2012-2013 College Football Discussion Thread(SEASON OVER)

[Qazox]

Record Broken...

Well the Division 1 record anyways, as it says in the article itself, the NCAA record was set a couple of weeks ago by a guy who threw 736 yards. but still impressive.

[Qazox]

(Remember the #8 spot is for the best non-BCS AQ team of the past week)

#1- Alabama (def. Florida Atlantic 40-7) LW: #1
#2- Florida State (def. Clemson 49-37) LW: #3
#3- Oregon (def. Arizona 49-0) LW: #4
#4- LSU (def. Auburn 12-10) LW: #2
#5- Georgia (def. Vanderbilt 48-3) LW: #6
#6- Notre Dame (def. Michigan 13-6) LW: #11
#7- South Carolina (def. Missouri 31-21) LW: #7
#8- Ohio (4-0) (def. Norfolk State 44-10)
#9- West Virginia (def. Maryland 31-21) LW: #9
#10- Kansas State (def. Oklahoma 24-19) LW: NR
#11- Stanford (OFF WEEK) LW: NR

Fell Out: Oklahoma, Clemson

Why did LSU drop, despite winning? let's see... FSU and Oregon both played ranked teams and took care of business; while LSU struggled against an Auburn team that's looking like a 6-6 or 7-5 team at best.

[Qazox]

South Carolina QB Connor Shaw's day: incomplete pass...20 consecutive completions. 20/21 passing on the day.

[Idaho Conservatives]

Boise State's top 25 ranking this year is a complete fraud. We've now played three games, and in two of them our offense failed to score a touchdown. However, we have a schedule full of patsies to beat down on for the rest of the year and will not lose again. There is a lot of inertia in the rankings, and ranked teams that win will stay ranked, so you will probably see the Broncos bounce in and out of the top 25 from week to week. Don't buy it. This is a mediocre BSU squad at best living off the 2007 class's name.

I usually rail against BCS conference teams for this stuff, so I'm swallowing my own medicine, but someone's gotta say it. This Boise State team sucks.

[Chetssaland]

The best college football town in America is... the hometown of MY Wisconsin Badgers.

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/09/americas-best-college-football-town-is/70000833/1

[Franklin Delano Bluth]

Here are my ratings and rankings for week 4:

Rank	School	Old Rating	Old Rank	New Rating	Rank Change	% Rating Change
1	Alabama	1.000	1	1.000	0	0.00%
2	Louisiana State	0.894	2	0.826	0	-7.61%
3	South Carolina	0.821	3	0.820	0	-0.12%
4	Georgia	0.739	7	0.796	3	7.71%
5	Notre Dame	0.795	5	0.780	0	-1.89%
6	Oregon	0.676	16	0.756	10	11.83%
7	Texas	0.811	4	0.748	-3	-7.77%
8	Florida	0.649	22	0.731	14	12.63%
9	Florida State	0.750	6	0.708	-3	-5.60%
10	Texas Christian	0.680	14	0.701	4	3.09%
11	Ohio State	0.723	9	0.701	-2	-3.04%
12	Southern California	0.684	12	0.696	0	1.75%
13	Stanford	0.737	8	0.680	-5	-7.73%
14	Arizona State	0.611	33	0.656	19	7.36%
15	Mississippi State	0.636	26	0.652	11	2.52%
16	Kansas State	0.684	13	0.647	-3	-5.41%
17	Nebraska	0.695	10	0.642	-7	-7.63%
18	Boise State	0.677	15	0.635	-3	-6.20%
19	Virginia Tech	0.532	52	0.624	33	17.29%
20	Michigan State	0.602	40	0.623	20	3.49%
21	Texas A&M	0.673	17	0.622	-4	-7.58%
22	Oklahoma	0.687	11	0.619	-11	-9.90%
23	Rutgers	0.651	21	0.617	-2	-5.22%
24	Louisiana Tech	0.608	35	0.610	11	0.33%
25	Nevada	0.592	43	0.609	18	2.87%
26	Ohio	0.655	19	0.606	-7	-7.48%
27	Penn State	0.605	37	0.599	10	-0.99%
28	Utah	0.546	49	0.599	21	9.71%
29	West Virginia	0.623	32	0.598	3	-4.01%
30	Brigham Young	0.657	18	0.597	-12	-9.13%
31	Central Florida	0.643	23	0.594	-8	-7.62%
32	Oklahoma State	0.642	24	0.594	-8	-7.48%
33	Cincinnati	0.639	25	0.591	-8	-7.51%
34	North Carolina State	0.635	28	0.587	-6	-7.56%
35	Connecticut	0.651	20	0.582	-15	-10.60%
36	Texas Tech	0.627	30	0.580	-6	-7.50%
37	Tulsa	0.627	31	0.579	-6	-7.66%
38	Louisville	0.603	38	0.575	0	-4.64%
39	Wisconsin	0.598	41	0.571	2	-4.52%
40	Clemson	0.631	29	0.567	-11	-10.14%
41	Baylor	0.606	36	0.565	-5	-6.77%
42	San Diego State	0.610	34	0.554	-8	-9.18%
43	Northwestern	0.596	42	0.551	-1	-7.55%
44	Michigan	0.636	27	0.542	-17	-14.78%
45	Northern Illinois	0.565	47	0.536	2	-5.13%
46	Toledo	0.578	45	0.535	-1	-7.44%
47	Georgia Tech	0.591	44	0.534	-3	-9.64%
48	California-Los Angeles	0.603	39	0.534	-9	-11.44%
49	North Carolina	0.484	66	0.533	17	10.12%
50	Ole Miss	0.417	83	0.519	33	24.46%
51	Texas-San Antonio	0.549	48	0.508	-3	-7.47%
52	Temple	0.577	46	0.494	-6	-14.38%
53	Air Force	0.539	51	0.484	-2	-10.20%
54	Iowa State	0.521	54	0.482	0	-7.49%
55	Purdue	0.521	55	0.482	0	-7.49%
56	Utah State	0.494	64	0.482	8	-2.43%
57	Iowa	0.524	53	0.479	-4	-8.59%
58	Indiana	0.513	57	0.476	-1	-7.21%
59	Miami	0.498	61	0.474	2	-4.82%
60	Fresno State	0.503	58	0.466	-2	-7.36%
61	Texas State	0.496	63	0.460	2	-7.26%
62	Tennessee	0.453	74	0.456	12	0.66%
63	South Florida	0.500	60	0.452	-3	-9.60%
