This Week in College Football 11/8 - 11/12

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Network/Basic Cable Schedule

 

TUESDAY

Southern Miss at Marshall, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2

 

WEDNESDAY

#14 West Virginia at Cincinnati, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2

 

THURSDAY

Boise State at #22 Fresno State, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN

 

FRIDAY

Rutgers at #25 Louisville, 8:00/5:00 PM, ESPN2

 

SATURDAY

Northwestern at #8 Ohio State, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC*

Texas A&M at Oklahoma, Noon/9:00 AM, ABC*

#19 Florida State at Clemson, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN

Indiana at #21 Michigan, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2

Navy at #11 Notre Dame, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, NBC

 

#7 LSU at #3 Alabama, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBS

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

Kansas at #2 Texas, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC*

#4 Miami at Wake Forest, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC*

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

Iowa at #16 Wisconsin, 3:30/12:30 PM, ESPN

 

Arizona State at #15 UCLA, 7:00/4:00 PM, ABC*

#18 Colorado at Iowa State, 7:00/4:00 PM, FSN

N.C. State at Boston College, 7:15/4:15 PM, ESPN2

#20 Auburn at #9 Georgia, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN

 

#10 Oregon at Washington State, 10:15/7:15 PM, FSN

 

Other Cable/PPV Games

 

SATURDAY

Michigan State at #24 Minnesota, Noon/9:00 AM, GamePlan

Massachusetts at Army, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPNU

Illinois at Purdue, Noon/9:00 AM, GamePlan

Maryland at North Carolina, Noon/9:00 AM, JP*

#13 Florida at South Carolina, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, JP*

Memphis at Tennessee, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, GamePlan

San Diego State at Colorado State, 3:00 PM/Noon, GamePlan

Central Florida at UAB, 4:00/1:00 PM, CSTV

Louisiana Tech at Idaho, 5:00/2:00 PM, GamePlan

BYU at Wyoming, 6:00/3:00 PM, GamePlan

New Mexico at Utah, 6:30/3:30 PM, GamePlan

Florida International at Louisiana-Lafayette, 7:00/4:00 PM, GamePlan

Utah State at Hawaii, 11:05/8:05 PM, GamePlan

 

All Other Division I-A Games

 

SATURDAY

Connecticut at Pittsburgh

Buffalo at Kent State

Louisiana-Monroe at Middle Tennessee State

North Texas at Florida Atlantic

South Florida at Syracuse

Baylor at Missouri

Arkansas at Mississippi

Kansas State at Nebraska

#12 Texas Tech at Oklahoma State

Kentucky at Vanderbilt

Central Michigan at Western Michigan

East Carolina at Tulsa

Tulane at Rice

Nevada at New Mexico State

Washington at Arizona

Ball State at Eastern Michigan

Stanford at Oregon State

Troy at Arkansas State

UNLV at #17 TCU

Texas Southern at UTEP

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Hey Iggy, Harrison is finally getting some Heisman love over at espn.

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What is it about Miami running backs tearing up their knees? Gore, McGahee, Gore again, and now Moss.

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Not relating to this week, but people in South Carolina will only be able to see the Clemson/South Carolina game at Williams-Brice or on PPV. First time it hasn't been on free TV since 1986. Bullshit, I say. Criminally underrated rivalry. Speaking of Carolina, who gives a Spurrier a chance of beating his old team? This whole state'll explode if he does. People were tearfully calling their friends to rejoice beating Tennessee a couple'a weeks ago (I saw it myself), so imagine if they beat fuckin' Florida. They've been even less beatable than the Vols in that Carolina never even plays the Gators close.

 

Tennessee hopefully beats Memphis. I never thought I'd be typing that.

 

LSU/Alabama's gonna be awesome to watch, I looooooove power football. I also give Auburn a better than fighting chance to beat Georgia.

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Just bumping this with a fun Boise State/Fresno State going on and since the thread was almost near the bottom of the page.

[Urban Warfare 0]

I just read on ESPN.com that the Alabama-LSU game is on ABC at 3:30. Seeing how CBS has the rights to the SEC, is this just a typo?

[CanadianChris 0]

I just read on ESPN.com that the Alabama-LSU game is on ABC at 3:30. Seeing how CBS has the rights to the SEC, is this just a typo?

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Yes. LSU-Alabama is the only game on CBS.

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Well, I think I called the U of L unmitigated assrape of Rutgers. I predicted something like 65-10, but it was 56-5. Those dumb fucks actually trampled on the Cardinal logo at midfield before the game. Apparently they didn't remember when Cincy did that shit last year and left with a 70-7 maiming. You do NOT fuck with the Cardinal at midfield.

 

Why is it these lame jobbers like East Carolina, Cincy, and Rutgers try to stomp our logo? Can't we get someone credible to piss us off?

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Texas Tech @ Oklahoma St is going to be a great game. I hope somebody on regular TV decides to pick it up.

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FFMS, just wondering but could U of L play Texas Tech in a bowl game by any chance? If I can't get the U of L/ND matchup due to ND being in the BCS then I want something else that'd be cool, and Tech vs. U of L would be a wild, high scoring affair.

