Date |
Opponent |
Location |
TV |
Time (PT) |
Tickets |
Gamble |
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9/01/07 |
Idaho |
L.A. Coliseum |
FSN | 7:15PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
9/15/07 |
Nebraska |
Lincoln, NE |
ABC | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
9/22/07 |
Washington State |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
09/29/07 |
Washington |
Seattle, WA |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/06/07 |
Stanford |
L.A. Coliseum |
Versus | 4:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/13/07 |
Arizona |
L.A. Coliseum |
TBA | TBA | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/20/07 |
Notre Dame |
South Bend, IN |
NBC | 12:30PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
10/27/07 |
Oregon |
Eugene, OR |
FSN | 12:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/03/07 |
Oregon State |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/10/07 |
Cal |
Berkeley, CA |
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
11/22/07 |
Arizona State |
Tempe, AZ |
ESPN | 5:00PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
12/01/07 |
UCLA |
L.A. Coliseum |
ABC | 1:30PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
01/01/08 |
Illinois |
Rose Bowl |
ABC | 2:10PM | Buy | Sell | Bet |
2007 Schedule
496 responses to “2007 Schedule”
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Cincinatti over WV would not surprise me at all; Tech may have a reasonable chance at the upset over OK, but I would be a bit surprised if K State takes out Missouri or if AZ beats Oregon. Haven’t seen enough consistently from K State so I believe the only way they win is if Missouri totally looks past this game to next week’s matchup with Kansas; and, while AZ is improving and at home, Oregon has played too consistently well all year for me to believe they’ll have enough of a letdown to drop this one. I wouldn’t be surprised if AZ keeps the game competitive, but I think Oregon comes out on top.
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A one of my upset picks is looking good huh, I hope Arizona can pull I off. That means USC and ASU will play on Thanksgiving for the Rose Bowl, and USC will play for there 6th straight PAC 10 title. Don’t forget I called Arizona over Oregon, just look up on the comments you will see it this will put my upset record at 17-3.
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well one of my upset calls turned out to be right now lets see the other ones on saturday.
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tigran,
You did call AZ over Oregon, though I don’t believe AZ would have won had Dixon not gone down (reference my Nov 12 post regarding that); however, while ASU now controls their own destiny for the Pac-10 title and the Rose Bowl; USC still needs help even if they win out. If Oregon beats UCLA and OSU, they win the tie breaks over ASU and USC (having beaten both), even in a three way tie. So USC needs to beat ASU and UCLA AND have Oregon lose to either UCLA or OSU to win the Pac-10. In such a case USC gets the tie break against ASU, the only other team that could finish with only two league losses.
All that said, I now believe it’s likely Oregon could drop one of their last two due to the pure letdown of how costly tonight’s loss was. I would almost count on it if Dixon cannot come back. He’s the key to their offense and the heart and soul of the team in general. So I’d give USC at least even odds of getting to the Rose Bowl as conference champions should they beat ASU and UCLA.
Hard to believe the winner of the Big 12 will not be in the title game now. With OK and Missouri at only one loss apiece, and Kansas undefeated, the conference champion is more than likely to have at most one loss which ought to keep them ahead of WV and in the title game even if WV wins out. WV likley would need to win out and have LSU lose to have a chance.
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Heck, Ohio State has to be thinking they have a chance at the title game again. Would take a lot of help, but it’s not infeasible. If OK loses to Texas Tech or OK State but wins the title game against Missouri or Kansas (or some other scenario where the Big 12 Champion has two losses) and WV or LSU loses again they’d suddenly be looking very good. AZ State would not be far behind Ohio State if they managed to beat USC and AZ.
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Yes SEC fan, today Alabama, who you included as one of the stronger SEC teams in a September post (to quote, “think about it every week we play FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, AUBURN, EVEN OUR WEAKER TEAMS LIKE S.CAROLINA AND OL’ MISS are a harder schedule than most of your!”) certainly showed the country a whole different level of play today against Sun Belt power LA Monroe (who North Texas proudly claims as having their only victory of the season against).
Just goes to show that embarassments can even happen to even teams in the incomparable SEC. That said, LSU is certainly the current odds on favorite to win the title, despite looking less than impressive against Ole’ Miss today. But the way things have gone this year I wouldn’t be making plans for the national title game until the deal is sealed….
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How about my upset picks i was right on Arizona over #2 Oregon, and Texas Tech over #4 Oklahoma. My record is now 18-3. Next weeks upset picks UCLA over #11 Oregon I think Oregon will be somewhere around there , also Texaxs A&M over #10 Texas I think Texas will move up 3 spots.
