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Clean the House Please

Sadly, another embarassing stain on a great program. Get Herron and Posey off the program and Smith out as AD. Time to clean house, or the damage will be over several years instead of one season.

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Big Ten and PAC 12 Seeking Big Wins in Week Three | Bleacher Report

Appropriately labeled the “Ineligible Bowl,” this might be the most enigmatic game in college football this year.  After enduring a chaotic off-season riddled with controversy and NCAA investigations, the Buckeyes and Hurricanes are both limping into this game.  Miami embarrassingly lost their opening game to Maryland.  Ohio State is 2-0, but needed a defensive stand in the last minute to survive an upset against Toledo last weekend. 

Fortunately, both teams have reinstated a few key players in time for this game.  Travis Benjamin, Marcus Forston, Jacory Harris, Adewale Ojomo and Sean Spence, return for Miami and Travis Howard, Jordan Hall and Corey Brown are back for Ohio State.

Harris was dreadful in last season’s 36-24 loss to the Buckeyes throwing four interceptions.  His return to the starting lineup has many Buckeye fans jumping for joy, but they may want to temper their enthusiasm considering all of the Buckeye playmakers from that game are either still suspended or have graduated. 

via bleacherreport.com

Five Predictions for Week Two in College Football

South Carolina is going to put a beat down on Georgia causing mass hysteria in Athens. 

The seat is going to get hotter Brian Kelly when Notre Dame loses at the Big House

Hawaii starts the season by going 2-0 against the PAC 10

Utah upsets USC

Missouri vs. Arizona State will be the game of the week

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Five Predictions for Week Two in College Football

South Carolina is going to put a beat down on Georgia causing mass hysteria in Athens. 

The seat is going to get hotter Brian Kelly when Notre Dame loses at the Big House

Hawaii starts the season by going 2-0 against the PAC 10

Utah upsets USC

Missouri vs. Arizona State will be the game of the week

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Post New Year's Day Resolution: Remind Gordon Gee to Shut Up

Dear Jim Delaney and Gordon Geek:

Since the divisional names are being reconsidered, here are some suggestions:

1.  Sisters and Poor

2.  We are...Not Good

3.  Owned...Again

4.  1960 and 1970 - last decades when you really mattered

5.  Slow and Slower

6.  Weak and Weaker

 

Thanks,

 

The College Football World

BCS is a fraud, time to blow it up for a playoff

Christmas is here once again, and it is time for wishes.  Here are a few that would be nice to get.

First, for the advocates and perpetuators of the seriously flawed BCS system to stop lying to everyone about the reasons for the system.  The BCS is not about academics, protecting the regular season or safeguarding the bowl system.  The system is about hording revenue for a select few.   

The bowl system can be protected while incorporating a playoff.  Take the top 10 teams from the final BCS rankings, seed them, give the top three a home game, put the 4/5 game in one of the BCS bowl sites, hold the semifinals in two of the other BCS bowl sites and the championship in the final BCS site.  Rotate them like they do now. 

Big conferences win, fans win, the importance of the regular season remains intact, revenue is earned and integrity is protected.  Get it done. 

If timing is an issue, start the playoff games a week early.  There is too much time between the end of the regular season and the BCS games anyway. 

Second, if a playoff is not possible, then at least have the BCS games not on January 1 played on a weekend night.  Change is inevitable, but is it too much to ask that they play the BCS games on Friday, Saturday or Sunday?

Third, witness a competitive NC game.  The last exciting game was Texas’ thrilling win over USC five years ago.  Most of the title games have been duds, and that reflects the weakness of mythical No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup the BCS system supposedly guarantees. 

Oregon and Auburn appear ready to put on an offensive explosion with Cam Newton and LaMichael James leading the way.  Hopefully they’ll deliver. 

Fourth, for Urban Meyer to get a one-year stint at Ohio State as offensive coordinator.  The Buckeyes are coming off their best offensive season in Jim Tressel’s tenure, but the competition was mostly garbage.  The offense is good, but the stats are grossly inflated.

Last week, Terrelle Pryor suggested he would dominate in a spread option offense. Don’t take this the wrong way, but the experiment to make him a pro-style QB is not exactly working. 

Meyer is available.  Get him and the Buckeyes easily win the 2011 championship.

Lastly, for Joe Paterno to reconsider his decision to return next season and officially retire after the Outback Bowl.  Few, if any, have meant more to the game than Joe Pa.  He’s also earned the right to step down whenever he pleases.  Regardless, it is time to call an end to his era.

The Big Ten has slowly come out of its five-year down cycle partly fueled by an infusion of younger coaches and better coaches.  Bret Bielema and Pat Fitzgerald along with new additions Bo Pelini and Kevin Wilson (not so young, but the best prospective coach Indiana has ever had) will continue to pay dividends for the Big Ten. 

The landscape is ripe with young, dynamic coaches ready to take over for the legend. The timing is right for a change. 

Overtime

Mount Union and Wisconsin-Whitewater will meet in the Division III Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl this Saturday for the sixth consecutive year. 

Mt. Union has won 10 championships since 1993, but Whitewater has won two of the last three against the Purple Raiders. 

The six-year run for both of these schools is incredible.  Check out the game if you want to watch authentic football being played by kids that play for the love of the game. 

Fix the dates for the BCS games

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Please put the BCS games on Friday or Saturday. Having them on Monday or Tuesday night is a joke.

Alabama's Defense or Oregon's Offense: Which One Would You Rather Have?

The No. 1 team in country has the 20th-ranked defense in FBS.  The No. 3 team has the first-ranked offense in FBS.

If you had to choose, which one would you rather have in making the run for the BCS championship?

Gut instinct suggests defense, and you would be right.

Over the last 10 years, just five teams have made it to the BCS championship game with a defense ranked outside of the top 10, OSU ('02), OK ('04), USC ('05), OSU ('06) and OK ('08).  OSU is the only team to win the title, but their defense was ranked 23rd. 

Having a strong defense is necessary to make the title game, and it is likely necessary to win the game.  Nine out the last 10 BCS champions have had defenses in the top 10.  The champion also had the higher ranked defense seven times. 

Offensive firepower has been less common for the BCS championship teams since 2000.  Thirteen teams have made it to the title game without a top-10 offense, seven without a top-25 offense. 

Eight teams have won the championship without a top-10 offense, four without a top-25 offense.  In 10 years, only three teams have won the title with a higher ranked offense. 

These statistics do not suggest that an effective offense is unnecessary to make it to the game or win the game.  It just means it is less important to the outcome.

Balance is important though.  Having a strong defense with a productive offense is the best combination to make it to the championship and win.  The Buckeyes in 2002, with an offense ranked 70th and defense 23rd, are the only exception.

Looking at the top three teams right now, recent history favors Bama and OSU.  The Tide are ranked 20th in both total offense and defense, OSU is 21st in offense and fifth in defense, and Oregon is first on offense and 52nd on defense. 

The most balanced team is definitely Alabama.  With offensive firepower, an opportunistic defense and solid special teams play, the Tide are nicely positioned to be the first team to win back-to-back BCS championships.