking about notre dame

He's referring to the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. They're coached by Charlie Weis, former offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. Weis has been maligned in recent years, by opposing fans for his weight(he had gastric bypass in 2002), and by Notre Dame fans for his inability to repeat the success of his first two years, when he had current Cub Jeff Samardzija playing Wide Receiver.

I knew it meant Notre Dame; hence the smiley (I suspect you actually both know that). My post was a reference to this poll from around a year ago.

 

ahhh, sorry, ive got smilies turned off

[NCCubFan]

North Dakota's playing Michigan? :D

 

he was talking about notre dame

He's referring to the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. They're coached by Charlie Weis, former offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots. Weis has been maligned in recent years, by opposing fans for his weight(he had gastric bypass in 2002), and by Notre Dame fans for his inability to repeat the success of his first two years, when he had current Cub Jeff Samardzija playing Wide Receiver.

I knew it meant Notre Dame; hence the smiley (I suspect you actually both know that). My post was a reference to this poll from around a year ago.

 

ahhh, sorry, ive got smilies turned off

Until you mentioned it I didn't realize you could even do that. I knew you could turn off sigs and avatars, but I didn't realize that could be done with smilies too.

[Butterscup1679666578]

i looked and illinois is a 6-point favorite against mizzou this year. i found that really strange.

 

did you think it should be more or less? illinois -6 sounds about right to me

[Andy]

With the addition of the 12th game, most teams play at least one lower level D-1 school and one 1-AA school. The Big Ten is at least average or better in terms of non-conference scheduling.

No, they're not. The SEC is probably worse, but pretty much every other major conference is better in that area.

[Andy]

Wait, Western Michigan isn't good?

They are good. And they could quite easily beat Michigan.

[CubColtPacer]

With the addition of the 12th game, most teams play at least one lower level D-1 school and one 1-AA school. The Big Ten is at least average or better in terms of non-conference scheduling.

No, they're not. The SEC is probably worse, but pretty much every other major conference is better in that area.

 

The Big 12 is not usually that great either.

 

BTW, here's how one computer ranking had the 6 BCS conferences non-conference schedules last year:

 

Pac 10 .550

ACC .473

Big East .452

Big 10 .449

Big 12 .446

SEC .440

 

The Pac 10 has clearly been way over everybody the last few years in scheduling (not to mention that they only have 3 non-conference games).

 

The Big 10 has really suffered the last couple years with the MAC not being quite what it was earlier in the decade and ND not being there either. That's a large part of their scheduling base, and as the mid-major talent has increasingly moved west it has really benefited the Pac 10's schedules.

[OleMissCub]

weeeeeeeeeee

 

 

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2009/0820_large.jpg

 

[Sosa21MVP]

weeeeeeeeeee

 

 

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2009/0820_large.jpg

 

Isn't that kinda like the kiss of death though? :-))

[shnsajax]

weeeeeeeeeee

 

 

http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2009/0820_large.jpg

 

Isn't that kinda like the kiss of death though? :-))

 

Not sure considering there is also this.

 

 

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