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The ACC says hello.

These last two nights have been pretty good with WVU and KU winning.

I would hope so. Nothing to be proud of this year.

I am too. I know Illinois isn't that great, but neither is Ohio State. And they just completely dominated the 2nd half. This year is going to be terrible.

A lot of mock drafts have Talib going to the Packers in the late 1st round, so I'm interested in seeing how he performs. So far, so good.

He is garbage. Wow.

For a while there, Hendry was on the same plan.

I'd do it. Getting both Figgins and Roberts would make this offense worth watching.

Division I-AA teams play 14-15 games. So do Division II and Division III teams. Those students seem to do ok. That excuse is terrible and needs to be put away to rest. They wouldn't be playing well into January. Do the same thing the other divisions do and start the playoffs immediately after the regular season. But yes, those Division I-A athletes have to study and they get too tired from playing in 14-15 games.

The Titans had the Chargers beat the first time around until a very questionable "catch" by the San Diego receiver (can't remember who now) late in the fourth. Granted, we blew a multi-score lead and are definitely very unlikely to win, but I doubt it'll be an easy win for the Chargers. I'm praying for one win and then beat up on the Patriots so the Colts can beat them in the AFC Championship. That would make me happy. EDIT: Lest I forget, the matchup also features one of the best coaches in the NFL (Fisher) against almost unquestionably the worst (Norv Turner). That might make a difference. Yeah, I watched that game in the regular season (one of the better games this year). Tennessee did give that game away to the Chargers. I think that was the game that really set the Chargers on their way to their strong finish at the end of the season. I really think San Diego has found out what kind of team they are and they actually remembered that they had the best player in the league in their backfield. They would have matched up better against Cleveland (their offense would've scored at least 40), but I still think they match up very well against Tennessee. Plus a San Diego team is due to win a playoff game, right? I do think that it's the safest pick of the week - for whatever that's worth (probably not much).

Washington Jacksonville New York San Diego I'm real impressed with Washington. They completely dominated Minnesota in one of the tougher places to play in the league with everything on the line. Then they dominated a Dallas team who actually played their starters for a little more than a half. They have some serious momentum right now and I expect them to beat Seattle. Jacksonville over Pittsburgh. Seriously, who doesn't have that? The Giants-Bucs game is a toss-up. I've never been a big fan of resting your starters completely after you have clinched a playoff berth. I think the only team that had success with that was that Eagles team that made it to the Super Bowl a couple years ago. And San Diego should defeat Tennessee by two TD's.

I like Nessler, but Musberger is terrible. I don't know why or how he's still on ABC's 'A' team. Herbstreit should really be with Nessler because I think that would be a great booth. Nessler is stuck with two buffoons in Griese and Maguire. Just put those idiots with Musberger and make that your new west-coast team instead of having Dan Fouts as your west-coast play-by-play man. Fox could easily be doing a better job with the BCS, but I don't really care for ABC's coverage either.

For the first time in seven years, SIU loses a game to Drake. No offense yet again and this team has absolutely no poise on the road. I fully expect this team to go 9-9, maybe 10-8 in Valley play. Pretty disappointing to see a team win one game then lose the next and repeat this process throughout. I hate inconsistancy.

That's exactly what he said. It's exactly what every god complex next big thing coach who thinks he's got the system to beat all systems thinks. The only thing between him and a title is effort from the kids. In a way, you probably have to think that way. But it's pretty funny how insanely overhyped "buying into the system" has become with modern coach/gods. It's pretty ridiculous. I think this is the first time I've ever heard a coach call out his seniors in that sort of manner. I don't know how anyone can actually defend that statement.

Toews is back in Chicago and getting an MRI on his knee. I've heard that it's only an MCL sprain. Hopefully that's the case.

or why the texas alma mater is "i've been working on the railroad" or why holy cross' alma mater is "oh Christmas tree" :x anyway, pretty disappointed in hawai'i. They aren't as good as georgia but i think they were better than they showed yesterday. they have a rhythm-based offense, and i think the layoff hurts them more than it hurts most teams. there just seemed to be a lot of miscommunication between brennan and his receivers. Hawaii's offensive tackles couldn't handle Georgia's DE's either. Brennan faced a ton of pressure last night.

This kinda hurts your argument. I don't exactly what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that we should put more stock into Ws and Ls because they play less games? Because that's what you are suggesting. Yeah, I completely read your statement wrong and I edited that out after I re-read your post. My mistake.

Count me in.

I think the SEC is the best conference, but it's not far and away better than the other major conferences. I think Michigan beating Florida and Wisconsin nearly beating Tennessee can justify that.

this is asinine. aside from blatantly botched calls by referees, the team who plays better as a rule wins out in football. outgaining a team 500 yards to 100 is meaningless if you can't execute that yardage into scores. USC was outplayed the two Saturdays they were beaten. they're the best team in the nation because losses caused them to be outplayed, but the games were not indicative of their true talent level. football is in no way comparable to baseball for this concept. so what's so different about these two scenarios: Football team gains 500 yards on offense, score 7 points. They allow 100 yards, give up 10 points. Baseball team gets 5 walks, 10 singles, 2 doubles and a triple, score 0 runs. They allow 1 hit no walks and one run. They're analogous to each other. A few points either way in a football game is a pretty random outcome. If a team wins by a field goal, then what's the difference? It's a 3 down conversion, or stopping one. It's very small and very random. Three touchdown loss? No. A loss within a touchdown? It's fairly random. What should we take away from the game? The same from each team. On that day they were pretty much equal. Who won has very little predicative power, if any. This isn't negotiable. It's a statistical fact that cannot be argued. Don't even think about trying. Every single game matters in college football. Does the best team always win the game? Of course not. A loss is a loss no matter what the circumstances are. If you outgain an opponent by 400 yards and you still lose, wouldn't you say that's pretty pathetic and that they probably didn't deserve to win in the first place? Don't get me wrong, Florida is a very talented team on offense. But with that defense they had, there's no way you could say that they were a top 10 team this year. I think one reason people continued to pile on you was because of the fact that you continued to rank Florida ahead of Georgia in your polls when Georgia beat Florida. I've heard your reasoning for your explanation on why "losses don't matter" or whatever you want me to call it. But college football is the one sport where regular season losses hurt you the most, right? If you lose two games in the season (with the exception of this year), you're out of the National Title hunt. But you can hang your hat on losing the game while playing better than the opponent. That's always fun too.

Who was calling the game? Emrick and more importantly Olczyk. He never coached Malkin so he didn't laud him as much. sorry blackhawk fans :lol: I guess I understand how Red Wings fans feel when they get owned by us. I don't know how the Kings always outplay us. Not a good start to the new year.

This is such a joke. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is going USC's way.

Damn it :x

MENDENHALL!!!

There never is.