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They have beaten 2 other BCS teams, one on the road and one in a neutral location, and demolished another top 10 team. They are also the only undefeated team in the country. Clearly they are the best team in the country and a sluggish offensive game against Georgia doesn't really change that. Are they mid-90's Nebraska dominant? No, but they are damn good.

He can do plenty wrong, especially right now. Doesn't mean you have to give up on him as the Blackhawks goalie for the next several years because of a bad month. (not saying you said that, but its the kind of overreactions ive been seeing)

I know you were being sarcastic, but I think people in general are overreacting to Crawfords struggles. If he's still sucking in a month, then I'll panic.

oh come on. If you compare his season to the recent rough stretch by Crawford that I posted on the last page, Crawfords numbers are still better than Emery's. No need to overreact to a bad 10-15 game stretch. It's disappointing and worrisome, but it doesnt erase what he's done in the past and can do in the future.

I think the hope is it hurts Bama enough to push OSU ahead of them. I guess so. It at least opens the possibility of another matchup, however small. The gap between 2 and 3 is huge though. OSU would have to really dominate OU and hope it gets the voters on their side. It seems like everyone has pretty much conceded that LSU-Bama is going to be the title game, which is different from 2006 when the media was openly against Michigan playing OSU in the title game, so it wasnt a huge surprise when Florida ended up #2.

The latter. The only scenario where a conference can have 3 teams is if #1 and #2 are not conference champions.

You in particular should probably not root for Georgia, because a Georgia win likely takes Michigan out of the BCS. You would have to root for TCU not to make it up to 16 at that point because that would be the only spot available. I realize that. I'm just talking from the average fan's perspective. I am rooting heavily against UGA (and OU and Baylor just to be safe)

I don't see the point in cheering for UGA here. Highly unlikely a loss does anything to change the title game. Only a blowout would likely even put their status into question most likely.

Doesn't really matter though right? Southern Miss is the Conference USA champions now not Houston. The question could be if blowing out the #6 team could somehow get Southern Miss into the top 16 and ahead of TCU. Highly doubt that's even a remote possibility though.

TCU Why not Boise State who is ranked higher and has less losses? Does it have to do with being a conference champion and/or beating Boise St head to head? I'm not clear on how these things work.

Houston losing by 2 TDs, interesting. Who has a chance to benefit from them losing with regards to the BCS?

Kind of cool I guess

I'm guessing this was a Keith Law joke, right?

It's hard not to enjoy live hockey. Its a ton more enjoyable to watch live IMO.

They've looked really good at times this year, and other times downright awful. One game in the last 5 days, they should be well rested and flying all over the ice. The only thing that makes me not overreact is that we went through a similar lackadaisical period 2 years ago in March when everyone was bagging on the goaltender, and the Hawks were struggling against mediocre to bad teams. Certainly got out of that hole. Niemi just put it together for us. Be honest. Is Crawford going to do the same? I don't think the goalie was the only reason why we were slumping that march, nor is Niemi stepping up the only reason we had better results the rest of the season, but he was a big part sure. Crawford had stretches last season where he stepped up, so I don't see why not.

Hawks win...yay

They've looked really good at times this year, and other times downright awful. One game in the last 5 days, they should be well rested and flying all over the ice. The only thing that makes me not overreact is that we went through a similar lackadaisical period 2 years ago in March when everyone was bagging on the goaltender, and the Hawks were struggling against mediocre to bad teams. Certainly got out of that hole.

Yeah...this is embarrassing. Ironically its been some decent goaltending by Crawford in this period that's allowed us to even have a chance for a point in this game. Can't believe that....we're fortunate to get at least a point at home against the crappy ass Islanders. Islanders had 6 points on the road all year...last in NHL.

Now we're losing at home to the [expletive] Islanders? Geez, get your [expletive] together guys. Kane is back at RW...interesting

Congrats to Jim Hendry for his new job with the Marlins.

This is an insider article on ESPN, but I figured I would at least share the actual list, plus his tidbit on Castro (the only Cub to make the list). For this list, a player has to have already played his rookie year, so prospects are not included. http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7291374/mlb-justin-upton-leads-top-50-list-mlb-players-age-25 About Castro: The list: 1. Justin Upton, ARI 2. Andrew McCutchen, PIT 3. Mike Stanton, MIA 4. Buster Posey, SF 5. Clayton Kershaw, LAD 6. Starlin Castro, CHC 7. Eric Hosmer, KC 8. Stephen Strasburg, WAS 9. Madison Bumgarner, SF 10. Brett Lowrie,TOR 11. Mike Trout, LAA 12. Jason Heyward, ATL 13. Cameron Maybin, SD 14. Dustin Ackley, SEA 15. Desmond Jennings, TB 16. Logan Morrison, MIA 17. Brett Anderson, OAK 18. Alex Avila, DET 19. Pablo Sandoval, SF 20. Michael Pineda, SEA 21. Elvis Andrus, TEX 22. Jay Bruce, CIN 23. Brandon Belt, SF 24. Jaime Garcia, STL 25. Mat Latos, SD 26. Neftali Feliz, TEX 27. Wilson Ramos, WAS 28. Trevor Cahill, OAK 29. Freddie Freeman, ATL 30. Derek Holland, TEX 31. Zach Britton, BAL 32. Austin Jackson, DET 33. Aroldis Chapman, CIN 34. Daniel Hudson, ARI 35. Justin Smoak, SEA 36. Gerardo Parra, ARI 37. Rick Porcello, DET 38. Peter Bourjos, LAA 39. Jhoulys Chacin, COL 40. Tommy Hanson, ATL 41. Hank Conger, LAA 42. Jeremy Hellickson, TB 43. Colby Rasmus, TOR 44. Danny Espinosa, WAS 45. Jamile Weeks, OAK 46. Ivan Nova, NYY 47. Brandon Beachy, ATL 48. Mike Leake, CIN 49. Craig Kimbrel, ATL 50. Mike Minor, ATL By team: 6 - ATL 4 - SF, LAA 3 - WAS, SEA, OAK, DET, TEX, CIN 2 - ARI, MIA, TOR, SD, TB 1 - PIT, LAD, CHC, KC, STL, BAL, COL, NYY 0 - BOS, MIN, CHW, CLE, NYM, PHI, MIL, HOU

I don't think he can do much but McNabb is clearly a better option than Collins and probably better than Enderle. Did you see McNabb play this year? At least Emberle gives you a possibility of not every pass ending up near his receivers toes. The Collins comment was hyperbole but not by a lot.

Pretty sure I'd rather play Enderle than McNabb. I'd have to think long and hard if I had to choose between McNabb and Todd Collins.

Jeff Dickerson was just on ESPN 1000 and addressed the Cutler situation. While what Cutler said was true, at this point they don't believe Cutler will be done for the season. Internally he is told Cutler expects to be back too. But obviously it all depends on how it heals. The plan is still Jan 1 against Minnesota, with an outside shot at XMas day against the douchebags of Green Bay.

I don't think common opponents is that hard to figure out, even though I originally had it incorrectly (only because I was confused at who the non-common teams were). As I said earlier in the thread, if you are breaking a tie between 2 division teams, whether it be for the division or the WC, there are 14 games that are common and 2 that are not. That is how the NFL schedule works. You don't need to bother adding up wins and losses throughout the season. All you need to do is determine how each team fared in the 2 non common games. If the Bears go 2-0 against non-common opponents, and the Lions go 1-1, then obviously the Lions record against common teams is going to be better if the teams finish the season tied. The Bears might currently have the tiebreaker, but no matter what they are going to both play 16 games, 14 in common.