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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 01, 2011, 08:19:52 PM
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I'm getting this in before any of the primitives make their predictions.
Condem (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-01-11 08:39 PM
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**********COLLEGE FOOTBALL: WEEK 10**********
A big shout out to joey and GusBob!! Another very tough week and these ****ers go 10-5. joey goes above .500 and gets out of the basement. With authority. Era continues to lead but anything can happen. Seems like these games are getting tougher to handicap. You'll have more time to think about it, this week. All Saturday games, highlighted by #1 vs. #2. We should have an open thread for that one, Saturday night. So grab whatever you drink or smoke and enjoy what promises to be the best game of the year. Before kickoff Saturday. Noon EDT (the last day of DT).
Standings to follow.
Saturday, November 5
Vanderbilt +12.5 @ Florida
Kansas State +20.5 @ Oklahoma State
Texas A&M +14.5 @ Oklahoma
Texas Tech +12 @ Texas
Louisville +13.5 @ West Virginia
Michigan -4 @ Iowa
Virginia +1.5 @ Maryland
Stanford -21 @ Oregon State
Northwestern +18 @ Nebraska
Southern Mississippi -9 @ East Carolina
Notre Dame -14 @ Wake Forest
Missouri +2 @ Baylor
South Carolina +5 @ Arkansas
LSU +4.5 @ Alabama
Oregon -15 @ Washington
Despite that it wounds him Greatly, franksolich is picking Louisiana State over Alabama.
<<has a great deal of warm affection for Alabama.
One wonders what the primitives are going to predict, but it's pretty much a given they're going to be wrong, because all the primitives know about college football is what the talking faces on television tell them.
So anyway, I checked the statistics of the predicting primitives; they've been about 50% right all season.
For the record, small-town newspaper sports reporters in Nebraska usually get circa 67% right.
And one needn't forget the condom primitive himself, allegedly a sportswriter, probably for the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, even though he's been in college since Nelson Rockefeller was vice-president, trying to defer paying on those student loans--the sportswriter himself is only 69-64.
Geezuz.
Northwestern plays Nebraska here on Saturday.
I wouldn't discount Northwestern; they've got a pretty good team.
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I think K-State covers against Okie Lite. They can run the ball and OKST has trouble stopping a good running game. Unfortunately, I think my Ags will get mudholed by the Land Thieves.
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Northwestern should cover against Nebraska, but that's about it. The Huskers are going to beat Northwestern by two touchdowns.
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Northwestern should cover against Nebraska, but that's about it. The Huskers are going to beat Northwestern by two touchdowns.
Well, we'll see. But I wouldn't underestimate Northwestern.
Northwestern's been known to pull some upsets.
In other news on the Nebraska football front, newspapers "poll" readers on how they feel about the Big 10, just about every week, just about after every game. It's all new to us, and we're all each other curious how everybody else feels.
Thus far in this, halfway through our first season, when it comes to class fans, Wisconsin wins hands down. Not that fans of Ohio State, Minnesota, and Michigan State have been found wanting--in fact, they've all been found to be some of the nicest people one can hope to meet--but apparently there's something about Wisconsin fans that reminds Nebraska of Oklahoma fans, a little extra touch in the "friendly" and "mutually respectful" departments.
And remember, we lost that game, the one with Wisconsin.
Also, as all the newspapers in the state reported all week long, of all 12 members of the Big 10, Nebraska is the only one still utterly in control of its own destiny, when it comes to the conference championship game.
All other 11 teams, in addition to what they do, are dependent to one degree or another on what happens to other teams. At this point, only for Nebraska, it doesn't matter the outcome of games not ours.
All we have to do is win all the way through, win our remaining four games, and we're in.
This was certainly unexpected.
That's a pretty tall order, though, because we got four tough opponents; Northwestern, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Iowa. The road ahead is full of all sorts of perils and hazards.
But at the moment at least, Nebraska's in 100% charge of its own destiny; the only such team in the Big 10.
At the moment, remember.
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Well, we'll see. But I wouldn't underestimate Northwestern.
Northwestern's been known to pull some upsets.
In other news on the Nebraska football front, newspapers "poll" readers on how they feel about the Big 10, just about every week, just about after every game. It's all new to us, and we're all each other curious how everybody else feels.
Thus far in this, halfway through our first season, when it comes to class fans, Wisconsin wins hands down. Not that fans of Ohio State, Minnesota, and Michigan State have been found wanting--in fact, they've all been found to be some of the nicest people one can hope to meet--but apparently there's something about Wisconsin fans that reminds Nebraska of Oklahoma fans, a little extra touch in the "friendly" and "mutually respectful" departments.
And remember, we lost that game, the one with Wisconsin.
Also, as all the newspapers in the state reported all week long, of all 12 members of the Big 10, Nebraska is the only one still utterly in control of its own destiny, when it comes to the conference championship game.
All other 11 teams, in addition to what they do, are dependent to one degree or another on what happens to other teams. At this point, only for Nebraska, it doesn't matter the outcome of games not ours.
All we have to do is win all the way through, win our remaining four games, and we're in.
This was certainly unexpected.
That's a pretty tall order, though, because we got four tough opponents; Northwestern, an obscure state college in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Iowa. The road ahead is full of all sorts of perils and hazards.
But at the moment at least, Nebraska's in 100% charge of its own destiny; the only such team in the Big 10.
At the moment, remember.
The bolded should be reduced to the acronym "AOSCIP." :fuelfire: :whistling:
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The bolded should be reduced to the acronym "AOSCIP." :fuelfire: :whistling:
Well, you know, sir, I have 18 cousins at or near my own age, cousins with whom I associated when growing up, and all 18 are graduates of that obscure state college in Pennsylvania; I'm the only one a graduate of the University of Nebraska.
It's been no fun.
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Well, you know, sir, I have 18 cousins at or near my own age, cousins with whom I associated when growing up, and all 18 are graduates of that obscure state college in Pennsylvania; I'm the only one a graduate of the University of Nebraska.
It's been no fun.
Reduce the acronym to "OSCIP" then.
18-to-1 odds . . . Ouch.