Andy

Well, that was fun having BSU being on the outside looking in at the Top 25. See you again in 5 years if the stars align again with the next coach

2 of the 3 teams you listed have multiple impressive wins (Stanford over Oregon and ASU, South Carolina over Missouri and UCF [both on the road]), and the other - A&M - doesn't have a bad loss as both their defeats were to top 10 teams, albeit at home. As TT alluded to, MSU and Wisconsin are doubtless both good, but neither have any really impressive victories yet.

Franklin is going to get a big-time job (bigger than Illinois, like USC) this offseason and Tressel is still under show-cause, but Petrino could be intriguing.

This is because Georgia fans are absolute idiots. I dont know what they expect but they have had a decade in the top tier of the SEC and played in the SEC title game 6 times. This is a lloyd carr situation and the program thinks it should be better than is reasonable. Bingo. Richt is a terrific coach. He's not Nick Saban, but neither are 123 other FBS coaches. Hell, he was 3 yards away from the NCG last year.

Haha thanks. It's been way too long since Carolina was good, because I was a nervous wreck the entire game. Those 2 fumbles on the Panthers' final drive about made my head explode.

Top 25 games ------------------------ (1) Alabama at Mississippi State (7:45 pm, ESPN) Syracuse at (2) Florida State (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) (3) Ohio State at Illinois (12 pm, ESPN) (4) Stanford at USC (8 pm, ABC) (5) Baylor vs Texas Tech – in Arlington, TX (7 pm, FOX) Utah at (6) Oregon (4 pm, Fox Sports 1) (25) Georgia at (7) Auburn (3:30 pm, CBS) Georgia Tech at (8) Clemson (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) Florida at (10) South Carolina (7 pm, ESPN2) (12) Oklahoma State at (24) Texas (3:30 pm, FOX) Washington at (13) UCLA (9 pm Friday, ESPN2) Ball State at (15) Northern Illinois (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) (16) Michigan State at Nebraska (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) (17) Central Florida at Temple (12 pm, ESPN3) Iowa State at (18) Oklahoma (12 pm, Fox Sports 1) Oregon State at (19) Arizona State (9:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Houston at (20) Louisville (7 pm, ESPNU) Indiana at (22) Wisconsin (12 pm, ESPN2) (23) Miami at Duke (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Buffalo at Toledo (7:30 pm Tuesday, ESPNU) Ohio at Bowling Green (7:30 pm Tuesday, ESPN3) Miami (OH) at Kent State (8 pm Wednesday, ESPNU) Marshall at Tulsa (7:30 pm Thursday, Fox Sports 1) Cincinnati at Rutgers (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Troy at Ole Miss (12 pm, ESPNU) Purdue at Penn State (12 pm, BTN) West Virginia at Kansas (12 pm, FSN) Central Michigan at Western Michigan (12 pm, ESPN3) Kentucky at Vanderbilt (12:20 pm, SECTV/ESPN3) Maryland at Virginia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) North Carolina at Pittsburgh (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) NC State at Boston College (12:30 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) Akron at UMass (1 pm, ESPN3) Washington State at Arizona (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) UL Lafayette at Georgia State (2 pm, ESPN3) Idaho State at BYU (3 pm, BYUTV) UConn at SMU (3 pm, ESPN3) Michigan at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN) TCU at Kansas State (3:30 pm, FSN) South Alabama at Navy (3:30 pm, CBS Sports) California at Colorado (5:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Louisiana Tech at Rice (7 pm, CBS Sports) Memphis at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN3) Texas State at Arkansas State (7:30 pm, ESPN3) Wyoming at Boise State (10:15 pm, ESPN2) San Jose State at Nevada (10:30 pm, ESPNU) San Diego State at Hawaii (10:30 pm, CBS Sports)

Also, there is no point of replay if every replay official is going to make the clearly wrong call.

This season can go to hell. 3 losses and only 1 to even a remotely decent team.

They just went 11-2. I would think he gets another year. But then, they didn't even wait 3 years to run off Zook.

Man, I'm really going to have to step up my game if I'm going to reclaim my title of most over-the-top homer CFB fan on here.

I freaking love watching Stanford play football.

Yep. I looked at some of those for fantasy baseball purposes in March and he seemingly had half the starters in the majors going over an .800 OPS.

I've literally been waiting almost 5 years for Carolina to play a regular-season game that was actually important. Need to win either at SF or against the Pats next Monday to keep these nascent playoff hopes going.

I wouldn't count on that, but the good news is that MLB.tv is better anyway. I've had both and prefer EI for picture quality and no buffering, but MLBTV is cheaper and I can watch it at work, so it wins.

