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I remember seeing that lucky LSU team play a couple times in 2007. One of those times it got lucky by 41 points against the best team in the ACC.
Look, I cant stand the $ECspn hype as much as the next guy. But I also understand why it has gotten to this point. Their top teams show up when the moment counts. The SEC has made a lot its own luck.
With Clemson and Florida States start, maybe 2013 is the year that starts to change...
Amen Brother!!
W&M has trailed for I believe 10 minutes total this year, and 9:32 of those were against 1-A WVU. I object to you leaving them off that list.
I'm not sure I really trust college football content coming from "breitbart.com" to be anything more than opinionated blather, less informed on the issue it is discussing than, say, the key play.
Agree - Competitive in the sense that it has 3 or 4 teams that can go out and win games out of conference against other top teams. When's the last time that the ACC had 4 teams in late October that could potentially be eligible for a BCS at large? - never.
I don't really think there's any difference between the SEC and most other conferences, except maybe on or two teams at the top each year.
That's a huge difference! The perception of a conference is gauged by the teams it places in the top 10 on a regular basis (The teams you mention in the national title talk in November) - not by the quantity of its mid and bottom tier bowl teams.
The respect of the SEC is more so the 7 straight national titles and less the 8 teams it has in the top 25 this week.
The ACC really needs to get FSU or Clemson there this year to change its perception.
Who needs popcorn when you have Sam Rogers and Bourbon?
Based on your list then UVA probably ranks behind all these teams then:
Michigan State, Ohio State, ?Illinois?, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Penn State, Rutgers, , ?UCONN?, , UMD, Florida, UGA, UNC Chapel Hill, UT-Austin, Arizona, UC, UCLA, , ?UColorado-Boulder?, Washington
There are no exit strategies with the Media Rights Agreement that all current members, including Louisville agreed to earlier in the year. That agreement would mean that even if a team were to leave the ACC, they would not be able to take their media rights with them....without the media rights why would another conference want to bring in one of these teams? This deal runs until the 2026-27 season.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130422/acc-gran...
whoa...
I didn't downvote you for this (it was close) but who ever said you have to root for the bad guy to enjoy a television series? Or any type of creative story telling? Not trying to pick on this too much but here is a list of what is considered to be the top ten books of all time:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch by George Eliot
(not to mention Catcher in the Rye, On Golden Pond, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Count of Monte Cristo, etc)
Not a single protagonist in any of these are a "good" guy. They are all complicated, rich characters with serious flaws. Some much more than others. And this is why Breaking Bad is so good. It is quite rightly referred to as a masterpiece of literature on television. Walter White is a "good" guy who gets caught up in circumstances of his own making whereby his decisions to delve deeper are more often then not done for what he feels are righteous reasons. You don't have to root for him. It's obvious which direction he is headed but his decent is what makes it so fascinating because of the very fact that he is at his core a common, "good" man.
done. go and enjoy one of the best shows ever
Dear Craig Littlepage,
Bonjour.
If it's on the intrawebs, it HAS to be true.
Pass the popcorn. I LOVE watching this train wreck unfold. Bring on a Duke loss this weekend, and lets get the party started.
My thoughts based on conference:
SEC - I can't see the East sending anyone to the MNC this year as USCe plays @Mizzou, UF, Clemson, and the SEC title game and Mizzou's starting QB is out 6 weeks for the UF and USCe games and they have A&M and the SEC title game left. From the West, LSU has a loss and still has @Bama, A&M, and SEC title game. Auburn has @A&M, UGA, Bama, and the SEC title game. A&M has Auburn, @LSU, @Mizzou, and the SEC title game, but perhaps their biggest problem is the loss to Bama means Bama will have to lose 2 for them to have a shot at making the SEC title game. Bama has LSU, @Auburn, and the SEC title game. If LSU doesn't trip them up, even a loss in the SEC title game would send them to the MNC over VT. Probably the best scenario is LSU to beat Bama, LSU loses to A&M, A&M loses to Auburn or Mizzou, and Bama loses in the SEC title game (it's also good for UF and UGA to win over as many of these teams as possible).
Pac 12 - This conference is incredibly complicated, but I'm just going to say I don't think anyone outside of Oregon has a very likely chance at playing in the MNC (including over VT assuming we win out). UCLA has @Stanford, @Oregon, Washington, and Arizona St left. Stanford has UCLA, @Oregon St, Oregon, and Notre Dame. These teams also would have to win the Pac 12 game, which would be against each other or Oregon. The key is Oregon losing 2 games out of UCLA, @Stanford, Utah, Oregon St, and the Pac 12 title game.
