This week in College Football 11/9 - 11/13

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Sorry but Tuesday is just way too early in the week for football.

 

National television schedule for this week. Annoying three time slot, two games for ABC this week. West Coast gets the afternoon Utah game and the rest of the country is split between the two early games.

 

Again this week all discussion of the Oklahoma/Nebraska game should go in the OaO Oklahoma Football Thread.

 

BCS bids on the line this week with Georgia/Auburn and Miami/Virginia. I really have no idea why Boise State/San Jose State is being played at 9 in the morning on the west coast and on national television to boot. Must be some gimmick.

 

TUESDAY

Toledo at Northern Illinois, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN2

 

WEDNESDAY

TCU at #14 Louisville, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2

 

THURSDAY

#12 Florida State at N.C. State, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN

 

FRIDAY

Southern Miss at Memphis, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN2

Hawaii at Fresno State, 10:30/7:30 PM, ESPN

 

SATURDAY

#23 Boston College at #13 West Virginia, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC*

Northwestern at #9 Michigan, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC*

#20 Iowa at Minnesota, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN

#10 Boise State at San Jose State, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2

#6 Texas at Kansas, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, FSN

 

Pittsburgh at #25 Notre Dame, 2:30 PM/11:30 AM, NBC

#8 Georgia at #3 Auburn, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBS

#17 Miami at #11 Virginia, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC*

#5 Wisconsin at Michigan State, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC*

Texas Tech at #21 Texas A&M, 3:30/12:30 PM ABC*

UCLA at Oregon, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC*

Ohio State at Purdue, 3:30/12:30 PM, ESPN

 

#7 Utah at Wyoming, 7:00/4:00 PM, ABC*

South Carolina at Florida, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2

Nebraska at #2 Oklahoma, 7:00/4:00 PM, FSN

Washington State at #16 Arizona State, 7:00/4:00 PM, TBS

Alabama at #19 LSU, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN

 

Arizona at #1 USC, 10:15/7:15 PM, FSN

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Toledo beats Northern Illinois 31-17. I didn't even realize NIU was ranked in the Coaches poll. I was big on the MAC bandwagon last year but no team in that conference this year should be ranked. They have several solid teams but it's simply not as strong at the top as it was last year.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Bowling Green is a pretty good team but that's about it for good MAC teams. Marshall was looking good until those non-conference teams started sucking.

[cabbageboy 0]

Tomorrow U of L completes the trifecta of revenge on last year's losses (well assuming we never get to play Miami of OH again soon). Already smashed S. Florida, edged Memphis last week, and now TCU. I hope this one isn't pretty.

 

Am I the only one who thinks Wisconsin could go down this week at MSU? State has played well at times this year.

[Guest Leena]

I really have no idea why Boise State/San Jose State is being played at 9 in the morning on the west coast and on national television to boot. Must be some gimmick.

 

The Blue Turf Bowl (sorry for not knowing the real name), began at 8:30am before.

 

That's the only bowl I really give a shit about.

 

Nothing better than watching the WAC champ play some pathetic 6-6 team.

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Toledo beats Northern Illinois 31-17. I didn't even realize NIU was ranked in the Coaches poll. I was big on the MAC bandwagon last year but no team in that conference this year should be ranked. They have several solid teams but it's simply not as strong at the top as it was last year.

Joe Novak is an idiot. I'm glad I didn't bother going.

[nogoodnick 0]

I could see MSU sneaking up on Wisconson this week. They have been playing well lately even in their losses.

[Der Kommissar 0]

I really have no idea why Boise State/San Jose State is being played at 9 in the morning on the west coast and on national television to boot. Must be some gimmick.

 

I read something about this a few weeks back. It has something to do with television conflicts, if I remember correctly.

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Does Louisville ever play on the weekends? What is this, like their 4th weeknight game in a row?

[cabbageboy 0]

It's the perks of being in a 2nd rate conference like C-USA. The only national TV games they can get are on weeknights. And since U of L is essentially the only program in C-USA football that has any potential of drawing money, they usually get stuck with these shitty Wednesday or Thursday games.

 

Thankfully next year U of L joins the Big East and given the overall mediocrity of that league I'd say a BCS birth is in the cards. I'm maybe worried about West Virginia, always wondered why U of L never played them more after that awesome game in 1993.

