CanadianChris

HE'S GONNA PUKE! HE'S GONNA PUKE! HE'S GONNA PUUUUUUUKE!!!

Looks like we were wrong on both counts. Bills won, and Losman ended up with 341 yards passing. I NEVER thought they could come up with that game-winning drive.

Just like last year.

Looks like it's down to USC and Michigan for the #2 spot. I don't see Florida jumping over Michigan under any circumstances.

Yeah, but four years? I'll have to wait to see what the dollar figures are, but you have to wonder whether he'll be worth whatever he was signed for by the end of the deal.

Geez, that was a shockingly bad pick 6 in the Buffalo game, even by Losman standards. How do you stand on your own goal line and throw a pass that stupid?

Shit, I thought I took Cleveland.

I bet he doesn't make 300 for the day.

Yeah, I don't know how you can brag about the West when the Central Division is there. Worst division in hockey.

Justin Speier is now a Los Angeles Angel of Anaheim California. Somehow, he got a four-year deal (he's 33).

Ohhhhhhhhhh, I see what you did there. Really cute.

And Navy is going to the Meineke Car Care (ugh) Bowl. New coaches' poll: 1. Ohio State 2. USC 3. Michigan 4. Florida 5. Arkansas 6. Notre Dame 7. West Virginia 8. LSU 9. Wisconsin 10. Texas 11. Louisville 12. Boise State 13. Auburn 14. Oklahoma 15. Georgia Tech 16. Rutgers 17. Virginia Tech 18. Boston College 19. Nebraska 20. Wake Forest 21. Tennessee 22. California 23. BYU 24. Clemson 25. Hawaii Michigan and USC are separated by only 16 points in the poll. Florida is 21 points behind Michigan.

I cannot believe, out of nine channels showing early games, my only choices are Pats/Packers and Bills/Texans.

I think that game showed that they desperately miss Shawne Merriman more than anything. A team that's stronger mentally than Cincinnati (not to mention defensively) would have handled the Chargers easily last week. I don't see them going into Denver and doing what they did to Cincinnati against the league's top-ranked scoring defence.

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Looks like heartbreak for Syracuse for the third straight year. At least I kept my top-10 streak alive. 26 weeks and counting, I think.

Cal can start making plans for the Holiday Bowl now.

Even though Rutgers' national title aspirations are gone, they will still win the Big East if they win out. Although I don't see how they're going to beat West Virginia on the road if they can't even be competitive against Cincinnati on the road.

1996, one-loss Florida and unbeaten Florida State (who gave Florida that loss) met in what became the de-facto national title game after Ohio State beat previously-unbeaten Arizona State in the Rose Bowl. Florida won and was voted champs by both polls, so, yes such logic does apply. Thanks, I'd totally forgotten this had happened before.

Speaking of rematches being dull, if this happens, not only would OSU and Michigan likely play a rematch in the national title game in that situation, there would also be a very good chance of USC and Notre Dame playing a rematch in the Rose Bowl. Maybe just the low ratings for the two premiere games under that scenario would be enough to finally get a playoff. There is no way that Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl or an OSU/UM rematch would draw low ratings.

Geez, what did we ever do to you?

27-3 Cincinnati. Strike all Rutgers discussion from this thread.

Awesome win against the Sabres tonight. Emery kept them from getting blown out early when it seemed the first 10 minutes were played entirely in the Sens' end. And the power play came back to life tonight. Now, if they can do the same thing against the Wild Monday, maybe they'll have turned the corner. They need to put together a nice win streak pretty soon, though -- they've only had one winning streak all year.

This is an upset, but it's not exactly a shocker. Cincinnati's got a pretty good team. They managed to hang with Ohio State for about a half before their inevitable defeat, and they looked pretty good.

Putting it mildly. They should be down a hell of a lot more than 3.