Bored

Storming the field after beating a team who lost six games last year? Ehhhhhh.

Hmm, I think Al's mistaken as I don't see anything about FOX adding night games to their Saturday schedule.

For the two of you who care, I'll try to get around to finish my Tecmo Super Bowl sim at some point this month. Last year I did weekly entries wrapping up the previous day of college football until I ran out of bad jokes which was about three weeks into the season. But never the less I'm going to give it a shot again this year making short and completely un-insightful observations about every game from the weekend that I watched for more than two seconds. My favorite thing about college football is the sheer number of games at one time you can flip through. This year for the first time I now have CollegeSportsTV thus giving me even more football goodness. Tulsa 35, Louisana-Monroe 17. This was how the college football season kicked off. Not exactly USC/Virginia Tech from 2004, eh? The only thing I noticed about this game was whoever the announcer was for ESPN his voice sounded like he was calling the game on radio yet there were no audio difficulties. Very bizarre. LSU 45, Mississippi State 0. Bulldogs scored as many points as there will be black coaches in the SEC after this year. Poor Sylvester Croom. Oregon State 24, Utah 7. Welcome back Utah quarterback Brian Johnson from a torn ACL and goodbye now to a separated shoulder. What was crazy he stayed in for one play after injurying his shoulder and threw a pass. Now that's a real man. Washington 42, Syracuse 12. I'm hoping this is a sign that the Pac-10 is even more loaded than people thought but its probably more a sign that Syracuse is complete dogshit. Virginia Tech 17, East Carolina 7. ESPN exploiting tragedy for ratings? Never saw it coming. Does it make me a heartless prick to say that I'm really hoping LSU blows them out next week? Seriously the collective boner that network will get if the Hokies make a serious run at that national title would crush us all. Michigan State 55, UAB 18. UAB is going to make a major run at being the worst non-Sun Belt team in the country this season. This game was the real downside of the Big Ten Network as in past years the Michigan game would have been on GamePlan and they could have switched to it the second half. Appalachian State 34, Michigan 32. Okay I didn't see this game since I like 90% of the country don't have the Big Ten Network, not that I really want it as their game line up is awful although I certainly would have wanted it for this one. But forget Michigan for a second, how big of a disspointment would it be if App State doesn't three peat as I-AA/FCS/whatever the fuck we're calling it now this year? Colorado 31, Colorado State 28. For a game that was tight and went to overtime I was Bored out of my mind for some reason. Wyoming 23, Virginia 3. This game was so bad I don't remember a damn thing about it. Georgia Tech 33, Notre Dame 3. Eh, this would have been a lot more fun if it had been Brady Quinn being murdered by the Yellow Jacket defense. Wisconsin 42, Washington State 21. Would Paul Maguire drop dead already? He makes every game he calls completely unwatchable, amazingly even with the mute on. Brad Nessler and Bob Griese really pissed someone off at ESABCPN to get stuck with him for a second straight year. Boston College 38, Wake Forest 28. Shame this game was going at the same time as the awesome Missouri/Illinois game or I would have watched more of it. Wake winning the ACC last year reminded me of Stanford winning the Pac-10 in 1999 and like it was for the Cardinal, last year will likely end up being a fluke for the Deacons. Missouri 40, Illinois 34. Seriously this was the best game of the weekend and I think was the only one who watched the majority of it. Bad sign from Mizzou though to give up 400+ yards of offense to one of the worst teams in the Big Ten, even after knocking out their starting quarterback. Not that winning the Big XII North requires one to be any good. UCLA 45, Stanford 17. You know things are bad for your program when this is considered progress. I do like that Jim Harbaugh does seem certifiably insane. BYU 20, Arizona 7. Fomer Bills tackle and athiest Glenn Parker was the analyst for this one so being in the Mormon capital of the world must have been fun. Holy crap I just looked up his Wiki entry and he was born in the same town as me! I'm honored. And he's going to hell. TCU 27, Baylor 0. My first ever I-A CSTV game and it was this. I watched for three seconds. Georgia 35, Oklahoma State 14. God damn CFN for convincing me that Oklahoma State was actually going to be a serious threat this year. Oklahoma 79, North Texas 10. Got to love Fox Sports Net as they always feel the nation needs to see crap like this. Auburn 23, Kansas State 13. I'll pretty much steal from EDSBS on this one and say that Auburn is the master of playing like shit for three quarters and then pulling a win out of their ass in the 4th. California 45, Tennessee 31. Must. Kill. EVERYONE. Seriously fuck you Tennessee as now I got to put up with Cal in the national title picture until USC beats them again. Volunteers? Volunteer to suck my dick. UTEP 10, New Mexico 6. Oof this was ugly and I think a legit upset as UTEP didn't look like shit coming into this year. USC 38, Idaho 10. I like USC and all but hell if I was going to sit through much of this. Did see Vidal Hazleton make a sick, one-handed touchdown catch though.

