And the College Football season begins!!!

[Dimwhit]

Ya...and Arizona ties USC...so that puzzle piece for the Buckeyes to get in the national championship game seems like a lock!1

Guys, guys...no one runs with USC for a full 60 minutes. They can make the first half look interesting, but USC is the best second half team in the nation.

 

[Crothian]

Guys, guys...no one runs with USC for a full 60 minutes. They can make the first half look interesting, but USC is the best second half team in the nation.

Right, but that means USC is really not that great sicne they are suppossed to be the best team in the nation and just playing the second half is not going to be good enough. Texas really should be number one.

Ands OSU needs to score TDs!!

 

[Crothian]

and for such a good defensive team they miss takles a lot

 

[drothgery]

Right, but that means USC is really not that great sicne they are suppossed to be the best team in the nation and just playing the second half is not going to be good enough. Texas really should be number one.

Bah. The only decent team Texas played was winning late in the fourth quarter, and probably would have won if not for terrible clock management (and you should know, because you were there).

 

[aanJake]

*sings Notre Dame cheer song*

I am a die-hard Notre Dame fan, and we are going to KILL USC next week!

*continues cheering*

 

[Crothian]

Bah. The only decent team Texas played was winning late in the fourth quarter, and probably would have won if not for terrible clock management (and you should know, because you were there).

Right, because Texas at least played a team that was also talented. THe USC games should be over by the first half. Texas has been doing that will their compitition.

 

[The Shaman]

Right, but that means USC is really not that great sicne they are suppossed to be the best team in the nation and just playing the second half is not going to be good enough. Texas really should be number one.

Uh, the Trojans led Arizona at the half by a touchdown. Heck, Carroll put the B-squad on the field for the last six-plus minutes and they got stopped two yards short of the goal line with about 15 or 16 seconds left to play - the Trojans won by twenty-one points, and it wasn't really as close as the score suggests.

Here's the thing: when you're the two-time defending national champions, every opponent brings their A-game every Saturday - no one is "looking ahead on the schedule." If Texas was dealing with that additional pressure, then yes, they would deserve to be number one. Until they are, they take a seat at the back of the bus with the rest of the wannabes.

(And beating Oklahoma? Please. Didn't the Sooners lose already to like Bryn Mawr or Vassar this season? )

The Trojans have got to do something about the penalties - it sucks the momentum out of the offense. What concerns me about penalties is that it reflects a lack of mental preparation. The Trojans don't lack mental toughness - big comeback wins don't come without that - but they need to have their collective heads in the game for the full sixty next week.

 

[drothgery]

Right, because Texas at least played a team that was also talented. THe USC games should be over by the first half. Texas has been doing that will their compitition.

ASU and Oregon are very good teams, especially at home. ASU's only losses were to USC and LSU; Oregon's only loss was to USC. The Pac 10 is very strong this year, probably as good as most writers thought the Big 10 was going to be.

Arizona was scheduled right after two tough road games and right before a road trip to Notre Dame; classic trap game position -- and there's not the huge talent drop-off between the current powers and the current bottom-feeders in the Pac 10 that there is in other major conferences. Ohio State can play badly and blow out Indiana; Texas can play badly and blow out Baylor; if USC plays badly against Arizona or Washington, they're going to lose (and so would Texas or Ohio State).

 

[Crothian]

Well, Texas looked better verse Oklahoma then USC did agaist Arizona....and neither are good teams. And I know the teams want to beat USC, but USC does not always look like they want to beat the teams they are playing.

 

[Dimwhit]

Man, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but Boise is stinking up the place against a 1-AA team. The nation's longest home win streak could end ugly.