WEEK 7 - TOP 25 RANKINGS, TV SCHEDULE, MISC. GOSSIP and other key stuff.......

[mjp28]

WEEK 7 - TOP 25 RANKINGS, TV SCHEDULE, MISC. GOSSIP and other key stuff.......

Week 7 college football rankings - from SB NATION, some new teams in the top 10.

Team	AP	S&P+	Massey	Sagarin	Coaches
Alabama, 6-0	1	1	1	1	1
Georgia, 6-0	2	3	3	5	2
Ohio State, 6-0	3	4	4	2	3
Clemson, 6-0	4	2	2	3	4
Notre Dame, 6-0	5	8	5	9	5
West Virginia, 5-0	6	11	10	11	6
Washington, 5-1	7	10	11	8	7
Penn State, 4-1	8	7	8	4	8
Texas, 5-1	9	-	14	16	14
UCF, 5-0	10	9	16	-	9
Oklahoma, 5-1	11	6	6	6	11
Michigan, 5-1	12	5	9	7	13
LSU, 5-1	13	19	7	14	12
Florida, 5-1	14	14	12	13	16
Wisconsin, 4-1	15	13	18	10	10
Miami, 5-1	16	16	17	19	15
Oregon, 4-1	17	-	-	-	17
Kentucky, 5-1	18	24	15	21	20
Colorado, 5-0	19	-	-	-	18
NC State, 5-0	20	22	13	22	19
Auburn, 4-2	21	18	20	18	21
Texas A&M, 4-2	22	17	25	17	22
USF, 5-0	23	-	-	-	23
Mississippi State, 4-2	24	15	22	15	-
Cincinnati, 6-0	25	-	-	-	25
Appalachian State, 3-1	-	12	-	-	-
Duke, 4-1	-	-	23	-	-
Fresno State, 4-1	-	20	-	-	-
Iowa, 4-1	-	-	24	12	-
Missouri, 3-2	-	23	-	-	-
Oklahoma State, 4-2	-	21	-	23	-
South Carolina, 3-2	-	-	21	-	-
Stanford, 4-2	-	-	19	-	24
TCU, 3-2	-	-	-	25	-
Utah State, 4-1	-	25	-	-	-
Utah, 3-2	-	-	-	20	-
Washington State, 5-1	-	-	-	24	-

[mjp28]

*Thursday, October 11th - OH MIGHT BE CT TIMES, I JUST WANTED THE TV PART
Georgia Southern at Texas State	6:30 pm	ESPNU / WatchESPN Video
Texas Tech at TCU	6:30 pm	ESPN / WatchESPN Video
*Friday, October 12th
Holy Cross at Harvard	6:00 pm	$espn+ Video
South Florida at Tulsa	6:00 pm	ESPN / WatchESPN Video
Air Force at San Diego State	8:00 pm	CBSSN / CBSSN Video
Arizona at Utah	9:00 pm	ESPN / WatchESPN Video
* Saturday, October 13th - CST?
Akron at Buffalo	11:00 am	CBSSN / CBSSN Video
Florida at Vanderbilt	11:00 am	ESPN / WatchESPN Video
Iowa at Indiana	11:00 am	ESPN2 / WatchESPN Video
Minnesota at Ohio State	11:00 am	FS1 / FSGo Video - AT NOON ET OF COURSE !
Nebraska at Northwestern	11:00 am	ABC / espn3 Video
Oklahoma State at Kansas State	11:00 am	ESPNU / WatchESPN Video
Rutgers at Maryland	11:00 am	BTN / BTN2Go Video
Tennessee at Auburn	11:00 am	SEC Network / WatchESPN Video
Duke at Georgia Tech	11:20 am	ESPN Extra / ACC Network / WatchESPN Video
Louisville at Boston College	11:30 am	ESPN Extra / ACC RSN / Video: WatchESPN / FSGo
Pittsburgh at Notre Dame	1:30 pm	NBC / NBC Video
Central Arkansas at Stephen F. Austin	2:00 pm	ELVN / Video
ESPN GoalLine	2:00 pm	ESPNGL / WatchESPN Video / ESPN news (2 - 10)
Army vs. San Jose State	2:30 pm	ESPNU / WatchESPN Video
Baylor at Texas	2:30 pm	ESPN / WatchESPN Video
Elon at Delaware	2:30 pm	SNY / Video
Georgia at LSU	2:30 pm	CBS / CBS Video
Michigan State at Penn State	2:30 pm	FS1 / FSGo Video
Purdue at Illinois	2:30 pm	BTN / BTN2Go Video
Stony Brook at New Hampshire	2:30 pm	NBCSB / Video
Temple at Navy	2:30 pm	CBSSN / CBSSN Video
Texas A&M at South Carolina	2:30 pm	SEC Network / WatchESPN Video
UCF at Memphis	2:30 pm	ABC or ESPN2 (reverse mirror)
Washington at Oregon	2:30 pm	ABC or ESPN2 (reverse mirror)
Idaho at Montana State	3:00 pm	AUD / RSNW
New Mexico at Colorado State	3:00 pm	ATTRM / ATTRMW / MWC Video
Eastern Washington at Weber State	5:00 pm	ELVN / Video
Grambling at Texas Southern	6:00 pm	ATTSW
Houston at East Carolina	6:00 pm	CBSSN / CBSSN Video
Miami at Virginia	6:00 pm	ESPN2 / WatchESPN Video
Missouri at Alabama	6:00 pm	ESPN / WatchESPN Video
UCLA at California	6:00 pm	PAC-12 Network / PAC-12 Video
Virginia Tech at North Carolina	6:00 pm	ESPNU / WatchESPN Video
West Virginia at Iowa State	6:00 pm	FS1 / FSGo Video
Ole Miss at Arkansas	6:30 pm	SEC Network / WatchESPN Video
Wisconsin at Michigan	6:30 pm	ABC / espn3 Video
Hawaii at BYU	9:15 pm	ESPN2 / WatchESPN Video
Boise State at Nevada	9:30 pm	CBSSN / CBSSN Video
Colorado at USC	9:30 pm	FS1 / FSGo Video
Wyoming at Fresno State	9:30 pm	ESPNU / WatchESPN Video

