Week 8: Netphoria NCAA Top 25 football predictions

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

And please show me how that I have encouraged that bias in any way, at all. Please. Show me.

what? you've been jacking off the pac10 all year. i am a notre dame student who lives in the midwest. i have no reason to be subjectively biased toward the SEC.

[Trotskilicious]

i'm going to shit in your mouth, eulogy.

[Eulogy]

No. 1 Ohio St.
No. 2 South Florida
No. 4 LSU
No. 5 Oklahoma
No. 6 South Carolina
No. 15 Florida
No. 9 West Virginia
No. 10 Oregon
No. 12 California
No. 13 Kansas
No. 14 USC
No. 16 Missouri
Maryland
Alabama
No. 22 Texas
No. 23 Cincinnati
Illinois

[Trotskilicious]

TEXAS TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

TEXAS TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'd pick them for sure if it were in lubbock. i dunno about them pulling it off on the road.

[Trotskilicious]

nah they are the SHIT

graham harrell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tchocky]

Good comment about mobile QBs being kryptonite to Michigan. The key to stopping mobile QBs are quick, speedy linebackers, and Michigan's LB corps has always been big and slow; capable of delivering big hits, but inept at pretty much everything else.

[Trotskilicious]

i love how linebackers keep getting faster so they can drop back in coverage in an increasingly pass heavy game, but michigan is still using them as support against the run

the game has obviously passed lloyd carr by

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

nah they are the SHIT

graham harrell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they're notoriously inconsistent, aren't they? is this year different? i always think of Tech and A&M as perpetual underachievers. don't really have any justification for it though.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

i love how linebackers keep getting faster so they can drop back in coverage in an increasingly pass heavy game, but michigan is still using them as support against the run

the game has obviously passed lloyd carr by

Very little in football is more painful to watch than U of M's linebackers doing their best Keystone Kops impression while trying to chase down a mobile quarterback or defend the pass. It probably will take a coaching change before Michigan starts going after linebackers with speed and range as opposed to LBs who are plodding run-stuffers who can deliver big hits but little else.

[mv2007]

WEEK 8 GAMES
No. 2 South Florida at Rutgers
No. 4 LSU vs. No. 17 Auburn
No. 5 Oklahoma at Iowa State
No. 6 South Carolina vs. Vanderbilt
No. 7 Kentucky vs. No. 15 Florida
No. 9 West Virginia vs. Mississippi State
No. 10 Oregon at Washington
No. 12 California at UCLA
No. 13 Kansas at Colorado
No. 14 USC at Notre Dame
No. 16 Missouri vs. No. 24 Texas Tech
No. 19 Virginia at Maryland
No. 21 Tennessee at Alabama
No. 22 Texas at Baylor
No. 23 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh
No. 25 Michigan at Illinois

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

they're notoriously inconsistent, aren't they? is this year different? i always think of Tech and A&M as perpetual underachievers. don't really have any justification for it though.

yeah well until now texas tech has had quarterbacks that turn over the ball too much. go check out graham harrell's stats. I'm going to go ahead and pick Tech over Texas right now.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Very little in football is more painful to watch than U of M's linebackers doing their best Keystone Kops impression while trying to chase down a mobile quarterback or defend the pass. It probably will take a coaching change before Michigan starts going after linebackers with speed and range as opposed to LBs who are plodding run-stuffers who can deliver big hits but little else.

i feel like when you play a 4-3 you need one guy that is like that, your middle line backer but your outside guys need to be quick. shit on a 3-4 you need two of them since you sacrificed a DT but still, at least one of those MLBs need to be fast enough to cover a reveiving tight end.

[Trotskilicious]

and this is from my vast experience program building on NCAA Football 2005.

[Corganist]

No. 1 Ohio State vs. Michigan State
No. 2 South Florida at Rutgers
No. 4 LSU vs. No. 17 Auburn
No. 5 Oklahoma at Iowa State
No. 6 South Carolina vs. Vanderbilt
No. 7 Kentucky vs. No. 15 Florida
No. 9 West Virginia vs. Mississippi State
No. 10 Oregon at Washington
No. 12 California at UCLA
No. 13 Kansas at Colorado
No. 14 USC at Notre Dame
No. 16 Missouri vs. No. 24 Texas Tech
No. 19 Virginia at Maryland
No. 21 Tennessee at Alabama
No. 22 Texas at Baylor
No. 23 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh
No. 25 Michigan at Illinois

[Trotskilicious]

me and corgy are giving y'all the finger from the Tech bandwagon

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

yeah well until now texas tech has had quarterbacks that turn over the ball too much. go check out graham harrell's stats. I'm going to go ahead and pick Tech over Texas right now.

i'm gonna look at team stats and maybe reconsider this pick.

[Eulogy]

actually no, fuck that. i'm hanging my hat on Mizzou beating Illinois and Tech letting UTEP score 31.

go tigers.

[Trotskilicious]

yeah what did tech score against UTEP, 60?

[Eulogy]

45

[Eulogy]

this game could reach into the 100s

[jczeroman]

Originally Posted by Pumpkins23836

Oregon probably has the best loss of anyone who's lost -- questionable fumble call while going into the endzone for the tie. LSU is the only one-loss team I'd put ahead of Oregon. If Oregon wins out, I'd totally be screaming for them to be in the title game unless there's two undefeateds... and that's not my Michigan bias talking.

I agree. I would rank them:

LSU
Oregon
OU

And really, Oregon and OU could go either way.

[jczeroman]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

what? you've been jacking off the pac10 all year. i am a notre dame student who lives in the midwest. i have no reason to be subjectively biased toward the SEC.

Ok, that says nothing about this Oregon bias that you accuse me of, still with no substance.

Also, I have done no such jacking off - I have made a legitimate case for the Pac-10 being number one or two and used the exact same arguments that 4/5 of the sportswriters out there are using. Please show me any outlandish or radically biased statement I have made in favor of the pac-10.

Why do I have to do this every year?

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

Ok, that says nothing about this Oregon bias that you accuse me of, still with no substance.

Also, I have done no such jacking off - I have made a legitimate case for the Pac-10 being number one or two and used the exact same arguments that 4/5 of the sportswriters out there are using. Please show me any outlandish or radically biased statement I have made in favor of the pac-10.

Why do I have to do this every year?

you are an Oregon fan, and Oregon is in the pac10. fans always build up their teams' conferences to make it seem like their team is better. this is not a groundbreaking discovery I'm making.

and the Pac10 is easily #2. but bad losses by USC and Cal knocked it out of contention for #1. and i don't see what defense you've offered against those. i divided up the teams into tiers that match up the two conferences pretty well. if you can address that point and tell me where i'm wrong, i might concede something.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

used the exact same arguments that 4/5 of the sportswriters out there are using.

what sportswriters are saying this after last weekend that are not on the west coast?

[Eulogy]

and why in the fuck do we need to talk about joe torre turning down a job instead of airing ATH and PTI

fuck espn. jesus christ. OMG YANKEES JOE TORRE GEORGE STEINBRENNER AHHHHH

SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[Eulogy]

i mean bill plaschke was sucking off the pac10. and we all know how much of a bumbling idiot that guy is.

[Trotskilicious]

yeah no shit i have to go to work and i was going to relax and watch ATH right now but we have to talk about one thing for a full half hour

i mean really???

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

yeah no shit i have to go to work and i was going to relax and watch ATH right now but we have to talk about one thing for a full half hour

i mean really???

ugh.

it's like after that crazy MNF game and they aired joe torre's post-game press conference for like a half hour. fucking christ i do. not. care.

[Eulogy]

i'm going to fire off an e-mail to the ombudsman!!!