2009 NCAA Football Thread: Revenge of the Computer Polls

[StorminNorman]

Cincy gave up a lot of yards to a future NFL H-Back....not something those Cincy players will want to tell their kids in the future.

Actually all of those kids will love telling their kids they played against the best college football player of all time.

 

[Addendum]

Yeah, they're really going to like talking about a loss. Because then they'll finally have something to top it: the look of disappointment in their offspring's face

 

[Byrd Man]

USC playing UCONN in the Papajohns.com Bowl. WOO! We're winning that trophy of a pizza....inside of a computer monitor.....WOO!

 

[El_Citrus]

Tebow HAS set the BCS single game all purpose yards mark!
Now, let's see if he can get to 500!

He ended the day with 533 total yards. ESPN needs a new pair of pants right about now.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

This Cotton Bowl game is far-far-far away from being a "classic"

 

[StorminNorman]

Classic Fail?

Though McClester and Powe look great.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

How did the Big East earn that spot? It's a second rate conference that has gotten exceedingly worse with the loss of coaching talent like Bobby Petrino and Rich Rodriguez.

The Big East is inferior to the WAC and the Mountain West currently.

Picking Cinci over Florida and Tennessee over VT were my two really bad misreads. I made the pick before Meyer's whole ordeal, so I thought Florida would be lazy and Cinci's feeling disrespected.

I also picked Miami, Houston and Stanford to win. Wish I would have known Luck was not playing for Stanford

I still can take home my Bowl Pick Em with Iowa over GT, Boise over TCU and East Carolina over Arkansas.

Oh, I wanna forget that game. They didn't get blown out, but it was one of the most disappointing games I've seen Miami play, including several this season. It also killed a few of my expectations for next season.

Well. I turned off the CIN/FL game for two reasons.

1) Cincinnati is getting SPANKED, and deservedly so. They are getting outplayed on both sides of the ball.
2) I'm getting really sick of the announcers' collective ******* for Tebow.[/QUOTE]

He ended the day with 533 total yards. ESPN needs a new pair of pants right about now.

I will be honest. I'm a Miami Hurricanes fan and I like Tim Tebow. He seems like he's destined to do something great whether in football (which looks unlikely), or in something else, but I am tired of ESPN and other media's love of Tebow. All they do is talk about Tebow and blush over Tebow. It's gets so annoying that I turn off Sportscenter when they mention him.

 

[Immortalfire]

I am tired of ESPN and other media's love of Tebow. All they do is talk about Tebow and blush over Tebow. It's gets so annoying that I turn off Sportscenter when they mention him.

Every couple of years, they change their ONE guy. Reggie Bush, Beanie Wells, and Tebow is the latest. They stay on said guy all of their career, and the hell with everyone else...it's that lack of balance that I find annoying.

 

[Excel]

Beanie Wells??? Its been Tebow pretty much his entire career for ESPN with Mark Sanchez injected in a bit...before him it was Reggie. But Beanie Wells?

 

[Immortalfire]

By my observation, yes. They yakked about him quite a bit..when he got hurt, they practically became Beanie Watch '08.

 

[rdh007]

As I was watching Florida blow out Cinci, all I could think was "Are they going to have a pizza party to watch Alabama play in the national championship game?"

Also, I don't care much for Urb. This recent will he/won't he has not helped him in my eyes. I'm certain he's concerned about my opinion.

 

[StorminNorman]

By my observation, yes. They yakked about him quite a bit..when he got hurt, they practically became Beanie Watch '08.

Can you blame them?

Beanie Wells got hurt before the Ohio State/USC game - arguably the biggest non conference matchup of the regular season. You add in the fact that Beanie Wells was one of the best players in the country and considered a Heisman candidate before the season started...his injury was a HUGE NCAA Story. Just like Tom Brady's injury was a HUGE NFL story. Just like Michael Vick's injury was a HUGE NFL story.

Tim Tebow coverage has been non stop because Tebow has EARNED the attention. He has been a Heisman contender for 3 years. He has set all sorts of records. He has been the MVP of a team that has been in the race for the National Championship three of their four years.

Reggie Bush was drooled about for the same reasons.

How much more coverage does Peyton Manning get over Chad Henne? How much more coverage does LeBron get over Matt Barnes? How much more coverage does A-Rod get over (I don't know enough about baseball to place MLB equivalent here).

 

[Excel]

Pretty much. Lets be honest, saying Reggie Bush was "overhyped" is bs. He was that good in college

 

[VampElvis]

And it seems he was paid well for his performance (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3087571). Why isn't the NCAA looking into this crap? Get them out west and away from my beloved SEC!

 

[BlackLantern]

And it seems he was paid well for his performance (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3087571). Why isn't the NCAA looking into this crap? Get them out west and away from my beloved SEC!

the NCAA is looking into things like this...did you not just hear that USC is vacating all 21 of their wins and are imposing a post season ban on themselves....just because YOU don't hear about it, doesn't mean the NCAA isn't doing anything

 

[VampElvis]

No, I haven't heard that. When was it announced?

But still, this crap has been floating around for darn near 4 years and only now is it being taken with any seriousness.

 

[BlackLantern]

just last night....all that flap over OJ Mayo....USC is self imposing sanctions (mainly because the NCAA would probably do much worse)....it has been lax before, but over the past 3 years Id say, the NCAA is cracking down hard on recruting violations, gifts, boosters, all that crap

 

[VampElvis]

Wait a minute, I see where USC is forfeiting basketball wins and has self imposed a post season basketball ban, but how does this relate to the football program? Am I missing another story?

 

[BlackLantern]

yes...the NCAA does oversee all NCAA sports

 

[VampElvis]

And another post tangential to the point of the discussion. Let me make a simple statement to return to the original subject of my own tangential post. Reggie Bush was paid when he was in college. It's been pretty much established for 3-4 years now and nothing has been done about it by Southern Cal or the NCAA. And now there is a lawsuit that will force discovery and give them both a black eye. And hopefully send all their investigators to the Left Coast.

 

[BlackLantern]

ok...and Im pretty sure Reggie Bush isn't the only player to receive such benefits....I remember when Miami got hit in the face with all their financial fraud stuff back in the nineties

 

[Immortalfire]

Kentucky coach Rich Brooks is retiring, is the word on the street. Offensive co-ordinator Joker Phillips is set to take over as HC.

 

[VampElvis]

A Joker the head coach of Kentucky? It just kinda writes itsself doesn't it?

 

[El_Citrus]

Boise State vs TCU tonight. Who ya got? I personally think TCU has a chance to thoroughly establish their dominance this year and prove tonight that they should be playing in the National Championship game, not Texas.

 

[StorminNorman]

I love Boise State on a big stage.