Bored

MLB.com is giving free coverage of the game right now. And the second I turn it on, homerun Gabe Kapler. OMG YOU JINXED IT!!

It's gonna be a Sleep in Saturday on, um, Saturday. Really lackluster schedule this week with no marquee match-up to speak of. The closest to a Top 25 match-up is West Virginia/ECU as after the upset of Virginia Tech, the Pirates came in at #27 in the AP poll. After that there is Cincinnati/Oklahoma, which if the game were in Cincinnati it could be mildly interesting but I don't think anyone sees them pulling off a shocker in Norman. Miami/Florida would be fun if it were five years ago. But hey Notre Dame kicks off their season this week against the mighty San Diego State Aztecs! Aren't you excited??? Network/Basic Cable Schedule THURSDAY #24t South Carolina at Vanderbilt, 8:30/5:30 PM, ESPN FRIDAY Navy at Ball State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN SATURDAY Ohio at #3 Ohio State, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN Miami of Ohio at Michigan, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2 #15t BYU at Washington, 3:00 PM/Noon, FSN San Diego State at Notre Dame, 3:30/12:30 PM, NBC Cincinnati at #4 Oklahoma, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Oregon State at #19 Penn State, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC/ESPN2* Mississippi at #20 Wake Forest, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC/ESPN2* #8 West Virginia at East Carolina, 4:30/1:30 PM, ESPN Texas A&M at New Mexico, 5:00/2:00 PM, Versus #17 South Florida at UCF, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Louisiana Tech at #14 Kansas, 7:00/4:00 PM, FSN Miami at #5 Florida, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN #10 Texas at UTEP, 10:15/7:15, ESPN2 Basic Cable/Satellite/GamePlan Schedule THURSDAY Florida A&M at Delaware State, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPNU SATURDAY Connecticut at Temple, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPNU Marshall at #11 Wisconsin, Noon/9:00 AM, BTN* Eastern Michigan at Michigan State, Noon/9:00 AM, BTN* FIU at Iowa, Noon/9:00 AM, BTN* Eastern Illinois at #24t Illinois, Noon/9:00 AM, BTN* Northern Colorado at Purdue, Noon/9:00 AM, BTN* Georgia Tech at Boston College, Noon/9:00 AM, Raycom*/GP Southern Miss at #9 Auburn, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, Raycom*/GP New Hampshire at Army, 1:00 PM/10:30 AM, ESPN Classic Air Force at Wyoming, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBSCS Central Michigan at #2 Georgia, 3:30/12:30 PM, GP Tennessee Tech at Louisville, 3:30/12:30 PM, GP Richmond at Virginia, 3:45/12:45 PM, ESPNU Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 6:00/3:00 PM, GP Western Carolina at Florida State, 6:00/3:00 PM, GP Norfolk State at Kentucky, 6:00/3:00 PM, GP California at Washington State, 6:30/3:30 PM, FCS Pacific Murray State at Indiana, 7:00/4:00 PM, BTN Montana State at Kansas State, 7:00/4:00 PM, FCS Central Tulane at #13 Alabama, 7:00/4:00 PM, GP Arkansas at UL Monroe, 7:00/4:00 PM, GP Alcorn State at Grambling State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Classic Minnesota at Bowling Green, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPNU Rice at Memphis, 8:00/5:00 PM, CBSCS UNLV at #22 Utah, 8:00/5:00 PM, Mtn. Stanford at #15 Arizona State, 10:00/7:00 PM, FCS Pacific Weber State at Hawaii, 11:59/8:59 PM, GP ESPN360 Only Games SATURDAY Akron at Syracuse, 3:30/12:30 PM The Citadel at Clemson, 3:30/12:30 PM Idaho State at Idaho, 5:00/2:00 PM Maryland at Middle Tennessee, 7:00/4:00 PM All Other Div I-A Games SATURDAY Southeast Missouri State at #6 Missouri #12 Texas Tech at Nevada Utah State at #18 Oregon Furman at Virginia Tech William & Mary at N.C. State Northwestern at Duke Northern Illinois at Western Michigan Texas Southern at Arkansas State Texas State at SMU San Jose State at Nebraska Northwestern State at Baylor Eastern Washington at Colorado Kent State at Iowa State Houston at Oklahoma State Sacramento State at Colorado State Stephen F Austin at TCU Toledo at Arizona Southeast Louisiana at Mississippi State UAB at Florida Atlantic

New Pointless AP Top 25 Ohio State drops to #5, East Carolina jumps in at #14, and UCLA must have had a bad practice as they dropped out. Edit: The Coaches were far less impressed with ECU as they show up at #20.

