This Week in College Football 10/7 - 10/9

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National television schedule for this week. One ABC regional time slot but the Oklahoma/Texas game is nationally televised. SIX games between Top 25 teams this week with the top two teams in the polls involved in the two biggest games, although only 25% of the country will get to see Cal/USC.

 

THURSDAY

Houston at Southern Miss, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2

Clemson at #10 Virginia, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN

 

FRIDAY

UNLV at BYU, 10:00 PM/7:00 PM, ESPN2

 

SATURDAY

#2 Oklahoma vs. #5 Texas, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC

#13 Minnesota at #14 Michigan, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN (or ESPN Classic)

Illinois at Michigan State, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2 - PREEMPTED

 

Stanford at Notre Dame, 2:30 PM/11:30 AM, NBC

#17 Tennessee at #3 Georgia, 3:30 PM/12:30 PM, CBS

#7 California at #1 USC, 3:30 PM/12:30 PM, ABC*

#15 Wisconsin at #18 Ohio State, 3:30 PM/12:30 PM, ABC*

#22 Oklahoma State at Colorado, 3:30 PM/12:30 PM, ABC*

Georgia Tech at #23 Maryland, 3:30 PM/12:30 PM, ABC*

#9 Purdue at Penn State, 4:30 PM/1:30 PM, ESPN

 

Arizona at UCLA, 6:30 PM/3:30 PM, FSN

#8 Florida State at Syracuse, 7:00 PM/4:00 PM, ESPN2

Nebraska at Texas Tech, 7:00 PM/4:00 PM, TBS

#24 LSU at #12 Florida, 7:45 PM/4:45 PM, ESPN

 

Missouri at Baylor, 10:00 PM/7:00 PM, FSN

[Guest Coffey]

Well, Notre Dame is at home against Stanford. They've beat Michigan this year too, so they have a good chance. Hopefully they can recover from the massacre that was Purdue.

[Damaramu 0]

God damn OSU/Colorado game! I want USC/Cal!

 

Oh and a lot of people seem to be believing Texas will win this year b/c OU doesn't blow people out by 60 points every game. Our offense is different but still deadly. Rather than outscore you by 60 we outscore you by 14-28 and possess the ball for 75% of the game. We make your defense tired and demoralized.

Plus according to a sports writer from Austin that I heard on the radio station the Texas fans and players all think they already lost. They're like "Ok....hopefully we can stay in the BCS after the OU game....."

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Michigan will face a tough test against a very good Minnesota team. I can easily see Big Blue losing but we rarely lose at home to any schools not named Notre Dame or Ohio State. Hopefully they continue the streak of not losing at home since I have been at student. I say Michigan 23 Minnesota 17

Hell while I am at it i will pick all the big games:

#2 Oklahoma vs. #5 Texas- Texas 31 Oklahoma 30

#17 Tennessee at #3 Georgia- Tennessee 20 Georgia 14

#7 California at #1 USC- USC 42 Cal 31

#15 Wisconsin at #18 Ohio State- Ohio State 14 Wisconsin 10

#24 LSU at #12 Florida- Florida 27 LSU 9

 

 

Does anyone know if USC-Cal will be nationally televised or just west coast because I will get back from the Michigan game in time to see the 3:30 games and thats the one I really want to see

[Damaramu 0]

I'm gonna say it right now......Texas cannot win a close game against OU. B/c they don't have the big play makers against us and there coach can't do it.

They either blow us out or lose to us. They won't win a close one.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Oh and a lot of people seem to be believing Texas will win this year b/c OU doesn't blow people out by 60 points every game.

Who's saying that? I haven't seen a single sports mag or site make that pick. Everyone's saying Texas won't get trounced as badly this year, but that's a no-brainer: it's awfully hard to be trounced by more than 52 points.

 

It should be a fun weekend for the Big Ten, with the two mid-teens matchups sorting pretenders from contenders. They were probably the two hardest picks for me to make in Bored's contest. Minnesota seems to play a very similar style of football as my beloved Cavaliers, so I'm looking forward to checking them out this Saturday.

[therealworldschampion 0]

I believe the West Coast and New York areas get the USC/Cal game

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Here's the ABC coverage map:

 

http://espn.go.com/i/abcsports/maps/2004/c...9_04_330new.pdf

[Crimson Platypus 0]

I can see U of M losing this week. They seem to be a talented team that is currently without direction right now. Add to that the fact that they have a terrible head coach and a freshman QB, and I just don't see them beating a pretty good Minnesota team this week.

