Bored

First deadline passed, I'll post the WYNtW when I get home. More PM'd Picks Temple - Ortonsault THURSDAY TCU FRIDAY Rutgers SATURDAY Connecticut Akron Utah Oregon Virginia Tech Texas A&M San Diego State Kentucky UAB Baylor Ohio State Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 65 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 151 Oregon State - Princess Leena THURSDAY BYU at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers at South Florida SATURDAY Navy at Connecticut Akron at Kent State Boise State at Utah Oregon at Arizona State Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at Texas A&M San Diego State at San Jose State Central Michigan at Kentucky Troy at UAB Kansas State at Baylor Ohio State at Iowa Washington at Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 68. Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 168.

Throw in one thing for Pujols that isn't brought up much in the MVP debate and that he's the best defensive first baseman in the N.L. as well. Of course first base defense isn't nearly as important as other positions but considering his main competition (in the media at least) plays the same position, it should be brought into the discussion.

PM'd Picks San Diego State - The Last Samurai THURSDAY BYU at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers at South Florida SATURDAY Navy at Connecticut Akron at Kent State Boise State at Utah Oregon at Arizona State Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at Texas A&M San Diego State at San Jose State Central Michigan at Kentucky Troy at UAB Kansas State at Baylor Ohio State at Iowa Washington at Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 49 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 217 UCLA - phoenixrising THURSDAY TCU FRIDAY Rutgers SATURDAY Connecticut Akron Boise State Oregon Virginia Tech Texas Tech San Diego State Kentucky Troy Baylor Ohio State Washington Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 56 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 175 Florida - Urban Warfare THURSDAY TCU FRIDAY Rutgers SATURDAY Navy Akron Boise State Oregon Georgia Tech Texas Tech San Diego State Kentucky UAB Kansas State Ohio State Washington Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 59 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 246 San Jose State - kkktookmybabyaway TCU South Florida Navy Akron Boise State Oregon Virginia Tech Texas A&M San Diego State Kentucky UAB Kansas State Ohio State Washington Tiebreak #1: 56 Tiebreak #2: 123 Georgia Tech - iggymcfly THURSDAY BYU at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers at South Florida SATURDAY Navy at Connecticut Akron at Kent State Boise State at Utah Oregon at Arizona State Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at Texas A&M San Diego State at San Jose State Central Michigan at Kentucky Troy at UAB Kansas State at Baylor Ohio State at Iowa Washington at Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 61 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 137 Auburn - Agent of Oblivion THURSDAY at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers SATURDAY Navy at Kent State Boise State Oregon at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at San Jose State at Kentucky at UAB at Baylor Ohio State Washington Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 63 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 212 Arizona State - Spicy McHaggis THURSDAY TCU FRIDAY Rutgers SATURDAY Connecticut Akron Boise State Oregon Virginia Tech Texas A&M San Jose State Central Michigan UAB Kansas State Ohio State Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 62 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 215 LSU - teke184 THURSDAY BYU at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers at South Florida SATURDAY Navy at Connecticut Akron at Kent State Boise State at Utah Oregon at Arizona State Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at Texas A&M San Diego State at San Jose State Central Michigan at Kentucky Troy at UAB Kansas State at Baylor Ohio State at Iowa Washington at Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 60 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 110 Florida State - Kingofthe909 THURSDAY BYU at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers at South Florida SATURDAY Navy at Connecticut Akron at Kent State Boise State at Utah Oregon at Arizona State Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at Texas A&M San Diego State at San Jose State Central Michigan at Kentucky Troy at UAB Kansas State at Baylor Ohio State at Iowa Washington at Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 50 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 200 Miami of Ohio - Hawk 34 THURSDAY BYU at TCU FRIDAY Rutgers at South Florida SATURDAY Navy at Connecticut Akron at Kent State Boise State at Utah Oregon at Arizona State Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech Texas Tech at Texas A&M San Diego State at San Jose State Central Michigan at Kentucky Troy at UAB Kansas State at Baylor Ohio State at Iowa Washington at Arizona Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Oregon/Arizona State game? 66 Tiebreak #2: How many passing yards will Iowa's Drew Tate have against Ohio State? 129 Syracuse - CanadianChris TCU Rutgers Navy Akron Boise State Oregon Virginia Tech Texas A&M San Jose State Kentucky UAB Kansas State Ohio State Washington 58/178

Already did.