Their punter is incapable of kicking an extra point?

For such an early portion of the season, things went shockingly to form this week (except for #1 and #2 losing of course). Since the season is so young the rankings will be fluctuating quite a bit but for this week we have a former champion on top of the rankings. Speaking of champions, coming off the most dominate season in the history of the contest, Cuban Linx has started 0-2. Will the curse of the Bored Bowl champions continue? No former champ has even made it to a bowl game the season after they won it all. Big jump of the week comes from newbie still fly who tied for the most points this week (against me, asshole). For breaking these early season, virtual ties whichever team was ranked higher the previous week gets the higher ranking this week. Bored Championship Series Rankings thru Week 2 1. Georgia Tech - iggymcfly 1.9 2. Arizona State - still fly 2.7 3. Ohio State - Gert T 2.8 4. Nebraska - Mecca 2.8 5. Ball State - Vampiro69 2.85 6. Virginia - Edwin MacPhisto 3.2 7. Arizona - UZI Suicide 3.75 8. Tennessee - Canadian Brandon 3.75 9. Texas - Broward83 4.1 10. N.C. State - AboveAverage484 5.2 Other Receiving Votes: Florida State (909), Fresno State (Agent Bond34), Indiana (Tzar Lysergic), Washington State (MrRant)

Week 2 Results #4 Ohio State (Gert T) 9, #1 Buffalo (Carnival) 9; Gert wins by tiebreak Indiana (Tzar Lysergic) 10, #2 Florida State (909) 10; Tzar wins by tiebreak #3 Georgia Tech (iggymcfly) 10, Boston College (HarleyQuinn) 9 #5 Texas (Broward83) 9, UTEP (Angel Grace Blue) 7 #6 Ball State (Vampiro69) 10, Navy (MarvinisaLunatic) 8 Notre Dame (KingPK) 9, #7 San Diego State (Saint of All Killers) 8 #8 N.C. State (AboveAverage484) 9, Kentucky (Danville Wrestling) 9; AA wins by tiebreak #9 Nebraska (Mecca) 10, South Carolina (Cuban Linx) 9 #10 Fresno State (Agent Bond34) 9, Tulsa (Will Scarlet) 7 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 10, UCLA (phoenixrising) 9 Arizona State (still fly) 11, Stanford (Bored) 8 Arizona (UZI Suicide) 10, Kent State (JHawk) 7 Tennessee (Canadian Brandon) 10, Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 9 Washington State (MrRant) 10, Illinois (The Monkey Man) 8 Syracuse (CanadianChris) 9, Georgia (Obi Chris Kenobi) 7 Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34) 11, Michigan (Bristol Palin's Baby Daddy) 9 Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 10, USC (Cartman) 7 Rutgers (the pinjockey) 8, Boise State (Vitamin X) 8; pinjockey wins by tiebreak Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 10, Florida (Urban Warfare) 8 LSU (teke184) 9, Washington (Smues) 7

Damn, ULM nearly pulled it out against Arkansas. I was fully expecting Bobby Petrino to resign after the game. Oh well maybe next week. USF/UCF heading to overtime.

I saw that last night and thought about bringing it up in the thread but I didn't want to admit that I was actually watching an A's/Orioles game. We also nearly had our first instant replay overturn on the grand slam as umps initially ruled the ball in play but corrected themselves before going to the replay. And tonight the A's won 5-1 to eliminate the Orioles from A.L. East race. You're welcome Rays.

On 4th down Ole Miss scores the tying touchdown with 1:01 to go and no excessive celebration penalty so they get a normal extra point to take the lead. I hate conference dick measuring, especially two weeks into the season, but god damn Wake really needs to pull this out to save some face for the ACC.

The officials might not survive the walk out of the stadium. I mean this is primarily NCAA's fault for forcing officials to make a call like that but you got to take into account the situation and swallow your whistle.

AND IT'S BLOCKED!