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You're going to get Louisville vs. Florida State or Virginia Tech most likley in the Gator Bowl.

[cabbageboy 0]

In that case I'm hoping for Va Tech then. I was there when U of L beat FSU in 2002, so it'd be kind of a been there, done that proposition. Just have to squash a couple more jobbers in Cuse and UConn and then we'll be in that game (I hope).

 

I only hope USF doesn't somehow win out and go to the BCS, thus knocking WVU down to the Gator Bowl and putting U of L in some shit bowl no one cares about.

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Well, I think I called the U of L unmitigated assrape of Rutgers.  I predicted something like 65-10, but it was 56-5.  Those dumb fucks actually trampled on the Cardinal logo at midfield before the game.  Apparently they didn't remember when Cincy did that shit last year and left with a 70-7 maiming.  You do NOT fuck with the Cardinal at midfield.

 

Why is it these lame jobbers like East Carolina, Cincy, and Rutgers try to stomp our logo?  Can't we get someone credible to piss us off?

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Cabbageboy,

 

Sounds like the LSU-Auburn game in 2001, although that was an escalation of an existing storied rivalry between the teams.

 

That was a game rescheduled to December 1 because 9-11 cancelled all the games on 9-15, which turned the game into a elimination match for the SEC West title.

 

 

During the coin-toss, Auburn trampled the Eye Of The Tiger at mid-field and was promptly hit with an Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty to start the game.

 

At half-time, the Auburn kickers and deep-snappers came out and were practicing while the LSU band was still on the field. They never bothered to move even as the band was marching off in their direction. They were eventually shoved out of the way by several band members who never broke formation. Auburn got ANOTHER Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty out of it.

 

 

The game ended in a 27-14 stomping that was a lot more lop-sided than the score indicates. (Auburn scored a TD in the first quarter then didn't score again until late in the 4th quarter)

 

 

 

That game is just one of many LSU-Auburn games over the past 20 years including:

 

1. The Earthquake Game (1988): LSU QB Tommy Hodson throws a TD pass to WR Eddie Fuller for a 7-6 victory in front of a shouting crowd of 80,000+ fans.

 

It is later determined that the crowd caused the campus seismograph to register a tremor that coincided exactly with Hodson's TD pass.

 

 

2. The Interception Game (1994): Lowly LSU is up late in the game against highly-ranked Auburn who had gone undefeated the previous season. However, for some unknown reason, the team's offensive coordinator keeps calling for QB Jamie Howard to pass the ball.

 

Howard ended up throwing 5 INTs during the 4th quarter of that game, three of them for TDs, to let Auburn escape with an unbelievable victory.

 

 

3. The "Bring Back The Magic" Game (1995): LSU, having had 5 straight non-winning seasons at that point, brought in new coach Gerry DiNardo, who wanted to "bring back the magic" to the team by playing home games in white jerseys again, which was an old tradition.

 

This marked LSU's return to the land of the living, as they knocked off #5 Auburn 12-6 en route to a 7-4-1 season including the team's first bowl victory in 10 years.

 

 

4. The Night The Barn Burned (1996): During a close game, won by LSU 19-16, the old Auburn Sports Arena caught on fire and burned down.

 

For years afterward, Auburn fans accused LSU fans of cooking to close to the building.

 

 

5. The Comeback Game (1997): Auburn QB Daymeune Craig lead Auburn on a 10-play 80-yard TD drive late in the 4th quarter to give Auburn a 31-28 win.

 

This game is notable for LSU running back, and current convict, Cecil "The Diesel" Collins running for 235 yards.

 

 

6. The Cigar Game (1999): Auburn dismantled LSU 41-7 then, to rub it in, stood at midfield in Death Valley smoking cigars afterwards.

 

That was the beginning of the end for Gerry DiNardo, who was fired 10 games into the season and replaced by Nick Saban.

 

 

7. The Call (2004): Auburn lead a late drive down the field and scored a TD, then Auburn kicker John Vaughn (who blew 5 FGs against LSU this year, BTW) blew an extra point that should have left the game tied 9-9.

 

However, a referee penalized LSU CB Ronnie Prude for leaping on the Auburn deep-snapper, giving Vaughn a second chance which he took full advantage of.

 

Auburn survived 10-9 and went on to an undefeated season.

 

 

 

At least that was a rival though... Rutgers seem pretty damn stupid for getting cocky with a team that went 11-1 last year when their program's history is one of the worst this side of Duke or Vanderbilt.

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The Call... wasn't that 2004?

[teke184 0]

The Call... wasn't that 2004?

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My mistake, yeah...

 

I'll correct that.

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I didn't realize how serious the LSU/Auburn rivalry was. Great read/stroll down the memory lane. I will still remain pissed that LSU beat Illinois in the Sugar Bowl the year Kurt Kittner led them...

 

I'd also like to add I wanted USC/LSU in 2003 but no... a certain *ahem* team had to go over USC in the rankings despite losing the damn conference title game.