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tigran,
You have called a number of upsets correctly, but I do have to question your overall counting. You claimed to 17-3 before this weekend (Nov 15 post), in which two of your 4 proved correct, and now you claim to be 18-3 after the weekend. The numbers just don’t add up–unless you’re using a different accounting system than straight game to game results compared to the ones you “called”. My guess is that you’re likely more around the .500 mark for the season (such as your were this weekend) on how your upset picks have gone, which is pretty darn good for calling upsets.
With Dixon out for the season, I’d be very surprised if the Ducks win both of their remaining games–I think they are more likely to lose both than win both without him. Assuming they drop at least one, ASU can clinch the Pac 10 with a win over USC Thurs or USC can take control of the conference race with a win (needing only to beat UCLA to close it out). Huge game Thursday as far as the Pac 10 and Rose Bowl.
I’ll be interested to see if Oregon finds ways to win after such a devastaing loss, or if they fold up their tent a la CAL (though without Dixon it may be more that they simply don’t have the fire power than folding up their tent). It seems to me that over the last few years that CAL consistently looks pretty good for the first half of the season, then they drops a game they were expected to win, and then they go down the toilet after that; showing almost zero character in response to the disappointing loss.
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I know I will correct my self I am 18-5,
I was just lazy at the moment to correct it but I new I mest up when I looked back to see what I wrote.
Oh Mike if neither LSU, Mizzourri, or Kansas ein there conferenses which is a great shot of happening
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If OK (or perhaps Texas should OK lose to OK State) beats the Kansas vs. Missouri winner (which I believe will happen), there will not be a Big 12 representative in the BCS Championship game. Conversely, if the Kansas/Missouri winner takes the Big 12 title game, they are a lock to get in.
Here’s what I believe are the remaining legitimate possible entries for the BCS Championship game by conference and my assessment of likelihood:
SEC: LSU
Big East: West Virginia
Big 12: Kansas/Missouri Winner
Big 10: Ohio State
Pac 10: Arizona StateI have West Virginia in the second slot because I’m predicting that the Kansas/Missouri winner will not win the Big 12 Championship game (if they do win it, they are in). Now, if LSU, West Virginia, the Kansas/Missouri winner and ASU all manage to lose again (unlikely in my opinion, but not impossible); Ohio State is in for sure and all bets are off regarding their opponent in light of the likely number of two loss teams competing against each other (and against a one loss Kansas who would not have even won their conference).
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1. Oregon drops their last two games as they feel the loss of the best player in college football.
2. Arizona State gets exposed by USC, as a healthy PC USC team begins to flex its muscles for the BCS polls. Green Wideouts turn savvy and begin their ascent as the best group ever signed to wear the trojan uniform.
3. LSU wins plays for the SEC championship, but loses after their “throwing” qb gets injured.
4. Kansas defeats Missouri, then, loses to a pissed off Oaklahoma team that is the “real” deal BCS challenger.
5. West Virginia sucks, don’t care what they do. I just hope the power house U Conn runs a fast break and knocks these fools out.
6. Virgina Tech is gonna lay a goose egg, and lose a wild one to Virgina for that in-state battle.
7. USC blows the doors off of Arizona State. JDB looks like the QB that we all know he is ~ “A frikin animal ballin a$$ QB out of the state of Louisiana. Then, the rb’s roll over 400 yds against UCLA as USC dishes out their frustrations on a meek UCLA team.BCS Voters struggle, but give in to the preseason hype that now seams true…They vote USC as number 2, and they line up against LSU.
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USC Coach,
I can’t say I’d argue much with most of your assessments/comments (though the likelihood of EVERY ONE of those outcomes occurring is small regardless) but even if all laid out like that, no matter how much the BCS voters agonized and struggled, the system being what it is, it’s hard to see any two loss team getting into the BCS championship game ahead of Ohio State (not that I don’t necessarily believe Ohio State is overall a “better” team than a number of those would-be two loss teams).
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Oops, that last parenthetical comment should have read, “not that I [DO] necessarily believe Ohio State is overall a “better” team than a number of those would-be two loss teams”.
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PC if any of your staff is reading this………please please roll the frikin dice. You must blow the damn doors off of this Arizona State wanna be team! Erickson is a descent college coach, sucked as a pro coach. I didn’t like the crap he did over at Miami when he was there…took the damn swagger out of a Cane program that J.Johnson built………..
Get after it with the play calling. Get after it coach…..damn…….I played for a coach that told me, “I expect you to play your ass off. It’s fair for you to expect me to coach my ass off to get after it ~ to win.
