College Football: Week4

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BCS Conference Rankings (My own opinion): SEC, Big12, Pac10, Big10, ACC

SEC takes the lead due to winning every OOC game they played

Atlantic Coast Conference

Season:
Overall: 21-14 Top 25: 4-7 OOC: 17-10 FBS: 13-12 FCS: 8-2
Week 3:
Overall: 7-5 Top 25: 3-2 OOC: 5-3 FBS: 5-5 FCS: 2-0

Saturday, September 26
12:00PM ET South Florida @ #18 Florida State
12:00PM ET #22 North Carolina @ Georgia Tech
2:00PM ET Wake Forest @ Boston College
3:30PM ET #9 Miami (FL) @ #11 Virginia Tech
3:30PM ET #15 TCU @ Clemson
3:30PM ET Rutgers @ Maryland
3:30PM ET Pittsburgh @ North Carolina State
7:00PM ET North Carolina Central @ Duke

Notes: The Miami/Va Tech game is more than likely going to decide the ACC champ.

Big 12

Season:
Overall: 24-10 Top 25: 2-3 OOC: 23-9 FBS: 18-10 FCS: 6-0
Week 3:
Overall: 8-4 Top 25: 1-2 OOC: 7-3 FBS: 7-4 FCS: 1-0

Saturday, September 26
12:00PM ET Southern Miss @ #20 Kansas
2:10PM ET Tennessee Tech @ Kansas State
3:30PM ET UTEP @ #2 Texas
7:00PM ET Grambling State @ #16 Oklahoma State
7:00PM ET Louisiana-Lafayette @ #25 Nebraska
7:00PM ET Army @ Iowa State
7:00PM ET Northwestern State @ Baylor
7:00PM ET UAB @ Texas A&M

Notes: I see Army rallying to come with a close win here.

Big East

Season:
Overall: 17-6 Top 25: 0-2 OOC: 16-5 FBS: 11-6 FCS: 6-0
Week 3:
Overall: 6-2 Top 25: 0-0 OOC: 6-2 FBS: 5-2 FCS: 1-0

Saturday, September 26
12:00PM ET Fresno State @ #14 Cincinnati
12:00PM ET Rhode Island @ Connecticut
7:00PM ET Maine @ Syracuse

Big Ten

Season:
Overall: 24-8 Top 25: 1-2 OOC: 24-8 FBS: 18-8 FCS: 6-0
Week 3:
Overall: 6-4 Top 25: 0-1 OOC: 6-4 FBS: 5-4 FCS: 1-0

Saturday, September 26
12:00PM ET Indiana @ #23 Michigan
12:00PM ET Minnesota @ Northwestern
12:00PM ET Michigan State @ Wisconsin
3:30PM ET Illinois @ #13 Ohio State
8:00PM ET Iowa @ #5 Penn State
8:00PM ET Notre Dame @ Purdue

Notes: Michigan continues their rise. I simply picked the home team for Notre Dame and Purdue because both have their struggles and strengths.


Conference USA

Season:
Overall: 17-17 Top 25: 1-6 OOC: 12-13 FBS: 10-17 FCS: 7-0
Week 3:
Overall: 5-5 Top 25: 0-3 OOC: 5-5 FBS: 4-5 FCS: 1-0

Saturday, September 26
3:30PM ET UCF @ East Carolina
3:30PM ET McNeese State @ Tulane
7:00PM ET Sam Houston State @ Tulsa
8:00PM ET Marshall @ Memphis
8:00PM ET Vanderbilt @ Rice
9:15PM ET Texas Tech @ #17 Houston


Mid-American Conference

Season:
Overall: 12-26 Top 25: 0-6 OOC: 11-25 FBS: 7-24 FCS: 5-2
Week 3:
Overall: 4-5 Top 25: 0-3 OOC: 3-8 FBS: 2-9 FCS: 2-0

Saturday, September 26
12:00PM ET Buffalo @ Temple
3:30PM ET Akron @ Central Michigan
3:30PM ET Idaho @ Northern Illinois
7:00PM ET #8 Boise State @ Bowling Green
7:00PM ET Toledo @ Florida International
7:00PM ET Miami (OH) @ Kent State
7:00PM ET Hofstra @ Western Michigan


Mountain West Conference

Season:
Overall: 15-11 Top 25: 1-1 OOC: 14-10 FBS: 8-12 FCS: 6-0
Week 3:
Overall: 4-5 Top 25: 0-0 OOC: 3-4 FBS: 3-5 FCS: 1-0

Saturday, September 26
2:00PM ET San Diego State @ Air Force
3:00PM ET UNLV @ Wyoming
6:00PM ET Colorado State @ #19 Brigham Young
7:30PM ET Louisville @ Utah
10:00PM ET New Mexico State @ New Mexico


Pacific 10

Season:
Overall: 21-8 Top 25: 2-4 OOC: 19-6 FBS: 17-8 FCS: 4-0
Week 3:
Overall: 7-3 Top 25: 1-2 OOC: 6-2 FBS: 7-3 FCS: 0-0

Saturday, September 26
3:30PM ET #6 California @ Oregon
7:35PM ET Arizona @ Oregon State
9:00PM ET #24 Washington @ Stanford
10:15PM ET Washington State @ #12 USC


