College Football - Week of Nov. 7th

[Andy]

Top 25 games

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Vanderbilt at (1) Florida (7:15 pm, ESPN2)

Central Florida at (2) Texas (12 pm, FSN/CSN)

(9) LSU at (3) Alabama (3:30 pm, CBS)

Northwestern at (4) Iowa (12 pm, ESPN)

UConn at (5) Cincinnati (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

(6) TCU at San Diego State (4 pm, Versus)

(7) Boise State at Louisiana Tech (8 pm Friday, ESPN2)

(8) Oregon at Stanford (3:30 pm, FSN/CSN)

Wake Forest at (10) Georgia Tech (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

(16) Ohio State at (11) Penn State (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

(12) USC at Arizona State (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

Syracuse at (13) Pittsburgh (12 pm, ESPNU)

New Mexico at (14) Utah (8 pm, The Mountain)

(15) Houston at Tulsa (7:30 pm, CBS College)

Virginia at (17) Miami (12 pm, Raycom Sports)

Washington State at (18) Arizona (6 pm, FCS Pacific)

(19) Oklahoma State at Iowa State (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

Oregon State at (20) California (7 pm, FSN/CSN)

(21) Wisconsin at Indiana (12 pm, BTN - Regional)

Navy at (22) Notre Dame (2:30 pm, NBC)

(23) Virginia Tech at East Carolina (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN)

(24) Oklahoma at Nebraska (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

 

Games of interest

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Eastern Michigan at Northern Illinois (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU)

Louisville at West Virginia (12 pm, ESPN 360)

South Carolina at Arkansas (12 pm, SEC Network)

Western Michigan at Michigan State (12 pm, BTN - Regional)

Illinois at Minnesota (12 pm, BTN - Regional)

Purdue at Michigan (12 pm, BTN - Regional)

Kansas at Kansas State (12:30 pm, Versus)

Eastern Kentucky at Kentucky (1 pm, ESPN 360)

Furman at Auburn (1:30 pm, ESPN 360)

Baylor at Missouri (2 pm)

Duke at North Carolina (3:30 pm, ESPNU)

Washington at UCLA (3:30 pm, Fox Sports Pacific)

UL Monroe at North Texas (4 pm)

Memphis at Tennessee (7 pm, ESPNU)

Northern Arizona at Ole Miss (7:30 pm, CSN South)

Florida State at Clemson (7:45 pm, ESPN)

 

Other nationally available games

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Bowling Green at Buffalo (7 pm Tuesday, ESPN2)

Miami (OH) at Temple (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN 360)

Maryland at NC State (1 pm, ESPN 360)

Tennessee Tech at Georgia (1 pm, ESPN 360)

Kent State at Akron (3:30 pm, ESPN 360)

UL Lafayette at Arkansas State (3:30 pm, ESPN 360)

Army at Air Force (3:30 pm, CBS College)

Florida International at Middle Tennessee (4:30 pm, ESPN 360)

Fresno State at Idaho (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

Nevada at San Jose State (8:30 pm Sunday, ESPN)

 

Non I-A games of interest

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Holy Cross at Lehigh (12:30 pm)

Southern Illinois at South Dakota State (2 pm)

Cal Poly at UC Davis (4 pm)

Youngstown State at Northern Iowa (5 pm)

 

Nationally available games outside I-A

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Shepherd at Glenville State (8 pm Thursday, CBS College)

[Outshined_One]

Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Penn State.

[Derwood]

Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Penn State.

 

:wave:

[Guest]

Cal Poly at UC Davis (4 pm)

 

Not giving up 50+ points like UCD did last week as well as the last two years against Cal Poly (combined score 114-56 in favor of Cal Poly) would be nice.

[Tracer Bullet]

With 2 injured QBs, here's hoping for a whole lot of wildcat this weekend. Run Golden Run.

[Vanilla Ice]

Go to hell, Carolina, go to hell.

[Butterscup1679666578]

dont lose to baylor at home plz

[Flames24Rulz]

It's virtually a conference championship game for the MVC crown on Saturday. The winner between SIU and South Dakota St. will clinch the conference title because there's only one more week left of conference play after this coming week. Both teams are undefeated in conference play so the winner gets the auto bid into the playoffs. It's going to be tough for us to beat SDSU on the road with our backup QB, but anything's possible after we beat UNI on the road this year. It would be a tremendous accomplishment to win back to back conference titles with a new coach in his first two seasons here.

