Derwood

The Big 10 beat no one outside of the Big 10 that was any good, that's why. Nothing personal Sully, it's just business. can't beat anyone good if you don't play anyone good. blame the AD's for the scheduling, not the kids for playing (okay, blame Michigan for getting horse-whipped by a team with a Heisman candidate on it)

I believe that phrase is embroidered on a sampler above his desk

wow, PSU notches one for the Big 10

Penn State starts at 9:30 local time. Let's see....no students, so we'll have the game late on a school night! Thanks ESPN, we'll be lucky to have 1000 people there

cuz they have 8 home dates, not 81

As Bruce just said in the other thread, Matsui and Fukudome go way back. Matsui is the left-handed bat that allows for versatility (lets DeRosa move around) plus being the enticement for Fukudome who is supposed to be the LH OF bat. That's at least the plan, no matter how flawed it may be. that's putting a lot of eggs in one basket

#1 priority? is he somehow confusing Kaz with Hideki? all the rumors we've heard are about adding 8 more 2B, not any OF's

Miami might win this week

AP Preseason 1. USC (62) 0-0 1,622 2. LSU (2) 0-0 1,511 3. West Virginia (1) 0-0 1,396 4. Texas 0-0 1,375 5. Michigan 0-0 1,371 6. Florida 0-0 1,276 7. Wisconsin 0-0 1,192 8. Oklahoma 0-0 1,166 9. Virginia Tech 0-0 1,148 10. Louisville 0-0 1,031 11. Ohio State 0-0 876 12. California 0-0 790 13. Georgia 0-0 782 14. UCLA 0-0 605 15. Tennessee 0-0 571 16. Rutgers 0-0 560 17. Penn State 0-0 542 18. Auburn 0-0 519 19. Florida State 0-0 392 20. Nebraska 0-0 377 21. Arkansas 0-0 376 22. TCU 0-0 283 23. Hawaii 0-0 256 24. Boise State 0-0 187 25. Texas A&M 0-0 162 Others Receiving Votes Missouri 128, Georgia Tech 94, Boston College 75, Oregon 73, South Carolina 69, Miami (FL) 68, Alabama 66, Oregon State 42, Wake Forest 40, South Florida 28, Arizona State 17, Brigham Young 14, Southern Miss 12, Notre Dame 11, Virginia 7, Clemson 6, Oklahoma State 3, Texas Tech 2, Purdue 1, Houston 1, Kentucky 1, North Carolina State 1.

i picked Miami to beat the Jets in the NSBB NFL Pick 'Em group

kinda like a national, kinda like an expo; "Natspo", perhaps, would be clearer :) cuz the team was in Montreal three years ago. clever

could nathan go back to being a starter? oh, he hasn't started since 2000. nevermind

I think it's simply rematches that are forbidden, not sure. Since we never played this year, that doesn't come into play. Three cheers for imbalanced scheduling! I know you're already a big fan of it. :wink: The writer claims that the BCS games who select before the Fiesta are much more likely to pass over Mizzou in favor of more attractive choices. (Example: Rose takes USC and UI to maintain Pac-10/Big-10 politics. Orange takes, I dunno, Georgia and somebody?) The writer thinks the Fiesta will pass on ASU because having the local team will hurt the economy. Orange usually has the ACC champ plus an at large

that looked wrong to me before I realized that the Cotton is no longer a BCS bowl. It never was a BCS bowl. i'm old school. pre-BCS, the big 5 bowls were the Orange, Sugar, Rose, Cotton and Fiesta. when the BCS started, the Cotton got the boot

i don't know enough but Nutt to make that comparison

you stayed about 2 seconds longer than necessary

Big 10 is 1-5 in the challenge so far. at least they're keeping with tradition

that looked wrong to me before I realized that the Cotton is no longer a BCS bowl.

Do you have a problem with every conference tourney winner making the Tourney in basketball? No because it's different in basketball. The lower seeded teams, with the exception of the No. 16 seeds, all have a chance to win in the tournament and it's usually not one specific conference that gets a 16 seed every year. The Sun Belt is the laughing stock of I-A football year in and year out. They're always the worst conference so why should they get an automatic bid? Not to mention the huge talent gap there is between the BCS conferences and small conferences in football and the same conferences (I'm talking about small conferences not one like the Missouri Valley) in basketball. This year has seen more parity in college football than ever before but that mostly pertains to the BCS conferences (obviously App. State over Michigan is an exception). Just as an example, the top teams in the Sun Belt, MAC, and C-USA are Troy, Central Michigan/Miami (OH), and UCF. Here is what those teams have done this year: Troy: Lost at Arkansas 46-26, lost at Florida 59-31, lost at Georgia 44-34 and beat Oklahoma State (5th Big 12 South) at home 41-23. Central Michigan: Lost at home to I-AA North Dakota State 44-14, lost at Kansas 52-7, lost at Purdue (9th Big 10) 45-22, lost at Clemson 70-14. Miami (OH): Gave Minnesota (last Big 10) it's only win 41-35, lost at home to Cincinnati 47-10, lost at Colorado 42-0, beat Syracuse at home 17-14. UCF (which probably has the best case out of these teams): beat North Carolina State on the road (last, ACC Atl) 25-23, lost at home to Texas 35-32, lost at South Florida 64-12. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to see first round games featuring any of these teams. Like I said, you want to set a provision so any non-BCS team in the top whatever-you-want-it-to-be get an automatic bid to accommodate 2007 Hawaii, 2006 Boise State, 2004 Utah, go right ahead, I'm all for it. But to just give them all automatic berths regardless of their record is a waste of a spot. By the same token, to give a 2005 Florida State and 2004 Pittsburgh automatic berths simply for winning their conferences is also a waste. but what a tournament like that would do is narrow the gap in talent between the BCS schools and smaller schools. if you were a kid and were being courted by a top Sun Belt school and a bottom Big 10 or Big East school, where would you go (knowing that winning the Sun Belt would put you in the tourney)? using the college basketball analogy, couldn't a tourney like this turn some smaller school into the Gonzaga of football? no one heard of Gonzaga before a couple of cinderella runs in the tourney, and now their recruiting is way up and they are perennial top 25 teams.

nothing on Rotoworld yet

wins don't matter, write Meph? What are we writing him about? son of a

what if instead of signing Matsui, we just tell Fukodome that we'll install a DDR machine in the player's lounge

well, the Big East is like 87 teams and the SEC is only 12, so...

i am 100% with him in this article. that would be amazing

DePaul drew Vanderbilt in the BE/SEC matchups. could've been worse