Turns out the folks behind the Kansas City Star’s playoff bracket have done a little simulation of their own, which they call December Madness. Currently they’ve settled on the Final Four: OSU vs. OU and Va Tech vs. SC (who beat LSU to get there, by the way).
Also, they’ve predicted each of the bowl games. [...]
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December 1, 2007 has come and gone, which means that this wild and crazy season is over. No one was great, everyone claimed to be good, and we are left with a system that is designed to give us a 1 vs. 2 game—based on the opinions of 167 people who don’t watch every game [...]
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From, as always, Awful Announcing:
Tonight: The Battle of the Techs, with the lovely Erin Andrews on the sidelines. I might watch, since there’s nothing else sports-related on television, but these two teams are seriously dull.
Saturday:
Early Games: Wisconsin at Ohio State on the Big Ten Network (noon Eastern). For those of you without DirecTV enjoy not [...]
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Fanblogs brings us StubHub’s list of 2007’s Top 25 College Football Rivalries, and, wouldn’t you know it, USC shows up twice in the top five.
1 USC at Notre Dame 20-Oct $409 [...]
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Here we go, thanks to Awful Announcing for listing the Week 9 College Football TV schedule.
Tonight: #2 BC at #8 Virginia Tech, Hokie Hokie Hi.
Tomorrow: Boise St at Fresno St, Can Boise win without the marrying man Ian Johnson?
Saturday:
Gameday: at Penn State as the ESPN/ABC corporate plan comes together with Gameday and the ABC national [...]
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As the last Saturday in October approaches, a couple of “experts” are already making their picks for this weekend’s games:
Dan Shanoff, formerly of ESPN.com’s Page 2 and now a weekly College Football contributor at Deadspin likes Ohio State over Penn State, Oregon over USC, Cal over ASU, Florida over Georgia at the Cocktail Party, WVU [...]
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Michigan is in full panic mode and Ryan Mallett will start in the True Freshman Battle at the Big House.
Apparently Frank Beamer wasn’t that impressed with Sean Glennon (though his comments last week beg to differ).
Florida and Tennessee are both battling injuries before their traditional SEC kick-off.
I know that we have to deal with a [...]
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Upset Alert Recap: South Florida pulled it off at Auburn; so did Washington. Oregon put Lloyd Carr on suicide watch. UCLA and Texas survived tough games at home.
Virginia Tech looked to be the 2nd most overrated team in the country; however, Pat Forde feels that LSU is #1.
The Ole Ball Coach pulled his magic against [...]
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The nation’s longest winning streak falls in Seattle, setting up Ohio State’s visit to Washington
Aggie Nation is swallowing its tongue against Fresno St (overtime about to start)
Texas/TCU is about to start
We could have a sloppy track in Baton Rouge tonight
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Thanks again to Awful Announcing for the list of games and TV crews.
This week Herbie gets a home game as Gameday is in Baton Rouge and he and Musburger will call the game on ESPN (ABC is running NASCAR).
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