Down Go Texas!

[BGIF]

BURNED Orange.

Aggies 12-7.

Colt McCoy throw two ints.

Franchionne off the hot seat.

 

[ACamp1900]

Texas has the ball, you never know...

 

[lattedatte]

B12 sucks this year, so does the ACC, so does the P10, so does the B10, the SEC is the best but overated....... good to be independent...

 

[ACamp1900]

B12 sucks this year, so does the ACC, so does the P10, so does the B10, the SEC is the best but overated....... good to be independent...

always good to be independant... just listen to the "big conference" fans Scream bloody murder about ND NOT joining a conference every day on Major CFB message boards and you will know all you need to know...

 

[ACamp1900]

gametime...

 

[ACamp1900]

ND/USC 92 is on ESPN classic right now....

 

[lattedatte]

always good to be independant... just listen to the "big conference" fans Scream bloody murder about ND NOT joining a conference every day on Major CFB message boards and you will know all you need to know...

exactly, we should never join a conference, never. I respect college football and us being an independent is what college football is all about.

 

[ACamp1900]

exactly, we should never join a conference, never. I respect college football and us being an independent is what college football is all about.

Joining a conference????


See, Penn State....

 

[A2McGowan]

B12 sucks this year, so does the ACC, so does the P10, so does the B10, the SEC is the best but overated....... good to be independent...

Big 10 sucks this year? ND wouldn't be 10-1 if they played in the Big 10 lad. Good to independent? Umm yes. C'mon......

 

[lattedatte]

Big 10 sucks this year? ND wouldn't be 10-1 if they played in the Big 10 lad. Good to independent? Umm yes. C'mon......

how do you know that, we would have played a cake walk non-conference like they all pretty much do and would have played Michigan later in yr. Completely different circumstance. This is a rediculous hypothetical though.

 

[domerfor life]

Big 10 sucks this year? ND wouldn't be 10-1 if they played in the Big 10 lad. Good to independent? Umm yes. C'mon......

Why would they not be 10-1?

 

[Clotho]

All this tells me is maybe the media should have waited to coronate Troy Smith and the Ohio State Buckeyes, who were cemented at #1 all year (in the polls and in the Heisman ballots) when they won at Texas.

Because frankly, Texas sucks. They got killed by OSU at home, got beat by a meh KSU team and a meh A&M team- as well as having games they should have lost against Nebraska and Texas Tech. Texas is not even a top 25 team this year, IMO. Nor was Iowa. Michigan? Probably a top 10 quality team, but who'd they play? Wisconsin. Ok and who did Wisconsin play? Michigan's only other big win is against us, and we still have no idea if we're legit or not.

Are there any actual good teams this year? It's kind of pathetic. OSU is not some great team. In any other year, they're not a championship squad. Hell, last year's OSU team would wipe the floor with this one.

 

[ACamp1900]

Why would they not be 10-1?

Because they would have drawn Wisky's conference schedule and gone 11-0...

 

[domerfor life]

Because they would have drawn Wisky's conference schedule and gone 11-0...

Good answer!

 

[Iron Machine]

Because they would have drawn Wisky's conference schedule and gone 11-0...

They still played Michigan, so if Notre Dame played Wiscs schedule the would've been 11-1.

 

[BGIF]

Big 10 sucks this year? ND wouldn't be 10-1 if they played in the Big 10 lad. Good to independent? Umm yes. C'mon......

Yes, ND would be 10-1. In case you're not familar with Conference scheduling members do not play all conference teams in a season. The Big Ten only plays 8 conference games. WIS didn't play OSU this season.

ND played 4 Big 10 members including #2, #4, #5, and #10.

And Latte has a point, as a BIG 10 member ND wouldn't be facing USC, GT, UCLA, et al. The conference might ask ND to drop NAVY as too competitive and a threat to the Conference Revenue Sharing Program.

1. OSU not on the schedule
2. UM LOSS (whipping)
3. WIS not on the schedule
4. PU WIN not on the schedule
5. PSU WIN (whipping_
6. MIN not on the schedule
7. IU not on the schedule
8. IOWA not on the schedule
9. NW not on the schedule
10. MSU WIN
11. ILL not on the schedule

 

[BGIF]

And without a front end loaded schedule ND might have played UM with Young more experienced and the OLine more stable. Carlson would not have been helping out Young as much as did the RG. A perhaps more importantly Samardzija would be focused on reading defenses instead of still focused on a slider. Quinn and Samardzija were not in synch early in the season.

