College Football Week 3: The only real barbecue is whole Hog

They needed to schedule one more frontline opponent if they wanted to even have an outside chance at the Top 16 automatic BCS bid. Their schedule is just brutally bad. It's a shame because it's good team. But they'll be stuck playing in the Potato or Mobile, Ala., bowl again.

 

Boise State made a living off of doing exactly what Ohio is doing. And the WAC was a much shittier league than the MAC.

 

If you are going to have a poll that helps decide who plays for the national championship, explain how this takes place based on what we know so far.

If ND beats another ranked team in Michigan this weekend, then do you jump them above USC?
Why is Georgia, Oklahoma, West Virginia ranked that much higher than Florida? What have they've done that makes so say they should be top 10 teams at this point?

 

But Ohio doesn't yet have the string of victories over national powers that Boise State has. Only time and meatier scheduling will bring that potential.

 

What fucking difference does it make? It's September.

And why should ND get credit for beating a Michigan team everybody said was horseshit after they got dumptrucked by Alabama?

And who in their right mind thinks Florida is as good as West Virginia?

 

Of course winning the 2005 Fiesta Bowl isn't supposed to mean shit in 2012. Neither is beating Oregon at home howevermanyfuckingyearsagoitwas.

 

But when Boise beats one of these powers every year, the cumulative effect means something.

 

Well, for starters. The schedules are woefully uneven. Florida State has crushed Murray State, Savannah State and Wake Forest. Nothing overly meaningful about that. Yet it would be unfair to punish them for kicking the crap out of teams they were supposed to kick the crap out of.

Oklahoma beat Texas-El Paso and Florida A&M. What does that say about the Sooners?

Alabama has beaten Michigan at a neutral site and Arkansas on the road. Neither of those teams may turn out to be as good as their preseason rankings.

Stanford and UCLA are both 3-0, with one win over a favored team.

Just too hard to make comparisons this early. It's a long season; it'll sort itself out by December.

 

I'm really looking forward to this thread falling off the front page so I don't have to look at the thread title and constantly be reminded that Arkansas sucks.

 

Conference USA, actually.

Oh, and those three wins are against South Alabama, Texas A&M-Commerce and Georgia State. They get Northwestern Oklahoma State before embarking on the WAC gauntlet against New Mexico State.

 

Right now, I see top-10 teams in Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma, Florida State (who, by the way, beat the crap out of a team that usually had their number), Oregon and Texas. I wouldn't look at any other team and say, "They should be in the single digits." No. 15 or higher would suit the rest just fine.

 

LSU let Idaho score 14 on Saturday. Alabama has allowed 14 points in its last four games, with three of those shutouts. All I'm sayin is ...

Go Vandals!