College football Week 9 thread

And now your Big 12, for reference:

Manly Men
Colorado: Colorado State (at Denver); at Arizona State; Florida State; Miami (Ohio)
Kansas State: at Auburn; San Jose State; Missouri State; at Fresno State
Nebraska: Nevada; at Wake Forest; USC; Ball State

Decent
Baylor: at TCU; Rice; Texas State; at Buffalo
Iowa State: Kent State; Northern Iowa; Iowa; at Toledo
Missouri: Illinois (at St. Louis); at Ole Miss; Western Michigan; Illinois State
Oklahoma: North Texas; Miami; Utah State; at Tulsa
Oklahoma State: at Georgia; Florida Atlantic; at Troy; Sam Houston State
Texas A&M: Montana State; Fresno State; Louisiana-Monroe; at Miami

Shameful
Kansas: Central Michigan; Southeastern Louisiana; Toledo; Florida International
Texas: Arkansas State; TCU; at UCF; Rice
Texas Tech: at SMU; UTEP; at Rice; Northwestern State

 

Shilling? Yes. But still a valid point. Pac-10 WOULD be more visible on the WWL.

 

The toughest thing about the SEC doesn't show up in one game. It shows up in the weekly beating you get from 12 incredibly big, fast, physical defenses. It is, without question, every year, TOP-TO-BOTTOM, the most difficult league in the country.

Kentucky lost to Mississippi State in part because the Cats had the hell kicked out of them playing LSU and Florida the past two weeks.

Early-season games and bowl games following a month off don't show what I think makes it the toughest league.

That said, the PAC-10 has gotten a lot, lot, lot better, and it has several damn fine teams. Anyone who watches that league can easily see that.

But Ohio State is absolutely not the best team in the country, and it's a shame that the Buckeyes will play for a national championship without playing anyone. Yeah, that's right, anyone. If they can get by the team that lost, at home, to the fifth-place team in the I-AA Southern Conference, they will play for the national title, and it's a shame.

 

I'd put Ohio State up against anyone right now. They dominated a top-25 team last night, and you can't change that fact.

HP, I have trouble with your "anyone" meaning the nation's top five teams.

 

Florida is playing Miami next season, too. Look at the Gators' 2008 schedule. It might be the toughest in the history of college football. It has to be in the conversation. Yuck.

Also, Tennessee is playing UCLA in 2008-09, NC State in 2008 and 2012, Oregon in 2010 and 2013, North Carolina in 2011-12, Oklahoma in 2014-15, and Nebraska in 2016-17. In the past 10 years, the Vols have played home-and-homes with Cal, Miami, Notre Dame, UCLA and Syracuse (when it mattered).

 

And they dominated that team on the road, in a hostile environment, at a place where they've had little luck in St. Sweater Vest's tenure.

 

I think a lot of teams would be unbeaten against Ohio State's schedule.

 

Actually, I count that the SEC is 5-5 in OOC games against BCS teams. Does .500 equal a losing record now?

And two of those losses were by Ole Miss and Miss. State, which I thought we decided didn't count.

 

At Penn State at night is a good win.

 

Boeckman did look like one hell of a game manager last night.

 

Fucking ludicrous.

Absolutely ludicrous. Shit that would embarrass a fanboi.

Based on what? You having a hard on for it?

How do you know? They looked pretty good last night. They beat a pretty good team on the road.

I just love how in the same breath you can justify Kentucky losing because of who it played the week before, then say that an undefeated Big Ten team would have played "nobody" to get to a national championship game.

 

Only saw the highlights, but I heard a couple of people say that.