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I saw that the TCU Utah game is already sold out. Fans are encouraged to wear black. Has Utah ever worn black uniforms?

I’m trying not to look ahead. We’ve still got Wyoming for homecoming then UNLV there. During GP’s tenure we’ve probably had more losses to awful teams than good ones. In the gosh awful manic/depressed season of 2001 we lost to a 1AA school and last place Tulane while beating #17 Louisville and then USM at the Rock which back then was no small feat. SMU was the lone fly in out ointment in 2005.

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[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
Sure! I’ve seen that before.

Then they play a team with good defense (usually in the SEC), and that number goes down. ;)[/quote]

ha well it’s not like we’ve been playing bayloresque teams or anything haha. you’ve got to admit we’ve had a tough schedule.

So i’ve just posted in this thread, i don’t know if this has been gone over before but, what’s yall’s take on college football needing a playoff system?

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[quote]That One Guy wrote:

So i’ve just posted in this thread, i don’t know if this has been gone over before but, what’s yall’s take on college football needing a playoff system?[/quote]

Oh fuck . . .

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[quote]Rocker3829 wrote:

If Florida can put up 51 points on an SEC team (LSU, who btw is supposed to have a good defense) when all they have consistently is Tebow and Harvin (hell of a combo though) Then I bet the good Big 12 teams could put up 51 or more.

Most years I’d say not a chance in hell against the SEC(and this is comin from a guy at a school in the ACC), but this year is different. Probably not all em but I’d definitely say Texas, Oklahoma, and maybe Oklahoma State(probably not but can’t deny that offense is playing well) while Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Tech would have a shot but it wouldn’t be likely for those last 3.[/quote]

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This season I would take the top six in the Big 12 (Texas, OU, Okie St., Tech, Mizzou, and KU) against the top six in the SEC (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Vanderbilt, and arguably South Carolina). I think the Big 12 goes 4-2 in those match-ups.

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[quote]Spike9726 wrote:
I saw that the TCU Utah game is already sold out. Fans are encouraged to wear black. Has Utah ever worn black uniforms?

I’m trying not to look ahead. We’ve still got Wyoming for homecoming then UNLV there. During GP’s tenure we’ve probably had more losses to awful teams than good ones. In the gosh awful manic/depressed season of 2001 we lost to a 1AA school and last place Tulane while beating #17 Louisville and then USM at the Rock which back then was no small feat. SMU was the lone fly in out ointment in 2005.[/quote]

Utah has never worn black to my knowledge. At first, I thought the idea sounded cool. Then, I learned that it ripped-off of Penn State’s “Whiteout” since we are calling it a “Blackout.” Also, it seems like every time a team in college football wears a special uniform, they end up losing (green Notre Dame Jerseys come to mind).

I am also trying not to look ahead. If I remember the article in the school newspaper currectly, Utah is 12-12 in Albequerque. I just hope they keep trying to play with that one game at a time attitude.

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[quote]eic wrote:
Rocker3829 wrote:

If Florida can put up 51 points on an SEC team (LSU, who btw is supposed to have a good defense) when all they have consistently is Tebow and Harvin (hell of a combo though) Then I bet the good Big 12 teams could put up 51 or more.

Most years I’d say not a chance in hell against the SEC(and this is comin from a guy at a school in the ACC), but this year is different. Probably not all em but I’d definitely say Texas, Oklahoma, and maybe Oklahoma State(probably not but can’t deny that offense is playing well) while Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Tech would have a shot but it wouldn’t be likely for those last 3.

