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« on: November 04, 2004, 12:54:38 pm »
Since we have an NFL thread, it\'s only right to have an NCAA thread as well... especially since my beloved Auburn Tigers have a shot at it all this year!  

Do we have any NCAA fans out there??
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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2004, 01:04:49 pm »
Yes and I am in fact an Auburn fan. I\'ve never had a college football team and decided before last year that I would take a liking to a team that was good, but not ranked too high in the preseason poll. I went with Purdue and Auburn and they both had decent years, but both lost the make-or-break games that prevented them from being among the elite. So I\'ve rooted both on again this year and Auburn has a great shot to make the title game if they run the table, which will include the SEC Championship, likely against Tennessee.

I know I will draw fire for this, but I also like Boise St., Oregon, Toledo, and Rutgers. I like college football, but don\'t take it as seriously as the other sports due to lack of childhood bonds. So I figured before this year, since there\'s so many teams, that I would like a bunch of them to represent most areas of the country and let the strongest team survive to become my "official favorite." Auburn and Boise St. are the lone two undefeated squads so I guess it\'s between them although I was really pushing for Purdue. They got off to a great start, lost a heartbreaker to Wisconsin and have fallen off the map since.
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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2004, 03:35:00 pm »
USC & Oklahoma are also both undefeated and ranked 1 & 2 in all the polls (Auburn is #3).  We desperately need one of them to loose a game between now & the end of the year.  Our best hope is that Texas A&M beats OU this weekend... this is the only team that seems to have even a remote chance.  Thank god Miami lost last week....

I have this unnerving feeling that Auburn just might run the table & still get shut out of the championship game if one of those two teams doesn\'t lose.... which is bullshit, because you cannot even compare the strength of a Big-12 or (even worse) PAC-10 schedule against an SEC schedule.  Those other conferences are a joke compared to the SEC.  

We have a bye this week, and it couldn\'t have come at a better time... will give us plenty of time to prepare for Georgia next weekend (which will definitely be our toughest game yet), and of course Alabama the next weekend... that game is always a nail biter no matter how uneven the teams look on paper.  Beating TN twice in the same year will not be a walk in the park either.
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2004, 03:55:43 pm »
All the whining abt strength of schedule goes for naught this year in the BCS. it has been given less emphasis this year. USC is a dominant team w/ many weapons and most likely will run the table. I hope OK loses once so Auburn(assuming they can keep it going)can get tromped by USC in the championship game as I would love to see a Bowden get pounded.
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2004, 04:24:58 pm »
Hey Leith,

Bowden doesn\'t coach at Auburn anymore, guy!

And.... "whining"?  Come on... the PAC-10 is a joke!  Other than Cali & USC, what other team is worth a damn?
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2004, 05:19:01 pm »
By Dick Weiss

AUBURN PERFECT, RANKINGS AREN\'T

Must overcome schedule & polls

Brandon Cox and 9-0 Auburn aren\'t yet running away with it.
Auburn (9-0) is third in the this week\'s AP and coaches\' polls and the BCS standings, behind Southern California and Oklahoma. The separation between the top three is close, with USC grading out at .9895, the Sooners second at .9648 and the Tigers third at .9238. But there is a fear around Auburn that the best team in the Southeastern Conference could finish 12-0 and still be left out of national championship game.

As a point of reference, no unbeaten SEC team has ever been shut out of the national championship mix. But there\'s a first time for everything. Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville has tried to refrain from politicking, hoping if his team wins its next three games against Georgia, Alabama and then Tennessee in the SEC championship game, its accomplishments will speak volumes.

"All three of those games will be on national TV," he said. "There will be plenty of chances for people to see us play, to judge us. I know we have the toughest schedule the rest of the way compared to USC and Oklahoma. If we\'re unbeaten after those games, I don\'t see any way we won\'t play for the national championship."