My Picks TCU Rutgers Navy Akron Utah Oregon Virginia Tech Texas A&M San Jose State Kentucky UAB Baylor Ohio State Arizona Tiebreak: 69/198

That's what I hope for as I want no part of Johan Santana and the Metrodome.

After the 2001, 2002, 2003 ALDS and a choke the last week of the season in 2004 I'm a little weary whenever the A's make things more interesting than it neeeds to be as I showed last night. But tonight they made it easy. Angels lose before the A's game ends and the A's crush the Mariners 12-3 for division title #14. Congratulations to Jason Kendall and Mark Kotsay on their first trip to the postseason. For work and family reasons I can't make it to the ALDS but I am going to purchase ALCS tickets just in case. Hey they got to get out the division series eventually, right?

60.7 If anyone wants details on their ranking you can PM me.

Actually is six outs but they're up 12-2 so it's all over. Division title #14, yay.

Well I'm going to use the blog for venting my frustrations about the A's right now rather than subject the TWiB thread to it. Hey fine give the Angels credit for not laying down this weekend after an emotional 12 inning game on Friday. BUT YOU DO NOT BLOW A SIX RUN LEAD TO THE FUCKING MARINERS YOU CHOKING DOGS!!!!! Fuck, all I wanted you assholes to do is not make those last four games count and you are really fucking close to fucking this all up. Don't think for a second the Angels can't sweep you in four in Anaheim if you don't take care of your fucking shit right now in Seattle. Win these next two god dammit because you ain't getting any help from the Rangers. See the worst thing about this is that the longer this goes on the longer Ken Macha continues to run this team into the ground. He's on pretty much a no day off policy for this month until they clinch and there are some guys, including Frank Thomas, who are really dragging out there right now and could use some rest before the playoffs. After tonight that feeling that this was all over on Friday is gone. This is still a race and I'm hating every second of it. Ya, ya I'd hate to be Cardinals fan right now more and this post could look silly 24 hours from now but fuck it this loss tonight was unacceptable.

Edit: A's lost and I'll vent elsewhere.

Not to pick on nogoodnick but again you pick 58.9% (12 out of 28 the last two weeks) correctly you aren't going to stay undefeated. If I made the win/loss record count more than people who picked the best but had bad luck with match-ups would complain. Really we're four weeks into the season. It's way too early to start worrying about your ranking. And one other thing last year's winner, AlwaysPissedOff, was unranked after four weeks and Damaramu was ranked #2. See how much it means right now?

