Monday, October 30, 2006

BCS Shake ups and Shaking itself out??


This past week of college football helped a handful of team realize their goal of appearing in the BCS Championship game was still in reach. Ohio State continued to dominate and appears to be the best team in the country. Michigan played a sloppy game against Northwestern but still remained undefeated. The match up between these two hated rivals on November 18th will determine at least one of the two teams that will play in the BCS Championship Game in Glendale, Arizona, January 8th. USC's loss to an average Oregon State team you could see coming from a mile away, or in my case about 1,200 miles away. The Trojans had struggled in their previous three games to put their opponents away and now have the daunting task of playing #22 Oregon, #10 Cal and #9 Notre Dame, all at home before their last game against crosstown rival UCLA. There's quite possibly another loss in those four games for the Trojans somewhere, effectively elimanating them should they lose one more time.

The teams that benefited most from this loss? That would be the two undefeated Big East teams West Virginia and Louisville who face each other on Thursday. The winner of this game will then need to get by undefeated Rutgers (Yes, you read that right, undefeated Rutgers) to insure a spot in the BCS Championship Game. Rutgers could easily throw a monkey wrench into either Louisville or West Virginia's plans to get to Glendale. If some very strange scenarios develop, Rutgers could be knocking on the BCS Championship Game door if they win the Big East and are undefeated.

So who's rooting for Rutgers?

That would be the numerous 1 loss teams such as #4 Florida, #6 Auburn, #7 Texas, #8 USC, #9 Notre Dame, #10 Cal, #11 Tennessee and #13 Arkansas. Should Louisville or West Virginia both stumble and have 1 loss apiece, I'd put my money on the winner of the SEC going to face the winner of the OSU vs. Michigan showdown for the BCS Championship.

Isn't college football great?

2 comments:

Jamie Spittler said...

I'll have an NBA post coming soon along with a Nuggs post.

Jamie Spittler said...

I'll be there. I'm looking forward to tailgating.