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The Bar => Sports => Topic started by: ReardenSteel on November 05, 2009, 10:00:08 AM
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Games tonight and tomorrow are not the most impressive matchups but each night features a ranked team and this time of year that means something. The two biggest games (BCS-wise) are each on Saturday and sadly both kickoff at 3:30PM.
#3Alabama vs. #9LSU (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/gamecenter/preview/NCAAF_20091107_LSU@AL)
#11Penn State vs. #15Ohio State (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/gamecenter/preview/NCAAF_20091107_OHST@PSU)
(links go to game previews, +video)
Cincinnati should not overlook UConn as the latter has lost some really close games with a ton of adversity. It ought to be a blowout (on paper) but all year the Bearcat's have had me wondering just how good they really are. Saturday nights game will not answer that question (unless they lose) but the answer is coming sooner rather than later.
Good luck sportsfans. We are going to get some BCS answers and or movement each week form now until the final regular season games.
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Ready for Saturday.
Texas A&M (5-3) takes on the Colorado Buffaloes (2-6) and are going for 3 straight wins. I'd predict a blowout.
Also looking at UW (3-5) take on UCLA (3-5). Hoping the Dawgs pull a win, but then again, it's U-Dub. Not exactly a powerhouse. Though they did squeak by USC...
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OU at Nebraska, baby!
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RS, I agree the two you picked are the biggies.
The Oklahoma at Nebraska game has my attention just because of the rivalry. Also, the FSU at Clemson game could provide some sparks.
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RS, I agree the two you picked are the biggies.
The Oklahoma at Nebraska game has my attention just because of the rivalry. Also, the FSU at Clemson game could provide some sparks.
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I remember when Nebraska always played Oklahoma the day after Thanksgiving and the tickets were dearer than gold.....
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The Oklahoma at Nebraska game has my attention just because of the rivalry. Also, the FSU at Clemson game could provide some sparks.
I remember when Nebraska always played Oklahoma the day after Thanksgiving and the tickets were dearer than gold.....
Good ol' rivalry games. Can't beat em. I have to pull for the Sooners though I was sad to see Nebraska fall to Iowa State this year. It will be great when both teams are at their best again.
I'm sure I'll be watching Cincinnati as I don't have cable and the Bearcats kickoff at the same time as the Battle of the Big Reds. sigh. Why the Bearcats have been good the last few years is a geological oddity but it's also the home team. (if they don't win it's a shame)
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I'm sure I'll be watching Cincinnati as I don't have cable and the Bearcats kickoff at the same time as the Battle of the Big Reds. sigh. Why the Bearcats have been good the last few years is a geological oddity but it's also the home team. (if they don't win it's a shame)
We've talked about UC before....the other half is really hoping they get to go to a good bowl game.
UT's playing Memphis....it's UT's homecoming...so they try to pick someone they can beat... :uhsure:
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We've talked about UC before....the other half is really hoping they get to go to a good bowl game.
UT's playing Memphis....it's UT's homecoming...so they try to pick someone they can beat... :uhsure:
Didn't work out for em so well one year that Peyton was there...
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We've talked about UC before....the other half is really hoping they get to go to a good bowl game.
UT's playing Memphis....it's UT's homecoming...so they try to pick someone they can beat... :uhsure:
Yeah, I recall. So far so good for "our" (me and your 'worse'-half?) Bearcats. The really should win Saturday. After that it will be a real fight and might take a loss or two from some other teams. (TCU, Boise State come to mind)
Really, they could lose the next four and go to a "good" bowl game but I expect we both have BCS Bowl on the brain for Cincy. I do wish Tennessee well too.
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Didn't work out for em so well one year that Peyton was there...
It hasn't always worked.....usually when UT gets cocky and assumes they can beat Memphis with their hands tied behind their backs.
I don't think that attitude is present this year....
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OU at Nebraska, baby!
Ralphie's 10-star lock of the week....OU is only giving 4.5 points at Nebraska. Bet your house on the Sooners!
(Sorry Frank!)
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A little Schaudenfreude on my part (perk)...
....here's hoping that lil' team from Evanston surprises the Hawkeyes...and maybe LSU beats Alabama.
My Frogs need help people! :-)
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Go Ohio State.
Go Alabama.
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Ralphie's 10-star lock of the week....OU is only giving 4.5 points at Nebraska. Bet your house on the Sooners!
(Sorry Frank!)
My prediction:
Oklahoma 63, Nebraska 7.
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My prediction:
Oklahoma 63, Nebraska 7.
ouch.
