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No good... LSU has to score a TD and convert now.

TD, KY. They have to go for the 2pt conversion now.

3OT.

FG, LSU. They need to get a turnover here badly...

About to be Double OT in Kentucky... LSU just needs to hit the PAT. Hit it... 2OT.

The Dirty Sanchez era isn't getting any prettier... down 13-10 at the start of the 4th.

Boris Diaw, F/C, Phoenix Suns

Richard Hamilton, G, Detroit (AFAIK, he wasn't kept or drafted)

Illinois is being ignored for the moment because they're not in the Top 14 of the BCS. The danger to Ohio State is that Illinois is in the "trap game" position, the week before their big showdown with Michigan. Even if they beat Illinois, they may not be at their best the next week against Michigan... who is capable of playing if you don't run a spread offense.

And by looking at that list, the following can be assumed- SEC- LSU doesn't play a team in the BCS Top 14 again until the SEC CG. Florida and South Carolina still have to play. Florida losing eliminates their slim title hopes. Big Ten and Big East- Ohio State and South Florida play no one else currently in the Top 14. ACC- Boston College and V-Tech meet late this year, then possibly again in the ACC CG. They could knock each other out. PAC Ten With the exception of Oregon vs. Cal, the Pac 10 teams on the list haven't played each other yet. (There's a chance all four teams knock each other out.) Big 12- Oklahoma and Missouri play this week. They could also play again in the Big 12 CG. Non-BCS Conferences- No non-BCS team is currently in position to get an automatic bid, though Hawaii will surely be there later this year if they win out.

It depends on the ranking system in question... At least one, if not more, of the rankings heavily weigh wins over top teams (Top 10, Top 30) and heavily penalize teams who lose to poor teams.

The polls may have USC high, but the computers have them very low right now. They're #25 in the Colley Matrix. They're #26 in the current ELO-Chess in the Sagarin rankings. (This would probably be dropped as their low ranking.) They're #8 in the Billingsley rankings. (This would probably be dropped as their high ranking.) They're #24 in the Massey rankings. If these trends hold true in the remaining two rankings (Wolfe and Anderson & Hester), then they'd get damn near nothing for the 33% of the BCS. (The way the computer rankings work, the middle 4 rankings are kept and the ranking is worth between 25 points for a 1st place and 1 point for a 25th place. 4 rankings of 25th place or worse means a 4/100 in the computer subsection, which is crippling for them.) A team could be back by a decent amount in both polls yet make up a TON of room in the computer rankings as a result.

True to a point. Depending on what the computers and polls say, a highly-regarded one-loss team like an LSU or Cal could jump Mizzou for the title-game berth if it's believed that Mizzou's schedule is too soft. (It's looking better than expected, though, because Kansas, K-State, Illinois, etc. are all looking good.) Normally, I'd lump USC in with LSU and Cal, but losing to Stanford puts them at the back of the line for one-loss teams. It's one thing to lose to Cal like Oregon did. Losing to Stanford is inexcusable for an "elite" team.

I'd like to find out which two coaches voted Ohio State as #1. If they're from outside Big Ten country, I'll be floored. EDIT- Corrected the comments above... Fox Sports fucked up at first and listed the AP Poll as having Ohio State with 2 1st place votes instead of the Coaches Poll.

No, I didn't chant "Fuck you Tebow". I did try to start the crowd singing "Ohhhhh.... I wish I were an Urban Meyer weiner..." though.

The funny thing is that the LSU crowd actually thought Hester got a bad spot on that from the ref, which almost cost them the 1st down. (They only got it by a football length.)

Is Bored out there with a bottle of Jack in his hand because Stanford beat USC? It usually doesn't take him this long to do an update.

UCF is iffy... They looked good against Texas but EVERYONE has looked good at Texas this year. UConn has played a lot of shitty teams so far, so I'm debating whether they can pull it off. Rutgers has the talent, but apparently not the mind-set to pull it off this year. (They're believing too much of their own hype, thinking they can roll teams like Maryland and Cincy just by showing up.)

1. USC losing to Stanford helped make my day. I already liked Jim Harbaugh for giving Michigan shit earlier this years about the academic programs it tracks its players into, then he and Carroll got into it this week. 2. Urban, the 4th-and-1 play with Hester for the TD WAS reviewed in the stadium, though I'm not sure that's the 4th down play you were screaming about. (I'm not going back to track time-stamps against the game-clock.) 3. Wisconsin's loss is a "lossy-loss" because they've looked like shit all year on defense, so they had to win out in order to get ANY respect. Losing to an Illinois team coached by the Zooker pretty much kills their respect unless they can upset Ohio State. 4. Boston College will have problems with Virginia Tech this year, either when they play them the first time or in the likely re-match in the ACC CG. It's not that V-Tech has an offense that's worth a shit as much as their defense can possibly shut down their QB, Ryan, and make them have a VERY long day. 5. If South Florida gets past Cincy in a few weeks, they're undefeated for the year. It still depends on the computers and polls whether they'll get a BCS title game bid, though. (If 2 of LSU, Cal, Ohio State, and Boston College are undefeated, they'll get in over South Florida.) 6. Ohio State looked good this week in smacking Purdue around, but I still feel they'll lose to someone like Illinois or Wisconsin.

My only question about Ohio State vs. Michigan... Does Ohio State have the people to run the spread this year? If so, they should be fine. Michigan STILL doesn't know how to beat the spread and almost lost to a bad Northwestern team because of it.

3-1... not bad. Too bad that SFAJack is at the same record, but at least I still have a tie-break over him for now via a head-to-head win.

I had to have the 2nd perfect week in the history of the BCS in order to get there... You'll probably get there next week if you win, as Broward's lead over you is slim and can be made up by having a good week or two of picks.

To do it, they'd have to beat: V-Tech Miami Florida State Maryland Clemson and the ACC Coastal champ (The ACC Costal Champ will probably be V-Tech or Miami again, as the other teams are Virginia, Georgia Tech, UNC, and Duke)

What happened, you buy inside info from Dennis Franchione this week? Best $1200 I've spent. Some alum will be saying the same thing if Franchione's admission of injury information is, in fact, illegal. It would be, per ESPN, if the player didn't authorize the information's release to the public. (I think a number of A&M alums feel Franchione's overpaid for what they're getting and him violating his contract by performing an illegal act means they probably won't have to pay a buyout.)

What happened, you buy inside info from Dennis Franchione this week?