BLOGPOLL QUESTIONS: ROUND 2
The notice is out: Blogpoll, Round 2, is officially underway. Hide the women and children, secure all doors, and remember, in the words of the Zombie Survival Guide, “Use your head–aim at theirs.”
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Shaun says: remember to aim for the head.
Your questions for this week:
1. What’s THE critical game of the season on the national scene? We’re looking for the one that will influence the most outcomes in a single span of sixty minutes. Please try to diversify your answers and think of something other than Ohio State-Texas, for example.
2.What’s the most critical matchup for your team? Again, we know we’ll hear OSU-Michigan from you
Wolverines, but we ask you to think in terms of multiple scenarios here.
3. What’s your wingnut upset prediction of year?
No hedging (or common sense) wanted here; we know everyone has a paint-chip eating, lunatic pick lurking somewhere in their brain. Go ahead and fess up on the record so you can gloat with pride later.
Hit the comments below, and get blogging! (For those who want to link to this entry, just click the time post for the permalink.)
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A week (or two late) and more than a dollar short . . .
1. ND-USC. To be perfectly honest, I don’t follow the national scene that closely. I’d have to go look up schedules to even know what key games are being played this year–and that would require like, um, work. However, of the teams I am familiar with, I’d have to go with the Notre Dame-USC game. Why???? Hell if I know. But let’s look at it this way. ND–like them or not–play 3 teams that have dreams of going all the way–the Wolverines, the Trojans, and Tennessee. They open with Pitt that dreams of repeating as Big East chmapion. ND is a big question mark–new coach. Do they have the talent? The Irish have the opportunity to be major spoilers on the scene this year. Hey I had to pick something.
2. NORTHWESTERN. Read it again. A lot of talk is focused on Minnesota. Some are even thinking 5-0 before knocking helmets with the Buckeyes. Beep, beep, beep. Back the bandwagon up a bit. PSU has not won a Big Ten Opener since 1999.
The talk in Happy Valley this year is a new attitude. Winning first. Blah, blah, blah. Is it just talk or can we walk the walk??? If we don’t choke on the first conference game, then I’ll start to think about becoming more optimistic. But who cares about Minnesota or Ohio State if you can’t get by the Purple Mildcats.
3. We Beat Michigan at Ann Arbor. Can’t get much nuttier than that.
And wolverine fans will probably be giddy as Pitt fans counting recruits when they see I mentioned them twice in these answers.
Comment by idoc — July 12, 2005 @ 11:14 am
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SEPTEMBER’S NOT COMING FAST ENOUGHVia Every Day Should Be Saturday, here are three quick questions on the college football season:
Comment by The Bemsuement Park — July 6, 2005 @ 8:55 am
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1. What’s THE critical game of the season on the national scene?
Lots of good games to choose from. Here are a couple of good options.
Sept. 17 Florida/Tenn - The Vols. have great potential and could win the SEC. Urban Meyer has a great chance to make an immediate impact in the SEC.
Oct. 8 OU/Texas - OU has a 5 game winning streak over Texas, but Mac Brown has the better team this year. Should that matter? It’s “do or die” time for Brown and the Longhorns.
Oct. 22 Auburn/LSU - Les Miles will, “play any sucker in America”, and he has the defense to do it now. Question for both teams is, who is going to play QB. Winner of this game should play for the conference championship.
Michigan/Iowa - Look for Iowa to make some noise in the Big 10 this year. This game could be between two top 10 teams.
Nov. 5 Miami/Va. Tech - These teams used to play for the Big East Championship, now they will play to decide the ACC championship.
2.What’s the most critical matchup for your team?
OU/Texas Oct. 8. OU has enjoyed a 5 game winning streak and has also reaped the benefits by winning the recruiting wars. If OU keeps winning the best recruits in Texas will keep coming.
3. What’s your wingnut upset prediction of year?
Sept 24 - Oregon over USC
Comment by Matt — July 2, 2005 @ 11:37 pm
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1. OU v. texas…..This could very, very easily determine the regular season Big XII Champ. A texas win could give them the confidence to roll.
