College Football Week 11: Indiana is playing for a Big Ten title. In football.

I'd have more sympathy for the SEC if this week's schedule didn't include W. Carolina, Jacksonville St., Georgia Southern, Wofford, Alabama A&M, Sam Houston St. (admittedly, not a bad FCS program) and Samford. It isn't like you had a bye week and were the odd school out. Play another conference game instead of padding the non-cons.

 

It's not Michigan has imploded though either. It has three losses -- one to Bama, one to the third-ranked team in the country by a touchdown on the road, and a loss to a top 20 team when its QB was hurt in the middle of the second quarter and didn't return.

It's not like Michigan pulled an Arkansas and is fighting for a bowl bid.

 

And they both have their systems. If Notre Dame's offense was no-huddle, the Irish might be averaging 50 a game.

 

I didn't have anything to add. So I didn't post. Calm down, dooley. I know your heart would be empty without me.

 

Tell me, given the apparent importance of out-of-conference scheduling, which teams has Florida State played out of conference? And how many of those six SEC teams has played two FCS opponents?

Also, last time I checked, no one in the SEC had lost to N.C. State. So, you know, there's that.

 

Hasn't stopped you before.

 

I think that Notre Dame is a very good example of why margin of victory is not and should probably not be used in the computer rankings. It punishes defensive minded teams. The less points that are scored in a game, the less margin there is bound to be in the final score. That doesn't mean, however, that Notre Dame did not dominate Boston College every bit as much as Oregon dominated Cal.

 

I for one will be mildly surprised if Florida beats Florida State.

 

Valid point. In truth, Cal was in the game considerably longer than BC, as it wasn't until late in the third quarter that Oregon finally broke it open and poured it on. Conversely, the ND/BC game really only felt like it was in question for about a quarter, once ND got that 14-3 first half lead you knew it was over, with no chance of BC coming back against that defense.

Yet the final scores misleadingly make it look like Oregon dominated far more than ND.

 

As tempting as that is, I think you're right. It's probably a stay-away game for me, but it's really hard to bet against those guys.

 

Well, this was fun.

http://deadspin.com/5959722/a-crimson-tide-fan-watches-alabama-lose-and-melts-down-in-his-modern-warfare-3-game

 

Florida State played Murray State, Savannah State and South Florida, though to be fair, the Sav St game was a late replacement for when WVU had to pull out due to the Big 12 move.