South Florida Archive

Week 8 on TV

As always, big thanks to Awful Announcing for this week’s announcer schedule for college football.
Highlights:

Thursday night: South Florida at Rutgers (ESPN: Fowler/Flutie/James). South Florida’s last test on the road.
Saturday (Noon Eastern): Nothing worth watching.
Saturday (3:30pm Eastern): Florida at Kentucky (CBS: Lundquist/Danielson, Gameday in Lexington) and SC at ND—2 years ago a clash of Top 10 [...]

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Weekend Prep

Okay, so here are the 3 most interesting things that I saw this morning:
It’s official: the “Dwarf from Shreveport” will not start.
SI.com’s Austin Murphy declares the Trojan Dynasty dead:

Yes, USC could scratch and claw its way back up the rankings and into the national title game. More likely, what we saw at the Coliseum last [...]

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Starting Over?

Apparently Stewart Mandel wants a do over? Now he thinks that if he were to submit his first AP Ballot after Week 5, then LSU would be #1, followed by USC, Cal, South Florida and Ohio State.

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What to watch

Tonight: ESPN2 West Virginia at South Florida and as much as I want USF to win, I just don’t think they can stop PatSlatonSteveWhite.
Saturday: ABC Regional Cal at Oregon—be prepared for Dan Fouts’ homerism to get out of control when the Ducks play well. However, I think that Oregon has proven that when they are [...]

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Announcer Lists for Week 5

Okay, so this weekend’s games look awful after the Friday night West Virginia/South Florida battle.
Now, I know you will say, “Wait—Cal is at Oregon!” And yes, if you live in Californa, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, or Idaho you will get to see that game. (If you have GamePlan, of course, then you are set.) Everywhere [...]

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Week 4 TV Games and Announcer List

Awful Announcing again provides us with this weekend’s TV schedule (Sept 20th thru 22nd):

The weekend opens with Texas A&M at Miami and Erin Andrews probably in a tank top—YEAH! (Erin will also be in Tampa for South Florida, so it might be a tank top twofer.)
We’ll see if Coach Fran really has [...]

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Saturday on the Couch Recap – Sunday Brunch

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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Upset Alert

Four Top 25 teams (and a former Top 5 team) are being told to watch out this week:

Auburn hosting South Florida: Both of SI’s college football writers pick the upset.
Texas hosting TCU: TCU alum Dan Jenkins prays for the upset and Bob Davie picks the Horned Frogs.
UCLA hosting BYU: The battle for Ben Olsen’s soul…
Boise [...]

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