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Minny is going to lose at least 2 of their 3 last game which will make them look about as good as they really are.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:48 AM) I count 3-4 teams. Colorado, Wazzu, & Cal. I think Utah is better than you give them credit for, but I guess they still aren't good. That's still 8 teams that are good, far better than in the Big Ten. Utah is 1-4 in conference play. Washington, Wazzu, Cal, USC, Utah and Colorado are not good. Arizona has beaten nobody. Its an easy game to play for each conference.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:40 AM) Right. We added Hawaii in the hopes in 5 years they will be good again. Its like playing the stock market.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:34 AM) No, the Big10 will still be bad because Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, Penn State, Northwestern, Nebraska, Minnesota, & Michigan aren't good. The best team in the country can come from a bad conference. The best conference in the country has 5-6 teams that would qualify as not good. Duke has a chance to be in the ACC title game. The leader in the Pac lost to a 4-4 terrible Utah team. Everyone has "warts." The Big ten is by no means a great conference, but there are 3 legit teams in there including a team that has a 21 game winning streak and MSU with the best defense in the country. It's not "horrible" like everyone wants to believe.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:29 AM) Yeah Wisconsin is only planning on playing some no name teams like LSU and Alabama. Because you know, its the first time the SEC was willing to agree to play Wisconsin. Because you know, they refuse to play @ Camp Randall or when its cold. Because you know, thats what good teams do. LOL SEC has been dodging Big 10 teams for years. They only wanted to play in neutral sites in the South. The problem also is schedules are made so far in advance. We put Cal on the schedule 10 years ago. It looked like a better move than someone like Oregon at the time. We just put Oregon and Texas on the schedule for 2022, who knows if they will be good or not?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:26 AM) When OSU beats Alabama in the NC, then the Big10 will still be bad because Iowa isnt good? What type of logic is that. Its like saying that Alabama isnt good because Arkansas would be the worst team in the Big10. Just does not compute. ESPN ignores the bottom half of the SEC, it isnt good for business.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:24 AM) I don't think it's the big bowl games, it's the median teams in the big 10 that need to show off on those days because they really aren't exciting anyone in the ole eye test dept. Possibly. The OOC games are improving quite a bit in the next few years.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:20 AM) BIG OOC losses: MSU lost to ND Nebraska lost to UCLA Wisconsin lost to ASU (yes, I know that was a screw job) Iowa lost to NIU BIG OOC wins: Michigan beat ND I don't even know what qualifies as the second best win. So big OOC losses are those to ranked teams?

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) Pretty sure B1G is awful just because it's awful this year. We'll see. If they win big bowl games then the view will change 180 degrees as usual.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 11:02 AM) The B1G is awful and they haven't played anybody. That's pretty much the reason. Similar to when Boise couldn't get love in the BCS even though they would start the season off with a big OOC win (like UGA, Va tech, or Oregon). Is the B1G stronger than the MWC? Probably, but it still looks like one of the weakest power conferences. Probably? LOL. The #1 team in the Pac lost to 4-4 Utah.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 10:45 AM) So Google recently decided to make it so that you need a Google+ account to comment on YouTube. You'd think that this would make the YouTube comments section less s***ty and that a lot of people would welcome it and a lot probably do. But there's also a group of people who think Google's pushing Google+ down their throats (they kind of are, but so what?) and that this is the worst thing to ever happen to YouTube. It's like people don't understand that YouTube is owned by Google and that there is nothing wrong with Google requiring you to have a Google account to comment on it (comment, not view, mind you). This is like saying you shouldn't be able to use your Facebook account to use Instagram or you shouldn't be able to use your Twitter account to use Vine. These same people also act like Google shouldn't try to expand its social network site, but that's kind of Google's goal. They're a business after all. If you want to use their services, you need to give something in return. Google isn't a damn charity. I like it. Google's technology is pretty awesome.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 10:38 AM) Clemson was thought of so highly after beating Georgia to open the season. Georgia and the SEC has since proven to be decent at best. FSU is always an ESPN favorite from the early days, they, like Notre Dame are programs that fans seem to get behind and are pumped up by ESPN. I am not certain why OSU is now treated the way they are as I would think they would be getting the publicity they get. I suppose it is because the the Big Ten is just not that highly thought of. That and the blowout loss to Florida as well as the loss to LSU. Even beating Oregon and Arkansas in BCS bowls didnt help. What many media members are forgetting is that coach who kicked the s*** out of the Buckeyes is now on their sideline. ND is kind of facing some of that now as they were hyped like crazy last year and got their doors blown off. For the next several years people are going to be skeptical of them when they are good. Still a long season ahead though. Crazy losses happen and I think its always a threat as the season wears into Nov.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) ...and has since been dealing with a lot of injuries. Like every team in the country. Show me one top 5 team that hasnt lost a serious impact player at this point.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 10:30 AM) That clemson team may not be top ten, but going into Clemson when they are very much confident and thinking they have a national title team, and not just beating them but obliterating them was the best win that could possibly happen this year. I think it's helpful to think of teams where they were ranked at the time. Sometimes they were really good wins, and that team just got killed by injuries rest of year. Northwestern was ranked and thought they were a contender too. Rankings have no relevance until Nov. Too much human interaction in the polls as well. Check out the AP polls and where each voter has teams ranked. Half of them have personal agendas they vote on each and every week. I'm glad the playoff system starts soon because this system is horrendous. College football is the only sport where not every team in the country has a chance to win a title. Think about that.

