Bored

Texans - 17 points Washington Detroit Cincinnati Buffalo Miami New England New Orleans Philadelphia Pittsburgh Jacksonville Dallas San Diego Arizona Indianapolis Green Bay Denver

My Picks South Carolina Ball State Boston College BYU Oklahoma Wake Forest Wyoming West Virginia New Mexico California South Florida Northwestern Bowling Green Florida 61/312

Florida State - 909 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? 48 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami? 450 Indiana - Tzar Lysergic THURSDAY South Carolina FRIDAY Navy SATURDAY at Boston College BYU at Oklahoma at Wake Forest Air Force West Virginia Texas A&M California South Florida Northwestern Minnesota at Florida Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Cincinnati/Oklahoma game? 65 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami? 412 Syracuse - CanadianChris THURSDAY South Carolina FRIDAY Ball State SATURDAY Boston College BYU Oklahoma Wake Forest Wyoming West Virginia Texas A&M California South Florida Northwestern Bowling Green Florida Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Cincinnati/Oklahoma game? 59 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami? 258 Alabama - AlwaysPissedOff South Carolina Navy Georgia Tech BYU Oklahoma Wake Forest Air Force West Virginia Texas A&M California South Florida Northwestern Bowling Green Florida TB #1: 59 TB #2: 349 USC - Cartman THURSDAY South Carolina FRIDAY Navy SATURDAY Boston College BYU Oklahoma Wake Forest Wyoming West Virginia Texas A&M California South Florida Duke Bowling Green Florida Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Cincinnati/Oklahoma game? 50 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami? 200

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

Georgia Tech - iggymcfly 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? 60 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami? 340 Florida - Urban Warfare THURSDAY South Carolina FRIDAY Navy SATURDAY Georgia Tech BYU Oklahoma Mississippi Wyoming West Virginia Texas A&M California South Florida Northwestern Bowling Green Florida Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Cincinnati/Oklahoma game? 65 Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami? 331

Can anyone ever remember when a pooch kick actually worked? It's like the prevent defense for special teams. And overtime. Time for Mike Patrick to bring up Britney.

This was a cripple fight for three quarters and then out of no where we get some exciting footbaw in the 4th.

Rick Neuheisel to Kevin Craft: "That's three of them! Stop it!" Edit: Aww he didn't listen.

ESPN/FOX/TBS Games to Poison Our Youth WEDNESDAY Yankees (Carl Pavano) at Rays (Edwin Jackson), 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN SATURDAY Phillies at Mets, 3:55/12:55 PM, FOX Tigers at Twins, 3:55/12:55 PM, FOX Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 3:55/12:55 PM, FOX SUNDAY Angels at White Sox, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, TBS Phillies at Mets, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN

Week 2 Deadlines Deadline #1: Thursday, September 4th, 8:30 PM EST/5:30 PM PST -Lose out on Thursday game. Deadline #2: Friday, September 5th, 7:00 PM EST/4:00 PM PST -Lose out on Friday game. Deadline #3: Saturday, September 6th, Noon EST/9:00 AM PST -Replacement picks, can't win by tiebreak. Week 2 Match-ups #1 Buffalo* PM (Carnival, 1-0) vs. #4 Ohio State (Gert T, 1-0) - GAME OF THE WEEK #2 Florida State* PM (909, 1-0) vs. Indiana* PM (Tzar Lysergic, 1-0) #3 Georgia Tech* PM (iggymcfly, 1-0) vs. Boston College* (HarleyQuinn, 1-0) #5 Texas* (Broward83, 1-0) vs. UTEP* (Angel Grace Blue, 0-1) #6 Ball State* (Vampiro69, 1-0) vs. Navy* PM (MarvinisaLunatic, 1-0) #7 San Diego State* PM (Saint of All Killers, 1-0) vs. Notre Dame* PM (KingPK, 0-1) #8 N.C. State* PM (AboveAverage484, 1-0) vs. Kentucky* (Danville Wrestling, 1-0) #9 Nebraska* PM (Mecca, 1-0) vs. South Carolina* (Cuban Linx, 0-1) #10 Fresno State* (Agent Bond34, 1-0) vs. Tulsa* (Will Scarlet, 0-1) Virginia* (Edwin MacPhisto, 1-0) vs. UCLA* (phoenixrising, 0-1) Stanford* (Bored, 1-0) vs. Arizona State* (still fly, 1-0) Arizona* (UZI Suicide, 1-0) vs. Kent State* (JHawk, 0-1) Tennessee* (Canadian Brandon, 1-0) vs. Minnesota* (Vern Gagne, 0-1) Washington State* PM (MrRant, 1-0) vs. Illinois* (The Monkey Man, 0-1) Syracuse* PM (CanadianChris, 0-1) vs. Georgia* (Obi Chris Kenobi, 0-1) Michigan* (MFerXtreme87, 0-1) vs. Miami of Ohio* PM (Hawk 34, 0-1) Alabama* PM (AlwaysPissedOff, 0-1) vs. USC* PM (Cartman, 0-1) Rutgers* (the pinjockey, 0-1) vs. Boise State* (Vitamin X, 0-1) Florida* PM (Urban Warfare, 0-1) vs. Miami* (Spaceman Spiff, 0-1) LSU* PM (teke184, 0-1) vs. Washington* PM (Smues, 0-1) Week 2 Games to Make Picks For 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? Tiebreak #2: How many total yards (passing + rushing) will Florida's Tim Tebow have against Miami?

