The BCS Standings have been released. The Georgia Bulldogs are 7th in the initial BCS Standings, and the Florida Gators are only 10th. (Image: Hipple)
- 1. Texas Longhorns
2. Alabama Crimson Tide
3. Penn State Nittany Lions
4. Oklahoma Sooners (Red River Shootout II in Jan?)
5. Southern Cal Trojans
6. Oklahoma State Cowboys
7. Georgia Bulldogs
8. Texas Tech Red Raiders
9. Ohio State Buckeyes
10. Florida Gators
11. Utah Utes
12. Boise State Broncos
13. LSU Tigers
14. TCU Horn Frogs
15. Missouri Tigers
16. USF Bulls
17. Pitt Panthers
18. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
19. Tulsa Golden Hurricane
20. Ball State Fighting Lettermans
This is a huge weekend for moving around in the polls as most of the Top 10 teams are playing on the road and/or facing quality opponents. Looking across the country:
- #1 Texas hosts #6 Oklahoma State (tickets)
#2 Alabama travels to Tennessee (tickets)
#3 Penn State travels to #9 Ohio State (tickets)
#4 Oklahoma travels to Kansas State (tickets)
#5 USC travels to Arizona (tickets)
#7 Georgia travels to #13 LSU (tickets)
#8 Texas Tech travels to #23 Kansas (tickets)
#10 Florida hosts Kentucky (tickets)
PWD
26 comments:
7th is great with one loss.
I kind of expected us to be lower. (more like 9th)
I should have added that I still can't believe USC is ranked so high.
My guess would be that the computers were sensible enough to see a loss to Ole Miss as worse than a loss to the #2 team in the country.
The computers also didn't watch the first half of the loss and only saw the final score which was the result of the second half Alabama meltdown...which is looking like more and more of a pattern.
Pleasant surprise.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in some Gator fan's home right now.
Good to see that we are ranked 7th. The only thing I can't understand is how USC is ranked 5th. Granted they beat OHio State but got beat by a bad Pac-1 Oregon state team.
We are ahead of USC in the computers and with our schedule we will stay well ahead of them in the computers if we win out. We are actually in good shape.
Well, USC has blown out a few teams and now UVA is actually winning, so that helps them out- not saying its right, just looking for some rationale.
Oklahoma and Texas can not each win their division.
As became a rule last year, they thus can not go to the championship.
At least, that is how it applied to us last season.
"If you can rush three and get pressure, you can play anything you want," --Will Muschamp
This is off-topic, but I just had to get this in forall the pro-blitz, why-ain't-Willie-blitzing-all-11 crowd.
Blitzing is bad and is done by teams that don't have ends who can rush. Like us this year. Next time you wonder why we give up a lot of short crossing patters, think about who would have been in that spot if they weren't blitzing--Curry and Gamble.
Did you mean Curran?
I'll take bandwagon analysis with a grain of salt thank you.
Sorry, I did mean Curran. Bandwagon analysis? Is it a bandwagon when it seems I'm the only one on it? Please, let's have a bandwagon that shows even minimal understanding of what we actually do on defense.
By bandwagon analysis, I don't mean your comment in particular. I mean the same folks ragging on Willie now who loved what he was putting together the last 4-5 games of last season.
I'm not the president of the Willie Martinez fan club by any stretch of the imagination...but theres a reason why he is the DC of a major college football team and I'm not. When he blitzes it because he believes thats our best chance to get pressure on the quarterback. When he doesn't, its because he believes he needs those guys in coverage. I'm much more concerned with the secondary issues than I am with the blitzing (although one may be a symptom of the other...we have to get tighter coverage).
If there's a better idea out there, I'd be happy to get on that bandwagon.
i blame George W. Bush for bandwagon fans
Now it's time to get down to bidnezz. Screw the coaches poll and the AP poll. This is where it counts if we want a respectable bowl.
If them dang liberals in Congress had not voted for it, we wouldn't have to deal with the mess of the bandwagon fans now.
And just what IS a bandwagon?
"I voted for the bandwagon, before I voted against it".
Its time to change the failed bandwagon policies of the last eight years.
Obama: Bandwagon jumping we can believe in.
Redcrake, I agree with you about Martinez. Seems to me his defenses play a lot more consistently than Bobo's offenses. I get sick of the second-guessing that always seems to believe we don;t play tight coverage (we do) or we don't blitz (we do that too).
Some bad news comes along with this, Brandon Wood got a DWI and Vince Vance was arrested as well for failure to present a license. Injuries and stupidity... http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2008/10/17/Sports/Two-Uga.Linemen.Arrested.During.The.Weekend-3493871.shtml
^^^^who cares... im drunk right now
Our problem on defense, at least coverage wise, comes down to having the SEC's worst corner opposite one of the conference's best. Teams are going to pick on Evans until the poor kid quits the team. I don't understand how a well put together athlete with 4.2 speed (he's the fastest player on the team) can get beat by second rate receivers on a consistent basis....
one major problem with Evans is that he is also one of the stubbornist players on the team.
I know he was told to relax (give a couple of extra yards) on the 2nd TD play. And he didn't, he got up on the line and was beat over the top again.
THAT is why he was yanked.
So, finally Brian Evans get put on the pine! I remember last week when everyone was ripping me for calling him out...
I agree the guy tries his hardest (WesterDawg), but I DON'T CARE! If you cannot cover, sit down.
Vance Cuff dropped a pick, yes...but at least he was in the correct spot. I'd rather drop a pick than have Les and Urban Crier picking on Evans all game.
Give me two fish and five loaves and I'll feed the bandwagon!
Give me two fish and five loaves and I'll make sure to give them to CEOs so their piss can trickle down and nourish you!
UGA sitting 7th.
One of the top 3 will have to lose. 2 Undefeated teams no matter how you assess their conferences will not be leaped over by a one loss team.
This weekend is another test for Texas (what a string of games they are in the midst of); Penn State also has to travel to Columbus with Ohio State coming off a nice big win. PSU has not won in the Horseshoe since joining the Big 11.
Alabama has LSU as the only game that should be a contest (of course that is dangerous talk in the SEC). Alabama would have the title game against either UGA or UF (I am going with one of them from the east). Either one could beat Bama.
To me Penn State has the best chance to finish undefeated.
Assuming that Bama loses somewhere and the #1 spot is either Texas or Penn State, I cannot see OU getting the nod over UGA or UF winning its conference. USC will slip in the computers as they play no one--only if UVA and Notre Dame win some more games and their value rises, but even then I cannot see them being ahead of a 1 loss UGA or UF team.
The above assumes that Oklahoma State does not run the table. If they win the Big 12 they would have to be considered as deserving as a 1 loss SEC team. Maybe more so the way the Big 12 teams are ranked
The SEC just has no offense right now. The quality of QBs is horrible after you get past Stafford and Tebow. It looks like the Big 12 got all the QBs from the past few classes or at least developed them. Weak defenses or not, completing 70% and even 80% of passes is just crazy stuff.
Well, it is all speculation. If UGA had beaten Bama, the Dawgs would be sitting #2 right now and just needing to win out to guarantee a spot. Now UGA must win out and hope that the top 3 come back to them.
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