We got two weeks…..AZ State 1st. Handle that shit man.
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Sarkisian still needs to go at the end of the year. That wipe, Dcoordinator, needs to go too. Give the Dcoordinator to K Norton. Bring me on for D-Line 🙂
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LOL…..STUPID ASS NOTRE DAME FANS!! THEY ARE STILL CRYING ABOUT THAT GAME?? LOL…FUCKING PUSSYS!! DEAL WITH IT…WE WON AND THATS THAT!!
AND U GUYS HAVE NO ROOM TO TALK…U GUYS WON 2 GAMES THIS YEAR!!! LMAO!!!! GO IRISH??
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YES!!!!!! AND LSU GOES DOWN!!!!! THOSE BASTARDS FINALLY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA! MAN IM SO HAPPY RITE NOW!!! THANK U ARKANSAS FOR EXPOSING THEIR PRETENDER DEFENCE! 388 RUSH YARDS? GOD DAMN! I WONDER IF THERE IS ANYWAY USC CAN PLAY LOSER STATE UNIVERSITY IN A BCS BOWL GAME?? WE WOULD SPANK THE SHIT OUT OF THEM SPRIMP EATERS!!!
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Yesterday’s USC game and today’s LSU game were pretty sweet weren’t they? Here’s a couple of possible scenarios that could lead to a LSU/USC matchup in a BCS Bowl game:
1. Oregon wins out, USC beats UCLA and LSU wins the SEC title game, but doesn’t make it to the BCS title game (Ohio State will finish ahead of LSU so Kansas, Missouri, or WV winning out would keep at least two teams ahead of them). With Oregon going to the Rose Bowl as the Pac-10 Champions, USC is available for an at large bid to meet LSU in the Sugar Bowl (and if a 10-2 USC team were available when the Sugar Bowl’s turn to pick comes, I could pretty much guarantee you that’s who they’d select).
2. Oregon loses at least once more, USC beats UCLA (winning the Pac-10 and clinching a spot in the Rose Bowl), LSU loses to Tenn or GA in the SEC championship game and Ohio State ends up in the BCS Championship game (OK beats the Missouri/Kansas winner or WV loses). With no Big 10 team looking particularly attractive to replace OSU, the thought of a LSU/USC matchup causes the Rose Bowl to offer their at large spot (due to OSU going to the BCS title game) to a three loss LSU team over some other two loss team.
Neither perhaps likely, but neither implausible either. I think it’s more likely USC wins the Pac-10 (I just don’t see Oregon winning out without Dixon) and LSU takes the SEC Championship game, locking USC into the Rose Bowl and LSU into the Sugar Bowl such that they couldn’t play each other in a bowl game this year.
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A Scent of a ROSEBOWL…
FIGHT ON TROJANS!!!
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Incredible turn of events since the loss in Eugene. Now one win from sixth straight Pac-10 Championship, Roses and a sixth straight BCS bowl game. Two more wins would likely yield another top 5 finish. No time for any let downs. FIGHT ON!
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Thats right lets go USC. This time they are not going to allow UCLA to come onto there turf and spoil there chances at a Rose Bowl. USC should come out firing clicking on all cylinders, especially John David Booty with the passing game. UCLA should have nothing on offense, and the way UCLA’s offense is plaing, and how the Trojans defense is playing thats exactly what I expect to happen. Thats amazing if they beat the Bruins (as expected) it will be 6 straight PAC 10 titles, 6 straight BCS bowl appearenses. a 70-6 record in the past 6 seasons man you talk about a football team to be remembered.
Mike answer these two questions for me 1: if the title game ends up being OSU and WV who does USC play in th Rose Bowl
Also 2: they said on ABC if UCLA beats USC (not going to happen) and ASU loses to Arizona UCLA will get the Rose Bowl how is that possible when UCLA will have the same conferense record as ASU and ASU beat UCLA.PS: Kill the Bruins
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1. If OSU goes to the championship game, it means Mizzou or WV loses next week. Either of those would be a possible replacement for OSU. Kansas is another possibility; they certainly look good for at large BCS Bowl pick. Is the ACC champion locked into a specific bowl? If not, the Va Tech/BC winner would be a possibility. Georgia is another possibility. If LSU loses to Tenn, they would be a very tempting pick to provide a USC/LSU matchup; but in such a case there would probably be too many teams too far ahead of LSU to justify that pick. I don’t see Hawaii ending up in the Rose should they finish high enough to get a BCS bid. No real telling for sure until the dust settles on the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 championship games and we know who’s locked into what Bowls and how many at-large openings BCS Bowl openings there are, but my best guess would be Mizzou, Georgia, WV, Kansas or the ACC champion (if they are not locked into a specific BCS bowl).
