1. Irish fail to win a big road game again. Irish come out flat as has been their habit this year and score 3 points in the 1st and 3rd qtr. This has become the trademark of a Weis coached Irish team. Dig a hole and try to climb out of it. Chollie is a deadman coaching. 2. Buckeyes hang on and defeat Iowa for another B10 title. For a team that had it's defense gutted by graduation/NFL draft they maybe had a better defense this year. Only thing between them and the BCS this year was the inexperience at QB. That shouldn't be a problem going forward. 3. Anybody notice that Iowa soundly beat Penn State at Happy Valley and played Ohio State into OT with a new freshman QB at Columbus, that same Ohio State team that thrashed Penn State in Happy Valley. So what do the AP idiots do??? Of course they rank Penn State over Iowa. How stupid are these people, do they even watch games? 4. We are 1 week closer to the meeting between the unstoppable force and the imoveable object. 5. Cracks showing in USC facade. Of course they are very young, but they have so many 5* players that you think it doesn't matter, but it does. 6. Rich Rodguiez is safe for now as the UM coach for many reasons, including it's only his 2nd year and the team has improved. You do have to wonder how the record would be if RR had a good defense. Some have suggested that his theory that the Spread/Read/Option will work in the B10 is correct, but that his light quick defenses will not. 7. Texas slaughtered Baylor 40-0 at halftime, pulled off the troops and played the 2nd string the rest of the game and as a result Bama jumped them in the AP poll. Again I ask do the idiots who vote in these polls even know what's going on? 8. Big East flexible scheduling policy is paying dividends again, they have managed to schedule almost all of their big games into to the final weeks of the season. Makes for high drama and they don't have a playoff. Pitt and Cincy will be the BECG without the offical designation. 9. Looks like Neb vs Texas for the B12 title, but both teams could still blow it. Longhorns have 2 more games and so do the Huskers. Technically Oklahoma State could win the B12, not very darn likely but could happen. 10. Pac 10 mess. Oregon in the drivers seat, but have to go to Tucson. It will be interesting to see the bowl assignments for the Pac10. Will Oregon come up with yet another new uniform for the Rose Bowl should they win out? I wonder what bowl USC will go to? 11. Heisman? Seems more and more like it's Tebows to lose more based on his outstanding career than he's been a dominant player this year. Lots of players have outstated him, but he's having a good year and his team is undefeated and that trumps most of the other players. I do think Colt McCoy is equally as deserving but he just hasn't been given the mulligans for lower stats that Tebow has been given. Will Mark Ingram be able to sneak in and take it? I don't know. But those are probably the top 3.
Terry, what is the Big East flexible scheduling? Heisman, of course I want Tebow to win, however right now I'm thinking it's McCoy. I think a number of voters are waiting until after championship Sat so what happens in the SEC and Big 12 championship games can matter. The USC free fall this year has surprised me, I heard the Emerald Bowl mentioned. I agree that the voters sometimes baffle me, but it has always been true that loses late in the season hurt your rankings more. As far as Texas being behind Alabama, that's meaningless. As long as Florida, Alabama and Texas keep winning Texas will play the winner of the other two. I would love to see how TCU does against a good BCS team and I think we will see that in a bowl.
RR seat may not be so safe. We will have a new AD next year. If we lose to the Evil Empire next Saturday (if?), that will be the first time Michigan has had two losing seasons in a row since 1962-1963. Since the Penn State game, the team has been in meltdown mode and even the RR loyalists are starting to question if Rodriguez = Franchione. That combined with all of the other matters that have swirled around since he arrived has resulted in the M blogs and bullentin boards being as vituperative toward Rodriguz as Rockne's House at NDNation is to Weiss. It will be the Winter of Discontent in Ann Arbor and it will get far worse next year unless there is a significant improvement with the team.
Bobda you just have to figure that Bill Martin doesn't want to fire RR on the way out, and who ever the new guy is will want to see what happens next year before he makes a move. The wild card is the NCAA report, which even if it goes against UM I doubt results in a "major" violation and won't force anybody's hand. I assume UM boards are talking Jim Harbaugh and Les Miles.
Bill a few years ago the Big East went to a scheduling model where they try to figure who are going to be the top teams and make sure that they don't have the equivalent of Tenn/Fla in the 2nd or 3rd week of the season. They try go take their best teams and backload the schedules as much as they can to get their top teams to the final month of the season with the best possible records creating the most amount of interest in the Big East in the biggest time of the season...late Oct and early Nov.
I didn't know that Terry, thanks. Seems like a good idea if your conference needs that publicity. I think I like the SEC schedule as it is.
Big East did need the publicity, they instituted it when BC/VaTech/Miami bolted for the ACC. Remmber they only have 8 teams and that means only 7 conference games and 5 non-conference games. So it's a lot easier for them to do that then it would be for the SEC/B12
Bobda, I don't know if the folks at NDNation are vituperative, but they sure are abusive toward Weis. :lol: Nice one.