It is time to kick off the 4th season of the Bored Championship Series. Posting the thread today to give an extra day to make picks for the opening week as I really don't want any late picks in Week 1. Most of you have done this before so I'm not really going to go over anything. For any new sign ups who have questions just send me a PM. Week 1 Deadlines Deadline #1: Thursday, August 30th, 10:00 PM EST/7:00 PM PST -Lose out on Thursday game. Deadline #2: Friday, August 31st, 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST -Lose out on Friday game. Deadline #3: Saturday, September 1st, Noon EST/9:00 AM PST -Replacement picks, can't win by tiebreak. Week 1 Match-ups #3 South Carolina* (Cuban Linx) vs. #5 Miami* PM (Spaceman Spiff) - GAME OF THE WEEK #7 Stanford* (Bored) vs. #9 UCLA* (phoenixrising) #1 Georgia Tech* (iggymcfly) vs. Notre Dame (Lando Griffin) #2 Syracuse* (CanadianChris) vs. Washington* (Smues) #4 Virginia* (Edwin MacPhisto) vs. Auburn* (Tzar Lysergic) #6 Minnesota* (Vern Gagne) vs. USC* PM (Cartman) #8 Oregon* PM (nogoodnick) vs. Hawaii* (Fokai) #10 Tennessee* (Art Sandusky) vs. Nebraska* (Mecca) Florida* PM (Urban Warfare) vs. Ohio* (Will Scarlet) LSU* (teke184) vs. Penn State* (threalworldschampion) Temple* PM (Ortonsault) vs. San Diego State* PM (the walkin' dude) Kentucky* (Danville Wrestling) vs. Texas* (UTBroward) Miami of Ohio* PM (Hawk 34) vs. Ball State* (Vampiro69) Rutgers* (the pinjockey) vs. Buffalo* (Carnival) Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) vs. UTEP* (Angel Grace Blue) Oklahoma* PM (Secret Agent) vs. Michigan* (MFerXtreme87) Kent State* (JHawk) vs. TCU* (Nate) Ohio State* (Gert T) vs. N.C. State (AboveAverage484) Arizona* (UZI Suicide) vs. Boston College* (HarleyQuinn) Boise State* PM (Vitamin X) vs. Florida State* PM (King) Week 1 Games to Make Picks For THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia?

Welcome to the most anti-climatic reveal of the Bored Championship Series Rankings ever as we know who #1 will be. As always everyone starts with a clean slate and the preseason rankings are irrelevent. If you bothered to read to my first post in the sign up thread you would have noticed that I tweaked the rankings again this year with Win/Loss record now making up 65% of your ranking, Correct Pick Pct. is 30%, and "Strength of Schedule" is now only 5%. Also back this year is the "Other Receiving Votes" category which lists the next four teams out of the Top 10 in alphabetical order. Bored Championship Series Rankings thru Week 1 1. LSU - teke184 1.1 2. South Carolina - Cuban Linx 1.75 3. Virginia - Edwin MacPhisto 2.05 4. Nebraska - Mecca 2.05 5. Oklahoma - Secret Agent 2.6 6. Temple - Ortonsault 2.95 7. Georgia Tech - iggymcfly 3.5 8. Syracuse - CanadianChris 3.5 9. Texas - UTBroward 4.15 10. Hawaii - Fokai 4.7 Other Receiving Votes: Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff), Buffalo (Carnival), Florida State (King), Minnesota (Vern Gagne)

Congratulations to teke184 for becoming the first player ever to post a perfect week in the history of the contest, at least I think so as I can't remember it happening before. I won't bother with posting conference standings until after Week 4. Week 1 Results #3 South Carolina (Cuban Linx) 13, #5 Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 11 #9 UCLA (phoenixrising) 9, #7 Stanford (Bored) 9 - phoenix wins by tiebreak #1 Georgia Tech (iggymcfly) 12, Notre Dame (Lando Griffin/Cartman*) 7 #2 Syracuse (CanadianChris) 12, Washington (Smues) 7 #4 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 12, Auburn (Tzar Lysergic) 11 #6 Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 11, USC (Cartman) 8 Hawaii (Fokai) 11, #8 Oregon (nogoodnick) 10 Nebraska (Mecca) 12, #10 Tennessee (Art Sandusky) 11 Florida (Urban Warfare) 10, Ohio (Will Scarlet) 10 - Urban wins by tiebreak LSU (teke184) 14, Penn State (therealworldschampion) 12 Temple (Ortonsault) 12, San Diego State (the walkin' dude) 9 Texas (UTBroward) 11, Kentucky (Danville Wrestling) 11 - UT wins by tiebreak Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34) 8, Ball State (Vampiro69) 8 - Hawk wins by tiebreak Buffalo (Carnival) 11, Rutgers (the pinjockey) 10 Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 11, UTEP (Angel Grace Blue) 9 Oklahoma (Secret Agent) 12, Michigan (MFerXtreme87) 10 Kent State (JHawk) 10, TCU (Nate) 8 N.C. State (AboveAverage484) 10, Ohio State (Gert T) 8 Arizona (UZI Suicide) 11, Boston College (HarleyQuinn) 8 Florida State (King) 11, Boise State (Vitamin X) 9

