So... How'd your college football team do this week?

[ChoralScholar]

My Razorbacks whipped the Vols 31-14. 31-7 would have looked better, but they scored on our walk-ons in the last qtr.

Next Week:
vs.

[Suich]

1. UW (4-6) lost to Stanford (0-9)

Thppft!

So glad we could help Stanford out! :sarcasm:

[ChoralScholar]

2. Ouch... that hurts.

Who's up next for UW?

[Suich]

9. Cross-state rivals, Washington State...

....then it's over, thank goodness!

[NJ Democrats]

3. Rutgers beat Louisville 28-25

To move up to No. 7 in the AP Top 25
Next Week:
At Cincy

Congrats to the Razorbacks joining us in the new top 10!

[ChoralScholar]

4. I saw that - congrats to the SK!

I looked at the poll just now, the Hogs moved up to #5. Maybe we'll meet in a bowl game!

I don't know what will happen if we win at Miss. State, beat LSU in Little Rock and then beat Florida in the SEC championship game... it might get as serious as playing for a national title. Who knows?

[Fuzz]

45. GO RU!!!!

I'm an RU grad and live in Piscataway!!!

[MattSh]

61. Go RU !!

:hi:

46 years in Central NJ and nothing. Move to Europe and look what happens. I can only read about it the next day.

They shoulda shipped me out earlier.....

:wow:

[wickerwoman]

82. Who the hell saw that one coming?

When I went there, they were seriously considering dropping out of the Big East because they lost every single game for something like 3 years.

[5thGenDemocrat]

5. So glad you asked

I went to my first Central Michigan game since I left there in 1981 and the Chippewas downed Western Michigan (our arch-rivals, to put it mildly), 31-7. With the win, the Chips captured the Mid-American Conference West Division title and guaranteed themselves a slot in the conference championship game at Detroit Nov. 30 (probably against Ohio University).
The game time temperature was 38 degrees with a wind from the north at gale force. It was also raining torrentially. It was so cold and wet my friend and I spend the second half out in the parking lot in a nice, warm, dry SUV. The attendance was a school-record 30,026, about 26 of whom were still in the stands at the end.
The championship game is at Ford Field. Dry, 72 degrees, and, yes, we'll be there.
John
Fire Up, Chips!! Chip-POOOOOOOO-Wah!!!

[ChoralScholar]

26. If CMU and WMU are rivals,

how does EMU fit into the mix?

[5thGenDemocrat]

47. Well, EMU is someone we have to beat to win the conference

But CMU/WMU hatred goes back forever and is pitched at a level like Texas/Oklahoma or Michigan/Ohio State or USC/UCLA. We can't stand them and they sure can't stand us either.
To give you an idea, I saw a bunch of students running around campus Friday with tee shirts which read: (on the front) "FUCK WESTERN" and (on the back) "AND THE BRONCO THEY RODE IN ON."
Tasteless, for sure, and this 50-year-old (but still entirely juvenile) Chippewa wants one real, real bad. My friend said they were for sale in the student bookstore, but I sure didn't see 'em (I mean, I had my credit card out and everything).
Anyhow, because of the way the scheduling works, we don't play Eastern every year (though I think Western does). But there's nothing personal in that competition like there is with Western.
John
Oh, and Central is 15-1-1 against WMU at Mount Pleasant (our home) since 1975. But we'd hate 'em just as much if we were 1-15-1 over that stretch. Maybe even more, if such a thing is possible (and it isn't).
Fire Up, Chips!!

[UrbScotty]

78. From CM Life

http://www.cm-life.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/11/03/454ad101ca7ba?in_archive=1

Apparently Brian Kelly had something in CM Life about it too.

[noonwitch]

62. CMU almost always kicks our ass!

But at least we Broncos aren't crybabies, like the Spartans.

My sister went to MSU, and is totally ridiculous about UM. She would rather see them lose than her team win, which is sad. She gets angry when I point out that MSU isn't even really Michigan's rival, OSU is. When I told her that in football, Michigan has won the matchup with MSU 2/3 of the time, she said that was a lie. I said I got the statistic out of the Detroit Free Press, and she said they were lying. Crybabies is what the Spartans are, at least about football.

