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11-26-2007, 07:22 PM | #1 |
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Final Week: Netphoria NCAA Top 25 football predictions
Well, here we are. End of the regular season. After this I have to figure out some way of weighing things. It will probably be somewhere between a perfect weight ([total games predicted] / [total possible games] x final %) and no weight at all. Or, I might take the hour it takes to weigh the first four weeks separate and multiply by that factor.
Naturally, there will be a bowl tread. I will make it next monday or tuesday along with the final standings. FINAL WEEK GAMES No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State TOP FIVE 1. sppunk 199-57 .777 2. mv2007 147-44 .769 3. jczeroman 181-58 .757 4. eulogy 189-67 .738 5. omegadown3 145-52 .736 -------------------------------------------------- nimrod's son 177-64 .734 kanan road 163-59 734 trotsky*º 188-72 .723 Tchocky 153-59 .721 Corganist 166-67 .712 TuralyonW3 161-68 .703 silent_brian13 157-71 .688 beef curtains±¤ 145-68 .680 wally 67-31 .683 smurfing 33-11 .750 *attempted to cheat in week 1 º denied it in week 2 and whined about it ± best single week record (week 4: 21-1) ¤ worst single week record (week 6: 5-10) |
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11-26-2007, 07:24 PM | #2 |
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No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma
No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State Oregon gets crushed by Oregon State. Ducks don't manage more than 14 points. And not a single offensive touchdown (special teams or defensive touchdowns only). |
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11-26-2007, 07:27 PM | #3 |
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My top-10:
1. West Virginia 10-1 2. Missouri 11-1 3. USC 9-2 4. Georgia 10-2 5. LSU 10-2 6. Kansas 11-1 7. Oklahoma 10-2 8. Ohio State 11-1 9. Arizona State 9-2 10. Virginia Tech 10-2 |
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11-26-2007, 08:40 PM | #4 |
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No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma
No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State I'll miss beating you all for the next few weeks. |
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11-26-2007, 09:01 PM | #5 |
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Next year you guys should really do all of the predictions against the spread.
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11-26-2007, 09:03 PM | #6 | |
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11-26-2007, 09:10 PM | #7 |
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No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma
No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State In other news, Houston Nutt has officially resigned at Arkansas...and I'm not as happy about it as I thought I would be. I know it was time for him to go, but I still can't help but feel bad for the guy losing his dream job and all. And to his credit, he did take Arkansas from the lower tier to the mid tier in the SEC. Hopefully his replacement will be someone good enough to eliminate all these mixed feelings about him leaving. |
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11-26-2007, 09:25 PM | #8 |
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Nutt did as good at Arkansas as one can realistically expect. They'll be wishing he was still around when the next coach has them struggling to become bowl eligible.
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11-26-2007, 11:07 PM | #9 | |
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But I disagree that Nutt did as well as can be realistically expected. People like to act like Arkansas has overperformed under Nutt, but if anything, the opposite is true. The problem with Nutt is not that he couldn't field competitive teams. He could. He just tended to coach them out of winnable games. For every big win like the one at LSU, there are 3 or 4 games where Nutt's teams just couldn't seal the deal against equal or lesser competition. It'll be a while before Arkansas will have the cards in place to compete in the SEC again, but maybe when that time comes they'll have a coach who can capitialize when he has talent at hand. |
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11-27-2007, 02:35 AM | #10 |
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Missouri
West Virginia Boston College LSU USC Hawaii Arizona State Oregon State Brigham Young |
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11-27-2007, 03:19 AM | #11 |
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No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma
No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State |
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11-27-2007, 11:01 AM | #12 |
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Chase Daniel's performance Saturday makes me want to pick Mizzou. aaarrrrgggggh.
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11-27-2007, 11:30 AM | #13 |
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whoa, Nutt to Ole Miss already.
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11-27-2007, 01:05 PM | #14 |
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Also, I think McFadden is amazing.
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11-27-2007, 01:12 PM | #15 |
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What??? Why is everyone picking oregon state over oregon??
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11-27-2007, 01:18 PM | #16 |
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because dixon is out and everyone else that plays quarterback for them is apparently terrible.
