Fourth and Dumb

In the rush to punch out a column before Thanksgiving, I missed some significant plotlines that ended up permeating the week’s action.  I will cover them as points 4 and 5 below.

1.  Which teams will earn spots in their conference’s championship games.

2.  Which teams will clinch their conference championships.

3.  Whether Maryland can avert its worst season ever.

4.  Whether the rivalry games throw scares into favorites and provide a plethora of upsets.

5.  Which coaches see the guillotine drop on their administrations.

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The 2009 college football is drawing to a close and conclusions are sliding into place.  With two weeks to go in the regular season, Week 12 told us the following:

1.  Whether postseason possibilities fall into place in the ACC.

2.  Who gets the upper hand during Rivalry Week in the Big Ten.

3.  Whether the Pac 10 Conference race tends toward sanity or chaos.

4.  Who will compete in the Big XII Championship Game.

5.  Who are set to emerge as the contestants in the Conference USA Championship Game.

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On Sunday, we learned that Bill Belichick is balls enough to go for his very own fourth and dumb play.  As for the top level of football where the athletes do not (officially) get paid, we learned the following Saturday:

1.  Whether the ACC Championship Game matchup is determined.

2.  Who the Big Ten representative in the Rose Bowl is.

3.  Who remains in contention for the Rose Bowl from the Pac 10.

4.  Whether Texas makes it official in the Big XII South.

5.  Which teams will remain eligible to be Bowling with the Stars.

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Above all, we learned that Notre Dame is almost certainly not headed back to the BCS in 2009, since Navy is making their rivalry competitive for the first time since the Kennedy administration.

1.  Whether the Atlantic Coast Conference will trend toward chaos or sanity in Week 10.

2.  Whether the Big XII North will trend towards chaos or sanity in Week 10.

3.  Who remains in the Big Ten title race.

4.  How the Pac 10 bowl order starts to sort itself out.

5.  Whether the Big East powers avoid tripping up before the dogfights to come.

Continue reading ‘What We Learned This Weekend – Week 10’ »

1.  Who takes control of the Big XII South…and if anyone steps up in the Big XII North.

2.  Who emerges from Eugene as the Pac 10 frontrunner.

3.  Whether any other crazy upsets occur in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

4.  Who assumes command of the minor conference races.

5.  ???

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1.  Whether there will be clarification in the Atlantic Coast Conference division races.

2.  Whether the Big Ten Conference will come down to November 14 in Columbus.

3.  Whether Texas becomes set to put a sleeperhold on the Big XII Conference.

4.  Whether two losses is crippling in the Pacific 10 Conference.

5.  Which teams will remain eligible to be Bowling with the Stars.

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There will be neither a Five Things We Will Learn This Weekend nor What We Learned This Weekend column this week.  That is not to say there are not things we will learn this weekend, but that they will be, as the Ontario license plates say, yours to discover.  Enjoy the football, boys and girls.

So much information to process from Week 6…no, just me being lazy and under the weather.

1.  Who steps up and takes the early lead in the Big XII Conference.

2.  Whether Bobby Bowden proves the doubters wrong in Week 6.

3.  Which of the Big Ten’s undefeated teams stay that way.

4.  Which potential threats to USC arise in Week 6.

5.  Whether any elephants appear in the room in the SEC.

Continue reading ‘What We Learned This Week – Week 6’ »

The first week of October provided some answers but also spit out more questions.  Find out what happened in Week 5, including:

1.  Whether separation begins to happen in the Big 10 Conference race.

2.  Who is relegated to also-ran status in the Pacific 10 Conference.

3.  Whether the Atlantic Coast Conference makes a run at being as crazy as 2008.

4.  Whether LSU becomes the next highly-ranked team to be humbled.

5.  Which teams will remain eligible to be Bowling with the Stars.

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We wave goodbye to September by going over what we learned on the following topics:

1. Which teams are terrible.

2. Who are the frontrunners in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

3. Who will be the contenders in the Pacific 10 Conference.

4. Which teams will find themselves struggling to remain in contention in the Big Ten Conference.

5. Which teams are still eligible to be Bowling with the Stars.

Continue reading ‘What We Learned This Weekend – Week 4’ »