Bo Pelini’s gone, not a Nebraska fan, but my thoughts anyway: Bo and Nebraska seemed to be stuck in “pretty good” land. Winning 9 games but losing enough key games that it seemed he wasn’t going to get them over the hump to a conf champ.
It’s probably the right move, but like most places, they could go through 3 or 4 more coaches before they get to a conf champ.
If Cal hired a coach who took them to 9-3 they’d build a statue of him.
I never understood what happened with Tedford. He had Cal pretty competitive initially, why did they go south after a while? Normally a good coach continues to be competitive.
As you can imagine, there have been peta-bytes of analysis on this subject. The consensus nutshell: after peaking early in the 2007 season, but failing to get over the hump, Tedford couldn’t stop tweaking his offense. He’d had success with great O lines and power running games, but he started fiddling with spread and wildcat formations, and had a revolving door of OC’s.
And then he started dropping admissions standards, desperately looking for talent. He wound up with bad teams getting bad grades, and it was time to go.
No True SEC team would lose to the ACC, hence the SEC East teams are not really SEC teams.
Aye, laddie.
Of course, neither is Auburn. 
In case you missed it, Marshall lost yesterday, to Western Kentucky.
The score was 67-66, in Overtime. It was 59-59 after regulation.
WKU’s QB had 491 yds passing
Marshall’s QB had 417
291 yds rushing for Marshall
222 yds for WKU
6 interceptions.
And we’re down to 6 six teams with one loss (or less) to compete for 4 playoff slots. I like the idea of committee chaos meaning they have to look to the two loss teams…with the associated wailing and gnashing of teeth on the internet among sports fans. I assume Florida State’s body of work means anything other than a win or a flukey loss in the ACC championship throws them dead last in the committees eyes among the one loss teams and potentially opens the door to a two loss team over them with one loss.
So we’re three losses among the front runners from committee chaos. The three I see most likely to provide that:
Ohio State - They didn’t just lose a Heisman candidate quarterback, they lost their second string Heisman candidate QB. Their defense isn’t dominant enough to revert to Tressel ball against Wisconsin without a lot of risk.
Florida State - They continued their unimpressive but winning ways. They face arguably one of their toughest, if not the toughest, game they’ve faced all year.
Baylor - After a lackluster game against middle of the road competition they have a tough Kansas State team on deck.
Can I get a big foam #1 finger that has Chaos and Mayhem written on it made for next weekend?
Hopefully the fact they are playing in Waco will help the Bears. Anything short of a very convincing victory will be a problem.
The Iron Bowl was pretty entertaining. Watched it on DirectTV at 38,000 feet.
Well two other losses by the top 6 playoff contenders means a victory is likely enough. If none lose I’d agree with you.
Here’s my current top 6:
If Baylor wins out, I would jump them over TCU, as then it would come down to the head-to-head.
Ohio State has only one top 25 win, MSU. If they beat Wisconsin then it will be two, as I believe Minnesota, will fall out this week.
TCU currently has 2 top 25 wins, OU, KSU, with no chance to get another one.
Baylor has 2 top 25 wins, with a possibility for 3 if they beat KSU.
If FSU loses to GT, then I put Baylor at 3 (assuming they beat KSU) and then put Ohio State at 4 (assuming they beat Wisconsin.
That is correct - and, they have added a clarification: if there are no non-ACC/SEC/Big 12/Big 10/Pac-10 conference champions in the top 25, the committee will choose one to get the automatic bowl bid anyway.
Updated Best Win / Worst Loss rankings!
Best Win (0, 1- or 2-loss teams)
Worst Loss (0, 1- or 2-loss teams)
Averaging the 2 rankings and dropping the 2-loss teams (for now…)
1t. Oregon (3.5)
1t. TCU (3.5)
3 Florida State (4)
4t. Ohio State (5.5)
4t. Alabama (5.5)
6. Baylor (7)
You seem to forget their win over #4 TCU.
Crap. Traditional weekly screw-up.
This changes everything:
Best Win:
Merged rankings:
1t. Oregon (4)
1t. TCU (4)
1t. Florida State (4)
4. Baylor (4.5)
5. Alabama (6)
6. Ohio State (6.5)
Why does FSU continue to get disrespected? They played a 8 game ACC schedule plus games against Florida and Notre Dame (Teams that have contended and played for National Championships in the last ten years).
ACC is considered the red-headed step child of the Power Five conferences, and one of the reasons for that is there less than stellar record against the SEC, where they meet more frequently than any other conference rivalry.
The ACC just got the better of the SEC this past weekend, which should have given the ACC some much needed CRED!!
I hope my alma mater beats FSU this weekend, but if FSU should go on to win, they should be #1 seed in the Playoffs. Bama and Oregon should be the #2 #3 seeds and either Baylor or TCU be the 4th seed.
No way OSU should be in the Playoff.
IMO, unless I missed something, the B1G biggest win of the year OoC, was Indiana beating Missouri. Who else did they beat OOC? Other Power 5 OoC wins were Miami, Syracuse, Washington State, Notre Dame and Pitt. and Losses against West Virginia, Oregon, Va Tech, Notre Dame (twice), California and OSU lost to Va Tech…in Columbus.
A hypothetical one loss FSU (this week in ACC Championship) is better than a one loss tOSU.
Because they haven’t beaten a single team that is currently in the top 25. If they beat GT, then they will have beaten 1 top 25 team. That along with being undefeated should get them in the playoff, which is all FSU should care about. They then have to prove themselves by winning two more games.
Excuse me…Can you tell me where Clemson is ranked?
For the record,
Clemson is 9-3 (and ranked 19th in AP), there only three losses are against UGA, GaTech, and FSU…and total of 5 losses between those three teams. IMO, the best 3 loss team in the nation, with two SEC teams on their OoC schedule.
The ACC is the Rodney Dangerfield of Power 5 conferences.