Cal is going to win. Oh this year is going to suck. For the love of God would some NFL team hire Jeff Tedford already so this program can go back to being an also-ran.

Now there is under a minute to go but Arkansas State has pulled with in 8 of Texas. The Longhorns only putting up 21 points against a Sun Belt team has to raise some eyebrows. Edit: Texas recovers onside so they will hold on for the win.

This Missouri/Illinois game has been all sorts of fun. After knocking out Juice Williams in the first half, Mizzou blew the game open 37-13 but Illinois has came almost all the way back to cut it to 37-34. Just when you thought the Big XII North couldn't get any worse.

Greatest upset in College Football history. And I'll bet anyone that they still get some votes in both polls.

Fox has part ownership of the Big Ten Network so they can't.

Given that Fox has part ownership of the Big Ten Network I seriously doubt ESPN is able to switch to any of their games.

Syracuse's gameplan of trying to blind their opponent with their uniforms has failed miserably.

I think I'd rather watch the WNBA than another Yankees/Red Sox ALCS.

Still haven't heard from Lando Griffin so I'm going to assign Cartman's Saturday picks as replacements if he doesn't submit his picks by tommorrow's deadline.

Kent State beat Iowa State 23-14. Cyclones are looking at a potential 1-11 season.

Lando Griffin (Notre Dame) and AboveAverage484 (N.C. State) are late with their picks. Who You Should Root For #3 South Carolina* (Cuban Linx) vs. #5 Miami* PM (Spaceman Spiff) - GAME OF THE WEEK SC: Connecticut, Boston College Mia: Duke, Wake Forest Tiebreaks: 58/60, 98/83 #7 Stanford* (Bored) vs. #9 UCLA* (phoenixrising) Stan: Colorado, Duke, BYU, Oklahoma State UCLA: Colorado State, Connecticut, Arizona, Georgia Tiebreak: 53/56 #1 Georgia Tech* (iggymcfly) vs. Notre Dame (Lando Griffin/Cartman) - Replacement Picks GT: Colorado, Georgia Tech, California ND: Colorado State, Notre Dame, Tennessee #2 Syracuse* (CanadianChris) vs. Washington* (Smues) Cuse: Oregon State, Colorado, Boston College, BYU, California Wash: Utah, Colorado State, Wake Forest, Arizona, Tennessee #4 Virginia* (Edwin MacPhisto) vs. Auburn* (Tzar Lysergic) UVA: Georgia Tech, California, New Mexico Aub: Notre Dame, Tennessee, UTEP #6 Minnesota* (Vern Gagne) vs. USC* PM (Cartman) Min: Colorado, Connecticut, Wyoming, Georgia Tech, Memphis USC: Colorado State, Duke, Virginia, Notre Dame, Mississippi #8 Oregon* PM (nogoodnick) vs. Hawaii* (Fokai) OR: Wake Forest, Arizona, UTEP HI: Boston College, BYU, New Mexico #10 Tennessee* (Art Sandusky) vs. Nebraska* (Mecca) Ten: Tennessee Neb: California Florida* PM (Urban Warfare) vs. Ohio* (Will Scarlet) FL: Colorado, Memphis, Arizona, UTEP OH: Colorado State, Mississippi, BYU, New Mexico Tiebreaks: 49/45, 56/82 LSU* (teke184) vs. Penn State* (threalworldschampion) LSU: Wyoming, Mississippi PS: Virginia, Memphis Tiebreak: 65/54 Temple* PM (Ortonsault) vs. San Diego State* PM (the walkin' dude) Tem: Washington, Colorado State, Wyoming, Notre Dame, Boston College, California, UTEP SDS: Syracuse, Colorado, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Tennessee, New Mexico Kentucky* (Danville Wrestling) vs. Texas* (UTBroward) Ken: Georgia Tech, Arizona, Central Michigan, California Tex: Notre Dame, BYU, Kansas, Tennessee Tiebreaks: 65/71, 88/103 Miami of Ohio* PM (Hawk 34) vs. Ball State* (Vampiro69) MOH: Notre Dame, Mississippi, BYU, Tennessee Ball: Georgia Tech, Memphis, Arizona, California Tiebreak: 62/57 Rutgers* (the pinjockey) vs. Buffalo* (Carnival) Rut: Duke, Wake Forest, UTEP Buf: Connecticut, Boston College, New Mexico Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) vs. UTEP* (Angel Grace Blue) AL: Mississippi, BYU, California, New Mexico UTEP: Memphis, Arizona, Tennessee, UTEP Tiebreak: 62/46, 118/74 Oklahoma* PM (Secret Agent) vs. Michigan* (MFerXtreme87) OK: Duke, Wyoming, BYU, Oklahoma State, Kansas, UTEP Mich: Connecticut, Virginia, Arizona, Georgia, Central Michigan, New Mexico Tiebreak: 49/48 Kent State* (JHawk) vs. TCU* (Nate) KS: Utah, Colorado, Connecticut, Wyoming, Georgia, Tennessee TCU: Oregon State, Colorado State, Duke, Virginia, Oklahoma State, California Tiebreaks: 47/73, 85/59 Ohio State* (Gert T) vs. N.C. State (AboveAverage484) OSU: Utah, Memphis, Arizona NCS: Mississippi, BYU Tiebreaks: 47/53, 95/80 Arizona* (UZI Suicide) vs. Boston College* (HarleyQuinn) AZ: Georgia Tech, Boston College, Arizona, Purdue, UTEP BC: Notre Dame, WAke Forest, BYU, Toledo, New Mexico Boise State* PM (Vitamin X) vs. Florida State* PM (King) BS: Colorado, Duke, Virginia, Central Michigan FSU: Colorado State, Connecticut, Wyoming, Kansas Tiebreak: 54/45