I made the same mistake. "Please keep the games on WGN, I need to see the games in " (for free like I always have, I don't care about the competitive landscape) I understand the sentiment as I would prefer all Cubs games widely available too - but these people don't get that's not the media age we live in anymore, and that's not the Ricketts' fault.

How does somebody get into baseball late? If I wasn't obsessed with baseball as a kid in the 80s I probably never would have paid attention in my teens. I didn't really get into baseball until being sucked into Cubs fandom by a friend of mine at age 13. My parents didn't watch it, so I never saw much of it before then.

It's not just you. This season definitely seems to be somewhat lacking for drama by CFB standards. Plenty of time left for that to change, though. I noticed the NSBB action has been way down this year also. I have wanted to defend MSU at times this year but there really hasn't been any one to defend them to. I went to the MSU/ND game and assumed afterward that it was a crap game (which it was) between two crap teams (which it apparently wasn't). I'm looking forward to seeing how MSU matches up with the Buckeyes in Indy.

It's not just you. This season definitely seems to be somewhat lacking for drama by CFB standards. Plenty of time left for that to change, though.

Lovie! Heard he was interviewing for the USC job. No joke. Lovie denied those rumors, said he had no clue where the report came from, and said he's not interested. Maybe those fake USC representatives are still on the loose.

Or if you feel like he's doing a lot else very well, but struggles with dispensing too many minutes, help him with the aspect you think he needs help with? Is it your opinion that this is the first time this issue has come up between Thibs and management? Because if they've addressed it before (and I'm guessing they have) and he's ignoring them to the degree that they now are basically ordering him how to dispense minutes, then that's well beyond 'helping him'.

I may be a victim of selection bias as an Indiana native, but it seems like no team has won as many games while sucking it up for half the game than the Colts over the last 15 years or so.

Good Lord. If you think he's mismanaging the rotation to the degree that it hurts the team (and I can't imagine they wouldn't have told him so prior to this), fire him. If not, let him [expletive] coach the team.

Matt Ryan without Roddy White and Julio Jones is...not good. He really was horrific today. First 2 INTs were both into triple coverage and his third was a telegraphed out route for a pick-6.

Top 25 games ------------------------ (13) LSU at (1) Alabama (8 pm, CBS) (2) Florida State at Wake Forest (12 pm, ABC/ESPN3) (3) Oregon at (5) Stanford (9 pm Thursday, ESPN) (10) Oklahoma at (6) Baylor (7:30 pm Thursday, Fox Sports 1) (8) Missouri at Kentucky (12 pm, ESPNU) (9) Auburn at Tennessee (12 pm, ESPN) Virginia Tech at (11) Miami (7 pm, ESPN) Kansas at (14) Oklahoma State (4 pm, Fox Sports 1) Mississippi State at (15) Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS) (16) Fresno State at Wyoming (10:15 pm, ESPN2) (19) UCLA at Arizona (10 pm, ESPN) (20) Louisville at UConn (8:30 pm Friday, ESPN2) Houston at (21) Central Florida (7 pm, ESPN2) (22) Arizona State at Utah (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) (23) Notre Dame at Pittsburgh (8 pm, ABC) BYU at (24) Wisconsin (3:30 pm, ESPN) Kansas State at (25) Texas Tech (12 pm, ABC/ESPN3) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Ohio at Buffalo (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Bowling Green at Miami (OH) (8 pm Tuesday, ESPNU) Central Michigan at Ball State (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2) Troy at UL Lafayette (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Air Force at New Mexico (9 pm Friday, ESPNU) Penn State at Minnesota (12 pm, ESPN2) Iowa at Purdue (12 pm, BTN) TCU at Iowa State (12 pm, FSN) Western Kentucky at Army (12 pm, CBS Sports) Vanderbilt at Florida (12 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) SMU at Cincinnati (12 pm, ESPN3) Arkansas at Ole Miss (12:20 pm, SECTV/ESPN3) Virginia at North Carolina (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Appalachian State at Georgia (12:30 pm, ESPN3) Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan (1 pm, ESPN3) USC at California (3 pm, FOX) Nebraska at Michigan (3:30 pm, ABC) Illinois at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN) Syracuse at Maryland (3:30 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) Hawaii at Navy (3:30 pm, CBS Sports) Boston College at New Mexico State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Tulsa at East Carolina (3:45 pm, FSN) NC State at Duke (4 pm, ESPNU) UT Martin at Memphis (4:30 pm, ESPN3) Texas at West Virginia (7 pm, FOX) Southern Miss at Louisiana Tech (7 pm, CBS Sports) Arkansas State at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Utah State at UNLV (8 pm, ESPNU) Colorado at Washington (8 pm, Pac-12 Network) San Diego State at San Jose State (10:30 pm, CBS Sports)

I like this thing Carolina does where they destroy the other team. They should keep doing that.