Bye Week Saturday: Open Thread

by Nestor on Nov 22, 2008 9:00 AM PST in Football

Bruins don’t storm the field till a special Friday night national TV appearance following Turkey Day:

Photo Credit: savonnee's photstream (flickr)

So no games to get fired up for today but plenty of great college football action to take in for the junkies. The biggest game of the day is in Norman where Leach’s Tech take on the Sooners. That game is on prime time starting at 5:00 pm PST.

There is also the Michigan-Ohio State game kicking off at 9:00 am PST. Sure the game is not a marquee one given the tough rebuilding season Wolverines are going through but just like our last regular season game of the year, none of that stuff will matter. I will definitely try to take some of that action in today. Besides those I might be checking out Michigan State-Penn State (12:30 pm PST) and Stanford-Cal (12:30 pm PST). Here is the full scoreboard.

What are you watching? As always if you are hanging around here, post your quick thoughts, impression right here.

Enjoy your Saturday.

GO BRUINS.

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SUC

The only thing I care about from week to week, aside from our Bruins, is keeping SUC out of the national championship game.

Doesn’t it help if Oregon State loses either today or against Oregon ,and puts SUC in the Rose Bowl? Much as I hate the Toejam idiots smelling up our stadium, I think the answer is yes.

And a huge part of me wants Texas Tech to win today. Leach is great and the team plays exciting football, as it always has.

Pete Carroll wears ladies' clothes.

by Barnes2JJ on Nov 22, 2008 9:12 AM PST reply actions

If USC doesn't win the Pac-10

There’s no way they’re playing in the national championship game.

by CAJason80 on Nov 22, 2008 5:57 PM PST up reply actions

Absolutely true

And OSU just took another step toward making sure that justsc doesn’t win by a last second win at Arizona.

Now if OSU can knock off Oregon, they’re in the Rose Bowl, and justsc can’t possibly go to the Championship game. Not even the fools who run the BCS would put a team that finished second in its conference in the NT game.

by Fox 71 on Nov 22, 2008 7:26 PM PST up reply actions

Sadly, the fools have done it before

Remember Nebraska against Miami?

I highly doubt USC will make the national championship if Oregon State wins. But it can still happen.

by gilbert on Nov 22, 2008 7:32 PM PST up reply actions

Either way

It is very unlikely USC will get in. They still need A LOT to go their way.

by SuperBruinMan on Nov 23, 2008 12:29 AM PST up reply actions

I think it obviously helps SC

that they don’t have to play a conference championship game every year. The other conference cannibalize themselves with that stupid championship game.

Right now, I think Florida is the best team in the country (although OU looked pretty damn great last night) and will crush Alabama. So, Bama gets a loss.

Then, who knows what is going to happen with Texas, OU and TT. TT has one loss, just like SUC, but TT’s crushing defeat was much more high profile and happened NOW whereas everyone has forgotten about SUC’s loss.

I think SUC can sneak back in, but probably not this year. There are too many good teams above them, even with one loss. But it could still happen.

Pete Carroll wears ladies' clothes.

by Barnes2JJ on Nov 23, 2008 7:16 AM PST up reply actions

Big 12 South

if OU beats OSU and Texas beats Texas A&M, then the tiebreaker is BCS ranking. Projected BCS rankings have Texas 2, OU 4, and TTU 5 (UF is 3, SC at 6), but that could change if OU wins next week. But as of now it would be Missouri vs Texas for the Big 12 title, then if Missouri wins OU and TTU would still be ahead of SC (and FLorida/Bama, obviously) to get into the NC game. BUt it is possible…

by bucknellbruin on Nov 23, 2008 8:36 AM PST up reply actions

Sadly, those fools have done exactly that

Nebraska a few years ago appeared in the championship game out of 3rd place in the Big XII (coming off of a blowout loss to Colorado to finish the regular season).

by bruinhoo on Nov 22, 2008 8:47 PM PST up reply actions

And I see that gilbert has this covered...

by bruinhoo on Nov 22, 2008 8:48 PM PST up reply actions

don't forget about Oklahoma

in 2003 got blasted by Kansas STate in the Big XII title game then played LSU…instead of SC lol. But after that the country was so pissed that it won’t happen again

by bucknellbruin on Nov 22, 2008 10:26 PM PST up reply actions

That Nebraska Debacle

is what caused the BCS to tweak their formula to mire highly rely on human polls. While it happened before, there’s pretty much zero chance that occurs this year – the human pollsters wouldn’t let it happen.

If I had to guess, right now it’s Florida vs. Texas. I don’t see how the pollsters can possibly put Oklahoma above Texas, given that Texas beat Oklahoma head to head.

The only way SC makes the title game is if the following happens:

Big-12 South rep in the Big-12 championship game (be it Texas or Oklahoma) loses to Mizzou in the Big-12 Championship game;
Oregon State loses to Oregon.

by CAJason80 on Nov 23, 2008 4:06 PM PST up reply actions