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ouch.
I said, after Frank Solich was so rudely and unceremoniously fired, that it would take Nebraska circa 42 years to become great again.
I'll be an old man, but I hope to see it, but it's going to be a long time.
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I said, after Frank Solich was so rudely and unceremoniously fired, that it would take Nebraska circa 42 years to become great again.
I'll be an old man, but I hope to see it, but it's going to be a long time.
It really is sad to see a team for so long at the pinnacle of the sport...to fall and still not be able to climb back up.
Is it recruiting or coaching or both?
I remember when Nebraska didn't do much recruiting....and they had walk-ons 3 deep....all from Nebraska high schools...it was every NE high school footballer's dream to play in Lincoln.
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It really is sad to see a team for so long at the pinnacle of the sport...to fall and still not be able to climb back up.
Is it recruiting or coaching or both?
I remember when Nebraska didn't do much recruiting....and they had walk-ons 3 deep....all from Nebraska high schools...it was every NE high school footballer's dream to play in Lincoln.
The coaching and recruiting seems to be as good as it possibly can be.
The problem is the "attitude." The now-departed athletic director who fired Frank Solich insisted "it was time" for Nebraska "to be like everybody else," rather than being Nebraska. It created a whole new "culture."
When Nebraska was Nebraska, Nebraska was the terror of the football field; there was, and is, no reason for Nebraska to be anything but Nebraska.
The world-famous "walk on" program was one of the first casualties of this change, and that led to a "disconnect" between Nebraska and the football program. Before, Nebraskans had always enjoyed a close affinity with the football program, because so many of their sons and grandsons had walked on.
The now-departed athletic director who fired Frank Solich insisted native Nebraskan talent was non-existent, and so it was better to look around where "everybody else" was looking around, for talent.
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The coaching and recruiting seems to be as good as it possibly can be.
The problem is the "attitude." The now-departed athletic director who fired Frank Solich insisted "it was time" for Nebraska "to be like everybody else," rather than being Nebraska. It created a whole new "culture."
When Nebraska was Nebraska, Nebraska was the terror of the football field; there was, and is, no reason for Nebraska to be anything but Nebraska.
The world-famous "walk on" program was one of the first casualties of this change, and that led to a "disconnect" between Nebraska and the football program. Before, Nebraskans had always enjoyed a close affinity with the football program, because so many of their sons and grandsons had walked on.
The now-departed athletic director who fired Frank Solich insisted native Nebraskan talent was non-existent, and so it was better to look around where "everybody else" was looking around, for talent.
And look what has happened to the program.
Why do people insist on making changes to things that work?
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Yeah, Steve Pederson. The guy is a colossal idiot/ass-kisser extraordinaire.
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And look what has happened to the program.
Why do people insist on making changes to things that work?
You got me, madam.
And the now-gone athletic director was a native Nebraskan.
It was very sad about the near-ditching (it hasn't been totally eliminated, but pretty much so) of the "walk on" program.
Nebraska, given its small population, hasn't ever produced many "stars"--some, but not many--but the program gave us a wealth of second- and third-string talent, real depth. And as a second- or third-stringer wants to be on the first string, the competition made the team even better.
The other thing was, as I mentioned, the "disconnect" between Nebraskans and the football program. Just about everybody in Nebraska, including the six-man high schools, knew someone on the Nebraska football team. If not a member of the family, then a next-door neighbor, or someone from the same high school, or someone from the same town.
That's not there any more.
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Iowa finally lost...finally.
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The first few minutes of LSU and 'Bama is pretty good. The Tide has run six plays--all pass plays.
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Iowa finally lost...finally.
I'm surprised it came at home to Northwestern but that's good news for my Buckeye's. (if they win today, just went up 10-7)
I hear ya BlueState. Both national games on here in my town. Thanks ABC & CBS. :cheersmate:
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Da Buck, da Eye's, da hey hey. Hey hey hey hey. :cheersmate:
wat?? :-) :-)
Sayonara Happy Valley!
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Are you kidding me? By one ****ing point! :censored: :banghead:
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Are you kidding me again? In both ****ing games! :censored: :banghead:
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Stanford over Oregon! :cheersmate:
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And look what has happened to the program.
Why do people insist on making changes to things that work?
Nebraska is a sad case, but I think they are back on the right track, and if Tom Osborne can stay on the job a few more years, they will recover the glory he brought them. Oklahoma is overdue for a scandal, and that should make the task easier.
