FBC Week 15: Championship Week (and the Big East and Sun Belt play)

[2muchcoffeeman]

Big XII, SEC, ACC, C-USA and the MAC all crown champions this weekend. USC has one last shot at the Pac 10 championship.

For some reason, the Sun Belt conference has a game on Wednesday night. Presumably, it's on the tube but I can't tell you where (or indeed why anybody would watch). Big East is playing out the string as well, I think.

And Army-Navy is this weekend. Given recent results, should this be changed to Navy-Army?

GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY!

 

[User 1019]

And Army-Navy is this weekend. Given recent results, should this be changed to Navy-Army?

>:(

 

[Dickens Cider]

I'll never root against Navy, simply due to the USMC.

 

[slappy4428]

Ummm, and why is that?

 

[Dickens Cider]

My father is a retired E-8.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

And Army-Navy is this weekend. Given recent results, should this be changed to Navy-Army?

>:(

I feel the same way, but they've won seven straight.

(planned pejoratives deleted because I respect the few ex-Navy guys on SJ, unless they want to join in amusing everybody else)

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

My father is a retired E-8.

Master or first?

 

[The Big Ragu]

Florida opened a 10-point favorite.

 

[Dickens Cider]

My father is a retired E-8.

Master or first?

Master. Non-combat, though. Too young for Vietnam, too old for the Gulf War.

 

[GB-Hack]

Florida opened a 10-point favorite.

That line will move one way or the other depending on Percy Harvin's ankle. Florida had better hope he's going to be able to go.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Florida opened a 10-point favorite.

Lines for Alabama seemed to have been way off all year. I don't suspect this one to be any different.
When JPW is your quarterback, you've got a negative wild card every single Saturday.

And GB, I think I heard Harvin is pretty much out. If he practices Wednesday, I think it will be a shock.

 

[JackReacher]

Serious question. We know Utah is in the BCS, right? What about Boise? What are its options? I remember hearing something about if a second non-BCS school finishes ahead of a BCS conference champ in the BCS standings, it's in. Boise would finish ahead of the ACC champ for sure, right?

 

[GB-Hack]

Both Boise (9) and Ball State (12) are ahead of Big East champion Cincinnati (13).

 

[JackReacher]

Both Boise (9) and Ball State (12) are ahead of Big East champion Cincinnati (13).

I wonder if you have to be in the top eight AND finish ahead of a BCS conference champ? And I'm guessing there's a limit to how many non-BCS schools can play, probably two.

 

[TrooperBari]

Both Boise (9) and Ball State (12) are ahead of Big East champion Cincinnati (13).

Plenty of room on the Hawaii bandwagon this week, mid-major fans.

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Army-Navy: What happens to the CIC Trophy if Army wins and the service academies are all 1-1 vs. each other? Does it go to the BCS rankings? :D

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

According to Graham Watson at ESPN, Swofford is holding a presser on Wednesday where they're going to discuss the teams still eligible for BCS consideration. Since there's never been three non-BCS undefeated, she basically says the organization might have to change the rules on the fly.
Doesn't sound good for Ball State, and maybe not for Boise State either.

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

Oklahoma- 45
Missouri- 21

Florida- 35
Alabama- 14

 

[sportschick]

Both Boise (9) and Ball State (12) are ahead of Big East champion Cincinnati (13).

I wonder if you have to be in the top eight AND finish ahead of a BCS conference champ? And I'm guessing there's a limit to how many non-BCS schools can play, probably two.

Top 16 and ahead of a BCS conference champ makes you eligible to chosen. Boise will not be picked. There is not a snowball's chance in hell of the Broncos getting picked ahead of Ohio State. The BCS can claim all they want that they'd take more than one non-BCS school, but they're lying like dogs. Even my freaking cats can see that.

Boise's probably headed to the Poinsetta Bowl for a matchup with TCU or BYU, which will be a vastly superior game to whichever BCS game winds up with the Big East champion.

 

[Diabeetus]

Oklahoma- 45
Missouri- 21

Florida- 35
Alabama- 14

You need to add about four touchdowns in the Mizzou/Okie game. Like 66-28.

 

[nmmetsfan]

Both Boise (9) and Ball State (12) are ahead of Big East champion Cincinnati (13).

Plenty of room on the Hawaii bandwagon this week, mid-major fans.

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Army-Navy: What happens to the CIC Trophy if Army wins and the service academies are all 1-1 vs. each other? Does it go to the BCS rankings? :D

The lowest rated service academy gets disqualified and it comes down to head-to-head with the other two.