[iggymcfly 0]

I'd think Louisvilee has to be considered a strong favorite to win the Big East next year. They'll have 7 returning starters on offense, 6 returning starters on defense, as well as a likely improvement at QB with Brian Brohm.

 

Just looking at how much better Louisville is than W. Virginia right now, I'd say there's a really good chance that they should get their automatic BCS berth next year.

[Guest MikeSC]

No discussion of the increasing rumbles of the Univ. of S. Carolina being the next destination of Steve Spurrier as Lou Holtz has all but said he's going to retire (and on his radio show, even mentioned Spurrier as a successor).

 

Can ANYBODY shoot these rumors down?

-=Mike

[cabbageboy 0]

I've heard the Spurrier to SC stuff as well, but for whatever reason I can't see this happening. I think NC's coach may have saved his job by beating Miami, but who knows.

 

I'd kinda like to see UK make a run at Spurrier. It's a given that Rich Brooks is going to be fired big time after the likely 1-10 disaster. Only real problem is that he'd always been #2 at UK to basketball, whereas at SC he really wouldn't be. UK at least has a history of running Spurrier's style of offense under Hal Mumme, so it won't be as anachronistic as doing a fun n' gun with bone and club South Carolina.

 

And yes, as I predicted U of L nuked TCU tonight. Frankly I wish it had been worse than it was (55-28). After TCU beating us 3 straight I was wanting an absolute maiming tonight, particularly since they ran it up on us a couple of years ago.

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I'd kinda like to see UK make a run at Spurrier. It's a given that Rich Brooks is going to be fired big time after the likely 1-10 disaster. Only real problem is that he'd always been #2 at UK to basketball, whereas at SC he really wouldn't be. UK at least has a history of running Spurrier's style of offense under Hal Mumme, so it won't be as anachronistic as doing a fun n' gun with bone and club South Carolina.

The state of Kentucky would like to see anything but Rich Brooks at this point. But we're in it for the long haul, as Mitch Barnhartt (or however you spell his name) has said that Brooks will be around for at least one more season. On the one hand I agree, as it takes more than two seasons on probation to fix a program. Then on the other hand losing to Ohio, Miss. State and most likely Vanderbilt sucks.

 

During the Mumme/Couch era (oh how the once mighty have fallen) Kentucky fans cared. Football wasn’t just something for us to bitch about until basketball started. Now granted it wasn't at the level of basketball, but it was actually a challenge to get seats. In the highly unlikely event that Spurrier comes to Lexington, I bet we would care again.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

The UK coach should've been fired for losing to Ohio. You can make the Ohio team by knowing what a football likes at this point.

[Guest Ether]

In a few minutes I will being heading out to South Bend to watch Pitt play Notre Dame. I've been looking forward to this since I got the tickets.

 

Should be fun regardless of the outcome.

[therealworldschampion 0]

That Auburn/Georgia matchup is going to be one hell of a game. I won't be able to see it or any football this weekend(camping trip) which does kinda suck.

[snuffbox 0]

Am I the only one who thinks Wisconsin could go down this week at MSU? State has played well at times this year.

And if Wisconsin wins like every other game...will it be called another win over a shitty team on Sunday?

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Over 1200 yards in last Thursday night's game between Louisville and Memphis. This week Florida State and N.C. State have combined for 135 yards in the first half. Lee Corso sounds like he wants to kill himself. Wolfpack up 10-0.

[Damaramu 0]

This is what I am wondering. From watching ESPN they keep saying "Will OU or Auburn play USC in the title game?"

my question is......why does it have to be USC in the title game? Sure they may not lose again but out of the 3 teams fighting for the title game they've played the weakest schedule out of the 3 and they've struggled the most(they struggled in 3 games and 2 of them were against unranked opponents) OU played 4 teams ranked in the Top 25 and came back on the road against a Top 25 team in one of the toughest places in the country and beat hated rival OSU on the road. Plus they only really struggled to win in 1 game.

Auburn meanwhile blew out Tennessee and only struggled in one game against LSU.

 

So WHY is USC automatically in the title game? They are the least impressive of the 3 teams. Is it b/c they're a media darling and were #1 at the beginning of the season?

