Bored

HUGE week in college football. There's simply no reason to leave the couch on Saturday. National television schedule this week. Just one ABC regional time slot again this week. I'm fairly certain both FSN games listed can be seen by most of the country. WEDNESDAY Miami of Ohio at Marshall, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY Pittsburgh at Connecticut, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Navy at Air Force, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN FRIDAY #14 Utah at New Mexico, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN2 SATURDAY Arkansas at #16 Florida, Noon/9:00 AM, CBS #6 West Virginia at Virginia Tech, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN North Carolina at #9 Florida State, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2 Texas Tech at #2 Oklahoma, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, FSN #15 Purdue at Notre Dame, 2:30 PM/11:30 AM, NBC #13 LSU at #3 Georgia, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBS #4 Miami at Georgia Tech, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* #19 Michigan at Indiana, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Colorado at Missouri, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* #10t California at Oregon State, 4:00/1:00 PM, FSN South Carolina at Alabama, 6:00/3:00 PM, ESPN2 Kansas State at Texas A&M, 7:00/4:00 PM, TBS #8 Auburn at #10t Tennessee, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN #7 Ohio State at Northwestern, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 #21 Arizona State at Oregon, 10:15/7:15 PM, TBS

Tim Hudson is getting shelled tonight so it's looking like it's going to be a tie in the West. Just for more salt in the wound I see the Assholes by the Bay are going to tie up the Cubs in the Wild Card. Just wonderful. I hate baseball. So much for hoping the A's would clinch on Friday night when I'm at the game. They'd need to win the next two and the Angels to lose the next two for that to happen. Hopefully I won't be there to see their season end.

My picks Marshall Connecticut Air Force Utah Florida Virgina Tech Florida State Oklahoma Notre Dame Miami Michigan Missouri Georgia California South Carolina Texas A&M Tennessee Ohio State Arizona State Tiebreaker Answers: 48, 236

Vern Gagne has volunteerd to take over Boise State. Remember I'll just be using the same picks he uses for Minnesota. He PM'd them so they'll be up when I post the PM'd picks.

Thank you Bob Melvin for intentionally walking the bases loaded with one out. A's win 6-5 and advert this game being known forver as "The Willie Bllomquist Game" among A's fans.

Wilie Bloomquist just hit a three-run homer to tie up the game. WILLIE BLOOMQUIST That might be the water shed moment for the A's meltdown of this season right there.

A's have a 5-2 lead heading to the 7th but they've had plenty of chances to make this game a blow out. I'm not overly concerned about the Angels coming back to win tonight (as long as the A's win tonight) but the Rangers better win tommorrow. If they lose they'd be pretty much done and I'm worried about them tanking the final two games of the series.

Sorry Mike even if it was an hour later I don't allow people to change their picks so you'll stick with Alabama. Have to have the same rules for everyone.

Holy shit that came out left field. Congrats to Conan although I can't help but wonder how much his show is going to be watered down.

Idaho plays at Hawaii this year and teams that play a road game against Hawaii are allowed to schedule an extra non-conference game. I personally hated the 12 game schedule they went to the previous couple of years because of the 6-6 teams being able to go to bowl games.

Okay the A's officially want to choke before the playoffs apparantly. FUCK THIS SHIT!!!! They absolutely have to win the next three games. They have Redman with his home ERA over 7 pitching Thursday and Mark "nothing is wrong with me" Mulder on Friday. The A's don't have the offesne to overcome those two pieces of shit right now. Oh well I wasn't looking forward to spending $35 on bleacher seats for the division series. Fucking price gouging mother fucking A's owners. *AS like rant over*

If Joe Blanton isn't starting for Mulder when I'm at the game Friday I'm going to be severly dissapointed.

Mulder is just horrible on every level. He is DONE. If the A's don't win the division his complete collapse will be the main reason.

Macha better have a quick hook on Mulder tonight. The man has nothing left. He shouldn't be in the postseason rotation, if they get there.

The San Francisco 49ers are now on the clock....

I'll echo the improvement of the Pac-10 this year. Just so much deeper this year and USC really lucks out getting both Cal and ASU at home. Washington appears to be the only truly bad team in the conference (although I'm not very impressed with UCLA either) which is amazing when you consider they were the one consistent winner in the Pac-10 during the 90's and early part of this decade. That program has just fallen apart since the whole Rick Neuheisal fiasco. Now as I say that watch Stanford completely lay an egg against them next week.

