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http://espn.go.com/college-football/heisman09/index He's definatly a candidate, and will probably be asked to attend NY assuming he doesn't get hurt. I don't think he is going to have a chance to win unless he really lights up USC. This is pretty much his only statement game that he has left on his schedule to win over voters, where others will have bigger games on schedule come the end of the regular season. Tebow isn't playing another team likely to be ranked at the end of the year until the SEC title game, and neither is McCoy until the Big 12 title game (after this week) - assuming they both make it. ND's schedule, meanwhile, is quietly not as bad as it appeared to be at the beginning of the year. Pitt appears to be the Big East favorite (inasmuch as that means a whole lot), while UConn and Stanford have shots at being 8-win teams. Navy is solid as usual. Again but as far as making a statement with Heisman voters none of them are going to be looking as much at him especially if ND lose this week. While it shouldn't work this way, this year's Heisman is going to come down more to career performance than anything that happens throughout the season. His numbers will back it up and he is a really good QB, but he is going to have too much ground to make up with no one to do it against. why do you say this year's heisman comes down to career performance more than this season's performance?

http://espn.go.com/college-football/heisman09/index He's definatly a candidate, and will probably be asked to attend NY assuming he doesn't get hurt. I don't think he is going to have a chance to win unless he really lights up USC. This is pretty much his only statement game that he has left on his schedule to win over voters, where others will have bigger games on schedule come the end of the regular season. Agreed. Pitt's probably the only other team on the schedule that could be ranked when they play them, and even if they are it'll pale in comparison to the 2nd best opponent McCoy or Tebow have left. No doubt. But it's possible that all but 2 (Purdue and WSU) of ND's opponents could go to bowls this year. Other than USC, there aren't any really good teams on the schedule. But there isn't a Florida International or Charleston Southern either.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/heisman09/index Only 1 of their 15 experts didn't rank Clausen. I'll bet a significant amount of money that it was Forde.

other than kirk herbstreit and cbs sports? Classic Derwood

"worthy of being remembered" Alex Gonzalez more than anything. Bartman's been screwed by the media and fans more, no doubt. But, in reality, his action wasn't nearly as significant as the boot.

Go Irish. Don't get beat by 30 again.

tebow has no idea how to receive a snap from under center The center is probably afraid Tim would try to circumcise him

Why is this Deion's fault? He had a college player to his house, in violation of no rules (at least according to what I've read) and the kid lied to the NCAA about it. Seems like Bryant has no one to blame but himself.

lots of college kids get punished for relatively small mistakes. it's not tragedy.

that's a good point. but without having done the slightest bit of research, were there a bunch of better options?

According to his blog, DePo is (for the time being) still working for the Pads, even though Towers is gone.

It doesn't matter whether he's worse or not, if he doesn't win the WS posters will rip him to shreds and complain that he's the worst ever. Everybody's jumping all over Sandberg already and he's not even close to being the manager of the Cubs. you're right. none of us has any idea what Sandberg would do as a manager. It's not like we have numerous articles about his philosophy nor a couple seasons worth of managing in the minors to draw from.

I didn't notice you had done that until yesterday morning. So I ended up adding guys like Nelson Figueroa (or whatever). Ended up working out nicely, but didn't really matter. I got pretty lucky in the AVG/OPS department over those weeks.

And one of those big-pay games a year is fine. But Penn State also played Temple and Akron. Michigan played EMU and WMU and also plays Delaware State. Michigan State played Montana State and CMU and has a game with WMU left. And that's just a few Big Ten teams for sampling. There's no reason to have three little boys on a team's schedule year in and year out. if you don't play little boys, you're playing a lot more home-and-home series, or 2-for-1, which reduces the number of home games you play, which costs your athletic department a lot of revenue. penn state can't bring in west virginia or maryland to play in happy valley every year. There's no reason to have 3 "buy" games and 8 home games in a 12-game schedule. PSU isn't the only one to do it this year. In fact, UM has done it the last 3 times ND played at Ann Arbor (05, 07, 09). You schedule 3 buy games and a home-home with a BCS team. Then you 7 home games one year and 8 the next.

The price depends on the game. There was a piece about it in USA Today this season, I think. Some are $1m though I think that was the record set by OSU this year. And yes, the BCS certainly discourages it. But it's as much about the margin of victory as it is the losses. Playing a legit BCS team and beating them by a TD or less is almost as bad as a loss. But beating Jackson State by 50 is apparently a legitimate win. It makes no sense. Rankings are a joke. Officiating is a joke. Scheduling is a joke. The whole system is a mess.

Not sure if you were serious, but they do, in fact, exist. They're both 1-AA teams. Wofford's played about 8 teams in the top 25 this year, so I'm sure the school exists. I'm not sure the football team existed before each of those teams paid the school $200k-$500k for the honor of getting their ass kicked. I'd round up a football team if it meant getting paid $200-$500k to get demolished. Happily. Sure you would. But it's a tad embarrassing for a big time college program to dole out that much money 3 times a year rather than playing real teams home and home. I can see how it's necessary to complete a schedule at times. But it's ridiculous how frequently some teams do it.

Not sure if you were serious, but they do, in fact, exist. They're both 1-AA teams. Wofford's played about 8 teams in the top 25 this year, so I'm sure the school exists. I'm not sure the football team existed before each of those teams paid the school $200k-$500k for the honor of getting their ass kicked.

I didn't even notice it until I saw your post, but the a-holes at DirecTV apparently took ESPN Classic off of all their packages except the most expensive Premier package. Completely unacceptable BS. They switched it with ESPNU I believe. You can still get it without going to premier, you just have to get the Sports Pack which is $12 per month. I can't wait until I can buy the 10-15 channels I want and nothing else. I don't want 200 channels for $100 a month. I want the handful of channels I want and forget everything else.

I guess the flip side is OU isn't being punished for scheduling 2 teams that don't suck. Unfortunately for them, they lost to both of them. But I'd rather see OU ranked b/c they played teams like BYU and Miami and lost very close games than see them 4-0 b/c they played Jackson State and Wofford (or whatever - I don't think either of these schools even exists).

As usual, you're right and whoever disagrees is wrong and there's no discussion to be had. don't worry about abuck. His team lost on a blocked PAT this weekend.

If the Cubs hire Sandberg as manager in 2011, I'm going to have to find a new team. I can't have my son growing up thinking Sandberg's stupid managerial style is "playing the game the right way." Not only that, but it'll just be that many more years without a title as we piss away outs left and right.

6-5...what do I win? I was in 4 H2H finals this year, and all of them finished tied or 6-5 (in one case 6-5-1). Ended up 2-2 in those finals.

he turned LoDuca, Encarnacion, and something into Penny and, eventually, Russell Martin. And he didn't sign Andruw Jones and JP to stupid contracts.

fire Hendry before he screws up anything else. It's not joshua's fault, Jim, it's yours

meh, OU will either prove themselves against Texas or drop out for good