2010 College Football

[Abagadro]

The late hit call on the final drive was a bad call, but I don't think it made any sort of difference whatsoever with how Moore tore those guys up.

[ghost]

That game was a nice salvage to a super shitty first weekend.  Now next weekend.................can't wait until Miamuh versus tOSU.

[SnakeCharmer]

This weekend is going to be 

Alabama vs Penn State
Florida State vs Oklahama
Georgia vs South Carolina
Michigan vs Notre Dame
Miami vs Ohio State
Oregon vs Tennessee

[WayAbvPar]

You forgot to mention Syracuse at Washington 

That is an amazing slate of games for this early in the season.

[ghost]

Syracuse at Washington could be a good game. 

If nothing else, Washington is infinitely watchable. 

The list:

1.  Georgia at USC-  should be spectacular.  USC may be better than advertised (finally)
2.  Floriduh State at Oklahoma-  WOW.  Gonna be fun.
3.  Miamuh at tOSU-  makes my pants excited.
4.  Penn State at Alabama-  who says Joe Pa is a pussy? 
5.  Oregon at Tennessee-  I hope the orange pay dearly for their insolence.
6.  UVa at tUSC-  UVa looked good in their opener. 

[01101010]

I really think JoePa will actually die during a game. That is the only way you are going to get him to retire.

[SnakeCharmer]

Watching the AU v Miss State game...Is it just me or does Jessie Palmer sound an awful lot like Cotton from the movie Dodgeball?

[Paelos]

That was a lousy offensive effort by both Auburn and MSt. I was expecting more fire from the cowbells, and it just wasn't there.

[Paelos]

1-2 last week in the picks, all because VA Tech couldn't make a first down with 2 minutes left in the game. Freaking idiots. Anyway, on to bigger and better things this week.

There are five bigtime games this week, and I'll go with them in order. I'm refraining from picking the GA/SC game because I'm a Georgia fan, and emotion gets in the way:

1) Florida State v. Oklahoma @ 3:30 EDT OU -8.5

The question here is if Florida State, after whomping an easy squad last week, is for real. Their team looked very very potent in all facets of the game, but you have to temper the results against a team like Samford. However, OU had to really hash it out against Utah State, and their defense was positively wretched. PICK: Florida State

2) Michigan v. Notre Dame @ 3:30 EDT ND -4.5

This one is tough to call. Michigan and ND both had decent showings in their openers. However, Michigan easily covered against a supposed tough matchup with UCONN, while ND did not against a weaker Purdue team. When ND can only manage 23 against a bottom echelon Big 10 team at home, I'm leaning against them. PICK: Michigan

3) Miami v. Ohio State @ 3:40 EDT OSU -9.5

Supposedly Lebron is going to show up at this game. I hope he shows up in a U jersey and gets his ass booed unmercifully. Other than that, this game is tight. I would avoid it if you weren't forced to pick in a pool, because I'm not a big fan of that spread. However, I think it's tight enough that OSU won't wander away with it even at home. Expect a grinder to the end. PICK: Miami

4) Oregon v. Tennessee @ 7 EDT Oregon -12.5

Oregon by 12.5 on the road? Really? I know this ain't your daddy's orange playing out there, but damn. Can the Ducks really come into Neyland and lay a two TD+ asswhomping on the home crowd? There's no doubt they had the offensive prowess at home laying a ridiculous 72 points on New Mexico. Tennessee's rushing game is good though, and they can keep the ball away from Oregon better than New Mexico. They will also be hearing about how some PAC-10 pussies are supposed to come into town and run them out of their own stadium. I don't think that will happen. Oregon wins, but doesn't cover. PICK: Tennessee

5) Penn State v. Alabama @ 7 EDT Bama -11.5

I didn't expect the Bama offense to do as well as they did sans Ingram. They proved me wrong last week, and looked just as potent on defense doing it. Penn State whomped Youngstown by 30, but let them hang two TDs on their team. I expect the Bama defense will step it up at home and cause some turnovers by a rather overblown Penn State freshman QB. I've gone with mostly dogs, but I'm taking the favorite here. PICK: Alabama

[ghost]

Marshall is laying a beat down on WVU.  That makes me feel terrible.

Edit:  Wow, what a pathetic finish by the Thundering herd.  Ouch.

[Nevermore]

Regardless of anything else that happens in the game, putting together a 17 play, 96 yard, 10 minute drive on Florida's defense is pretty impressive.

Edit: Now that's more like what I expected.  Bulls are way too young, have nothing in the way of wideouts and BJ may be talented but he's still way too easy to rattle, as we can see by all the turnovers.

[SnakeCharmer]

What the fuck, Chuck?

VT just lost to James Madison.

James.  Freaking.  Madison.

[Horik]

That just killed Boise State's title hopes right there. No way they play for it now, even running the table.

[01101010]

Jacory Harris is going playing better than Pryor... for tOSU. Swear to god 4 ints and say everything is ok? Ugh. Really surprised tOSU is not up 41-7 at this point.  

edit: ok two of those picks were not necessarily Harris' fault... but still.

[Ingmar]

Early welcome to the Pac-10, Colorado. 

[SnakeCharmer]

Bama's defense is going to get torched by Arkansas...

[Triforcer]

I'm unthrilled about OSU's performance.  Pryor threw a couple good balls, but OSU cannot get a touchdown in the redzone.  Settling for FGs when you start with the ball on the 50 or the opponent's 35 does NOT get it done against a team that doesn't throw four picks.   That kind of shit lost the USC and Texas games.  