If things continued with all 3 being undefeated and USC having struggles against ND and UCLA then why should they be in the title game? Auburn and OU would probably just whip their ass anyways based off the way USC has played.

[iggymcfly 0]

God damn it. How many times do we have to go over this. USC has obviously played a tougher schedule than Oklahoma, and been more impressive doing it. Cal's been better than Texas this year, Virginia Tech's much better than OSU, and ASU's better than A&M. In addition, USC blew out ASU with a 42-7 lead at the half, while Oklahoma was one play from losing to both OSU and Texas A&M.

 

Also, USC's still got a tough game left against Notre Dame, while Oklahoma's toughest game left will be the Big 12 championship against some 6-5 team from the North. Right now, USC has the best wins of any undefeated team in the country.

[Damaramu 0]

No....I don't think those teams you listed are better. Put ASU and A&M on a neutral field and A&M would eat them for lunch.

Same with VT and OSU.

The only one I will give you is Cal b/c I think they're better than USC.

[cabbageboy 0]

USC's the defending champions, halfway anyway. If they go undefeated they have to be in the title game. That's just reality.

 

As far as Wisconsin goes, yeah if they beat MSU then people will say they beat another shitty team. The Big 10 is full of shitty teams this year. Wisconsin is kinda like Purdue in basketball: They only win the Big 10 when it sucks ass. If they get by MSU then I think Iowa can take them down and Michigan will win the conference. One less headache for the BCS, heh.

[Guest]

If it were up to me, and it's not, I'd like to see Cal play Oklahoma. But it won't happen.

[Damaramu 0]

USC has been less impressive all season.

Auburn plays in the toughest conference in the country.

OU plays in the toughest division in college football. And before you say anything the Big XII south is the toughest division b/c 5 of the 6 teams in it are ranked in the Top 25.

 

Auburn has struggled once against a good LSU team.

OU has struggled twice ON THE ROAD against rivals who are ranked in the Top 25.

 

USC has struggled FOUR TIMES against teams they should be eating for lunch(with the exception of Cal).

 

Why does USC get the free pass? They shouldn't. If they struggle against UCLA and ND and OU and Auburn roll over their remaining opponents then the national title game should be OU and Auburn and their is no arguing that b/c USC has not looked like a national title contender all year.

 

The only team that has consistently looked good is Auburn. However OU hasn't looked as bad as USC.

[Guest bigm350]

I really don't think Wisconsin's all that great. They're good, but I'd pick Michigan to beat them. Too bad they're not playing this year.

[iggymcfly 0]

Beating the #15 team in the country on the road by 11 isn't exactly the kind of "struggling" I think that a team should be punished for. If anything, I think that's the kind of solid win that should be rewarded.

 

Also, even though the Beavers were up at half, USC did get them under control, taking a 15 point lead, and not letting them even get back within one possession until there were under four minutes remaining.

 

If you want to hold the undefeateds to that high of a standard, Oklahoma also "struggled" against Texas and Kansas State, and should be punished accordingly.

 

As for Auburn, yes they play in a tough conference, but that doesn't mean that they've necessarily played the toughest schedule. They still have yet to play the best team in the conference (Georgia), and they managed to miss some pretty good teams in Florida and South Carolina too.

 

So far, out of Auburn's nine wins, five of them have been against cupcakes (UL Monroe, Mississippi St., The Citadel, La. Tech, and Kentucky).

 

This is a point that really isn't worth arguing, because I think it will be proven true this Saturday when they get exposed by the Bulldogs, but Auburn hasn't proven themselves at the same level as USC or even Oklahoma thus far.

[Damaramu 0]

Yes OU did play a tougher non-conference schedule than Auburn.

But my point is that USC hasn't exactly blown everyone away to the point where they should be automatically considered in the title game.

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Dama please go back to your cage for the rest of the weekend.

 

Fresno State up 49-0 on Hawaii at halftime. You know Pat Hill is the type of coach that I wouldn't put it past him to try to run the score up to 100.

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Dama please go back to your cage for the rest of the weekend.

 

Fresno State up 49-0 on Hawaii at halftime. You know Pat Hill is the type of coach that I wouldn't put it past him to try to run the score up to 100.

Kiss my ass. I'm talking about Auburn and USC and the National Title picture. I'll post in this thread.