If the Sooners run the table, they probably are at the top of the list of 1-loss teams for a number of reasons: 1. High preseason ranking 2. Extentunating circumstances in their loss (losing Bradford) 3. Early loss - they will have lost before anyone else, giving them the best chance to move back up 4. Win over #2 Texas 5. Loss would be against a likely top 8 team The bigger question for OU is whether they can run the table, as opposed to whether they would make the title game if they did.
By the end of the season, Barkley will be better than he is now. Same for Greg McElroy. But I'm not sure Alabama has the horses to hang with the other 3. Still, you can't judge what a team will be playing like at the end of the season. That all said, I pick UT & UF to meet in the championship game.
Haha yeah, I was just being a homer there... it's going to be a great season, anything could happen. That's not likely to happen....
So next week Baylor plays Connecticut. I didn't think that would be a huge test for them, but watching them play UNC yesterday, I think their defense is pretty stout.
Smh @ Charlie Weiss at the end of the Notre Dame/Michigan game. They were up 3 and instead of running the ball to force Michigan to use their timeouts he decides to throw the ball twice and both were incomplete so Michigan got to save their timeouts to make that last drive which ended up a TD for Michigan.
Certainly - but the supposition was what happens if OU runs the table, meaning they would beat Texas in that scenario.
So who was it that was saying Florida State looked like they were back to their old form, and not that Miami's D was weak in the first game? Florida State needed a touchdown with 35 seconds left to beat JACKSONVILLE STATE.
Exactly. Although, I love how Joe McKnight basically won the game for USC and nobody even interviewed him. My buddy and I thought that was kind of funny.
Yeah all they kept saying was how great Barkley was for leading that game winning drive. I was thinking McKnight is the one that basically led them down the field. But that is how football goes the glory is usually given to the QB.
You can praise Texas and Florida as much as is necessary (they deserve it), but to dismiss Alabama is unwise. They have the best D in the country. Just because Texas and Florida have two great QBs (and USC and Alabama have "rookies") doesn't make them that much stronger than either the #3 and #4 ranked teams. USC and Alabama arguably have better running games than Texas or Florida. And most importantly, both USC and Alabama actually played real teams. I won't knock Texas for their early season schedule as much this year, considering they did play OSU a few years back. But I will use this opportunity to criticize Florida AD Jeremy Foley for his absolute joke of a non-conference schedule every year. So no fan of Texas or Florida should proclaim their superiority until either team plays a top-100 school.
Doesn't Florida have Florida State in its non-conference schedule every year? Or did that series end?
I think he's mostly talking about how Florida never leaves the state for out of conference games. Also Florida State isn't exactly a world beater in recent years.
i was watching outside the lines i think like 2 weeks ago. they were talking about some of these great non-conference games like OSU/USC, BYU/Oklahoma and such. pat forde was on and he said dont expect these matchups to continue, from what he's hearing a lot of schools are trending to just schedule those cupcakes more and more, especially teams from the big 6 conferences.
Yes this will continue, especially as the big conferences (SEC/Big XII) claim the competition within the conference gets better so it hurts them to increase risks out of conference. This would probably continue even with a playoff. Of course Florida started this trend over 20 years ago when they stopped scheduling Miami (a better rivalry at the time than FSU). Yes UF played Miami last year, but they're already trying to get out of the next proposed game around 2013. This is why fans have to credit and respect teams like USC, UCLA, Miami, Ohio State, FSU, Alabama, Oklahoma, and others who are willing to go out of conference to play real opponents and see the benefits of recruiting instead of hiding behind the "our conference schedule is hard enough" excuse.