[MLD Woody]

Game day in AA

[Axe]

[The Gipper]

1 hour ago, Axe said:

Brought to you by Hostess Cupcakes.

[mjp28]

1 hour ago, The Gipper said:

Brought to you by Hostess Cupcakes.

Shhhhhh, that's a big secret. 

Oh 4 BIG TEN are still in the TOP 15. But the big head to head elimination tournament is coming up......looks like NOTRE DAME has a decent shot at a top 4 position with OHIO STATE and two others. 

WHY not 8 or 16 teams? My old pet peeve, every other division in football does it.

[The Gipper]

5 hours ago, mjp28 said:

Shhhhhh, that's a big secret. 

Oh 4 BIG TEN are still in the TOP 15. But the big head to head elimination tournament is coming up......looks like NOTRE DAME has a decent shot at a top 4 position with OHIO STATE and two others. 

WHY not 8 or 16 teams? My old pet peeve, every other division in football does it.

Money.

[mjp28]

2 hours ago, The Gipper said:

Money.

Money? They could take empty bowl games and sell them out and have national TV coverage and make big bucks. Alabama, OHIO STATE or others in a round 1 game? 

[Axe]

https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other

I count 5 Big Ten and Eight SEC schools at present in the toughest 25 schedules..

[The Gipper]

15 hours ago, mjp28 said:

Money? They could take empty bowl games and sell them out and have national TV coverage and make big bucks. Alabama, OHIO STATE or others in a round 1 game? 

Agree.  That is why it makes no sense, monetarily, that they do not expand.   They use that old chestnut about interfering with the education of the students.  That too is a pile of horse manure.   Why is it so bad to interfere with the education of  FBS players.....where it is not bad to interfere with  FCS, D-II and D-III players (who generally are far more real students than D-1  football players)

[mjp28]

17 hours ago, Axe said:

https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other

I count 5 Big Ten and Eight SEC schools at present in the toughest 25 schedules..

SOS can be misleading because most all just play each other, once they get well into the schedules around weeks 8, 9, 10 the true SOS emerges.

[mjp28]

1 hour ago, The Gipper said:

Agree.  That is why it makes no sense, monetarily, that they do not expand.   They use that old chestnut about interfering with the education of the students.  That too is a pile of horse manure.   Why is it so bad to interfere with the education of  FBS players.....where it is not bad to interfere with  FCS, D-II and D-III players (who generally are far more real students than D-1  football players)

Yes including the D-1AA schools that I am pretty familiar with, when some D-1 players realize they are behind better players they bolt to D-1AA teams to start. 

For example YSU's starting QB this year is a NOTRE DAME transfer, it's all about playing time, exposure, potential NFL tryouts.......oh and school rah, rah, rah.

I still can picture some 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5 marquee matchups in sold out venues which were formerly the toilet bowl or so-in-so car parts bowl boring games. The increase in interest, gate, TV advertizing and of course contributions to the schools involved budgets would be in the millions.

