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Lots of upsets again and the BCS is in an uproar. As said, OK State went down, as did Oregon, Clemson, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. It was a wild day and a lot of fun to watch. Really had a good time watching USC take out Oregon, although Oregon almost made it back from a 24 point deficit and actually had a chance to tie at the final gun, but the kick missed. Fun game. Another season, another BCS mess. Oh, and as usual this season, my Terps lost after collapsing in the second half to lose 31-10 after a 7-7 halftime tie. Just keeps getting worse in Turtleland. -- Al
LSU demolished Arkansas. With wins over 'Bama and Arkansas under their belt, LSU has certainly proved/earned/deserves the #1 ranking. Once again proving that SEC football is the real deal and leaving everyone else on the outside, looking in. LSU will play for the title with the only question being which SEC school goes to the bowl to play them. It's a no lose for the SEC as the winner will be their team, regardless. The SEC is just head and shoulders above every other conference in the country. Too bad none of my favorite teams are in the SEC. -- Al
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The picks:
Wisconsin 31 Penn St 13: Wisconsin has been in a funk, but they rally at home to knock off PSU.
Alabama 27 Auburn 17: Should be a good game. Bama hasn't exactly been rolling. On the road, who knows what may happen. I'm pulling for Auburn to avoid the BCS rematch and put OK St. in the title game.
Stanford 38 Notre Dame 34: If this game were in South Bend, I would pick the Irish in an upset. On the road, though, it doesn't happen. Could be closer than expected.
USC 37 UCLA 20: The mighty Trojans end the season with their annual whipping of the Bruins. Only in the NCAA could a team as bad as UCLA be the PAC South champs. Oregon will roll them for 30+ in the championship game.
Wisconsin 31 Penn St 13: Wisconsin has been in a funk, but they rally at home to knock off PSU.
Alabama 27 Auburn 17: Should be a good game. Bama hasn't exactly been rolling. On the road, who knows what may happen. I'm pulling for Auburn to avoid the BCS rematch and put OK St. in the title game.
Stanford 38 Notre Dame 34: If this game were in South Bend, I would pick the Irish in an upset. On the road, though, it doesn't happen. Could be closer than expected.
USC 37 UCLA 20: The mighty Trojans end the season with their annual whipping of the Bruins. Only in the NCAA could a team as bad as UCLA be the PAC South champs. Oregon will roll them for 30+ in the championship game.
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I'm pulling for Auburn too; Alabama already had their chance vs LSU and they lost, they shouldn't get another chance, what nonsense.
With all the money the NCAA makes off of college football and they can't come up with a decent playoff format to determine a true national champion.
Imagine if those morons ever came up with one, it would be worth dumptrucks full of money, but they're too stupid to figure it out.
Just watched the most disgusting and embarrasing Umd football el foldo of all time. Leading (that's right, leading) 41-14 early in the 3rd quarter against NC State, in NC, UMd then went to sleep and allowed NCS to score 42 straight points. UMd losses 56-41 in what is the 2nd biggest points comeback in ACC team play. Good lord this team is awful. UMd now 2-10 aftr last years 9-4 team. What a disgrace. -- AL
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I turned it off when MD was up 41-14 in the third quarter. They just flashed the score and I thought maybe it was a basketball game! Yikes, that's an historic collapse. Heads should roll.
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Another irony here is that Bama is likely better off than LSU for having lost the head to head game. Because LSU won, they have to play in the SEC championship game to get to the BCS while Bama's regular season is over. The logic of college football
Too right. The AD's to start with and whoever else was responsible for choosing Edsall over Leach. No way it's going to happen. UMd won't admit the error. They never have been able to act fast and cut their loses. Edsall is the man, for now. At least until the stands empty further and the falling football revenue falls into a black hole. At least the disaster yesterday put UMd in the record books as the First ever major-conference team in college football history to post two 2-10 records on either end of a winning season (2009, 2-10 - 2010, 9-4 - 2011, 2-10). I'm just bursting with pride. And, this loss completed a run of 7 straight losses by double digits, for the first time in UMd history. At last Umd broke the string of giving up 500+ yards per game as NC State only managed 439. Edsall's mark of 2-10 also is the 2nd largest decline in record by a first year coach of a major-conference program in the past 50 years. I'm pretty ticked with the whole situation, but I will be back next season, as always, looking to see if Edsall can get the boys to buy into his gameplan and turn this thing around. If there is such a thing as a 2-10 record with optimism attached, this ain't it. -- Al
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Yesterday's debacle is just too terrible to merit comment.
I read UM has the next to last class in the conference for recruiting. Not much to look fwd to next yr. I had doubts when Edsall was hired. Looks like the whole athletic dept is in disaray. Chris
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I guess spending time with his family was not all it was cracked up to be. LOL. The guy claimed to have some serious health issues when he left Florida. And OSU is likely to have NCAA sanctions coming down the line. It's hard to rebuild the kind of run he had at Florida.
I think Meyer should have waited and taken the UMd job.:rolleyes2:
:wink2: Feinstein, in the Post this AM, is calling for Edsall to be fired, now. Lists all the reasons I have been complaining about plus the most important reason, as Feinstein sees it, that Edsall just doesn't get "it", meaning how to be a head coach of a big college program. There are a lot of people here who agree with Feinstein. I still don't know why Mike Leach wasn't hired instead of Edsall. At any rate, I think OSU landed a big winner and a bright future for the program, providing Meyer dosen't lose interest. -- Al
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Distant voice in the wilderness........................GO USC!!!! Nothing to play for this year and USC still finished 10-2 and handed UCLA their worse loss in the series in 80 year (50-0!)
One can only hope Matt Barkley, QB for Heisman Trophy. Okay, okay he needs to be ignored (except by NFL) to make this NCAA object lession called "probation" a deterrent against futue recruiting sin (big & small).
Yes, I'm a bit bitter and since I moved from LA to San Antonio I see being a USC Trojan fan is like being a displaced NY Yankee fan.
So that said; I have to say "Go DUCKS! ????? Oh boy, I've been reduced to that until 2012.
LOL,
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One can only hope Matt Barkley, QB for Heisman Trophy. Okay, okay he needs to be ignored (except by NFL) to make this NCAA object lession called "probation" a deterrent against futue recruiting sin (big & small).
Yes, I'm a bit bitter and since I moved from LA to San Antonio I see being a USC Trojan fan is like being a displaced NY Yankee fan.
So that said; I have to say "Go DUCKS! ????? Oh boy, I've been reduced to that until 2012.
LOL,
Carlos
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I'm a USC alum and even I felt a bit sorry for the Bruins. Well almost. That was an embarrassing beating. In boxing they would have stopped it on humanitarian grounds. "No mas" as Roberto Duran once said. The PAC is even ashamed to print up PAC South Champ t-shirts for the Bruins. They likely fire their coach after Oregon rolls them Friday night. I honesty think 70-80 points for Oregon is not out of the question with that high speed offense. And Kelly is not likely to exercise any mercy once it gets out of hand. Unfortunately, I think Barkley is done. He is NFL bound, but a great season for the Trojans given the circumstances.
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The Bruins, Arizona St. and Wash. St. have already fired their coaches. That's three of the 12 PAC teams. An awful year for the PAC and now they have a championship game with a team who backed in with two straight losses including a 50 point loss last weekend playing one of the best teams in college football. It won't be pretty Friday night. The Ducks are a 32 point favorite if you want to bet a sure thing. They might cover by halftime.