Andy

It's not much of an exaggeration to say that lottery ball saved the franchise from being in a black hole for a few years. It was big to get this one since we're almost certainly not winning tomorrow. Very good win.

So VT apparently isn't all that good. Too bad for the ACC, who don't seem to have anybody good this year. ETA: Ga. Tech, maybe. I guess.

I'm happy you guys are ranked. 6 of 11 teams are ranked. Sweet. Damn it, you just reminded me how annoying it is that this whole thread is going to be Big Ten slurping. (They'll likely deserve it, granted, but it'll still be annoying.)

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4605910&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_4605910

AP poll is out too. 1 Kansas 2 Michigan State 3 Texas 4 Kentucky 5 Villanova 6 North Carolina 7 Purdue 8 West Virginia 9 Duke 10 Tennessee 11 Butler 12 Connecticut 13 California 14 Washington 15 Michigan 16 Ohio State 17 Oklahoma 18 Mississippi State 19 Louisville 20 Georgetown 21 Dayton 22 Georgia Tech 23 Illinois 24 Clemson 25 Minnesota

ND got some votes, but even though Seth Davis likes our team, I think that the Scott Martin ACL tear is going to end up costing us an NCAA bid.

Black jerseys rarely don't at least look cool, but Tennessee's orange tops are among the best in college football and it sucks that they'd pass on wearing them.

I remember those devastatingly harsh penalties placed on Notre Dame immediately after the Kim Dunbar scandal. And by devastating I mean 2 whole scholies pulled and by immediately after I mean 2-4.5 years after the fact. 2 more schollies than USC has lost for much more severe offenses, BTW. And by "2-4.5 years after the fact" you must mean "less than one year", because that's the actual truth. The allegations were from 1993-1998. The investigation was opened in January 1998 and the punishments were handed down in December of 1999. That's nearly two years and you're looking at 5 years of alleged malfeasance. Let's not act like the NCAA was swift in its actions. Anyway, the Bush/Mayo thing will bear fruit for you at some point and you can pretend its some great act of justice when all anyone really cares about is that a program you don't like gets punished--after all the only time people like the NCAA is when its sticking it to hated teams. It's not even just that. Michigan got a 'letter of inquiry' this week regarding those practice-time allegations, which of course is a good thing, but again, it's the NCAA moving quickly on something relatively minor while we've heard absolutely no news on Bush/Mayo in forever. And I hate Michigan MUCH more than I could ever dislike USC. It's just completely backwards and counter to everything the NCAA claims to stand for.

Also OK St is not being punished, Dez Bryant is. I'd say losing the team's best player when OK State had a chance to be as good as they've been in a very long time would qualify as the team being punished.

I remember those devastatingly harsh penalties placed on Notre Dame immediately after the Kim Dunbar scandal. And by devastating I mean 2 whole scholies pulled and by immediately after I mean 2-4.5 years after the fact. 2 more schollies than USC has lost for much more severe offenses, BTW. And by "2-4.5 years after the fact" you must mean "less than one year", because that's the actual truth.

Meanwhile, still nothing about Reggie Bush or O.J. Mayo. The NCAA is a crock of [expletive].

In fairness though, Bradley has a lot more value as a player than Sammy had at that time.

ABC will have regional coverage of the two big games this weekend. The other one will be on ESPN2.

Especially based on potential. He needs to sit a year as the backup, but no teams are going to pass him up unless they have no need to draft a QB. Shut up guys, he can't know about this. :D

I didn't realize how truly bad Florida's schedule is until I looked it up during a debate with a friend. They play 2 currently ranked teams - LSU and South Carolina (the latter probably won't finish the season ranked). They play 3 trash non-conference games and Florida State. The rest of their schedule consists of Kentucky, Miss State, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Arkansas and Tennessee. That's pretty weak.

because you would be an authority on how to properly host any sort of party that doesn't take place at chuck e cheese Are you saying I have kids or that I'm 12 years old? I'll tell you now, neither is true.