Just check out the phenomenal MARCH MADNESS only on a smaller scale afterall it is tackle football not hoops......and very, very few additional games, lose and you're done.

[MLD Woody]

6 team. Byes for top two seeds

[mjp28]

1 hour ago, MLD Woody said:

6 team. Byes for top two seeds

With 8 there are 4 teams that go home 4 play round 2 go home leaving the championship game. Simple.

The top two teams do not need any bye weeks besides it reeks of play-in games which are kind of strange to begin with.

[Axe]

6 hours ago, mjp28 said:

SOS can be misleading because most all just play each other, once they get well into the schedules around weeks 8, 9, 10 the true SOS emerges.

Agreed, but at this point in the season it's all we have to attempt to gauge the situation and based upon that, making a "cupcake" statement is ludicrous.

 

7 teams and #1 gets a bye or 8 teams, no byes...

[The Gipper]

7 hours ago, MLD Woody said:

6 team. Byes for top two seeds

No 8 minimum. 16 would be better 

[mjp28]

16 hours ago, Axe said:

Agreed, but at this point in the season it's all we have to attempt to gauge the situation and based upon that, making a "cupcake" statement is ludicrous.

 

7 teams and #1 gets a bye or 8 teams, no byes...

Hey I agree with the Axe we might be on to something.......except the cupcake part, it's true if you look at the SEC non-conference games really now 

Alabama on NOV 17 (SAT) TBA VS THE CITADEL 

 

Are you kidding me? The Girl Scouts were already booked?  

But on the playoffs I'd be happy to start with an 8 team playoff 1/8 2/7, 3/6, 4/5 would give you some excellent games especially 4/5. And NO BYES.

[The Gipper]

1 hour ago, mjp28 said:

Hey I agree with the Axe we might be on to something.......except the cupcake part, it's true if you look at the SEC non-conference games really now 

Alabama on NOV 17 (SAT) TBA VS THE CITADEL 

 

Are you kidding me? The Girl Scouts were already booked?  

But on the playoffs I'd be happy to start with an 8 team playoff 1/8 2/7, 3/6, 4/5 would give you some excellent games especially 4/5. And NO BYES.

 

East Germany are such a bunch of gutless wonders for scheduling like that.

[Axe]

8 hours ago, mjp28 said:

Hey I agree with the Axe we might be on to something.......except the cupcake part, it's true if you look at the SEC non-conference games really now 

Alabama on NOV 17 (SAT) TBA VS THE CITADEL 

 

Are you kidding me? The Girl Scouts were already booked?  

 

 

Could've been worse.. Bama could have scheduled someone from the Big10..

[The Gipper]

1 hour ago, Axe said:

Could've been worse.. Bama could have scheduled someone from the Big10..

Worse  for them sure for them sure

[mjp28]

3 hours ago, Axe said:

Could've been worse.. Bama could have scheduled someone from the Big10..

I'm sure you're just kidding us you know The Citadel is a fine school in the D-1AA (FCS) division a bit different than the D-1A schools in the BIG TEN.

The Citadel Bulldogs football program represents The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Bulldogs play in the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936. 

Other SEC schools also play schools from the D-1AA ranks some from this very conference.......except for getting all the icing and powdered sugar off of their uniforms it "probably" is a rousing game of football. 

[Axe]

23 hours ago, mjp28 said:

I'm sure you're just kidding us

 

 

Of course I am but I will say this, last yr the SEC was down..  Wait, who played for the national championship  again?

[mjp28]

11 hours ago, Axe said:

 

 

Of course I am but I will say this, last yr the SEC was down..  Wait, who played for the national championship  again?

Well there's no doubt the top football factory schools along with the US population has moved down south over the past 30 plus years.

Nick Saban from WV and a Kent State grad took all of his northern roots including stays with the BUCKEYES and BROWNS and ended up at the current #1 football factory Alabama. OHIO STATE also has a nice football factory too. 

But we fans seem to love it regardless of the details.

[Axe]

I'm just happy to see a degree of parity between conferences..  I much prefer college ball to the NFL..

[mjp28]

1 hour ago, Axe said:

I'm just happy to see a degree of parity between conferences..  I much prefer college ball to the NFL..

Yes I've preferred NCAA football and of course the March Madness in hoops for a long while now. It's 1. NCAA football 2. NFL football 3. MLB for me.

Oh another strange but true story that little sawed off 5' 6" Nick Saban was a DB at KSU the same time I was at YSU.

[Axe]

USF dodged a bullet tonight..

[The Gipper]

On 10/11/2018 at 10:49 PM, Axe said:

 

 

Of course I am but I will say this, last yr the SEC was down..  Wait, who played for the national championship  again?

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