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Possible but my thinking is that it would just increase the pressure on them while giving a bullseye for their opponents. I think it'd be a net loss purely from a win/loss perspective. I'm also speaking from the perspective of a USC fan who watched them be one of the better teams in the country by the end of the year last season turn into a complete dumpster fire when there was stuff to actually play for. Not comparing Urban to Lane of course. I really think it's too difficult to say with any certainty how eligibility would change the results if at all. But USC doesn't appear to be a team that crumbled under pressure. It appears to be a team with a bad coach that suffered from the depth issues you have when you've got scholarship limitations and aren't more selective in filling out the depth chart with the recruit slots you have. I don't think USC crashed bc other teams targeted them. I have to think other teams have targeted them for a decade.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl. And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes. The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams. If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title. If they were eligible, there's a great chance teams would've performed better against an opponent that actually had something to lose. And OSU may have played better since it had something to lose. Hard to say how the record would be different just bc they had the chance to go to a bowl or not.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl. And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes. The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams. If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title. Good point. They may well have been #2. But that doesn't help Andy's contention that there were mismatches in the big ten/sec games. I haven't worked this all out but swap OSU in for Wisconsin and you still have Nebraska in the Citrus, it seems. Maybe they go to the Rose Bowl and all the other teams slide up but then plug PSU in ahead or behind UM and the other teams fall in line. So you might get UM or PSU in the Citrus, instead of Nebraska, and the other faces SC. I don't know how it all shakes out, but in no scenario does a higher ranked big ten team play SC or UGA.

Ugh might be moot. Sounds like AQM may not be accepted and he's announcing this weekend so that doesn't add up to an ND verbal.

Hopefully Redfield and Vanderdoes are next (if there's room). There will be room for 2 at least. Wood is going to the NFL, hence the need for 2 top backs. Sounds like it will be Redfield and either Vanderdoes or AQM but not likely both. I'd be surprised if Kelly took 3 more recruits at the expense of an ILB assuming Fox and Carlo both want to return. Though also sounds like there could be a medical hardship for at least one OL. With the young LB depth, I could see Kelly possibly making room for another DL recruit. I don't follow. My guess is Fox starts next to Grace who has like 10 snaps as a LB (though a lot of ST experience). There are no other ILBs with experience and we're weak at ILB until you get to Anzalone and Deeb. If either starter gets hurt, you'd be starting possibly a true freshman at ILB or moving a guy like Spond inside when he doesn't have a perfect build for that. You don't turn away DL studs lightly but I don't want to go into next year with just 1 ILB that has any meaningful game time on his resume.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl. And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes. The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

Hopefully Redfield and Vanderdoes are next (if there's room). There will be room for 2 at least. Wood is going to the NFL, hence the need for 2 top backs. Sounds like it will be Redfield and either Vanderdoes or AQM but not likely both. I'd be surprised if Kelly took 3 more recruits at the expense of an ILB assuming Fox and Carlo both want to return. Though also sounds like there could be a medical hardship for at least one OL.

Folston makes two top-10 RBs in this class. Makes the likely loss of both of our top RBs a little less painful heading into next season. Not sucking has its benefits.

One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Um, Denard hasn't been a QB for like 8 weeks

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so the screw job on the first down call for UM cost S Carolina the ball and a TO in crunch time. wow

He hit him too hard. They might say his helmet came off first so the play was dead.

Holy [expletive] Clowney just killed a guy

Holy [expletive] is S Carolina getting screwed

Miss St has beat no one this year. Every decent team they've played has beaten them.

Against a pretty bad defense. Where was Barkley? Wittek looked lost (and apparently was with the 3 picks). Couldn't believe MB didn't have some words of advice. I expected him to be in Wittek's ear every time he walked off the field.

There was also a player who tweeted his disgust at the Sun Bowl selection last month and then he released a statement if apology later (clearly crafted by USC's PR people). I'm pretty bummed next year is Lane's last season. Another played tweeted that el Paso is shitty, then deleted it and apologized. It's awesome.

Oh Laney, please never stop coaching USC http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/usc-shows-hour-bowl-dinner-trojans-player-cusses-154236056--ncaaf.html

That's pretty cool to be the oldest living alum...of the greatest football team in the history of the world. Wow raw. Nice to have your support. :)

I'm not in the finals bc I stuck with Stafford instead of going with my gut (Kaepernick).

Those are schools - Kentucky, Colorado, Purdue, maybe Cal - that I would have expected to take a shot with a guy like GA after this season. Being in the mix at those schools is where Urban was after Bowling Green. He went to such a school (Utah) continued his success and became a hot name. Success at any of those schools for 2-3 years would jump GA up to mid-upper BCS team territory. IMO, Wisconsin took a bit of a risk by not seeing sustained success at a lower program or success at multiple levels.

If you only lost $1600 last year, I would say you did fairly well. Are there any tax benefits to be gained by claiming a loss on ticket sales? Is there any way to write those losses off? He didn't suffer any losses.

Oh goody, I was afraid the piety had started to go away. You are weakening. You will come around. Enough.

Count me in as a fan of Andersen, the more I learned he has a dynamic personality that will play well in the state of WI, recruited well nationally at a school not designed to recruit well beyond the mountains and WC. If they had won the WAC again, he raises his value beyond schools like WI and likely into the Urban Meyer range when he was at Utah. Utah was Meyer's second successful HC gig and he was incredibly successful every year (17-6; 22-2). I don't want to bury GA nor promote Meyer but he was not 1 more year at Utah St from being Urban Meyer circa 2002. Urban Meyer range might be a stretch, but 2 more good years of 9+ wins - which he has set up the team to do - and he could be viewed like a Chris Petersen at Boise State or Gary Patterson at TCU (before those schools joined major conferences) Agree. If we just grant him two more incredibly successful seasons, he could be a hot name.