2. If UCLA, AZ and Oregon win there is a four way tie at 6-3 (ASU, Oregon, UCLA and USC). Amongst those four teams head to head round robin records would be:
UCLA: 2-1
Oregon: 2-1
USC: 1-2
ASU: 1-2That would knock out ASU and USC and then UCLA would win the tie break against Oregon by virtue of their win today.
However, if UCLA, AZ and Oregon State win: It’s a four way tie between UCLA, USC, ASU and Oregon State. In the head to head merry go round of those four we would have:
UCLA: 2-1
USC: 2-1
ASU: 2-1
Oregon State: 0-3That would knock Oregon State out. Next step would be to compare the three team (UCLA, USC and ASU) head to head merry go round. Each team would be 1-1 in that tie break so we move on to compare UCLA, USC and ASU’s record against the 4th place team (Oregon State), which they all beat, so we go to the fifth place team. Now both AZ and Oregon would be tied for fifth at 5-4, so they would compare collective records against the two:
UCLA: 1-1
USC: 1-1
ASU: 0-2That knocks ASU out and then UCLA wins the two team tie break over USC by virtue of their head to head victory next week in such a scenario. So, if UCLA upsets USC AND AZ upsets ASU, UCLA wins the tie break scenarios regardless of who wins the Oregon/Oregon State game and what you heard on ABC is correct.
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My BCS Bowl Matchup Predictions:
Conference champions (automatic bids): Ohio State, West Virginia, Va Tech, LSU, USC, Oklahoma
Other automatic bids: GA (top four finish non conference champion), Hawaii (undefeated with a top 12 BCS finish).
At large bids: Mizzou–will drop below #4 for the automatic bid but will get selected over Kansas by virtue of having beaten Kansas (only two losses will be to Oklahoma), leaving one loss Kansas in the cold as no conference can have more than two teams in BCS games; and AZ State (BC a possibility of they play well against Va Tech, but unlikely Fiesta Bowl would pass up a chance to get AZ State in favor of the ACC runner up; FL can’t get in because of the two team limit per conference).
Matchups:
BCS Championship Game:
#1 West Virginia vs
#2 Ohio StateRose: (Will get first pick of teams to replace OSU)
At large pick: Georgia
Host team: USC (Pac-10 Champion automatic)Orange: (Next pick this year)
At large pick: Missouri
Host team: Va Tech (ACC Champion automatic)Fiesta: (Next pick)
At large pick: AZ State
Host team: Oklahoma (Big 12 Champion automatic)Sugar: (Last pick this year)
At large pick: Hawaii
Host team: LSU (SEC Champion automatic)Now that I’ve made my predictions, Missouri will probably beat OK, BC over Va Tech, Tenn over LSU, Pitt beat WV, Washington beat Hawaii, UCLA upset USC again and who knows what else that would throw my selections all to hell–we’ll know next week.
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Short version BCS Bowl matchup predictions for those who don’t like to see the thought process behind the picks:
BCS Championship game: Ohio State vs West Virginia
Rose: Georgia vs USC
Orange: Missouri vs Va Tech
Fiesta: Arizona State vs Oklahoma
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The more I look at how things shape up, the more confident I am that USC (assuming they take care of business against UCLA–not a given the way things have gone since their last matchup) will play either Ohio State (if WV and Missouri win), or Georgia (likely highest ranked team available for the Rose Bowl replacement pick should OSU end up in the title game, and the Rose would get first pick).
In short, it’s hard to imagine the Pac-10 Champion playing anyone besides Ohio State or Georgia in the Rose Bowl this year. Whichever one it is will likely be #3 going into the game, so a win against UCLA and then a Rose Bowl win would likely vault USC into the top 5.
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I really hope Georgia doesn’t go to the Rose Bowl with USC. I don’t know about anyone else, but that would be one of the least appealing possibilities to me.
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Nick,
If Ohio State goes to the BCS championship game, the only other remote possibilities besides Georgia that I see would be Missouri (assuming they lose to Oklahoma); but Georgia would probably be ranked ahead of Missouri and has more name recognition so I don’t believe that would happen; or Kansas (WV loses and Missouri wins and Kansas would get into a BCS Bowl instead of Oklahoma). But if Missouri wins, the Fiesta Bowl would get first replacement pick over the Rose (because Missouri would be #1 and OSU #2) and would likely snatch up a would-be #4, single loss Big 12 team (Kansas), who’s champion is locked into the Fiesta Bowl, over a would-be #3, two loss SEC team (Georgia); leaving a #3 Georgia and maybe a West Virginia ranked in the 5-8 range available. Can’t see WV being picked over Georgia in such a situation.
