NCAA Week 8 Running Thread

[Lucas Wiseman]

I thought that Rutgers' offensive line were the unsung heroes. They made Selvie a non-factor. Rice rushed for 181 yards and Teel had all the time in the world to throw.

I don't disagree with you but I don't think Selvie was playing at 100 percent after tweaking his back in the first half.

 

[JoelHammond]

First, USF.
Next Thursday night, Va Tech over BC. Book it.

I'm with you on that one.

At Va. Tech -- I'll take that.

BC's a bench school. They've always been a bench school. Who are their quality wins? Wake Forest? Ga Tech? Notre Dame? UMass? Gimme a freakin' break. They'll finish the year 9-3 and wind up in Boise for the Blue Turf Slap cork Bowl.

Hello?!?! Bowling Green! [/bitteralumwaitingforcoachtobefired]

 

[Lucas Wiseman]

And USF has no shot at a national title now even if they win out. Unless of course the wacky college football season continues and virtually every team ahead of them ends up with two losses.

 

[Armchair_QB]

And USF has no shot at a national title now even if they win out. Unless of course the wacky college football season continues and virtually every team ahead of them ends up with two losses.

They don't need that to happen to every team. Just all but one of them.

And given the way this season has gone it wouldn't surprise me if that happened.

 

[JoelHammond]

Wow, just saw the highlights, did not see it live. ... Like Armchair has so eloquently put it, the overrule on that fumble return was f-ing ridiculous.

And the offensive PI call was equally bad.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

For South Florida to make the title game, they need to win out, have Auburn and West Virginia win out and watch at least five top 10 teams lose. Now they could very well make a BCS game even if they don't win the Big East (though if they win out, chances are they'll be the conference champs anyway). But national title game is going to take a lot of work, and a good bit of it is going to be out of their hands.

 

[Oz]

I might back off my contention that they'll fall way out of the top 10, but many voters are looking for an excuse to move up some Big 12 or Pac 10 team, and now they have it.

I'm not so sure they're that hungry to move Kansas or Arizona State into the top 10.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Wow, just saw the highlights, did not see it live. ... Like Armchair has so eloquently put it, the overrule on that fumble return was f-ing ridiculous.

And the offensive PI call was equally bad.

The offensive PI call was actually correct but you rarely see it called. That's why it looked so bad. I can't think of the last time I saw it called in a game-ending drive.

I still can't believe they called bacy that touchdown though. There is absolutely no way you can overturn that call based on the video evidence.

Anybody know if the replay booth was getting the audio from the ESPN broadcast? Flutie and James were all but demanding the call be overturned.

 

[Songbird]

He specified two teams, not the entire Pac-10.

Hence the word either.

They wouldn't assrape Stanford or the Beavers, either.

 

[hondo]

No way does USF sniff the title game. They had no margin for error.

That was my thinking, too. USF not only had to win out, but from this point, every game would be a "statement game" a la the UCF game. Given the wackiness of this season, I might back off my contention that they'll fall way out of the top 10, but many voters are looking for an excuse to move up some Big 12 or Pac 10 team, and now they have it.

And is South Florida loses one more, hello Houston Bowl. At best, Charlotte.
Long way from pining away for the BCS championship game.

 

[zagoshe]

South Florida's problem isn't the polls -- it is that they will lose at least one more game, if not two or three, because they are one of the most undisciplined teams on the planet. They turn the ball over, they take a ridiculous amount of really bad penalties, they make mistake after mistake and their quarterback is one of the dumbest players on the planet. The guy takes more sacks and negative plays than anyone I can remember.

It is just too hard to go through an entire season and win every game even if you do everything right and this team, while obviously talented, makes far too many mistakes to think it will get through the rest of its schedule without another team capitalizing enough on its mistakes to beat them.

That being said, someone needs to explain to me why Kansas and Arizona State -- two undefeated teams from BCS conferences -- are not in the top five while Boston College is?

 

[Songbird]

I voted Kansas No. 4 at SportsJournalists.com.