Jamie

If USC doesn't fall past Notre Dame (and I don't know why they would) then ND would still be shut out.

I hope you all can get your money back from reservations to Birmingham... this is turning into a trip to Houston in front of our very eyes.

Why aren't all those UCLA fans rushing the field? They beat the #2 team in a rivalry game! I mean, there has to be 50,000 of them and maybe 100 cops, they can overtake them!  : OK, serious question, how does the SEC have an impact on the Big East as far as the BCS is concerned? It sounded like they were going to take two teams regardless. Big Ten - 2 SEC - 2 ACC - 1 Pac-10 - 1 Big XII - 1 Boise State - 1 Big East - 2?

Yes, Pittsburgh shares Heinz Field with the Steelers. And to the person who said USC is synonymous with the L.A. Coliseum - well, they shared it with the Rams for 35 years and the Raiders for 13 years.

Every Frog I know here in Fort Worth is praying for Snead to transfer to TCU. Kolb is leaving Houston but TCU's QB situation isn't very stable either. Jeff Ballard is the starter kind of by default. He isn't that good and Snead would be a clear upgrade. Marve hasn't taken back his verbal yet, but Shula's firing really bummed him out from what I've read. (BTW - Plant 20, Booker T. Washington 15, Marve only needs one TD pass next week to break Tebow's single-season state record).

Is it just me or does the state need a few more public colleges and universities? The only states bigger than Florida in population have far more of them. Trying to shoehorn all those state high school students into 10 public universities is going to underserve all of them. No school should ever have 58,000 students.

Is Houston totally off the table? USF vs. Texas Tech would be a FASCINATING game.

Let me know if you find any Emperor positions open. I'll settle for Assistant Emperor if they can offer a relocation package and some good benefits. Anyway, I think you all got the gist of what I was saying. The "rumor mill" is now 100 times more pervasive than back in the day. Now all it takes is some anonymous hack on a message board typing out his wildest coaching fantasies and some media outlets run with it like it's the truth. This stuff just feeds into people's ridiculous desire for gossip pretending to be news.

Can you imagine if the coaching rumor mill was around 30 years ago? Imagine how many programs they would have talked about a younger Joe Paterno taking over. And when someone like Darrell Royal or John McKay left Texas and USC, respectively, it would have been absolute chaos in the media trying to fill those jobs.

from Wednesday. I'm not going to dwell much on the Jim Leavitt coaching-rumors topic, other than to make the caveat to readers that most of the time a newspaper floats names as potential candidates for a vacancy, those names aren't coming from anyone involved in the hiring process. They're usually hot coaches with ties to the school or the area, which make them logical speculative choices to be candidates, but that's really about it. Rod Smith's name was tossed up as a potential head coach at Buffalo last year, and I still don't know where that came from. The Miami Herald actually wrote Tuesday that "at least one Texas radio station" had mentioned Miami assistant Randy Shannon for the Texas defensive coordinator job. That's all it takes these days is a name-drop on an unnamed out-of-state radio station, apparently. http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/ Hmmm, wonder where he was going with that first sentence? 8-)

Some day you will get a quality local show and you'll find out how good life is without Rome wasting three hours of it.

How many more sports will they have to get rid of to pay that contract off?

Welp, time to fire Mac again. :

Even my co-workers in Texas noticed the game. Especially the Rutgers grad who is happy that they now control their own destiny in the conference.

Birmingham is closer than Houston.

Maybe we can save some of our BCS money and buy them all a box of Kleenex.

This logic means USC's season is negated by a loss to Oregon State, Auburn's season is negated by a loss to Georgia (a drubbing, and at home no less), and Texas's season is negated by a loss to Kansas State AND a loss to Texas A&M.

It's the consensus of pretty much everyone, not just this board. 2 in 6 years (there are no bowls in I-AA so the first four years don't count). East Carolina's been to 12 in at least 50 years. By the way, in ECU's first bowl, you lost to a teacher's college. You've been playing football for 75 years and still haven't arrived. That and ECU isn't any good, now or then. The last time ECU was ranked, USF didn't even have a team yet (1995). Funny, the same thing happens to ECU in our region. Oh no! I hope they don't decide the bowl games based on history and attendance! Your attendance smack isn't even original - UCF has already tried and failed with it.

The two or three "fans" that your post is aimed at are not even on here .... Save this crap until they show back up. I bet they don't. And you may want to check the Skyway for some of our Kaniggit friends. They lost even more ground to USF than they may have gained last year.

The Rogers Centre, because it's really a baseball stadium. Say what you will about Legion Field, but at least the sightlines are still good.

No offense to Bulls Outfitter, but is Nike going to change the number on their jerseys from #4 to #8 sometime in the future?

Because the level of competition is, on the whole, much higher on the road than it is at home. No one travels to play a I-AA school or a low-level I-A school. Those games are always at home.

Follow me here. A couple weeks ago, #5 Louisville beats #3 West Virginia 44-34. They combine for 1008 yards of total offense and 78 points. The media declares this to be a game where no one played any defense. Today, #1 Ohio State beats #2 Michigan 42-39. They combine for 916 yards of total offense and 81 points. The media declares this to be an epic college football game worthy of "instant classic" status. Um... what?

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing that overrated, East Coast media darling get its ass kicked. The thing is Cincinnati made plenty of mistakes, too. They could have won by even more.

It's the ESPN way - find some topic and hype and blather about it so much that people get sick of it. (This also happened with the Bobby Knight quasi-incident, with the added bonus that no one cared to begin with.) I suggest you put the remote down and slowly back away from the TV. While we're here, several of the signs you've seen on GameDay this season that taunt Lee Corso have been the work of a radio station out here in Dallas. You're welcome.