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This season I would take the top six in the Big 12 (Texas, OU, Okie St., Tech, Mizzou, and KU) against the top six in the SEC (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Vanderbilt, and arguably South Carolina). I think the Big 12 goes 4-2 in those match-ups. [/quote]

I just gotta say someone agreein with me on this topic is definitely new to me, but freakin awesome. Now if only my team could show some promise(have y’all ever a seen a team with a decent amount of talent suck THIS bad?! seriously Clemson, 8-4 isn’t acceptable this year, but Christmas came early this year on October 13th!!!), but thursday nights WVU-Auburn game was beautiful from my POV(most of my family from West Virginia) and if a weaker WVU team can put up 31 unanswered points against a proclamined “great” SEC defensive then I believe it is time to actually examine the SEC more instead of just giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I’m not throwin the SEC under the rug here because the majority of years they have the best conference and rarely have an off year, but did y’all see how many yards Auburn gave up to just Devine? He was unstoppable thursday night. I think the scary thing to worry about is that Pat White didn’t beat the Auburn defense with his legs but with his arm(yes 2 ints first quarter but once he settled down he threw 3 tds, and none of them all that short in yardage, and only if they would throw the ball to 6’ 8" Lyons more they’d get a lot more production but that’s another story for another day…). If only they could have worked the kinks out earlier this year…

All in all, I still think the SEC is a damn good conference (gotta love their typical defenses no doubt) but with the Big 12 having some damn good teams this year and the SEC IMO being slightly behind the Big 12 this year plus a Big East team running all over a defense that only gave up about 108 yards per game average before thursday night(with Devine getting 207 yards by himself) they aren’t the normal powerhouse overall that they usually are, but if my conference(obviously the ACC with my school being in it) were to have this as their “down” year I’d be happy as hell.

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[quote]Rocker3829 wrote:

I just gotta say someone agreein with me on this topic is definitely new to me, but freakin awesome. Now if only my team could show some promise(have y’all ever a seen a team with a decent amount of talent suck THIS bad?! seriously Clemson, 8-4 isn’t acceptable this year, but Christmas came early this year on October 13th!!!), but thursday nights WVU-Auburn game was beautiful from my POV(most of my family from West Virginia) and if a weaker WVU team can put up 31 unanswered points against a proclamined “great” SEC defensive then I believe it is time to actually examine the SEC more instead of just giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I’m not throwin the SEC under the rug here because the majority of years they have the best conference and rarely have an off year, but did y’all see how many yards Auburn gave up to just Devine? He was unstoppable thursday night. I think the scary thing to worry about is that Pat White didn’t beat the Auburn defense with his legs but with his arm(yes 2 ints first quarter but once he settled down he threw 3 tds, and none of them all that short in yardage, and only if they would throw the ball to 6’ 8" Lyons more they’d get a lot more production but that’s another story for another day…). If only they could have worked the kinks out earlier this year…

All in all, I still think the SEC is a damn good conference (gotta love their typical defenses no doubt) but with the Big 12 having some damn good teams this year and the SEC IMO being slightly behind the Big 12 this year plus a Big East team running all over a defense that only gave up about 108 yards per game average before thursday night(with Devine getting 207 yards by himself) they aren’t the normal powerhouse overall that they usually are, but if my conference(obviously the ACC with my school being in it) were to have this as their “down” year I’d be happy as hell.[/quote]

I had the same thoughts as you. Often, when a “good” SEC team has trouble with, or loses to, a lower-raked SEC team, the explanation is that the SEC is just a great conference top to bottom. But we’ve seen some of the lower SEC teams have poor out-of-conference performances against mediocre teams. I am thinking here of UCLA beating Tennessee and West Virginia beating Auburn (BTW, how good of a match-up did that look in the preseason?) I’m sure there are other examples.

In general, I think the SEC is not on “another level.” I think the SEC has the reputation it does because it generally features 3 or 4 teams that potentially factor into the BCS. This year, those teams are Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and–to a lesser extent–LSU. But I’m not sure that anyone–even diehard SEC fans–believes that any of those teams I mentioned would just wipe the floor with the other top dogs in the BCS.

More and more, I am hoping that neither USC nor Oregon St. lose anymore games this season. If that happens, Oregon St. will play in the Rose Bowl against Penn St. or Ohio St., and USC will have to be put into another BCS bowl, likely against a Big 12 or SEC opponent. (Not to mention that Oregon St. doing well makes USC’s loss less damaging.) That would be huge, since USC hasn’t had the opportunity to play a good (read: non-Big 10 team) in awhile.