 

God I hope my Spartans beat Illinois, if not the wins are gonna be real hard to come by with Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota coming up. Ugh..

[lomasmoney 0]

Yeah Michigan has a horrible head coach who has won 77 percent of his games, five 10 win seasons, 4 conference titles, and one national title. If thats a terrible coach, I want to see a good one.

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Programming note, if there is a baseball playoff game Saturday the Minnesota/Michigan game will be televised on ESPN Classic. Why don't they just move that game to ESPN2 and the pointless Illinois/Michigan State game to ESPN Classic? I have ESPN Classic but I still don't think it's available on basic cable in most areas.

[Guest bigm350]

I see Michigan losing one more game this season; at Purdue. Other than that I think they'll sweep the table.

[lomasmoney 0]

Programming note, if there is a baseball playoff game Saturday the Minnesota/Michigan game will be televised on ESPN Classic. Why don't they just move that game to ESPN2 and the pointless Illinois/Michigan State game to ESPN Classic? I have ESPN Classic but I still don't think it's available on basic cable in most areas.

I could care less what channel the game is shown on since I will be there, the State-Illinois game shouldnt even be on TV. But why cant they show one of the baseball games on FOX.

[Crimson Platypus 0]

Yeah Michigan has a horrible head coach who has won 77 percent of his games, five 10 win seasons, 4 conference titles, and one national title. If thats a terrible coach, I want to see a good one.

1. 10 win seasons mean nothing.

2. 77% of his games means nothing.

3. Conference titles mean nothing.

4. His one national title was with an inherited team.

 

 

The thing is, the guy can recruit like gangbusters, but couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. With the talent that UofM has year in and year out they should ALWAYS be contending for a National Title. No one gives a shit about conference titles, winning games is great and all but in the end if you don't win it all you are still just a loser. UofM should have higher standards than a Bi1g 10 title, the school is a football factory and yet their so called great coach has 1 title?

[Crimson Platypus 0]

One other thing, you want to see a good coach, look at Nick Saban. Personally he's an ass, but the guy can coach, recruit, you name it. Look what he did to MSU while he was there. How long did it take for him to win a Title at LSU. THAT'S a good coach.

[Damaramu 0]

Oh and a lot of people seem to be believing Texas will win this year b/c OU doesn't blow people out by 60 points every game.

Who's saying that? I haven't seen a single sports mag or site make that pick. Everyone's saying Texas won't get trounced as badly this year, but that's a no-brainer: it's awfully hard to be trounced by more than 52 points.

 

It should be a fun weekend for the Big Ten, with the two mid-teens matchups sorting pretenders from contenders. They were probably the two hardest picks for me to make in Bored's contest. Minnesota seems to play a very similar style of football as my beloved Cavaliers, so I'm looking forward to checking them out this Saturday.

Actually it seems to be people in the Oklahoma area for some reason saying this.; Not like OU fans but like radio personalities and people in newspapers. Plus of course Texas fans.

But ESPN maintains that OU will win.

 

The thing is though that Cedric Benson is going to have to rush against our line and linebackers. Something I don't think he can do. Then Mr. Running QB Vince Young is going to have to take that ball and throw it to Freshman wide recievers against our Senior Secondary. He'll get picked more than once if he starts throwing it. And I think if he or Benson runs with it to much they're going to lose it eventually. Hell Young couldn't hold onto it against Baylor.

Second of all they brought in a new defensive coordinator to shut down our pass game. They said they wanted to get a zone coverage out there in the field like we have against them. Problem is they got this all on the off season expecting our offense to be one dimensional like it was last season. We went out and found a kid by the name of Adrian Peterson. So even if they can shut White down(which they can't completely)they still have Peterson running it down there throats. Not to mention that they aren't going to be able to get to White like past teams have b/c now he can move and the offensive line is one of the best in the country. There defensive line is going to be dominated.

Then there's also the fact that we've had a very vanilla offense so far(and still averaging 40.5 ppg). Which Bob Stoops never has. The guys on ESPN are predicting we're hiding our full offense from Texas and I tend to agree. Hell Bob Stoops even said "we haven't shown half of our offense. We haven't even used any trick plays." Sounds to me like Texas is going to be watching film of our games this season and then get blown away when we come out with something they've never seen before which I fully expect us to do.

