FBC (yeah, that's right, we roll like AP) week 9 running thread

but...but...that's different!

 

Meyer is also the master of the delayed suspension. He'll give a guy a game, but make it Directional State in Week 4 that the guy is suspended for.

 

Remember when Zook suspended Channing Crowder for the opener against Middle Tennessee? Then, that game got moved to November because of a hurricane, and Crowder was still suspended for Middle Tennessee. He played in every other game.

 

I'll throw my poll story in to this mix....


Meet Me Halfway: These Teams Deserve Love Too

By SLAPPY4428
All-knowing know-it-all

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the order of top three teams ranked in the various polls.

And to a degree it’s deserved – Texas, of the Big 12, along with Florida and Alabama of the SEC (Our Motto: An Eye for An Eye, Two Teams in the BC$ is More Than One) have certainly poked their way to the top of the heap.

We’ve also spent some of the time discussing teams not quite at the top, although Duke, Idaho, Texas A&M and Temple receiving votes in midseason must truly be one of the Seven Signs.

But while the top three teams receive the discussion, the interesting part of the poll is the next six teams. Boise State, Cincinnati, TCU, Iowa, Oregon and LSU have certainly earned a spot at the meal, if not actually the adults table on Thanksgiving.

However, it’s like the Gemini astronauts in 1962: They’re still going into space, but they don’t have the same flair as the Original Seven in outer space and none of the respect.

What happens this week if the Big Three lose? Alabama falling to LSU is certainly possible; Florida’s losing to Vandy might not happen, but why can’t the Gators get bitten at South Carolina or at home against Florida State? UCF might not be the answer, but Texas is entirely capable of doing something stupid.

And by doing that, it puts the onus on the Next Six, unless the voters of the USA Today coaches poll and the voters in the Harris Poll decide they have the backbone of room temperature Jell-O and leave one of the three at the top.

Look at this week. Who plays Louisiana Tech after Boise State? LSU, which makes this Little Ray of Sunshine’s column I read online today as worthless as balls on a statue when he wrote that he dropped Boise in his Harris Poll because their schedule is weakening.

I continue. Why shouldn’t the next six be considered? I have no idea why not. I mean…

-- Boise State is fourth. If the Broncos run the table, they’ll be undefeated, have beaten Idaho, Oregon and at Fresno State, Bowling Green, Tulsa, Hawaii and Louisiana Tech in a six-week stretch across six different time zones. Nick Saban says HIS team is tired?

-- Cincinnati is fifth and has played just one ranked team. But they’ve got a scoring margin of plus-26 against Rutgers, Oregon State, South Florida and Fresno State.

-- TCU is sixth and has the best shot of them all, since people look for ways to discount any success Boise State might have. So discount this: TCU will have won at Clemson and Virginia. And Air Force. And No. 23 BYU. And have to beat Utah. Some ACC schools don’t have it that tough.

-- Iowa is seventh and the Rodney Dangerfield of the Big 10. Everyone talks about Penn State and Ohio State, but Iowa is freakin unbeaten. Doubters have every right to rag on Northern Iowa and Arkansas State – but you don’t hear them complaining about Charleston Southern, North Texas or Florida International.

-- Oregon is eighth and in a bad spot. While the Ducks have a claim if they win out and finish the Pac-10 season unbeaten, the voters are truly frauds if they hike the Ducks ahead of the one team to beat them – Boise State.

-- LSU is in the same boat as Oregon at No. 9. They control their destiny, but can they say they belong in the title game after losing to Florida, which would probably fall behind the Tigers if LSU beats Bama and Florida stumbles along the way. Of course, if LSU beats Florida, the whole world from the stars to the bars will cry out for Round 3 – the war to settle the score.

But they’ll all have a legit argument as long as they all win out -- they just dont have the respect of the media darlings.

 

What will be really bad is when/if Florida/Texas/Alabama lose to a team they have no business losing to, I doubt they will drop lower than fifth.