Auburn seems to have been hurt by the fact that it started at 17 in the AP poll, which begs the question: Would the Tigers\' situation be better if the polls weren\'t released until the first week in October, after voters actually had a chance to watch teams play? The early polls create interest among fans, but with so much at stake, it may be time to seriously consider that option.

History suggests voters in both polls tend to be conservative and rarely penalize teams that start in the Top 5 and remain unbeaten. If Auburn runs the table in the SEC, the Tigers can make a strong case with the computers, which can judge them against Oklahoma, whose relatively weak remaining schedule consists of Texas A&M on Saturday, Nebraska, Baylor and Nebraska again in the Big 12 title game. It will be interesting to see whether the writers and coaches would be willing to think outside the box and vote to leap-frog Auburn over the Sooners. Tuberville has received support this week from the two most powerful columnists in the state - Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News and syndicated columnist Paul Finebaum - with Scarbinsky proclaiming Auburn the best team in the country.

SHORT MEMORIES: Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione has gone out of his way to muzzle his players from re-hashing the past this week as they prepare for Saturday\'s Big12 game against Oklahoma at College Station.

But it is hard to forget what happened last November in Norman. Oklahoma won, 77-0, and it could have been far worse if coach Bob Stoops didn\'t order his offense to go into a shell in the fourth quarter, constantly running the ball into the middle and replacing eventual Heisman Trophy winner Jason White with backup Pat Thompson at quarterback.

The Sooners finished with 639 yards of offense. The Aggies had 54. "I don\'t really remember the trip back to campus," A&M offensive lineman Aldo De La Garza said. "All I can tell you is that next week, I didn\'t go to school."

That is the closest any of the Aggies came to a painful admission. "I don\'t know how much value there is in rehashing those things," Franchione said. "This is a different team than \'03. It\'s a different situation. They\'re in your memory banks and you can draw from them. You don\'t erase them. For us to talk about them is wasted time."

Besides, the coach has other problems. The Aggies (6-2), ranked No. 22 by the AP, may be a much better team than the one that struggled through a 4-8 season and gave up 485 points last year, but they suffered a major embarrassment last weekend. They committed three costly turnovers and lost to Baylor - 35-34 in overtime.

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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2004, 05:39:38 pm »
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Hey Leith,

Bowden doesn\'t coach at Auburn anymore, guy!

And.... "whining"?  Come on... the PAC-10 is a joke!  Other than Cali & USC, what other team is worth a damn?

Shows how much I pay attention to ANYTHING in the South otherthan WSP. lol I
This yr the PAC 10 is soft but when UCLA and the AZ. teams are on track i think the PAC 10 is as good as any other conference. Either way when USC raises the BCS Trophy it won\'t matter that the rest of their conference blows.
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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2004, 08:06:20 pm »
damn! A&M got so close!
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« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2004, 08:20:43 pm »
I saw it too. Now Auburn has to win its final three games to have a shot.

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« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2004, 09:09:56 am »
well yeah, but we had to do that anyway... now, even if we do it, we still might not get a shot.
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« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2004, 10:31:37 am »
With Tennessee losing to Notre Dame, Auburn is in a position where they might have to face Georgia twice in three games, first this Saturday, then possibly in the SEC title game. That will earn Auburn huge points if they win both. They still have a shot. Out of the remaining undefeated teams that aren\'t named Oklahoma and USC, Auburn has the chance to earn the most points, but also has the hardest schedule.

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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2004, 01:41:33 pm »
USC coming back from a 13 pt deficit winning in ridiculous fog up in Corvallis just another sign that this team is not gonna be stopped this yr.
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2004, 12:47:15 pm »
Luckily for TN, their loss was to a non-SEC team... so it really doesn\'t change anything as far as the SEC championship goes.  So long as TN wins the rest of their SEC games, they will be there.
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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2004, 04:58:03 pm »
You\'re right. I forgot that Georgia lost to Tennessee.

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« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2004, 07:32:42 pm »
Ser game in AU yesterday... we dominated the #5 team in the nation.
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