<p>Yes Xiggi, Improvement at UW and Oregon State have really strengthened the PACNorth, however the decline of USC and the addition of Utah and Colorado programs have weakened their South.
Did you hear the Navy -Airforce game could be postponed.
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<p>Really, you picked Clemson? Not Louisville, not Ohio State, but Clemson?</p>
<p>Clemson:
vs #5 Georgia
vs #8 FSU
@ #25 Maryland
@ #13 SCAR
+Georgia Tech & potential ACC championship against Virginia Tech (Both Techs are borderline top 25 teams).</p>
<p>Oregon:
@ #15 Washington
vs #12 UCLA
@ #5 Stanford</p>
<p>+Oregon State (borderline top 25) & potential PAC championship against UCLA or Arizona St</p>
<p>Louisville: No ranked teams on schedule, 1 borderline top 25 team in AAC championship game (UCF)</p>
<p>Ohio State:</p>
<h1>23 Wisconsin</h1>
<h1>16 Northwestern</h1>
<h1>19 Michigan</h1>
<p>+potential championship against Michigan or Northwestern</p>
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<p>For comparison here is schedule of the repeat national champions:</p>
<h1>7 A&M</h1>
<h1>21 Ole Miss</h1>
<h1>10 LSU</h1>
<p>+Potential Championship against Georgia or Florida</p>
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<p>As you can see no one really has an uber tough schedule, and don’t try to claim the trash that makes up the bottom halves of all the conferences changes anything. (SEC fan logic)</p>
<p>author, Pasqualoni wasn’t fired after the loss to Michigan, but after the blow-out loss to Buffalo. If the team had put out the effort in the other 3 games they lost this season that they put out against Michigan, the coach may not have been fired.</p>
<p>I was reminded while watching a bit of the NO-Miami game why I turn the sound way down or off. I had the sound up because I was switching between shows for my wife. A simple screen pass horribly defended by Miami with 3 offensive linemen running completely free and the running back essentially running upfield behind them and I hear the announcer talk about Darren Sproles. All he did was run after the big guys.</p>
<p>BTW, I’d say San Diego has more than replaced him with Danny Woodhead. He’s not a kick returner but the guy can run in between the tackles and blocks well, particularly on blitzing LB’s and DB’s.</p>
<p>Mark Sanchez is having season ending surgery on his shoulder. I am betting his career is over. No one will pick him up regardless of how the surgery goes.</p>
<p>And I just read Matt Flynn is being demoted to 3rd string at Oakland. That poor guy can’t get a break. I didn’t think he played that poorly the last game. I guess the coaches disagreed.</p>
<p>Mark Sanchez is actually the worst quarterback in the history of the NFL to start for 4 or more years straight in terms of QB rating. That’s right, even lower ratings than the guys who played in the 30s & 40s.</p>
<p>because a new cable service is coming to town, our current service provider not only dropped $20/month but also upgraded our service to a digital package. At the end of the day, the “great deal” we got cause us over $1000 because none of our old TV can see the digital channels. </p>
<p>The connection to this thread - now I am watching football on a 55 inch 1080I 3D TV. It is much nicer and I am watching a lot more TV these days. </p>
<p>On the topic of strong conferences, I think any ranking system will have some problem. Until there is a playoff in the college games, some teams will be luckier than others.</p>
<p>Mark Sanchez will fade out of sight, but the butt fumble will live forever.</p>
<p>Sanchez may catch on as a backup somewhere.</p>
<p>My big dilemma is - do I play Matt Ryan against the Jets, or Philip Rivers against the Raiders?</p>
<p>And A.D. is on his bye week, so I had to pick up a crapback off of the junk heap. I grabbed Chris Ogbonnaya of Cleveland, although the way Buffalo shut down Baltimore’s running game last week it may not be a good idea. Although maybe the Ravens’ poor ground performance is because they had to pass because Mr. Elite kept horking up interceptions.</p>
<p>Hmmm…</p>
<p>Rivers over Ryan…</p>
<p>I’m undefeated in both my fantasy leagues</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I decided.</p>
<p>I’m 4-0 in my league, winning by an average of 20 points each week.</p>
<p>I got a little lucky last week, there were some other teams that outscored me but fortunately I didn’t play any of them!</p>
<p>shellfell, I got you on players effort. isn’t Firing coaches before the season all about AD/alumni egos?</p>
<p>Who would imagine Cleveland would win 3 straight after the trade of Richardson?</p>
<p>Richardson was never going to be more than an Average running back, he doesn’t have a huge impact on the outcomes of games (anymore than a backup would anyways). Now Cleveland could say pickup an Elite WR with their first pick (Lee or Watkins) & a QB with their 2nd (Manziel, Boyd, or Hundley)</p>
<p>The Cleveland/Buffalo game was a good example of what looked on paper to be dud but which was actually a pretty interesting game with some really exciting moments.</p>
<p>The injury evidence keeps mounting against the run QB. Hoyer was described as sliding but he was caught from behind just as he began to do it after running upfield. Manuel was hit near the out of bounds line. I look at the Patriots. They started the year with 4 RB’s + a fullback and they have 1 RB on recall IR, 1 who was dinged again in his bad knee last week and 1 who has missed all practices this week. Run the ball and you get hurt.</p>
<p>Let’s see how those unbiased pollsters deal with that dubious victory by Georgia over a 3-2 and unranked Vols team. I fully expect them to consider that a quality victory over a strong opponent.</p>
<p>I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict that, even with an east coast bias, #25 Maryland will drop out of the top 25 after getting shellacked 63-0.</p>
<p>Georgia is #6 in the poll I am looking at, I think they will drop to at least 12, maybe lower.</p>
<h1>12 UCLA eked out a 7 point win over a 3-2 and unranked Utah. I expect they will drop a bit as well.</h1>
<p>Georgia would never have dropped to 12. The latest poll pegs than in the 7th position. They only lost a couple of dozen points. Stanford lost points after defeating Washington and Clemson gained points for beating a glorified high school team. </p>
<p>One could wonder where Georgia would be ranked had they actually WON against Clemson and not barely escaped losses. Following the “logic” and uber bias, they might be ranked in front of Oregon.</p>
<p>In the top 10, there are three teams with losses. One can guess in which conferences they play. It is laughable.</p>
<p>Go Seahawks! Lol.</p>
<p>Houston, we have problem. Ain’t Schaub throwing picks like candy this week! We just run out of our usual luck, or better said, there was too much of Luck this week.</p>
<p>Seahawks are not the same team on the road.</p>
<p>Patriots laid an egg this week, and Brady’s streak got stopped by about 2 inches. I don’t see how they beat NO next week.</p>
<p>Gi-aint’s are 0-5… is Coughlin’s job in danger?</p>
<p>Bummer about Brady’s streak ending. Just one away from Breeze’s record. Would Welker have gotten an extra two inches?</p>