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 [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona State, Boston College, Coaches, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Heisman Watch, Kansas, LSU, Navy, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, Oregon State, USC, Va Tech, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »
Once again Awful Announcing takes the time while battling the WWL to give us the announcer listings for week 6. Highlights: College football on ESPN or ESPN2 every night this week as they try and counter-program the MLB playoffs that they no longer carry. The best game of the weeknight slate is Thursday’s #8 Kentucky [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Auburn, Boise State, Cal, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, South Florida, Texas, The Other USC, UCLA, Va Tech, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin | No Comments »
SI predicts the conference champions (my thoughts in brackets): ACC: Virgina Tech over BC in the money-grab title game. [Agreed.] Big 12: Texas over Nebraska in the money-grab title game. [I'm thinking OU instead.] Big Eleven: Michigan. [Wisconsin.] Big East: West Virginia. [L'ville.] Pac-10: USC, (12-0) and off to the BcS title game. [Agreed, in [...]
Posted in ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Eleven, Boston College, Coaches, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pac-10, SEC, Texas, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | No Comments »
Okay. Since our last installment of ESPNU’s Championship Series, they have rolled into conference play, and we missed two huge games on October 6th. (Sorry—married with kid, so weekends are tough before there are actual games on.) At any rate, in this new installment, Rece, Mark, and Lou go over the big game of October [...]
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Okay, this is getting ridiculous. All 12 “experts” from ESPN pick USC to win the national title. Three experts like the Trojans over Texas, three more take SC over LSU, two pick USC over Michigan (nice rematch), two more like SC over West Virginia, and the unique picks are SC over OU and SC over Virginia [...]
Posted in LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »
Last year ESPN had its first mock season with a PLAYOFF, played out on the 6pm Sportscenter each night going week by week through the season. This year’s version (ESPNU Championship Series) kicked off last night, with Rece Davis, Mark May and Lou Holtz (who said, and we were shocked by this, that Notre Dame was going [...]
Posted in Florida, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, The Biz, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »
Here is their version; here is our version: #16- Tennessee at California September 1st #18- Florida St at Clemson September 3rd #4- Virginia Tech at LSU September 8th #14- TCU at Texas September 8th #19- Miami at Oklahoma September 8th #20- Notre Dame at Penn State September 8th #8- USC at Nebraska September 15th #9- [...]
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CollegeFootballNews.com has taken a stab at the Big Eleven’s schedule and predicts a tie for the Conference title and Rose Bowl bid for Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Michigan will finish the season at 11-1, says CFN, with Wisconsin ending Michigan’s undefeated season the week after Ohio State upset the Badgers in Columbus. The Buckeyes will finish [...]
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