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It's the way the bowls pick the teams that does it. Since the top team automatically gets the BCS bid, they pick the team they consider the best draw after that. Considering that the Outback and Gator are the 2nd and 3rd SEC bowls, they will always go with Tennessee, Auburn, and Florida if they're having decent seasons. Other traditional bowl choices in the SEC are the Peach Bowl picking LSU or Georgia, the Cotton Bowl picking LSU or Arkansas, and the Independance Bowl picking LSU, Arkansas or either Mississippi team. If all non-BCS bowl bids were by open competition, Miami of Ohio would still be shut out because they aren't a team that traditionally "travels well". Their best bet would still probably be the Motor City Bowl because it's the one closest to them geographically.

What it boils down to is that Orton is barely above average at this point in his career and yet he's getting the biggest blowjob push since Trips himself. I'd say the kid's got potential down the road but it'll be ruined forever if they push him before he's ready... like they're trying to do now.

Foley isn't listed here because it wasn't on the flyer included with No Mercy... which is my source for this list. That doesn't mean it isn't coming, it just means that it wasn't mentioned when this list was created. It did push back the Angle DVD, too, as it was scheduled to street the same day as Best of Confidential 2 but it appears to have been bumped for The Rock's new DVD.

I don't protest the fact that the DVD will center on WCW... I protest the fact that it will almost certainly be a blatant propaganda piece that says Bret Hart killed WCW even though it had flushed a lot down the shitter before he ever arrived.

They're too cheap to do it and, besides, if it didn't happen on TV, we don't care. [WWE mindset] Hell, I'd LOVE to have a copy of the match Tajiri and Kidman put on at the house show I went to in April 2002, but it would have overshadowed some people if they'd been forced to keep it under a certain time limit like they did at Backlash 2002 a few weeks later.

Georgia's currently 5th in the polls IIRC. Losing in the SEC championship game to the #3 ranked team in the country will NOT drop them out of the top ten unless it's as one-sided as Oklahoma-Texas A&M. If it's the least bit competitive, Georgia will still be 7th or 8th in polls and probably 9th or 10th in the BCS.

This is where the problem is. If LSU beats Georgia, it does NOT count in the rankings, as you can only count one win against a particular opponent. LSU needs to beat either Tennessee or Florida in the title game to improve their SoS enough to bypass USC. You've got it wrong... you still get credit for the Strength of Schedule for facing a team twice, but you CAN'T get a second Quality Win bonus for beating a team twice.

Arkansas is #24 in the current BCS, which is better than Oregon State, which helps to start with. Add in several games which will influence strength of schedule (Florida-Florida State, Alabama-Hawaii, LA Tech-Rice, Arizona-Arizona State, Boise State-Hawaii, and two more) and it starts to add up. Florida-Florida State is an obvious one, so I'll leave it alone. The way State is playing, I'd say Florida will win it... they just need to get their heads out of their asses because South Carolina almost beat them. Alabama-Hawaii directly affects LSU and USC because LSU beat Bama while USC beat Hawaii. I'm not sure who'll win this, but I'm going with Bama. Hawaii-Boise State negatively affects USC's SoS is Hawaii loses to a strong Boise State team. LA Tech-Rice positively affects LSU's SOS if they beat a weak Rice team just because Tech gets another win. Arizona-Arizona State can positively affect LSU and negatively affect USC if Arizona wins, as USC has played both teams while LSU has only played Arizona. All these little factors will add up to bite USC in the ass and help LSU out. Also, don't discount the HUGE jump in SoS just by playing a top 10 team as a bonus game. I also won't deny that a loss or poor showing by Tennessee against Kentucky and a strong win by Florida over Florida State will help LSU immensely, as LSU will not lose any of the quality win bonus by having to beat Georgia.