But Jim Rice was feared by pitchers, was Clark? Statistics can't tell you that! Now Clark was feared by the media as he had a personality like Jeff Kent which probably explains why he received almost no support for the HOF.

We actually had a tie for the top spot among second basemen between a current Hall of Famer and future Hall of Famer but the current one wins out per Win Shares Above Average as they played in six fewer games. Top 20 Second Baseman Seasons since 1979 (per Win Shares) 1. Ryne Sandberg, 1984 - Chicago Cubs 38.3 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 +--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+ 1984 24 CHC NL 156 636 114 200 36 19 19 84 32 7 52 101 .314 .367 .520 140 331 5 4 3 3 7 2. Craig Biggio, 1997 - Houston Astros 38.3 3. Roberto Alomar, 2001 - Cleveland Indians 37.4 4. Jeff Kent, 2000 - San Francisco Giants 36.9 5. Ryne Sandberg, 1991 - Chicago Cubs 36.6 6. Alfonso Soriano, 2000 - New York Yankees 35.5 7. Roberto Alomar, 1999 - Cleveland Indians 34.8 8. Craig Biggio, 1998 - Houston Astros 34.8 9. Roberto Alomar, 1992 - Toronto Blue Jays 34.2 10. Ryne Sandberg, 1990 - Chicago Cubs 33.8 11. Ryne Sandberg, 1992 - Chicago Cubs 33.1 12. Mark Loretta, 2004 - San Diego Padres 33.1 13. Craig Biggio, 1996 - Houston Astros 32.4 14. Bret Boone, 2001 - Seattle Mariners 31.7 15. Craig Biggio, 1992 - Houston Astros 31.7 16. Chuck Knoblauch, 1996 - Minnesota Twins 31.6 17. Robert Alomar, 1996 - Baltimore Orioles 31.2 18. Steve Sax, 1986 - Los Angeles Dodgers 30.8 19. Craig Biggio, 1999 - Houston Astros 30.7 20. Willie Randolph, 1980 - New York Yankees 30.5

God dammit. I'm still trying to memorize the new players for this year.

Time for the first rankings of the year. Again the preseason rankings were just their for the opening week and everyone starts from scratch. Now for the first week since obviously we have so many identical scores it leads to a lot of ties in the rankings so I do use the preseason rankings to break those ties. As already mentioned in the sign up thread, same BCS "formula" as last year (65% for W/L, 30% for Correct Pick%, 5% for "Strength of Schedule") and also again will have the "Other Receiving Votes" category which the teams ranked 11 to 14 in alphabetical order. Now it took a while last year for any CONTROVERSY~ but hey we got some in Week 1! 909 was the only player to score 11 points but he misses the top spot by an eyelash. Bored Championship Series Rankings thru Week 1 1. Buffalo - Carnival 1.35 2. Florida State - 909 1.4 3. Georgia Tech - iggymcfly 1.7 4. Ohio State - Gert T 1.7 5. Texas - Broward83 2.75 6. Ball State - Vampiro69 2.75 7. San Diego State - Next USC #55 3.0 8. N.C. State - AboveAverage484 3.8 9. Nebraska - Mecca 3.8 10. Fresno State - Agent Bond34 3.8 Other Receiving Votes: Arizona (UZI Suicide), Arizona State (still fly), Stanford (Bored), Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto)

