VA Husker Fan

He can relive the good old days

Big 10 loyalty has been paying off so far.

I like that you have Notre Lame losing already!! BYU

Anyone see the end of the Holiday Bowl? USC has 4th and 10, down by 2, around midfield, 12 seconds to go, and throws a 7 yard out at the sidelines. Had the guy caught it, no way he gets to the first down. Way worse than any Riley play call this year. I'm reading now it was supposed to be a hail Mary (maybe not the best call either since they just needed a FG and they had time for 2 more plays before trying a FG if they could make the first down) but the QB saw the quick out open (even though it really wasn't) and the receiver didn't run the route deep enough because he didn't know it was 4th down (way to have your head in the game, bro). Wiscy also got screwed on a TD run being called OB and the whistle stopping the play, so no replay, earlier in the 4th. I was dozing on and off for part of the game but what I saw, Wiscy pretty well dominated USC.

San Jose St game MOV was 11, not 9. Thanks for putting this together.

The difference is that I think $Bill really did try to drop the Corn and officially shorten it.

Great win! Awesome play.

He can't go pro in baseball for two more years now, right? Or is it different if he doesn't play college baseball?

Media guide says Nickname: Cornhuskers, Huskers

What does your other sock say?

He said you just take a zero for any kickoffs you missed in the OP.

I don't think kickoff is until 1 CST, but if I miss the first game, I miss it. My picks in bold inline. All Picks are due by kickoff (10:00 AM CST), December 19. If you are late with your picks, you get a zero for all games that you missed the opening kickoff. Regular Games: New Mexico - Arizona vs. New Mexico (3) Camellia - Ohio vs. Appalachian State (5) Cure - San Jose State vs. Georgia State (6) New Orleans - Arkansas State vs. Louisiana Tech (2) Miami Beach - Western Kentucky vs. South Florida (7) Potato - Akron vs. Utah State (1) Boca Raton - Temple vs. Toledo (5) Poinsettia - Boise State vs. Northern Illinois (1) GoDaddy - Georgia Southern vs. Bowling Green (4) Bahamas - Middle Tennessee vs. Western Michigan (3) Hawai'i - San Diego State vs. Cincinnati (7) St. Petersburg - Connecticut vs. Marshall (1) Independence - Tulsa vs. Virginia Tech (3) Military - Pittsburgh vs. Navy (4) Armed Forces - California vs. Air Force (2) Russell Athletic - North Carolina vs. Baylor (6) Arizona - Nevada vs. Colorado State (4) Texas - LSU vs. Texas Tech (5) Birmingham - Auburn vs. Memphis (7) Belk - North Carolina State vs. Mississippi State (2) Music City - Texas A&M vs. Louisville (7) Liberty - Kansas State vs. Arkansas (5) Alamo - Oregon vs. TCU (6) Cactus - West Virginia vs. Arizona State (3) Double Point Games: Las Vegas - BYU vs. Utah (4) Sun - Miami (FL) vs. Washington State (3) Heart of Dallas - Washington vs. Southern Mississippi (3) Pinstripe - Indiana vs. Duke (8) Quick Lane - Central Michigan vs. Minnesota (6) Holiday - USC vs. Wisconsin (2) Outback - Northwestern vs. Tennessee (4) Citrus - Michigan vs. Florida (6) TaxSlayer - Penn State vs. Georgia (3) Triple Point Games: Peach - Houston vs. Florida State (5) Fiesta - Notre Dame vs. Ohio State (7) Rose - Stanford vs. Iowa (5) Sugar - Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi (4) Quadruple Point Game: Orange - Oklahoma vs. Clemson (3) Cotton - Michigan St. vs. Alabama (1) National Champ - TBD If we're supposed to pick this now, Michigan State by 1, otherwise I reserve the right to pick later. Quintuple Point Game: Foster Farms - Nebraska vs. UCLA (1)

bwahahaha, Chip Brown is a tool. He's wrong a whole lot more than he's right. Sounds more to me like message board rumblings he's picked up on after A&M has another QB transfer out. Why would he wait nearly a month after the season to do this, and what possible cause could hold up to cut the buyout?

LOL, "it has become"?? With a lone exception, every winner since 1950 has been an offensive skill player.

And the Trev Albert rumor that he said was disproven but since he mentioned it he was covered either way. Classic. I'm unbracing. Tomorrow. This weekend for sure!

It's Armstrong. He read where this board has already given the starting job to O'Brien.

BYU somehow made its way into it. And Penn St and Miami weren't in major conferences all of those years.

