The Ragin’ Cajun, James Carville, of Carville, Louisiana, is apparently a die-hard LSU fan. Carville’s family has had LSU tickets since the early ’50s. He can point to the place on the Tiger Stadium field where Billy Cannon fielded that fabled punt in ’59. Not that he’s letting that color his opinion of some of [...]
Posted in Florida, LSU, USC | No Comments »Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi’s not buying it: Repeat after me: THERE IS NO MYSTIQUE. This is one of my biggest pet peeves in sports — people thinking that Tiger Stadium has some sort of mystical power that allows LSU to prevail in big games. LSU has a great home record now because LSU has [...]
Posted in Florida, LSU | No Comments »Dennis Dodd has this to say about how much the number one ranking means to LSU… This is for the soul of LSU. This is for all the Cajuns who never went there, all the sororities dressed up in their finest on game day, the suburbanites in their SUVs streaming down Dalrymple Dr. chanting “Tah-gah [...]
Posted in LSU | No Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Stanford, Texas, The Other USC, USC, Wisconsin | No Comments »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.
Posted in Cal, LSU, Ohio State, South Florida, USC | 1 Comment »Okay, here we go. As soon as you think that you might want to not watch much college football this weekend 7 of the Top 15 lose. #1 USC left all of their crisp play in LA and squeaked by U-Dub by 3. SC looked terrible and I would not be surprised if LSU is [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Kansas State, Kentucky, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, USC, Washington | 2 Comments »We already know that USC would be a three-point favorite over LSU. Well, it turns out that we’d also be five-point favorites over Oregon, six-point favorites over Cal, and 20-point favorites over UCLA. But would we be favored over Oklahoma?
Posted in Cal, LSU, Oklahoma, Oregon, UCLA, USC | No Comments »When it comes to the Pac-10 and the SEC, the Sports Reporters apparently disagree with what the oddsmakers had to say. For example, Mitch Albom: “I can’t see anybody beating USC, based on their schedule,” Mitch Albom, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press, said Sunday on the weekly ESPN program. “I don’t see it. [...]
Posted in LSU, Pac-10, SEC, USC | No Comments »As SI considers the ‘Pac-10 vs. SEC’ question, Bill Trocchi seeks some outside help in constructing his latest conference power rankings: For this particular exercise, I forwarded Ken White, the senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, 10 hypothetical matchups. Keep in mind that White’s company sets the odds for 90 percent of the casinos [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Cal, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, The Other USC, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington, Washington State | 5 Comments »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 a [...]
Posted in Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, USC, Washington State | No Comments »