NCAA 2009

[sbr]

Looks like the teams of all of the prolific posters in this thread are going bowling...except katmai's Huskies.  :nelson

[Syt]

Pitt is doing fine.

[PDH]

Wyoming's last two games:

vs TCU, number 4 in the country. I pencil this in as a loss.
vs CSU, the hated rival Colorado State Rams. Throw out the record books, this is going to be one dilly of a pickle, a barn burner in which the team that executes its gameplan one play at a time, with their heads on straight, and is able to give 110% will win.

[katmai]

DIAF duckie!

[Valmy]

vs CSU, the hated rival Colorado State Rams. Throw out the record books, this is going to be one dilly of a pickle, a barn burner in which the team that executes its gameplan one play at a time, with their heads on straight, and is able to give 110% will win.

It will all come down to who wants it more!

[dps]

Do MWC teams with 6 wins always get bowl bids?

I believe there are at least 4 and maybe 5 bowl tie ins.  TCU is going to leave one of those empty...

Of course, the last 6 win team to NOT get a bowl was...Wyoming...

There are so many bowls now that it's hard for a 6-win team to be left out, though it does still happen.  Even if a conference doesn't have enough bowl tie-ins for all its bowl-eligible teams, there's a good chance that 1 or 2 conferences won't have enough eligible teams to fill all their slots, leaving a few bowls needing to plug in an at-large team.

EDIT:  Actually, this year all the conferences may have enough eligible teams to fulfill all their commitments (best chance for a conference not to have enough eligilbe teams appears to be the ACC).

[Ed Anger]

vs CSU, the hated rival Colorado State Rams. Throw out the record books, this is going to be one dilly of a pickle, a barn burner in which the team that executes its gameplan one play at a time, with their heads on straight, and is able to give 110% will win.

It will all come down to who wants it more!

And synergy!

[PDH]

There are so many bowls now that it's hard for a 6-win team to be left out, though it does still happen.  Even if a conference doesn't have enough bowl tie-ins for all its bowl-eligible teams, there's a good chance that 1 or 2 conferences won't have enough eligible teams to fill all their slots, leaving a few bowls needing to plug in an at-large team.

EDIT:  Actually, this year all the conferences may have enough eligible teams to fulfill all their commitments (best chance for a conference not to have enough eligilbe teams appears to be the ACC).

As I said, TCU being so good means one extra bowl for the MWC too.

That is the good part about being the best non-BCS conference, this is the third time that the MWC should get a BCS berth - while not as good as the big boys, it means money for the conference...

[grumbler]

Notre Dame's Golden Tate had a nice kick return for a TD. With the failed two point converison, they are 5 down to Pitt. I hope Weis can pull a victory somewhere out of his fat ass. Not that I'm a fan of Notre Dame or anything. I'm slightly paranoid that Weis will be fired at the end of the year, and Pope Urban II Meyer will be lured up to South Bend.

Come on Charlie, fight for your job!

Why in the hell would Urban Meyer ever leave Florida to go to Notre Dame of all places?  Granted it was his "dream job" at one point but UofF is arguably the best college job in the country, and ND has fallen pretty damn far.  Florida has better homegrown talent, state tax situation, academic requirements for recruits, weather, recent success and almost any other factor that comes into the equation other than long-term tradition and maybe big money boosters.

Notre Dame has ridiculous fans who don't understand they have been passed by, a school that the top athletes can't get into academically, shitty weather and is in Indiana.  I think ND will end up with either Kelly from Cincy or Chris Peterson from Boise State.

I'm hoping ND makes RichRod an offer he cannot refuse.  Even better, that they make the Michigan AD an offer he cannot refuse, and Martin then makes the same to RichRod.

[OttoVonBismarck]

After Rich Rodriguez is fired at Michigan I very seriously doubt any name FBS program extends a head coaching offer to him.  There is a very real argument to be made that Michigan should have kept Carr for another year until more promising coaches were on the market; I do not see Carr going 3-9 in 2008 or 5-7 like Rich is going this year.  Or better yet Michigan could have avoided totally mismanaging the Les Miles thing--however I think Les Miles is one of the most overrated coaches in college football and I don't think he'll find significant success elsewhere.

