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Who is YOUR college team!?

jcramb — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:19:06 GMT

A big hello to fellow Aussie college football fans. Just finished watching the fantastic papajohns.com bowl with South Carolina and Connecticut, and began to wonder if there are many aussies that follow college football and if so... what teams you all support.

I'm a UCONN supporter to the core, so let us all know who YOUR team is!

TV Listings

Roy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:44:26 GMT

31 August - 6 September...

Friday 4/9, 9am: South Carolina @ North Carolina State (ESPN)

Sunday 6/9;
2am: Minnesota @ Syracuse (ESPN)
5:30am: San Jose State @ USC (One)
9am: BYU v Oklahoma (ESPN)

Keeping in touch

Hawkpeter — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:41:09 GMT

I will try to keep everyone up to date with the fortunes of our three Australians currently playing Div 1 football. You can find their details on the Gridiron Australia website under Aussie Alumni.

Hawaii (Adrian Thomas OT) defeated by #5 Florida 56-10. Adrian Thomas was in on a successful field goal in the fourth quarter. Next opponent Weber State @ home. Likely will play significant playing time in the second half.

#14 Kansas (Nathan D'Cunha OT) defeated Florida International 40-10. Next opponent Louisiana Tech @ home.

Marshall (Stuart Lips SS) defeated Illinois State 35-10. Next opponent @ #11 Wisconcin.

tis the season...

Roy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:53:35 GMT

holy smokes! so many bowl games on TV this year compared to last year.

what is your bowl TV wish list?
is it being televised? (provide listing details if applicable)

A College Football Playoff System

Griff — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:52:27 GMT

So... since we all know (and have just had it proven to us once again) that the BCS just doesn't work, here's my idea for a playoff system. Just for the hell of it.

1) Scrap the conference championship games. Instead, this weekend would have been the first of a five round (32-team) playoff.

2) Invite the conference (or sub-conference) leaders, and fill the remaining 32 spots with "at-large" teams (i.e.: the rankings still play a part, but only to build the brackets)

3) Yes, there's going to be controversy here, of course. But I'd much rather have someone complaining about missing out because they're the 33rd-ranked team in the country than being the 3rd-ranked. Odds are, #32 isn't going very far anyway, #33 technically has less chance of progressing.
(Actually, #32 and #33 wouldn't have made it this year because my idea gets the leaders of the lesser conferences five spots - FAU (SunBelt), UCF (C-USA E), Tulsa (C-USA W), Miami OH (MAC E), Central Michigan (MAC W)) so the #28 at-large team from this season (Texas Tech) would have been the one missing out)

4) The better teams, in theory, have a chance of hosting 2 more games. That's two well-attended, if not sold-out, games worth of revenue.

5) The last three rounds replace, or are played as, the traditional top Bowl games. Neutral venues, tourist dollars, and all that stuff that the "big" bowl towns would complain about losing if a playoff system was to replace the bowl games.
(I think everyone agrees that there are too many bowl games now. 6-6 teams just shouldn't go bowling)

Because I have nothing better to do, here's how the first round of playoffs (that would have just been played) would have looked (I think). Remember, this is based on LAST week's BCS standings/conference leaders.

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1.Missouri
32.Miami (OH)

16.Clemson
17.Oregon

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8.USC
25.Boise State

9.Oklahoma
24.Auburn

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4.Georgia
29.Tulsa

13.Arizona State
20.Texas

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5.Kansas
28.UCF

12.Hawaii
21.South Florida (ugh - how's THIS for a road game?!)

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2.West Virginia
31.FAU

15.Illinois
18.Wisconsin

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7.LSU
26.Connecticut

10.Florida
23.Cincinnati

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3.Ohio State
30.Central Michigan

14.Tennessee
19.Brigham Young

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6.Virginia Tech
27.Arkansas

11.Boston College
22.Virginia

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There are some pretty good matchups there. And it gives everyone what they want - a Champion decided by who's best on the field, at the business end of the season.

Feel free to tear this apart, just thought it'd be interesting to see what you guys think...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Bear #8 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:33:53 GMT

What a start to the College year!

First up, Michigan gets stunned by DIV 1AA Apelachian State and their spread speed offense. Then the big blue get trumped again by Oregon and alarm bells are ringing. Their only win of the year comes against the Irish who can't even score an offensive TD! RB Mike Hart must be kicking himslef for not declaring last year...

As for the Irish, Charlie Weiss has run off his only other quality starter to transfer, Jimmy Clausen is no where near what he was hyped to be out of High School and is definitely not even close at the moment to older brother Casey. Weiss, being an offensive genius can't even score an Offensive TD - what the hell is going on in South Bend?

On positive's - LSU is simply rolling. Losing Jamarcus Russel won't hurt them at all and i predict an LSU v Florida shootout with Tim Tebow for the National Championship. Anyone else care to speculate this early in the season who the big dance will be between? USC will be strong but i can't see anyone beating these two teams - at least Florida anyway.

Any opinions on players performing well this year?

Bear

dare i speak too soon?

Roy — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:22:51 GMT

espn's coverage of college football has improved since last season, maybe all those nasty emails worked?