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Any fans? I often prefer college ball to the pros. My team (WA Huskies) has a new division, and is currently on top. But those were against like Eastern Washington, and Hawaii. Some good aggressive play early, but sloppy later in some respects, having to hold on to win in both games.

I am hoping my alma mater can continue to rebuild after having some success last season or two after years of drought. So far, sophomore QB Price is doing a good job, which is good news after losing QB standout Jake Locker. This new Pac 12 thing could be interesting too. I am tired of the more modern "arrogant" Ducks, and hoping to see them humbled some. They have a loss under their belt already.

So, what'choo got?! Who is your team and how is it going? :AOK :D
 
My team is Michigan. I couldn't see the amazing fourth quarter since we cut the cord here so no cable, no ESPN. Impressive that all four of Robinson's touchdowns were from under center.
 
USF is 2-0, currently ranked #22 after wins at Notre Dame and last night versus Ball State.
We're currently one of two ranked teams in the Big East (along with W. Virginia).
I'm hoping for a run at the Big East title this year (and the automatic invite to a BCS bowl) before TCU comes in next year.
Go Bulls!
 
@Marnold, Michigan is a favorite old opponent, going back to the '78 Rosebowl (listened on the radio as Dad drove us back from skiing) for me. I like to see Michigan do well and would love to see a bowl game with both our teams competing again.

@R_of_G, I have not followed USF or that conference, being as you know, a bit provincial in my football tastes. I look forward to following their progress and learning a little more.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
@R_of_G, I have not followed USF or that conference, being as you know, a bit provincial in my football tastes. I look forward to following their progress and learning a little more.
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Yeah you and your west coast bias. ;)

The Big East will always be a basketball conference first, but it's come a long way in a relatively short time in football. The conference is consistently producing strong competition as well as sending many solid players to NFL rosters. Darrelle Revis and Ray Rice are both Big East alumni and both among the top players at their position in the NFL.

USF's program has come a long way as well, and produces more and more NFL players every year.

Next year TCU joins the conference, not sure how they're East, but they're Big so that should up the competition level like only a team from Texas can.
 
With Saturday's win against UTEP the USF Bulls move to 4-0 and are currently ranked #16 in the AP poll.
Next week we begin conference play which will provide a much bigger challenge than the last few weeks of cupcake teams.
Go Bulls!
 
Sooooo, now that Texas A&M are officially a part of the SEC, where I'm sure they're convinced they will compete with the LSUs and the Alabamas of the world, will they have to change their fight song/war hymn because it's all about beating Texas? Maybe it could add a line about "Hey! Bear Bryant once coached for us too!"

In other news, Michigan is a mostly irrelevant 4-0 and will likely go 5-0 when they host Minnesota. After that, it's going to be, "Let's hope we get bowl-eligible." They have to get better in a hurry because I believe that it is next year that they play Alabama in Texas. Evidently that's the closest point between the two.
 
marnold said:
Sooooo, now that Texas A&M are officially a part of the SEC, where I'm sure they're convinced they will compete with the LSUs and the Alabamas of the world, will they have to change their fight song/war hymn because it's all about beating Texas?
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There's the perfect example of the kinds of traditions these schools are destroying for monetary gain.

As to the competition level they'll achieve, they'll go from being an also-ran in the Big 12 to being an also-ran in the SEC.

I do have to thank LSU for taking out West Virginia making USF the highest ranked Big East team. It could be an interesting year if USF can successfully navigate the Big East schedule as our last game is against West Virginia which could amount to a conference championship game.

Of course USF has a history of losing one game and then going on a losing binge for four weeks but that was under Jim Leavitt and when it happened three straight years I considered it a problem with the coach being unable to motivate his players. I'll give Skip Holtz the benefit of the doubt for now.
 
The Huskies won last week, and followed up yesterday with a solid effort defensively and offensively to beat the Utes (new Pac-12 opponent) decisively, without last minute heroics, and end up 4-1. Not bad!!
 
LSU's defense is a BEAST! They play with you like an animal and tease the offense and then take the head off. I'm not a huge fan but I do like to watch good defense.
 