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[quote]Geebus wrote:
I’m trying not to look ahead. We’ve still got Wyoming for homecoming then UNLV there. During GP’s tenure we’ve probably had more losses to awful teams than good ones. In the gosh awful manic/depressed season of 2001 we lost to a 1AA school and last place Tulane while beating #17 Louisville and then USM at the Rock which back then was no small feat. SMU was the lone fly in out ointment in 2005.

Utah has never worn black to my knowledge. At first, I thought the idea sounded cool. Then, I learned that it ripped-off of Penn State’s “Whiteout” since we are calling it a “Blackout.” Also, it seems like every time a team in college football wears a special uniform, they end up losing (green Notre Dame Jerseys come to mind).

I am also trying not to look ahead. If I remember the article in the school newspaper currectly, Utah is 12-12 in Albequerque. I just hope they keep trying to play with that one game at a time attitude.[/quote]

The whole color out thing is not new. I first remember the Pheonix Coyotes hockey team doing white outs 8 or 9 years ago. It was pretty effective with sold out houses. Marty Turco, the Dallas Stars goalie, has complained about the black outs at home games making it harder to see the puck.

TCU has been doing the pink out football games for about 4 years now, In fact they are 4-0 on pink out day. They even went so far as to wear pink baseball jerseys on Mother’s Day. They also have worn green jersey’s on St. Patrick’s day the last 2 years.

I’m old enough to remember Notre Dame rocking the house in their Green jerseys. The last 10 years or so they have come to represent the overrated fraud that is the BCS.

Black has been part of the TCU football uniforms in some fashion ever since Dennis Francione became the coach in 1998. You may have noticed that against BYU they were in purple pants and black tops. They haven’t done that since Louisville 2001. They have kind of settled on purple/black at home and all white on the road, but they occassionally switch it up. They tried all black the last 2 games of 2004 when they needed 2 wins to get bowl eligible. They lost to Tulane the last game of the year and stayed home for bowl season. Doubt we see all black again anytime soon.

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I think “the red sea” in Nebraska started the everyone wear the same color to the stadium trend, way back in the day. That’s not to say that the majority of fans showing to games haven’t been reppin team colors for a long ass time now regardless.

We got nothing on Korean sports fans and their animated cheers though: - YouTube

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Man what is going on today?! How many points are teams gonna put up?! Shit, OU 55 points in one half, UNC puts up 45 on BC, look at Florida up 63-3 in the 4th, Texas Tech puts up 63 on Kansas, seriously who pissed who off and I think we need a dump truck to help pick up all the cases of whoopass that have been opened so far today

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Teams playing some SERIOUS defense today DOT DOT DOT

I’d like to take this moment to rant against my most hated enemy of late, regional coverage. #1 is playing #6 on ABC, and I can’t see it, because Michigan vs Michigan State is on. Who the fuck is watching that game outside the state of Michigan.

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Just got home from the Florida vs. Kentucky game! I had great seats and it was quite a game.

It was homecoming this week, so we had our homecoming parade yesterday (I was in the parade as a part of my wife’s high school marching band) along with “Gator Growl” (the world’s largest student run pep rally - entertainment show at the football stadium) last night.

It was a blowout after the first quarter when the Gators were up 28-0 after two successive punt blocks that resulted in touchdowns on successive possessions in the first six minutes!

Almost all of the Gators playmakers touched the ball today, but Demps and Rainey got most of the touches this time. Harvin didn’t seem to do as much although he had a few touches along with Brandon James and some of the other receivers.

The Gators have come to play and will be prepared for Georgia next weekend. It will be payback after last year.

I’m watching the Georgia/LSU game right now. I’m pulling for both teams to win for different reasons, but I think the best thing for the Gators is to have Georgia win against LSU and then have the Gators beat Georgia next week. That will help us in the BCS rankings more than if LSU beats Georgia today and then we beat Georgia next week.

I won’t get a chance to see the Penn State vs. Ohio State game tonight since I work at the local haunted house tonight, but I’m pulling for Penn State to get the win!

