Andy

HAHA Cuse somehow leaves Golden Tate open on a 4th and 10. Course, Brandon Walker still needs to kick a 52 yard field goal.

Because you watch and can evaluate this at all.

Syracuse takes the lead 24-23 with 45 seconds to go. Tom Hammond and Pat Haden high-five in the booth. Whatever. Charlie Weis is d-u-n done it looks like.

We get it, Hammond, it's very cool that Syracuse isn't throwing in the towel even though they're 2-8. It's a nice thing to see, it is not the coolest story of all time. Give it a damn rest.

Tom Hammond and Pat Haden continuing to openly root for the other team is pretty disgusting.

28-0 Penn State? MSU is even further below the two good Big Ten teams than I thought they were. 10-0 Washington in the "Two Girls, One" Apple Cup. A UW player just lined up in the neutral zone on a 3rd and 1. Didn't matter because WSU got 5 or 6 yards, but my lord.

That 'push' wasn't blatant and I wouldn't expect it called against the opponent either. And it took exactly one half of football since the ludicrous Navy game for fans to stop the moratorium on the "refs favor Notre Dame" crock of BS. Tate just had a possible TD not overturned on review, but you won't post about that, I'm sure. Oh, and Notre Dame sucks. I can't envision a scenario in which we beat USC with Charlie Weis as coach.

In the "Indiana teams that aren't going to a bowl" game, Purdue leads IU 24-0 thirteen minutes into the game.

What a horrible throw by Pryor.

According to sources, the reason that Mike Haywood is MIA again this week, leaving Charlie to call plays against the Cuse, is that he's interviewing for the vacant Washington job. I find it very hard to believe the Huskies would hire another ND coach under a lot of heat, but I didn't think they'd be dumb enough to give Ty a fourth year either.

Notre Dame with a much-less-than-impressive 65-54 win over Loyola Marymount, who was horrible last season. A road win is a road win, and Luke Harangody had 27 and 17, but playing like that again, even against IU, could spell major trouble. Kyle McAlarney went scoreless for what I'm sure is the first time since at least his freshman year and possibly ever.

I believe he was saying was if Texas/OU/Texas Tech played each other in the National Championship Game against each other that Mizzou being the 3rd Big 12 team would be left out as 3 teams are not allowed in, and the two teams in the NC Game take precident. Oh, gotcha. Misread. But that would require one or both of Florida and Alabama losing to a vastly inferior team prior to the SEC title game. I'm not betting on it.

Does no one get that conference champions get an automatic bid no matter what their rank, SOS, or anything else? Mizzou wins the Big 12 title game, they are in the Fiesta Bowl. Done. Not negotiable. I've heard innumerable people the last few weeks talk about how a big-conference champion could get left out if they fall below a certain rank. It doesn't happen. I don't know where people got this idea.

Yeah, headbanging over ND having an auto-bid in the top 8 is kind of insane. If ND's in the top 8, that means they won probably at least 10 games against a schedule that is usually (not this year, but usually) better than the average big-conference school's. And Stuy, we will certainly be eligible to be picked if we win out. The problem is that many more deserving and attractive teams will also be eligible.

Not sure, but I think this win clinched the MAC conference championship for Ball State. So it's a little bit of a big deal. They haven't clinched yet. They still need to beat Western Michigan next week to win the MAC West outright. If they lose and Central Michigan wins their game next week Ball State, Central Michigan, and Western Michigan will all be tied with one conference loss. And since they's all be 1-1 against each other I'm not sure how the tie would be broken. Here you go: http://www.mac-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9400&KEY=&ATCLID=1148024 Looks like it'll be Central Michigan in the title game. You go all the way to the 4th tiebreaker to determine that. So to try to translate that wording into English, it looks like the deciding factor is which team's opponents from the opposite division had a better record, and CMU would win solely because the schedule-makers had them playing the first-place team in the East (Buffalo) but Ball State didn't play them. Hopefully Ball State makes it a moot point by winning next week. The most surprising part of that is that playing Buffalo could actually positively impact one's SOS. Western Michigan is a pretty good team, but they don't have the same scary threats as CMU does. Add that to home field, and I think BSU gets it done next week, obliterates Buffalo in the MAC title game and let the chips fall where they may from there.

All big-conference champs get in regardless of rank. At-large teams have to be in the top 12 (or in the top 14 if any big-conference champs are outside the top 14).

Essentially no. Utah over BYU, Nevada over Boise, and your boys at UM must all win this weekend for there to be one. Without looking at the standings, wouldn't BYU jump you with the win? Ball St. needs BYU to lose so they'd jump ahead of BYU. but I can't see the BCS taking two non-BCS schools If Ohio State lost to Michigan, they wouldn't have a choice. No one would be eligible from the Big Ten, Pac-10, Big East or ACC. (This also assumes PSU wins Saturday and Oregon State loses again to keep USC from the at-large pool) a lot of assumptions since Oregon St. has 2 winnable games left and OSU is favored by 3 touchdowns I think Oregon State will lose one of their last two. Obviously OSU losing is a big leap. I'm just stating what needs to happen for BSU to get in.

Essentially no. Utah over BYU, Nevada over Boise, and your boys at UM must all win this weekend for there to be one. Without looking at the standings, wouldn't BYU jump you with the win? Ball St. needs BYU to lose so they'd jump ahead of BYU. but I can't see the BCS taking two non-BCS schools If Ohio State lost to Michigan, they wouldn't have a choice. No one would be eligible from the Big Ten, Pac-10, Big East or ACC. (This also assumes PSU wins Saturday and Oregon State loses again to keep USC from the at-large pool)

Essentially no. Utah over BYU, Nevada over Boise, and your boys at UM must all win this weekend for there to be one. Without looking at the standings, wouldn't BYU jump you with the win? Ball St. needs BYU to lose so they'd jump ahead of BYU. Yeah. Our only chance is for BYU and Boise to fall behind us (I think a loss would do the trick in both cases), with Ohio State losing to UM to eliminate any further eligible teams from a big conference. I think three wins over teams with winning records to end the year would be enough to push us past TCU without them losing. In that scenario, we'd be the 2nd best 'outsider', and no one else would be eligible to be picked when the Orange's final selection came up besides us. But as I mentioned, that's way long odds.

Essentially no. Utah over BYU, Nevada over Boise, and your boys at UM must all win this weekend for there to be one.

The exact margin was pretty pointless, but a very underwhelming Ball State team played a close game against a very good Illinois team at their place last year, and now BSU is better and Illinois is worse than 10/27/07. That's all I meant. That said, I think your assessment of our chances in those three hypothetical matchups is fair. Even if we were to be lucky enough to go face a Florida State or Maryland in the Orange and got creamed, it'd be great for the school to get that BCS paycheck. Unfortunately that's not gonna happen.

The 2nd best game of the week is Carolina at Alanta, and it's being broadcast in four states. Sigh.

Shut the hell up you waste of life. So what you're saying is we can bench him, piss him off more, and make it more likely he will leave. Where do I sign?

which Big Ten bottom feeder do you think you'd cream? Whoever your 7th bowl team is since that's who would go. Right now Minnesota and Illinois are tied for 6th. If someone wants to state a case that they'd kill us, be my guest. (Keeping in mind a much better Illinois team beat a much worse Ball State team by 11 last year.)

11-0. Chirp, Chirp, Chirp. The debate of whether we'd beat an ACC champ is a moot point since we're going to cream some C-USA team in Mobile, Alabama or cream some Big Ten bottom feeder in Detroit. I was so sick of CMU. About time that got off our backs. :D