The Va Tech/BC winner goes to the Orange and loser would have 3 losses so it wouldn’t be either of them, LSU either goes to the Sugar or is out of the BCS bowl picture (Tenn and Georgia being in), Oklahoma either goes to the Fiesta or is out of the BCS picture (Missouri and Kansas being in) so it wouldn’t be them. Florida can’t get into a BCS bowl because the Tenn/LSU winner and GA are going to get automatic bids to BCS games; Hawaii doesn’t have the clout and will likely end up in the Sugar (who has the last at large selection this year) if they beat Washington, and the Rose Bowl is not going to select an all Pac-10 USC/AZ State rematch. I just don’t realistically see anyone but Georgia except for a very slim outside shot for Missouri should they lose to Oklahoma.
Guess you’ll just need to pull for Missouri and WV next week to keep Ohio State in the Rose.
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Hmmm,
If BOTH Missouri AND West Virginia lost, it’s possible Georgia could end up in the title game against Ohio State, probably making Missouri the most likely pick for the Rose. But if Missouri and West Virginia lose, I don’t think Georgia, who has two losses and isn’t even playing in their conference championship game, would get in the BCS Title game. I think they would get jumped over by a BCS conference champion such as Oklahoma, Va Tech, or LSU. If USC had a tougher matchup for their last game to impress the voters with, you could even add them into the mix in such a scenario (as it is, they would have to CRUSH UCLA, have Oklahoma win unimpressively, have Pitt beat WV, Tenn beat LSU and BC beat Va Tech to even have remote consideration). Even then, where would a single loss Kansas team fit in? So, the way I see it, Georgia is the far and away most likely replacement for Ohio State should OSU end up in the title game.
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thanks for the breakdown Mike D. I really appreciate the knowledge you bring to this board.
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The BCS is crap. How in the hell is Georgia ranked higher than the Vols and LSU? This is bull crap. If they are not the conference champ, they shouldn’t be ranked higher than their conference champs. This is crap.
I await the additional points earned in the final week of games.
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BS or not, it’s what the system is, warts and all. The only teams that could pass up Georgia, who does not play again until their bowl game, at this point are Virginia Tech, LSU, and Oklahoma. They could only do so by impressively winning their conference championship games; which locks them into specific bowls (Orange, Sugar and Fiesta respectively). All available teams for replacement selection would remain relatively ranked in relation to one one another, so it would have no impact on a replacement selection by the Rose Bowl should Ohio State end up in the BCS Championship game.
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We’d probably see a better national championship game if your coach wasn’t such a whiny bitch a few years back and didn’t have the BCS reduce the impact for strength of schedule. Way to screw up college football, butthole.
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jmoney,
1. Very mature, rational statement: “Anything not perfect about the BCS and college football is Pete Carroll and USC’s fault.” The reality is that the BCS system, as long as it exists, will always have flaws no matter what they do with it; some years those flaws will be masked, and others they will be laid bare for all to see.
2. Even if all the woes of the BCS were Pete Carrol’s fault due to changes made after the 2003 season (I assume that is what you are referring to), how do you figure we’d have a “better” championship game? The computer averages, which incorporate “strength of schedule” have Missouri #1, WV #2, and Ohio State #3 just like the human polls. I don’t see that there would be any difference this year as things stand. Furthermore, the human polls DO factor in strength of schedule to some degree, if they didn’t, wouldn’t Hawaii be #1 instead of #12?
3. I really don’t recall all that much whining given the injustice of the team voted #1 in both contributing human polls getting squeezed out of the BCS title game by some computers primarily based on teams running up scores throughout the year. What I recall off the top of my head were statements along the lines of “It’s very disappointing. It kind of seems wrong and doesn’t make sense to me, but that’s what the system came up with. We’re just going to play the game we have in front of us and not worry about it. That’s all we can do.” I really don’t think any team under similar circumstances would feel much different. If you have documented “whining”, please reference it–in full context, to back up your statement.
