<p>Remeber the 2005 “Big game” in Los Angeles Coliseum? Fresno State vs USC The Bulldogs is leading the No.1 Trojons 42-41 with less than 10 min left. </p>
<p>Yes, even the No.1 team (w/Reggie Bush) could loss. The last minute fumble gives the Trojans a big break.</p>
<p>Funny thread… Thanks for the post prestige.</p>
<p>Nice - the two people who know little about college FB gang up on me!</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
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<p>1) Pre-season national rankings a just projections which are highly inaccurate - i.e. - see ND being touted as the favorite to win the National Championship last season - how did that work out?</p>
<p>Esp. since many pollsters don’t even bother to realize personnel changes due to graduation (UM had a highly suspect D since they graduated pretty much all of their stars on D from last year’s team which had a good, not great D which was susceptible to a passing attack - which btw, ASU has a great spread passing attack).</p>
<p>2) Duke FB may suck (going 0-fer 21), but if they played an IL schedule, they would be the champs (just b/c Hawaii is going to go something along the lines of 11-1 or 10-2 this season doesn’t mean that they would have that kind of success if they played in the SEC).</p>
<p>3) ASU nearly beat Auburn at Jordan-Hare 8 yrs ago (and this year’s ASU team is significantly better). The only difference btwn 1-AA teams (which offer schollies) and 1-A teams is about 20 schollies.</p>
<p>Ivy League schools don’t offer any schollies and the best IL schools aren’t even the best I-AA teams which don’t offer schollies (as evidenced by Yale getting THUMPED by USD last year).</p>
<p>Really, these aren’t difficult concepts.</p>
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<p>Actually, a pretty much accurate description of you wolvsie! LOL!</p>
<p>appalachian state could rip apart most teams in football they are way underrated and are faster than most division 1 teams i believe they could roll over any team in the big ten because of the spread offense i know that you ppl r gonna flame this thats because u kno its true</p>
<p>Big 10 is highly overrated.</p>
<p>First, Duke was leading UCONN at the half.</p>
<p>Second, no one at Duke gives a crap about football right now, nor should they. Tailgate begins at 10am and lasts till 3pm at Duke. It is the most insane party on campus, and extends well into the game. Which would you rather go to, tailgate or a Duke football game? Tailgate is attended by a few thousand students. The game is attended by a couple hundred and mainly used for its food options.</p>
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<p>danas, constant losers may apply to Duke. But Northwestern and Notre Dame? Not so much. Northwestern were Big Ten Champs in 1995, 1996, and 2000. They went to Bowls in 2003 and 2005, and would likely have gone last year had their coach not passed away just before the season began. As for ND, yes they have struggled in recent years when compared to their historical dominance, but they still rack up a heck of a lot more wins year in and year out than most programs in Division I-A.</p>
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<p>Spread offense, when executed well, can make smaller teams very competitive. That’s how the 2000 Northwestern team was the one to which Michigan yielded the most offensive yards (630+) in its school history. NU won the game 54-51; it was similar to this one but a bit more wild.</p>
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<p>If that’s the case, so is the SEC which went 1-2 against the B10 in bowl games last season (and in the past 5 yrs. is 6-8 against the B10 in bowl games).</p>
<p>In addition, the B12 is overrated since UT barely beat Ark. St. last week, the Pac-10 is overrated b/c Oregon St. just got smacked by Cincinnati, etc.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, UM was overrated in the pre-season polls (the pollsters tend to be too infatuated with O’s and tend to overlook mediocre D’s – see ND the past couple of years) and is a less complete team than UW, PSU and dOSU in the B10.</p>
<p>As for App. St. – it has a good no. of speeders on its offense, including the 100/200 meter state champ from South Carolina.<br>
ASU also has a number of transfers from the SEC– something you (ahem, prestige) won’t find in Ivy League teams.</p>
<p>ASU has jokingly been considered the best team in the State of North Carolina (which is why teams like UNC, Wake and Duke REFUSE to schedule ASU).</p>
<p>A bigger upset than the ASU win over UM would be for Lenoir-Rhyne to beat ASU this weekend.</p>
<p>Lenoir-Rhyne, despite being another Div 1-AA school, only offers 24 scholarships to Appalachian’s **65<a href=“a%20much%20greater%20disparity%20than%20btwn%20UM%20and%20ASU”>/b</a>.</p>
<p>Btw, prestige keeps harping about how Duke hasn’t won a game since it crushed VMI 40-14 2 seasons ago (despite the fact that Duke almost beat the ACC champs last year). </p>
<p>That same year (2005), VMI lost to Lehigh in a squeaker 28-26 and Lehigh, in turn, beat Harvard 49-24 and Yale 28-21.</p>
<p>Yeah, it sure looks like an Ivy League team could beat Duke.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure NU would have gone to a bowl last year.</p>
<p>While the unexpected death of Coach Walker put the coaching staff into disarray - what hurt the team more was the fact that the projected starting QB, Bacher, had a broken leg and wasn’t able to start until the 8th game of the season (NU’s O with the 2 frosh QBs prior to Bacher taking the helm was awful).</p>
<p>Btwn 2003-2005, NU finished 5-3 in the B10. NU should have gone to a bowl in 2004 (finished with an overall record of 6-6) but at the time, the rules didn’t allow 6-6 teams to go to bowls.</p>
<p>The extra game against Hawaii cost NU a bowl game, esp. since UH has “homer” refs - there were about 5-6 disputed calls which went against NU (MSU which played UH in 2005 also suffered from “homer” calls; this is why UH is having trouble finding teams willing to play them in Hawaii - UH’s W-L record at home is quite different from its W-L record in away games).</p>
<p>What also hurt NU in 2004 was the fact that the 'Cat’s kicker missed 6 FGs in a narrow lost to TCU (45-48).</p>
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<p>Uhh, more than half the teams in the B10 run a spread offense (or at the very least, incorporate some spread packages).</p>
<p>Carr has always been a below-avg. game day coach and he still hasn’t figured how to defend against the spread (one would think that NU’s win in the 54-51 shoot-out would have taught Carr a lesson, but then again…).</p>