BSU has been in the FCS/D1A for 20 years. 197 wins there. 267 in the past 30 counting 10 years in D1AA.

The numbers aren't very valid in the sense that you used them to conclude who is a great team and who is not, but you yourself even disagreed with them regarding Iowa. You also somehow questioned the committee based on these numbers. To be more accurate, I should have said that your conclusions and interpretations of the numbers aren't very valid, IMO. Just because you can quantify something doesn't make it a good measurement. You have 2+2 apples, and I have 4. But you have good healthy apples, and mine are undersized, bruised and going bad. Does 2+2=4? Not if you're trying to do any kind of evaluation of the apples.

In an interview with the local TV station here in VA, Bronco said there were very few jobs he'd consider leaving BYU for, but UVa was one of them. If you believe that, and I tend to since I think he would've left for elsewhere if he just wanted more money or a bigger program, one assumes Nebraska wasn't on that list, and Eichorst knew that.

Good interview, and he did a good job disputing the rationales. Too bad he didn't seem to get answers to his rebuttals. Maybe I'll just stay out of all these threads since it's clear it won't change for awhile.

Well, let's see. You used "ridiculous" in the other thread and then I used it, not intentionally, but I guess I was following the tone of your post. You tried to point out a contradiction of mine, which I don't agree with, so I pointed out a contradiction of yours, which you only defended one side of. You still haven't backed off calling Iowa a great team, or acknowledged that your numbers aren't really too valid. You see where I'm going here? And then you accused me of skimming your post, which I just ignored because I didn't. I just didn't think it took much to shoot it down as a bad idea so I wasn't going to cover it point to point. I made my cases, WKU this year and unranked teams other years, don't belong in the playoffs, and the P5 teams won't give up 3 spots. What more do you need? You want conference champs only, fine. I totally disagree, and I guarantee it won't happen, at least not in anything close to the current BCS structure. Lop off the bottom half as you suggested in another post, and it probably would, but I have a lot of doubts that would happen either. The main reason is that lawyers and politicians would block it. Maybe I was more to the point and not as friendly as you, but on the other hand, you don't really even address many of my points. Ignoring much of what I have to say and just repeating about your way isn't all that friendly either, no matter how you word it. One more point, and I don't know how to make it friendly but I truly am trying to be constructive, is that your stat posts are almost unreadable. Not sure what to suggest--better formatting, maybe tables instead of just a long list, highlighting important parts, more explanation (not so much about the mechanics of the statistics, but what they really mean), something along those lines. I'm a numbers guy too, with 23 hours of college math, calculus and above, including a 300 level stats class (way back when) but I've opened up most of your threads and see a bunch of numbers between 1.5 and -1.5 and nothing to lead me what to really look at, and I usually just glaze over and close the tab. But what I do remember from the class is that you better have enough data to draw stats from, and 12-13 games isn't that much. Anyway, find a way to make the stats more readable and interesting and maybe you'll get better conversation.

I used "ridiculous" in the playoff thread. If you think the P5 is going to limit themselves to only 5 of the 8 playoff spots, I don't know another word to use. It will never ever happen. And this was a good year for the non-P5 (incl ND). Last year only 1 of them was ranked by the committee, and the year before 2. Who wants to see unranked teams in the playoffs?? And part of your reasoning included an error in the only fact I checked (WKU top 25 games). As for Michigan St, they beat an Oregon team early which is actually very good when Adams is playing. You want to talk contradictions? How about listing Iowa as a great team in one thread based on your formula, and then calling it ridiculous in another thread that they would be in someone's 8 team playoffs?

Weren't they unanimous or close among the voters preseason? Lots of talent coming back from a championship team and what most would consider the top or #2 coach. Just checked, unanimous AP, 61/64 coaches picked them #1.

I thought conference champs only was a poor criteria when it was that way for hoops, and I think it'd be a poor idea for football. We're just going to disagree on that. I've rehashed that argument enough on this board. For the smaller teams, I don't get what rules we'd be changing every season so I have no idea what you think I'm ignoring. The committee picks 4 teams on a variety of factors. If Houston had gone unbeaten, they'd very likely be in an 8 team playoff. Unlikely they'd have made the 4 team playoff but that's for the committee to decide. But they lost a game, and beat a couple teams barely in the top 25 and another just out, nothing that says they belong with the big boys. There's no rule that says the committee can't take a non-power conference team. The only rule I'm aware of, and I'm not certain of it but too lazy to check, is that one of them has to be in one of the major bowls or playoffs.