South-Eastern Conference

Season:
Overall: 16-5 Top 25: 1-3 OOC: 13-2 FBS: 13-5 FCS: 4-0
Week 3:
Overall: 9-3 Top 25: 0-2 OOC: 6-0 FBS: 9-3 FCS: 0-0

Thursday, September 24
7:30PM ET #4 Mississippi @ South Carolina

Saturday, September 26
12:00PM ET #7 LSU @ Mississippi State
3:30PM ET Arkansas @ #3 Alabama
6:00PM ET #1 Florida @ Kentucky
7:00PM ET Arizona State @ #21 Georgia
7:00PM ET Ball State @ Auburn
7:00PM ET Ohio @ Tennessee

Notes: All this talk about the flu outbreak, A huge game the week before with sub par results (at least in Florida's eyes), I smell overcompensation. Likewise, Tennessee is going to have a let down and Ohio is better than most people think (The latter one I'm about 51% sure there's an upset going to happen)


Sun Belt
Season:
Overall: 8-16 Top 25: 0-7 OOC: 8-16 FBS: 3-15 FCS: 4-1
Week 3:
Overall: 2-6 Top 25: 0-2 OOC: 2-6 FBS: 1-5 FCS: 0-1
(Eliminated from previewing)

Western Athletic Conference

Season:
Overall: 10-15 Top 25: 1-5 OOC: 8-13 FBS: 7-14 FCS: 3-1
Week 3:
Overall: 3-6 Top 25: 0-1 OOC: 2-5 FBS: 3-5 FCS: 0-1

Friday, September 25
9:00PM ET Missouri @ Nevada

Saturday, September 26
8:00PM ET Cal Poly @ San Jose State
8:00PM ET Southern Utah @ Utah State
 
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Game of the week

I was torn between this one and the Va Tech Miami game. I picked this one just because of GameDay being there.

8:00PM ET Iowa @ #5 Penn State

Quarterbacks: Daryll Clark. He's Mobile, he can throw, he can run. This guy's an all around athlete and once he gets rolling, it's hard to stop him. Ricki Stanzi is effective. Completing 60% of his passes. But he also has a 5-3 TD/INT ratio. That will be some cause for concern.

Iowa RBs vs PSU defensive front 7: The bad news? No Shonn Greene anymore. The good news? Both Robinson and Wegher are averaging close to 5 yards a carry. After Robinson's performance against Arizona, he'll more than likely get the nod. If Iowa can't get their pass game setup, they will depend heavily on him. PSU's defense is big and powerful. The question mark will be if Sean Lee will be able to play or not. They'll need to apply a lot of push as Iowa's O-Line is big and powerful.

PSU RBs vs Iowa defensive front 7: Evan Royster is PSU's beast this year. He had a field day against Temple. Look for Iowa to stack the box as they're not that great at stopping the run.

Iowa's passing game vs PSU's defense: I expect a conservative short passing game from Iowa. They are going in a hostile environment and will have to depend on clock control to tire out the defense since I don't think they have the speed to beat them with the long ball.

PSU's passing game vs Iowa defense: Iowa's defense is one of the best Penn State will face this year. Their passing defense is ranked 11th nationally and have some amazing CB's. Even more important, they have some depth. This is going to spell some trouble as the passing game isn't exactly a stellar point for PSU. Don't get me wrong, they're good, but haven't shown to be a long threat quite yet (espescially against a better defense)

Outlook: As I said, expect a conservative offense from Iowa. Unfortunately that's going to be their downfall as well. Royster will again carry the team and have an outstanding performance. Penn State will emerge victorious on Saturday,.
 
:lol: blatant ACC hate.

And no,the ACC conf champion won't be decided by miami/vt. It'll be decided when FSU plays Miami in the final. I won't even bother making a call as to who will win it right now. Way too much of a season left to play.
 
Duke said:
:lol: blatant ACC hate.

And no,the ACC conf champion won't be decided by miami/vt. It'll be decided when FSU plays Miami in the final. I won't even bother making a call as to who will win it right now. Way too much of a season left to play.
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How exactly is what I posted blatant ACC hate?
 
Duke said:
BCS Conference Rankings (My own opinion): Big12, SEC, Pac10, Big10, ACC

Seriously. Marking the ACC last?

That's enough to convince me.
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it's a generalized hate of southern football. he despises the SEC as well :p

coqui, can you work in the spreads on your analyses? I would like to place some bets on my, I mean your, behalf :fly:
 
Duke said:
BCS Conference Rankings (My own opinion): Big12, SEC, Pac10, Big10, ACC

Seriously. Marking the ACC last?

That's enough to convince me.
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Out of the BCS conferences, which ones have lost to FCS teams? (only the ACC)

ACC also schedules the most FCS games out of all the conferences.

Throughout the weeks, they've also had struggles against no ones. The only ones who have been consistent are Va Tech & Miami

What makes the Big10 better than them? They haven't lost and FCS games, they've scheduled less FCS games, they've scheduled tougher competition and either won or loss very close. They're 2nd to last because they've also had teams struggle against lesser teams.

Your posts here are enough to convince me you're just an ACC homer.
 
sham w_a_w said:
it's a generalized hate of southern football. he despises the SEC as well :p

coqui, can you work in the spreads on your analyses? I would like to place some bets on my, I mean your, behalf :fly:
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Yes that's why the top 2 conferences are south of the Mason Dixon line ;)

The issues with spreads is that they change day to day until the game.....and I like getting the thread up by Tuesday.
 
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