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I didn't realize how serious the LSU/Auburn rivalry was. Great read/stroll down the memory lane. I will still remain pissed that LSU beat Illinois in the Sugar Bowl the year Kurt Kittner led them...

 

I'd also like to add I wanted USC/LSU in 2003 but no... a certain *ahem* team had to go over USC in the rankings despite losing the damn conference title game.

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Don't blame them. Not their fault the system was flawed enough to allow them to build an insurmountable lead if they beat the shit out of their opponents.(until the last 2 games they had won every game by an average of 50 points)

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I'm not blaming the OU team. I'm just stating my preferred title game.

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I didn't realize how serious the LSU/Auburn rivalry was. Great read/stroll down the memory lane. I will still remain pissed that LSU beat Illinois in the Sugar Bowl the year Kurt Kittner led them...

 

I'd also like to add I wanted USC/LSU in 2003 but no... a certain *ahem* team had to go over USC in the rankings despite losing the damn conference title game.

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The game doesn't get remembered as a storied SEC rivalry because Auburn and LSU are not each other's main rivals.

 

 

Big *official* SEC rivalries:

 

Auburn-Alabama (Iron Bowl)

Alabama-Tennessee (The Third Saturday In October)

Mississippi-Mississippi State (Egg Bowl)

Georgia-Florida (World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party)

LSU-Arkansas (Battle For The Boot)

 

 

Big unofficial SEC rivalries:

 

LSU-Alabama (Pretty one-sided, unfortunately... Bear Bryant kicked the shit out of ALL his ex-assistant coaches, former LSU coach Cholly Mac (Charles McClendon) included.)

 

LSU-Auburn (This series has had a bunch of heated games, as listed above)

 

Florida-Tennessee (I'd call this one "The SEC East Title Game" myself... Until Georgia finally broke the streak about 4 years ago, the winner of this game always represented the SEC East in the SEC Title Game.)

 

LSU-Mississippi (This one has historical implications... The biggest of which is the infamous 1959 Halloween Run by Billy Cannon to give LSU a 7-3 win and secure him a Heisman Trophy. The Archie Manning and Eli Manning years also provided some interesting games)

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Yeah I remember the Eli game where Ole Miss should have beaten LSU but their shitty kicker missed 2 FGs, and LSU went on to win the nat. title. I think if Eli wins that one he might have gotten the Heisman, but I think he'll be ok with 40+ million bucks to fall back on.

 

It's funny to bring up these intense SEC rivalry games after I mentioned a totally heatless Rutgers/U of L game. I have no idea what Rutgers was doing....Louisville is hardly a rival, in fact we hadn't even played them in 20 years. I mean good grief, U of L beat them by 51 with Michael Bush hurt.

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So I'm sitting here working at the library on a gameday. Luckily I to leave at 11 to go to the game but there are way to many old people decked out in crimson and cream coming back and forth here.

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Dama, we anxiously await your unbiased report.

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FFMS, just wondering but could U of L play Texas Tech in a bowl game by any chance?  If I can't get the U of L/ND matchup due to ND being in the BCS then I want something else that'd be cool, and Tech vs. U of L would be a wild, high scoring affair.

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Like Bored said there's a good chance of a Louisville/Florida St Gator Bowl. Some other teams Louisville might be looking at are Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Cal, and Arizona St in a lesser bowl game. I don't see Virginia Tech being involved with Louisville.

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Shouldn't be too much too report--A&M's not particularly good this year and their defense is abysmal. At home, OU's gonna get themselves bowl-eligible, and I'd be really surprised if they didn't.

 

Gearing up for the UVA/Georgia Tech game right now. This is a must-win, and I'm calling it Hoos 23, GT 17. Just because I'm there, of course.

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FSU/Clemson is on right now on ESPN. Clemson is just doing whatever it wants to at the moment on the offensive side of the ball.

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Just wanted to add this to teke's SEC rivalry list:

 

Auburn/Georgia is the longest-running rivalry in the SEC*. I would have thought it'd be Auburn/Alabama, but there was a stretch when they didn't play each other for I think forty years.

 

 

* - This is just what the TV said numerous times this week. TV could be wrong. But I don't think it is.

 

 

Also, I really hope Bama wins along with Auburn, so it leaves LSU with two losses in conference play, and then the Iron Bowl could decide the SEC West champion. And with that, I've got mixed feelings. On one hand, I'd love to see AU knock off undefeated Bama, but on the other hand, I'd like the Tide to run the table, but not get in the title game, just as even further evidence that the BCS is flawed. Or, whatever. Yeah.

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OU is up 21 to 0 halfway through the first quarter.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

And like that, Clemson is up two touchdowns before the first quarter's over. I expect FSU to get humming sooner rather than later, but Clemson's defense just clamped down too. How embarrassing for the Atlantic division if they send a 7-4 or 8-3 FSU team to get hammered in the ACC championship.

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The FSU/Clemson game makes me wonder even more what the hell is up with BC and the ACC overall. The Eagles can beat Clemson on the road but get demolished in the last 6 minutes against FSU at home after leading for much of it. Now Clemson is rocking FSU at home.

[Slayer 0]

Why in the hell is Clemson wearing purple?