College Football

[fett527]

GO BUCKS!!!

We did what we were supposed to do to Indiana. Blowout baby! I think the right decisons were made at many positions and I hope that sticks as well as the more agressive play calling.

 

[fett527]

So what about Zook being fired? Not unexpected, but why announce this in the middle of the season and have a lameduck coach?

 

[Crothian]

To stop the alumni from calling, to stop the bitching on talk radio, to stop the fans from belly acheing. That's the only reason I can think of doing it now, to appease the little people.

Okay, OSU can beat Pen State this weekend as sad as that is. Joe Pa, what happened?? And then a tough game against MSU, with the two killers at the end (Purdue and the school up north). Man, here's hoping they make it to a Bowl game.....

 

[Dimwhit]

Random thoughts so far:

1. Mike Price must be an incredible coach. He takes Washington State to the top 3 in the nation a year or two ago. Leaves them for Alabama (I think it was them) and promptly gets fired before Spring training even starts for getting caught with a hooker in his hotel room. So he goes to UTEP, who was a combined 6-31 over the last three years (two wins each year). His first year there, they are 5-2 and ranked 24th in the BCS. And Washington State has sucked since he left. Maybe it's coincidence, or maybe he's just a great coach.

2. How in the world did my Broncos move up again to No. 13th in the BCS?? I'm not griping, mind you, but even I'll admit that seems high. At least against Fresno they finally dominated a game. Wasn't as close as the score showed, and they led the whole game (a pleasant change from previous weeks).

3. Florida...man, that burns. Though I would have prefered Florida State be the one to lose like that.

4. I sure hope Utah keeps it up. They hit the magic No. 6 spot, and I really hope they hold it. Just to tick off all the BCS Conference snobs. Apologies if that applies to you.

Finally, does anyone know offhand if this is the largest number of undefeated teams in the nation this far into the season in a while? Just seems like there are a lot more than usually this time of year.

 

[Crothian]

I think it was 99 that going into the last week there were lots of undefeated, like 4 or 5 but there was some choking and many of them lost.

 

[drothgery]

Random thoughts so far:

1. Mike Price must be an incredible coach. He takes Washington State to the top 3 in the nation a year or two ago. Leaves them for Alabama (I think it was them) and promptly gets fired before Spring training even starts for getting caught with a hooker in his hotel room. So he goes to UTEP, who was a combined 6-31 over the last three years (two wins each year). His first year there, they are 5-2 and ranked 24th in the BCS. And Washington State has sucked since he left. Maybe it's coincidence, or maybe he's just a great coach.

I'd nitpick here that WSU hasn't been as good, post-Price, but they (along with ASU, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon, and OSU) are a pretty solid middle-of-the-Pac-10 team. And that's a lot better than some eastern talking heads think. The only teams in the Pac-10 that really suck are Arizona and Washington. Only USC and Cal are really great, but two top-10 teams is really about the best you can expect out of a ten team league.

 

[Crothian]

Anyone know agood site that has past year college football stuiff? I haven't been able to find anything. I recall a year in the late 90's I think that had like UCLA, KSU, and I thought another team undeafeated in the last week but all losing.

 

[Dimwhit]

http://www.ncaa.org/ has a lot of stuff, but I don't know if they'd have that info.

 

[Crothian]

It was 98. It looks like only Tenn was undefeated that year, but KSU and UCLA I think lost games in the final week. It was also the year the Big Ten won all their Bowl Games

 

[Dimwhit]

I think this year will beat that. There are still 7 undefeated teams, and they all have a good chance of winning out. That's a lot of undefeated teams, even for this late in the year, much less at the end. We'll see, though.