[5thGenDemocrat]

65. Hi noonwitch -- you're right about the Broncos

When I say we "hate" the Broncos, you know what I mean -- since I was at CMU, they've expanded the stadium and, it seems to me, flip-flopped the respective sides of the field. What I swear used to be the home side back in my student days (and, at 50, I may well just be going senile) is now the visitors side.
Hence, I found myself surrounded by fans in brown-and-gold, and it wasn't like any fights broke out (yes -- some general snottiness and cute-ass comments, which are to be expected and, even, welcomed).
It's a great rivalry with no love lost either way and, of course, we play next year at Kalamazoo -- where we don't do nearly as well.
Now -- and this comes as a shock to almost all my college football-following buddies -- I don't give a damn about the Michigan/Michigan State rivalry. They're always trying to drag me into the annual debate and I simply don't care. I usually root for whichever team has the better chance of winning the Big Ten title but, besides for that, I couldn't care less.
I hope Michigan beats Ohio State this coming Saturday but, if they don't, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. The Chippewas beat Western, we're undefeated in the MAC and heading to the championship game (and, with a little luck, a bowl game too), and that's plenty good enough for me.
Hope to see you next year at K'zoo. Yes, it's a big rivalry -- but I know several Western alumni personally and they're generally swell people. That goes double for you, of course.
John
Wish us luck against Ohio University -- if that doesn't go against your principles.

[UrbScotty]

77. I was there too!!!

Why didn't I meet you?!

I left early in the third quarter.

[Texasgal]

6. NOT WELL...

WE LOST!!! :(

KSU VS TEXAS

*sniff*

[ChoralScholar]

7. o yeah....;

sorry bout that....

[datasuspect]

8. me, chet, brent, chad, thad, brant, logan, sterling, and hunter

and some of the other guys from state are meeting at the "trusty pumpernickel" (a notorious state bar) where we are going to goad brandon "the kegmeister" into poisoning himself with alcohol in celebration of our victory of votech U.

[huskerlaw]

10. We WON!! Apologies to GOPisEvil...

:evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

35. That was an early Christmas present and you know it.

x(

[huskerlaw]

36. You're just bitter

cuz you called and celebrated about 1.25 too soon. ;)

Besides, not our fault your defense can't keep its hands off our quarterback! :P

[GOPisEvil]

38. Well, if our freshman RB had just NOTgone out of bounds...

...game over...x(

And it's not my fault your receiver can't keep his hands off our DB. x(

[huskerlaw]

39. What-ever...

your whole season is one "buuutttt, weeee allllmooosttt..." after another, isn't it, kiddo?


Alas "almost" don't get ya shit. :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

40. Ah, who cares! We're a basketball school now.

:P

Alumni? Not happy. Not even in the neighborhood of happy. I've never heard boos at Kyle Field. Ever. Until yesterday. It wasn't the players, it was that shitty first half and the non-aggressive play-calling. If it weren't for four big plays, I doubt we'd have scored. This stupid gimmick offense we have doesn't work if the other guys can run.

[huskerlaw]

42. Hahahahaha

oooh, the time-honored cop-out of schools with shitty football. "But we're a basketball school!"

Well, Nebraska will *never* claim to be that. But we ARE a volleyball school. And we're workin' on that football thing. ;)

As for unagressive playcalling, I understand the frustration. We probably could have beat USC if we would have at least *tried* to score.

But again, probably and almost don't put a w in the win column. If only it did, I could claim that we should have beaten both USC and Texas. But nope. We lost, fair and square.

[GOPisEvil]

46. No, we lost because we made mistakes at the end of the game.

1. RB going out of bounds.
2. Playing prevent defense on the last drive after not allowing a point the whole second half.
3. Roughing the passer.

We're just doomed to football mediocrity. This was my first game since 1989 (shit I'm old), and it was my last for a long time. I only went because it's free.

Men's basketball #13 in the country. Football? Yeah. We're also a women's soccer school. Big championships are getting old. ;)

[huskerlaw]

48. Actually, you lost

because you didn't figure out how to beat us until after we'd already scored 21 points.

I just don't buy "well, but..." from anybody, including Husker fans. But nothing. It wouldn't have come down to the last 5 minutes of the game if you'd been ahead by more than 6 points before that. The game isn't about the end of the game. It's about all 4 quarters. I'm not trying to pick on you, I said the very same thing to people who bitched about the Huskers losing to Texas.