Then we're also in there heads. The vibe from Austin is "When we get through with this hopefully we'll still be in the BCS" these guys are already whipped mentally! Mack Brown is whipped mentally! The first time they turn that ball over they're going to lose morale big time.

Also I don't think they have the playmakers. We have Mark Clayton and Jason White. When we're in a tough bind I think they'll be able to pull it out. I don't think Texas has someone that can pull there ass out of the fire like that last minute.

 

This game is looking good for us.

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Houston/Southern Miss loooking like it's heading to overtime.

 

Virginia, possibly looking ahead to Florida State next week, getting a tougher game than expected against Clemson although pretty much have the game in hand now.

[Damaramu 0]

God Saturday! GET HERE! I want to beat those god damn Longhorns and be done with it so we can move onto getting cocky and then knocked off our horse by A&M or something!

[lomasmoney 0]

Yeah Michigan has a horrible head coach  who has won 77 percent of his games,  five 10 win seasons, 4 conference titles, and one national title.  If thats a terrible coach,  I want to see a good one.

1. 10 win seasons mean nothing.

2. 77% of his games means nothing.

3. Conference titles mean nothing.

4. His one national title was with an inherited team.

 

 

The thing is, the guy can recruit like gangbusters, but couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. With the talent that UofM has year in and year out they should ALWAYS be contending for a National Title. No one gives a shit about conference titles, winning games is great and all but in the end if you don't win it all you are still just a loser. UofM should have higher standards than a Bi1g 10 title, the school is a football factory and yet their so called great coach has 1 title?

Well then most of the accomplishments of all but about 7 or so coaches mean nothing beacause there arent 7 more accomplished coaches in college football than Lloyd Carr.

[lomasmoney 0]

Houston/Southern Miss loooking like it's heading to overtime.

 

Virginia, possibly looking ahead to Florida State next week, getting a tougher game than expected against Clemson although pretty much have the game in hand now.

you might just be the cockiest fan ever

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Yeah, I can't believe this guy is bitching about only one national title in nine years, as if it's just assumed that Michigan should win multiple national championships in that time period. Do you know many coaches have two titles in that time? One. It was Tom Osborne, and it sure took him a hell of a lot longer to build Nebraska into a power, then it did for Lloyd Carr to pick up a title in Michigan.

 

Oh, and since this dipshit's apparently so up on Michigan football history, how many titles did Michigan have in the ten years before Carr took over? Or the twenty years before? Or the forty years before? The answer's one less than they did with Carr or zero.

 

When a guy takes over a program, leads them to a national championship within three years, and then keeps them among the absolute elite, winning a title in a BCS conference nearly half the time, no one should be bitching. Apparently, Crimson Platypus might as well stick to baseball and become a Yankees fan, because that's about the only team in all of sports that will satisfy the ridiculous win quotient that (s)he's looking for.

[lomasmoney 0]

Yeah, I can't believe this guy is bitching about only one national title in nine years, as if it's just assumed that Michigan should win multiple national championships in that time period. Do you know many coaches have two titles in that time? One. It was Tom Osborne, and it sure took him a hell of a lot longer to build Nebraska into a power, then it did for Lloyd Carr to pick up a title in Michigan.

 

Oh, and since this dipshit's apparently so up on Michigan football history, how many titles did Michigan have in the ten years before Carr took over? Or the twenty years before? Or the forty years before? The answer's one less than they did with Carr or zero.

 

When a guy takes over a program, leads them to a national championship within three years, and then keeps them among the absolute elite, winning a title in a BCS conference nearly half the time, no one should be bitching. Apparently, Crimson Platypus might as well stick to baseball and become a Yankees fan, because that's about the only team in all of sports that will satisfy the ridiculous win quotient that (s)he's looking for.

Thank You

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Houston/Southern Miss loooking like it's heading to overtime.

 

Virginia, possibly looking ahead to Florida State next week, getting a tougher game than expected against Clemson although pretty much have the game in hand now.

you might just be the cockiest fan ever

Bored? Cocky? No way

 

Now Dama, on the other hand...