2. Texas A&M v. texas tech…..The only reason this is the most critical game for us, IMO, is because our schedule is pretty weak until our last 3 games…..@tt, @OU, home v. texas. We could be going into those final games with a 7-1 record and winning a game in Lubbock, a place where we have simply sucked, would be a huge emotional boost for the team going into those final two against OU and texas.
3. Just randomly I’m going to go with ISU over Iowa on September 10th. Rivalry games always give you crazy results and this one is so early in the season and Iowa seems to stumble early in the season.
Comment by AgRyan04 — July 1, 2005 @ 10:26 pm
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1. Texas vs. Oklahoma - “How big a boy are ya?”
As a UGA fan for the past 16 years, I know what it’s like to be owned. The Gators owned from ‘90-2003 much in the same way that we owned them from ‘65-84. Once you’ve been owned for that long a period of time, overcoming the mental side of the game is huge. If Tejas can get past OU, they should run the table til USC in the Rose Bowl.
2. UGA vs. UF
The game vs. UT will probably have a more immediate and possibly even large impact on THIS season’s SEC East race. But the UF game is larger. We just got the monkey off our backs with a win vs. Zook last year. Starting Meyer off in the Cocktail Party series with a win, would put us right back behind the 8 ball.
3. UT vs. SC
I’m picking the Gamecocks. It’s not an absurdly impossible prediction, but I’m going with it.
Comment by Paulwesterdawg — July 1, 2005 @ 11:47 am
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Blogpoll Discussion #21. What’s THE critical game of the season on the national scene? I think it will be USC hosting Fresno State on Nov. 13. It’s a matchup the Trojans took after Pat Hill publicly goaded Pete Carroll over and over again. And to Carroll’s credit he reali…
Comment by Sporting Fools — July 1, 2005 @ 10:03 am
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http://sportingfool.blogspot.com/2005_06_26_sporti1. What’s THE critical game of the season on the national scene? I think it will be USC hosting Fresno State on Nov. 13. It’s a matchup the Trojans took after Pat Hill publicly goaded Pete Carroll over and over again. And to Carroll’s credit he reali…
Comment by Sporting Fools — July 1, 2005 @ 10:02 am
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If we could watch the Ol’ Ballcoach hang fifty on Fulmer one more time in our lifetime, we’d die happy.
Comment by Anonymous — July 1, 2005 @ 9:19 am
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The biggest national game this year? I’d love to say Ohio State-Texas, in the hopes that it WILL be and will encourage more teams to play such terrific intersectional tilts rather than cash in against the likes of Buffalo and Louisiana Tech. But it won’t be. Ohio State-Michigan? So 1970’s. Penn State-anybody? Nah. USC-Cal? Trojans by 27. Florida-Tennessee? Maybe, but Meyer may take a while to settle in. Big East … right, you said critical game … Iowa at Ohio State? Now this is getting close. I can’t stand either team, but the winner may be in the Rose Bowl playing for it all.
But given that, under the BCS, there seems to be a rule that the Big 12 gets a team in the final, and the only Big 12 game that will matter is Oklahoma-Texas as the other 10 don’t have a prayer against the big two, I pick the Red River Shootout, or whatever it’s called, as THE game.
Critical game for my team: Penn State at NORTHWESTERN, Sept. 24. I think the Nits are paper lions, that Joe is washed up, and all this yapping about a PSU comeback is wishful thinking from a media too used to just picking the same old names and going back to sleep. If my Wildcats can muster enough defense win this, we’re going bowling. Go Cats!
Wingnut upset pick: Northern Illinois over Michigan would be delicious. Ditto Temple over Wisconsin. But in the realm of rationality, how about Steve Spurrier ruining ANOTHER Tennessee season? I’ll go with that.
Comment by Brad Wilson — July 1, 2005 @ 4:54 am