College football jam.....
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BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Ohio St. 12 - 0 = 2012 national champions
Free block "O" tats for the whole team!
They'll be real fun to watch next year. They have some killer players.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Not yet.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Ohio St. 12 - 0 = 2012 national champions
Notre Dame 12 - 0.... against a quality schedule. And they are going to the national title game while Ohio State will just get their tattoos re inked.
If they hadn't been banned, that would have been an interesting game... ND versus OSU.And.... Manti Te'o for Heisman.
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shoeless
Riffin'
Probably the reason he won't get it. Hard to argue with the numbers or his performance this year.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Gene Chizik gone from Auburn. Didn't he just win a National Championship a couple of years ago for them? Dang, Bo Schembechler never won a championship at Michigan, and he's revered here
Auburn was embarrassingly bad this year. He had to go.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
John Embree fired at Colorado.
As much as a lot of the writers and fans around here wanted him to get another two years (since he inherited a team with no talent) he took a bad team and in two seasons created possibly the worst team in Division 1 football. They ranked in the bottom three in almost every defensive category in the country and close to that level on offense. I think possibly with some new coordinators they would have been better next year, but if you are cleaning house of every coach BUT the head coach, then the head coach has to go. Now they just need a smart choice at head coach.
As much as a lot of the writers and fans around here wanted him to get another two years (since he inherited a team with no talent) he took a bad team and in two seasons created possibly the worst team in Division 1 football. They ranked in the bottom three in almost every defensive category in the country and close to that level on offense. I think possibly with some new coordinators they would have been better next year, but if you are cleaning house of every coach BUT the head coach, then the head coach has to go. Now they just need a smart choice at head coach.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
I don't know. CU does not have the football budget that the big boys have, but with the PAC12 money streaming in they need to improve facilities and get a good coach. They have the cash.
When CU needed a jump start in the basketball program they went and got Tad Boyle from Division II and he has them in the top 25 in two seasons. We have a very good and innovative football coach in a Division II school locally (Colorado School of Mines) who has won a lot of games there. But I'm not sure he would want to make the jump. Supposedly they have a red-shirt freshman who is quite the QB waiting in the wings for next year and a freshman RB who showed promise this season so with the right coaching they can at least not suck on an epic level next season.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
I hear Gene Chizik is available.
O'Brian out of NC State (just fired) might be a better choice - but he is in his mid-60s and may want to retire. But I don't think the AD at CU will go the recycled coach route.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Interesting Collumn....
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20....newberry.112112.1469/index.html?sct=obinsite
... so the SEC doesn't want to play a Notre Dame like schedule?
I know Alabama and Georgia (whichever makes the title game) will likely be favored over the Irish because the offense hasn't put up big numbers like those two, but I really hope the Irish can grind out the game, force the tempo to where they want it, and come out with the win to bust up the dominance that the SEC has had over the past 8 years.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20....newberry.112112.1469/index.html?sct=obinsite
... so the SEC doesn't want to play a Notre Dame like schedule?
I know Alabama and Georgia (whichever makes the title game) will likely be favored over the Irish because the offense hasn't put up big numbers like those two, but I really hope the Irish can grind out the game, force the tempo to where they want it, and come out with the win to bust up the dominance that the SEC has had over the past 8 years.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Interesting Collumn....
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20....newberry.112112.1469/index.html?sct=obinsite
... so the SEC doesn't want to play a Notre Dame like schedule?
I know Alabama and Georgia (whichever makes the title game) will likely be favored over the Irish because the offense hasn't put up big numbers like those two, but I really hope the Irish can grind out the game, force the tempo to where they want it, and come out with the win to bust up the dominance that the SEC has had over the past 8 years.
Please. Steve is obivously drinking. I would take ND's schedule over ours everyday of the week and twice on Sunday. Lets see
LSU, South Carolina, Georgia, A&M, and Florida State For teams ranked in the top ten when they played.
or
Stanford the only top ten team ND Played.
My wife is a huge ND fan and I like them too, but their schedule is a joke. Lets not pretend otherwise. I hope they can win a title, it would make my wife happy.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Of that list, Alabama only played LSU and Texas A&M this year....
Georgia only played Florida and South Carolina... and then they play each other.
I see what the article is saying... being in a tough conference doesn't mean that every team in the conference plays each other every year.
I'm looking forward to the 4 team playoffs as the intra-conference will mean more (feeding into the playoff) and the title games won't have the stigma of teams rolling in after running over Western Kentucky or a Nortern Florida Technical School.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
I do see you were referring to Florida's schedule.... and I agree that it's a tougher schedule than Alabama or Georgia. It really should be ND and Florida in the title game, so you should really be on the Anti-SEC Softee Schedule bandwagon as well, because the fluff in those two teams schedule is what's keeping florida out of the title game.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Even the University of Washington played a tougher schedule. They played at least 3 teams that had been ranked in the top 10 and beat Stanford. And they are not good. They are "improved" from the last few years, but when they dropped their final regular season game in the Apple Cup to WSU (Really??!!, WSU??!!), they confirmed that they are not yet even "good", much less truly competitive even at a conference level. Very disappointing end to the season. I suppose they are still bowl eligible and may go to some sort of bowl, but I am not even that interested in it if they do.
As for the Irish, I would love to see them get to play against the best of the SEC and either prove themselves or not.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
ND also beat Oklahoma who was ranked 8th at the time and is still ranked 13th.
I don't remember where Michigan was ranked at the time, but they're still in the top 20.
Let's add that extra "chip on the shoulder" that every team seems to have when playing ND... as if "We don't care what our record is right now... as long as we beat ND this year." Michigan and Michigan state always have that kind of rivalry when playing the Irish.
I really think that ass-whoopin' that ND put on Michigan State this year deflated that team and is partially responsible for their downward spiral this year compared to last. They've been "why bother" the rest of the year which is sad.
reverend1
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Oklahoma doesn't do much for me. Michigan is terrible and MSU is even worse. USC is a joke. The only "good" team they played was Stanford. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy they are going to the game, but they don't have much to taut when it comes to their schedule.
cuffdc
chicken n waffles
How the hell is Michigan still ranked? but they are...