is that after one possession each

I'm so pumped for this game. I was at the game three years ago when UGA lost 312-6, and the past two years I've stupidly watched it with UF grad friends (doing it again this year). Getting sick of how much pain this game brings me.

MSU's just OU vs. KSU away from being in the most important game on the national scene for the third straight week.

And yet Gameday will be in LA for Stanford USC. Sorry, USCPF.

Yeah, well they already did Nebraska-Wisconsin and already did Sparty just last week, and the game starts at 11:00 am, which makes it impossible for gameday to be in Lincoln because they have to put the set inside the actual stadium when they come here. And they were looking for any reason whatsoever not to go to Manhattan ****ing Kansas, and OU gave them that reason

Why do they have to put the set inside the stadium?

Well basically it is because there is nowhere near the stadium to put it. There are parking lots just north and east of the stadium, but the big-time boosters and rich folk absolutely own those for tailgating, and access needs to be pretty open for buses arriving, etc. West of the stadium there is just a parking garage and an alumni center, with 10th street and an interstate behind that. South of the stadium there are tightly spaced campus buildings right across from the stadium.

Ideally they would put it in the east parking lot, which is tree-lined and has the view of the old-school ohio state design facade but like I said too much **** goes on in that lot on game days. The last time they were here was for USC in 07

cliffs: downtown Lincoln is a huge cluster****

as awesome of a game as it would be, undefeated stanford would still be behind undefeated clemson undefeated okst and maybe even 1 loss bama/lsu (probably ahead of undefeated boise though)

bcs cronies better hope to god OU can beat OKst or that oregon beats stanford

Clemson won't be undefeated. Neither will Cowboy State.

No way that a 1-loss LSU with a loss to Bama (or vice versa) will jump them. The computers would be fairly close, and the humans won't have a rematch if they can avoid it.

cowboy state, maybe not (probably not, actually), clemson? if they beat georgia tech then the only real hurdle is vatech on a neutral field when they already beat them by 20 in blacksburg (obv ignoring USCe). i think they can pull it off

as to 1 loss LSU/bama, stanford is just so far behind in teh computers and they have 1 ranked team left on their schedule (2 if ASU/USC stay ranked come the pac 12 title game)

edit: i guess i'm underestimating what a loss does WRT the computers. OU got crushed in the rankings

gotcha

out of curiousity, how is the campus? (i'm always curious how college campuses compare and i enjoy visiting the towns with good atmosphere)

Is USC that much better than Washington, or are the home field advantages of Stanford/USC so strong such that Stanford is only -8.5 @ USC after being -20 vs Washington (and blowing the **** out of covering and the over)?

From what I have heard from people who went to the UW game, UNL and Lincoln are basically a smaller version of UW and Madison. Both stadiums are on campus, both campuses are downtown and right by the capitol buildings. Campus is pretty nice, better than you might expect. As far as gameday goes, there is zero public parking by campus. Anywhere within about a mile and a half radius of the stadium is just flooded with red and any open spaces are choked with tailgates. Since the stadium is just a couple blocks from downtown, all the bars are packed. Its really a cool scene and something you'd be familiar with if you've been to games in Madison I would think. But like I eluded to, campus, the stadium, downtown, railroad tracks, I-180, and 2-3 major streets all intersect right at Memorial stadium sot is kind of a mess of overpasses and 1-ways and roundabouts. Found this site too, dunno what it is but has some nice gameday pics

Ask TomCollins. He has Washington #25 in his poll this week.

I don't rank based on power rankings.

I know everyone is on pins and needles, but the top two names for tulane's coaching job are still RR and Leach. Apparently the AD is going out interviewing this week, which would mean that there are definitely candidates out that that are not currently coaching. One time!

pro tip: filling all your facilities with pirate paraphernalia will impress Leach

Might be harder to lol at Sparty since apparently he's got mad game off the field as well:

SEC champ gets full 3 points for HFA I guess

Only way this is even a remote possibility is if South Carolina goes 11-2 and wins the SEC. Stanford has a huge lead on Clemson in the polls and is only slightly behind them right now in the BCS standings due to the fact that they haven't played any of their 4 toughest games yet and so the computers have them ranked 9th. At the end of the season, they'll be at most one spot behind Clemson, and the polls will easily carry them to a higher ranking. Oh, and a one-loss LSU/Bama being ahead of them is even less likely. For all intents and purposes, you can just call it impossible.

HFA is generally around 3.5, call Stanford's 3, so that's 17 points better than Washington, and 12 points better than USC so a 5 point transitive diff between USC and UW.

However, now that Stanford spanked the **** out of Wash, they're rated better than they were before that game, and USC won @ ND so they're perceived to be better too. If Stanford played Wash this week, the line would probably be a couple points higher, so we are looking at a realistic diff of 7 or so most likely. Obviously there's a limit to what you can do here, and there are a lot of other situational factors that are really skewing the lines one way or the other too. I think it's hard to play big road games the week after you win a hyped home game by a lot of points, but I don't remember exactly.

I wouldn't be surprised if USC/Wash was close to a pickem before last week, but Wash just took a huge - and USC got a huge + so if USC played Wash on a neutral field now it might be closer to USC -4 or -5.

QFprettyplease

holy ****, Pitt QB just destroyed the UConn defense

RIP UConn defense

lol this game is aids lol big east