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11-27-2007, 01:20 PM | #17 | |
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Texas should be undefeated right now if I had a total disconnect with reality. Maybe in our little fantasy world they'd be playing Arkansas for the national title. |
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11-27-2007, 01:22 PM | #18 |
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No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma
No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State I'll miss these threads. |
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11-27-2007, 01:28 PM | #19 |
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because oregon just lost to ucla. they're down to their fourth string quarterback or something like that.
edit: what was said above was in response to beef curtains. i would imagine that usc's offensive line won't have trouble protecting booty this year, so it will likely be a slaughter like it was two years ago. besides, even if ucla were fast enough, i don't think they hit hard enough. and ben olsen is just a shitty quarterback. i would potentially have some hope for us if cowan were healthy and playing, but that's not the case. this saturday is going to be full of poorly thrown balls (either too high or too low) and bad mental mistakes (i bet he'll throw into double and triple coverage) which will lead to a few picks. jay norvell, the offensive coordinator, will hopefully realize how shitty olsen is by this point, and then ucla's offense will rest on a now-healthy chris markey. oh well, at least our kicker is decent, although i don't think he's quite as good as medlock was in the last couple of years. also, i think either horton or keyes is injured, and said defensive backs are the cornerstone of our defense. usc will probably attempt to ensure that bruce davis doesn't sack booty, so he's not going to look as good as he usually does. i'll be pleased if we get ten points on the board and hold 'sc to under thirty. won't happen. |
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11-27-2007, 01:49 PM | #20 | |
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The Alabama loss: Arkansas has the ball and a 4 point lead with 4 minutes left. Nutt calls a PASS on third and long, which was incomplete and stopped the clock with 2 minutes left. And because Nutt decided not to run the clock there, Alabama scores the game winning TD with 8 seconds left. The Kentucky loss: Arkansas has an 8 point lead with 11 minutes left. Kentucky is held to a FG attempt, which they miss. But for some reason Nutt decided to send two outside guys to rush the kicker (something you never do)...and one knocks the other into the kicker. That leads to a roughing the kicker call that turns a game changing defensive stop into a TD drive for UK, flipping the momentum. The Auburn loss: Arkansas takes their first lead of the game 7-6 with 1:30 remaining. Inexplicably, Nutt decides to pooch kick it (which our kickoff guy sucks at, to be quite frank) to around the Auburn 35. The kick goes out of bounds. Auburn takes the penalty, and Arkansas rekicks. AND THEY DID THE POOCH KICK AGAIN! Only this time, Auburn's guy gets a return on it out to the 50. One decent offfensive gain later, and Auburn kicks the game winning FG. I don't think I'm a nut for thinking that these three games were winnable, and were lost by poor coaching decisions. I don't expect Arkansas to go 11-1 every year, or even every 5 years. I didn't even expect it this year. But I expected better than having to pull off an upset at LSU to even get to a mildly respectable 8-4. Seeing the way the Hogs lost this year, I don't think that was too much to ask. |
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11-27-2007, 01:54 PM | #21 |
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any team that could really go 11-1 doesn't play this many close games that are won/lost on a single call. just ask LSU.
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11-27-2007, 01:55 PM | #22 | |
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11-27-2007, 02:01 PM | #23 |
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he'll be probably more happy there since expectations are much lower
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11-27-2007, 02:02 PM | #24 | |
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11-27-2007, 02:22 PM | #25 |
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i dunno you weren't happy with 10-2 last year so i think you're fucking crazy
as a texas fan, I'm happy with 9-3 but I can't take losing to Texas A&M much longer. |
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11-27-2007, 02:28 PM | #26 | |
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11-27-2007, 09:21 PM | #27 | |
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So it comes down to this: • Oregon State can throw with the #2 QB (actually challenged for the start at the beginning of the year) • OS defense is better than UO defense • Oregon has lost 3 QBs, 1 RB, 3 WR and can't put together an offensive drive of more than 5 plays It's sad, because UO my still go to a mid-tier bowl when really they would get plastered by about every team in the Pac-10 right now including Stanford or WSU. |
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11-27-2007, 10:50 PM | #28 |
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FINAL WEEK GAMES
No. 1 Missouri vs. No. 9 Oklahoma No. 2 West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh No. 6 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College No. 7 LSU vs. No. 14 Tennessee No. 8 USC vs. UCLA No. 12 Hawaii vs. Washington No. 13 Arizona State vs. Arizona No. 17 Oregon vs. Oregon State No. 19 Brigham Young at San Diego State who the fuck is omegadown and how did he knock me out of the top 5 |
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11-27-2007, 11:14 PM | #29 | |
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11-28-2007, 02:11 PM | #30 |
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by the way, the irony:
Some of you said that Tennessee's loss to Cal was fine as it was the fifth best SEC team losing to the second best Pac-10 team. But actually Tennessee is now the 2nd best SEC team and Cal is the fifth best Pac-10 team. |
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