Archive for October, 2006
Game of the Week
With another great week of top 25 and conference match-ups on tap, this will be a terrific weekend of college football. The weekend starts early with the undefeated Big East teams of Louisville and West Virginia meeting for conference leadership. In the Big 12, Missouri travels to Nebraska while Oklahoma visits Texas A&M. The ACC [...]
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 [...]
Game of the week IX
This week, Oklahoma and Missouri face-off the same week as Georgia and Florida host what was formerly known as the world’s largest cocktail party. Only the name has changed since the cocktails are abundant and the celebration is only mildly dampened by the inability of the Bulldogs to live up to their preseason hype. As [...]
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 [...]
Colorado, Just Kick it.
How about this for a revised Buffalo offensive strategy. Whenever you get inside Mason Crosby’s range, just kick it. 1st down, 2nd down or 3rd down, just kick it. Don’t take a chance at losing more yardage or another turnover. Just kick it. The sooner you kick it the sooner you get it back so [...]
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 [...]
Games of Week 8
Two matchups pit top 20 teams and conference contenders against each other in what will help define the conference playoff teams for the Big 12 and ACC. Number 5 Texas goes to Lincoln to face the 17th ranked Cornhuskers. This could be a preview of the Big 12 conference championship game. Texas wins big, 31 [...]
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 [...]
Auburn Hosts the Gators
This week’s only match-up between Top 25 teams provides the perfect setting for Auburn to redeem themselves as they face the Number 2 Gators at home. It is also the perfect setting for Florida to firmly establish their SEC leadership position. A win against Auburn after their victory over LSU a week ago and prior [...]