Jake Locker is the man. Touchdown with two seconds left to force overtime (maybe). Oh fuck you with the celebration call. Score a touchdown with two seconds left, YOU CAN'T CELEBRATE THAT!!! Now it's a 35-yard extra point try.

When the hell is FSN going to finally dump Barry Tompkins and Petros Papadakis? Jesus they are worse than Raycom's Three Dave's.

And just a reminder folks, San Diego State lost to Cal Poly last week. I'm starting to think Stanford beating Oregon State wasn't that big of a deal.

By request of AoO.

But the Octavio Dotel boner game of 2004 is what you think.

Now I know what you're thinking. If A-Fraud had the best third baseman season of the last 30 years, he had to have had the best shortstop season. But thankfully my Judeo-Christian friends we have been saved! But not be Jeter!? This is an outrage! Obviously our Lord and Savior is saving his best for last. Top 20 Shortstop Seasons since 1979 (per Win Shares) 1. Robin Yount, 1982 - Milwaukee Brewers 38.6 Win Shares Year Ag Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG *OPS+ TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP +--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+ 1982 26 MIL AL 156 635 129 210 46 12 29 114 14 3 54 63 .331 .379 .578 166 367 4 10 2 1 19 2. Alex Rodriguez, 2000 - Seattle Mariners 37.2 3. Alex Rodriguez, 2001 - Texas Rangers 36.8 4. Cal Ripken, 1984 - Baltimore Orioles 36.7 5. Alex Rodriguez, 2002 - Texas Rangers 35.5 6. Derek Jeter, 1999 - New York Yankees 35.3 7. Cal Ripken, 1983 - Baltimore Orioles 35.3 8. Alan Trammell, 1987 - Detroit Tigers 35.1 9. Alex Rodriguez, 1996 - Seattle Mariners 34.0 10. Cal Ripken, 1991 - Baltimore Orioles 33.7 11. Ozzie Smith, 1987 - St. Louis Cardinals 32.9 12. Derek Jeter, 2006 - New York Yankees 32.7 13. Robin Yount, 1983 - Milwaukee Brewers 32.6 14. Rich Aurilia, 2001 - San Francisco Giants 32.6 15. Alex Rodriguez, 2003 - Texas Rangers 32.5 16. Barry Larkin, 1992 - Cincinnati Reds 32.3 17. Miguel Tejada, 2002 - Oakland A's 32.0 18. Nomar Garciaparra, 1999 - Boston Red Sox 31.6 19. Barry Larkin, 1996 - Cincinnati Reds 30.6 20. Barry Larkin, 1995 - Cincinnati Reds 30.4

You're all lucky, at least you aren't stuck in Pro Football Hell that is the San Francisco Bay Area. I always look forward to a bye week or like Week 1 this year with the Raiders on MNF sloppy seconds which is the only time we get any sort of variety in our football coverage. Unfortunately one of the two games tomorrow morning before the Cardinals/49ers suckfest will be the Favre love in on CBS so I guess I'll be sticking with Seahawks/Bills.

If Ohio State is some how still trailing in the 4th quarter I predict Chris Spielman will run from the sidelines and tackle an Ohio player during a play.

Buffalo - Carnival THURSDAY South Carolina at Vanderbilt FRIDAY Navy at Ball State SATURDAY Georgia Tech at Boston College BYU at Washington Cincinnati at Oklahoma Mississippi at Wake Forest Air Force at Wyoming West Virginia at East Carolina Texas A&M at New Mexico California at Washington State South Florida at UCF Northwestern at Duke Minnesota at Bowling Green Miami at Florida Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Cincinnati/Oklahoma game?61 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami?210

So that's six straight losses in conference for South Carolina, two of them against Vandy. How much longer before Ol' Ball Coach gives up?