Ya he's worked for CSTV the last couple of years I believe. He actually isn't half bad.

Still waiting on two more people for their picks but I'm going to go ahead and post the PM'd picks now. San Diego State - the walkin' dude THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 59 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 55 Florida State - King THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 45 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 78 USC - Cartman THURSDAY Oregon State FRIDAY Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State Duke Virginia Notre Dame Boston College Mississippi BYU Georgia Kansas Purdue Tennessee UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 49 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 100 Temple - Ortonsault THURSDAY Oregon State FRIDAY Washington SATURDAY Colorado State Connecticut Wyoming Notre Dame Boston College Mississippi BYU Georgia Kansas Purdue California UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 56 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 175 Miami - Spaceman Spiff THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 58 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 83 Florida - Urban Warfare THURSDAY Oregon State FRIDAY Washington SATURDAY Colorado Connecticut Virginia Georgia Tech Boston College Memphis Arizona Georgia Kansas Purdue Tennessee UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 49 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 56 Boise State - Vitamin X Oregon State Washington Colorado Duke Virginia Notre Dame Boston College Memphis BYU Georgia Central Michigan Purdue California UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 54 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 74 Oregon - nogoodnick THURSDAY Oregon State FRIDAY Washington SATURDAY Colorado Connecticut Virginia Notre Dame Wake Forest Mississippi Arizona Georgia Kansas Purdue California UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 55 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 90 Miami of Ohio - Hawk 34 THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 62 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 104 Oklahoma - Secret Agent THURSDAY Utah at Oregon State FRIDAY Washington at Syracuse SATURDAY Colorado State vs. Colorado Connecticut at Duke Virginia at Wyoming Georgia Tech at Notre Dame Wake Forest at Boston College Mississippi at Memphis Arizona at BYU Oklahoma State at Georgia Central Michigan at Kansas Purdue at Toledo Tennessee at California New Mexico at UTEP Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Tennessee/California game? 49 Tiebreak #2: How many receiving yards will Oklahoma State's Adarius Bowman have against Georgia? 94

Endy and a Jones Time to Pick a New Target

ESABCPN finally realized what their college football telecasts were really missing...a theme song. Along with this I eagerly anticipate the sleaze factor of the Gameday telecast from Blacksburg.

I don't know about smiling as Loaiza's $7 million/year deal suddenly didn't look so bad after this past offseason's spending spree on mediocre starting pitchers. It's a peculiar move to just let someone go like this without even getting a PTBNL. They desperately need to address their offensive woes this offseason and this could part of equation to free up some money. It could also be they aren't confident he will be healthy enough to give them 25-30 starts in 2008 as he's pretty much been sunk cost this year after spending the first three and a half monts on the DL. I guess they weighed the possiblity of him reinjuring himself the last month of the season and killing any trade value he'd have in the offseason. Or maybe they've lost their minds and really think Rich Harden will be healthy again.

My Picks Oregon State Washington Colorado Duke Virginia Georgia Tech Boston College Mississippi BYU Oklahoma State Kansas Purdue Tennessee New Mexico Tiebreaks: 53/91

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