Bored

I've been dying for the first full Saturday of the season to completely veg out on college football. But I'm going to be at a family reunion that day and will miss most of the games. Oh well. A weekly thread should work out well. Here is the national television schedule for this week. ABC regional games are marked with an asterisk. THURSDAY Texas A&M at #20 Utah, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN Northwestern at TCU, 9:30/6:30 PM, ESPN2 FRIDAY Washington State at New Mexico, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN SATURDAY Miami of Ohio at #8 Michigan, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC* Bowling Green at #2 Oklahoma, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC* Central Florida at #21 Wisconsin, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN #16 Virgnia at Temple, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2 (or #13 California at Air Force) Oklahoma State at UCLA, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Wake Forest at #15 Clemson, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Michigan State at Rutgers, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Oregon State at #4 LSU, 6:00/3:00 PM, ESPN Tulane at Mississippi State, 6:00/3:00 PM, ESPN2 Colorado State at Colorado, 8:00/5:00 PM, FSN Toledo at #25 Minnesota, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 Notre Dame at BYU, 9:15/6:15 PM, ESPN SUNDAY Syracuse at #24 Purdue, 1:30 PM/10:30 AM, ABC Kentucky at Louisville, 3:30/12:30 PM, ESPN Fresno State at Washington, 5:30/2:30 PM, FSN UNLV at #14 Tennesse, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN2 MONDAY Nevada at Louisiana Tech, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, ESPN2 Pittsburgh at South Florida, 4:30/1:30 PM, ESPN - POSTPONED #5 Florida State at #6 Miami, 8:00/5:00 PM, ABC - POSTPONED

Now for the first regular season Bored Championship Series Top 10 rankings. Preasason rankings have no effect on these rankings. The formula is simple: Average ranking (from 1 to 32) of a team's win/loss record, percentage of correct picks made, and percentage of correct picks made by their opponent. Since it's week 1 these rankings can be taken with a grain of salt and probably won't take any real shape for a few weeks. For example when it comes to win/loss record you are either ranked #1 or #17 at this point. If you did really well this week but your opponent did poorly your ranking won't be as good as you might think. Also if you lost this week but did well you might be pleasantly surprised. So just like the real BCS we'll have CONTROVERSY~! Note to break any ties in the rankings I go in order of win/loss record, perecentage of correct picks made, and then percentage of correct picks against. Two teams in the Top 10 had the exact same result in their matcH-ups this week thus they are tied. Now *drum roll*...The BCS Top 10 thru Week 1 1. Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 2.67 2. Ohio State (Gert T) 3.33 3. Washington State (bravesfan) 5.00 4. Syracuse (Canadian Chris) 6.00 5. Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 7.67 6. Penn State (therealsworldchampion) 8.00 7. Florida (Agent Bond34) 8.00 8. Kent State (JHawk) 8.67 9t. West Virginia (Loaded Glove) 9.00 9t. Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 9.00

