If you haven’t already voted in this poll, you might find some guidance for how to vote at Week 12 Watch: Avoid the trap which goes at the issue from the other end.
If you have voted, maybe we can discuss some of the specifics in that article and/or add ideas of our own as to why we’ve voted the way we did.
In any case, it looks like finding that “must-see” game this week may be a big hassle!
And although the Auburn-Samford game is not on the poll I would place it in the same category as the listed games, since Heisman winner Pat Sullivan is the head coach at Samford. This past week’s battle between the Titans and the Panthers saw Auburn’s latest Heisman winner Cam Newton humiliated by former Samford player Cortland Finnegan. It may be in the cards for the Samford uprising to add to the excitement of an otherwise dull weekend.
As you can tell, there’s no need for one of those summaries to show where voters stand: either The Walking Dude has chosen well in the Houston game and wins, or there’s a 5-way tie among the rest of us!
But to get a head start on next week’s games I have selected from
those games involving current 1-loss and undefeated teams:
Week 13 Scoreboard
Friday November 25, 2011
Houston (10-0, Road: 5-0) 12:00 pm EST
Tulsa (7-3, Home: 4-1)
Arkansas (9-1, Road: 2-1) 2:30 pm EST
LSU (10-0, Home: 5-0)
Saturday November 26, 2011
Iowa St. (6-4, Road: 2-2) 12:00 pm EST
Oklahoma (8-1, Home: 4-1)
Wyoming (6-3, Road: 3-1) 2:00 pm EST
Boise St. (8-1, Home: 3-1)
Virginia Tech (10-1, Road: 5-0) 3:30 pm EST
Virginia (7-3, Home: 4-2)
Oregon St. (2-8, Road: 0-4) 3:30 pm EST
Oregon (9-1, Home: 5-0)
Alabama (9-1, Road: 4-0) 3:30 pm EST
Auburn (6-4, Home: 5-0)
Clemson (9-1, Road: 2-1) 7:45 pm EST
South Carolina (8-2, Home: 4-1)
Notre Dame (7-3, Road: 3-1) 8:00 pm EST
Stanford (9-1, Home: 4-1)
Of course, today’s action may result in some of these games coming off the poll but at least these are the most we’ll have to select from.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed in this thread until the dust settles.
After OK State’s loss, I really can’t pick between Oregon and Alabama as to who deserves a rematch with LSU for #1. Alabama took them to OT, but Oregon put up a lot more points, and is a much better team than when it had guys playing their very first college game making critical fumbles.
IMO the best thing that could happen is for LSU to lose to an unranked team, and Oregon and Bama play for #1.
Having watched both LSU games against Bama and Oregon, it’s my opinion that LSU must play some other team for the NC, unless LSU gets beaten first.
Rematches in today’s setting are pointless. Any given team on any given day can (and occasionally does) beat any other team, regardless of “strength” of either team. That’s the magic and appeal of College Football to me, and why so much is made of polls and that BCS nonsense.
Until there’s a playoff with best-of-3 as a minimum number of games between individual finalists in at least eight “finalists” competing through some yet-to-be-determined method, “the best team” is just personal bias.
Football with its dependence on luck and the injury situation (and suspensions and the like) is just not a one-and-done sport when “the best” is at stake.
As for which of the eventual 1-loss teams plays LSU, I have no strong preferences, just as long as Bama and Oregon aren’t in the mix.
Me either! That’s why we are stuck in this system if we want an approximation of “best team” where we have to accept upsets and chaos and all the trimmings.
