Re: College Football - Bowl Games

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top 10 games:

1. oregon vs auburn (duh)

2. tcu vs wisconsin

3. va tech vs stanford

4. ohio state vs arkansas

5. lsu vs aTm

6. alabama vs michigan st

7. south carolina vs florida st (spurrier vs bowden!)

8. oklahoma st vs arizona

9. missouri vs iowa

10. tulsa vs hawai'i

 

10 worst games:

1. FIU vs toledo

2. byu vs utep

3. middle tenn vs miami (oh)

4. troy vs ohio

5. kansas st vs syracuse

6. army vs smu

7. southern miss vs louisville

8. oklahoma vs uconn

9. kentucky vs pitt

10. east carolina vs maryland

 

biggest mismatches:

1. oklahoma vs uconn

2. boise st hosting utah, who doesn't have a qb

3. nebraska vs washington

4. nevada vs boston college

5. utep vs byu

 

replace tulsa/hawaii with ND/Miami. Assuming Miami comes to play. If they're just going through the motions w/o their coach, it could be a really sloppy game.

[bukie]

Yesterday, Jerry Palm noticed that the final BCS rankings were actually wrong. One of the computer ratings (Colley, the only one that publishes it's data and formula publicly) missed a game, which was enough to swap Boise State and LSU in the overall rankings.

 

There are also rumors that Billingsley's ratings are improperly using information from the previous year to calculate, which he denies.

 

Now, I'm all for more emphasis on objective measures, but these measure need to be more transparent to the public to be trusted. Right now, the BCS just assumes they're right. If this had happened to the #2 and #3 teams, today would be an absolute disaster.

[NCCubFan]

Yesterday, Jerry Palm noticed that the final BCS rankings were actually wrong. One of the computer ratings (Colley, the only one that publishes it's data and formula publicly) missed a game, which was enough to swap Boise State and LSU in the overall rankings.

Interestingly, the game he missed wasn't even an FBS game. It was the FCS playoff game between Appalachian State and Western Illinois.

[Jon]

Iowa WR Derrell Johnson-Koulianos was arrested on multiple drug charges, is being held on $8,000 bail, and has been suspended from the team.

 

He may have just cost himself a crapload of money in the NFL draft.

 

Update:

 

thegazette.com[/url]"]Johnson-Koulianos, 23, and roommate Brady Cooper Johnson, 21, both of 1128 E. Washington St., were taken into custody around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday after officers executed a search warrant as part of a drug investigation, criminal complaints state.

 

Investigators found more than $3,000 in cash, marijuana, cocaine and prescription drugs in the house, police said.

 

Officers located a small amount of marijuana in Johnson-Koulianos’ bedroom. Upon arrest, Johnson-Koulianos told police he smokes marijuana and that he’d smoked it within the past 24 hours. A urine test showed a preliminary positive for marijuana and other drugs, criminal complaints state.

[Old Style]

Texas A&M's Von Miller wins the Butkus Award.

 

:clapping:

[TruffleShuffle]

replace tulsa/hawaii with ND/Miami.

 

i don't think so. we already know that tulsa is better than notre dame and hawai'i is probably better than a miami team playing a sub-par bowl with no coach.

[Andy]

replace tulsa/hawaii with ND/Miami.

 

i don't think so. we already know that tulsa is better than notre dame and hawai'i is probably better than a miami team playing a sub-par bowl with no coach.

The Notre Dame that's played the last 3 games is probably significantly better than Tulsa (Sagarin, oddly, has the Irish rated just outside the top 25), but I don't think ND/Miami belongs in the list of ten best bowl games. Ten most interesting, perhaps, depending on one's view.

[Soul]

Iowa WR Derrell Johnson-Koulianos was arrested on multiple drug charges, is being held on $8,000 bail, and has been suspended from the team.

 

He may have just cost himself a crapload of money in the NFL draft.

 

Update:

 

thegazette.com[/url]"]Johnson-Koulianos, 23, and roommate Brady Cooper Johnson, 21, both of 1128 E. Washington St., were taken into custody around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday after officers executed a search warrant as part of a drug investigation, criminal complaints state.

 

Investigators found more than $3,000 in cash, marijuana, cocaine and prescription drugs in the house, police said.

 

Officers located a small amount of marijuana in Johnson-Koulianos’ bedroom. Upon arrest, Johnson-Koulianos told police he smokes marijuana and that he’d smoked it within the past 24 hours. A urine test showed a preliminary positive for marijuana and other drugs, criminal complaints state.

 

Hope that was some goooooood [expletive].

[bcl412]

It seems like whenever Iowa has an underachieving type season, lots of players end up getting arrested.