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Hmm, ESPN’s Ivan Maisel and Mark Schlabach have their latest Bowl projections: They (as well as I), think Va Tech, USC, Va Tech, WV, and OK will win this week and wrap up their conferences and Hawaii will win, staying in the top 12 to lock up a BCS bowl bid. Maisel’s BCS Bowl picks mirror mine except he has Kansas getting in to play Va Tech in the Orange over Missouri–a possibility, but I think Missouri would maintain the edge over Kansas despite having two losses should they lose against OK. Reason being that both their losses would have been to the Big 12 Champion (Oklahoma), who Kansas did not have to play, and that they beat Kansas head to head.
More interesting was Schlabach’s projections: He projects the Rose Bowl selecting Illinois to replace Ohio State, Georgia going to the Orange against Va Tech and both Kansas and Missouri getting left out in the cold (the Fiesta picking in-state AZ State over both of them despite being ranked lower). That is a possibility. The Rose Bowl is VERY big on maintaining the tradition of a Pac-10/Big-10 matchup. It just seems that dipping down to #15 (current rankings) Illinois over a would be #3 Georgia would be too steep a price to pay to maintain that tradition for this year’s matchup. An interesting projection however–certainly more likely than selecting a Missouri or Kansas IMHO, and one that I would not altogether discount.
Assuming USC wins Saturday, I’d personally prefer they play a higher ranked team to improve their chances at moving up in the final polls with a Rose Bowl victory. Even losing to #3 in a decent game would probably be no worse than beating #15 as far as rankings go.
Oh well, if OSU gets in the championship game I guess we’ll know soon enough who the Rose Bowl will select to replace them….
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Oops, that second “Va Tech” in the list of projected winners in this week’s games should have been “LSU”.
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The way I read the BCS selection rules, Illinois would have to move into the top 14 to get selected. I guess Schlabach projects BC losing to Va Tech will drop them below Illinois; moving the Illini up #14 and qualifying them for an at-large selection. Don’t see anyway else for them to move into the top 14 unless Hawaii loses (but Schlabach projects Hawaii to beat Washington and end up in the Sugar Bowl), which would let Illinois move up the polls to become at-large eligible and also open up another at-large slot, likely going to the Va Tech/BS loser or Illinois–out of those, only the Illini (Big 10) would have a chance to be selected by the Rose Bowl, but I still think the Rose Bowl would end up opting for a two-loss #3 Georgia over a three-loss #14 Illinois, despite their penchant for tradition.
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With all of the emotion, and motivation USC is going into this game because it’s the final home game of the year, and now that USC is healthy and playing tremendous football. I don’t see the lightning striking on the Trojans for a second year in a row
BLOW THOSE SON OF
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A very sound, if not completely dominating win over UCLA today. Just need to finish of the year with a win in the Rose Bowl.
On the national scene, assuming OK doesn’t blow their big 4th quarter lead there be chaos in the BCS. I could make an argument for, and against the teams ranked 4-9 going into today (GA, KA, Va Tech, LSU, USC, and OK) as being Ohio State’s opponent.
However, when all is said and done, I think LSU will sneak back in (even though I felt they played poorly enough to deserve to lose today). I just can’t see voters putting GA or KA, neither who even made it to their conference championship game, into the BCS championship game–though it’s not beyond possibility. I think Va Tech’s blowout loss to LSU earlier this year will keep them below LSU. I also believe that USC’s loss to Stanford was just too damning to put them in (though I believe USC is currently playing as well or better than any of the other candidates). Oklahoma may have the best chance to squeak by LSU soundly beating #1 Mizzou, but I believe voters will look at LSU, with both of their losses being in multiple OT games, as the “most deserving”. There’s sure to be lot’s of wailing and gnashing of teeth regardless. The Rose Bowl will get first replacement pick since OSU will be #1, will be interesting to see who they select: GA if not in the BCS championship game?, KA?, Mizzou?, Illinois assuming BC drops below them and they climb into the top 14?. The whole BCS Bowl matchups depend on who ends up #2 and who the Rose and bowl that loses the #2 team picks to replace those teams. Mizzou’s loss tonight may be bad enough to drop them behind KA as a BCS bowl selection despite their win over KA last week. Tomorrow should be interesting!
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Well, looks like OSU/LSU. The Sugar Bowl is not going to give up Georgia (Bowl losing the #1 team cannot pick a team from the same conference of the #2 team w/o the Bowl losing the #2 team’s permission). So looks like USC will be playing Illinois or Mizzou/Kansas. I’d rather one of the latter (higher ranking team), but I think they will end up going with Illinois to maintain a Pac10/Big10 matchup. In which case I think AZ State will get shut out (Fiesta going with an all Big12 OK/KA matchup over selecting a lower ranked AZ State). My just-before-selection-predictions (on which I reserve the right to be wrong):
National Championship Game (what a joke to call it that this year–at least half a dozen worthy teams): LSU/Ohio State
Rose: Illinois/USC
Orange: West Virginia/Va Tech
Fiesta: Kansas/Oklahoma
Sugar: Hawaii/GAMizzou ends up being “punished” for making the Big 12 Championship game and AZ State left out also–playing each other in the Holiday Bowl instead of either getting a BCS bowl.