They may not drop out, but they'll drop far enough that LSU won't get enough of a bonus for beating them to leapfrog USC. Not having a win in the SEC Championship Game count in the BCS rankings will hurt them significantly as well. No, LSU needs to beat someone other than Georgia in the title game to have any shot. The way the numbers are now, LSU needs to make up about two points to catch USC. LSU's current numbers 3 (avg. poll position) + 3 (avg. computer rank) + 1 (number of losses) + 2.44 (strength of schedule) - 0.4 (quality win over Georgia) = 9.04 USC's current numbers 2 (avg. poll position) + 2.33 (avg. computer rank) + 1 (number of losses) + 1.56 (strength of schedule) = 6.89 9.04 -6.89 ------- 2.15 The real areas of movement will be the average computer rank and the strength of schedule. The strength of schedule will fall in LSU's favor after wins over Arkansas and the SEC East champ. I'd say that the SoS will go from a 2.44 to a 1.44 because of the two strong teams they'll play. That brings it down to 1.15 to make up. The computer rankings will start falling LSU's way next week, after a strong win, and will continue moving LSU's way when they beat the SEC East champ while USC is idle. Any movement by LSU up the computer polls will adversely affect USC, so there is the chance that LSU will move up to #2 in all the rankings but the NY Times, thus moving USC to #3. LSU's average computer rank would be 2 while USC's would be 3. That would make the total 0.47 in LSU's favor when you factor in that LSU would improve to a 2 from a 3 while USC would go from a 2.33 to a 3 or worse. 1.14 -1.67 ------ -0.47 If LSU beats Georgia in the SEC Championship game, Georgia will go down. Based on the number of losses and the poll rankings staying the same, that would mean that the quality victory bonus from beating Georgia would diminish. HOWEVER, if LSU does what I listed above, they'll still hold a 0.07 advantage over USC even if Georgia drops to #11 or below in the BCS. While it may not be definitive, I'd say LSU's chances are more than remote if they win out. That doesn't even take into account the chances of LSU passing USC for #2 in even one poll after beating Arkansas and the SEC champ, which would give LSU a net point because they'd gain 0.5 while USC lost 0.5.

Prediction- If both LSU and USC win out, LSU will go to the Sugar Bowl because their strength of schedule will be better than USC, their computer rankings will be as good or better (they're about even in all rankings except the New York Times, which is the wackiest of all seven in the BCS without a doubt), and with all likelihood will have a quality win bonus for its victory over Georgia. (Even if Georgia loses to LSU again in the SEC Title Game, there's a good probability that they won't drop out of the BCS top ten)

I think what could seal the deal for LSU would be Florida jumping Tennessee in the BCS poll, thus gaining the title game spot. (Florida's last game, against Florida State, may be enough to pull this off) Not only would it mean that Georgia would continute to give quality win points for LSU, it would also mean that the Tigers will have avenged their only loss this year, which may be enough to make them #2 in the Coach's Poll and AP poll.

Michigan jumping LSU? Maybe in the polls but NOT in the BCS. Michigan is #9 right now and, even with Ohio State and TCU losing this week, they're not jumping up into THE mix. Texas has a better shot of doing it. EDIT- Ran the numbers... From Texas on down, the teams are only separated by a few points each. However, Ohio State probably won't drop far enough for Michigan to pass them... yet. I'd say LSU closes in on USC and Michigan closes in on LSU, but Michigan won't pull it off.

I think that the BCS would be looking to avoid a HUGE PR nightmare by telling Texas "Adios", at which point LSU (should they lose the SEC title game), Georgia or Tennessee (whoever doesn't play in the SEC title game), etc. could get in. I guess that this clarification of rules means that the 2nd At Large team will come from the SEC or Big Ten because the Big 12 can't send a third team and the Pac Ten, ACC, and Big East would be hard-pressed to get another team in the Top 12 of the BCS. Keeping that in mind, the scenario above would see the following teams vying for the bid: LSU Georgia or Tennessee (whoever didn't get the SEC title game bid) Iowa Ohio State (if they're REAL lucky)

Actually, I think that the Big 12 rules are that the BCS poll is a tie-breaker for who gets the spot in the Big 12 title game in case of a tie for a divisional title. However, I'm sure there's an article out there somewhere that covers everything in more detail.

If K-State and the SEC East champ win, the BCS bids would go to: K-State (Big 12) SEC East champ (SEC) Florida State (ACC) Miami, Pittsburgh, or West Virginia (Big East) Michigan (Big Ten) USC (Pac Ten) Oklahoma (At Large) Texas or, less likely, LSU (At Large) Oklahoma is a no-brainer because even a one-loss Oklahoma would still be a top-3 BCS team. Texas is a harder choice but their current ranking shows that they'd probably vault ahead of LSU. LSU's current BCS numbers are about 12 points. Given that the best portion of their BCS numbers is their poll ranking, that would immediately disappear following a loss.