Week 1 Final Scores #6 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 19, #5 Florida (Agent Bond34) 17 Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 16, #1 Florida State (2GOLD) 16 (Miami wins by tiebreak) Ohio State (Gert T) 18, #2 Kent State (JHawk) 17 Syracuse (Canadian Chris) 17, #3 Tennessee (Kotzenjunge/Moist Party Girl) 16 #4 Stanford (Bored) 15, Boston College (HarleyQuinn) 11 Oregon (nogoodnick) 16, #7 Boise State (Rob E Dangerously) 14 Washington State (bravesfan) 18, #8 Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 16 Michigan (Mad Dog) 15, #9 LSU (teke184) 13 Penn State (therealsworldchampion) 18, #10 UCLA (phoenixrising) 15 Michigan State (Dangerous A) 16, Rutgers (the pinjockey) 12 Oklahoma (Damaramu) 19, Bowling Green ("Hail" bps21) 14 Auburn (Agent of Oblivion) 16, Texas (Flyboy) 14 Notre Dame (Lando Griffin) 16, Maryland (MarvinisaLunatic) 13 West Virginia (Loaded Glove) 17, USC (Cartman) 15 Georgia (Kingofthe909) 16, Arizona State (Spicy McHaggis) 15 Alabam (AlwaysPissedOff) 17, Hawaii (Will Scarlet) 15 Conference Standings (conference record, overall record) Pac-8 1. Oregon (1-0, 1-0) 2. Stanford (0-0, 1-0) 2. Washington State (0-0, 1-0) 2. Arizona State (0-0, 0-1) 2. Hawaii (0-0, 0-1) 2. UCLA (0-0, 0-1) 2. USC (0-0, 0-1) 8. Boise State (0-1, 0-1) Big Mac 1. Ohio State (1-0, 1-0) 2. Michigan (0-0, 1-0) 2. Michigan State (0-0, 1-0) 2. Notre Dame (0-0, 1-0) 2. Penn State (0-0, 1-0) 2. Bowling Green (0-0, 0-1) 2. Minnesota (0-0, 0-1) 8. Kent State (0-1, 0-1) Mid South 1. Auburn (1-0, 1-0) 2. Alabama (0-0, 1-0) 2. Georgia (0-0, 1-0) 2. Oklahoma (0-0, 1-0) 2. Florida (0-0, 0-1) 2. LSU (0-0, 0-1) 2. Tennessee (0-0, 0-1) 8. Texas (0-1, 0-1) Big Atlantic 1. Miami (1-0, 1-0) 2. Syracuse (0-0, 1-0) 2. Virginia (0-0, 1-0) 2. West Virginia (0-0, 1-0) 2. Boston College (0-0, 0-1) 2. Maryland (0-0, 0-1) 2. Rutgers (0-0, 0-1) 8. Florida State (0-1, 0-1) BCS Top 10 will be up shortly...

It's supposed to 3rd place vs. 6th place and 4th place vs. 5th place so you should be playing Slapnuts and I should be playing the Guapos.

No because Buckner's play is still there. Buckner will be #2, Miracle will be #1. I think for it being so shocking as Gibson was a gimp going up there against the best reliever in the game.

#4: Mark McGwire hits home run No. 62

I've updated the scoreboard in the post before last. Everyone picked Tennessee so tonight's game has no meaning and there are just two games that will come down to tommorrow's Nevada/Louisiana Tech game. If Louisiana Tech wins Miami beats #1 Florida State (by tiebreak) and Ohio State beats #2 Kent State If Nevada wins #1 Florida State beats Miami and #2 Kent State beats Ohio State Louisiana Tech is a 6 point favorite.

Memphis beat Mississippi with Eli Manning last year so I don't consider that an upset. They have a good shot at the Conference USA title this year. Probably the biggest upset yesterday was Troy State beating Marshall. Score of the day from yesterday: UAB 56, Baylor 14. Now UAB isn't that bad, they have an outside shot at a bowl bid, but it's time for the Big 12 to give Baylor the boot.

Alou, but only if the fight is in Chicago as he can't a thing outside of Wrigley. Don't forget Alou's urine covered hands of doom.

Texans - 24 pts. New England St. Louis Baltimore N.Y. Jets Detroit Jacksonville Pittsburgh Houston Seattle Tampa Bay Tennessee San Francisco Minnesota N.Y. Giants Kansas City Green Bay

A's are getting hammered today (10-4 in the 7th) after Rich Harden had his first bad start of the second half but Moneyball draftee Nick Swisher hit his first career homerun.

Normally on Sunday's I'll have the next week's Pick 'Em thread up but because we have games today and one game tommorrow I won't have it up until tommorrow afternoon at the earliest. Now if you want to get a head start on next week and make your picks now I'm going to give you that opportunity. If you do want to make picks for Week 2 today send them by private message only. Do not post them in this thread. Here are the games to pick from for Week 2 and the two tiebreaker questions. You are not required to make the same pick you made last week for FSU/Miami or the same total points for the tiebreaker Thursday, September 9th Missouri at Troy State Friday, September 10th Florida State at Miami Oregon State at Boise State Saturday, September 11th UNLV at Wisconsin Arizona State at Northwestern Southern Miss at Nebraska UCLA at Illinois Fresno State at Kansas State Michigan at Notre Dame Marshall at Ohio State Colorado at Washington State North Carolina at Virginia Wyoming at Texas A&M Georgia at South Carolina Houston at Oklahoma Colorado State at USC Georgia Tech at Clemson Penn State at Boston College Mississippi at Alabama Texas at Arkansas Tiebreaker #1: How many total points will be scored in the Florida State/Miami game? Tiebreaker #2: How many total yards (passing & rushing) will Missouri's Brad Smith have against Troy State?