[GOPisEvil]

69. That's our pattern all year.

Every time we played an above average opponent, it's taken the defense at least a quarter to figure out what is being done to them.

It seemed as though through the whole first half, our guys looked as though they didn't watch a second of film.

[Awsi Dooger]

56. Probably could have beaten USC?

That game was about as competitive as a tricycle in the Tour de France. The score was 28-10 or something like that.

I watched the whole game. USC's biggest problem was not falling asleep.

[huskerlaw]

59. Yeah...

and somehow you managed to make my point.

Our play calling WAS boring. That was exactly my point. Our coaches decided to play the game so that there was no way we could be humiliated rather than actually bringing our defense.

I was there. I saw the entire field. Your secondary wasn't covering our wide receivers for shit. So yeah, if we would have opened up our offense and actually thrown the ball we damn well could have beat you.

It's not like you totally kicked our ass. And like you said yourself, we basically didn't even play on offense.


:hi:

[Shakespeare]

75. So tell me again why Gates fired RC?

Yeah, good move. :eyes:

Coach Fran SUCKS, and always has. This season has been the worst coaching--not playing, COACHING--I've ever seen.

I want RC back. :-(

[GOPisEvil]

83. You should have heard the applause for RC.

:rofl:

Gates fired RC because he couldn't recruit and the team didn't perform well. As much as I like RC as a human being, he wasn't getting it done. My first response when Fran was hired was, "What a dick he was to his players at Alabama. That shitty karma will follow him here."

Actually, I want a younger, more honest version of Jackie Sherrill. I want a coach like Billy Gillispie is for the hoops team. Aggressive, innovative, and someone who gets his team to over-perform.

[Shakespeare]

85. We performed way better under RC than we have under Franchione.

I'm aware of the criticism directed at RC his last few years; I just didn't (and don't) agree.

We certainly don't need Franchione, though. Wouldn't mind a clean version of Sherrill, either--although he was a dick his own self...got an an elevater with him at Rudder one day when I was at A&M, and just kind of reflexively smiled and said "hi," as I do to pretty much anybody. He glared at me and didn't say a word. Asshole.

[GOPisEvil]

87. One of my friends mentioned Art Briles at the UofH.

Eh...I dunno... If a change is to be made, now's the time.

[L A Woman]

11. ohio state

we won. :-)

[ChoralScholar]

21. We may end up seeing you before the year's over.... EOM

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

53. America's Team

proved its domination over a pack of Rhodes Scholars and Academic All Americans (feh!) from Northwestern at a score so scandalously lopsided that I can't repeat it here.

Bring on that team from up north! It's been a whole year since we whipped them, and I can't wait to see that crest-fallen look on Lloyd Carr's face again this year.

Note to LA Woman -- Your trash talk leaves a lot to be desired!

[sakabatou]

12. We don't have a football team

[ncrainbowgrrl]

13. Uggh. The same as almost every other week

Buuuuut..........It's almost Basketball season- GO HEELS!

[ChoralScholar]

20. NC plays basketball? Never heard of 'em.

:hide:

Hehe :)

The Razorbacks used to play basketball, but the University discovered the coach was african-american and fired him - or so he thinks.
One thing I know for sure, is that Arkansas fans would cheer Charlie Manson if he were winning ballgames.

[Ptah]

14. Wildcats win! Wildcats win!

Arizona stuns Cal at home, ruining Bears' BCS title dreams

Final
(8) California (8-2, 6-1 Pac-10)..20
Arizona (5-5, 3-4 Pac-10).........24

[RubyDuby in GA]

15. The school that I went to that is now dead to me is losing!!!

Georgia Southern University is having it's first losing season in 10 years and they couldn't deserve it more:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_says_Democrat_approach_in_Iraq_1030.html

President Bush says Dem approach in Iraq is 'terrorists win and America loses'

RAW STORY
Published: Monday October 30, 2006


Speaking on Monday afternoon at a rally held at Georgia Southern University to support Max Burn's bid for Congress, President Bush insisted that "the Democrat (sic) approach in Iraq comes down to this: the terrorists win and America loses."

While "the Democrat (sic) goal is to get out of Iraq," Bush told the crowd of supporters that "the Republican goal is to win in Iraq."


