Like I said – I haven’t seen the video. But those who have that I read online, plus the official on the field ruled it a catch.
Watch the video and let me know what you think.
I have no idea why the official on the field would call that a catch, makes no sense.
Hit the trifecta!!! Notre Dame and Michigan lost and Michigan State won. Notre Dame continues a nose dive with a road game against USC yet to go. A mediocre and inconsistent Michigan team goes on the road to Columbus with a possible playoff spot on the line for the Buckeyes. I’m sensing another trifecta win for me next week.
With some big games and conference championships yet to go, we’re only four minor upsets away from a two loss team making the playoff. Just imagine the internet frenzy if the committee has to pick a two loss team from the clutter.
Thoughts and prayers to all the folks in Tallahassee.
I agree with Zakalwe that FSU are #1 until they get beat. I am, however, not at all unhappy that the CFP rankings seem to pointing toward an Oregon-FSU matchup in the first round.
And the Ole Miss freefall continues…I would think that Bama’s loss to them would be looking more and more like a critical blow to the credibility, but the AP and UPI folks appear not to agree.
Hate Week now officially begins. Get your flu shot today, and Buck the Fevers!!
It’s part of the system. When an SEC team takes a stupid loss to another SEC team, it’s because the SEC is so strong. Whenever any other conference team takes a stupid loss, it’s because their conference is weak.
Thanks a lot - you cursed them.
Now watch Hillary get elected in 2016, and one of her first orders of business is an executive order “officially” declaring “after further review” that the final score of the 1982 Big Game is Stanford 20, Cal 19. (Remember where Chelsea went to college…)
Props to Kirk Herbstriet for calling the SEC out for their Cupcake Saturday so late in the season.
My beloved Big Ten usually gets it right, but I have to complain about the 2016 and beyond schedules. Hooray for the 9th conference game, great that they keep some of the traditional season-ending games, OSU v Mich, Ind v Pur, Wis v Minn, NW v Ill, Iowa v Neb. But they fail when they didn’t preserve the MSU-PSU game, instead having MSU, PSU, Rutgers, and Maryland rotate their season-enders among themselves.
I absolutely hate that about the SEC. Warm up games are for the first game or two of the season. Anything after that is lame.
What difference does it make when they are being played? Its great scheduling, IMO. And the other conferences ought to take a lesson. We wouldn’t get great early season matchups like TAMU/USCe to open the year. and USCe/UGA.
Northwestern played an OOC cupcake last week. 
USCw is playing them next week, :D:D
I think the SECw is getting weaker and weaker with each. And it not because “cannibalism”.
Arkansas is not all of sudden a lot better because they whipped both LSU and Ole Miss. LSU and Ole Miss both had massive letdowns after their losses which I think is Coaching.
ditto Auburn.
UGA might be the best team in the league, right now. Maybe #2 after 'Bama. GRRR…I do not like Nick Saban.
Meh… you could have just as easily said that Bama beat a team that beat the #8 team in the country 30-0. It’s all in what you’re pre-disposed to believe.
I personally believe the SECW is the best conference in the country… by far, top to bottom. There are no bottom dwellers this year unlike every other conference or division.
I would prefer none of those crappy games, I want to see as many good games as possible.
But as long as most teams are scheduling a warm up, I think it’s better to have them all that first weekend if possible, so the rest of the season are real games.
Networks are lining to broadcast Auburn vs Samford and UGA vs Charleston Southern.
In an ideal world, all the top teams would be playing top teams from the other conferences. But that is not going to happen.
I am glad I got to see TAMU vs USCe to open the CFB season. It was great way to start the year.
Samford, Akron, Ball State etc need to be Cupcakes for big schools for their budget. If they did not play a couple of these games, their athletic programs would be decimated and that includes all the non revenue sports.
Usually there are enough near must see blockbuster games each weekend that I don’t mind if a team plays a couple of cupcakes each year. I really don’t need to see Ohio State or Alabama play every weekend.
But I do think it should be a requirement that a Power 5 conference team has to playat least one power 5 OOC team every year, or they forfeit any chance for a playoff spot. That will put Kansas, Illinois, Wassu, Wake Forest and Vanderbilt in high Demand.
