SouthSideRyan

Derwood, you bring up this fantasy conference scenario at least once a month, and once a month I tell you how you can't force a conference to take in teams it doesn't want. Who is the Big East supposed to add just to appease your 12 teams per conference rule? Conferences go beyond football, and go beyond athletics as well. Forcing member schools to admit other members that aren't up to par is unfair to everyone. A Pac 10 with Boise and BYU is not good for the other 10 schools. A Big East with Memphis, UCF, Army, and Navy is not better off.

It must be a North Carolina/S vs Nova thing. I remember a gift that the Heels got in an NCAA playoff game too. I remember it well cause we wound up losing to the bastards in the title game they didn't belong in. I had also picked Villanova to win that game in my pool. Bastards.

If Missouri and West Virginia lose while Va Tech and LSU win...and Va Tech makes it over LSU...I can't even describe how criminal that is. Funny, but criminal nonetheless. Not that it matters cause West Virginia will make Pitt look like they're coached by Dave Wannstedt.

Of course. He deserves to have the inside track. Instead, he'll be traded for beans. Not even the magic kind.

LSU killing Va Tech is what keeps the SEC up top. That was a very impressive win that no other conference can match. It makes the ACC look terrible as well.

The prevent defense should never be used with that much time on the clock. I'm not using it unless there's about 30 seconds left and a team needs to go 60 yards. It's not that hard to march down throwing 12 yard routes in a short amount of time. Coaches will keep doing it though cause it's safe.

Tim Tebow was on that nightly College Football show tonight in an interview segment with Desmond Howard. Tebow A.) made Howard sound intelligent B.) Wears nothing but crocs when he's not playing football. Like I needed more reasons to hate the DB.

I'm not Ping, but I think UK got too cautious once they picked off Tennessee in OT. Unless I have a nails kicker, I keep looking to drive in and score the TD. Sure I may not run a high risk pass pattern, but I'm not just falling on the ball and settling for the 35 yarder.

That's fine Raisin, you need to root against them anyways. UCLA Rose Bowl = Dorrell extension.

South Carolina is clearly one of the best SEC teams this season. That said, losing to a ranked Clemson team 23-21 is aboslute evidence that the SEC is an inferior football conference. I don't know if you're being sarcastic about SC being one of the best SEC teams this season(quite sure of the sarcasm in the following sentence), but Meph not too long ago was laughing off people claiming SC wasn't a good team. I guess since SC beat Georgia 3 months ago, they get to keep their status as studs despite their 5 game losing streak(They're just losses after all) And I was never calling the SEC an inferior football conference, just not the world beaters that you and Tebow4Life claim them to be.

I'm shocked by how things have started out for you guys. I thought PSU had an outside shot at a tourney berth before the season started. Can you at least win your Big 10/ACC Challenge game?

Morelli wasn't injured? He sure played like he was.

Nova just got hosed on a BS foul with .4 seconds left to give NC State 3 shots and a giftwrapped win.

I overlooked the fact that Georgia is #4 in the BCS. If they hold that spot, they're locked into a BCS. Sorry Timmy.

Let's focus on what's important here. How these games affect U of I's BCS chances. To start you've got the winner of Mizzou/OU + loser of that game/KU taking 2 spots You've got winner of LSU/Tennessee + loser of that game/Florida/Georgia taking 2 spots You've got West Virginia You've got Ohio State You've got the winner of the PAC 10 (For ease and realism let's say USC beats UCLA) You've got the winner of Va Tech/BC That's 8 spots accounted for The only title game that matters for U of I's BCS chances is the ACC Title game. With a BC win, Va Tech likely takes an at large spot and leaves just one at large open. With a VA Tech win, BC likely drops out of the top 14 and leaves 2 spots open and removes itself from consideration. Hawaii right now is top 12 in the BCS thus locking itself into a BCS slot. I believe they'll keep top 12 status unless they lose to Washington. If they lose to Washington, they're out. If they beat them they're in. If Arizona beats ASU, ASU is out of BCS contention. If ASU wins, they remain in the running. If UCLA pulls off a miracle and beats USC, USC probably remains top 14 and steals an at large spot. So in summary you are to go out and buy a hat and hoodie for Va Tech, Washington, Arizona, and USC. LSU beating Tennessee guarantees U of I a top 14 spot, but I'm confident enough in one of BC, Hawaii, or ASU losing to push us in anyway. We certainly don't need all the right outcomes. Washington over Hawaii or Arizona over ASU would probably enough. We may not need any real upset help and could get the pick straight up over ASU(which is pretty much what it would come down to if all the favorites win), but it sure would be nice to get locked in and just worry about what warm weather site I'll be celebrating New Year's.

good thing some guy in USA Today's rankings have no actual effect on the real world Except one of his polls is used for the BCS Computer rankings... Florida's top five in all scientific polls that involve SOS and score as well as other things. It should be certain that theyre one of the top five teams in the country. Then why'd you rank them 6?

I seem to recall Dee Brown referring to Self as Bill a couple times in private. You're right, though, I've never heard it in public.

that kid is awful...even worse than nick smith, if you can imagine that. Probably can't grow as cool a mustache as chainsaw either.

Stop reading WSI.

The Cubs had a very good defense, that's the point. And good point CCP, neglected to think about that.

Why would Kelley take a step down and coach Michigan or Notre Dame? You can not be serious.

The one thing I'll add is that Cordero had a horrendous defense behind him last year, so he'll likely improve as far as his AVG allowed on BIP, but I don't know enough about Cordero to know how much that affected him. And it's 5 AM so F that noise.

Didn't LSU just lose to a team without a QB? At home?

DJ White appears to be the only one who's done anything for IU. 7-8 for 16. Gordon 2-10 Ellis 4-10 Crawford 3-1 Bassett 3-12 UGGGLY Go Muskies

Oh a Mizzou win helps Illinois's computer average too, which helps our BCS chances, so begrudgingly, full on, Go Tigers.