<p>less than 2 weeks until the tell tale game between LSU and Florida</p>
<p>USF!
Look out for the BULLS the no. 2 team in the State of Florida.
You are making a BIG mistake when you only mention WVU, Loisville and Rutgers as contenders for the BE title. Beat WVU at their place last year and should have taken care of Rutgers also. (dropped 2pt conversion in the end zone that would have tied the game). Would have beaten RU two years in a row.
Catch them this Friday night on ESPN as #18 USF host #5 WVU.
With Syracuse beating Luisville (no not a typo) the Big East is ready for a shake up.</p>
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<p>I take USF seriously but don’t see them taking the Big East. Cinci is also making some noise.</p>
<p>This is really USF’s first big year. Just as I’m really not sold on Rutgers, I’m not ready to anoint the Bulls anything yet. The job that Jim Leavitt’s done is nothing short of Herculean, but I’m going to wait a couple years before giving them consideration on a consistent basis. I fully expect them to be a topic of regular conversation across the college football landscape by 2011 or so - just too much talent in Florida with plenty of kids who want to stay close to home for that not happen.</p>
<p>As for Oklahoma - actually it was only 354, and playing against gimmicky offenses like Gus Malzahn’s just doesn’t count for much. I mean, Tulsa’s whole goal is to snap the ball within 5 seconds of it being marked - that’s ridiculous. It’s like Purdue’s “basketball-on-turf” offense on crack. Obviously the point is to create mismatches on defense and run a high number of plays, trying to exploit the confusion and fatigue of a defense that can’t substitute in. And despite that, Tulsa only scored 21 points.</p>
<p>Well it was 354 yards passing, out of nearly 400 total. There’s no problem with Oklahoma’s defensive line, sacking Tulsa’s quarterback six times, but when he could get the ball off in time Tulsa could move the ball fairly effectively.</p>
<p>If it weren’t for Oklahoma’s offense absolutely crushing Tulsa’s overmatched D, it would have been a much tighter game. Defense wins championships - would Oklahoma’s defense be able to stand up to a much better offensive line, like USC’s, LSU’s, Florida’s, etc?</p>
<p>Um, so where is all the love for OSU? We destroyed the Jake Locker experience and manhandled Northwestern. It wasn’t even halfway through the FIRST QUARTER and we already had 28 points. Chris Wells is on fire and so is James Laurinaitis. Go Buckeyes!</p>
<p>^ Maybe this is why (from a Rivals college football message board post):
OSU’s 1st four games were a YAWN:
Y-Youngstown St. - don’t start too tough.
A-Akron - getting tougher lol
W-Washington - TY in a big game come on
N-Northwestern - lost to Duke. enough said.</p>
<p>Again, you’re ignoring the implications that come from the offense Tulsa runs. That offense forces makes up for a lack of talent by putting unheard of pressure on the defense - no subs, an inability to exploit normal matchups, etc.</p>
<p>And also you’ve never heard of the “Bendability Index”
<a href=“http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Article.php?Page=868[/url]”>ColdHardFootballFacts : Home;
Calculated for the 2006 College football season:
<a href=“http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pQnD6XERe3zFzjzyA2MM0GA[/url]”>http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pQnD6XERe3zFzjzyA2MM0GA</a></p>
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<p>Examination of Breakability index for College Football - and if it matters (it does - more so than pass efficiency defense, rush defense, total defense…basically everything other than scoring defense).
<a href=“http://doubleextrapoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/nebraska-and-defensive-efficiency-part.html[/url]”>http://doubleextrapoint.blogspot.com/2007/07/nebraska-and-defensive-efficiency-part.html</a></p>
<p>Combine my two points, gimmicky offense, high bendability index, and OU looks good. They won’t give up that many yard when facing a normal offense.</p>
<p>That may all be true, but I wouldn’t consider necessarily that other top teams have “normal” offenses either. </p>
<p>Take Florida - they sometimes do a relatively pass-heavy spread offense that, in my opinion, would pick apart OU’s secondary much worse than Tulsa did, considering that Tim Tebow could take off at any moment. </p>
<p>(and again, Tulsa did put 21 points on the board, which would have been a competitive score if Oklahoma’s offense hadn’t steamrollered their defense and put up 3 times as much)</p>
<p>That game was never competitive. It 35-14 at half. You have the most ridiculous argument I’ve ever heard…</p>
<p>“well if OU had only scored 23 points, it would have been a close game” Well duh. It’s ludicrous to say that would have been a competitive score if OU’s offense wasn’t so good. </p>
<p>Fine, I’ll define normal as any team that usually takes more than 10-12 seconds to snap the ball after it’s been spotted (maybe even being at risk for getting a delay of game penalty<gasp!>), allowing time for defensive substitution packages, defensive audibles and defensive players actually getting set at the line of scrimmage…</gasp!></p>
<p>The Hurricanes will Supa Saok Dem Devils</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VytIZZzee0[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VytIZZzee0</a></p>
<p>Looking forward to Syracuse vs Miami (OH) tomorrow to see if last week’s win was a fluke or if Syracuse has genuinely improved since the first 3 embarassments.</p>
<p>Anyone else pumped/nervous for the Cal-Oregon game tomorrow?</p>
<p>^ You bet man…But the team knows what’s at stake. Tedford will have them prepared.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m not entirely sure why so many peple are predicting an Oregon win…true, Follett and Ta’ufo’ou are out (which is pretty awful for us, considering that Zack would have provided much-needed pressure, and Will would helped tremendously against Oregon’s weak (and small!) run D) and Dixon is much much better than last year.
That said, they haven’t played a real top team yet (Michigan doesn’t count IMO). I think Stewart is a little overrated, and Oregon hasn’t seen a team with Cal’s speed this season.
If Cal plays at its top level, or at least up to Oregon’s level, I think we can pull out a decent win.</p>
<p>Games like the Oregon-UCB game are a win-win for fans of teams ranked lower than either team. If Oregon loses then BC will probably move up in ranking (assuming a win over 1-AA UMASS).</p>
<p>Like I said. Watch out for USF.
USF 21 WVU 13
That defense was INCREDIBLE!
Your turn will come RUTGERS.
Payback for last years fluke loss.
Go BEAST!</p>
<p>USF’s skyrocketing program just shows how good the talent level of high school football players in the state of Florida really are.</p>
<p>I can’t believe Oklahoma and West Virginia lost; now we just need Texas & Clemson to lose as well. Let’s go Eagles!</p>