It's been a long time since it happened but I made predictions on this forum way back when that Rich would not do well at Michigan unless he was there for 3-4 years and he's done so badly I doubt he'll get a 4th year without enormous success in 2010.

[katmai]

I think/hope Notre Dame would be smart enough to skip him.

[Eddie Teach]

Looks like the teams of all of the prolific posters in this thread are going bowling...except katmai's Huskies.  :nelson

Maryland is out. Looks bad for Michigan too.

[jimmy olsen]

Here are the rankings. What has Texas done to deserve any #1 votes? 

AP Top 25
RK   TEAM   RECORD   PTS
1   Florida (36)   10-0   1463
2   Alabama (14)   10-0   1429
3   Texas (10)   10-0   1424
4   TCU   10-0   1307
5   Cincinnati   10-0   1247
6   Boise State   10-0   1213
7   Georgia Tech   10-1   1139
8   Pittsburgh   9-1   1030
9   Ohio State   9-2   990
10   LSU   8-2   968
11   Oregon   8-2   918
12   Oklahoma State   8-2   754
13   Penn State   9-2   689
14   Stanford   7-3   652
15   Iowa   9-2   633
16   Virginia Tech   7-3   559
17   Wisconsin   8-2   547
18   Clemson   7-3   442
19   Brigham Young   8-2   344
20   Oregon State   7-3   338
21   Miami (FL)   7-3   255
22   USC   7-3   223
23   Utah   8-2   183
24   Houston   8-2   149
25   Rutgers   7-2   145

    * Dropped from rankings: Arizona 18, South Florida 23

    * Others receiving votes: North Carolina 144, Nebraska 64, California 53, Arizona 50, Mississippi 45, Navy 41, Temple 23, Auburn 9, Georgia 9, West Virginia 8, Oklahoma 5, Texas Tech 4, Boston College 3, Nevada 1,

Texas ranked higher than Alabama, that's just insanity.

USA Today Poll
RK   TEAM   RECORD   PTS
1   Florida (48)   10-0   1460
2   Texas (4)   10-0   1397
3   Alabama (7)   10-0   1388
4   TCU   10-0   1277
5   Cincinnati   10-0   1219
6   Boise State   10-0   1183
7   Georgia Tech   10-1   1127
8   Ohio State   9-2   1019
9   Pittsburgh   9-1   997
10   LSU   8-2   956
11   Oregon   8-2   875
12   Penn State   9-2   772
13   Oklahoma State   8-2   750
14   Wisconsin   8-2   630
15   Iowa   9-2   584
16   Virginia Tech   7-3   558
17   Stanford   7-3   516
18   Brigham Young   8-2   404
19   Clemson   7-3   274
20   Oregon State   7-3   256
21   USC   7-3   239
22   Houston   8-2   229
23   Utah   8-2   212
24   Miami (FL)   7-3   156
25   Nebraska   7-3   107
25   North Carolina 7-3   107

    * Dropped from rankings: Arizona 19, West Virginia 23, South Florida 24, Auburn 25

    * Others receiving votes: Arizona 87, Navy 76, Rutgers 74, California 55, Mississippi 46, West Virginia 46, CENTRL MICHIGAN 27, Temple 17, Oklahoma 15, Boston College 14, Auburn 8, Texas Tech 7, Nevada 6, Northwestern 3, Georgia 2,

[Berkut]

Oddly enough, Arizona STILL controls their own destiny - I think if they win out, they still got to the Rose Bowl.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Texas has gone undefeated in a BCS conference, that is all it takes to get significant #1 votes.  There was a lengthy discussion earlier in these forums about SOS, something that plays virtually no role in how these things are actually decided.  Most people recognize Texas has had a pretty weak schedule but ultimately they've won every game and they're a big name school in a BCS conference. 

It doesn't really matter that Texas probably wouldn't be undefeated right now in the SEC or Pac-10, because I've watched many seasons of college football and I don't ever see that playing significant roles in the decisions of the voters.

The other bit of insanity is two teams could be 10-0 and whichever team started out with a preseason higher rank is most likely to end up ranked higher, regardless of other factors. 

Note I'm not agreeing with it just stating how things are.