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I think Alabama can pull off an upset, especially since I hear some rumblings about Mike Shula being on thin ice. I always root for the weaker team when they clash, except last year I was rooting for Alabama because I wanted to see them continue that spectacular season. In my football fandom lifetime, I'd known Alabama as a good team with a lot of history that had fallen into mediocrity. Well, my grandfather lives in Birmingham so he's at the epicenter of Alabama football and most inclinations from over there indicate he's history. There are teams that you just don't lose to if you're Bama and Miss. St. is one of them.

I'm not totally informed on this, but I know there is some way to play the VHS tape's content on your computer. You can record it to your comp, then transfer it to DVD files and burn it.

I thought it was one of those offbeat episodes that didn't have a message; it was just them saying fuck you to everybody and trying to be offensive and heartless. It worked, I loved it!

Or any other 1/2 matchup in history. I guess it's more significant because it's one of the great rivalries, but, eh.

I think a Hughes/Silva match would be interesting, but I don't like how it would muddle up the MW divison if he were to win. Title vacancies are never good.

I think Bama can take this one, as bad as Auburn looked last week, as long as their Jekyl and Hyde offense can come through.

Also Johil de Oliveira and Pele had a fight several years ago in IVC where Johil bled buckets of blood too.

Yves Edwards' fight from a couple of UFC's ago was also really bloody. He had a hole in his head and the blood was pouring out of it like a faucet, soaking the ring, his opponent, the ref, everything. Probably the Muto scale for me as far as MMA is concerned.

This looks fuckin' gay.

That happened already. I hate the Broncos so much. Go to hell

His players just don't give a shit, pathetic really.

They should lose Thiesmann and keep Wilbon in the booth, even though I don't hate Joe as much as some people around here.

Somebody just told me this on another message board after I made remarks to the effect of Aleks and Hunt being slightly overrated in the HW division: "if you think aleks isnt a contender you need to probably go jump off a bridge or something...if you think mark hunt isnt good I advise you to do the same" I already replied, but I'd like to know what you would say in that situation, Lei, since it's always funny hearing you shit on Aleks,

Aoki vs. Melendez being called must have cursed the whole card, and is a fuckin pussy.

I got 8 for 13, not too bad.

Bushido sucked, don't get it.

Here's my kooky top 25 "points" rankings, for those who don't know, it's kind of an experiment of mine, each team started out with a certain amount of points based on pre-season rankings (119, 118, down to 1), and then have points added or subtracted based on the quality of their wins and losses: 1. Ohio State 2. Michigan 3. Florida 4. California 5. USC 6. Texas 7. Auburn 8. Notre Dame 9. Tennessee 10. Louisville 11. Oklahoma 12. LSU 13. Virginia Tech 14. Clemson 15. West Virginia 16. Georgia Tech 17. Wisconsin 18. Nebraska 19. Arkansas 20. Oregon 21. Maryland 22. Boston College 23. Missouri 24. Florida State 25. Miami, FL

Nah. He'll get one more year. Now that I can finally fucking see the LSU/Tennessee game, I'm wondering why the hell we can kick LSU's ass on first and second downs, but keep giving up third. Both defenses are beasts. If he loses to Auburn, he's gone.

This looks better than the garbage they've been putting out the last couple of months.

On a minor fantasy note, I bench Bibby thinking it will be mid-November before he starts playing. I get back from work and find out he played, groan.

I hope they don't keep down this same path. Gore just for gore's sakes, and trying to make such a contrived story so as to make this big surprise at the end every time. Still, no. 3 did that well, I just see bad omens for the future.

Just save your money and get it for Christmas... Unless you're like me and have to have it immediately,

Because their losses have been to relatively high-ranked teams. They will probably start to drop big, since I can see them losing to all four of the teams remaining on their schedule, although with how the ACC is, I can see them winning out as well

At the beginning of the year, I decided that I would experiment with a ranking system myself. Based on magazines, the polls, etc. I ranked all 119 teams and awarded them points, based on their preseason ranking. Throughout the year, points were either rewarded (for example, 12 pts for beating a top 10 team) or taken away (13 points lost for losing to a 1-AA). Looking at it after week 9, I'm pleasantly surprised. The only problem I see with it is it rewards points based on how good the team they beat is perceived to be at the time. For example, a win over Miami in the first week will net more points than it would if they were to beat them this week. Hopefully I haven't confused yu too much, here are my top 25: 25. Penn State 24. Iowa 23. Miami, FL 22. Nebraska 21. Arkansas 20. Oregon 19. Missouri 18. Wisconsin 17. Boston College 16. Georgia Tech 15. Virginia Tech 14. West Virginia 13. LSU 12. Clemson 11. Oklahoma 10. Louisville 9. Notre Dame 8. Tennessee 7. Texas 6. California 5. Auburn 4. Florida 3. USC 2. Michigan 1. Ohio State There are a couple blurbs (Cal over UT, VaTech over GaTech, Fla over Auburn) but overall I'm pretty pleased and will probably do it again next year.

Yeah, I think non-native fighters get taxed like 50% or some astronomical figure like that.