1. tOSU at USC -best non-conf
2. Largest CokeOrgySatanFest – Dance Off After Every TD
3. LSU at Auburn – Always a slugfest in trenches
4. Auburn at WVU – Fastest Offense vs Fastest Defense

PS – LSU fan here……

My list is very front-loaded to the first half of the season…. just start the damn season already

1) tOSU at USC
2) OU/saxeT
3) Auburn at WfVU
4) UGA at ASU

OSU @ USC
UF @ UGA
Bama @ LSU (Lord Satan Returns to Death Valley)
Auburn @ WVU

1. Georgia/Florida – will be present
2. Clemson/Alabama – will be present
3. LSU/Alabama – won’t be present, hopefully gets the 7:30 ESPN treatment for obvious reasons
4. USC/Ohio State – ditto about being absent

Real #1: Clemson/WVa – Orange Bowl – will be present

#2

2) OU/saxeT

Number two on your list?

I like nativeson’s 1st 3, but I will reserve judgement on the 4th.

I have a feeling that many of these lists are going to look similar…

1. tOSU @ USC. My two alma-matters playing each other, I’ll be there and I plan on going back to Columbus next year for the return game.

1. UF/UGA I need to go to the wloco sometime in my life and this looks like a good year

1. UGA@ASU An interesting SEC-Pac 10 matchup, sort of the reverse of USC-Arkansas. It says a hell of a lot if there is an upset, not so much if it stays true to form

1. Alabma @ LSU. The return of Saban storyline is just too awesome to miss, and Death Valley is another one of those stadiums I need to see with my own eyes sometime.

1. Jimmy Johns vs Tuscaloosa District Attorney

2. (Insert next Shula recruit here) vs TPD

Tress sure looks fit. He could give Rick Neuheisel a run for most beautiful coach.

My picks
1. tOSU – USC
2. WLOCP
3. Red River Shootout
4. tOSU – Michigan I’ll be there for this one and expect a Buckeye blowout that only by the grace of God and JT can the spread be under 50.

I was trying to be objective, and I do think that tOSU vs USC has more national appeal and title implications.

1) Michigan at Notre Dame. Two teams that hate each other and the Irish could win this time.

2) Cocktail party. Drunken Southern sorority girls are the best kind of drunken sorority girls and the game should be good too.

3) The 73rd Annual Tuskegee-Morehouse Football Classic. Pitting last year’s #1 and #5 black college programs against each other in Columbus, Ga. Incredible football, incredible bands and incredible asses. Fuck and yes.

4) Georgia @ LSU. Matter meets anti-matter. And a crazy-ass coach with a big ass head.

i’m glad harris put nd/mich as #1 – makes me feel better about listing it – actually going – haven’t been back for a game in 3 years

1. OU/tx
2. nd/mich
3. uf/uga
4. bama @ lsu

1. UCLA/Tenn – HIS COACHNESS has no clothes. Hate to root fer Phat Phil but have zero choice

2. Ole Myth/WFU – will be there in W-S watchin the Webbles lose big time. GIGGETY GIGGETY!!!

3. MSU/Aubarn – will be thar to watch Teletubbie’s ears get boxed.

4. Happy Appy/LSD – interesting game. Living 8 miles south of Boone will make in interesting TV watch at whichever bar is chosen.

Adios until Monday. St Pete & Honey Pie beckon.

Pete Carroll is NOT jacked that you put Tressel’s head on his body.

Evidently, recruiting burns fat, since we’ve got 23 recruits already and the HS season isn’t even close yet. We’ve even out-Texased Texas.

1) OSU @ USC
2) UF @ UGa
3) UM @ OSU
4tie) OU vs TX
       USF @ West Va

The very possible OU vs Mizzou B12 champ game has some serious appeal to me also…as does UF-LSU and the SEC champ game.

I’m not going to rehash everyone else’s picks

1. UGA @ Auburn
2. WVU @ Colorado (mounties first test)
3. Tenn @ UGA
4. Coop vs. the reality of another 6-6 season

And why on earth would you want to watch USC v Ohio State? You think the buckeyes can’t handle SEC speed, what do you think they will do with USC speed? Carroll has that game set up for him beautifully with an extra week to prepare.

Go back and see what Carroll does to really GOOD teams with a week to prepare, he has lost once (to Texas) and has dominated every other game. Write it down, USC wins BIG.

T-Bird, your post doesn’t even make sense…who is the last REALLY good team USC faced? Oregon last year? They lost. Texas in 2005? They lost, and OSU played Texas that year just as tough…unless you count UM in 2006 (OSU beat them too), or Notre Dame 2005 (OSU beat them too)…

When is the last time Clemson finished 6-6?

Have you mistaken me for a South Carolina fan, regarding last season or worse in the past, or a Tech fan with the perennial mediocre Chan Gailey at the helm?

Wow, i drank some stupid this morning, I confused coop with a Bama fan. My greatest apology would not be enough to make up for that egregious error.

McPants I am talking about non-conference opponents.
2002 with a week off before
Beat Auburn by 24-17
Beat Iowa 38-17
2003 with a week off before
Beat Auburn 23-0
Beat Michigan 28-14
2004 with a week off before
beat VT 24-13
beat ND 41-10
beat Oklahoma 55-19
2005 with a week off before
beat Arkansas 70-17
beat UCLA 66-19
lost to Texas 41-38
2006 with a week off before
beat Arkansas 50-14
beat Nebraska 28-10
beat Michigan 32-18
2007 with a week off before
beat Nebraska 49-31
beat Az State 44-24
beat Illinois 49-17

USC has not played a legit non-conference opponent without the week off since Carroll has been there and it has worked for well for them. Get over the fact that you buckeyes are going to get smoked, it is a foregone conclusion.

Anyone who says that the Buckeyes have no chance in that game did not watch Vince Young kill USC. Terrell Pryor will run for 100+ yards in that game and the Bucks will stack the line b/c average USC WR’s can be covered man to man. Oh if only Carroll were actually a beautiful woman USC would feel better about their National Chamionship hopes getting fucked in the ass OZ style.

20 – Yeah, because Vince Young was PHENOMENAL as a true freshman, and that is when he faced USC in the Rose Bowl.

Good luck with all that.

Big ups to USC for beating Michigan. It ain’t that hard. And congrats on them dominating the SEC by beating Auburn (barely) and Arkansas. Wisconsin has been there, done that against the hogs.

TP will not play in the USC game. Beokman will, and he will probably cost the Bucks the game.

Hey Coop, VY was a junior when he faced USC in the Rose. I’m not sure what kind of playing time he got as a freshman. He did improve his game throughout 2004, beating Michigan by 1pt. in the ’04 Rose. A junior in 2005 Young was in his prime and was the best QB in the country that year. Texas beat Ohio State by 3pts in ’05. Too bad he left after that season, would have made the Ohio State-Texas matchup the following year even better.

Good post French, unfortunately, I think that’s actually quite possible.

USC loses to teams like Stanford and UCLA 2006 and they’re awesome…OSU has lost five freaking games in the last 3 seasons, to #1 Texas, #3 PSU, #1 Florida, #1 LSU, and their one horrible loss, to BCS team Illinois….

You people touting the USC horn has no basis whatsoever for your reasoning.