These pundits should ignore the little number next to a teams name earlier than Nov. On the radio they are talking about how FSU destroyed the #7 team. Well, wasnt that Clemson team a bit overrated? Stanford is so great they just punked the #3 team in the land, they could beat anybody!!! Yeah well any of the top 15 teams can beat anybody, its sports. When you have a loss to a 4-4 Utah team, you dont deserve national title consideration. I would be shocked if there were more than 2 undefeated teams left at the end of the year, then you can have your sweet debate how 2 losses in the SEC is better than undefeated in every other conference.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 10:10 AM) Cool story. http://www.thestarpress.com/article/201311...chigan-football Nice guy. 5k of that 5 million dollar salary isnt a bad start....

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 10:26 AM) I'm quite sure there were a million other factors, not just that he refused to turn the car off. He was clearly trying to ram the cops and almost ran over several people. I have no problem with shooting there. Meth is a crazy thing.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 09:45 AM) All I know is they were making fun of Oregon for saying they'd score 40 on Stanford, specifically DeAnthony Thomas...I thought that was pretty inappropriate for them to be saying on-air. That broadcast team was horrible. Oregon wasnt smart for having "we want bama" shirts on but the ESPN talking heads went out and said outrageous things during and after the game last night. Most of those commentators couldnt name more than 2 players on any of the teams. The radio team was saying Thomas was a guy they wouldnt want on their team because he was smiling instead of crying. It made no sense to me.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 8, 2013 -> 09:06 AM) Adding to that - it was an away game against a top 5 team. I simultaneously feel bad and feel amused about this loss. When Oregon loses I do think they take it on the chin more than they should from the media. Part of that is Oregon's popularity with non-college football fans. I feel like way too often I hear, ya but that team couldn't hang with OREGON's offense. And truth is they probably could. So there is a backlash to bandwagon fans that don't even really watch much college football. But I feel bad, because I think Oregon gets more s*** when they can't pull off their undefeated seasons because they aren't an old guard team. You see that with Jessie Palmer's dumbass comments. Look at Oklahoma. That team has been so inflated last 3 years just because it's Oklahoma (and probably b/c recruiting rankings). They can lose a game to Baylor and it doesn't say much about them. If Baylor lost? Baylor can't hang with the big boys. Just annoying, but most of the CFB media came from the big programs. I dont think "Old Guard" has anything to do with it. Its the fact most of the media you are watching is ESPN, and ESPN is paid to hype up the SEC since they own their media rights. Second, Oregon was the little darling years ago where everyone was pulling for them. Now since they've laid several eggs on the big stage, folks dont want them there anymore. Thats what happens in college sports. People dont want Ohio State, Oregon, or Chokelahoma anywhere near important championship games. FSU hasnt been relevant in 13 years which is why people are pulling for them now. If they get blown out by Bama in the BCS championship game, you'll see the media and public turn on them. On Baylor. Yes, Baylor has been a bottom feeder for pretty much its entire history of football, they won 4 of their 7 conference titles before 1925. People have a right to be skeptical.

Everybody is so worried about the rankings. How many undefeated teams do you really think will be left? It's the first week of November.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 7, 2013 -> 11:15 PM) Thought the broadcast of that game was pretty rotten. They kept acting as though the Stanford defense was dominating the game and kept circling the time of possession, etc. Oregon turned the ball over on fumbles that are entirely random football plays, and their defense refused to sell out against the run until the 4th quarter. I get that Stanford manhandled Oregon in the running game, but Oregon had enough success on offense to win this game, they just kept turning the ball over. Oregon punted what, 3 times? Only when Oregon put the outcome in doubt briefly did these idiots begin backpeddaling. And this nonsense Jessie Palmer is using trying to discount Stanford's loss to Utah by claiming they didn't "play Stanford football." Then the comments about DeAnthony Thomas are pretty rough as well. They were awful. They didn't play their football so the horrible loss doesn't count. Yeah ok.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 7, 2013 -> 11:24 AM) Yeah, but you could just as easily say the same thing about 2010 and 2011...those games were blowout Duck victories with similar teams/schemes, except Stanford had Andrew Luck still... Obviously last year Stanford seemed to make adjustments and finally stop the Duck running attack...I guess we will see how Oregon adjusts. Oregon routinely blows out teams all season but then faces a defense that stops them entirely. It's strange.

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 7, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) To me, locking down Chicago means that the vast majority of players in Chicago will have Illinois near the top of their list and they will regularly get them...the best of them. The null hypothesis will be that a top recruit in Chicago will "probably" go to Illinois It's just not going to happen when there are programs like Duke, Kentucky (still top dog recruiter), Kansas etc all over the top players.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFan05 @ Nov 6, 2013 -> 10:55 PM) Rose just needs his breakout game. I'm calling 26 pts on Friday Everyone else cant shoot either.

another scapegoat when they fail. Im hearing people are laughing at this move. They hired a guy with a history of failure.