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Because it's just not right to talk about the 2011 season in the 2010 thread. You know it, and I know it.
The team I've loved since I was a little kid, Miami, is about to get reamed by the NCAA infractions committee. My alma mater, New Mexico, has gone 2-22 over the past two seasons and starts this season as the worst team in the NCAA (according to ESPN's Bottom 10). Needless to say, I can't wait for the season to start.
Let's do this.
Only one more year of bowl banishment for USC!!!!
So which SEC team is taking the title this year...
I got Stanford season tickets. Fear the tree.
I'm going on record as saying Wisconsin will play in the national title game. They have an excellent running game, and a very good QB in Russell Wilson - a transfer from NC State.
Let's say: Wisconsin vs Alabama
Heisman: Landry Jones QB Oklahoma (runner-up: Trent Richardson RB Alabama)
It's a shame how empty that stadium is every game.Quote:
Originally Posted by fiyahhh!
As a Notre Dame fan, I'm looking forward to going 11-0, and then getting successively destroyed by Luck in his Heisman game and the second place SEC team in a BCS game.
Not sure if serious...Quote:
Originally Posted by Miroir Noir
I actually think they'll go into Stanford with a loss or two, but I stand by the getting destroyed by Luck and a much faster SEC team part of my prediction.
As an Ole Miss fan, I can take pride in the fact that our former starting quarterback, Randall Mackey, kicked more ass in his bar fight than Jordan Jefferson from LSU, and otherwise, it's gonna be a long damn season.
That being said, I'll be shocked if a team other than Alabama or South Carolina wins the national championship this season. SEC bias aside, though, I'd like to see Boise State get a shot in the championship game.
I figured nobody cared this year considering the season is starting in three days and there was no thread in sight. This should be a great season again. Among best first three weeks in recent memory. Cant wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by TommyboyUNM
UCLA Bruins, right here. Why are all my sports teams in some type of turmoil? (Raiders, Dodgers, Lakers). Hopefully they can right the ship this year and at least make it to a bowl game. A win over USC would be nice.
I'm thinking Ole Miss and South Carolina will have some good seasons this year with some upsets against LSU/Ala etc.
I don't think Oregon will have as much success this season, and Stanford will get upset by someone along the way.
Really looking forward to seeing Nebraska play Wisc and Mich/Oh. St.
I hope to god Boise beats Georgia so the SEC fans can shutup about playing in a real league. Then again they'll just say to play a real team from a real league.
Except when its against Cal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dale Gribble
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Originally Posted by hawkingvsreeve
OF COURSE they have to come up with some new thing every year with their uniforms. Are you guys gonna go the Oregon route and have 167 color options?
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Originally Posted by TommyboyUNM
Wisconsin lost 3 starters on O line to the nfl? Yeah, Wilson is a good add with Tolzien gone now. I wonder if they throw more with him, despite having Ball and White behind him probably running for 1000+ each this season. They are the front runners though since Ohio State is toast this season.
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Originally Posted by mmsk123
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My team, Georgia Bulldogs (Mom is from GA and Grandma is a die hard never-miss-a-game fan), opens with #5 ranked Boise State this Saturday. A first week massive showdown right out of the gates? Normally it's all cream puffs till like week five or six. Just gotta go hard and get it done. Go Dawgs!
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Originally Posted by suprefan
These are only for game 1 against Georgia. Nike designed new unis for Boise and a few other teams like last year.
And S. Carolina right after that. ouch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Premium Roast
Those Boise State unis look like something out of Any Given Sunday.
Have you seen the Oregon unis?
http://cbssports.com/images/blogs/Ne...s_Top_Half.jpg
http://cbssports.com/images/blogs/Ne...s_Vertical.jpg
Fucking rad.
Has anyone figured out if this Longhorn Network thing is actually a thing?
my team is playing Texas this weekend and the game is listed as being on the Longhorn Network. Which is the thing that is causing A&M to leave the Big 12 and hence hastening the demise of the conference. Which makes it richly ironic that the first game shown on the network involves Rice, one of the schools left behind when UT and A&M and the others left the SWC back in 94.
Hope you have Verizon Fios. Otherwise your'e shit out of luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by TomAz
http://www.khou.com/sports/The-Longh...128622103.htmlQuote:
Late last week, LHN rolled out a 24/7 station of all things Texas, but no deals have been made with Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T U-Verse, DirecTV or Dish to carry it.
Only Verizon FiOS and a few small carriers have signed on the dotted line, just days before Saturday’s season-opener.
yeah, really. The Cocks use to be pushovers, but now Spurrier has them believing they are Florida. And dem Dawgs still can't beat the Gators. What a conference.Quote:
Originally Posted by chunk
Why Oregon is winning. Hint: it's the unis.
Shouldve said the same for Boise, except they cant wear all blue at home anymore..
Oh, and Texas A & M is pretty much gone form the big 12 next year. So who will replace em? BYU?
There is no way that BYU is going to go from being independent, something that was seemingly its ideal goal, to jumping on the sinking ship that will be the Big 12. I would be shocked if that happened. It's more likely that you'll see a program like SMU or Houston go to the Big 12.Quote:
Originally Posted by suprefan
If I were BYU I would do what I could to get into the Big 12. Going independent was just a tantrum move cause they didn't get invited the Pac-12 and they'd hope the BCS would give them the same deal ND has, which is never going to happen. If they don't get into the Big 12, they'll regret leaving the MWC
BYU would benefit more form getting to play a Big 12 conference schedule every year than hopefully being able to piece together a decent schedule like they have this season, which is 8 mid majors and 4 top conference schools. Look at Notre Dame, they are independent, but have major ties to the Big 10 and its paid off for them money wise. Does BYU have a big tv contract to get them revenue or more exposure?Quote:
Originally Posted by TommyboyUNM
There's a great possibility that Texas and Oklahoma won't be a part of that conference in the coming years. It's true that the PAC-12 didn't want BYU, but BYU's administration had wanted to go independent for a while. They were unhappy with the MWC television contract. They now have an 8-year TV contract with ESPN. Instead of most or all of their games airing on The MTN, they will be on ESPN. Not a bad move.Quote:
Originally Posted by suprefan
Nice edit, supre. You know the Big 12 could quite possibly be crumbling, and Texas and Oklahoma will probably leave. I'm willing to bet BYU's schedule as an independent will be better, year in and year out, than it will be as a member of what will be left of the Big 12.
Had to double check, sue me.... Still, if the era of the super conference comes soon, Texas and Oklahoma come to the Pac whatever it will be. I wonder if Notre Dame would still stay independent if there were 4 super conferences....
Speaking of, in a discussion I was having with somebody else regarding the super conferences and all that, this could make a playoff system viable.
4 Super Conferences
Conference Championship Games 1st weekend of December
4 Team Playoff the weekend after Conference Championship Games
Normal Bowl Season
2 Playoff Winners Meet in Final Bowl Game of the Season for Championship