espn.com has been slow about updating the site with new articles and I was out of town yesterday. What was #4? #6: Dale Earnhardt dies at Daytona 500 #5: Pete Rose banned from baseball

Pittsburgh/South Florida on Monday has also been postponed due to Hurricane Frances so that will effect the potential ties I listed earlier. I'll delete those differing picks for that game. Scoreboard update thru Fresno State/Washington game. #6 Virginia leads #5 Florida, 17-15 (Virginia has this game won) #1 Florida State leads Miami, 15-14 #2 Kent State vs. Ohio State, tied 16-16 Syracuse leads #3 Tennessee, 16-14 (Syracuse has this game won) #4 Stanford leads Boston College, 13-10 (Stanford has this game won) Oregon leads #7 Boise State, 15-12 (Oregon has this game won) Washington State leads #8 Minnesota, 17-14 (Washington State has this game won) Michigan leads #9 LSU, 14-12 (Michigan has this game won) Penn State leads #10 UCLA, 16-14 (Penn State has this game won) Michigan State leads Rutgers, 14-11 (Michigan State has this game won) Oklahoma leads Bowling Green, 18-12 (Oklahoma has this game won) Auburn leads Texas, 14-13 (Auburn has this game won) Notre Dame leads Maryland, 14-12 (Notre Dame has this game won) West Virginia leads USC, 15-13 (West Virginia has this game won) Georgia leads Arizona State, 14-13 (Georgia has this game won) Alabama leads Hawaii, 15-14 (Alabama has this game won)

If anyone cares I guess ESPN has regional coverage this year because on ESPN2 we have Cal/Air Force on the west coast instead of Virginia/Temple.

Maybe it's time this thread be unlocked and bumped back to the front page.

Probably because they are a great team playing in a weak conference. It'll be a complete shock if the don't get the Big East's BCS bid as there no other Top 25 calibar teams in that conference. They have the potential to go unbeaten in the regular season although they'll have to beat Virginia Tech in Blacksburg in what is now a non-conference match-up.

A's have called up outfielder Nick Swisher, who was the A's first pick in the 2002 "Moneyball" draft. He'll likely be in the starting line-up tonight against Toronto.

I'm 99.9% sure the list was put together before Tillman's death. In fact judging by some of the overly high placements of the Bartman incident and Sosa's corked bat I'd say it was put together at the end of 2003.

To be fair, the A's can't beat any of those three teams in the playoffs. Right. Because they were just blown out of the water every time they played. The A's just couldn't compete every year. Uh huh. Anyways I pointed out the Red Sox as that was easily the most heart wrenching of the playoff series losses last season. Blow the 2-0 lead and had great chances to win the each of the final three games.

Utah has no shot at the national title game, undefeated or not. But they would have probably as good a shot as any non-BCS conference team has had at playing in a BCS bowl. Boston College struggles to beat Ball State 19-11 tonight. Can they just give West Virginia the Big East title right now? They are just going to breeze through that conference.

It's looking more and more like we'll have the same teams in the playoffs for the A.L. and probably the same exact match-ups. I'm not exactly jumping for joy at the chance to see the A's against the Red Sox again.

As long as Alex Smith is upright, Utah has an excellent chance at going 11-0. The only game where they could be tripped up is at San Diego State, who have one of the best defenses in country.

See this is why I'm dropping the current tiebreaker system after this week as it's confused too many people. Anyways you and Vern differed on an even number of games so if you split those six games you'll end up in a tie. The 2nd tiebreaker was who correctly picked the New Mexico/Washington State game. It's now the 1st tiebreaker because the FSU/Miami game was postponed. Again I'll be dropping this system for Week 2 and just going with the tiebreaker questions. Edit: Oh and of course you two disagreed on the New Mexico/Washington State game so that's why it could decide your match-up. If you two had made the same pick it'd go the Leinart passing yardage question.

Completely forgot about Earnhardt. Probably because there are no NASCAR fans on the board. There's no article on espn.com yet.