EDSBSGPS: WHERE WE AT, WEEK 6
The weekend’s viewing agenda:
ORSON (Baton Rouge)
On the anthropological beat all day in BR. Get some, son.
HOLLY (Baton Rouge):
Auburn @ Arkansas
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Georgia @ Tennessee
Alabama @ Ole Miss
Florida @ LSU, live in StabboVision, lord deliver us
Wild foxes: On every trampoline, everywhere. We will look just like them by 8 a.m. Sunday morning.
While your travel plans cannot possibly be as fraught with danger and hilarity, you are cordially invited to share them anyhow.
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cantcatchuf says:
Ahh, just what EDSBS needed: ESPN.com’s PAC-10 trolls.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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TampaGatorGal says:
“Gotta say, PAC 10 is way deeper and stronger than the SEC.”
seriously? umm… yeah. Stanford. UCLA. USC. Cal. and others (what, Oregon State is supposed to stand for overall best team nation wide?)
every conference has cream puffs, every conference leader plays [paid] creampuffs.
So, what to make of VA Tech? everyone knows the ACC sucks- really SUCKS- but Tech is lookin good.
the Big Ten fans will pipe in! (any.minute.now.). understand the hype on the boob tube affects things, but if you watch the actual games, you see the athletes. gets tricky- does Boise have great athletes? yes. are they ever tested? hmmm…
whole lotta futbawl left to play (and my Gators are just as susceptible to Arkansas or- ugh- the Ole Coach’s team.
we shall see…
October 10th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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JD says:
Let’s be honest. Florida State just plain sucks. BEEEEEES have run up 400+ yards rushing. This never would have happened if Bowden and Mickey Andrews were still alive.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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cantcatchuf says:
Chances of FSU ending with a losing record just increased significantly.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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beckett929 says:
well the WAC Shootout of the Week just ended in Tallahassee…
October 10th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
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chg says:
@94- I imagine Florida’s SOS will match up quite nicely with your favorite PAC-10 team when all is said and done.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
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gamedaytribe says:
@95: sorry, just to clarify, no connection to ESPN whatsoever, unfortunate coincidence, more Desmond Morris (”The Soccer Tribe”)
fan than Kirk Herbstreit fan, to be honest. And don’t mean to troll, just an honest telling ya what I felt, nothing
more. Well, just a reaction to seeing the Harris Poll, perhaps.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
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gamedaytribe says:
“I imagine Florida’s SOS will match up quite nicely with your favorite PAC-10 team when all is said and done.”
@94: FWIW, although it’s not clear how accurate these are:
http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf2009.htm
It’s not so much where the top team (expect this to be Florida, best SEC team) is but who gets to play them. Here’s where the poll positions play a crucial role, because the strength of schedule is not significant enough to overcome a few spots difference
in poll position. If it’s an LSU-Florida BCS final because LSU remains #2 in the polls, I’m going to hurl.
@95: and I hang out here though it’s not a Pac 10 blog because Orson is the best sports writer in the country, and commenters here tend to be pretty damn funny, genuine and articulate. It’s not that I’m looking to troll in opposing team blogs, well, troll at all, period.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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Bob Cousy says:
According to this, Florida is ahead in the computer polls that matter over USC…
http://www.bcsguru.com/bcs_standings.htm
October 11th, 2009 at 12:12 am
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gamedaytribe says:
@103: Yep, exactly what I’m nauseous about.
“http://www.bcsguru.com/bcs_standings.htm”
The BCS projections are scary – it’s like monkeys throwing peanuts at a dart board. OK, maybe not that bad but there’s certainly prejudice, lack of objective thought and complete bogosity at work here.
I’ll make a comparison of just Pac 10 teams so as not to provoke a cross-conference flame fest here:
USC is #7, Oregon is #13.
USC has one loss to unranked Washington.
Oregon has one loss to #5 Boise State.
USC beat Washington State 26-3
Oregon beat Washington State 52-3
USC beat Cal 30-3
Oregon beat Cal 42-3.
Now, we may suck, all in all. But results on the ground certainly seem better than USCs. Even imponderables like stronger, ore experienced quarterback, I’d say by all reasonable standards Oregon should be ranked higher than USC.