If the fucking Cubs let the Assholes by the Bay into the playoffs I will curse them to never winning a World Series again! Oh wait. Mariners hammer the Rangers 9-0 today. If the A's win tonight they'll have division almost locked up. Lose and it gets really dicey going into the final week. I have tickets to Friday night's series opener against the Angels.

Well since no one seems to be that mad about the rankings, and maybe even like them in a perverse sense, I guess I'll stick with the rankings but here were the three alternative ideas: Win/loss record (.50) + total pick pct. (.25) + strength of schedule (.25) = 1. Ohio State 2. Washington State 3. Virginia 4. Syracuse 5. Minnesota 6. Hawaii 7. Notre Dame 8. Stanford 9. Auburn 10. Oklahoma Win/loss record (.70) + total pick pct. (.20) + strength of schedule (.10) = 1. Ohio State 2. Washington State 3. Stanford 4. Notre Dame 5. Syracuse 6. Oklahoma 7. Virginia 8. LSU 9. Hawaii 10. Minnesota Or a "super poll" which would take the two above formulas and and the current formula and combine them. 1. Ohio State 2. Washington State 3. Virginia 4. Syracuse 5. Minnesota 6. Notre Dame 7. Hawaii 8. Stanford 9. Oklahoma 10. Auburn

Hmmm, maybe I'm just an evil genius? Trust me 2GOLD you don't want to see your ranking.

If you want to discuss the BCS rankings go to the Week 4 results thread. Since there was little interest I will take care of Boise State's picks from now on by picking the favorites based on the point spread for their picks. I will normally post these the day before the first game of the week so they will be up Tuesday this week. Week 5 Deadlines Wednesday, September 29th, 7:00 PM EST/4:00 PM PST -lose out on Miami (OH)/Marshall pick Thursday, September 30th, 7:00 PM EST/4:00 PM PST -lose out on Pittsburgh/UConn pick, Navy/Air Force pick, and tiebreak #2 Friday, October 1st, 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST -lose out on Utah/New Mexico pick and tiebreak #1 Saturday, October 2nd, Noon EST/9:00 AM PST -forfeit Week 5 Match-ups #1 Virginia* (Edwin MacPhisto, 2-2) vs. #5 Hawaii* PM (Will Scarlet, 2-2) - GAME OF THE WEEK #3 Ohio State* PM (Gert T, 4-0) vs. #10 Notre Dame* (Lando Griffin, 4-0) #2 Minnesota* PM (Vern Gagne, 2-2) vs. Penn State* (therealworldschampion, 2-2) #4 Syracuse* (Canadian Chris, 3-1) vs. Rutgers* (the pinjockey, 1-3) #6 Washington State* (bravesfan, 4-0) vs. West Virginia* (Loaded Glove, 2-2) #7 Auburn* (Agent of Oblivion, 2-2) vs. Tennessee* (Kotzenjunge, 2-2) #8 Oregon* (nogoodnick, 2-2) vs. Arizona State* (Spicy McHaggis, 1-3) #9 Oklahoma* (Damaramu, 3-1) vs. Maryland* (MarvinisaLunatic, 3-1) LSU* PM (teke184, 3-1) vs. Georgia* (A_MikeSC, 3-1) Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff, 2-2) vs. USC* (Cartman, 1-3) Stanford* (Bored, 4-0) vs. Miami* (Spaceman Spiff, 2-2) Florida* (Agent Bond34, 1-3) vs. Kent State* (JHawk, 1-3) Michigan State* (Dangerous A, 1-3) vs. Bowling Green* (iggymcfly, 2-2) Michigan* (Mad Dog, 1-3) vs. Texas* (Flyboy, 1-3) UCLA* (phoenixrising, 0-4) vs. Boise State* PM (Vern Gagne/*dead team*, 0-4) Florida State* (2GOLD, 2-2) vs. Boston College* (HarleyQuinn, 1-3) Week 5 Games to makes picks for WEDNESDAY Miami of Ohio at Marshall THURSDAY Pittsburgh at Connecticut Navy at Air Force FRIDAY Utah at New Mexico SATURDAY Arkansas at Florida West Virginia at Virginia Tech North Carolina at Florida State Texas Tech at Oklahoma Purdue at Notre Dame Miami at Georgia Tech Michigan at Indiana Colorado at Missouri LSU at Georgia California at Oregon State South Carolina at Alabama Kansas State at Texas A&M Auburn at Tennessee Ohio State at Northwestern Arizona State at Oregon Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Utah/New Mexico game? Tiebreak #2: How many yards passing with UConn's Dan Orlovsky have against Pittsburgh?

