Andy

LOL not only do they needlessly review an obvious TD but they overturn based on no evidence. I'm getting sick of replay.

If you wave at all, ball is dead upon being touched regardless. Even laterally? Yep. That same thing happened in a game earlier this year, can't remember who was involved.

If you wave at all, ball is dead upon being touched regardless.

Unless Auburn blows them out, I'd expect that to be the case. One would think Mizzou would pass them with a win over Auburn, though, wouldn't they?

Off-field, but according to multiple reporters on Twitter, Kevin Sumlin has signed a new 6-year deal with Texas A&M.

I'm starting to think MSU will win next week. If OSU's defense can't stop freaking Michigan, then MSU can score enough points to win.

The Aggies have had one of the greatest college quarterbacks in history the past two seasons and Mizzou is having a very, very special season. 10 win seasons will not be even close to the norm for those schools. If not more so? Wait, so Clemson might actually have better records if they played in the SEC and not the dogshvt ACC? I don't care if 10-win seasons will be the norm. All we heard for the entire off-season before those two schools joined was how they were going to be trampled into the ground for the next half-decade, at least. Instead one had last year's Heisman winner and the other is a win away from Atlanta. And yes, Clemson might well move up a rung on the CFB ladder if their already very solid program got a revenue boost from playing in the SEC as well as the added recruiting benefits of being in the current best conference in the country.

I would've thought we'd be done with talk like this after Texas A&M won 10 games last year and Missouri won at least 10 this year. Clemson is a very solid football program. They would probably be at least as successful with access to SEC resources and prestige, if not more so.

Win or lose, if Carolina gets the job done Sunday it sets up a monster SNF showdown. I'm glad that game got flexed.

They definitely need to repair the problem somehow. I think I recall a recent Bill Simmons podcast where he and Steve Kerr floated the idea where the odds would work something like a bell curve and teams 17-20 and teams 27-30 would have the worst odds, which in theory would discourage tanking and encourage making the playoffs. That's a decent plan but I'm sure these tank-loving front offices would figure out a way to game that system as well.

In basketball it makes a lot more sense to tank. I know it does. Makes the NBA feel like a gigantic waste of time when there are 4-6 teams that have a chance and 24-26 teams that should be tanking. Not the league's fault, of course, it's the nature of the sport, but really, what's the point of paying attention if you're not a fan of one of the 4-6?

Good, the "I HOPE THE CUBS LOSE FOR BETTER DRAFT PICKS" crowd wasn't annoying enough during baseball season, I'm glad this crap can go on essentially year-round now.

It's pretty well known at this point that the non-semifinal major bowls are going to more or less operate this way. There will still be tie-ins, but the committee will place the qualifying teams into what should be attractive matchups. So we'll have that going for us at least. So no more Big 10 vs. Pac 12 in the Rose Bowl? Yes, still B1G/Pac-12 in the Rose Bowl, but the selection order has been scrapped and the tie-ins have largely been widened (Orange, for instance, is now ACC vs SEC/B1G/Notre Dame depending on who is ranked highest). I can't really explain it well, so here is Stewart Mandel's projection for what the non-semifinal bowls would look like if they had the playoff this year: Basically, the new system will use the tie-ins to create the best matchup in the non-semifinal bowls, as opposed to giving the bowls a selection order and the ability to pass over better teams for 'better draws'.

It's pretty well known at this point that the non-semifinal major bowls are going to more or less operate this way. There will still be tie-ins, but the committee will place the qualifying teams into what should be attractive matchups. So we'll have that going for us at least.

You know, I sort of can't believe this hasn't happened before, now that I think about it. They've already done this with CSN California (A's) and CSN Bay Area (Giants) in the same general market.

Doesn't the Cotton Bowl go to an SEC West team? It always does, but it's not a contractual requirement. No bowl game is contracted to a single division.

You would think. Mandel has LSU projected there too. I can only assume both are guessing you will lose to A&M, but I'd hardly think that's a slam dunk at this point.

The Bulls won't do that, and in any case, the NBA already rigged one lottery for them, they're not going to do it again.

The same guy who once went for it on 4th down at his own 27 or whatever to try to keep the ball away from him, interestingly enough.

What happens to what, the title game picture? Pretty clearly goes 1) FSU 2) Auburn 3) Bama 4) Ok St (assuming they win Bedlam) 5) Ohio State to me. In this scenario, the chances of South Carolina beating Auburn to backdoor the Tide into the title game for the 3rd year in a row are somewhere between 100 percent and 1,000 percent.