Why am I indulging in the usual pedantic whining about school rankings and relative conference strengths that constitutes the bulk of college football conversation on Saturday nights around the country? Because they keep changing the goddang formula – and I’m an eternal optimist. If they change it, perhaps one day they wlil change to something sane…
October 11th, 2009 at 12:46 am
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BocaHuskyUWowl says:
Now thats something I havent seen UW do in a very very long time. Im stunned and elated at the same time.
October 11th, 2009 at 1:00 am
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Bob Cousy says:
I would agree, except for two things. One, USC beat Ohio State on the road. Yes, we all know tOSU is overrated, but as long as they’re staying in the top ten, then USC will get the edge. Two, the computers don’t give a crap about the margin of victory. To the computers, Oregon’s victories over the same teams USC won will be rated exactly the same way.
Anyways, it’s a waste of time to get in a fuss over polls right now. This is college football, and that means the unpredictable who, if anyone, will go the rest of the way undefeated.
#1 Florida still has Arkansas, Georgia, @ South Carolina and the SEC Championshp game to worry about.
# 2 Texas still has Oklahoma, @ Missouri, Kansas, and the Big 12 Championship game.
# 3 Bama still SC, LSU, @ Auburn, and the SEC Championship game to worry about.
# 4 VT (my team) has @ GT, @ ECU, NCSU, and the ACC Championship game.
# 5 Boise State has a very weak schedule to worry about ruining their computer ratings and respect with the voters.
So there’s plenty of time for movement to be made before the season is out.
October 11th, 2009 at 1:20 am
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oc phil says:
@ 104 gamedaytribe: No need to be nauseous. The Oregon USC situation will be worked out by all saint’s day.
Your points are valid, but Oregon really did stink up the blue turf in the first game. Those early season impressions often carry more weight than they should. But if the team keeps winning then it won’t matter.
October 11th, 2009 at 1:56 am
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JD says:
I saw the kickoff temperature for TCU-Air Force tonight was a blistering 19 degrees. Those poor bastards.
October 11th, 2009 at 2:34 am
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janus09 says:
107
Yeah, the USC-Oregon situation will be settled on halloween. The more distressing situation for an Oregon fan would be the Va Tech comparison. Their resume’s are damn near identical and their separation in the human polls are pretty sizable.
And I am not going to step into the conference vs conference bloodbath but to say that the differences between the conferences are always less than commenters and fans tend to believe they are.
Just look at each conferences records versus the other BCS conferences. All are pretty close to .500.
October 11th, 2009 at 3:51 am
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Phocion says:
I’ve making the same arguemnet as GDT has about Oregon/USC elsewhere and met with the refutation: USC’s ranking ahead of Oregon rests on preseason polls and an ugly win. Luckily for Oregon they have a head to head, at home, to settle that score. But, today, I think that an objective observer watching those two teams perform on the field would have to agree that Oregon is the better performing team today.
As for the SEC/Pac10: It’s not close. UF & UA are superior to USC and Ore. LSU, AU, and SoCar over, who?, Stanford, Zona, and OSU…after that comes the SEC Schitzos of Ark, Ole Miss and UGa which could be better than the Pac10 group of Cal, UW, and UCLA but that simply may rely on whether they liked what thier gameday breakfast was or not…and the bottom is the bottom MSU, VU,UT, UK or ASU and WSU.
I’d say the only real measure of superiority for the Pac10 over the SEC is that Pac10 geeks (Stanford) are consistently better then the SEC geeks (Vandy).
October 11th, 2009 at 4:23 am
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BocaHuskyUWowl says:
@108–Oh I was at the game, it was not pleasant at all. Air Force had almost everything working it its favor and they just couldn’t pull it out. TCU’s defense was just too good.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:55 am
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yoyofutbawl says:
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The NCAA changed the rule this year, and you have to win your conference championship to be eligible. So, no all-SEC final ever.
Tyson Lee is the reincarnation of Michael Henig. Another game, another 4 TOs, of which 3 were in the red zone. I’m taking bets when we play Bama at 5+
October 11th, 2009 at 9:26 am
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BocaHuskyUWowl says:
I think i need to change my comment at 117 to @114
October 11th, 2009 at 9:56 am
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idahobuckeye says:
“Gotta say, PAC 10 is way deeper and stronger than the SEC”
Using the immortal words of Orson Swindle and the EDSBS crew…
Go fuck yourself with a traffic cone. Nuff said.
October 11th, 2009 at 2:22 pm