It's all nostalgia and and the 20 Years theory... In 20 years, everything that was popular then will be popular again because people who grew up in that era will now want to have the things they saw in their youth. I'm certainly no exception to this, as I bought 2 of the 3 Activision packs for Windows when they came out then dug out the old 2600 and started buying up old games I'd wanted forever. On top of that, it's cost-effective because the only real money put into emulation collections is into the basic emulation engine for the old system. In the case of the 2600 stuff, they just need one engine then they can fine-tune bits of it for each game. In the case of arcade games, it's a little more effort because arcade hardware, ESPECIALLY before the JAMMA standards of the late 80s / early 90s, was very specific to individual games.

Pitfall 2 isn't in the Activision collection for PS1. The PS2 one I'm not sure of though, it may have far more. Is Pitfall 2 Atari 2600? Yes, it's out on the PS2. It's called Activision Anthology and I've had it since this time last year. It's also got Pitfall 2 on there, which fucking ROCKS because it's never been officially emulated before now.

I have the Activision collection and it rules the school... EXCEPT that some games were left out due to a dropped feature. There are empty slots for about 8 games on the "rack" of cartridges that were SUPPOSED to be "earned" by doing something online, but they dropped that feature so there's no Cosmic Ark, No Escape!, Firefighter, or about 5 other games that were mostly made by Imagic. (Firefighter SUCKS but Cosmic Ark rules and No Escape! was okay. As for the new Williams/Midway disc, does anyone know what titles from the previous four collections didn't make the cut? The only games I know are missing for sure are Crystal Castles and Gauntlet II.

SEC East champion possibilities- All teams win out- Georgia probably gets it UNLESS Florida beating Florida State puts them above Tennessee in the BCS. Georgia loses to Georgia Tech- Tennessee gets it because a loss will probably put Georgia below Florida, who lost to Tennesee. Tennessee loses to Kentucky (Yeah... right)- It becomes a two-way tie and Florida gets the shot by virtue of beating Georgia.

No one's sure yet as it's a bit of a clusterfuck. Three-way tie between Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia as of now. The way that the new tiebreaker works, the co-champion rated highest in the BCS poll gets the spot UNLESS the #2 co-champion in the BCS poll beat the #1 team co-champ and is within 5 spots in the BCS. The way it looks now, it'll be Georgia because they're #6 in the poll and beat #7 Tennessee. If Florida jumps Georgia in the BCS and Tennessee is ranked higher than Georgia, Tennessee gets it. If Tennessee loses their last SEC game, Florida gets it. And if all three teams are tied in the BCS, a three-way sack race is held on alternate weekends until a winner is determined.

No one's sure yet as it's a bit of a clusterfuck. Three-way tie between Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia as of now. The way that the new tiebreaker works, the co-champion rated highest in the BCS poll gets the spot UNLESS the #2 co-champion in the BCS poll beat the #1 team co-champ and is within 5 spots in the BCS. The way it looks now, it'll be Georgia because they're #6 in the poll and beat #7 Tennessee. If Florida jumps Georgia in the BCS and Tennessee is ranked higher than Georgia, Tennessee gets it. If Tennessee loses their last SEC game, Florida gets it. The best thing for LSU would be for Georgia to win out but not go to the SEC title game because Florida is the #2 SEC East team in the BCS poll. That way, LSU would be able to avenge its only loss to Florida earlier this year AND keep the quality-win bonus it gets from beating Georgia.

Even though I would've liked to see a REAL play be the downfall of Ole Miss, this isn't the kind of play that would be done over if it had happened at any OTHER time in the game. I'm sorry, Eli, but your lineman just cost you the SEC title.

... DAMN Such a hard-fought game is over because one of Eli's own players stepped on his foot.

And Ole Miss's all-world kicker misses a SECOND field goal by sending it wide right. LSU gets the ball back with 4:15 to go and a 3 point lead.

No matter what happens in the LSU-Ole Miss game, LSU's defense should make a HUGE impression on people. They've held the impressive Ole Miss offense to 70 yards and no offensive scores so far. (The one TD was on a Mauck INT when LSU was on its own 6 yard line) That means that LSU has shut down a Heisman-quality RB (Cadillac Williams) and QB (Eli Manning) this year, albeit in separate games.