2010 College Football

[ghost]

Richt probably needs to get himself some help at the coordinator positions, similar to Mack Brown.

Also, Weiss was a very good recruiter on the offensive side of the ball.  I expect him, and the Florida name, to continue that trend easily.  Also consider that he has a very capable pro-style quarterback already at Florida in John Brantley.  


Edit for game-  VT with a safety and a blocked PAT already.  Nice.

[Paelos]

Yeah Stanford crushed them, which I expected.

[ghost]

I hate Stanford.  I hate Stanford a lot. 

[Paelos]

I hate Stanford.  I hate Stanford a lot. 

That seems like wasted effort since they haven't been good at football since the 40s.

[Ingmar]

I hate Stanford.  I hate Stanford a lot. 

That seems like wasted effort since they haven't been good at football since the 40s.

I guess if you don't count the 70s, 4 bowl wins for Stanford that decade and they never posted a losing record. They won 10 games and finished the season in the top 10 in '92 also.

Also, hating Stanford is never wasted effort.

[Paelos]

I hate Stanford.  I hate Stanford a lot. 

That seems like wasted effort since they haven't been good at football since the 40s.

I guess if you don't count the 70s, 4 bowl wins for Stanford that decade and they never posted a losing record. They won 10 games and finished the season in the top 10 in '92 also.

Also, hating Stanford is never wasted effort.

I don't really count them because they barely finished in the top 10 the years they won the Rose bowl in the early 70s. Your West Coast rivalries are silly. 

[Nebu]

You're still bitter about the 1978 Bluebonnet Bowl.  Admit it!

[SnakeCharmer]

That Razorback was denied the prettiest TD all year.  Got it on the next play though.

Go Hogs!

[01101010]

Mallett should be caning his receivers for those drops... that's at least 7 points.

[Triforcer]

GO BUCKS! 

God must hate Arkansas receivers. 

[ghost]

God must hate Arkansas receivers. 

Better.  Bobby Petrino is Satan. 

Also, Stanford is my least favorite team in all of sports.  I hope they never win another game.  Is it an irrational hate?  Maybe, but isn't most sports hate?

[Abagadro]

They do have the best band though.

[Nebu]

It's so strange to say this, but Arkansas lost the game because of their offense.  Receivers dropped key passes.  Mallett paniced under pressure.  The Razorback defense and the lack of intensity on the part of the Ohio State offensive play calling nearly cost the Buckeyes the game. 

The second half was painful to watch from both team's perspectives. 

[ghost]

Arkansas has pretty good skill position players and Petrino is a good coach, but I think their O-Line was a bit suspect from the beginning, and probably banged up from SEC play.  Ohio State should probably have been in the title game, with their talent. 

[Paelos]

Ohio State should probably have been in the title game, with their talent. 

Yeeeeeeeeah. I'm not on board with that at all. I'm tired of putting the Big Ten champ (see: usually Ohio State) in that game. That conference had such a big opportunity to show the world how it's improved, and that choosing their champion wouldn't lead to another disappointing national championship game. They didn't live up to that.

[Ingmar]

I don't think he's saying that OSU should be in the title game now, just that they have so much talent they should have performed better for the season.

[Paelos]

Maybe under the new regime when they play a legit championship game it will go a long way to improve their image.

I would be more impressed when they stop scheduling so much crap in the Ohio State Schedule. First 4 games in 2011?

Akron, Toledo, Miami(FL), and Colorado.   

[Nebu]

Maybe under the new regime when they play a legit championship game it will go a long way to improve their image.

I would be more impressed when they stop scheduling so much crap in the Ohio State Schedule. First 4 games in 2011?

Akron, Toledo, Miami(FL), and Colorado.   

If some of my best players were on a 5 game suspension, I'd do my best to make the early schedule soft as well.   

[Hawkbit]

It's our first year in many that we aren't playing a decent team in the first four, give it a rest.  We always play a few local/MAC teams... and what, in the past years we had USC twice, then Washington, Texas - just from memory.  

I have to laugh about the OSU hate - for whatever reason it's cool to not like us.  Even the announcers (fucking Herbstreit) give no love.  Should we have played better this year?  Yep, and the NCAA violations are a real shitty cherry to top this season.  But at the end of it all, we only had one loss.  It wasn't a bad season overall.  