64	San Jose State	0.471	70	0.447	6	-5.10%
65	Louisiana-Lafayette	0.479	68	0.444	3	-7.31%
66	Missouri	0.544	50	0.441	-16	-18.93%
67	Western Michigan	0.441	78	0.429	11	-2.72%
68	Minnesota	0.420	81	0.425	13	1.19%
69	Troy	0.410	86	0.425	17	3.66%
70	Oregon State	0.431	80	0.424	10	-1.62%
71	Arkansas State	0.455	73	0.423	2	-7.03%
72	Louisiana-Monroe	0.459	72	0.421	0	-8.28%
73	Florida International	0.472	69	0.421	-4	-10.81%
74	Houston	0.432	79	0.401	5	-7.18%
75	California	0.497	62	0.398	-13	-19.92%
76	Duke	0.366	95	0.397	19	8.47%
77	Arkansas	0.442	76	0.395	-1	-10.63%
78	Ball State	0.412	85	0.395	7	-4.13%
79	Southern Miss	0.490	65	0.394	-14	-19.59%
80	Kent State	0.343	100	0.393	20	14.58%
81	Maryland	0.442	77	0.388	-4	-12.22%
82	Illinois	0.468	71	0.387	-11	-17.31%
83	Auburn	0.408	87	0.378	4	-7.35%
84	Marshall	0.390	90	0.366	6	-6.15%
85	Wyoming	0.392	89	0.362	4	-7.65%
86	Washington	0.388	91	0.361	5	-6.96%
87	Boston College	0.384	93	0.357	6	-7.03%
88	Syracuse	0.418	82	0.353	-6	-15.55%
89	South Alabama	0.446	75	0.351	-14	-21.30%
90	Arizona	0.518	56	0.348	-34	-32.82%
91	Western Kentucky	0.298	109	0.340	18	14.09%
92	Vanderbilt	0.483	67	0.334	-25	-30.85%
93	Kentucky	0.502	59	0.333	-34	-33.67%
94	Rice	0.361	97	0.333	3	-7.76%
95	Hawaii	0.415	84	0.324	-11	-21.93%
96	Navy	0.344	99	0.321	3	-6.69%
97	Washington State	0.352	98	0.319	1	-9.38%
98	Miami (Ohio)	0.296	110	0.309	12	4.39%
99	Central Michigan	0.317	107	0.303	8	-4.42%
100	Wake Forest	0.302	108	0.303	8	0.33%
101	Texas-El Paso	0.341	101	0.300	0	-12.02%
102	Army	0.338	102	0.296	0	-12.43%
103	East Carolina	0.396	88	0.285	-15	-28.03%
104	Kansas	0.318	106	0.284	2	-10.69%
105	Virginia	0.381	94	0.282	-11	-25.98%
106	Southern Methodist	0.294	111	0.276	5	-6.12%
107	North Texas	0.335	103	0.269	-4	-19.70%
108	Buffalo	0.364	96	0.267	-12	-26.65%
109	New Mexico State	0.330	104	0.262	-5	-20.61%
110	Akron	0.288	112	0.234	2	-18.75%
111	Eastern Michigan	0.320	105	0.233	-6	-27.19%
112	Bowling Green	0.385	92	0.226	-20	-41.30%
113	Alabama-Birmingham	0.273	113	0.223	0	-18.32%
114	Pittsburgh	0.222	116	0.209	2	-5.86%
115	Middle Tennessee	0.191	118	0.181	3	-5.24%
116	New Mexico	0.137	119	0.179	3	30.66%
117	Florida Atlantic	0.259	114	0.164	-3	-36.68%
118	Massachusetts	0.193	117	0.150	-1	-22.28%
119	Tulane	0.258	115	0.111	-4	-56.98%
120	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.056	121	0.074	1	32.14%
121	Colorado State	0.098	120	0.072	-1	-26.53%
122	Colorado	0.000	124	0.016	2	N/A
123	Idaho	0.006	123	0.015	0	150.00%
124	Memphis	0.054	122	0.000	-2	-100.00%