Week 1 Results #2 N.C. State (AboveAverage484) 9, #1 South Carolina (Cuban Linx) 9; AboveAverage wins by tiebreak #6 Texas (Broward83) 10, #4 LSU (teke184) 7 #3 Nebraska (Mecca) 9, Florida (Urban Warfare) 9; Mecca wins by tiebreak #5 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 9, USC (Cartman) 8 Ball State (Vampiro69) 10, #7 Boise State (Vitamin X) 7 #8 Stanford (Bored) 9, Tulsa (Will Scarlet) 8 Boston College (HarleyQuinn) 7, #9 Kent State (JHawk) 6 Tennessee (Canadian Brandon) 9, #10 UCLA (phoenixrising) 6 Florida State (909) 11, Syracuse (CanadianChris) 9 Fresno State (Agent Bond34) 9, Rutgers (the pinjockey) 9; Agent wins by tiebreak San Diego State (Next USC #55) 10, Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34) 6 Georgia Tech (iggymcfly) 10, Michigan (MFerXtreme87) 9 Buffalo (Carnival) 10, UTEP (Angel Grace Blue) 10; Carnival wins by tiebreak Arizona (UZI Suicide) 9, Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 8 Arizona State (still fly) 9, Miami (Spaceman Spiff) 8 Ohio State (Gert T) 10, Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 9 Indiana (Tzar Lysergic) 8, Washington (Smues) 7 Washington State (MrRant) 7, Notre Dame (KingPK) 6 Kentucky (Danville Wrestling) 9, Illinois (The Monkey Man) 6 Navy (MarvinisaLunatic) 9, Georgia (Obi Chris Kenobi) 5

So uh, how 'bout that ACC? Yeesh.

The roof is starting to cave in on Utah. Michigan has no business being in this game but here we are.

At this point, I just want this season to end already.

Fact is Michigan just doesn't have the personnel to run the spread right now. They are very lucky this game hasn't gotten out of hand (yet) as this has been total domination by the Utes.

Hawaii wasn't going anywhere this year anyways as they were picked to finish 4th in the WAC. And another epic fail by the Waanstache. There goes any job security he earned from the West Virginia win.

Urban Warfare deserves recognition as being the only one man enough to pick ECU.

Okay this ECU/Va Tech game is officially awesome.

Ohio State's hopes of getting embarrassed in a third straight MNC game might have just taken a big hit as Beanie Wells had to be carried off the field with a foot or ankle injury and is now being carted to the locker room.

He won't qualify for the batting title anyways but he's in some "select" company for those DH's with a minimum of 330 plate appearances. Cnt Player **OPS+** PA Year Age Tm Lg G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Positions +----+-----------------+--------+---+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+ 1 Leroy Stanton 46 342 1978 32 SEA AL 93 302 24 55 11 0 3 24 34 1 80 1 3 2 6 1 0 .182 .265 .248 .513 *D7/9 2 Alan Wiggins 54 342 1987 29 BAL AL 85 306 37 71 4 2 1 15 28 0 34 1 6 1 6 20 7 .232 .298 .268 .566 *D4/7 3 Deron Johnson 57 389 1974 35 TOT AL 110 351 30 60 4 2 13 43 32 4 84 0 1 5 11 2 0 .171 .237 .305 .542 *D3 4 Ted Simmons 61 532 1984 34 MIL AL 132 497 44 110 23 2 4 52 30 3 40 3 1 1 23 3 0 .221 .269 .300 .569 *D35 5 Ken Singleton 62 403 1984 37 BAL AL 111 363 28 78 7 1 6 36 37 5 60 0 1 2 20 0 0 .215 .286 .289 .575 *D 6 George Bell 63 436 1993 33 CHW AL 102 410 36 89 17 2 13 64 13 2 49 4 0 9 14 1 1 .217 .243 .363 .606 *D 7 Chris James 63 463 1991 28 CLE AL 115 437 31 104 16 2 5 41 18 2 61 4 2 2 9 3 4 .238 .273 .318 .591 *D793 8 Jose Vidro 65 330 2008 33 SEA AL 85 308 28 72 11 0 7 45 18 2 36 0 2 2 5 2 1 .234 .274 .338 .612 *D/3 9 Rondell White 66 355 2006 34 MIN AL 99 337 32 83 17 1 7 38 11 2 54 4 0 3 11 1 1 .246 .276 .365 .641 *D7 10 Carl Everett 72 343 2006 35 SEA AL 92 308 37 70 8 0 11 33 29 2 57 3 0 3 7 1 3 .227 .297 .360 .657 *D/79

That the SEC's dick will crush us all? When the various preseason Top 25's came out, The Fighting Wannstache's stuck out like a sore thumb and they still do as they are tied with Bowling Green at the half. Edit: Damn Sportsline. Okay they're up 17-14.