Well USF was clearly over-ranked at #16. The Bulls were humiliated (44-17) by unranked Pittsburgh on Thursday.

We beat Notre Dame.
Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh killed us.
Proof that the transitive property does not apply to football.

Last night's big games between top 10 teams were all rather one-sided and not as much fun to watch as I'd hoped.
 
I think Michigan is significantly over rated right now too. Minnesota is nothing to write home about but I didn't anticipate that they'd win 58-0.
 
Don't look now, but the Huskies are having a pretty darned good season so far. Dismantled Colorado they did. Price looked great!
 
USF is in yet another tailspin following a first loss. It seems to not matter to this program if the coach is Jim Leavitt or Skip Holtz... when this team is ranked, as soon they lose their first game, go ahead and count on them losing the next three or four.

It's a real shame because this year was their best shot to win the Big East, a conference which will cease to exist as a BCS conference within the next two seasons.
 
The UofW Huskies rallied against Arizona, and closed out a tough, somewhat crazy game (at least in the beginning with penalties, strange officiating, etc.) with a solid win to secure a 6th win at this point in the season. This is much better than I expected this year. Polk's over 100 rushing and over 100 receiving effort was a great effort as a junior. Coach Sark said he leaned on him more than he wanted to, but he really responded. As Sark said in the post game interview, the team responded to the challenges of the game withe mental toughness that is a change from a couple years ago where the challenges might have set up a loss. I hope the team continues to play, and closes out the season strongly, to head to a bowl!
 
sunvalleylaw said:
The UofW Huskies rallied against Arizona, and closed out a tough, somewhat crazy game (at least in the beginning with penalties, strange officiating, etc.) with a solid win to secure a 6th win at this point in the season. This is much better than I expected this year. Polk's over 100 rushing and over 100 receiving effort was a great effort as a junior. Coach Sark said he leaned on him more than he wanted to, but he really responded. As Sark said in the post game interview, the team responded to the challenges of the game withe mental toughness that is a change from a couple years ago where the challenges might have set up a loss. I hope the team continues to play, and closes out the season strongly, to head to a bowl!
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One more win and they're "bowl eligible." A couple more and they could go to one that is somewhat respectable. Good for them.

Speaking of PAC teams, I was quite disappointed with ABC's decision to go "regional coverage" with last night's games. I'd anticipated watching Stanford/USC (which turned out to be a great game) and was instead presented with Clemson/Georgia Tech which wasn't nearly as interesting to me.
 
Reports are that the Big East is poised to extend invites to Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football, as well as SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports.

I suppose that with a team from Idaho in the Big East we can now accuse SVL of having an East Coast bias. :poke
 
Yeah, well I am still not a "smurf turf" fan (or of that team). I can appreciate BSU's success, and celebrate a bit with them, but I am just not a fan. I think partly it is the visual similarities to a certain pro team in Colorado that holds me back. Also kind of cracks me up that a team from Boise, Idaho would be considered as part of the "Big East" conference. Seems like the east must have grown very "Big" indeed!
 
Well the big game against the Ducks was last night. (Big game by original Pac 10 standards, especially in the last decade). I was able to follow it only from blog posts in the Tacoma paper, as I don't get the cable channel, and you can't even stream the local radio broadcast over here. Although it was frustrating to see the Huskies' defense get pushed around some, and to see some mistakes that hurt, it was not unexpected given the strength of the UofO program. The Huskies kept playing, and stayed in the game at least. The Huskies are coming back, but the Ducks are still just bigger, stronger and faster.
 
Last sunday I was delighted by the win of the Saints (the team that I follow since my visit in New Orleans in 1999) and very impressed by the regularity and performance of the Packers, Aaron Rodgers seems to be up in the sky and totally "in control"
 
Jipes said:
Last sunday I was delighted by the win of the Saints (the team that I follow since my visit in New Orleans in 1999) and very impressed by the regularity and performance of the Packers, Aaron Rodgers seems to be up in the sky and totally "in control"
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I know this is supposed to be about 'College' football but since you mentioned the Saints and I, living in (near) New Orleans, I have to ask.....what is it about N.O. that made you like it when you came here? This is an honest and open question from someone who likes living here but continuously wonders what it is that makes people visit us and end of living here, liking it or coming back regularly. Perhaps we should start another thread. :)
And, I agree about Rodgers. Seems every year or two someone else comes in a shatters records. They don't seem to last as long anymore.
 