On the other hand, Michigan, by hiring the WVU fraudster, has made a blunder even more disastrous than Callahan at Nebraska. One can hope they will never recover.
Buckeyes 24, Penn State 7, Go Bucks.
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My prediction:
Oklahoma 63, Nebraska 7.
Try Nebraska 10 - Oklahoma 3.
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LSU was too injured to keep up.
I didn't watch much of the Ohio State - Penn State game, but I though PSU had a better team than that. Apparently not.
CJ Spiller with Clemson continues to amaze. Florida rolled. Iowa's QB getting hurt did them in. Stanford did its annual "We're gonna upset somebody" game. Cincy did OK in what was more of a mental hurdle than a talent obstacle. TCU killed.
All in all another good college football week.
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Nebraska is a sad case, but I think they are back on the right track, and if Tom Osborne can stay on the job a few more years, they will recover the glory he brought them. Oklahoma is overdue for a scandal, and that should make the task easier.
On the other hand, Michigan, by hiring the WVU fraudster, has made a blunder even more disastrous than Callahan at Nebraska. One can hope they will never recover.
Buckeyes 24, Penn State 7, Go Bucks.
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Boy, I cannot wait until the radio retards begin their daily defense of Kevin Wilson again. The offense is getting worse every game. But, "he won the Broyles Award last year!". Yeah, how'd that play calling work out on the goal-line twice against Florida? The fact is, they won in spite of him with a talented QB and an upper-classmen offense.
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Well, I have to say that was a total utter catastrophic thing that happened, Nebraska beating Oklahoma. The whole state seems to be in shock.
No one, but no one, up here even thought there was a remote possibility.
Not a single sportswriter in a single Nebraska newspaper even hinted there was a 1-in-100,000 chance that Nebraska might beat Oklahoma. It just wasn't going to happen, and so most of them just moved on to discussing how Nebraska is to handle Kansas next week after losing to Oklahoma.
This season is so screwed.
That stupid loss to Iowa State; as an alum of the University of Nebraska, if such were posssible, I'd just as soon trade past events, winning over Iowa State and losing to Oklahoma. There's no shame or humiliation losing to a team with tradition and style and class and courtesy; there's considerable shame and humiliation losing to, of all people, for God's sake! Iowa State, which has no class at all.
This season is so screwed.
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Frank, I have never seen a team on that level be so inept at executing blocking schemes, blocking technique and holding position for the snap. They were experimenting in the interior of the O-line during the middle of the game against one of the best DT tandems in the nation. That is just mind-boggling.
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So, then, when the college football rankings come out again, I take it that we'll see Nebraska crack the Top 25 again? Coach, I thought that you'd be thrilled that Nebraska and Bo Pelini beat the Sooners.
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Nebraska is a sad case, but I think they are back on the right track, and if Tom Osborne can stay on the job a few more years, they will recover the glory he brought them. Oklahoma is overdue for a scandal, and that should make the task easier.
On the other hand, Michigan, by hiring the WVU fraudster, has made a blunder even more disastrous than Callahan at Nebraska. One can hope they will never recover.
Buckeyes 24, Penn State 7, Go Bucks.
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Since Spritzer hasn't been at Oklahoma in years....I doubt that there will be any out of the norm scandals. Spritzer was the Master of Scandal ...
Congrats to Nebraska.
UT beat Memphis.....such a shock... ::)
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Well, I have to say that was a total utter catastrophic thing that happened, Nebraska beating Oklahoma. The whole state seems to be in shock.
No one, but no one, up here even thought there was a remote possibility.
Not a single sportswriter in a single Nebraska newspaper even hinted there was a 1-in-100,000 chance that Nebraska might beat Oklahoma. It just wasn't going to happen, and so most of them just moved on to discussing how Nebraska is to handle Kansas next week after losing to Oklahoma.
This season is so screwed.
That stupid loss to Iowa State; as an alum of the University of Nebraska, if such were posssible, I'd just as soon trade past events, winning over Iowa State and losing to Oklahoma. There's no shame or humiliation losing to a team with tradition and style and class and courtesy; there's considerable shame and humiliation losing to, of all people, for God's sake! Iowa State, which has no class at all.
This season is so screwed.
Oh Frank...I don't think you can fairly say that about Iowa State. They have class, they just have NEVER been very good. When the Huskers turn the ball over 8 times, four inside the 10 yard line, most likely you're going to lose.
I'm really glad that I don't actually wager on games. Because my prediction was so completely wrong. :banghead:
Go Frogs, we're up to #4 in both polls, and likely in the BCS standings when they come out later today.