Urf. “Their.”
Oh I’m not saying that conference hasn’t been good in the near past
I’m saying that the reconfigured Big East will be much stronger top to bottom than the other conference will be. This is a new era in college basketball when the best players leave early or go right to the nba. It’s a whole new world.
Wait. I thought this was a football thread.
It is, and my beloved Tarheels pulled one out of the hat today !!! Hooray !!!
So much for NC State and that top 25 thingie. :eek:
Words cannot express how ecstatic I am right now. And at the Swamp, too! I did the happy happy joy joy dance last night when the Tigers scored that TD with 27 seconds left. This definitely makes up for the Georgia debacle of last week.
Happy for you and your Tigers, divemaster. I wish my Bears & I could share your joy. But Cal gained the respect of the national media; the pundits at ESPN said we might even move UP in the polls, despite losing a heartbreaker at USC.
Obligatory gloating bump. Wisconsin 20, Purdue 17 (all scored after a cheap shot took our best defensive lineman out of the game in the third quarter, the WI starters stopped that offence cold for over a half).
-lv
Miami fan and alum here. A poster earlier contended that if Miami had to face more SEC opps, their record would suffer. I would like to point out that Miami administrators have tried for years to reinstate the annual interstate rivalry matchup with Florida that first withered in the late '80’s (when it became clear that Miami’s glory years were not a one-off and Florida suddenly lost their enthusiasm for the rivalry), and again in the 90’s, only to have Florida rebuff them time and again… Florida even going so far as to insist in recent years that such games in future be held in “neutral” territory, in Orlando… :rolleyes: What, they can’t handle the alternating home-field advantage that *every other football rivalry * embraces? It is to laugh. The only home field hunting grounds for Miami is in Miami, and Florida knows it. What they really wanted was a ridiculous and dangerous commute for the Miami fans (Miami to Orlando is six hours each way, folks), and a perennial home field advantage for themselves. The Florida administrators responsible for this standoff are disingenuous wimps and, FWIW, Florida fans are an ugly, loutish lot, easily the worst-behaved fans in the state (as any FSU fan will corroborate).
The recent Miami-Florida rivalry tally, from the UM Athletics site:
'98: no game
'99: no game
'00: no regular-season matchup, but they meet in the Sugar Bowl: UM 37, UF 20
'01: no game
'02: UM 41, UF 16
'03: UM 38, UF 33
'04: no regular-season matchup
My advice to the U. of Florida: keep runnin’ away from Miami if you want to be in a Jan. 3 bowl game…
Mississippi State beat Florida!
Auburn is 8-0
Alabama has already lost three games and will likely lose to LSU and Auburn as well.
The Goddam Gators Got Gigged aGain.
It looks like Auburn will get to kick Tennessee’s ass TWICE in the same season.
Vanderbilt won today.
Life is good in these parts…
Dammit! Michigan is giving a heart attack every 20 seconds here. Come on Blue, score, play some D, stop these SOBs, Win, party. No more crap, just freakin win this thing!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Hail to the Victors, baby. Blue does it again.
Not a big school or important or anything, but Moravian College is 7-0 for the first time since 1940. So we rock, even if all that may mean is that the teams we’re playing suck even worse than we do.
Congrats! But tell us more: Surely your team’s nickname isn’t the Moravian Morons. We must know how to cheer Morvian through the rest of the season. We need to know mascots, school location, team colors, if the cheerleaders are hot and all that stuff.
Auburn is now 9-0 and has clinched the SEC west title the earliest that’s ever been done. Now we can concentrate on on finishing up in style by whippin’ the Georgia Dull Dawgs and Alabama’s Cringin’ Tide.
mike1dog: Congrats on winning two in a row. Make it three next week! When Auburn wins and Alabama loses on the same day we refer to it as “Sweeping a double header”. Didn’t happen today, largely because Alabama didn’t play.
The Hurrycanes got Tar-Heeled, halF asS U got drownded by a Terripin and the Goddamn Gators got Dawg mauled. It would have been a near-perfect day if them Oklahoma State Cowboys had pulled it out.
Ain’t life grand?
And yet, the Badgers will still get screwed in the polls. :rolleyes:
I fucking HATE the BCS!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Oh yeah? YOU’RE ugly.
Look, we can only play 11 football games a year. We already consistently play a rougher schedule than any team in the SEC or the state of Florida, there’s no need to add another really good team to our slate. I personally would rather play Miami than FSU, but I’m in the minority there.
If you think it’s because “the Gators are scared” you may want to realize we would have whipped the Canes throughout the 90’s if we had played every year. I don’t think our 96 team would have been very scared of a team that couldn’t beat East Carolina.
I do feel sort of silly defending the Gators after this weekend in which a New Low was reached, but hey, we looked better than any other team in the state. And we will be back with a vengeance next year no matter who the coach is. This team is stocked with young talent and will be a force to be reckoned with in 2005.
John, will Auburn move up to 3rd place now that North Carolina “had its way” with Miami?
I would say that Auburn moving up to #3 is a given. Auburn should gain a little ground on Oklahoma too. Each year everybody cussess the BCS, but by the time the season’s over, there is usually only one (or no) BCS teams without a loss. There hasn’t been a year since the BCS started that there were three undefeated BCS teams at the end of the season, causing one to be left out of the championship game.
The best thing to do is win all your own games and let the rest do whatever. It’ll all work out by December.
I’ll agree with you there. Florida having FSU as a regular non-conference game is enough. As much as I enjoyed watching the Gators/Canes rivalry in the distant past, the current SEC format and the lock-in of FSU makes it stupid for the Gators to schedule Miami every year.
The first time since 1978 that all 3 Florida schools lost on the same day. That is an incredible stat, regardless (I guess) how one feels about those schools. For a comparison, the last time the 3 Northern California 1-A schools all lost on the same day, was, oh…Oct 9. The time before that was sometime last year, I’m sure.
My Bears are now #4 in the AP poll. Let me just say… :eek:
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Man, I can’t believe my Aggies lost to the Baylor F**king Bears! I went to the game with three other Aggie grads and a Baylor grad. It wasn’t being shown on television, so you had to be there to see it.
It was a great game for one of us. 
Baylor’s second-string quarterback started the game and he did an outstanding job. In overtime, we had first possession and scored a touchdown and kicked the extra point. The Bears answered with a touchdown and then got a 2-point conversion to win the game. That was a pretty ballsy move, and it paid off. The place went nuts! They stormed the field and pulled down one of the goalposts and carried it out of the stadium. Thirty minutes later as we drove through Waco on the interstate, we drove under them as they carried the goalpost across an overpass, headed toward campus. (their stadium is located a few miles from campus)
We were undefeated in the Big 12 and I think our team was looking past this game to next week’s battle against Oklahoma. It would have been sweet to have two undefeated Big 12 teams in that game, regardless of our chances against the Sooners. Oh, well.
So congratulations if there are any Baylor grads out there. As disappointed as I was with my team, it was cool to see the Baylor fans showing (from the start of the game) some great enthusiasm and spirit for a team that hasn’t been doing so well lately. They were also pretty gracious and good-spirited winners. As my roommate commented, nothing tells you more about the character of a school’s students than the way they treat the visiting fans after the home team wins. The Bears get an ‘A’ in this regard. (I’ve been yelled obscenities at and had trash thrown at me while trying to quietly exit a certain stadium in Austin.)
Gig 'em Ags!