The Official 2011 NCAA College Football Thread

[Telionis]

You guys thought the Oklahoma State loss was bad? Now Oregon lost, Clemson lost, Oklahoma is probably going to lose, and Stanford is trailing Cal. Plus Virginia beat FSU at home. WTF is going on?

Sh-t, VT might have a shot at the title with one of our weakest teams in years, weird. (Assuming we get past UVA and Clemson).

[Alan92RTTT]

And it looks like Urban Meyer is going to THE OSU...

That's confirmed? I could've swore I saw an interview today where he specifically said he has not been offered any job, let alone accept one..

That was during the Michigan Nebraska game. He said he had not accepted or even been asked.

[onebadmollafolla]

That was during the Michigan Nebraska game. He said he had not accepted or even been asked.

Anyone catch pregame where Lee Corso said, "Aww, fuck it." on live TV?

[BigTyla]

Anyone catch pregame where Lee Corso said, "Aww, fuck it." on live TV?

Saw it on Youtube. Hilarious!

[Mikes2nd]

That was during the Michigan Nebraska game. He said he had not accepted or even been asked.

both sides are interested...

Ohio State Buckeyes talking to Urban Meyer about job, sources say - ESPN

[TonyM]

That was during the Michigan Nebraska game. He said he had not accepted or even been asked.

Speaking of the Michigan game, man did we put a HURTIN on Nebraska! Wow . . . bring on that school from Ohio.

[BigTyla]

The SEC West: Where the nation is won | al.com

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- You either love the SEC or you hate it, but lately you haven't been able to ignore it.

Now you can't even root against the SEC.

New Orleans will become the SEC's personal party and it will invite everyone else as observers to its latest coronation. The New York Yankees of college football control the BCS standings like never before.

1. LSU

2. Alabama

3. Arkansas

In Mike Slive's wildest dreams, he couldn't have imagined entering the final weekend of his conference's regular season like this. Some leagues wait years to place one team in the BCS top three. The SEC simply turns college football's convoluted postseason system into a divisional affair.

That shouting you hear is cries of joy from CBS. Saddled with SEC blowout losses and lower ratings all season, CBS gets LSU-Arkansas and Alabama-Auburn on consecutive days that are built-in ratings winners.

ESPN must be salivating, too, having promoted the first Alabama-LSU game to death despite not having the rights to it. That's a cash cow for ESPN if they play in the BCS Championship Game.

What a miserable time to be an SEC hater. If you hate the Yankees, you root for the Tigers. If you hate LeBron, you pull for Dirk. If you hate Tiger Woods, you cheer for the field.

If you hate the SEC, you do what now? Pray for vacated titles?

It's hard to envision there not being an SEC rematch for the national championship. Not only that, it's quite possible the SEC will end up with split national champions.

The nation may have a stroke if it has to recognize two more SEC national champions in one season after five straight. I can picture the 2012 SEC media guide cover now:

"6*: Home to SIX/SEVEN Consecutive BCS National Champions Depending on the Way You Count."

If Alabama beats LSU in a tight rematch, the BCS title would have to go to Alabama. But the Associated Press could reward LSU if it went undefeated up to that point.

And why not? Because if every game counts, why should undefeated LSU have to beat an SEC team twice? Every game counts except when it doesn't. It's more convenient that way.

Alabama has the simplest road of the three SEC teams to New Orleans and doesn't want to be in Atlanta. Beat Auburn this week and Alabama will likely play for the national title, but the Tide wants LSU undefeated just in case.

Arkansas has the toughest path to Atlanta and probably needs an Alabama loss. LSU has a mulligan and could lose to Arkansas or Georgia and still reach the BCS Championship Game.

Beyond prestige, this postseason could even get richer for the SEC. Literally. The SEC could make millions more by placing an unprecedented three teams into BCS bowls.

BCS rules allow for a third team from the same conference if two non-champions are 1 and 2 in the final BCS standings. That would happen if Georgia defeated LSU for the SEC championship and some combination of Alabama, LSU and Arkansas finished in the BCS top two. One of those three -- Alabama, LSU or Arkansas -- will not play in a BCS bowl.

If there's a bright side for SEC haters, it's that this conclusion could finally move college football toward a playoff. Let's not forget how the SEC became so dominant: Voters decided against a Big Ten rematch.

The country talked up a storm about whether to pair Michigan and Ohio State again or give one-loss Florida a shot. The SEC had its talking points about how unfair a rematch would be to Ohio State and to the country.

"If that does happen, all the (university) presidents need to get together immediately and put together a playoff system," then-Florida coach Urban Meyer said in 2006. "I mean like now, January or whenever to get that done."

The country opened the door to the SEC. And the SEC kicked it down.

This could have been prevented. Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Oregon, Stanford, Clemson, Boise State ... they all lost.

So it's up to the SEC West to decide how the nation will be won.

[AdamVR4]

2nd week in a row Texas has been royally F'ed by the officials.

2nd quarter, we're tied at 3. Ash throws a nice deep ball to Mike Davis who goes up for it, with position on the defender. The defender gets on Mike Davis WAY before the ball arrives, hooks his back arm, pulls down, and successfully 'breaks up' the pass. Textbook pass interference, no call. We miss out on at least 3 points, and punt.

As the punt is falling toward the K-State returner, a Longhorn gets near him, doesn't touch him, then backs up. The ball hits the return man's hands, Texas recovers. But wait. The officials throw a flag, claiming we interfered. It's shown repeatedly on replay and the crowd goes fucking crazy. The officials were boo'ed HARD the entire rest of the game, particularly on punt returns where K-States coverage team got just as close to our returner as we did on the terrible call.

Of course, K-State gets a TD on the subsequent drive.

Early in the 3rd, we get screwed on the other end of a questionable pass interference call that sets K-State up at the 2. Another TD.

Our D was fucking LIGHTS OUT. By my count, our offense allowed between 3 and 10 pts. Our defense allowed 0 points and our lovely officials gifted between 7 and 14 points.

K-State had 121 total yards!!!!! 38 yards on 39 rushing attempts; 9 of 17 passing for 121.

Ash threw the ball really badly the entire first half. Case McCoy came in and led a TD drive in the 3rd, but in the 4th, we kicked a meaningless FG with 4:30 remaining to make it 17 to 13. Our D stepped up and we got the ball back with 1:16 to go and no TO's ...... Of course Case McCoy lacks the arm to get us downfield in a hurry and he panics in clean pockets and gets himself sacked. Game over. Texas has no QB and we're going to lose to an underachieving A&M....

[AdamVR4]

Perhaps it's just me, but the officiating this year seems worse than ever, in part due to the ridiculous contact rules...

Weekend in a nutshell:

[TonyM]

I don't know, there are always some subjective calls Adam but I watched the entire Texas game and I think Fozzy being out really hurt you. Forced Ash to try and be a playmaker and he just isn't. McCoy 2.0 looked decent though, but it was just too little too late with the points you spotted K-State early on.