The College Football Thread 2006

[rah]

Sorry, assumed I was the nut muncher. (ferrets and all that) Now thinking about it eeewwwww.

[SlowwHand]

[mrmitchell]

ESPN Gameday will be in Fayetteville this week for the matchup of #11 Arkansas and #16 Tennessee. Y'all will probably see a lot of "Lee Corso <3 Penis" signs, so don't let your children watch.

How long will Tennessee's Erik Ainge be out?

The bottom of this article is about Nutt's decision to bench Mustain.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/557921.html

I don't give a damn how many people hate him (and you guys can only start to comprehend how many that is), he is the RIGHT coach for the Razorbacks. Who knows, Broyles may be trying to groom him to be the next athletic director. And Gus Malzahn is the right offensive coordinator. Here's hoping no coaching changes after the season, because they seem to be working together as well as the team.

[Guynemer]

1. Ohio State (6) 69
2. Michigan 62
3. Louisville (1) 53
4. Texas 43
5. Cal 36
5. Florida 36
7. Notre Dame 24
8. Auburn 23
9. USC 17
10. West Virginia 9

ARV: Arkansas 8, Wisconsin 5, LSU 1.

[Drake Tungsten]

Shoot. Forgot my rankings...

1. Ohio State
2. Texas
3. California
4. Louisville
5. LSU
6. West Virginia
7. BYU
8. Michigan
9. Clemson
10. USC

[Imran Siddiqui]

Interesting (part of an article) on Louisville and scheduling:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2652451

The loudest Big East bashing seems to be coming from Southeastern Conference advocates. Here's the funny thing about that: Ask how many SEC teams are willing to schedule Louisville.

The number is two. According to the Louisville administration, everyone else in the league has ducked, dodged and squirmed away from games with the Cardinals.

Kentucky does it more out of rote obligation, satisfying the state's mandate to have its two I-A teams play on an annual basis. The Wildcats are so thrilled about the series that they've cravenly demanded moving the games in Lexington off their traditional season-opening date to a spot later in the calendar, when the matchup will draw less attention.

The other SEC school to step up is Georgia, which has agreed to a two-year home-and-home with Louisville starting in 2010.

Vanderbilt backed out of a contract with the Cards that was to start next year. Everyone else in the SEC has passed at least once on home-and-home overtures from Louisville this century, according to senior associate athletic director Kevin Miller.

It's gotten to the point that Louisville is now offering neutral-site games with SEC teams. Miller said he's met with officials in Nashville about scheduling Louisville against Alabama, Arkansas or Tennessee. Athletic director Tom Jurich (10) said he's open to playing an SEC team in the Georgia Dome. They've asked ESPN for help in lining up games, too.

The takers are few -- and not just in the SEC. Among the others who have broken contracts with the Cardinals in recent years, according to Miller: Boston College, Georgia Tech, Duke and Texas Tech.

"[Football scheduling] has become the hardest part of my job," Jurich said.

SEC schools are busy filling out their schedules with home games, largely against chumps. So far in 2006 the league has produced exactly one road win against a nonconference opponent from a Big Six league: Vanderbilt over Duke. The Big East owns six road wins over Big Six opponents in 2006.

This is how you preserve the status quo: refuse to play up-and-coming programs, then howl about their allegedly weak schedules.

[Drake Tungsten]

I told you guys that the SEC is a joke.

[Guynemer]

BYU?


1. OSU (7) 79
2. Michigan 65
3. Louisville (1) 60
4. Texas 52
5. Cal 44
6. Florida 36
7. Notre Dame 24
8. Auburn 23
9. USC 18
10. West Virginia 14

ARV: Arkansas 8, LSU 7, Wisconsin 5, BYU 4, Clemson 2.

[Drake Tungsten]

They're hot, I tells ya...

edit: Since their loss at BC on Sep. 16th, BYU has won 6 straight games by a combined score of 225 to 58. Lowest margin of victory in those six games is 14 points...

edit 2: And they're doing that in the Mountain West, the toughest of the mid-major conferences.

edit 3: Plus, their loss to BC was in overtime, on the road. Their three-point loss to Arizona (also on the road) in the first game of the season is the only other blemish on their record...

[Guynemer]

Fair enough, I'll buy that they are the most powerful of the midmajors at the moment. But, better than Michigan, Clemson, USC, Wisconsin, Florida, Auburn...? I know you view these rankings differently than most, but even by your criteria, that just seems... odd.

[Drake Tungsten]

I wouldn't bet money on Michigan (or any of those other teams) to win a game at BYU at the moment...

[MRT144]

id bet anything they would. ncaa 07 to the rescue

[Drake Tungsten]

It's too bad we can't arrange it; it'd feel great to take a porn star's money...

[SlowwHand]

BC beat Clemson AND BYU, but BYU gets rated 7 and BC will get here sometime tomorrow?

No justice in this world.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm not after justice in my poll.