College football Week 6 thread

Georgia opened at like -9 or -10 at Tennessee.

Uh.....sure.

 

Up to 10.5 - 11.5 now. Expect that pig to get bet up to 13 or 14.

 

There's been no recent "shift." The North has produced the past four Pac-10/12 champions. Oregon and Stanford have been the two best teams over the past four years.

It's just even more pronounced now. Improvement at UW and Oregon State have further strengthened in the North, and the decline of USC and the addition of poor Utard and Colorado programs have further weakened the South.

 

Could the government shutdown threaten the Air Force-Navy game?

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval_academy/government-shutdown-could-put-navy-air-force-game-in-jeopardy/article_c1dbac7e-2361-57e1-bfc3-fa3096990864.html

 

South Florida obviously didn't have the history, but it was not that long ago it was ranked No. 2.

 

Are the Miami Hurricanes back as a college football powerhouse?

 

No

 

Auburn isn't losing to Florida International. Southern Miss actually might.

 

Not in terms of national championship caliber, but they can go 8-4, 9-3 and get a decent bowl.

I don't know that the administration at Miami is willing to cut corners with questionable players the way they did for a while in the 80s and 90s. Maybe better to go 8-4 with student athletes than 12-0 with a group of thugs on drugs.

 

That's what I meant, mate. For decades, Pac-8, Pac-10 football was defined by USC and UCLA. Occasionally Washington would slip in and do something. But if USC was down, it meant the conference was considered down.

Every conference seems to have its flagship programs in various sports. Oregon is the trendy fad over the past few years, but, alas, this too shall pass.

 

I can't help but link the decline if Miami football over the last decade to the fact that they now play in an NFL stadium.

Can someone explain how/why the city of Miami let the Orange Bowl -- where six national champions played -- get plowed under to become home of the dreadful Marlins? Did the university have any say in the matter? I would think The U would have been violently opposed to that.

"You don't bring that mess into the O-B!"

 

The stadium was old, decrepit and almost totally inaccessible. People would sell their lawns for parking. There were no luxury boxes or other revenue opportunities. And when the whole Bowl Coalition/Bowl Alignment/BCS thing came into being, the Orange Bowl game was going to lose its place in the top tier if it didn't move away from the Orange Bowl stadium. Once that happened, the team's departure was a foregone conclusion. I was surprised they held out as long as they did.