Game of the Day: Notre Dame 40, Michigan State 37. It was almost like the Spartans decided they'd have a game that would mirror the way they usually play every season. Hot start, then a lousy finish. Being that this was on ESPN on ABC on ESPN2 on Disney this is now "one of the ages" or something. Of course if this game had been played in South Bend and thus been televised on NBC, ESPN probably wouldn't care that much. ESPN did nail it though in what this game meant as Notre Dame just earned $14 million last night with this win, though they seemed to celebrate the fact more than look down on it. The Irish simply don't have another challenging game the rest of the year until they travel to Los Angeles and even they get humiliated in that game they will still be guarenteed a BCS bowl. Like I said last week they will play themselves back into the national title picture whether you like or not. WTF Score of the Day: Georgia 14, Colorado 13. There was no jaw dropping upset yesterday (sorry Ball State, you're barely I-A as it is) and this was as close as we were going to get. The Bulldogs were the Top 10 that was a mystery to people coming into this week. The mystery is over, they aren't a Top 10 team. Other Games that I Make Little Analysis and Lame Jokes About Arkansas 24, Alabama 23. You know people have been lynched in Alabama for a lot less than what kicker Leigh Tiffin did yesterday. Time to transfer to Florida State, kid. I'm guessing the good feelings Tide fans had for Mike Shula last year will dissapear in a hurry this year. SMU 55, Arkansas State 9. Isn't there something in the NCAA rules that if you lose by more than 40 to SMU you are demoted to Division II the next day? I mean god damn, it's fucking SMU! Let's not forgot Arkansas State is the defending Sun Belt champions. I think a 46 year old Eric Dickerson could run circles around a Sun Belt defense. Maryland 14, Florida International 10. Maybe it's time Ralph Friedgen started putting weight back on as the Terps were much better a 100 pounds ago. Ohio State 28, Penn State 6. I was watching the A's game so I missed most of this one and I unfortunately missed sideline reporting about Joe Paterno almost shitting his pants during the game. Houston 34, Oklahoma State 25. I only mention this game because Vern reads the blog and I won my match-up against him in my pick 'em contest yesterday because of this game. Kevin Kolb is yo daddy Vern! Whack Pac Wrap Up California 49, Arizona State 21. God damnit. Washington 29, UCLA 19. Newsflash, the Huskies don't suck this year. Isaiah Stanback is becoming quite the competent quarterback. USC 20, Arizona 3. Zzzzzz. Good lord was that boring. That Emmanuel Moody though is pretty damn good. Oregon State 38, Idaho 0. If you're still wondering how Michigan State coul blow that game last night then remember that they acutally made Idaho look halfway decent in their opener. Washington State 36, Stanford 10. Hey the Cardinal defense allowed 238 rushing yards, their best showing of the year. Progress! I wanna cry.

About time to bump this. Super Bowl VI: Staubach to Ditka touchdown Super Bowl XIII: The Jackie Smith dropped pass The 3rd quarter of Super Bowl III with 1969 commercials and pointless interview with Bob Hope. Pretty good quality too. Clip 1 Clip 2 1990 NFC Championship, 49ers vs. Rams: At about the 3:30 mark an awesome play by Ronnie Lott And these clips I'd seen a month or so ago but didn't post because it's the second worst sports moment of my childhood...the 1991 NFC Championship Game, 49ers vs. Giants. Three plays that ended the 49ers run at a three peat. Leonard Marshall breaks Joe Montana's hand Roger Craig fumble Matt Bahr's game winning field goal

Magic Numbers Mets: 1 Yankees: 4 A's: 7 Cardinals: 8 Tigers: 13 Padres: 14 ESPN/Fox Games to Poison Our Youth WEDNESDAY Reds (Bronson Arroyo) at Astros (Roger Clemens), 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN Tigers (Jeremy Bonderman) at White Sox (Jon Garland), 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN THURSDAY Twins (Johan Santana) at Red Sox (Josh Beckett), 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 FRIDAY Cardinals at Astros, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN SATURDAY Marlins at Phillies, 1:00 PM EST, FOX Nationals at Mets, 1:00 PM EST, FOX Mariners at White Sox, Noon CST/10:00 AM PST Angels at A's, 1:00 PM PST, FOX SUNDAY Cardinals at Astros, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN Three Astros games. ESPN, we have our finger somewhere in the general vicinity on the pulse of the pennant chase!

First Harris Poll released Didn't bother posting the rankings as there is nothing notable.

Bleh, A's lose 7-1. Clinching in Seattle is going to be boring.

Man I hate really hate the Angels. A's down 5-0 in the 5th. Why can't these assholes give up like a normal team who's down seven games with eight to play?