There's not much of anything that will improve our image until we spend a few years unranked, then come back up the ranks.  

At least we're not Michigan.  

[Ingmar]

It isn't like Miami and Colorado have never been good, either, scheduling them isn't really in the same category as Akron or Toledo. These things are usually done a couple years in advance, you never know how good a team is actually going to be by the time you play them.

[Paelos]

I have to laugh about the OSU hate - for whatever reason it's cool to not like us.

You get crap because in the past you've won a conference that's slightly worse than the Mountain West. Somehow that warranted your team a title shot where you got buttslammed. Fans in other, better conferences hate that because they have to watch your sweatervest version of outdated football.

[Nebu]

I have to laugh about the OSU hate - for whatever reason it's cool to not like us. 

I played football in the Big 10.  I earned my dislike of OSU on the field rather than from an armchair. 

That work?

[Hawkbit]

I have to laugh about the OSU hate - for whatever reason it's cool to not like us. 

I played football in the Big 10.  I earned my dislike of OSU on the field rather than from an armchair. 

That work?

For you, okay.  Nobody else though. 

It's easy to forget about 2002.  Can't wait to hear the hate on that win.   

[ghost]

I have had to suffer OSU fans, in person, for many a year.  I deserve to be able to hate them a little, too.

Anyway..............so who is Michigan going to hire?  I'm guessing the dude from San Diego State-  Brady Hoke.  He might actually be a better hire than Harbaugh, who I think will eventually bolt to the NFL no matter what. 

[Paelos]

It's easy to forget about 2002.  Can't wait to hear the hate on that win.   

Nobody forgets about it. That was the start of the national hate. You struggled all year long against total crap, and STILL got in the title game. Let's recap why:

- You almost lost to an unranked Cincinnati team that fell over itself with two dropped TD passes and a pick in the last minute of the game.
- You trailed unranked Wisconsin into the 4th, and had to have another pick to keep them from taking the lead.
- Your only ranked opponent for 8 straight games in the regular season was a supremely overrated Washington State team (that got murdered by OU in the Rose Bowl)
- It took a 4th down TD pass to beat fucking unranked Purdue 10-6.
- You went to OT against unranked Illinois.
- You went to Double OT in the national championship, and you should have lost that game if the refs hadn't gift-wrapped a pass interference call that tied the game in the first OT.

I hate your team even more that you got the chance to go and Georgia didn't because it lost a close one to Florida. That Ohio State team was a joke, and won because it was a shitty year and the hammer never fell.

[Ingmar]

I don't know anybody around here who hates Ohio St. /shrug

[01101010]

I suffer from OSU whiplash. From northern Ohio, have a cousin that is currently a senior there and thus his sports loving father (huge ND fan) go on and on about the buckeyes. I can't stand that... I don't hate OSU though the part about including "THE" in the name pisses me off.

Going to LSU and actually getting to know some of the team that was there when DiNardo was there and soon after, Saban, I was christened into the SEC and been a Tigers fan since. Even teaching some of the names at U of Miami didn't taint my SEC devotion. 

[Hawkbit]

Nobody forgets about it. That was the start of the national hate. You struggled all year long against total crap, and STILL got in the title game. Let's recap why:

- You almost lost to an unranked Cincinnati team that fell over itself with two dropped TD passes and a pick in the last minute of the game.
- You trailed unranked Wisconsin into the 4th, and had to have another pick to keep them from taking the lead.
- Your only ranked opponent for 8 straight games in the regular season was a supremely overrated Washington State team (that got murdered by OU in the Rose Bowl)
- It took a 4th down TD pass to beat fucking unranked Purdue 10-6.
- You went to OT against unranked Illinois.
- You went to Double OT in the national championship, and you should have lost that game if the refs hadn't gift-wrapped a pass interference call that tied the game in the first OT.

I hate your team even more that you got the chance to go and Georgia didn't because it lost a close one to Florida. That Ohio State team was a joke, and won because it was a shitty year and the hammer never fell.

I can feel the /hug from here!  

The sad part:  I only live in Columbus, I'm not even a big fan.    My wife, though... if she saw what was quoted, I guarantee by 10pm she'd have finished a 12 of Coors and she'd be posting replies that would make a pirate blush.  

