College Football Week 10: Sandy knew not to mess with Nick and Les

I think a lot depends what happens between now and then. If USC has 4 or 5 losses, it might well cease to care and compete.

 

There are 70 bowl slots. Right now there are still 94 teams eligible. That's cutting it close with three weeks left in a season and 33 are in the danger zone.

 

Reduce the number of bowl games by about 10 and going to one might actually mean something again.

 

It'll make great television if Notre Dame is 11-0 going into the USC game.

 

Oregon is the fastest offense college football has ever seen. Fastest to snap, fastest players, etc. not necessarily the best, Alabama could cave them in on the line, but the fastest. I wouldn't base an evaluation of SC totally on that.

Meanwhile Pitt and BYU and Purdue all held the Domers in check. I have to believe SC's defense is better than them.

 

If Oregon is undefeated, they have to be in the title game.
They scored 62 points this week - at USC.

Do we really need to go to the game film of LSU's effort last January?

 

Just to play devil's advocate - OU is 16th in the nation in passing and 15th in points for. USC is 17th in the nation in passing offense and 24th in points for. Notre Dame shut OU down....

ADD: (although apparently ND had another injury in it's already injury-ravaged secondary.)

 

I was trying to think of a reverse comparison for Bama fans. I didn't really think about that game, but it's a good comparison. I was thinking the 2010 Auburn game. Unraveling after a 24-0 lead with some huge mistakes and quirky plays (the Mark Ingram 30-yard fumble that stayed in bounds, etc.).

Alabama has pulled some bizarre wins at LSU. Remember the tip drill game in 1998?

 

Before Wulff was fired, there was a strong sense (among Coug fans) at least 6-6 would be entirely possible in Pullman in 2012 -- with Wulff as coach. Based on that, once Leach was hired going 6-6 was the absolute bare minimum expected. At times (first half vs. Oregon, entire Stanford game, defensive effort vs. Oregon State) the team lives up to that. And then there are the other times, specifically the BYU and Utah games, second half vs. Oregon and fourth quarter meltdown against Colorado. It's puzzling how the team can be so different one week to the next.
The question that keeps coming up for me is we're paying $2.2 million a year for this crap? That's nearly the amount we paid for four crap years with Wulff, but at least there was light at the end of the tunnel. After yesterday, there's a lot of expensive darkness.

 

Does any of your three sentences connect to the other two?

 

I am just waiting for the "the second best team in the SEC is the second best team in the country" crap again.

LSU had their chance, at home, and lost.

 

You are waiting for an argument NO ONE IS MAKING.

Even the most hard-core Florida fans are content this year with a Sugar Bowl berth.