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Well, you brought it up, so what are your liquors of choice?

Or buy the DVD's. Probably cost you 50-60 bucks if you look hard enough on the Internet. Easily worth the investment. Hell if you have cable, its worth spending 40 bucks or so to watch it during the season.

Those fans will not talk to you when it is 31-3 at the half. And looking at that Harris poll, I would love to see Utah and BYU win out, just to see what their BCS rankings are at the time of their game.

Good to see the Pujols love on here. I hate hearing the "the MVP has to elevate his team to the playoffs" garbage. 86 wins on a team that I thought would be hard pressed to win 70 is definetely MVP worthy.

Kahran because he has the best player (draft order matters at times!), and because he stuck to his guns and solidified his OLine early. I think I told im early on my plan was to have my OLine drafted by Round 10, yet I would wuss out when there would be a run on certain positions. Both good teams, but I vote for Kahran to win this thing. BTW, this and the NBA Draft is the most fun I have had here at TSM. I can remember taking notebooks to school for the NBA Draft to ponder possibilities as well as thinking about if the 11th round was too early to draft Charles Haley while cutting grass.

THURSDAY Oregon State at Utah - Utah FRIDAY Cincinnati at Marshall - Cincinnati SATURDAY Indiana at Minnesota - Indiana Boston College at N.C. State - NC State South Carolina at Mississippi - Ole Miss Illinois at Michigan - Michigan Florida State at Miami - Florida State Arizona State at California - Arizona State Navy at Air Force - Navy Auburn at Vanderbilt - Auburn Connecticut at North Carolina - UCONN Ohio State at Wisconsin - Ohio State Oregon at USC - USC Missouri at Nebraska - Missouri Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Ohio State/Wisconsin game? 43 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will USC's Mark Sanchez have against Oregon? 239

Amen, I thought it was a great opener. TONS of sub-plots to set up this season, should be very exciting.

That was me. Coming home from the Bengals game and heard that it was 15-0, I was thinking "well this was fun". There are a lot of intriguing choices next week.

Sorry to be late to the party...... As much as I love the "I am voting against him if only because I have been" theory, I do vote for VX to win his semi-final matchup. Very even matchup. I like the versatlity of Faulk just a hair more over the brute force of Earl.

Atlanta at Carolina (7.5) - Carolina Cleveland at Cincinnati (3.5) - Cincy Houston at Jacksonville (7.5) - Houston (9.5) Denver at Kansas City - Denver San Francisco at New Orleans (5.5) - New Orleans Arizona at N.Y. Jets (2.5) - NY Jets Green Bay at Tampa Bay (1.5) - GB Minnesota at Tennessee (3.5) - Tennessee (7.5) San Diego at Oakland - SD (8.5) Buffalo at St. Louis - Bufffalo Washington at Dallas (11.5) - Washington (3.5) Philadelphia at Chicago - Philadelphia Baltimore at Pittsburgh (6.5) - Baltimore NY Jets 23 pts

I cant roll off 3,4 and 5 right now but my #2 is Washington and #1 is Syracuse. Futility plus facilities. Waz Zu makes the list, but good luck to anyone who can get kids to come out to Pullman. Surprise contender for worst 5 BCS (won't be this year, but be ready)......... Texas A&M.

THURSDAY USC at Oregon State - USC FRIDAY Connecticut at Louisville - Louisville SATURDAY Virginia at Duke - Virginia North Carolina at Miami - Miami Northwestern at Iowa - Iowa Purdue at Notre Dame - Purdue Colorado vs. Florida State (in Jacksonville) - Florida State Fresno State at UCLA - Fresno State TCU at Oklahoma - Oklahoma South Florida at N.C. State - South Florida Alabama at Georgia - Georgia Illinois at Penn State - Penn State Virginia Tech at Nebraska - Virginia Tech Stanford at Washington - Washington Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Alabama/Georgia game? 44 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Oklahoma's Sam Bradford have against TCU? 256

Another hypothetical that comes from that is, would Chris Benoit have reached his level (World Champ) without Pillman leaving? The fact that he "stepped in" to fight Sullivan at GAB '96 because Pillman "ran away". That match put Benoit on the map.

So I know I sent some PM's to TSMers about BB9, and Big Brother was taken in the TV Draft so there is some interest. Big Brother 10 started Sunday night with 13 houseguests competing for $500,000. Included were a 75 year old great-grandfather of four, a woman with 5 month old twins at home, and a champion on the gay rodeo circuit. BB's hook this year is that for the first time since BB3, everyone in the house is a total stranger. Thoughts? There was not a great premiere episode moment like in BB8 when Jen cried at her photo, but this season has potential. Plus you gotta love the fact that Jerry, the 75 year old man has already touched some breasts in the house.

Kansas City at Atlanta (5.5) - ATL Oakland at Buffalo (9.5) - BUF Tampa Bay at Chicago (3.5) - CHI Carolina at Minnesota (3.5) - MIN Miami at New England (12.5) - NE Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants (13.5) - NYG Houston at Tennessee (5.5) - TEN Arizona at Washington (3.5) - WSH New Orleans at Denver (5.5) - NO Detroit at San Francisco (4.5) - DET St. Louis at Seattle (9.5) - SEA Cleveland at Baltimore (2.5) - CLE Jacksonville at Indianapolis (5.5) - IND Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (3.5) - PIT (3.5) Dallas at Green Bay - DAL N.Y. Jets at San Diego (9.5) - NYJ NYJ - 17 POINTS

Seems like a lot of easier picks this week.

I kinda hope Keesha gets the 25K to spite April.

THURSDAY North Carolina at Rutgers - Rutgers FRIDAY Kansas at South Florida - Kansas SATURDAY Navy at Duke - Navy Washington State at Baylor - Baylor Michigan at Notre Dame - Notre Dame Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech - Virginia Tech Oregon at Purdue - Purdue UCLA at BYU - BYU Air Force at Houston - Houston Hawaii at Oregon State - Oregon State Southern Miss at Arkansas State Southern Miss Virginia at Connecticut - UConn Ohio State at USC - USC Wisconsin at Fresno State - Wisconsin Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Ohio State/USC game? 48 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will BYU's Max Hall have against UCLA? 210

Thats a good classy way to leave on Keesha's part. Part of me hopes Memphis isn't that dumb and wanted Dan to use those theatrics after she left the house, knowing that she may get to see it on the monitor. At least the clip job on Memphis's goodbye message was not butchered to make him look like a heartless bastard.

I think Rashard Mendenhall was a better running back last year than Beanie Wells is this year, and USC handled Mendenhall and Co. just fine. Apples to oranges I think. Beanie's frame of reference for this year is not strong (2 quarters v. Youngstown State) and the Co. that is with Wells is better than the Co. with Mendenhall. Nor do I really think Wells will play much this week.

At Louisville is a real test?

I am a huge OSU fan and I would settle for a TD or less game. I am tired of everybody talking SO much shit about how bad this team is. I think USC going to win, but I still think it will be close, and if Beanie is close to 100 percent, OSU has a shot.

7 out 31 already out with three games left for the week. Is that par for the course. And I have to ask, to the two people who picked Washington, were you confident that they would go in and beat the defending SB champs in their home opener?

Wouldn't you almost have to want to take Jerry with you to the Final 3 if you are Keesha or Memphis? (Whomever is the voter as long as Jerry doesn't win POV) 1st HOH comp is usually endurance and the 2nd is usually a puzzle with some sort of physical-ness to it, I think there is no way Jerry will be playing in the 3rd HOH contest.