I am not a USC fan. In fact, if there is a program I have really disliked over the years, it is USC. Partly the whole "Tusk" think the band did or does. But I have to say, while I was not rooting for SC last night, I was not upset by their success over Oregon. Interesting game to watch.

More interesting than BSU/SanDiegoState game everyone else in the room was getting excited about. While I think it is fun that BSU has had some success, I feel there is a lack of perspective in this area regarding the team. But I suppose that is to be expected.


RE: the Huskies, and the start of redshirt freshman Nick Montana, didn't go so well. They brought Price back in toward the end to bring a spark, but an interception ended that. Disappointing game that they should have won. But the fact that they became "bowl eligible" a couple games ago, and some injuries, made it predictable to this long time Husky fan that they may have poor effort based loss. Well, I hope they close it out well against the Cougars. You never know what is going to happen in the Apple Cup.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
I am not a USC fan. In fact, if there is a program I have really disliked over the years, it is USC. Partly the whole "Tusk" think the band did or does. But I have to say, while I was not rooting for SC last night, I was not upset by their success over Oregon.
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I never particularly cared for USC much either until my sister went there. I tend to root for public schools over private schools. Now I root for USC out of family loyalty, but if they play any of the other "family schools" (Colorado, Texas and USF) I will root against the Trojans. Yesterday I would have rooted for USC regardless because I root for anything that makes the BCS look ridiculous.

As for my alma mater... USF lost 6-3 to Miami yesterday in the single most unwatchable football game I have ever seen.

To make matters worse, USF was dressed in those ridiculous "honor the troops" uniforms with the camouflage sleeves and helmets (which didn't even have a USF logo). Those uniforms also have "Honor" or "Courage" or "Duty" or some other military values word on the back instead of names.

I have nothing against the men and women in our military and I respect their service, but there's no place in college athletics for that kind of jingoism, particularly with a team representing a public school. Let Army, Navy and Air Force represent that. Let the public schools just be themselves. It's bad enough that the pro leagues wrap themselves in the flag and try to superimpose patriotism onto sports, but in the NCAA it's downright disgusting. I can love my country and sports at the same time without having them merged.
 
Another loss in a terrible season for USF, who now sits at the bottom of the Big East. Skip Holtz is not proving himself to be a coach that can bring consistency to this team.

I watched several other games this weekend.

Here's a question for you SVL, other than Stanford, does any team in the PAC12 play defense? I'm not saying those games weren't exciting at points, but watching that Cal/ASU game I was beginning to think it was first team to 100 points wins.

The LSU/Arkansas game was the highlight of the weekend. I was rooting for Arkansas, mostly to blow up the BCS, but have no ties to either team so I didn't care. That DB Mathiue for LSU is one hell of a playmaker. Wherever the ball is, he's never far from it.
 
The Apple cup (UW WSU) was a good game and the offense and Price were great. but the D was nonexistent the first half. It would have been almost worth a loss to get rid of Holt's poor D. How many big 3rd down plays did they give up? I lost count. Fortunately they did better in the second half, pressuring the qb. but the soft D, giving up big chunks of RE in the middle, was very frustrating to watch early on. Holt seems on paper a good coach but he does not seem to be getting the job done. I am glad for the win, but there is work to do. now I guess the Huskies will get to play in the sun dried fruit bowl or whatever. :D
 
R, re west coast D, my brothers who follow things more closely, talked about the newer west coast offensive
schemes that make it unlikely we will see a return to the glory days of Husky D with multiple shut outs as in the 90s Oregon and USC seemed to hold their civil war opponents to low scores from what I remember from highlights but the mid strength programs like UW and Asu etc have apparently not caught up with the new style offenses including wildcats etc.
 

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