Zeldar
July 26, 2014, 1:13pm
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The College Football 2014 Opening Week Top 25 teams’ schedule is shown at
and is based on the Final BCS Rankings from last season.
Between now and opening kickoff on August 28, pick the Top 25 Team(s)
that you expect to LOSE their opening game.
Here is the full schedule with BCS Rankings shown:
:
NCAAF Scores & Schedule
Top 25 FBS
Week: 1
Thursday, August 28
9:15 PM EDT Temple @ (24) Vanderbilt
6:00 PM EDT (18) Texas A&M @ (4) South Carolina <<<
10:30 PM EDT Weber St. @ (20) Arizona St.
Friday, August 29
7:30 PM EDT Jacksonville St. @ (3) Michigan St.
Saturday, August 30
4:00 PM EDT Arkansas @ (2) Auburn
8:30 AM EDT Penn St. vs. (10) UCF
12:00 PM EDT (12) Ohio St. @ Navy
12:00 PM EDT (16) UCLA @ Virginia
3:30 PM EDT West Virginia vs. (7) Alabama
3:30 PM EDT Rice @ (21) Notre Dame
3:30 PM EDT S. Dakota St. @ (5) Missouri
4:00 PM EDT UC Davis @ (11) Stanford
5:30 PM EDT (8) Clemson @ Georgia
6:00 PM EDT Elon @ (23) Duke
7:00 PM EDT Louisiana Tech @ (6) Oklahoma
7:30 PM EDT Fresno St. @ (19) USC
8:00 PM EDT (1) Florida St. vs. (17) Oklahoma St. <<<
8:00 PM EDT (25) Washington @ Hawaii
9:00 PM EDT (22) Wisconsin vs. (14) LSU <<<
10:30 PM EDT South Dakota @ (9) Oregon
Sunday, August 31
7:30 PM EDT SMU @ (13) Baylor
Monday, September 1
8:00 PM EDT Miami (FL) @ (15) Louisville
“<<<” = two ranked teams involved
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Way too early College Football chatter
Pai325
July 26, 2014, 4:45pm
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Now if you had a poll on who I’d like to see lose, my answers would be different. As I get older, I dislike more teams.
Zeldar
July 26, 2014, 5:00pm
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What’s going to be fun to watch for is when every one of these Top-25 teams gets at least one vote. The one certainty in that discovery is that the next-to-last team to get a vote will be the most likely to lose its game!
I’d welcome another poll like you suggest. There are some I would definitely vote for, but just couldn’t bring myself to that point in this “serious” thread.
I’m jumping in early with South Carolina, Clemson, Oklahoma State, and Wisconsin.
furt
July 26, 2014, 9:22pm
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Why use last season’s rankings, not this season’s?
I’m laughing my ass off at whoever thought my 'Noles would lose to OSU; not gonna happen.
Zeldar
July 26, 2014, 10:04pm
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I haven’t seen this year’s yet. Have you? Please link to them.
Zeldar
July 26, 2014, 10:08pm
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That was I, If you click on the underlined numbers you can see who voted for whom.
Zeldar
July 29, 2014, 3:18pm
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One thing appears clear at this stage: all but one of us will be watching that LSU-Wisconsin game!
Zeldar
July 31, 2014, 4:32pm
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Try this list for more up-to-date rankings:
Zeldar
August 1, 2014, 1:22am
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Here’s an attempt to blend data from
and
which I did manually so it may have errors. In any case, this would be the Coaches Poll Preseason version of Week 1’s action.
