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For whatever reason, the Big 10 doesn't use tiebreaks to decide the conference champion, just who plays in the Big 10's BCS game. Which is fairly stupid, especially a year like this year where Penn State beat Ohio State in their head to head game.

Ohio State and Oregon can pretty much punch their tickets to the BCS barring losses by Texas and/or USC.

Personally I don't mind conference championship games but I think divisions are a huge waste of time, and lead to nonsense like what we are seeing in the ACC and Big 12 this season. They should simply have a 12 team pool and match up the top 2 teams at the end of the season.

Has Florida State already clinched a spot in the ACC title game or can BC still play in it? I don't see either beating Virginia Tech either way, but it would be sort of hilarious if the ACC sent some jobber team to a BCS game while the Big East sent a way higher ranked one-loss UWV team.

Texas is the legit #2 team in the country. OU is decent and so is Tech. It's about on par with most conferences. One good team and then a bunch of average teams. The fact they have the #2 team in the country helps the conference a lot. One bad year doesn't erase the fact that the Big XII has been good in the past. I need replays of Peterson's runs. Hopefully OU can play like this in their bowl game. If they play Oregon.....they'll probably lose. If they head to the Alamo Bowl and play Iowa or Michigan then they can win the bowl game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Texas is in a class by themselves. OU and Texas Tech are decent, which equates to a mediocre Big 12 South. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is true but that doesn't mean the conference is horrible. It'll be good next year. Tech is usually decent and Texas will be dominant again and OU will be back to form next season. The only thing that's going to hurt OU next year is the fucking schedule. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's pretty weak considering there are 12 teams, one entire division is nothing but jobbers, and in the other division there is one great team, one good one with an inflated record due to having a schedule of jobbers, and one decent team that has underperformed.

Texas is the legit #2 team in the country. OU is decent and so is Tech. It's about on par with most conferences. One good team and then a bunch of average teams. The fact they have the #2 team in the country helps the conference a lot. One bad year doesn't erase the fact that the Big XII has been good in the past. I need replays of Peterson's runs. Hopefully OU can play like this in their bowl game. If they play Oregon.....they'll probably lose. If they head to the Alamo Bowl and play Iowa or Michigan then they can win the bowl game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OU probably has a change against Oregon if Kellen Clemens isn't back and healthy. We are sort of in the same position as you guys with Bomar: Dixon and Leaf both have some promise but they also need to develop more consistency and gain experience. With a healthy Clemens I think we could shred the OU defense.

I think conference rankings for this season have to be something like: SEC Big 10 small gap here Pac 10 another gap ACC Big 12 another gap Big East I'm not going to rank mid-majors because I haven't followed them enough, so someone else can do that. I think it's actually pretty close between the SEC and the Big 10 at the top. The Big 10 has 7 bowl-eligible teams (all with records of 7-4 or better) and not a single team in the conference has a losing record in OOC games.

The ACC is only marginally better than the Big 12 this year.

An interesting question at this point is what woud happen if UCA managed to beat USC. What kind of tie-breaker does the Pac-10 use to determine the conference champion? Assuming Texas takes care of business against Colorado, who would end up in the title game, USC, UCLA, Penn State, or LSU?

The Big 12 North is totally horrible. The South is better and would have been somewhat respectable had Oklahoma not chosen to play half the season with their collective heads up their asses. But the fact that Texas Tech is the #2 team in the conference shows the complete lack of depth outside of Texas.

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Both of those are great, the Eddy one in particular.

All the stuff I find myself wanting is too expensive (mostly jackets and pants in the 200-300 dollar range) so I'll probably figure out some smaller little things that I could use and ask for those. I could also really use a new sleeping bag, but again the ones I'd want all run at over 300.

Good stuff, this one is my favorite: That last line is probably the best of Cena's homosexual references.

I went to Best Buy and picked up some 512 mb SD memory cards for 10 bucks each. I didn't go right at opening so I missed the hot stuff like cheap mp3 players and so on.

At the risk of being disappointed again, I think I have to be a bit of a homer and mention Michigan. Henne underperformed this year but should mature, while Mike Hart should be back injury-free. Of the four losses this year only the Notre-Dame game was a real stinker and the team could have easily finished with 2 losses or less.

At this point, I really don't see what indication there is that USC is going to beat Texas soundly this year. They've played so many close games that I can't think of them as a "juggernaut". Consider if if they do win the title game, the 42 points they gave up to Fresno State will be the most surrendered by a national champion since Penn State in 1982. Their wins against Notre Dame, Fresno State, Arizona, and Arizona State are hardly what I'd call dominating victories. Last year's team rolled through their opponents much more convincingly. Between USC and Texas, I'd say Texas has dominated their opponents more this season, although they've played less good teams than USC will have by the end of the season.

Arkansas ran four bad plays in a row to end that game.

Funny, watching todays games I was thinking the exact opposite. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah it's funny. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> LSU just barely survived a crappy Arkansas team.

Funny, watching todays games I was thinking the exact opposite.

Oklahoma last year was hardly an "undeserving team". They were a clear 2nd in the BCS rankings and 2nd in all of the polls. And the hindsight crap doesn't mean anything to me. Had Auburn finished 2nd they would have gotten killed by USC while Oklahoma rolled over someone in the Fiesta Bowl.

LSU and ASU are both playing quite poorly right now. Of course in LSU's case they are winning, but still they shouldn't be in a game this close with Arkansas this late in the game.

I didn't want to name names.

Well unless the NCAA changes it's rule where a conference must have at least 12 teams to hold a title game it's not going to happen. In reality starting next year the Pac-10 won't ever have to consider it as with the 12 game schedules starting fulltime the conference has decided to expand the conference schedule to nine games thus everyone will play everyone. They are the only conference I believe so far that has decided to do this. The Big Ten should strongly consider it. Nine games would still mean there would be one team every year a team doesn't play but at least would reduce the chances the two best teams in conference don't play each other, like in 2002 when Ohio State and Iowa didn't play. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is definitely the right approach to things given the lack of ability to run a conference championship game. It will also help in the BCS with strength of schedule because you know most other conferences will be using that extra game to schedule another record-padding home game against some 1-AA team.

I'd agree except that I think Texas has a better team to play USC than Oklahoma, mainly because Vince Young will be a lot more effective against USC than Jason White. White was a great QB at tearing up bad teams with mediocre defenses, but his total lack of mobility made him decidedly mediocre against stronger teams. I don't think a Jason White-led team could have beaten tOSU like Young's team did this year.