NCAA Football '12-13

[dps]

It is the Big 12's fault isn't it?  Since they only give us three OOC games to enjoy such fabulous match ups as Texas vs. Ole Miss.

Ultimately, it's the ACC's fault.  If they hadn't been poaching teams from the Big East, WVU probably would have been content to stay there, and wouldn't have gone to the Big 12.

That's only partly tongue-in-cheek, in that it's probably literally true.  However, I wouldn't so much assign "fault" to conferences as to say that the conferences that had pro-active commissioners came out ahead of the last couple rounds of realignment.  If you want to assign blame, blame John Marinatto.

[Valmy]

However, I wouldn't so much assign "fault" to conferences as to say that the conferences that had pro-active commissioners came out ahead of the last couple rounds of realignment.

I don't know.  The PAC was pretty pro-active and they ended up having to take Colorado and Utah.

[dps]

However, I wouldn't so much assign "fault" to conferences as to say that the conferences that had pro-active commissioners came out ahead of the last couple rounds of realignment.

I don't know.  The PAC was pretty pro-active and they ended up having to take Colorado and Utah.

Both were reasonable geographic fits, and Utah at least is a decent football program.  Makes more sense that WVU in the Big 12 geographically, and even Colorado is probably a better football program than some of the schools the Big East is getting.  I mean, Memphis?  Really?  When ECU is actually in the east, and would probably would have killed to move go from Conference USA to the Big East?  Sure, East Carolina isn't a great football program, and they don't really help in other sports, but, hey, this is all about football and ECU is certainly better in football than Memphis.  Heck, adding Memphis makes dicking around for months waiting on Villanova to decide if they wanted to move from FCS to FBS (ugh, still hate those acronyms) look like a good idea.

[Valmy]

and even Colorado is probably a better football program than some of the schools the Big East is getting.

Heh well maybe in some abstract sense but not in the literal sense this year.  Memphis would probably beat them easily.

Anyway I was making a joke about how badly both those schools have done so far.

[dps]

Utah looked really bad last week (well, going by the final score;  I didn't see the game) but overall for the year they've been mediocre at worst, and were pretty good last year.

If Colorado and Memphis were playing this weekend, I suspect that Colorado would be at least a 10 point favorite.

[Valmy]

Well maybe I shouldn't make fun of Colorado so much now that they have finally won a conference game.

[Eddie Teach]

Time to make fun of the team they beat.

[sbr]

The Arizona schools are definitely first and second. Oregon is up there too.

I'm a native Oregonian but I think Oregon is overrepresented in these lists.  UofO's cheer/dance/spirit squad is a scholarship squad (one of the very few in the country I think), and that lets them pull talent that is probably a bit over their heads.  That said in general I prefer west coast girls over east coast, with the south taking the top spot.

[Berkut]

I'm an East Coast guy, so can't really speak to campuses out west.

Arizona and especially Arizona State are like really big ass magnets, seemingly able to pull the bestest bunnies from California, Colorado and Texas. 

That ASU campus is a big steaming hot bowl of ass soup. Woof.

Arizona gets so much more than its fair share it isn't even funny. I miss it so very much.

ASU? I guess, if you like your chicks tatted up and you exercise a stringent regime of prophylactic anti-biotics.

[Valmy]

Hey my sister went to ASU!

[Valmy]

with the south taking the top spot.

Southern women are like Russian women.  Super hot when young but with an early expiration date.

[sbr]

true

[dps]

So, not a surprise really, but Notre Dame has notified Michigan that they won't continue their series past 2014.

[CountDeMoney]

So, not a surprise really, but Notre Dame has notified Michigan that they won't continue their series past 2014.

That's a real shame.

[katmai]

If only the big ten were stable