Compare these with the ones in the OP:
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Texas A&M (20) at South Carolina (9) 6:00 PM
Ole Miss (19) vs. Boise St. (at Atlanta, GA) 8:00 PM
Weber St. at Arizona St. (18) 10:30 PM
Friday, August 29, 2014
Jacksonville St. at Michigan St. (8) 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 30, 2014
UCLA (7) at Virginia 12:00 PM
Ohio St. (6) vs. Navy (at Baltimore, MD) 12:00 PM
Rice at Notre Dame (17) 3:30 PM
West Virginia vs. Alabama (2) (at Atlanta, GA) 3:30 PM
Arkansas at Auburn (5) 4:00 PM
UC Davis at Stanford (11) 4:00 PM
Clemson (16) at Georgia (12) 5:30 PM
Liberty at North Carolina (23) 6:00 PM
Louisiana Tech at Oklahoma (3) 7:00 PM
Stephen F. Austin at Kansas St. (21) 7:00 PM
Fresno St. at USC (15) 7:30 PM
Oklahoma St. vs. Florida St. (1) (at Arlington, TX) 8:00 PM
North Texas at Texas (24) 8:00 PM
LSU (13) vs. Wisconsin (14) (at Houston, TX) 9:00 PM
Washington (25) at Hawai'i 10:30 PM
South Dakota at Oregon (4) 10:30 PM
Sunday, August 31, 2014
SMU at Baylor (10) 7:30 PM
Zeldar
August 1, 2014, 5:29pm
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For those interested in such things, 2014 College Football Season Preview Preseason Rankings Comparison now includes the Coaches Poll results, which are fun to compare to other measures. Be sure to click the column headings to sort the other versions.
I went with the same, except I’m going with South Carolina over Texas A&M.
Zeldar
August 1, 2014, 9:06pm
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In case y’all didn’t notice, somebody’s got to lose in these games:
6:00 PM EDT (18) Texas A&M @ (4) South Carolina
(18) Texas A&M 9 69.23%
(4) South Carolina 3 23.08%
8:00 PM EDT (1) Florida St. vs. (17) Oklahoma St.
(1) Florida St. 1 7.69%
(17) Oklahoma St. 8 61.54%
9:00 PM EDT (22) Wisconsin vs. (14) LSU
(22) Wisconsin 8 61.54%
(14) LSU 2 15.38%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 13
Zeldar
August 4, 2014, 3:18pm
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This looks to be stuck at 15 players.
Zeldar
August 8, 2014, 3:22pm
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Now that we’re up to 17 players, here’s a look at the games that still have the ranked team winning:
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Thursday, August 28
9:15 PM EDT Temple @ (24) Vanderbilt
(24) Vanderbilt 0 0%
10:30 PM EDT Weber St. @ (20) Arizona St.
(20) Arizona St. 0 0%
Saturday, August 30
4:00 PM EDT Arkansas @ (2) Auburn
(2) Auburn 0 0%
12:00 PM EDT (12) Ohio St. @ Navy
(12) Ohio St. 0 0%
12:00 PM EDT (16) UCLA @ Virginia
(16) UCLA 0 0%
3:30 PM EDT West Virginia vs. (7) Alabama
(7) Alabama 0 0%
3:30 PM EDT Rice @ (21) Notre Dame
(21) Notre Dame 0 0%
3:30 PM EDT S. Dakota St. @ (5) Missouri
(5) Missouri 0 0%
4:00 PM EDT UC Davis @ (11) Stanford
(11) Stanford 0 0%
6:00 PM EDT Elon @ (23) Duke
(23) Duke 0 0%
7:00 PM EDT Louisiana Tech @ (6) Oklahoma
(6) Oklahoma 0 0%
10:30 PM EDT South Dakota @ (9) Oregon
(9) Oregon 0 0%
Sunday, August 31
7:30 PM EDT SMU @ (13) Baylor
(13) Baylor 0 0%
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Do you foresee any upsets there?
Zeldar
August 19, 2014, 5:29am
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I suppose a bump might be in order here…
I picked WI and TA&M. Nice to see UCF ranked as we ought to be, even if it’s only because you didn’t have this year’s rankings yet.
From this Big Ten homer, I pick Florida State, Alabama, Auburn, Central Florida, UCLA, Texas A&M, Notre Dame, and Vanderbilt.