 

Not only would that be big but we'd all but clinch at least home field advantage through the first two rounds in the playoffs; possibly the first three rounds. Get a win.

[Derwood]

time for LSU to get EXPEAUSED against Alabama

[ISUCubsFan]

(19) Oklahoma State at Iowa State (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

 

It's been a while since I've seen that next to an Iowa State game. I sort of like this game though. Arnaud should be back at quarterback, meaning passes of over 5 yards, and their very good center decided missing more than a week for an appendectomy is for whimps and is expected to play as well. Oklahoma State is a little overrated, and is coming off a deflating loss. I think the current line of 7.5 is about right, but I'll take a ~30 percent chance of beating a ranked team on ABC.

[SouthSideRyan]

time for LSU to get EXPEAUSED against Alabama

 

I kinda think LSU wins. Possibly without scoring an offensive TD.

[Guest]

It's virtually a conference championship game for the MVC crown on Saturday. The winner between SIU and South Dakota St. will clinch the conference title because there's only one more week left of conference play after this coming week. Both teams are undefeated in conference play so the winner gets the auto bid into the playoffs. It's going to be tough for us to beat SDSU on the road with our backup QB, but anything's possible after we beat UNI on the road this year. It would be a tremendous accomplishment to win back to back conference titles with a new coach in his first two seasons here.

 

Not only would that be big but we'd all but clinch at least home field advantage through the first two rounds in the playoffs; possibly the first three rounds. Get a win.

 

Definitely two rounds. Three would be tough since they would probably need one of Montana or Richmond to lose. Montana is through the toughest part of their schedule - they have two of the worst three teams in the Big Sky left before ending at Montana State, which won't be easy - but Richmond has games against No. 4 Villanova and No. 5 William and Mary, though both are at home.

 

As you said, barring a slipup, the winner (especially SIU since they're ranked higher right now) should get a top-4 seed and two byes.

[RedFlash]

time for LSU to get EXPEAUSED against Alabama

 

I kinda think LSU wins. Possibly without scoring an offensive TD.

 

A refreshed Bama defense at home.....I don't think so. Early line has Bama as 10 point favorites, but I think they will come down to about 3.5 by Saturday. Bama by 10 and it won't even be that close.

[SouthSideRyan]

There's no way the spread drops 6.5 points

[OleMissCub]

I'm not a fan of the LSU offense. I don't see them winning this game.

[TheVolCub08]

With 4 games remaining, Tennessee must win their two easily winnable games, starting this weekend. Don't look ahead to Ole Miss and slip up against Memphis.

 

Winning out would likely mean Cotton Bowl or Capital One Bowl.

[dew1679666265]

With 4 games remaining, Tennessee must win their two easily winnable games, starting this weekend. Don't look ahead to Ole Miss and slip up against Memphis.

 

Winning out would likely mean Cotton Bowl or Capital One Bowl.

 

I honestly don't see us going worse than 3-1 to close out the year. Ole Miss should be the only really tough game and I think our defense can give Snead fits. Memphis should be another good confidence builder for the offense and Crompton and, hopefully, a bit of a stat builder for Berry and the defense. It'll be interesting to see how our corners do against the two huge wide receivers Memphis has (Duke Calhoun 6'4 and Carlos Singleton 6'9).

 

A win this week and then over the Rebels ought to get us ranked.

Edited November 2, 2009 by dew

[OleMissCub]

With 4 games remaining, Tennessee must win their two easily winnable games, starting this weekend. Don't look ahead to Ole Miss and slip up against Memphis.

 

Winning out would likely mean Cotton Bowl or Capital One Bowl.

 

Maybe I'm horribly wrong here, but I think Cotton Bowl usually goes to the 2nd team in the West.

[chuckywang]

Here's something I don't understand. Wasn't Boise State ranked ahead of TCU for most of the season? Now the Coaches poll and BCS standings have TCU ahead of Boise State. Why is that?

[Andy]

So here's the BCS as it appears right now. I'm assuming Florida, Bama and Texas all run the table, Cincy wins the Big East and TCU and Boise State also both run the table. Let's also assume Pitt beats Notre Dame just for the hell of it, keeping ND from being eligible and probably making Pitt eligible even with 2 losses.

 

Selections:

 

Sugar gets first pick - they lost their contracted team to the title game as #1 team. Sugar chooses the SEC runner-up, of course.

Fiesta gets 2nd pick because Texas went to the title game. I think they would take USC - who is apparently still going to be BCS eligible unless they manage to lose again.