ESABCPN Coverage Map

Note Gert T will not get credit for tonight's game as again I don't take partial picks. I'll post Carnival's picks once Gert submits his full picks. Edit: Carnival picked South Carolina for tonight. Who You Should Root For #1 Buffalo (Carnival, 1-0) vs. #4 Ohio State (Gert T, 1-0) - GAME OF THE WEEK UB: Ball State, Boston College, Wake Forest, Wyoming OSU: Navy, Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Air Force Tiebreaks: 61/65, 210/270 #2 Florida State (909, 1-0) vs. Indiana (Tzar Lysergic, 1-0) FSU: Ball State, Georgia Tech, Wyoming, Wazzu IN: Navy, Boston College, Air Force, Cal Tiebreak: 48/65 #3 Georgia Tech (iggymcfly, 1-0) vs. Boston College (HarleyQuinn, 1-0) GT: Wake Forest, Wyoming, Cal BC: Ole Miss, Air Force, Wazzu #5 Texas (Broward83, 1-0) vs. UTEP (Angel Grace Blue, 0-1) TX: Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Air Force, Texas A&M UTEP: Boston College, Wake Forest, Wyoming, New Mexico Tiebreaks: 70/54, 468/265 #6 Ball State (Vampiro69, 1-0) vs. Navy (MarvinisaLunatic, 1-0) BS: Vandy, Ball State, Wyoming, Northwestern Navy: South Carolina, Navy, Air Force, Duke Tiebreaks: 56/70, 284/223 #7 San Diego State (Next USC #55, 1-0) vs. Notre Dame (KingPK, 0-1) SDS: Navy, Georgia Tech, Wyoming, New Mexico, USF ND: Ball State, Boston College, Air Force, Texas A&M, UCF #8 N.C. State (AboveAverage484, 1-0) vs. Kentucky (Danville Wrestling, 1-0) NCS: Ball State, Boston College KY: Navy, Georgia Tech Tiebreaks: 54/52, 322/300 #9 Nebraska (Mecca, 1-0) vs. South Carolina (Cuban Linx, 0-1) NE: Georgia Tech SC: Boston College #10 Fresno State (Agent Bond34, 1-0) vs. Tulsa (Will Scarlet, 0-1) FS: Air Force, Texas A&M Tulsa: Wyoming, New Mexico Tiebreak #2: 289/250 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto, 1-0) vs. UCLA (phoenixrising, 0-1) VA: Boston College, Texas A&M, Minnesota UCLA: Georgia Tech, New Mexico, Bowling Green Stanford (Bored, 1-0) vs. Arizona State (still fly, 1-0) SU: Boston College, Wake Forest, Wyoming, West Virginia, New Mexico ASU: Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Air Force, ECU, Texas A&M Arizona (UZI Suicide, 1-0) vs. Kent State (JHawk, 0-1) AZ: Boston College, Air Force, Cal, USF, Minnesota KS: Georgia Tech, Wyoming, Wazzu, UCF, Bowling Green Tennessee (Canadian Brandon, 1-0) vs. Minnesota (Vern Gagne, 0-1) TN: Texas A&M MN: New Mexico Washington State (MrRant, 1-0) vs. Illinois (The Monkey Man, 0-1) WS: Wake Forest, Northwestern IL: Ole Miss, Duke Tiebreaks: 45/57, 376/309 Syracuse (CanadianChris, 0-1) vs. Georgia (Obi Chris Kenobi, 0-1) SU: South Carolina, Ball State, Boston College, BYU, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Cal, USF, Northwestern, Bowling Green GA: Vandy, Navy, Georgia Tech, Washington, Ole Miss, ECU, Wazzu, UCF, Duke, Minnesota Tiebreak: 59/18 Michigan (MFerXtreme87, 0-1) vs. Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34, 0-1) MI: South Carolina, Wyoming MOH: Vandy, Air Force Tiebreaks: 52/66, 372/328 Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff, 0-1) vs. USC (Cartman, 0-1) AL: Georgia Tech, Air Force, Northwestern USC: Boston College, Wyoming, Duke Tiebreak: 59/50 Rutgers (the pinjockey, 0-1) vs. Boise State (Vitamin X, 0-1) RU: Ole Miss, Air Force BS: Wake Forest, Wyoming Tiebreaks: 60/48, 360/324 Florida (Urban Warfare, 0-1) vs. Miami (Spaceman Spiff, 0-1) FL: Wyoming, West Virginia UM: Air Force, ECU Tiebreaks: 65/55, 331/290 LSU (teke184, 0-1) vs. Washington (Smues, 0-1) LSU: Ball State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Air Force, West Virginia, New Mexico, USF, Duke WA: Navy, Boston College, Ole Miss, Wyoming, ECU, Texas A&M, UCF, Northwestern Tiebreak: 78/67