College football week 10 thread: Wild Horses

[dixiehack]

Here is this week’s college football schedule. All times Central.

Friday
San Diego State at No. 15 Boise State 7 pm FS1

Saturday
No. 4 Ohio State at No. 3 Penn State 11 am Fox
Duke at No. 5 Miami (Fla.) 11 am ABC
No. 19 Ole Miss at Arkansas 11 am ESPN
Air Force at No. 21 Army 11 am CBS
Minnesota at No. 24 Illinois 11 am FS1
No. 1 Oregon at Michigan 2:30 pm CBS
Florida vs. No. 2 Georgia (at Jacksonville, Fla.) 2:30 pm ABC
Texas Tech at No. 11 Iowa State 2:30 pm Fox
No. 13 Indiana at Michigan State 2:30 pm Peacock
No. 17 Kansas State at Houston 2:30 pm Fox
No. 10 Texas A&M at South Carolina 6:30 pm ABC
Louisville at No. 11 Clemson 6:30 pm ESPN
Kentucky at No. 7 Tennessee 6:45 pm SEC Network
No. 18 Pittsburgh at No. 20 SMU 7 pm ACC Network

 

[Cosmo]

Not sure why I thought OSU-PSU was in Columbus, as I mentioned in last week's thread. Changes my opinion of that one quite a bit.

 

[goalmouth]

Like Army/Navy, Colorado's a fraud, weak schedule with losses to only ranked team (and Nebraska).

The Prime Factor at work. Maybe losing more toes will get him to the CFP.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Like Army/Navy, Colorado's a fraud, weak schedule with losses to only ranked team (and Nebraska).

The Prime Factor at work. Maybe losing more toes will get him to the CFP.

Without Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 is hot garbage. The one team from the Pac-12 that might have been decent, Utah, lost its QB again and is terrible.

Colorado's schedule this year is at least 50% easier than last year. No Oregon. No USC. No Washington.

 

[swingline]

He’ll show @Chef2 the way.

 

[DanOregon]

I do love the idea that some fan bases have to root for a hated rival at this point in the season to goose the "win value" for a shot at the Playoff. That thing with ND rooting for Texas AandM was spot on. Tennessee needing Bama to return to being Bama, the Aggies needing the Longhorns to win out.

 

[Batman]

 

[Alma]

Without Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 is hot garbage. The one team from the Pac-12 that might have been decent, Utah, lost its QB again and is terrible.

Colorado's schedule this year is at least 50% easier than last year. No Oregon. No USC. No Washington.

Correct on all accounts.

The Big 12 stinks.

 

[DanOregon]

The best win out of conference is Okie State's win over Arkansas. Okie State is 0-5 in conference.

 

[dixiehack]

BYU over SMU ain’t bad. K-State over Tulane is underrated. But yeah, this is a case where only three non-conference games hurts (not to mention Iowa coming a cropper).

 

[playthrough]

Now it gets real for IU. At Sparty, home Michigan, at tOSU. Hoosiers still haven't trailed this season and have been a covering machine. Laying 7.5 this week.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Correct on all accounts.

The Big 12 stinks.

The Big XII is fun. It's a good release after watching all the serious college football. That being said, BYU could be a problem. They are physical, decent bunch that intrigues me. And I'll always trust K-State because I'm a big Chris Klieman fan. No buys on Iowa State yet though and looking at their schedule past, present and future....a big nothing burger. They feel like the No. 7 playoff seed that's going to get a 50-spot hung on them by No. 10 Alabama.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Correct on all accounts.

The Big 12 stinks.

But it still has Farmageddon.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

The Big XII is fun. It's a good release after watching all the serious college football. That being said, BYU could be a problem. They are physical, decent bunch that intrigues me. And I'll always trust K-State because I'm a big Chris Klieman fan. No buys on Iowa State yet though and looking at their schedule past, present and future....a big nothing burger. They feel like the No. 7 playoff seed that's going to get a 50-spot hung on them by No. 10 Alabama.

Yeah. Not a lot of meat in the Iowa State sandwich.

That also goes for Clemson. Why the **** are they No. 11 in the poll?

 

[tapintoamerica]

Yeah. Not a lot of meat in the Iowa State sandwich.

That also goes for Clemson. Why the **** are they No. 11 in the poll?

1) Name brand.
2) They've been killing people.
3) Most voters have little time to devote to nuanced voting distinctions.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

1) Name brand.
2) They've been killing people.
3) Most voters have little time to devote to nuanced voting distinctions.

On your final point, that really is a problem. Most college football writers are very focused on their own beat on Saturday. Kinda dumb the AP releases the poll on Sunday. Not much time to research the rest of the country. No reason they can't release it on a Monday.

 

[dixiehack]

Another issue: If you drop Clemson or ISU, who goes in their place? Another Big 10 or SEC team? Have fun with those indignant howls.

 

[tapintoamerica]

On your final point, that really is a problem. Most college football writers are very focused on their own beat on Saturday. Kinda dumb the AP releases the poll on Sunday. Not much time to research the rest of the country. No reason they can't release it on a Monday.

That was my contention and I was a voter for a year or two.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Another issue: If you drop Clemson or ISU, who goes in their place? Another Big 10 or SEC team? Have fun with those indignant howls.

One of the differences between the AP football and hoops polls is that football doesn’t have 10 conferences from which you can pick two teams per week to fill out your poll when you grow weary of listing mediocre power conference members.

 

[Cosmo]

Yeah. Not a lot of meat in the Iowa State sandwich.

That also goes for Clemson. Why the **** are they No. 11 in the poll?

We'll find out about Clemson soon enough. Tigers host Louisville this week then go to Blacksburg and Pittsburgh the next two. Not an easy stretch.