Orange goes next (first pick after the title game replacement picks). This is where it gets interesting. The usual protocol would dictate the Big East champ goes here, but assuming Cincinnati is that team, they just went there last year. The Orange could also potentially select Penn State if eligible, which they likely will be if they beat the Buckeyes Saturday. PSU would likely be the best option for the Orange in this scenario.

Then the Sugar would go. Their choices at this point would be TCU or Cincinnati - both are locked into BCS games and must be taken. I think the Sugar would rather have TCU, to be honest.

The Fiesta would then take Cincinnati.

 

Title Game: Florida/Bama vs Texas

Orange: ACC champ (probably Ga Tech, since none of the Atl. Division teams are any good) vs Penn State

Sugar: Florida/Bama loser vs TCU

Fiesta: USC vs Cincinnati

Rose: Oregon vs Iowa (barring a major sea change)

[Andy]

Here's something I don't understand. Wasn't Boise State ranked ahead of TCU for most of the season? Now the Coaches poll and BCS standings have TCU ahead of Boise State. Why is that?

Boise State's schedule, besides Oregon, is complete and total garbage, pretty much. TCU, meanwhile is playing in a league most consider better than the ACC at this point.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

LSU is NINE in the BCS? Color me annoyed someone's going to get credit for winning this game.

 

Mizzou's march from basement to defense of the most mediocre division in college football, somehow even worse than the ACC Atlantic, continues with a game against Baylor without Hot Tub Griffin. Mizzou should win big, and hopefully Kansas can play defense for however many quarters it takes to show that KSU is still a joke.

[TheVolCub08]

With 4 games remaining, Tennessee must win their two easily winnable games, starting this weekend. Don't look ahead to Ole Miss and slip up against Memphis.

 

Winning out would likely mean Cotton Bowl or Capital One Bowl.

 

Maybe I'm horribly wrong here, but I think Cotton Bowl usually goes to the 2nd team in the West.

 

The Capital One Bowl gets the 2nd pick (3rd in this case, since the SEC will almost certainly get two teams in the BCS), and must take the team with the best record, unless the next best team is within one overall win, which I don't see being the case. The Cotton gets the next highest Western division team, while the Outback gets the next highest Eastern team. Cap One will have to take LSU and the Cotton would really like a UT/Oklahoma matchup, as opposed to taking an Auburn team with a worse record. Of course, the Outback has to okay that selection, since the Eastern teams are typically theirs. Not sure I see that happening since Tennessee will have beaten the remaining 4 and Auburn is just not very attractive.

 

Seeing as how Tennessee has made almost no effort in recruiting Texas and tons of effort in Florida, I'd rather play in either Tampa or Orlando, though I'd settle for Birmingham after last season.

Edited November 2, 2009 by TheVolCub08

[Guest]

Here's something I don't understand. Wasn't Boise State ranked ahead of TCU for most of the season? Now the Coaches poll and BCS standings have TCU ahead of Boise State. Why is that?

Boise State's schedule, besides Oregon, is complete and total garbage, pretty much. TCU, meanwhile is playing in a league most consider better than the ACC at this point.

 

Boise started the year one spot ahead of TCU in the Coaches Poll then got their biggest win of the season in the first week and jumped up five spots while TCU only went up one. While TCU won at Virginia and at Clemson, their big win didn't come until Week 8 when they killed BYU on the road.

 

Voters also started a trend, in both the AP and Coaches Polls, of dropping one-loss teams behind Boise but not TCU. When OU and VaTech lost in Week 1, they were between Boise and TCU. Same goes for Ohio State in Week 2, USC in Week 3. Those teams all stayed ahead of TCU until they dropped a second game. For reference, Boise jumped eight spots in three weeks while TCU only jumped three.

 

Boise's win over Oregon is the best win for either team but TCU has probably the next three in BYU, Clemson and Virginia. With TCU, BYU and Utah, the MWC is also considered a much better conference than the WAC is, as Andy said.

[TruffleShuffle]

northwestern @ iowa -17.5

wake @ georgia tech -14.5

duke @ unc -7.5

vandy @ florida -32.5

lsu @ bama -9

kansas -2.5 @ kansas st

oklahoma -6 @ nebraska

ohio st @ penn st -3.5

oregon st @ cal -6

washington @ ucla -4.5

oregon -5 @ stanford

florida st @ clemson -8.5

houston -2.5 @ tulsa

usc -11.5 @ arizona st

purdue @ michigan -3.5