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College Football III: We may lose, but we keep the score close!

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The Gopher defense made an appearance Stillwater, OK. :eek:

EDIT: So did their Special Teams defense. :eek: :eek:
 
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Kepler said:
For a while there when you were winning by 35 every year, it didn't seem like it. :)

Both these teams are 2-3 years away from anything special. I hope the 2012 or 2013 game will be much more significant.
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Despite USC's many issues this season, they were a dropped pass by RoJo that would have won the game. It goes to show how terrible both teams really are right now. Ugh.
 
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Kepler said:
They aren't selling out? With that team? Wow.
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Other than USC, nope. Against Arizona, who was a top 15 opponent, it was still 40+K out of 50K. There's a bunch of reason one could argue, from recent suckiness to less alumni concentrated in the area than other schools to costs and switching start times; the student section has been great, but the other sections don't completely fill. I'd like to think with national alumni we'd be able to get there and fill it up, so at least we can say we do what we need in the bowl games.

My dream scenario now is for Oklahoma to win the Big 12 and play Stanford in the Fiesta Bowl as a rematch of last year's Sun Bowl; we've already beaten the 4 teams we lost to in the regular season last year, and now we'd get a shot at our bowl loss; this year we settle all family business, so don't lie to me Carlo.
 
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ESPN reporting that Shannen has been fired.
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Miami doesn't have top-5 talent, but they do have top-10 to top-15 talent. They're the most underachieving consistently inconsistent team I've seen. That describes 90% of the ACC, I know. But you could say Miami is the ACC of the ACC.

Miami is too much fun to root against for them to be mediocre. Hopefully someone else can get the job done.
 
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Stanford gains ground on Wisconsin in the AP and coaches polls, jumps OSU in the latter:

AP:
1 Oregon (36) 11-0 1475 1
2 Auburn (23) 12-0 1456 2
3 TCU (1) 12-0 1383 4
4 Wisconsin 11-1 1289 5
5 Stanford 11-1 1283 7

Coaches:
1 Oregon (46) 11-0 1459 1
2 Auburn (10) 12-0 1419 2
3 TCU (3) 12-0 1343 4
4 Wisconsin 11-1 1282 5
5 Stanford 11-1 1233 8

Harris and of course the BCS rankings still to come.
 
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amherstblackbear said:
Miami doesn't have top-5 talent, but they do have top-10 to top-15 talent. They're the most underachieving consistently inconsistent team I've seen. That describes 90% of the ACC, I know. But you could say Miami is the ACC of the ACC.

Miami is too much fun to root against for them to be mediocre. Hopefully someone else can get the job done.
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USF: The destroyer of coaches.

2009: USF 17, Florida State 7. The straw that broke the camel's back, with Jim Smith publically being the first major FSU booster/board member to say Bowden needs to retire, beginning the whole sorry thing that takes two months of acrimony at the end of a legend's career that lasted 5ish years too long.

2010: Randy Shannon goes from "enh, the program's clean and it's an 8-9 win team, hopefully things improve" to "OMG FIRE NOW FIRE!"

If Urban Meyer keeps Steve Addazio, he better avoid USF in future years. They barely got by them this year.
 
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Browsing the BCS selection procedures, could Nevada earn a spot in a BCS bowl? The rules state:

The champion of Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Sun Belt Conference, or the Western Athletic Conference will earn an automatic berth in a BCS bowl game if either:

A. Such team is ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS Standings, or,
B. Such team is ranked in the top 16 of the final BCS Standings and its ranking in the final BCS Standings is higher than that of a champion of a conference that has an annual automatic berth in one of the BCS bowls.
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Right now, Nevada is 17th in the BCS. If Virginia Tech (currently #15) were to lose in the ACC championship, that would probably move Nevada up to 16. That would almost certainly be higher than the Big East champions final BCS ranking, and going by the above rules, that would qualify them for a BCS bid right?

Or I have I missed an exception or a caveat or something?
 
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Oh man that would be epic. I wholeheartedly support their bid if they make it into the top 16.
 
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WeWantMore said:
Right now, Nevada is 17th in the BCS. If Virginia Tech (currently #15) were to lose in the ACC championship, that would probably move Nevada up to 16. That would almost certainly be higher than the Big East champions final BCS ranking, and going by the above rules, that would qualify them for a BCS bid right?

Or I have I missed an exception or a caveat or something?
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Right below it: "No more than one such team...shall earn an automatic bid in any year."

TCU already gets that automatic bid from being in the top 12.
 
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So they only allow one non-AQ team per year, period?
 
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kingdobbs said:
Right below it: "No more than one such team...shall earn an automatic bid in any year."

TCU already gets that automatic bid from being in the top 12.
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Mmm, thanks. I knew for sure there was something I had missed, otherwise I figured someone on ESPN would have at least mentioned it.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
So they only allow one non-AQ team per year, period?
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Yes, and no.

Yes, because only one team may earn an automatic bid to the BCS from a non-BCS conference.

No, because if they meet at-large qualifications (i.e. 9 wins, top 14 in the standings), the team may still be selected.

So if TCU and Boise finished 4-5 in the standings, the BCS bowls are only obligated to include TCU.
 
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kingdobbs said:
So if TCU and Boise finished 4-5 in the standings, the BCS bowls are only obligated to include TCU.
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If BSU were #4, I believe they would get the autobid, but this time because of the rule where the 3/4 team gets an autobid. (I believe it first applies to the #3 team if they did not get an autobid from other means, and if does not apply there it gets to apply to the #4 seed.)
 
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Sagarin's strength of schedule formula needs some tweaking. I'll buy the PAC-10 usually finishes with better than average schedules for playing 9 conference games, and usually playing non-conference games vs. BCS or at least MWC schools.

Someone's going to have to run by Arizona State for me, though. Wisconsin? Sure. 9 Pac-10 games, oh, okay, though you still have UCLA and Washington State in there. There's not one, but two FCS schools on that "7th most difficult schedule in America." Only noticed this from looking through bowl projections and trying to figure out why they're already out.

Right. That ought to be an automatic demotion to about 30th.
 
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French Rage said:
Stanford gains ground on Wisconsin in the AP and coaches polls, jumps OSU in the latter:

AP:
1 Oregon (36) 11-0 1475 1
2 Auburn (23) 12-0 1456 2
3 TCU (1) 12-0 1383 4
4 Wisconsin 11-1 1289 5
5 Stanford 11-1 1283 7
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South Carolina. The hopes of a nation ride with you.

A national title game without the SEC would be heaven.
 
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