I'm a fan, so of course I'm mad that they dropped! ..even though I knew it would happen.
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2010-2011 College Football Thread
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I'm a fan, so of course I'm mad that they dropped! ..even though I knew it would happen.
There's something oddly satisfying in seeing a not insignificant number of Florida fans roaming the streets of Tuscaloosa looking for their cars so they can go home...
...at halftime.
Maybe it'll teach some of their more douchebaggy fans to stop making Youtube videos.
Oregon has actually looked very good, on both sides of the ball. A voter could easily make a case to rank them #2 right now.
I actually think both forces are at work there. Oregon's wins, especially over Stanford, have been very solid; and Boise State's schedule is going to start catching up to them - we knew it would happen, and this "scrimmage" against NMSU was the one that put them over the top, so to speak.
I could be wrong, but didn't the Holiday Bowl used to have the #3 pick after the Cotton Bowl? And didn't the Insight bowl used to be around #7 or so on the list? Wow, how the times have changed.
Hey! Don't knock this bowl - I'm already hunting for tickets!
I know the feeling. At this point, a winning season and ANY bowl game would make me happy.
Agreed. Oregon looks better than everyone except Alabama right now (and they look like they could give the Tide a run for it). I really thought Stanford was going to go to Eugene and out-physical the Ducks, but after a strong start by the Cardinal, Oregon took it to them.
Nope, you are remembering correctly. The Alamo has been upping their payout for a few years now and the Cotton wants to try to steal the BCS slot from the Fiesta now that they are in Arlington (Cowboys Stadium), and the Holiday just hasn't kept up. It should really go back to being the MWC championship bowl, if you ask me.
I kind of get the feeling that the Cotton Bowl will become a sixth BCS Bowl Game rather than replacing the Fiesta.
I'm a fan, so of course I'm mad that they dropped! ..even though I knew it would happen.
I was looking over the rest of Boise State Schedule. They can and should only go one direction in rankings and that is down. They do not play any schools to make them worthy of really going up in rankings and really nothing to justify defending their position. As bad as it sounds Boise schedule is mostly a fluff schedule. Until they leave to start their new conference they really are playing pretty weak schedules.
Believe me, when we run the table in the MWC we'll still be hearing the same ol' arguments...
It's just something we have to accept. I'm just tired of people going on about how we'd be a .500 team in a "real conference." Seriously? These ridiculous claims are based on bias and nothing more.
At least Nevada has moved up a few spots and should go unbeaten until Nov. 26. By the time we beat them maybe they'll even be nearing #15.
True but at least it would give Boise a bit more of a leg to stand on. Right now they play a pretty weak schedule. Running the tables on it does not say much.
Really Boise needs to get into a BCS conferences. Honestly I am surprised one has not pick them up yet. It would of been nice if the Big 12 pick up Boise to replace one of the 2 schools.
Heck during that mess I wish the Big 12 pick up TCU, Boise and another school and then kick Baylor out of the big 12. Baylor is not fit to play in the big 12. They have won what 14 conferences games since the Big 12 forum. That is pretty bad. They do not belong in it. The other school would need to be pick up from the north somewhere.
Trade balyor into the MWC for TCU.
BSU drops with a 59-0 win, and my Utes break into the top 10 with a bye week? As much as I despise the broncos, something is seriously wrong here.
But with an easy game against another "BCS" opponent (Iowa State), an easy win against Colo. State, followed by a top 25 AFA and hopefully an upset at home vs. TCU, we could leapfrog the potato ponies before the season is over!
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But with an easy game against another "BCS" opponent (Iowa State), an easy win against Colo. State, followed by a top 25 AFA and hopefully an upset at home vs. TCU, we could leapfrog the potato ponies before the season is over!
SLC
Don't confuse "break into the top 10" with "Florida lost and dropped out."
Still, Utah has earned their ranking to this point, as has Oregon. I think BSU's drop was less of a drop and more getting passed by a stronger-looking team.
Don't confuse "break into the top 10" with "Florida lost and dropped out."
I think people get way too attached to the number next to their name and don't pause to realize that these rankings are all relative to the other teams.
Utah didn't move up because of anything the Utes did, but because Florida and Stanford both got creamed and LSU should have lost to a bad Tennessee team.
Same thing with Boise. The Broncos didn't do anything to merit "dropping" but Oregon definitely did something to merit "moving up" in the rankings. Basically, after the Ducks pummeled Stanford, Oregon looked better in relation to everyone else than they did before the game. It would not have mattered if Boise won 59-0 or 3-2.
So very true.
In many seasons past, I've heard talking heads on TV complaining about how a team from the Big Ten or PAC-10 gets "punished" in the rankings when the SEC or Big 12 champion leapfrogs one of those teams after winning a conference championship game.
It's not punishing the teams that finish early, it's rewarding the teams that don't. That extra game is, theoretically, the toughest game on the schedule for both teams, until the bowl season, anyway. A team that wins that game should be rewarded.
Don't confuse "break into the top 10" with "Florida lost and dropped out."
Believe me, I'm not confusing anything. I'm just using the term to note that they are in the top 10 this week for the first time this season. Not that they did anything special this week to get there, they obviously didn't.
Guess the way I phrased it may have been confusing for some? Is there another way I should denote the Utes movement into the top 10 that wouldn't carry with it some indication that I might think they earned this week's jump?
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I think it was more the fact that you were comparing Utah's move in the polls to Boise's and saying that something was wrong with it. We were both pointing out that nothing is particularly "wrong" with either because both Utah and Boise moved in the polls because of what other teams did.
More proof that Les Miles is the luckiest coach in football. Either that, or he made a deal with the devil. Check out this listing of his lucky finishes.
I actually like Virginia Tech (despite the protests of my friends who went to UVA and Washington & Lee), but whoever thought putting maroon and orange together was a good idea should be executed.
I hope you don't mind me crashing the party - that's one good looking bottle of Maker's!
GO HOKIES!!!
Two more wins should pop you back in to the top 25. Take the ACC and you very well might find yourselves back in the top 15!
That would be fantastic.
Hey now, ever been outside in the fall? It's Maroon and Orange everywhere!!!! HAHAHAHA
You might need to bring your own bottle hahaha
GO HOKIES!!!
Two more wins should pop you back in to the top 25. Take the ACC and you very well might find yourselves back in the top 15!
That would be fantastic.
I think we'll pull through... I was on the edge of my seat this past weekend during the NC State game...