[hawkeyecub]

What the [expletive] is he doing living with this dude? You can still be friends with him and have him hook you up. Don't live with a guy who has been convicted on drug stuff in the past and wants to deal out of your house.

[bleedingblue]

Not really surprising when he came into the Iowa fold when Dominique Douglas/James Cleveland/Anthony Bowman were still there.

 

This is going to be a massive headache for Ferentz as 2006 is going to come rearing it's ugly head again.

[SouthSideRyan]

I blame Mark Dantonio

[hawkeyecub]

Not really surprising when he came into the Iowa fold when Dominique Douglas/James Cleveland/Anthony Bowman were still there.

 

This is going to be a massive headache for Ferentz as 2006 is going to come rearing it's ugly head again.

 

It's surprising to me because he's a smart, clean cut kid who hasn't been in any trouble academically or legally. I mean the weed and even coke can happen with any college athlete without being surprising but the extent and fact that he was living with this dude is.

 

I don't see it as anything like '06. It's one dude who was living with a non-football player.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

It's surprising to me because he's a smart, clean cut kid who hasn't been in any trouble academically or legally. I mean the weed and even coke can happen with any college athlete without being surprising but the extent and fact that he was living with this dude is.

I couldn't disagree more. DJK is most definitely not smart or clean-cut (which should now be obvious). I'm honestly stunned he made it through nearly 4 full seasons without being dismissed from the team.

[jersey cubs fan]

Heavens to Betsy! A college kid smoked pot with regularity?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Heavens to Betsy! A college kid smoked pot with regularity?

That stuff never happens in Iowa. It just doesn't.

 

Man, I was just saying the other day I'd love to smoke with Marvin McNutt.

[SouthSideRyan]

Texas A&M's Von Miller wins the Butkus Award.

 

:clapping:

 

I didn't know Division II players were even eligible.

[jersey cubs fan]

Heavens to Betsy! A college kid smoked pot with regularity?

That stuff never happens in Iowa. It just doesn't.

 

Man, I was just saying the other day I'd love to smoke with Marvin McNutt.

 

Hehehehe, bowl games, hehehehe.

[Jon]

Heavens to Betsy! A college kid smoked pot with regularity?

He also tested positive for cocaine and other drugs, not just marijuana. And he admitted that all of the prescription pills, either all or most of which were anxiety pills or pain killers, that he had in his room (without a prescription) were also his to go along with the marijuana and cocaine.

[Jon]

I blame Mark Dantonio

He'd have another game in his career if he played for Mark Dantonio.

[Banedon]

Yesterday, Jerry Palm noticed that the final BCS rankings were actually wrong. One of the computer ratings (Colley, the only one that publishes it's data and formula publicly) missed a game, which was enough to swap Boise State and LSU in the overall rankings.

Interestingly, the game he missed wasn't even an FBS game. It was the FCS playoff game between Appalachian State and Western Illinois.

 

Boise State's President really went off about this.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5896480

 

It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on how the rankings are determined, or at least on the transparency.

[Jon]

We have a new contender:

Trib[/url]"]

STORRS, Conn. -- A University of Connecticut football player has been arrested on child pornography charges.

 

Greg McKee, 18, turned himself in to state police on Wednesday morning.

 

McKee, a 6-foot-6, 290 pound offensive lineman from Chicago, has not played for the Huskies and was sitting out his freshman year in order to have four years of eligibility left.

The school announced Tuesday night that McKee had been indefinitely suspended from the team but did not give a reason. Mike Enright, a spokesman for the program, said there would be no comment on the arrest.

 

McKee was being held on $75,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court on charges of obsenity, importing child pornography and promoting a minor in an obscene performance. An e-mail message left Wednesday for McKee seeking comment wasn't immediately returned. It wasn't immediately known if he had a lawyer.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

DJK might be this kid's biggest fan now.

[jersey cubs fan]

We have a new contender:

Trib[/url]"]

STORRS, Conn. -- A University of Connecticut football player has been arrested on child pornography charges.

 

Greg McKee, 18, turned himself in to state police on Wednesday morning.

 

McKee, a 6-foot-6, 290 pound offensive lineman from Chicago, has not played for the Huskies and was sitting out his freshman year in order to have four years of eligibility left.

The school announced Tuesday night that McKee had been indefinitely suspended from the team but did not give a reason. Mike Enright, a spokesman for the program, said there would be no comment on the arrest.

 

McKee was being held on $75,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court on charges of obsenity, importing child pornography and promoting a minor in an obscene performance. An e-mail message left Wednesday for McKee seeking comment wasn't immediately returned. It wasn't immediately known if he had a lawyer.

 

That could be something like having video of his 17 year old girlfriend stripping or something, right?

[Jon]

Potentially, though I'd imagine there'd have to be more to it for it to get to this point.