Deadline #1 - Friday, September 22nd, 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST -Lose out on Friday game. Deadline #2 - Saturday, September 23rd, Noon EST/9:00 AM PST -Replacement picks, can't win by tiebreak Week 4 Match-ups #7 Virginia* (Edwin MacPhisto, 3-0) vs. Georgia Tech* PM (iggymcfly, 2-1) - GAME OF THE WEEK #1 Temple* PM (Ortonsault, 3-0) vs. Texas A&M* PM (Secret Agent, 1-2) #2 Miami* (Spaceman Spiff, 3-0) vs. Connecticut* (SilverPhoenix, 1-2) #3 Hawaii* (Will Scarlet, 3-0) vs. Boise State (bravesfan, 0-3) #4 Oregon State* PM (Princess Leena, 3-0) vs. Notre Dame* (Lando Griffin, 2-1) #5 Syracuse* (CanadianChris, 3-0) vs. Miami of Ohio* (Hawk 34, 0-3) #6 UCLA* PM (phoenixrising, 3-0) vs. Florida State* PM (Kingofthe909, 0-3) #8 South Carolina* (Cuban Linx, 2-1) vs. Alabama* PM (AlwaysPissedOff, 0-3) #9 USC (Cartman, 2-1) vs. Oklahoma* (Vampiro69, 1-2) #10 Minnesota* (Vern Gagne, 2-1) vs. Stanford* (Bored, 1-2) Michigan (Jimbo, 2-1) vs. Kent State* (JHawk, 1-2) Arizona State* PM (Spicy McHaggis, 2-1) vs. Kansas State (Loaded Glove, 2-1) Oregon* PM (nogoodnick, 3-0) vs. Tennessee (Sex Machine Gun, 2-1) Rutgers* (the pinjockey, 1-2) vs. San Jose State* PM (kkktookmybabyaway, 0-3) LSU* PM (teke184, 2-1) vs. San Diego State (The Last Samurai, 1-2) Florida* PM (Urban Warfare, 2-1) vs. Kentucky* (Danville Wrestling, 1-2) Texas* (UTBroward, 1-2) vs. UTEP* (Angel Grace Blue, 1-2) Penn State* (therealworldschampion/Carnival, 0-3) vs. Ohio State* (Gert T, 0-3) Buffalo* (Carnival, 0-3) vs. Auburn* (Agent of Oblivion, 1-2) Maryland* (MarvinisaLunatic/Agent of Oblivion, 2-1) vs. Florida International* (Vitamin X, 1-2) Week 4 Games to Make Picks For FRIDAY Northwestern at Nevada SATURDAY Minnesota at Purdue Kent State at Bowling Green Wake Forest at Mississippi Tulsa at Navy Arizona State at California Penn State at Ohio State Alabama at Arkansas UCLA at Washington Air Force at Wyoming South Florida at Kansas Notre Dame at Michigan State Arkansas State at SMU Oklahoma State at Houston Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Penn State/Ohio State game? Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will California's Marshawn Lynch have against Arizona State?

AP Poll 1) Ohio State 2) Auburn 3) USC 4) West Virginia 5) Florida 6) Michigan 7) Texas 8) Louisville 9) LSU 10) Georgia 11) Virginia Tech 12) Notre Dame 13) Iowa 14) Oregon 15) Tennessee 16) Oklahoma 17) TCU 18) Clemson 19) Florida State 20) California 21) Nebraska 22) Boise State 23) Rutgers 24) Georgia Tech 25) Missouri 26) Boston College 27) Miami 28t) Arizona State 28t) Purdue 30t) Michigan State 30t) Texas A&M 32) Penn State 33) Texas Tech 34t) Arkansas 34t) Washington 36) Wake Forest 37) Wisconsin 38t) Houston 38t) UCLA 40) Alabama Georgia drops one, Notre Dame holds, Oregon drops one spot while Oklahoma moves up one spot, they managed to move Clemson ahead of FSU this week, and yes Rutgers is ranked in both polls.