You people thought you were pissed last week? BCS Top 10 thru Week 4 1. Virginia - Edwin MacPhisto 5.00 (10/4/1) 2. Minnesota - Vern Gagne 6.33 (10/8/1) 3. Ohio State - Gert T 6.67 (1/1/18) 4. Syracuse - Canadian Chris 7.33 (5/8/9) 5. Hawaii - Will Scarlet 7.33 (10/3/9) 6. Washington State - bravesfan 7.67 (1/4/18) 7. Auburn - Agent of Oblivion 8.33 (10/8/7) 8. Oregon - nogoodnick 9.00 (10/8/9) 9. Oklahoma - Damaramu 10.33 (5/2/24) 10. Notre Dame - Lando Griffin 10.67 (1/7/24) Okay, I'll think about changing the formula if there is enough outrage over this. If a change is made those rankings won't go into effect until next week because I need to the Week 5 thread up ASAP since there is a Wednesday game this week. IF a change is wanted I have three ideas already in mind so no suggestions are needed.

Week 4 Results #2 Ohio State (Gert T) 13, #5 Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 11 #8 Syracuse (CanadianChris) 13, #1 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 13; Syracuse wins by tiebreak Washington State (bravesfan) 14, #3 Hawaii (Will Scarlet) 13 #4 Notre Dame (Lando Griffin) 12, Penn State (therealworldschampion) 11 Bowling Green (iggymcfly) 13, #6 Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 9 Oregon (nogoodnick) 15, #7 Auburn (Agent of Oblivion) 12 Florida (Agent Bond34) 13, #9 Oklahoma (Damaramu) 12 LSU (teke184) 12, #10 Kent State (JHawk) 11 Stanford (Bored) 13, USC (Cartman) 11 Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 15, Boise State (Rob E Dangerously) 0; forfeit Tennessee (Kotzenjunge) 10, Boston College (HarleyQuinn) 10; Tennessee wins by tiebreak Rutgers (the pinjockey) 13, Arizona State (Spicy McHaggis) 11 Florida State (2GOLD) 10, Texas (Flyboy) 10; Florida State wins by tiebreak Maryland (MarvinisaLunatic) 12, Michigan (Mad Dog) 10 West Virginia (Loaded Glove) 14, Michigan State (Dangerous A) 11 Georgia (A_MikeSC) 13, UCLA (phoenixrising) 12 Conference Standings (conference record, overall record) Pac-8 1. Stanford (1-0, 4-0) 1. Washington State (1-0, 4-0) 3. Hawaii (2-1, 2-2) 4. Oregon (1-1, 2-2) 5. Arizona State (0-0, 1-3) 5. UCLA (0-0, 0-4) 7. Boise State (0-1, 0-4) 8. USC (0-2, 1-3) Big MAC 1. Notre Dame (3-0, 4-0) 2. Ohio State (1-0, 4-0) 3. Bowling Green (0-0, 2-2) 3. Minnesota (0-0, 2-2) 5. Penn State (0-1, 2-2) 5. Kent State (0-1, 1-3) 5. Michigan (0-1, 1-3) 5. Michigan State (0-1, 1-3) Mid South 1. LSU (1-0, 3-1) 1. Alabama (1-0, 2-2) 1. Tennessee (1-0, 2-2) 4. Auburn (1-1, 2-2) 4. Florida (1-1, 1-3) 6. Georgia (0-1, 3-1) 6. Oklahoma (0-1, 3-1) 6. Texas (0-1, 1-3) Big Atlantic 1. Maryland (2-0, 3-1) 2. Syracuse (1-0, 3-1) 2. Miami (1-0, 2-2) 2. Boston College (1-0, 1-3) 5. Florida State (0-1, 2-2) 5. West Virginia (0-1, 2-2) 5. Rutgers (0-1, 1-3) 8. Virginia (0-2, 2-2)

Actually Mike you have a lot of ground to make up because you took over a team that fofeited one week. Just a note to everyone there is a Wednesday game next week so I'm going to try to have Week 5 thread up tonight although I have to wait until the OSU/ASU game is over.

CORRECTION I said Maryland held the tiebreak on their match-up but actually Michigan does (BG/NIU scored 51 total points). That match-up has not been decided then and hinges on the outcome of the Arizona State/Oregon State game. If Oregon State wins, Mad Dog would win by tiebreak. Sorry for the mistake. LSU (teke184) def. #10 Kent State (JHawk) JHawk's Stanford pick almost paid off but ends up costing him the match-up.

Unless they force a turnover that's probably the game. Some what of an unecessary risk going for it on 4th in their own territory.