FBC week 4 running thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

Because week 3 is over and week 4 starts on Wednesday this week ... Kansas State at Louisville! Woohoo! A matchup maybe one board member is looking for, and he's a glutton for punishment.

The idiots at the AP put Florida State in the top 25 ... do they not understand that when you beat two I-AA teams you only get ranked in the I-AA top 25?

LSU-Auburn will either be interesting or expose the PlainsWarEagleTigers for the frauds they truly are. I tend toward the latter. But it's the only matchup of two teams in the AP top 10 this week.

 

[slappy4428]

Unless the remaining voters start wearing Garnet and Gold, that ain't happening here.

 

[deskslave]

Because my inner fanboi is a little nervous, I pose this question: If USC, Oklahoma and Georgia all run the table, which two make the title game? I know USC does, despite its being in a good-Lord-awful conference. I'd like to think beating five teams currently ranked in the top 10 (including the SECCG, which is surely going to include one of Auburn, Bama and LSU) would be enough for Georgia.

And to make it a little less fanboi-centric, I'll pose the same question with Florida replacing Georgia. Or LSU, for that matter. (Auburn and Alabama aren't going to run the table, so we won't worry about them.)

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

How does Ohio State not fall lower than 13?

They beat a I-AA team, had to rally from a fourth-quarter deficit at home to a MAC school that is now 0-3 and then went on the road and got pasted by 32 points, with USC playing its backups by the fourth quarter. STILL No. 13 in the country? Really?

There's maybe 2 or 3 teams at most behind OSU in the top 25 that I think the Buckeyes would actually beat right now.

The AP voters aren't as smart as the SportsJournalists.com voters. 8)

 

[Chef]

First off; OU doesn't run the table.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Because week 3 is over and week 4 starts on Wednesday this week ... Kansas State at Louisville! Woohoo! A matchup maybe one board member is looking for, and he's a glutton for punishment.

Louisville better beat K-State this week, because I'm not sure Middle Tennessee State's a win for them.

 

[deskslave]

First off; OU doesn't run the table.

Maybe not. Neither does Georgia. That's my real concern.

 

[Songbird]

k-state will win. to that end, remember just a few years back they were so damn good? how ast did that **** drop off into obscurity?

 

[Songbird]

k-state will win. to that end, remember just a few years back they were so damn good? how ast did that **** drop off into obscurity?

 

[doubledown68]

Because it was built on juco players, not recruits.

 

[Oz]

k-state will win. to that end, remember just a few years back they were so damn good? how ast did that **** drop off into obscurity?

KU's been winning the in-state battle for recruits the last three or four years now. And as doubledown said, juco recruits are not the best path to longterm success.

 

[Songbird]

beating usc was the high water mark for sure, but it also seems to be the day usc said enough is enough. usc has lost, what, 12 games since the ksu loss in the '02 opener?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Because week 3 is over and week 4 starts on Wednesday this week ... Kansas State at Louisville! Woohoo! A matchup maybe one board member is looking for, and he's a glutton for punishment.

A certain woman of sj is looking forward to it from the other side of the ledger.

 

[dargan]

First off; OU doesn't run the table.

Maybe not. Neither does Georgia. That's my real concern.

Y'all are right. OU doesn't go undefeated, although it should. Georgia won't go undefeated, despite the most talent in the country. LSU ain't going undefeated, either.

You might as well go ahead and pencil in USC. The Pac-10 is horrific. I think LSU and UGA end up as fierce two-loss teams who deal violence to a poor bowl victim. LSU loses this week and at Florida, UGA loses at LSU and at Auburn.

However, that theory looks quite questionable considering Auburn's performance so far. Before the season, I thought Auburn's losses would be at WVa and at Bama. The Tide can't lose again, can it?

 

[deskslave]

First off; OU doesn't run the table.

Maybe not. Neither does Georgia. That's my real concern.

Y'all are right. OU doesn't go undefeated, although it should. Georgia won't go undefeated, despite the most talent in the country. LSU ain't going undefeated, either.

You might as well go ahead and pencil in USC. The Pac-10 is horrific. I think LSU and UGA end up as fierce two-loss teams who deal violence to a poor bowl victim. LSU loses this week and at Florida, UGA loses at LSU and at Auburn.

However, that theory looks quite questionable considering Auburn's performance so far. Before the season, I thought Auburn's losses would be at WVa and at Bama. The Tide can't lose again, can it?

I'm not seeing Auburn beating both LSU and Georgia.

And with your metric, who makes the SEC championship game? You're saying Georgia beats Florida, so unless the Gators win their other seven conference games, Georgia wins the East in a tiebreak.

I guess if Auburn beats LSU, it has an inside track to the SECCG. But if both teams go in with two losses, someone's coming out with three.

And who makes the championship game opposite USC?

 

[dargan]

First off; OU doesn't run the table.

Maybe not. Neither does Georgia. That's my real concern.

Y'all are right. OU doesn't go undefeated, although it should. Georgia won't go undefeated, despite the most talent in the country. LSU ain't going undefeated, either.

You might as well go ahead and pencil in USC. The Pac-10 is horrific. I think LSU and UGA end up as fierce two-loss teams who deal violence to a poor bowl victim. LSU loses this week and at Florida, UGA loses at LSU and at Auburn.

However, that theory looks quite questionable considering Auburn's performance so far. Before the season, I thought Auburn's losses would be at WVa and at Bama. The Tide can't lose again, can it?

I'm not seeing Auburn beating both LSU and Georgia.

And with your metric, who makes the SEC championship game? You're saying Georgia beats Florida, so unless the Gators win their other seven conference games, Georgia wins the East in a tiebreak.

I guess if Auburn beats LSU, it has an inside track to the SECCG. But if both teams go in with two losses, someone's coming out with three.

And who makes the championship game opposite USC?

I understand your questioning. Auburn hasn't looked capable of beating both LSU and Georgia, even though both play on the Plains.

Originally, I thought UGA and USC would play in the title, with UGA winning. But the more I thought about UGA's four-game stretch --- at LSU, neutral vs. Florida, at Kentucky, at Auburn --- I just didn't think they could get through, especially with Trinton Sturdivant's injury.

With that nightmare schedule in mind, I changed my preseason pick to USC over a one-loss, SEC-championship Florida team. (Florida would beat Auburn in the SEC title.)

Of course, Florida has its fair share of injuries. LSU doesn't have a QB. Auburn's offense has shown nothing. Georgia's schedule plus the Sturdivant and Owens injuries are killers. May not have an SEC team with less than two losses.

I'm sticking with USC over Florida, though.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Don't see why Oklahoma can't run the table. The Sooners and USC are about the only ones who reasonably could.

 

[dargan]

Don't see why Oklahoma can't run the table. The Sooners and USC are about the only ones who reasonably could.

Definitely. OU should. But how many times since the Sooners' last title have we all thought that?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Not saying the Sooners will. But one can't blithely discount it, which somebody on this thread did.

On another subject, Buffalo's big passing day vs. Temple has this Mizzou fan a bit uneasy.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Actually, I think Kansas has the best regular-season shot of beating the Sooners.