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Game of the Week, maybe Year
The much anticipated clash between Big Ten upbeatens in Columbus in now upon us. This should be an epic game and many think will decide the natiional championship. It will select one team to play for the title and disqualify the other. At Sports Crossfire, our Top 25 and Computer Polls are split with the [...]
Longhorns, Bears and Tigers Out of Title Consideration
Turning to head down the home stretch, every team in the BCS hunt needed to take care of business. Auburn loses a second home game, this one at the hands of the Georgia Bulldogs. Falling behind early, it looked a lot like their earlier loss to Arkansas. Texas got beaten in a high scoring contest [...]
Game of the Week
The Game of the Week stays in the Big East and on Thursday night as the Louisville Cardinals face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in Piscataway , NJ. The Big East Title would all but be wrapped up with a win by the Cardinals and put them in position to claim a right to play for [...]
BCS Possibilities
With the Trojan out of the picture there are 6 unbeatens today. At the end of the season there can be at most 3. If two of these come from the Big Ten and Big East, then they should meet for the National Title in January. The Big East round robin format means West Virginia, [...]
USC, Clemson and Nebraska Surprised
As SportsCrossfire predicted, the Virginia Tech Hokies took care of the Clemson Tigers Thursday night. Then Oregon State took care of USC while Oklahoma State beat Nebraska. What on paper appeared to be a relatively calm weekend, lulled some top teams to sleep. Or were they not really that good anyway. Clemson was fortunate to [...]
Can you smell an upset?
With so many big games under out belts this football season, the upcoming week appears to be somewhat sleepy. That tells me someone big is going down. So let’s take a stroll through the top ten and see who that may be. 1. Ohio State hosts Minnesota – It won’t be this one. 2. USC [...]
Ohio State – Michigan
The Buckeyes and Wolverines now 1 and 2 are eyeing their November 18th meeting in what is looking more and more like a Big Ten playoff game. With no ranked opponents on either team’s dance card prior to this meeting it only makes sense for the pollsters to put them both at the top. USC [...]
Which Undefeated Team Will Miss the Dance?
After two years of unparralleled success in placing the consensus top two teams in the Bowl Championship Series College Football Championship Game, the BCS is staring straight into an oncoming freight train. The disaster scenarios are numerous while the best possible outcome for the BCS and the NCAA football playoff bashers is for USC and [...]
Ohio State and USC top the BCS Poll
The first BCS poll arrives with Ohio State and USC at the top with Michigan third. The October 28th showdown between the Wolverines and the Buckeyes will take one of those teams out of the Championship game. Auburn sneaks in ahead of West Virginia. A move which is likely to create some Big East howls [...]
Update Your Polls! Upsets over Number 2, 15, 16, 19 and 22
The Top 25 starting falling Thursday this week as Boston College defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies 22 to 3. Iowa was the first to fall this weekend at the hands of an underdog as the Indiana Hoosiers beat them 31-28. Then struggling Georgia, playing from behind much of the day, took a lead late in [...]
November 18th in Columbus
Is it too early to begin looking toward the Big Ten showdown between Ohio State and Michigan. While it certainly is for the two teams, with only one unbeaten team in each of the Big 12, Big East, Pac 10 and SEC, this would be the odds on favorite game to determine one of the [...]
Tubberville’s comments aftermath
Tommy Tubberville, head coach for the Auburn Tigers, took a strong stand in support of a playoff system last week. “There is no reason on this earth why we can’t have the best four and then play one more,” Tuberville said. “That’s the legitimate thing to do. We added a BCS game — for what [...]