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  1. GarySJ
    And we were all getting along so well... :
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    CFBNews had a great line in the Cavalcade of Whimsy article:
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    Good answer! I suppose you are THE "Big East" champs outright then.
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    Congratulations WVU, but shouldn't there be a "co-" in there somewhere?
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    I don't know about the LSU-USC question, but I am surprised that LSU is getting so little love here. USC did lose to a perfectly average Cal team; the Pac-10 is mediocre this year; the USC win over Auburn isn't as big as it looked at the time; and the SEC is its usual strong self.
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    Their head coach Bobby Petrino snuck off to interview for the Auburn HC job, without UofL knowing about it and even though Auburn does not currently have an opening. Now Petrino has had to come out and deny interest in the Auburn job he had the secret meeting about. Keep in mind Louisville is the same school where last year, the coach quit at halftime of the bowl game to coach Michigan State. Kinda puts the whole Jim Leavitt/Alabama thing in perspective. And it's even uglier on The Plains, where Auburn had been under fire for pressuring Tommy Tuberville at all -- and now they're doing it clandestinely, interviewing new candidates before they bothered firing him. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/football/ncaa/11/26/bc.fbc.louisville.petrino.ap/index.html
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    I just realized something about this. One of the posts I read about the C-USA expansion was how thrilled Bannowsky is to have a football championship game. Well, they can't have it in 2004 unless they let the exiting teams leave and the new ones join. And it doesn't unduly hurt anyone else to do so. The Big East has clearly stated that they will not invite the new teams early, but they will "consider it" if C-USA gives the okay. So hopefully their short-sightedness will be to our benefit.
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    Trev Alberts was right about this -- they're just "shopping" as a negociating ploy re: their NBC deal. Which should be a clue that it isn't going anywhere, and by extension that they will remain independent. If they joined the Big Ten or ACC they'd have to share revenue with the Northwesterns and Wake Forests of the world. The current ND/BE deal gives them the best of both worlds: bowl access without having to share revenues or give up scheduling independence. And their presence in the package helps the BE's value to bowls as well. It's a good deal for all concerned.
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    Speaking of awful orange uniforms... anyone watching the Dolphins-Redskins game and the Fins new "traffic cone orange" look? Barrrfff.
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    CFN is reporting that UofL and UM will play home-and-away. The Cards will visit the Canes on October 9, 2004. Miami will play at Papa John's Stadium in 2006.
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    Have we ever NOT been a lame duck? First waiting to go I-A, then waiting to join C-USA, now waiting to join the Big East.
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    Don't you have to have 9 wins to accept a BCS invite? What would happen if WVU won the Big East but finished 8-4?
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    Usually there are more 1-loss teams, and very few if any 3-loss teams. You usually don't see so many multi-game losers in the really BIG bowls, last year's FSU team aside.
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    Assuming we have Oklahoma-USC for the national title in the Sugar Bowl, and that TCU makes it somehow, the five other $12,000,000 BCS bowl slots could go to teams with a grand total of 14 losses: West Virginia will have 4 losses if they win the Big East outright. Pitt need only beat Miami, with WVU winning out. Whoever wins the Big East will have at least two losses. Texas could get an automatic BCS invite if they finish #4. They will be 10-2 assuming they beat A&M. The SEC champ, if it's anyone other than LSU (and possibly even if it is LSU), will have at least two losses. Ole Miss could have three. Florida State will have three losses if they don't beat the Gators. If Michigan beats Ohio State, they will be the Big Ten champ with two losses.
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    And speaking of weird mushrooms in salad, here's a Big East culinary tip... you know what they put in salad (and pretty much everything else) in Pittsburgh? Take a wild guess.
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    If MSNBC had a section called "Duh," this story would be in it. If Notre Dame wanted to join any league, all they'd have to do is make one phone call and the conference would be announcing it five minutes later. No need for cloak-and-dagger realignment drama when it comes to the Irish.
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    Yeah, but let's be fair to Tron here -- Priest Lauderdale was like 7-foot-5.
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    A quick look at this years' results shows that the "new ACC" is only 9-7 in games vs the "new Big East" this year, with two to play. Hardly the domination I would expect from such a superior league. : WVU 2-2 (Md-L, Miami-L, VT-W, BC-W) Syr 2-2 (UNC-W, VT-L, BC-W, Mia-L) Pitt 2-0 (VT-W, BC-W, Miami-TBD) UConn 1-3 (BC-L, VT-L, NCST-L, WF-W) Rutgers 0-2 (VT-L, BC-L, Miami-TBD) USF 0-0 UofL 0-0 Cincy 0-0
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    The line is merely an indication of what will get equal numbers of people to bet on both sides. Apparently, 52 was the optimum number. If it were 60, more people would bet on Baylor than Oklahoma, and the casino risks losing money if Baylor covers. With the same number of people betting on both teams, the house makes money regardless of who wins, via the 10% fee.
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    "ACC You Later" was good too.
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    The problem is that rankings figure into Big East tiebreakers, even between two teams where one beat the other. If WVU ended up tied atop the league with only VT (highly unlikely), or Pitt (plausible), even if WVU won the game they'd need to be within five spots in the rankings, or the other team would go. Multi-way ties are resolved by rankings too -- even if WVU swept the teams it's in a tie with (say VT and Pitt, all at 5-2), they would need to be "ranked no lower than five spots below the highest ranked team in the (VT/Pitt/WVU group)." See: http://www.cfbnews.com/2003/Columnists/RC/Tiebreakers.htm
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    A couple years ago the NCAA relaxed the restrictions on who college teams could play exhibitions with. Instead of "Marathon Oil" and "Athletes in Action" type teams, you can now play lower-division teams (like St. Leo), CBA teams (remember the Grand Rapids Hoops?), and other sorts of teams like the Globies. The Trotters played 5 or 6 college teams last year, and will play a few this year as well.
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    Remember, Oklahoma beat Texas A&M 77-0, and A&M beat Baylor 73-10 earlier this year. The Vegas line is 52.5 points.
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    I'm kinda pulling for Pitt. WVU doesn't win any tie-breakers atop the conference (read: with VT/UM), and an unbeaten two-loss Pitt team with a Heisman candidate looks a little better for the league than a four-loss WVU squad. Here's what I hope: The Backyard Brawl decides the Big East. The winner beats the crap out of Florida State in the Orange Bowl. The loser pimp-slaps NC State in the Gator. Miami and Virginia Tech go to dot-com bowls in the Pacific time zone and travel 42 fans each (that's 38 for VT, 4 for UM).
  25. GarySJ
    Fitzgerald for Heisman!
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