The system correctly predicted 20 of 25 of the AP top 25 discounting position, and two of those it picked in the proper position (Alabama, which it has picked consistently, and Michigan State at #20). Of the five teams it missed out, three (West Virginia, Clemson, and Louisville) are in the top 40 (within fifteen spots of making the top 25), one (Baylor) is at #41, and only Oregon State is in a completely different orbit (#70, although it gained ten spots from last week and has gained 30 spots since it started the season at #100, without ever dropping week-to-week).

[The Emerald Dawn]

To be fair, Oregon State's win shocked the hell out of us as much as it did everyone else.

[Qazox]

Wow: I guess Notre Dame's closer to joining the ACC in football that we thought: ND-Michigan series to end.

[Pope Joan]

The best college football town in America is... the hometown of MY Wisconsin Badgers.

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2012/09/americas-best-college-football-town-is/70000833/1

Oh, Wisconsin, where politicians hate teachers, and bird lovers physically attack cat lovers. Yep, it belongs right d own there with the SEC venues.

[Qazox]

Best Game of the Weekend?

#25 Baylor @ #9 West Virginia (WVU's Big XII debut)
#14 Ohio State @ #20 Michigan State
#12 Texas @ Oklahoma State
Wisconsin @ #22 Nebraska

(Sorry not much to pick from this week)

Going with Baylor-WVU Final score might be 88-86...

[New Republic of Egypt]

#12 Texas and Oklahoma State.

Texas-34
OK ST- 27

[Qazox]

Going with Baylor-WVU Final score might be 88-86...

35-35 at halftime with 600 yd passing between the 2 teams.

[Qazox]

70-63 final (I wasn't that far off)

Between the two teams:
1337 yards passing
1511 total yards of offense
Geno Smith: 45-51 656yds 8 TD's
Nick Florence: 29-47 581yds 5 TD's 1 int
One WR from each team has 10+ catches for over 300 yds each

Just an insane game.

[Qazox]

Most impressive win of the day: Nebraska coming back from losing 20-3 at the half to beat Wisconsin.

(Remember the #8 spot is for the best non-BCS AQ team of the past week)

#1- Alabama (def. Ole Miss 33-14) LW: #1
#2- Oregon (def. Washington State 51-26) LW: #3
#3- Florida State (def. South Florida 30-17) LW: #2
#4- Georgia (def. Tennessee 51-14) LW: #5
#5- LSU (def. Towson 38-22) LW: #4
#6- Notre Dame (OFF WEEK) LW: #6
#7- South Carolina (def. Kentucky 38-17) LW: #7
#8- Middle Tennessee State (3-1) (def. Georgia Tech 49-28)
#9- West Virginia (def. Baylor 70-63) LW: #9
#10- Texas (def. Oklahoma State 41-36) LW: NR
#11- Kansas State (OFF WEEK) LW: #10

Fell Out: Stanford

It may seem like I'm not respecting LSU, but winning by 16 at home over a team you should beat by 40+.. something's not right in Baton Rouge, but i just can't put my finger on it, yet.

[Caffeinetopia]

Just an insane game.

Yeah, it was pretty epic.

And I have a feeling the West Virginia-Texas game next week won't be much different.

[Torisakia]

Every sportscaster everywhere is in love with Geno Smith.

Next thing you know, there will be Geno Smith merchandise.

[Qazox]

Every sportscaster everywhere is in love with Geno Smith.

Next thing you know, there will be Geno Smith merchandise.

There is already:

[Torisakia]

Every sportscaster everywhere is in love with Geno Smith.

Next thing you know, there will be Geno Smith merchandise.

There is already:

It was only a matter of time. What's next? Geno Smith Condoms?

[New Republic of Egypt]

Yayy!! Texas won!!

[Pope Joan]

Every sportscaster everywhere is in love with Geno Smith.

Next thing you know, there will be Geno Smith merchandise.

The wretched WVA defense, to me. takes some of the lustre off his achievement. He HAD to get all those TDs, or lose.

[Qazox]

Best game of this weekend?

#23 Washington @ #2 Oregon
#4 LSU @ #10 Florida
#5 Georgia @ #6 South Carolina
#8 West Virginia @ #11 Texas
Miami, FL v. #9 Notre Dame @ Soldier Field
#21 Nebraska @ #12 Ohio State

Damn tough choice, but going with Georgia-South Carolina; though all 6 games should be pretty damn good.
Of the 6 listed, LSU has the best chance to win by 20+ points, and I'm a gator fan.

[Qazox]

YAY GATORS!



Florida just showed that LSU is nothing w/o the Honey Badger.

[Torisakia]

YAY GATORS!

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Florida just showed that LSU is nothing w/o the Honey Badger.

Florida has basically given Alabama the SEC West.

[Qazox]

YAY GATORS!

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Florida just showed that LSU is nothing w/o the Honey Badger.

Florida has basically given Alabama the SEC West.

Well... Bama could lose.....

To Florida in the SEC championship!

[Qazox]

Big Props to Iowa State for knocking off TCU. That's the 3rd ranked team in 4 years that the Cyclones have beaten.