Gotta back the fuck off my Blue Jackets, though.  Nobody messes with the Jackets.  

[Hoax]

Maybe under the new regime when they play a legit championship game it will go a long way to improve their image.

I would be more impressed when they stop scheduling so much crap in the Ohio State Schedule. First 4 games in 2011?

Akron, Toledo, Miami(FL), and Colorado.  

At the time they arranged the home and away with Miami everyone believed the program was returning to prominence. Ohio State did a home and away with USC then a home and away with Texas and now this home and away with Miami for the past 6 years. Every other nonconf is a home game against a powderpuff in state school but talking shit about their scheduling when they have made a point of playing a nonconf bcs contender every year for the last 5 years running is such a load of shit. When was the last time the SEC played anyone outside of conference that is considered a top program? I can only think of most SEC teams maybe playing a nonconf rivalry game against a decent team (Gtech, Clemson, Florida State etc).

But please enlighten me.

[Paelos]

You know why people want Ohio State to play more non-conference programs? Because the vast majority of their conference opponents weren't ranked (and ranked low if they were). They wanted them to play ranked teams.

2010: Ohio State plays 3 ranked teams. Only 1 finishes in the top 25. They lost to the one that did (Wisconsin).
2009: Played 3 ranked teams. Lost to USC (#3). Beat Penn State (#10) and Iowa (#11).
2008: Played 5 ranked teams, a banner year. Lost to USC (#1) and Penn State (#3). Beat 3 teams from #18-24.
2007: Played 3 ranked teams, won all of them #18-25. Lost to an unranked Illinois, and got summarily trounced by LSU in the National Championship.

Compare to an SEC Champ's schedule:
Auburn 2010: Played 5 ranked teams from #6-19. Won em all.
Alabama 2009: Played 5 ranked teams from #1, 7, 9, 20, and 22. Won em all. Won the National Championship.
Florida 2008: Played 5 ranked teams from #1, 4, 6, 20, and 25. Won em all. Lost to Ole Miss. Gave Tebow speech. Won the National Championship.
LSU 2007: Played 4 ranked teams from #9-16. Won em all. Lost to Arkansas and Kentucky. Beat Ohio State in the National Championship.

In short, they suck, their competition sucks, and fuck anyone who hates on the toughness of the SEC.  

[Ingmar]

You know why people want Ohio State to play more non-conference programs? Because the vast majority of their conference opponents weren't ranked (and ranked low if they were). They wanted them to play ranked teams.

But not ranked teams in the SEC, since we know they don't schedule real non conference opponents. 

[Paelos]

You know why people want Ohio State to play more non-conference programs? Because the vast majority of their conference opponents weren't ranked (and ranked low if they were). They wanted them to play ranked teams.

But not ranked teams in the SEC, since we know they don't schedule real non conference opponents. 

Georgia just cut a deal to play Ohio State.

[Hoax]

Yes it must be nice that under the current system if your an SEC team you all start ranked so that when you win or lose it was to a ranked opponent so you both stay ranked and then at the end of the year Paelos can say OMG we played all these ranked teams clearly we are the best.

I did remember though there has been an SEC team with balls, namely Tennessee who has been playing home and aways versus the Pac-10 which is almost as terrible a conference as the Big10  .  First they played Cal which was split with the home team winning. Then they lost both games to UCLA and this year obviously Oregon fucking trounced them.

If every team in every conference scheduled more series like these the rankings might be a lot more accurate at the end of the year.

[Ingmar]

Yeah, would like to see some of these power teams play a road game at Nevada.

[Paelos]

Yes it must be nice that under the current system if your an SEC team you all start ranked so that when you win or lose it was to a ranked opponent so you both stay ranked and then at the end of the year Paelos can say OMG we played all these ranked teams clearly we are the best.

I did remember though there has been an SEC team with balls, namely Tennessee who has been playing home and aways versus the Pac-10 which is almost as terrible a conference as the Big10  .  First they played Cal which was split with the home team winning. Then they lost both games to UCLA and this year obviously Oregon fucking trounced them.

If every team in every conference scheduled more series like these the rankings might be a lot more accurate at the end of the year.

Tell you what, if we lose 2/3 of the last bowls and lose the national championship. I'll shut up.

If we don't and we win the title for the fifth time in a row, you're just going to have to suck it.