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

Keep that strawman well away from matches. It's so brittle and dried out that a stray spark would send the whole thing up in a ball of flame.

 

Fixed

 

I'm not so sure Oregon is better than Kansas State. Probably better than Notre Dame a bit, but Notre Dame has the whole team-of-destiny thing going on this season. I would hate for Kansas State to get Boise'd out of the title game for whatever the reason -- yet I also want to see Notre Dame try for the perfect season.

It'll be Alabama vs. Oregon, Notre Dame or Kansas State. Too bad the Final 4 doesn't start this season.

 

Notre Dame keeps playing with fire. Eventually, they are going to get burnt.

Should have lost to Stanford and Pitt at home. Could lose to BC. I think they will lose at USC.

I said it before, Kansas State had better damn well hope Alabama doesn't lose, because they have a helluva lot better shot at beating Alabama than they do of beating Oregon.

 

Not so sure about that. Kansas State is very good. In a battle of QBs, I'll take Klein.

Give Snyder a month to prepare for Oregon ... .

 

They won't lose to BC. BC is fucking awful.

 

Really. The only path for an all-SEC BCS championship game this year is if K-State, Oregon and Notre Dame all lose, then Georgia beats Alabama in the championship game, Alabama only slips to No. 2 for whatever reason, and we get a rematch in Miami. As long as there's two or three undefeated teams, no one-loss team will sniff the BCS title game.
And LSU, with two losses, is certainly not going to be anywhere near the title game. I wouldn't rule out the Sugar Bowl for them if Florida and Georgia both slip up (most likely vs. FSU and Alabama, respectively). No one, however, has even suggested that the second-best SEC team is the second-best in the country right now.

 

Unlike Mike Riley, who had a 1-10 Oregon State team that had 26 consecutive years of losing competitive in Year I and 10 points away from a 7-4 season in Year II (1998), Leach has not given anyone on the current team any reason to buy what he's selling and has already completely alienated almost any holdovers from the previous coaching staff by calling them corpses, zombies, etc.

There's a reason nobody at TTU defended this guy during the James incident. Wazzu deserved far better. Moos doesn't make to many mistakes (but he did alientate Phil Knight at Oregon, a major fuckup) but he screwed the pooch on this one.

 

Problem is, the bowls are making money off the sponsors and out of town fans, the school administrations like the free trip to anywhere, and the coaches like the extra 2,3,4 or more weeks of practice. Bad football be damned, until the law of diminishing returns kicks in those bowls aren't going anywhere.

 

Notre Dame is not going to lose to BC. No way. No how.

I think they dodged their bullet last week and they'll be re-focused this week.

And as much as they nearly tanked against Pitt, that freshman quarterback looks better and better. He makes some mistakes, but he also made some plays to keep plays alive that whole game. He's dangerous on his feet.

This is the season they're having right now:

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/college_football_2002_schedules/ohiostate.htm

 

That's a very good comparison, Dick, but they really have to hope Oregon and K-State lose. I could see K-State, they have some tough ones coming up, but I don't see a loss on Oregon's schedule.

 

I really would have loved the other night had Alabama lost and Notre Dame, K-State, and Oregon won. I guarantee that there would have been a significant number of southern voters who would have still kept the Tide at No. 1.