I think I would have nailed my original predictions had West Virginia not layed an egg against Pitt. Oh well.
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Hmm, I guess the Cotton Bowl gets the #2 Big12 team and the Holiday Bowl #3, which means Mizzou would go to the Cotton Bowl in my scenario and AZ State would get Texas in the Holiday Bowl. We’ll know shortly.
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For the first time in my life I think I’ve heard Lou Holtz say something as an ESPN analyst that I agree with (just saw the clip on their website). He generally panders so much towards Notre Dame and rarely gives USC their due. Anyways, his comment was something to the effect off: “If I were in the Championship game, there is no team I would less rather see right now than USC. However, I don’t believe they (USC) deserve to be there.” (Based on how the system works). Parenthetical comments mine.
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well all you UCLA fans it is our turn to brag, as USC beat UCLA for the 8th time in the past 9 years, USC has just one there 6th straight PAC 10 championship, I am more than thrilled for USC to play in the Rose Bowl, however I don’t understand why they chose Illinois to play the Trojans, I was more then sure it was going to be USC Georgia. I’m sure Georgia fans are furious at the selection of the BCS. Mike how do you see USC and Illinois playing out.
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tigran,
Because the Sugar Bowl lost LSU, the Rose Bowl could not select an SEC team without the Sugar Bowl’s permission, so that made Georgia unavailable (no way the Sugar Bowl was not going to keep a team from their “tie-in” conference, especially when that team was the highest ranked of the non-“locked in” teams. Had West Va, Mizzou or Tennessee won, keeping the SEC champion in the Sugar, Georgia would have been available and I believe selected by the Rose Bowl.
I’m a bit surprised by the Orange Bowl selecting Kansas to play Va Tech. Thought they would have gone with an east coast team (West Va), especially since there used to be a semi tie-in with the Big East (Orange Bowl was hosted by either the ACC or Big East Champion up to 2005) more recently than the old tie-in with the Big 8 (current Big 12). Given they did not go with West Virginia, it’s curious why they took Kansas over Mizzou: Mizzou BEAT Kansas; Mizzou’s only losses were to #3 Big 12 Champion Oklahoma; and Mizzou was two spots higher in the final BCS rankings. I could have understood the Fiesta taking Kansas over Mizzou if they were left with the choice (not wanting a third OK/Mizzou game this year), but do not really understand the Orange Bowl’s reasoning. My BCS Bowl Predictions:
Championship Game: If LSU plays at the level they’ve been playing at for the last half of the season I believe OSU will beat them. Despite being ranked higher, I believe OSU will be going in as the underdog and most everyone expecting LSU to win. Kind of reminding me like 2002 when no one really believed in them when the went up against Miami. I’m going with OSU (probably as much out of hope as logical reasoning).
Rose: USC SHOULD, and I believe WILL handle Illinois, though it may be a bit tougher than most expect. However, I expect USC to pull away by 10+ points by the end.
Orange: I think Va Tech wins relatively easily against Kansas. IMHO it would be a much more interesting game if Mizzou were playing.
Fiesta: If White is still iffy it won’t even be close. Even if he’s healthy I think OK wins this one relatively easily.
Sugar: This one intrigues me. I don’t think Hawaii can stop Georgia, but they may be able to put up enough points to keep it competitive. I think LSU’s defense would definitely had a very difficult time but Georgia’s may be a bit more suitable to deal with what Hawaii brings. I’ll be pulling for Hawaii but believe Georgia will win going away when all is said and done.
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Question for everyone: Should Hawaii find a way to beat Georgia, do they have any kind of legitimate claim/arguement to be #1 (at least in the AP)? They’d be undefeated and have beaten a quality team that many consider to be playing as good as any in the land right now.
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I think that all depends on how the OSU LSU game goes. Also if USC goes out there and beats Illinois in a way that shows Illinois had no bussiness being in a BCS bowl, than they too can also make a claim to be #1, especially along with that if lets say LSU gets blown out by OSU. So theres your anzwer Mike.
Mike answer these 2 questions for me
1: What is your perspective on the firing of Carl Dorrell.