Go Panthers! Get... Oh right, we traded our top 10 pick for a backup DE.

Why choose? Game long decided by 10:30 or 11, show up fashionably late to the parties (which normally start around 10 here - I can't speak for other schools). Watch game at party? The only person I know that would ever have college football games on at Halloween parties is typing this post.

Why choose? Game long decided by 10:30 or 11, show up fashionably late to the parties (which normally start around 10 here - I can't speak for other schools).

USC/Oregon on ABC and Texas/OK St on ESPN2 is an assumption (GameDay's going to Eugene). I haven't seen confirmation of it.

Top 25 games --------------------------- Georgia vs (1) Florida – in Jacksonville (3:30 pm, CBS) (3) Texas at (14) Oklahoma State (8 pm, ABC or ESPN2) Indiana at (4) Iowa (12 pm, ESPN) (5) USC at (10) Oregon (8 pm, ABC or ESPN2) UNLV at (6) TCU (4 pm, Versus) San Jose State at (7) Boise State (3 pm, ESPN 360) (8) Cincinnati at Syracuse (12 pm, ESPNU) Tulane at (9) LSU (8 pm, ESPN 360) (11) Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt (7:30 pm, CSN South) (12) Penn State at Northwestern (4:30 pm, ESPN) North Carolina at (13) Virginia Tech (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) Wyoming at (16) Utah (8 pm, The Mountain) New Mexico State at (17) Ohio State (12 pm, BTN) Southern Miss at (18) Houston (1 pm, CSN South) (19) Miami at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional) (21) West Virginia at South Florida (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) (22) South Carolina at Tennessee (7:45 pm, ESPN) Washington State vs (23) Notre Dame – in San Antonio (7:30 pm, NBC) (24) California at Arizona State (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) (25) Ole Miss at Auburn (12 pm, SEC Network) Games of interest ---------------------------- Akron at Northern Illinois (12 pm, ESPN 360) Ohio at Ball State (12 pm) Purdue at Wisconsin (12 pm, ESPN2) NC State at Florida State (12 pm, Raycom Sports) Missouri at Colorado (12:30 pm, FSN/CSN) Nebraska at Baylor (12:30 pm, Versus) Western Michigan at Kent State (2 pm) Duke at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN 360) Kansas at Texas Tech (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional) Michigan at Illinois (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional) Iowa State at Texas A&M (3:30 pm) Arkansas State at Louisville (3:30 pm) UCLA at Oregon State (4 pm) Louisiana Tech at Idaho (5 pm, ESPN 360) Kansas State at Oklahoma (7 pm, FSN/CSN) Eastern Michigan at Arkansas (7 pm, ESPNU) Mississippi State at Kentucky (7 pm, Sun Sports) UL Monroe at Troy (7 pm) Michigan State at Minnesota (8 pm, BTN) Other nationally available games ------------------------------------------ East Carolina at Memphis (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Rutgers at UConn (12 pm, ESPN 360) Coastal Carolina at Clemson (1:30 pm, ESPN 360) Temple at Navy (3:30 pm, CBS College) Toledo at Miami (OH) (3:30 pm, ESPN 360) Central Michigan at Boston College (3:30 pm, ESPNU) New Mexico at San Diego State (7:30 pm, CBS College) Marshall at Central Florida (8:15 pm Sunday, ESPN) Non I-A games of interest --------------------------------- Southern Illinois at Indiana State (12 pm, Mediacom) Holy Cross at Fordham (1 pm) UC Davis at Southern Utah (3 pm)

HAHA, Carolina scores, forces a 3 and out, and fumbles the ball back to Buffalo on the punt. What a joke of a team. Enjoy 4-12, idiots.

Jake throws a pick. He can NOT be this team's QB in 2010.

I already had to live with the Browns drafting Brady Quinn and then enacting their career-sabotage on him, I think I'd lose it if Jimmy met a similar fate.

Panthers fail on 4th and 1. Geez.