The new #1 is the old #1 as I'm sure you could figure out by the results, but Ortonsault still had a relatively strong showing so only drops one spot. Of course the CONTROVERSY~ will be my ranking even though I'm only 2-2 but I'm tied for 3rd in correct picks so there's your answer. Ya go ahead and call me dirty names like "Pac-10 referee" or something. But I'm not the only 2-2 team that cracks the Top 10 as you'll see. The other controversy will be the still missing nogoodnick. Sorry nick your 20th in correct picks right now at just 58.9% so you've been lucky. A lucky win for fellow undefeated phoenixrising cost them in the rankings. Veterans of the contest will know that rankings in even weeks always give some odd results because there's a bunch of teams at .500 which causes havoc with the rankings. Also the large number of no shows this week also screwed things up a bit. Oh and the new feature that I mentioned last week debuts. Since I expaded to 40 teams this year, which I'm now thinking wasn't the best idea, I considered expanding the BCS rankings as well. Instead though I decided to go with an "Other Receiving Votes" category. This will be the teams ranked 11th thru 14th although they'll be listed in alphabetical order so you won't know your exact ranking but you'll know if your on the edge of the Top 10 or not. Bored Championship Series Rankings thru Week 4 1. Hawaii - Will Scarlet 3.5 2. Temple - Ortonsault 3.75 3. Oregon State - Princess Leena 3.9 4. Miami - Spaceman Spiff 4.7 5. Syracuse - CanadianChris 5.7 6. South Carolina - Cuban Linx 7.4 7. Stanford - Bored 7.5 8. Virginia - Edwin MacPhisto 8.95 9. UCLA - phoenixrising 10.25 10. Rutgers - the pinjockey 10.65 Other Receiving Votes: Arizona State (Spicy McHaggis), Connecticut (SilverPhoenix), Kentucky (Danville Wrestling), Texas A&M (Secret Agent)

I'll post conference standings after next week is completed. Week 4 Final Results Georgia Tech (iggymcfly) 7, #7 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 7; iggy wins by tiebreak Texas A&M (Secret Agent) 9, #1 Temple (Ortonsault) 8 Connecticut (SilverPhoenix) 8, #2 Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 7 #3 Hawaii (Will Scarlet) 8, Boise State (bravesfan) 6 #4 Oregon State (Princess Leena) 7, Notre Dame (Lando Griffin) 6 #5 Syracuse (CanadianChris) 7, Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34) 5 #6 UCLA (phoenixrising) 6, Florida State (Kingfothe909) 6; phoenix wins by tiebreak #8 South Carolina (Cuban Linx) 7, Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 5 Oklahoma (Vampiro69) 7, #9 USC (Cartman) 5 Stanford (Bored) 8, #10 Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 7 Michigan (Jimbo/Spicy McHaggis) 6, Kent State (JHawk) 5 Arizona State (Spicy McHaggis) 7, Kansas State (Loaded Glove/Sex Machine Gun) 7; Spicy wins by tiebreak Oregon (nogoodnick) 7, Tennessee (Sex Machine Gun) 7; nick wins by tiebreak Rutgers (the pinjcockey) 8, San Jose State (kkktookmybabyaway) 7 San Diego State (The Last Samurai) 6, LSU (teke184) 5 Kentucky (Danville Wrestling) 10, Florida (Urban Warfare) 7 Texas (UTBroward) 6, UTEP (Angel Grace Blue) 4 Penn State (therealworldschampion/Carnival) 8, Ohio State (Gert T) 7 Buffalo (Carnival) 9, Auburn (Agent of Oblivion) 8 Maryalnd (MarvinisaLunatic/Agent of Oblivion) 7, Florida International (Vitamin X) 4

Well this certainly turned interesting.

Your mildly interesting, sort of upset scores. Army 27, Baylor 20 OT Mississippi State 16, UAB 10 OT Sylvester Crooms' job is saved! Okay maybe not. And so much for the progress Baylor made last year.