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[quote]red04 wrote:
Teams playing some SERIOUS defense today DOT DOT DOT

I’d like to take this moment to rant against my most hated enemy of late, regional coverage. #1 is playing #6 on ABC, and I can’t see it, because Michigan vs Michigan State is on. Who the fuck is watching that game outside the state of Michigan.[/quote]

and I’m stuck with FSU/Va Tech and even though they are in my conference I could careless when you have #1 playing #6

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[quote]red04 wrote:
I’d like to take this moment to rant against my most hated enemy of late, regional coverage. #1 is playing #6 on ABC, and I can’t see it, because Michigan vs Michigan State is on. Who the fuck is watching that game outside the state of Michigan.[/quote]

YOU!!! HA! HA!

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[quote]Rocker3829 wrote:
red04 wrote:
Teams playing some SERIOUS defense today DOT DOT DOT

I’d like to take this moment to rant against my most hated enemy of late, regional coverage. #1 is playing #6 on ABC, and I can’t see it, because Michigan vs Michigan State is on. Who the fuck is watching that game outside the state of Michigan.

and I’m stuck with FSU/Va Tech and even though they are in my conference I could careless when you have #1 playing #6[/quote]

I can’t believe the Texas OSU game is not on TV, plus they are showing horse racing (!?!) on ESPN

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[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
Just got home from the Florida vs. Kentucky game! I had great seats and it was quite a game.

It was homecoming this week, so we had our homecoming parade yesterday (I was in the parade as a part of my wife’s high school marching band) along with “Gator Growl” (the world’s largest student run pep rally - entertainment show at the football stadium) last night.

It was a blowout after the first quarter when the Gators were up 28-0 after two successive punt blocks that resulted in touchdowns on successive possessions in the first six minutes!

Almost all of the Gators playmakers touched the ball today, but Demps and Rainey got most of the touches this time. Harvin didn’t seem to do as much although he had a few touches along with Brandon James and some of the other receivers.

The Gators have come to play and will be prepared for Georgia next weekend. It will be payback after last year.

I’m watching the Georgia/LSU game right now. I’m pulling for both teams to win for different reasons, but I think the best thing for the Gators is to have Georgia win against LSU and then have the Gators beat Georgia next week.

That will help us in the BCS rankings more than if LSU beats Georgia today and then we beat Georgia next week.

I won’t get a chance to see the Penn State vs. Ohio State game tonight since I work at the local haunted house tonight, but I’m pulling for Penn State to get the win![/quote]

Harvin certainly made his touches count though but his role has definitely changed with Demps showing that he can run as well as he can. I thought John Brantley looked good on the couple passes he had and the scramble too. Gives some hope for the post-Tebow era.

I actually left at halftime since it was such a blowout. I didn’t realize how depleted the Kentucky team actually was. Hopefully they don’t let it go to their heads and think it will be that easy in Jacksonville.

I think if they keep playing like this they will have a good chance against Georgia (going to that one too), but this LSU-Georgia game makes that 51-21 victory a couple weeks ago look less impressive.

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GO PENN STATE!

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[quote]AssOnGrass wrote:
GO PENN STATE![/quote]

Hells yeah. Classic jerseys FTW… Great game. I love defensive football games so much. And Nate, I’m once again jealous of your connections down in Gainesville.

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TCU 54 Wyoming 7
Bama 29 Tenn 9

Spike’s day is made.

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[quote]red04 wrote:
Teams playing some SERIOUS defense today DOT DOT DOT

I’d like to take this moment to rant against my most hated enemy of late, regional coverage. #1 is playing #6 on ABC, and I can’t see it, because Michigan vs Michigan State is on. Who the fuck is watching that game outside the state of Michigan.[/quote]

THANK YOU! I was so pissed when I sat down, put my feet up, turned on the TV, flipped to ABC, and saw . . . UCLA v. Cal?!?! WTF?! Just ridiculous. I’m fine with regional coverage when the games feature relatively comparable match-ups, but two unranked teams playing while two teams ranked in the top-10 are battling it out? FUCK!!!