[Tournament] 2007 College Football

Oh Michigan, poor poor Michigan

The preseason number 5 getting defeated in the first week, and by a DIVISION I-AA team no less. Got to suck for Michigan and its fans to kiss this year's national championship dreams goodbye so early and in such an embarrassing way.

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My favorite team, Auburn, scared me for a while there, but they pulled it out in the end. Clutch performances by the defense coupled with a lot of mental mistakes {in the form of penalties} by K-State made it so.

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You're just sad that the conference that your favorite team plays in only has two or maybe three better than average teams a year, while the SEC typically has five or six better than average teams a year.

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Ouch, Auburn got beat. Oh well, at least LSU smoked the shit out of Virginia Tech.

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Ok, why is it that the day that I am out of town all day and therefore miss the Auburn-Florida game, Auburn decides to go ahead and pull the upset? I'm happy though. I mean unranked Auburn upsets Florida on the same day that unranked Florida State upsets Alabama,

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by IdleChill

The SEC is too good for its own good.

Oh, and suck it, USC.

Going to an LSU game next month. =D

Yeah. I was expecting Florida to embarrass Auburn, considering how poorly the Tigers have been playing, but I guess I should have taken into account how much Auburn always seems to step up their game when they play both Florida and LSU. Next I get to expect Arkansas and McFadden, and LSU and Dorsey to embarrass Auburn over the next month, and just hope that they step up their game for these teams. Though, to be honest, I wouldn't cry if LSU went undefeated and then got the opportunity to smoke the shit out of USC in the championship game.

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Stanford beat USC. That is pretty shocking. Not so much that USC lost, because we all knew that they weren't going to go undefeated, but to lose to STANFORD? Wow, that is just crazy.

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Also, LSU with an exciting comeback win against Florida. I'm happy about that, since LSU is the lesser of two evils here, plus it is always good to keep an SEC team ranked number one.

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Week 8 I think, so that would be next week or the week after I guess.

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So it looks like Ohio State will be number one, with BC at two and South Florida at three I guess.

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USC should not, simply by virtue of having lost a week earlier, be ranked ahead of LSU. Kentucky is a ranked opponent of a much higher quality than Stanford.

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I'd also like to mention that Auburn just pulled out a big win in a really intense last few minutes at Arkansas. Three field goals. They somehow managed to contain both McFadden and Felix Jones. Surprising victory for Auburn, despite their being more highly ranked than Arkansas.

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That is what happens when you lose to a terrible team and then the next week almost lose to another terrible team.

Also, I am pretty surprised that South Florida is ranked number two. I think this year might be one of those years where both teams playing in the big game have losses.

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Originally Posted by IdleChill

QFT.

Also, LSU has got a big game against Auburn this weekend. It won't be a cakewalk, that's for certain. Deathvalley has its advantages, but as Florida showed two weeks ago, it isn't full proof.

russ and I shall duke this one out.

On paper, this doesn't look good for Auburn. Going to the bayou, to face what will certainly be an angry LSU squad. But hey, Auburn is good about stepping up for big games, as shown by the game against Florida. Plus Auburn and LSU have been playing each other very tough each of the last several years. I'm looking forward to watching this one on ESPN HD.

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Kentucky is on its way to being the third top ten team of the week to go down.

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The fact is that Auburn's defense sort of broke down in the second half, however, the officials fucked Auburn so hard. First they wave off a very warranted flag so that LSU gets credit for a touchdown, then on the final drive, they give LSU the most ridiculous spot I have ever seen. They spot the ball nearly a full yard past where it should have been spotted, which of course gave them a first down. I mean when the official, who is standing right there, spots the ball beyond even where the player slid, much less where he was actually down, come on, that's just bogus.

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Uh, last week USC squeaked by Arizona, who is terrible.

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If they made playoffs and allowed only the top 4 or 8 teams in, or maybe only major conference champions plus a couple of spots for "at large" teams, they could keep the same basic premise of their current bowl system, and simply add an extra game or two at the very end for the title game. If you have like a top 8 team playoffs, your major 4 bowls {Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange} could serve as the first round of the playoffs, with new games created after these.

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Originally Posted by SuperSonic

However...as for how many teams would be in the playoff, at least 64.

Well I guess it is a good thing that you don't make any of the decisions for college football, because seriously, 64 team playoff field? That would be 6 weeks worth of playoffs ok. Six weeks. Do you honestly think that this year's Stanford, or Vanderbilt, or hell, even 5-3 Auburn deserve a shot at winning the national championship? I mean these are teams that are probably in the top 64 in the nation. To me, even 16 teams is too many, because that would still be four weeks of playoffs. It is different in basketball, in that basketball isn't as physically punishing on the players as football, so an extra four games every year could be fairly detrimental on the health of these student-athletes. I would maybe go for eight teams, but that is a huge maybe. There are many years where there is controversy at the very top of the polls, but after the top few teams, there is enough of a drop-off to know. In 2004, you had USC, Oklahoma, and Auburn who were undefeated and of course, Auburn got squeezed out. If there had been a playoff between the top four ranked teams, the controversy that year could have been settled on the field. Last year, you basically had a fight over who would play Ohio State in the title game, between one loss Florida, one loss Michigan, and even undefeated Boise State wanted a part of it. A four team playoff would have settled that with less whining.

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LSU players must have been sneezing a lot, because the refs were throwing those yellow hankies at them ALL GAME. Oh well, Alabama still lost

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Ron Zook wasn't good enough to coach Florida {}, but he has taken Illinois from being a joke to being respectable in two years. At least now we don't have to rely on Michigan to knock off Ohio State.

Georgia is pretty much spanking Auburn at this point, so I'm sad about that. At least Alabama got beat by Mississippi State, so I don't have to listen to any crap from Alabama fans next week.

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Look for either Hawaii or Boise State to fill that final hypothetical spot. By the end of the season, one or the other will end up in the top 14.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by IdleChill

Haha, Alabama lost to Louisiana-Monroe. Take that Nick Saban! (Sorry, russ)

Uh, I am an Auburn fan. I really get tired of listening to all the Alabama fans talking up Saban like he is some savior, so while them losing to Mississippi State was nice, and losing to ULM was even nicer. I almost feel bad for Alabama fans. Almost. Also, I called the Texas Tech defeat of Oklahoma very early in the season while having college football discussions with a coworker, so I was pretty pleased to see that I was right about at least one thing this year.

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Originally Posted by BlueMikey

1) Ohio State
8) Hawaii

4) Georgia
5) Virginia Tech

3) Oklahoma
6) USC

2) LSU
7) West Virginia


Yambo. Don't tell me that wouldn't be the most successful 3 weeks in the history of sports.

That would be awesome. Imagine if the NC game was between two SEC teams

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Currently the SEC is 6-2, after Georgia embarrassed Hawaii. Only game the SEC has remaining is the title game. Go LSU ugh.

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I got home late and turned the game on to see LSU down 10-0. Now they're up 17-10 and about to go up another touchdown. I am pretty much sitting here wondering how the hell they gave up any points at all. All I have seen is them dominating in much the same way that one would expect to see an SEC team dominate a Big 10 team.

Oops, they just scored again while I was typing this. That damn white tailback is just defying the odds here.

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