Big 10 - This is a tough obstacle as someone will have to beat Ohio St. @Michigan is probably their toughest games left and then they have the Big 10 title game. Their overall schedule is absurdly pathetic so if they drop even one, there's a chance Tech could get in over them with wins @Miami and in an ACC title game over FSU/Clemson.
AAC - I'm starting to feel pretty grim as, just with Ohio State, someone has to beat Louisville and their schedule is beyond lousy. Tonight against UCF might be the best shot, but Houston and @Cincy could be possible stumbles as well.
Big 12 - A few teams need to pick each other off but not having a conference title game will hurt if these teams get one loss. I think VT winning out would get in over OU, as they had a worse loss later in the season. Baylor has Oklahoma, Texas Tech, @Ok St, @TCU, and Texas remaining. Texas Tech plays @Oklahoma, Ok St, Baylor, and @Texas. Oklahoma has Texas Tech, @Baylor, @Ok St. Okie State isn't running the table as Kansas is their only gimme out of 7 remaining games.
In summary, the SEC of course is a threat with Alabama but A&M or LSU could sneak in as well. LSU having a loss to UGA definitely helps though. In my opinion Oregon is the only real threat out of the Pac 12, but they will likely need to lose twice, which is going to be tough. The Big 10 and AAC being so weak hurts especially bad as it's tough to see Ohio State or Louisville getting a loss, but both teams are susceptible to being jumped due to that weak schedule and anything is possible. I see Baylor as the biggest threat out of the Big 12, as I'm not sold on Texas Tech as making it through the season undefeated and with 1 loss probably won't command much respect, while the rest of the teams haven't separated themselves from the pack and have a questionable loss with tough games still remaining. It would definitely be a difficult road for the Hokies, but they have some big games left on the schedule and I think they will climb very quickly in the polls and get into the discussion if they continue to win.
These are great! #6 is my favorite! Love how he just resorts to the fetal position!
On a related note, I ran across these articles today....2 parts of a 3 part series. Not sure when part 3 drops.
Part 1 is here: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2013/10/15/Are-The-ACC-s-Days-...
Part 2 is here: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2013/10/16/ACC-DAYS-NUMBERED-P...
Don't think I agree with the thrust of the articles, however, it's interesting that UNC has been thinking of exit strategies. VT isn't really mentioned much in either article. Of particular interest, though is the comment of one Brian in the comment section for article 1:
Silly article isn't based in reality. The SEC as an agreement with it's members that they won't expand into a state that already has a team in the SEC. That rules out Florida State and Clemson from ever being in the SEC. The likely two are either UNC or NC State and Va Tech. They actually did offer Va Tech before they offered Missouri a couple years ago, and before you ask I know 2 members of the board vistors at Va Tech personally they did offer and Tech did consider. They decided to wait and see if the ACC looked doomed first, thought making the playoff's would be easier in the ACC than trying to in the SEC!!!
Interesting, huh?
The term came about from a book in 1985 about the top public schools. The original 8 in 1985 were William & Mary, Miami (OH), University of California, Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill, UT Austin, University of Vermont, and UVA. UC Boulder, GT, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New College of Florida, Penn State, Pitt, SUNY Binghamton, Washington, and Wisconsin were called "worthy runner-ups." In 2001, a new list came out. That list had Penn State, Rutgers, SUNY-Binghamton, UCONN, University of Delaware, UMD, W&M, UVA, Florida, UGA, UNC Chapel Hill, UT-Austin, Arizona, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, UColorado-Boulder, Washington, Indiana, Miami (OH), Michigan State, Ohio State, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Translated, "We whole-heartedly accept the mediocrity that is UVa football."
Our D-Line's in your backfield, no guest list
There's only one way to find out
If they don't beat Duke tomorrow, there may be growing financial support for this.
That's the idea of Public Ivy though: a public school at which one can receive an Ivy League-caliber education.
I think there's another informal group called "Southern Ivies." Duke as well as UVA (and Vanderbilt and Emory) are in that group.
You must accept that you are the bad guy
that happens when you get those wha? games...
but, this one might be the most awesome on I have ever seen.
Preach. Oregon scored 38 points on UT.....before halftime, on the way to racking up 690 yards of offense. And oh by the way, held them to 14 points as well.