Top 25 games ------------------------ (1) Alabama at (4) Auburn (3:30 pm, CBS) (2) Florida State at Florida (12 pm, ESPN) (3) Ohio State at Michigan (12 pm, ABC) (21) Texas A&M at (5) Missouri (7:45 pm, ESPN) (6) Clemson at (10) South Carolina (7 pm, ESPN2) (25) Notre Dame at (8) Stanford (7 pm, FOX) (9) Baylor at TCU (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Minnesota at (11) Michigan State (12 pm, BTN) Arizona at (12) Arizona State (9:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Oregon State at (13) Oregon (7 pm Friday, Fox Sports 1) Western Michigan at (14) Northern Illinois (7 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Penn State at (15) Wisconsin (3:30 pm, ESPN) (16) Fresno State at San Jose State (3:30 pm Friday, CBS Sports) Arkansas at (17) LSU (2:30 pm Friday, CBS) South Florida at (19) Central Florida (8 pm Friday, ESPN) (22) UCLA at (23) USC (8 pm, ABC) (24) Duke at North Carolina (12 pm, ESPN2) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Ole Miss at Mississippi State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) Texas Tech at Texas (7:30 pm Thursday, Fox Sports 1) Iowa at Nebraska (12 pm Friday, ABC) SMU at Houston (12 pm Friday, ESPN2) Temple at Memphis (12 pm Friday, ESPNEWS) East Carolina at Marshall (12 pm Friday, CBS Sports) Toledo at Akron (12 pm Friday, ESPN3) Miami (OH) at Ball State (1 pm Friday, ESPN3) Bowling Green at Buffalo (1:30 pm Friday, ESPNU) Texas State at Troy (2 pm Friday, ESPN3) UMass at Ohio (2 pm Friday, ESPN3) Eastern Michigan at Central Michigan (2 pm Friday, ESPN3) Florida International at Florida Atlantic (3 pm Friday, Fox Sports 1) Miami at Pittsburgh (3:30 pm Friday, ABC) Washington State at Washington (3:30 pm, Friday, FOX) Kansas State at Kansas (12 pm, Fox Sports 1) Rutgers at UConn (12 pm, ESPNU) Wake Forest at Vanderbilt (12:20 pm, SECTV/ESPN3) Maryland at NC State (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Colorado at Utah (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) Air Force at Colorado State (2 pm, ESPN3) South Alabama at Georgia State (2 pm, ESPN3) North Texas at Tulsa (2:30 pm, FSN) BYU at Nevada (3 pm, CBS Sports) Arkansas State at Western Kentucky (3 pm, ESPN3) Georgia at Georgia Tech (3:30 pm, ABC) Virginia Tech at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Purdue at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Northwestern at Illinois (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional) Boston College at Syracuse (3:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Idaho at New Mexico State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Iowa State at West Virginia (4 pm, Fox Sports 1) Tennessee at Kentucky (7 pm, ESPNU) UL Monroe at UL Lafayette (7 pm, ESPN3) New Mexico at Boise State (10:15 pm, ESPN2) San Diego State at UNLV (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

They'll still win the division by 2 or 3 games because of how irredeemably terrible the other 3 teams in that division are.

Cubs - Santo white (I've bought probably a dozen shirseys, but I'm not counting them) Bulls - Ben Gordon red, Rose black, Deng white Panthers - Steve Smith black, Jimmy Clausen black (oops), Julius Peppers white, Cam Newton white Notre Dame - Brady Quinn green, Luke Harangody blue, generic #1 blue and generic #1 white

I don't think they will, but they can. Defense would have to play terrific, though.

Reminds me so much of basketball Mark Prior more than anyone. yeah damn we're on that definite trajectory right now. Matches up pretty well. Comes up with a short time in the minors/college. Makes immediate impact and then has a breakout dominant year and leads their team to the farthest they've gone in the playoffs in years. Misses a concerning amount of time the next year and is still very good but a step below the previous year. The comes the major injury (ACL/batted ball to elbow) and when they come back they still look like the same person but don't play as well and keep getting hurt. I'm getting really sick of this [expletive]. Wish the Priors and Roses of the world would just get their career-ending injuries over with before we got a taste of how good they CAN be