The campus has forever been tainted. And those candy-ass pansies lost to their arch-rivals yesterday, Furman. hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChoralScholar]

16. Hey -

my alma mater is playing yours next week - I think. Don't they play Central Arkansas?

[RubyDuby in GA]

18. I think so

GO CENTRAL ARKANSAS!!!!!!!!!!! GO (insert mascot here)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChoralScholar]

19. That would be the Bears...

or the logo-rippers. Doesn't this:


looks a lot like this?

[SmileyBoy]

76. We beat you this year!!

34-14 was the score.

Steve Walker LIT UP the field.

You guys will be better next year. I can't wait for your team to come up to Fargo in 2008. Gonna be a good game.

[RubyDuby in GA]

88. Good on ya!

Congrats on your win. I hope GSU loses every game they play in every sport until they admit they were wrong to have that asshat come to their campus.

Here's to hoping you guys kill them next year too! :)

[BarenakedLady]

17. Don't think Emerson did much athletics

Perhaps some smack down poetry sessions or West Side Story-like dance offs. :shrug:

[ChoralScholar]

27. I thought Emerson played Basketball....

Emerson in Boston, right?

[BarenakedLady]

29. Perhaps they did

I was only there for a year as a creative writing major, sports wasn't my thang...

[Proud MD Liberal]

22. Terps Win

Become the first team since '85 (FLA Gators) to beat both Miami and FSU in the same season. Bring on BC.

[ChoralScholar]

24. Maryland is all over it this year!

What's their ranking now?

[Proud MD Liberal]

31. Up to 21

I still can't believe they have won all these games. The start of the season was not very impressive. Now, a win against BC and Wake would send them to the ACC Title game.

[SharonRB]

23. Michigan beat Indiana 34-3

and remain unbeaten and #2 in the country! On to Ohio State next week and then to the national championship!

GO BLUE!!!!!!

[ChoralScholar]

25. Oh.. that's right....

you have to play the #1 team next week. That may mess with the rankings a bit if we beat LSU and Florida.

[SharonRB]

28. If we beat OSU it will be interesting to see how the

championship game shapes up.

[Chiyo-chichi]

92. The analysts asked ad nauseum

whether Ohio State or Michigan was more likely to stumble last week. I said "the question should be 'which team is more likely to hang 50?' or 'which team is less likely to give up a touchdown?'" The answers were Ohio State and Michigan, respectively.

My Hoosiers need to beat Purdue to become bowl-eligible for the first time in 13 years. Hoeppner has them improving. They'll get there. Meantime... it's basketball season!

[Paladin]

30. My College Team? UT? Not Worth A Damn, Acftually

Picked off by Kansas State, big time.

Oh, well. Like I keep telling my wife and fellow UT grad, who follows college football a lot closer than I do: those who pin their hopes and happiness on a bunch of 19-year old college kids must expect to be disappointed....

[ChoralScholar]

32. Yeah, I saw that.... Tough loss.

[L A Woman]

33. well...to be fair...

they did lose their starting QB to an injury...and they didn't lose by much.

[huskerlaw]

37. How are we

supposed to avenge our loss to you in the Big 12 Championship if you go around getting your ass kicked by the likes of Kansas State?

Geez.





:hide:

[fishwax]

34. Avenged last year's controversial loss to Texas Tech

Oklahoma 34 -- Texas Tech 24

[TheCentepedeShoes]

71. Booooo

:-( My Red Raiders not doing so good this year. Wonder if coach what's his name will be back next year.

[Chiyo-chichi]

84. ...and SHOULD be in the mix with all the one-loss teams

who still hope to play for a national championship! ALL the analysts said that the pollsters would not & should not hold the Oregon "loss" against the Sooners. Short memories.

[fishwax]

89. yeah, that really is coming back to haunt them

If it weren't for that fiasco, OU would clearly be in line for an at-large bid in a BCS bowl. As it is, it's still possible, but a couple of teams up the ladder will have to lose. :grr:

[madrchsod]

41. wisconsin won

10-1 ranked number 10! third in the big ten after next sat but they didn`t play michigan or ohio state this year...

[elocs]

54. I can remember the years when the Badgers would only win 1 or 2 games.

Watch them lose next week when they should win.