 

[BGIF]

Wisconsin opened with BG, Div 1AA W. IL, and SDS

Wisconsin opened with BG, Div 1AA W. IL, and SDS

before facing UM they then had 5 weeks before PSU. ND had GT, PSU and UM back to back.



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[jerseyborn1971]

You can't argue with Big 10 fans. Logic doesn't factor into their equation. They are in denial that the only 2 elite teams are tOSU & UM. Whisky is good, but not elite. The rest of the conference is a laughing stock that OSU, UM and UW should be ashamed of.

 

[ACamp1900]

BGIF

Iowa played OSU this year... I almost put Iowa instead of Wisky but rememebred they played OSU at home and got hammered...

 

[BGIF]

... Whisky is good, but not elite. ...

Team Sagarin SOS (Schedule Rank)

MIN 76.97 (9)
UM 75.74 (12)
IU 74.91 (16)
NW 74.73 (17)
ILL 74.56 (18)
PSU 74.47 (19)
MSU 74.42 (20)
IOW 74.18 (23)
OSU 73.04 (27)
ND 72.77 (30)

PU 68.74(63)
WIS 67.40 (75)


For all the heat the East has taken over scheduling compare their top 3 with WIS.

LOU 72.81 (29)
WVU 70.98 (42)
RU 69.38 (58)
WIS 67.49 (75)

WIS played a schedule 6 to 10 points easier than almost the entire Big 10.

 

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Yes, ND would be 10-1. In case you're not familar with Conference scheduling members do not play all conference teams in a season. The Big Ten only plays 8 conference games. WIS didn't play OSU this season. Iowa didn't face OSU or UM.

Ummm...Iowa played BOTH UM and OSU.

No team avoided playing both UM and OSU. UM did not play Illinois and Purdue. OSU did not play Wisc and Minnesota.

 

[BGIF]

Ummm...Iowa played BOTH UM and OSU. ...

My error. You are correct OSU on 9/30 and UM on 10/21. Thanks.

 

[abelschner17]

Actually, Purdue didn't play OSU or UM this year in the B10.

 

[ACamp1900]

I was trying to remember who it was... I thought Iowa but then rememerbed they did that last year or the year before.... anyway thanks...

 

[lattedatte]

Team Sagarin SOS (Schedule Rank)

MIN 76.97 (9)
UM 75.74 (12)
IU 74.91 (16)
NW 74.73 (17)
ILL 74.56 (18)
PSU 74.47 (19)
MSU 74.42 (20)
IOW 74.18 (23)
OSU 73.04 (27)
ND 72.77 (30)

PU 68.74(63)
WIS 67.40 (75)



For all the heat the East has taken over scheduling compare their top 3 with WIS.

LOU 72.81 (29)
WVU 70.98 (42)
RU 69.38 (58)
WIS 67.49 (75)

WIS played a schedule 6 to 10 points easier than almost the entire Big 10.

Exactly...

Wisconsin OOC schedule is pathetic, it isn't not even close to the Big East. Here's what chap's me about the B10. How can you have a conference where each team doesn't play one another or doesn't have a conference championship game. I know the rules but until they do one or the other, it's a garbage conference. It happens nearly every other year where one of the top 3 teams don't play one another. Just like the BCS its garbage. It really irks me that a team doesn't win their conference under these circumstances and is still no. 2 in the BCS. I would rather USC just go and that takes a lot for me to say.

 

[LOVEMYIRISH]

Actually, Purdue didn't play OSU or UM this year in the B10.

That's right! I missed that. They did not play either of them last year, that's why everyone thought they had the inside shot at winning the BigTen last year.

 

[BGIF]

Exactly...

It really irks me that a team doesn't win their conference under these circumstances and is still no. 2 in the BCS.

What really irks most people is that 3 teams from a conference that shouldn't be in the BCS are in the top 14.

 

[lattedatte]

What really irks most people is that 3 teams from a conference that shouldn't be in the BCS are in the top 14.

Big East? I actually thought you got off their ass, but I was apparently wrong. They deserve it just as much as any of the conference does as evidenced by last years win in the Sugar Bowl. I will leave it at that and say I think more people are irked by our guaranteed birth in the BCS than the Big East gauranteed birth.

 

[Clotho]

So because one year, they produce one team that upsets an SEC team (who looking at this year, wasn't that good anyway), that justifies their conference getting an automatic bid?