[Paelos]

Florida State is not for real. Miami defense needs to kick their QB's ass, because he cost them that game. Michigan looked sort of like Michigan. Alabama looked amazing on the ground game. Tennessee really really tried to hang with Oregon and looked great, but their inexperience showed up when they got hit in the mouth hard.

[ghost]

Bama's defense is going to get torched by Arkansas...

No.

[SnakeCharmer]

Yeah.  

A good offense is going to shred us.  Penn State basically beat themselves with turnovers.  If Mallet gets his shit together by the time we roll into Little Rock, it's going to be a shootout.  Our DBs and LBs routinely found themselves out of position or taking bad angles, and our DL isn't getting the push they need to be getting.  They blew containment and overpursued on more than one occasion, showing a propensity to bite hard on misdirection. 

Granted, Penn States offensive line is probably above average, and Marcel Darius is coming back, but I'm not sure he makes the difference on the DL that is necessary.

[ghost]

No way.  Alabama is going to roll Pig Sooie.  I think they win by 3 touchdowns, but probably give up 14-21 points.  Arkie's defense isn't as good as PSU's.

[SnakeCharmer]

I didnt say the Razorbacks were going to win, I just said they were going to torch our defense.

e:  actually I did say we might lose in an earlier post, but that was before seeing the offense in action.

[Nebu]

Watching both games this weekend taught me something.

1) Mallet is an NFL quality QB.  The guy has a cannon for an arm and was held back primarily by his receivers in the first half. 

2) Alabama has a more balanced offense. 

3) Both teams will need to outscore their opponents to win.  The Arkansas defense is terrible.  They had to play over their heads to hold LMU down.  That's pathetic.

[Paelos]

I am going to the Georgia-Arkansas game this coming weekend. I'm planning on having the car gassed up for a quick trip out of town if I have to leave in the 3rd quarter.

[Ingmar]

Cal sneaked into the Top 25 this week, prematurely. This road game at Nevada on Friday night is extremely lose-able. Pac-10 is looking generally like it is going to be a bit tougher for Oregon than predicted, to me. Iowa-Arizona game this weekend will tell us a lot more about that.

[Rasix]

Iowa-Arizona game this weekend will tell us a lot more about that.

I'll be there.  I have a bad feeling we (Arizona) is going to get beaten badly.  Our first two games were against total cupcakes.  It's funny how you manage to look "not that good" after winning your first two games by a combined 85 points.

[Ingmar]

Oh, we're in the same boat. 104-10 combined score for us so far, but one of those was a I-AA team and the other one was an apparently awful Colorado team. At least if you lose to Iowa it won't be an upset - I can easily see us losing to Nevada, who has been putting up a good fight against Boise St. for the last few years. We're only favored by 3.5 right now so I think the odds makers are on to us too.

[Paelos]

I believe Iowa is for real. I think Stanzi should have taken them to a Big 10 championship easily last year, but we all know how that ended up.

[Nebu]

I believe Iowa is for real. I think Stanzi should have taken them to a Big 10 championship easily last year, but we all know how that ended up.

I thought that until they looked shaky for 3 quarters against Arkansas State University (a lousy Sun Belt team).  I think that they are improved this year but still not quite up to the level of Ohio State.  I think that's because Ohio State still pays their players more! 

[Paelos]

I don't know who Ohio State is yet. Anybody in the top 25 could have beaten a Miami team that tosses 4 interceptions in a game. In many cases they would have run them out of the building, which Ohio State never really did.

[Slayerik]

No love for Michigan's Denard Robinson? The guy is a beast. I mean, when you rush the ball 57 times in two games , as a QB, I imagine you gotta expect him to get hurt though. He made a nice game-winning drive and improved the Wolverines to 2-0 pretty much singlehandedly.

[Nebu]

1    Alabama (52)    2-0    1466
2    Ohio State (5)    2-0    1410
3    Boise State (1)    1-0    1306
4    TCU    2-0    1235
5    Oregon    2-0    1172
6    Texas (1)    2-0    1150
7    Oklahoma    2-0    1123
8    Nebraska    2-0    1083
9    Iowa    2-0    1037
10    Florida    2-0    1036
11    Wisconsin    2-0    855
12    Arkansas    2-0    755
13    South Carolina    2-0    642
14    Utah    2-0    627
15    LSU    2-0    595
16    Auburn    2-0    538
17    Miami (FL)    1-1    530
18    USC    2-0    481
19    Stanford    2-0    446
20    Michigan    2-0    437
21    West Virginia    2-0    197
22    Penn State    1-1    171
23    Houston    2-0    169
24    Arizona    2-0    138
25    Oregon State    0-1    75

Wisconsin at 11?  Really?  I love the Big 10 (or 12 or 14), but 11?  I don't buy it. 

[Paelos]

Wisconsin makes some sense. Here are the WTF ones for me.

Miami at 17? Wow, that must be a different Miami than the one who threw 4 picks in a game and looked like dogshit. Those picks weren't because of great defense there muchachos.

Penn State at 22? I'm sorry but they got totally exposed. The offense is a sham, and they will lose at least 4 games this year. Iowa, Ohio State, and probably Michigan at this rate.

Oregon State in the top 25??? Fuckers haven't won a damn game.

[Nebu]

Here are the WTF ones for me.

The funny thing is that's the AP poll.  The USA Today was even more 

[Paelos]

I think they had to keep Miami in the top 25, or they would have to admit that the ACC is not a BCS conference when they tossed all their sorry asses out of the polls.

BTW, big kudos to James Madison and Kansas. You get my  of the week for being supposed cupcakes who did us all big favors. The triple option continues to be a pathetic gimmick that couldn't win anywhere but the ACC, and James Madison effectively kicks Boise State squaw in the nuts.