Ole Miss, Miss State and Baylor would be DQed this year. Its time for everyone to step up.
I’ll buy this but I’d go further: Make everybody play two tough non conference games, one home and one away. If you play a 9 game conference schedule, go ahead and put a cupcake in week 1. If you play 8 conference games, play one cupcake and one mid-major.
How do you define a ‘tough non conference game’ when those games are often scheduled a couple years in advance? And why does every team in a Power 5 conference get treated like they’re hot shit. Would you rather your team play ECU/Marshall/GaSou or Wake/Kansas/Perdue/Vandy?
Sounds good in theory but you got to think things through
Remember, if you are reducing the Power 5 teams to one cupcake, you are reducing the playing opportunities of the cupcakes to play the Power 5 teams. And that will affect their athletic budget greatly.
It could be a death Sentence to Mid Majors and FCS Teams and I don’t think any college fan wants to see that.
Teams like Appy State, Ga Southern, Youngstown St will be the first teams to whither on the vine and then Akrons, and Louisiana Monroe schools. That’s a lot of kids that won’t be getting athletic scholarships.
There are plenty of great college football games every weekend. I don’t care if 'Bama or Michigan play 2 Cupcakes per year.
I think there are ways around this. Have the NCAA collect a tax from the big programs and directly subsidize the little guys. I’d rather pony up some money and just give it to say Jacksonville State rather than have the little guys show up for an annual drubbing just to balance their books. Who wants to buy season tickets that would include say Samford or whatever? Just have the NCAA cut Samford a check and schedule a more challenging team instead.
We all want to see good games every weekend. These glorified scrimmages don’t do anyone any good except throw a little financial bone to the small schools.
Updated Best Win / Worst Loss Rankings!
Some movement this week – Florida State can now say they’ve beaten a ranked team! (23 Clemson). Arizona State, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Missouri can no longer make that claim.
Best Win (listing of all 0, 1 or 2 loss teams of the P5):
- Arizona (#3 Oregon)
- Alabama (#4 Miss State)
- Baylor (#6 TCU)
- Oregon (#9 UCLA)
- Ohio State (#10 Michigan State)
- TCU (#11 K State)
- UCLA (#12 Arizona)
- Georgia (#17 Missouri)
- Kansas state (#20 Oklahoma)
10t. FSU (#23 Clemson)
10t. Georgia Tech (#23 Clemson)
12t. Miss St (UR LSU)
12t. Michigan State (UR Nebraska)
12t. Arizona State (UR Utah)
12t. Wisconsin (UR Nebraska)
12t. Missouri (UR A&M)
Worst Loss:
- FSU (none)
2 Miss St (#2 Alabama) - TCU (#5 Baylor)
- Michigan State (#7 Ohio State)
- Oregon (#12 Arizona)
- Kansas state (#15 Auburn)
- Alabama (#18 Ole Miss)
8t. Baylor (UR West Virginia)
8t. Georgia (UR South Carolina)
8t. UCLA (UR Utah)
8t. Arizona (UR USC)
12t. Ohio State (UR Virginia Tech)
12t. Arizona State (UR Oregon State)
12t. Wisconsin (UR Northwestern)
12t. Georgia Tech (UR North Carolina)
12t. Missouri (UR Indiana)
Averaging the two rankings and eliminating the 2-loss teams:
1t. Alabama 4.5
1t. Oregon 4.5
1t. TCU 4.5
4t. Baylor 5.5
4t. FSU 5.5
6. Miss St 7
7. Ohio State 8.5
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t preventing the NCAA from doing this pretty much the sole reason there’s no NCAA FBS football tournament? The major conferences aren’t particularly happy that the NCAA already “gives away” half of the basketball TV contract money each year to the small conferences.
I would go one better, and so something similar to what is allowed in basketball; each FBS school that does not already play 13 regular season games is allowed a 13th game provided (a) it is the first game of the season, and (b) it is a home game against a non-FBS opponent from the same state.
I think I finally figured out what bothers me about your math here. Why should FSU have to take a point from the Worst Loss list. They don’t have one. FSU should be at 5, not 5.5. FWIW, I would have argued the same thing when Miss St was undefeated.