[madrchsod]

55. back in the day when nobody

came to the games? when the games were an excuse to have a party in the stands? i really miss the hockey games that were on wisconsin public tv.

[elocs]

57. I went to UW-La Crosse and graduated in 1975.

I went to more Badger games than La Crosse games. The park I hung out at during the summers when I was in high school had a director who was one of the co-captains when they weren't really winning any games. Funny thing is that back then they always seemed to play Ohio State very tough. They still lost, but played them tough.

[elocs]

58. Dupe--self delete.

[1gobluedem]

66. Wisconsin DID play Michigan on September 23

And lost 27-13. That's where the '1' in 10-1 comes from.

Go Blue!

[tinfoil tiaras]

43. Georgia won!!

:woot:
I'm not from Georgia but I like the team because Athens is an amazing city...hehe.

Y'all can tell I'm not too into football. :)

[femmocrat]

44. My college dropped football about 30 years ago.

No one seemed to care!

[ganeshji]

49. Go Hawgs!!

[DawgHouse]

50. wooooo pig!

[liberaltrucker]

51. We (Auburn) got our asses handed to us by Jawja

Hey, at least the Dems and Broncos won!

:woohoo:

May the Hawgs represent the SEC West well.

:toast:

[bluedigger]

52. D'oh!

You had to ask! UMaine rallied back from a 10-0 fourth quarter score only to lose 10-9 to UMass on a missed extra point attempt in the closing minutes. D'oh! D'oh! D'oh!

And then the Pats coughed one up to the Jets!

And then UMaine's #1 ranked hockey team got their ass Kicked by arch rival University of No Hardware!

Craptacular sports weekend for bluedigger!

[av8rdave]

60. Air Force had its customary loss to Notre Dame and the Tide lost to LSU

At least the Tide beat the spread, but that's little compensation. I think they play Auburn next week. That should be an easy win....right? lol

[SacredCow]

68. And in response to Alabama vs LSU I say...

Geaux Tigers!!!!!

:toast:

[av8rdave]

79. Roll Tide

Unfortunately, the Tide isn't having much of a season this year.

[petronius]

81. Geaux Tigers indeed!

My other two teams lost, but I knew I could count on LSU! :)

[texas1928]

63. My Irish won...

And my Aggies, of course still can not find a way to win.

[1gobluedem]

64. My team will play for the NC if they win on Saturday

My avatar says it all.

Go Blue! Beat Ohio State!

[nickinSTL]

67. Florida State...

got their @$$#$ handed to them by freaking Wake Forest (yeah, I know they're ranked, but still)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

90. Did you read today that Jeff Bowden resigned

as offensive coordinator?

[nickinSTL]

93. no, I didn't

they sure need to change something...they've sucked this year.

Of course, my pro team is kicking @$$ - the 8-1 Bears!

[smtpgirl]

70. My Terps beat Miami

Next Week:






VS

[TallahasseeGrannie]

94. And the Seminoles

not that that's a big deal anymore.

[KamaAina]

72. Gah! LaTech scored on our walk-ons in the last minute!

Hawai'i 61, La. Tech 17. The nation's top passing offense hangs 60+ on another hapless WAC member for the third week in a row.

Yet the 8-2 Warriors, who have gone down only at Alabama and at Boise State, remain unranked. :eyes:

[KamaAina]

73. Oh, you meant my alma mater.

They do still have a football team, for nostalgia's sake at least, but it pissed away a double-digit lead, at home, to Princeton; in years when The Game (that would be Hahvahd) is at Cambridge, the Princeton game is the one that brings all the alums back to New Haven. Eurghh. :puke:

[SmileyBoy]

74. North Dakota State THROTTLED Cal-Poly 51-14

NDSU improves its record to 9-1 (the lone loss being a 1-point loss on a last-second blocked FG at Minnesota).

Next week: The Bison host the South Dakota State Jackrabbits in front of an expected sellout crowd of over 19,000 to play for not only the Great West Conference Championship, but the Dakota Marker trophy.



GO BISON!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

80. So how are the Hawgs doing this year?

Anything approaching '64 or '69?

[plcdude]

86. Oklahoma State

66-24 over Baylor bowl eligible enough said.

[Steve Nash is god 13]

91. my gators won a thriller 17-16. Title game hopes are still alive

and well!!!!!!!