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City wants to stage Big East-MAC showdown

 

Associated Press

TORONTO -- A plan to bid for a college football bowl game here next year won support Thursday from a committee of the Toronto Council.

 

 

A U.S.-based group, Sports World Interactive, wants to stage a game between teams from the Big East and Mid-America conferences at SkyDome in December 2005.

 

 

"One of the key economic benefits is the broadcast contract of the bowl game," said Duncan Ross, executive director of Tourism Toronto. "This will be seen by millions in the U.S.A., and perhaps some of those people will be introduced to Toronto for the first time."

 

 

The economic development and parks committee, hearing estimates that the game could pump as much as $20 million into the local economy, decided to endorse the bid and send a representative to the NCAA's event-certification meeting next April.

 

 

The city's support doesn't leave it open to any financial obligations, because Sports World Interactive has to acquire the TV deal, SkyDome contract, teams and sponsors, Ross said.

 

 

"We're just simply endorsing it and allowing the city to be hosting the event," committee chairman Brian Ashton said. "It's all managed, and all the risks are with the NCAA and the promoting company."

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A Big East/MAC showdown? Line up for Rutgers/Akron, everybody!

 

Some thoughts on last nights Virginia game, which I was fortunate enough to attend along with 62,000 of my nearest and dearest: wahoo-wa, bitches. Clemson came out big and went 80 yards for a score in the first 3 minutes of the game, and then we held them to 130 yards for the 57 remaining minutes. 30-10 indeed. Alvin Pearman looked great, making the big slashing runs that Wali Lundy seemed to have trouble with early in the game.

 

For Clemson, Whitehurst looked much better than he has this season - for the first half, at least. He was nothing in the second half, throwing the ball away and eventually knocking his interception count up to 11. I was a bit disappointed that our d-line wasn't able to put him on the ground, but ultimately it didn't matter, as the pass coverage was great and even his completions rarely went for more than 7 or 8 yards. Poor Clemson seems to be more talented than that 1-4 record, but they're caught in a rough spot: going big has result in 15 turnovers on the season, and last night they showed that they can't do anything with conservative playcalling. Had they kept coming with risky bombs like the 56-yard route they managed on the first drive, they might have had a chance, but in a trench war, it was all Cavs. Bring on the 'Noles.

[Damaramu 0]

Houston/Southern Miss loooking like it's heading to overtime.

 

Virginia, possibly looking ahead to Florida State next week, getting a tougher game than expected against Clemson although pretty much have the game in hand now.

you might just be the cockiest fan ever

Bored? Cocky? No way

 

Now Dama, on the other hand...

Now how is saying that we're probably going to get upset later in the season by A&M being cocky?

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Hey now, you have a reputation to live up to

[Damaramu 0]

Hey now, you have a reputation to live up to

Oh sorry.....I mean.....BOOMER SOONER!

[Crimson Platypus 0]

Yeah, I can't believe this guy is bitching about only one national title in nine years, as if it's just assumed that Michigan should win multiple national championships in that time period. Do you know many coaches have two titles in that time? One. It was Tom Osborne, and it sure took him a hell of a lot longer to build Nebraska into a power, then it did for Lloyd Carr to pick up a title in Michigan.

 

Oh, and since this dipshit's apparently so up on Michigan football history, how many titles did Michigan have in the ten years before Carr took over? Or the twenty years before? Or the forty years before? The answer's one less than they did with Carr or zero.

 

When a guy takes over a program, leads them to a national championship within three years, and then keeps them among the absolute elite, winning a title in a BCS conference nearly half the time, no one should be bitching. Apparently, Crimson Platypus might as well stick to baseball and become a Yankees fan, because that's about the only team in all of sports that will satisfy the ridiculous win quotient that (s)he's looking for.

Thank You

What exactly are you thanking him for? I merely pointed out that despite the raging arrogance of UofM fans (most of whom have absolutely no affiliation with the school, not that either of you don't, are you students?) their coach is nothing to be excited about. Of course that's my admittedly biased opinion coming from a Spartan Alum.

 

 

Oh and by the way, the whole dipshit thing is completely unnecessary. I won't now and never will rise to flamebaiting.

[Damaramu 0]

This Page2 article is hilarious.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=bayless/041008

 

If Texas is forced to throw on Saturday, remember the Alamo.

 

HAHAHA! It's true though.......