2: Because of the decision there was made between USC and LSU, do you think USC deserves a shot at the share of a natoinal championship just like the one thay one in 2003, because at that time there was also a decision made between USC and Oklahoma, and last year since Florida was chasen over Michigan they were also given a shot at a split national title but failed against USC.
So what do you think should they get it
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So, I’m reading my USA Today to review how the coaches voted on the top 25. Very interesting ranking from the unshaved beavers, and daffy ducks……..
Mike Belotti, of all coaches, should know the tremendous loss that a team suffers when the starting QB is out. Still, the USC team lost in the final minutes with the “2nd string” QB leading the offense down the field. Belotti, you prick, USC barely lost to you with Sanchez manning the helm. Mike Belotti ranked USC #7 behind Kansas, Missouri, Georgia, VT, LSU#2, and Ohio State #1! Wow, way to go….guess all those critics out there across America are right. The PAC 10 does suck, take it from an asshole but wipe like Belotti.
The next dumb ass coach on my list is that prick from Oregon State…..Mike Riley. You idiot, you ranked USC at number 6??? PAC 10 football sucks because of you. You suck coach. USC is the best team, the PAC 10 champ….which at best in your estimation is #6. Way to go Ass wipe. Why don’t you just go to a frikin the SEC so that you don’t have to be ashamed of the “SLACK 10.”
That ass wipe, Charlie Weiss, voted USC #7! Thanks Charlie, you’ll be jobless in South Bend next year!
The voting from these coaches was slanted as the majority of these pricks were from the midwest eastward.
Jim Tressel of Ohio State voted USC #3! Whoaaa, maybe he knows something since he actually has won championships!
Tedford voted USC #2! Whoaaa, maybe that CAL coach knows something too, since he left Oregon’s sorry ass!
Ron Zook, of Illinois, voted USC #4!
Fuck the Oregon Coaches!
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Regarding Dorrell: Haven’t been following UCLA very closely, but it seems they have just been too inconsistent. They’re being compared to USC which has been quite a standard as of late. Seems UCLA has come up with one or two “big” wins almost every season, which just makes many of their losses and overall mediocrity more frustrating for UCLA fans. In short, I’m not surprised to see him go, though I’m not sure that they’ll end up doing any better with whoever they bring in next.
USC has no shot at ending up with the AP championship no matter what happens in the Bowl games. They may be the best team at the present, but even if they are (no way to prove it) it won’t matter. That’s not they way the system works. The winner of the LSU/OSU game will take the BCS and AP. Oklahoma may get some #1 votes in the AP if they stomp West Virginia and the LSU/OSU game is unimpressive, and Hawaii could sneak a few if they beat Georgia in a manner that doesn’t look like a “one in a million” game, but neither would overtake the winner of the LSU/OSU game.
I think Oklahoma and USC are the two teams playing the best right now (some would likely argue Georgia is playing as well as anyone too), but based on the “rules of the system” the game they ended up with is as much or more defensible then any other possible matchup they could have voted in.
I’d argue that OSU, LSU, OK, USC, Va Tech and even W Va & Hawaii are about equally deserving of the opportunity in the championship game, but only two can get in. Mizzou, Kansas and Georgia are just behind those seven, but I exclude them for not winning their respective conferences. And the way the “rules” work (movement in the rankings based on who you lost to, by how much, and when), the OSU/LSU matchup is what comes out. So whether or not anyone thinks they are the best two teams, or even if in fact they are not (no way to prove that), they’ve done what they needed to do to get there within the bounds of the system and the winner deserves the BCS title.
Based on current play and returning players, my guess is next season’s preseason rankings will have OK #1 and USC #2: But as I said when this season started, “Precious few who start the season #1 end there.” But next season is a ways off, time to enjoy this Bowl season for now.
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If USC beats Illinois, it will give them a 5-1 BCS bowl record in the past 6 years including 3 Rose Bowls an Orange bowl, and 2 national titles. Also a 70-6 record, 6 straight PAC 10 titles, 3 heisman trophy winners, and 6 consecutive fineshes in the top 5. These are of just a few accomplishments of many through 2002-2007.
Now my question is how long will this kind of success last, when will it take a break, because throughout Trojan history they have aways been a great team but there have been a few holes here and there through certein time periods. -
This is going to be a great bowl season I am actually looking forward to Thursdays Utah Navy Ponsietta Bowl
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Happy Holidays with Roses PAC-TEN.. ok, and others {CFB}.
FIGHT ON TROJANS !!!
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