College Football is finally here.


  • I’m curious to see the polls since Alabama and Michigan lost.


  • I’d guess 1)Oregon or OSU; 2)Oregon/OSU  :lol: 3)Boise maybe 1)OSU 2)Boise 3)Oregon but the Tide had better fall out of the top five or it’s U$C all over again, losing to a team they shouldn’t and getting a pass. Nebraska played well and could make a move. Maybe 1-OSU; 2-Oregon 3-Boise 4-TCU and 5-Nebraska?

    In any case it will likely start another ‘we need a playoff’ discussion.’  :lol:


  • @frimmel:

    I’d guess 1)Oregon or OSU; 2)Oregon/OSU  :lol: 3)Boise maybe 1)OSU 2)Boise 3)Oregon but the Tide had better fall out of the top five or it’s U$C all over again, losing to a team they shouldn’t and getting a pass. Nebraska played well and could make a move. Maybe 1-OSU; 2-Oregon 3-Boise 4-TCU and 5-Nebraska?

    In any case it will likely start another ‘we need a playoff’ discussion.’  :lol:

    I agree with you, there are to many undefeated teams for Alabama to remain a top five.


  • I wouldn’t be surprised though if one of the other teams from the media darling SEC made a move as well but we’ll see. But there are enough undefeated teams that Bama should take a fall especially if you take into consideration their flat performance against the Razorbacks and that the win over PSU is likely as much about the Nit’s troubles.

    Hopefully what happened to the Tide well serve as example to the Buckeyes and they’ll be fired up and ready and put a beat down on the Badgers.


  • @frimmel:

    I wouldn’t be surprised though if one of the other teams from the media darling SEC made a move as well but we’ll see. But there are enough undefeated teams that Bama should take a fall especially if you take into consideration their flat performance against the Razorbacks and that the win over PSU is likely as much about the Nit’s troubles.

    Hopefully what happened to the Tide well serve as example to the Buckeyes and they’ll be fired up and ready and put a beat down on the Badgers.

    You ok with Alabama as number eight in the the nation?


  • Sounds about right. Glad to see the Buckeyes in the No. 1 spot. Should be very good motivation to put a hurt on the Badgers in Camp Randall.


  • I need Ohio State and Sparty to come into Kinnick undeafeted in order for the Hawkeyes to juice up their computer rankings for a solid BCS bid.  Granted if the hawks win those games and finish 11-1.  If we do finish 11-1 I will be extremely bitter with that los in the desert that we came up with.  We completely imploded on special teams and handed them a victory.


  • From the Buckeye perspective obviously OSU needs to win out and your Hawks putting a loss on Sparty would be just the ticket for the Buckeyes to win the outright B10 title. Iowa has Sparty before their meeting with OSU right? That creates the potential for the match-up in Kinnick to be the B10 title game.

    I’m looking forward to Saturday again as we get to see how the Iowa D shuts down the TSUN offense and the Buckeyes head to Camp Randall to try and stop the Wiscy road graders.

    Do the Hawks have any kind of a power running game? They should be able to do whatever they want with the ball on TSUN just like Sparty shouldn’t they?


  • We have had some injuries at RB.  But Adam Robinson has been pretty productive this season.  If Jewel Hampton was still healthy, our rush offense would be pretty fearsome having two solid backs.  But I believe we will still run the ball effective enough to get the win.  Ricky has eliminated alot of the mistakes he had a season ago and he is 3rd in the nation in QB rating.  Outside of Indiana, I think we have the best WR combo in the bigten.  Luckily we have Sparty, Bucky, and Brutus all at home.  That OSU vs. Iowa match-up in November should be the BigTen decider like it was last season.


  • Crap.  :oops:

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    Who is number one now?


  • I saw on ESPN that Oklahoma was ranked 1st.


  • In the BCS standings it is the Sooners. In the AP it is the Ducks.

    Rankings.


  • So who do you guys like tonight the Ducks or the Bruins? Does another no.1 team go down this week?


  • Oregon is at home, so I have a feeling its going to be a thrashing in Autzen stadium.  Oregon takes UCLA 42-17.

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    @RogertheShrubber:

    Oregon is at home, so I have a feeling its going to be a thrashing in Autzen stadium.  Oregon takes UCLA 42-17.

    It was worse! I think Oregon chalked up 60.


  • Yep it ended up 60-13 in favor of the Ducks. One the one hand I suppose that Ducks offense is pretty cool. On the other hand it seems sort of unfair and not very interesting to watch.

    So Sparty comes back and the Hawks can’t hold on. I didn’t get to see any of the game but talk on one of the OSU boards sounded like Iowa had some clock management issues? Looks like the Hawks and Bucks are going to be on the outside of the BCS looking in this season. I don’t really see anybody beating either Sparty or Wiscy.

    Although as much as Wiscy annoys me I’m kinda of curious as to what they’re going to do to TSUN.  :evil:

    But amidst the mostly bad news for the Buckeyes there is this little gem fans of the service academies gotta get a big smile from. Navy beats Notre Dame for the third time in 4 years.  :mrgreen:


  • Go Clemson Tigers!__Go USC (University of Southern California)Trojans! {All hail Troy}


  • If we somehow can win a close game against MSU, there will be a shake up in the BigTen this week and OSU will be looking back in.  That means one slip by Wiscy,and OSU goes to the Rose Bowl per higher BCS ranking.  Yeah bad coaching all togethor cost us this game.  We had them dead to rights with 8 minutes left 4th and 4 on their 26, and they ran a fake punt that everyone in the building saw coming except the Iowa coaching staff.  They went on to score to take a 1 point advantage.  Special teams gave up a PAT and a FG to add isnult to injury early on.  And when we were driving to make the game winning field goal, we qb sneaked a first down and DID NOT SPIKE THE BALL BUT CALLED A TO!  WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?  I don’t say this often but we were out coached in a game that was ours for the taking.


  • I’ve seen that a couple of times. Where the kid is going up to the line to do the right thing and the coach waves him off of it. I DVR’ed that game and was surprised that you guys couldn’t stop them on that last drive. And what’s with Special Teams in the Big Ten this year? It is feast or famine it seems like. You have brilliant stuff like MSU’s OT fake field goal and disasters like missing a PAT and giving up KORTDs and both on the same play with that fake punt.

    I am certainly an enormous Hawkeye fan on Saturday. I don’t know that there is anybody else who can step up and beat Sparty. Sparty is 0-8 in Happy Valley but given the mess that is the Nits I think this is the year they break the winless streak.

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