Oklahoma St. goes down in Bedlam, leaving tu vs. Baylor in the B12 CG. So, the automatic BCS bids are now: UCF FSU/Duke winner OSU/MSU winner...
Saban chose 8M to stay vs. 12M to go?? Say it ain't so.
Niu goes down hard to bg. And then there were two.
Since nobody else has posted it yet, Winston will not be charged in this case. That seems to me to be the clincher in the eyes of the voters.
Scott - I guess you're sad that Texas St. finished the season on a three game losing streak? And don't even try to tell me you don't follow them.
kp - I don't see any conspiracy in it. The bowl contracts ended up that way; I don't think anyone steered them that way. I also don't think it...
Can't wait. :?
Here's interesting article.
I was starting with your argument as a baseline. If you had bet against all the SEC teams that were favored in the last five years, you'd be up...
<i> </i>P12: Year Vegas Actual 2010 1-3 1-3 2011 1-6 2-5 2012 6-2 4-4 TOTAL 8-11 7-12 (%) 0.42 0.37 -0.05 SEC: 2010 6-4 5-5 2011...
You have to go back to 2008 before the SEC actually outperformed what was expected of them in the bowls: 2009: Vegas said the SEC should go 7-3...
Did you miss this line? For years I have heard you argue how tough the SEC is, that any other conference champion would have three or four losses...
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Great article Dave.
Only you could turn being favored as evidence that the SEC was on the short side of the draw.
There was not one bowl game last year in which the SEC was NOT favored. From thespread.com: -9.5 12-1 Alabama vs. 12-0 ND -6.5 8-4 Vandy vs....
When I read that first one yesterday I must admit that "wait until Corey sees this story" was the first thing that popped in my head.
Here's an interesting take from Woj's BMOC about the USC hiring of Sark:
no kp, I think that only applies to wazzu. ;)
I had read some speculation about that. There were a lot of purple dogs not happy with the prospect of yet another seven win season.
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