2008 College Football thread

I wanted to watch the game on Saturday but Pitt didn’t sell it out and it wasn’t on TV… such ashame. You will all see Wandstedt fired with in the next 2 years. chalk it up. he is a coordinator period. With that said, hope Stull can play this week. there is always a chance for Pitt to play PSU in a bowl game if the top 2 teams win out.

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IF Pitt makes a bowl game I will be surprised. They are horrible this year and the Lions are on top of their game. There is no comparison.

Pitt could still win out and be 10-2…thats two games more than most peoples prediction of where pitt needed to be. I still think wandstedt is Pitts man. He needs to go away from whats become traditional coaching (over analyzing film and grading…etc) and put the best athletes on the field …cough…elijah fields…cough!

Pitt would certainly not play PSU if PSU doesnt make the BCS title. Big ten winner plays pac 10 in the rose bowl unless one or the other makes it into the NC game… then an atlarge/2nd place in conference would play in their spot. last year for example Illinois was high enough to qualify for a BCS so they replaced big ten winner OSU who made the NC game. Penn state would have to some how lose the Big 10…which would probably mean them losing two games and still being ranked high enough to get an at-large bid. Penn state at it sits holds pretty much any tie-breaker. Minnesota doesnt play msu & PSU but lost to osu, michigan state could beat psu and cause a 4 way tie in the big 10. OSU, PSU, MSU and minn could al finish with one loss. ohio state would hold a tie breaker over minn and MSU but not PSU… MSU would hold the tie-breaker over PSU… PSU over OSU. I think it would go to points maybe?

5-2= horrible? michigan is horrible…Pitt is having an average pitt year.

Pitt couldn’t beat michigan…

Wannstedt> Bitch Rod

Last time i checked wanny didn’t suit up and neither does Rod…

so your saying that 07 pitt was better than WVU and it had nothing to do with coaching? haha…

no… 07 pitt got lucky and saw wvu play horrible.

well thats what pretty much happens the last two years of college football. i think it more that great teams arent as great as people think and bad teams arent as bad as people think. At 5-2 pitt is hardly a horrible team. temple in the big east in the 90’s was a horrible team. pitt has loads of talent…western pa talent. but most of wannstedts major recruits are still young. lucas nix is a monster but he’s only a frosh…shane hale is a redshirt…those are the guys that are gonna be great but dont get the headlines over shady and baldwin… just wait till pitt fields a complete team. Could they be 7-0…yes… are they on track for 8-4 which most experts and media would be happy with…yes.

Good win for Pitt this weekend. Pretty exciting game…shady >*. Snuck back into the top 25, lets hope to stay in there and to climb a little.

Big win for Texas Tech, I watched most of the second half and it was a fun game to watch. Texas Tech got the #2 spot now…which was earned. It will be hard for them to hold on to it though considering how hard their schedule is and how easy PSU’s is. So if PSU can walk through their easy schedule w/o messing up they may have a shot at the national title. But like Jim Rome said…they should just reject the invite to the national title game (if any big ten gets it) b/c they don’t deserve to be there considering how easy their schedule is and how bad the big ten is.

anytime you can win with bostick and smith taking snaps its a great win. Who is pitt saving greg cross for? TJ porter is good for one of those catch and runs almost every game… nice to see elijah play a lot… shady is God… stevens howlings is jesus…and how bout the freshman from Central catholic…Tags is a special teams beast!

Texas is the only team worth noting that TT played thus far, and they got lucky as they got a banged up Texas as a night home game (and still almost blew it). Tech will get beat at Oklahoma if OK State doesn’t take them out next week.

Bama also has had a cake schedule aside from the Georgia game. Georgia didn’t look too impressive against Florida though to put it mildly. Either way most likely Florida is going to put a hurting on Bama in the SEC title game and will be sitting at 12-1.

I can see an undefeated Big 12 (TT) and/or SEC (Bama) team justifiably being in the championship game ahead of PSU as they will have won out. However any of these arguments that a one loss team would be more “deserving” is bogus. Florida already has lost a home game to Ole Miss at home (is Ole Miss 5-4 some unknown powerhouse this year?). USC lost to Oregon State (a team PSU beat handily by 31 points).

Lots of football to play and most likely many upsets left to happen.

i love how Penn State fans are just looking right past a one loss Michigan State. Down playing texas tech after they beat the #1 team in the country? It took a fumble by a freshman for PSU to beat OSU… I didnt think TT would jump PSU this soon but you can’t say they played no one when last week they beat #23 Kansas.

Penn State beat 3 teams with a winning record. and their combined opponents record is 35-44. Texas Tech in comparison has beaten 4 teams with a winning record and 42-38 opponents record. Knocked off a two loss kansas team who’s only losses were to at the time #19 USF and #4 Oklahoma…and they just knocked off #1 Texas.

as a side not to both PSU and Texas Tech…Pitt has beated 4 teams with a winning record, played no 1AA teams and has a 35-33 opponent record.

First off I never said PSU wasn’t one of the teams possibly being upset, but everyone knows PSU plays nobody this year so Mich St. must be crap :rolleyes: (although Mich. St does actually have 2 losses at this point)
Personally I think away at Iowa this week has a greater potential for being a problem simply as it is away coming off a bye week and Mich St. is a home game.

Yes a fumble by a freshman is the only reason PSU beat OSU. Seems like there were a lot more plays than 1 that led to the outcome in that game.

Yes TT beat the number one team, however it was a depleted version of the team that got the number one ranking by winning at Oklahoma. If TT can go into Oklahoma in three weeks and take out Oklahoma I’ll give them plenty of credit as they will most likely only be the Big 12 championship game from going 13-0 and playing for the BCS championship. (noting TT beat Kansas who lost to USF is entertaining. USF is currently tied with Syracuse in the competition for the least of the Big LEast).

The rankings are pretty much a joke and for the most part meaningless until the end anyway. As I said before, if one or both of the SEC/BIG 12 produce 13 win undefeated teams they should be playing for the championship under the crappy present system.

Personally I would put my money on Texas Tech losing at Oklahoma and whoever ends up winning that section of the Big 12 (Texas, TT, Oklahoma, however that tiebreaker would work) winning in the title game and ending up 12-1. Florida winning the SEC at 12-1. USC at 11-1. PSU at 12-0 and then the arguing to get really bad with who should get to play in the BCS title game (with the best one-loss argument coming from the winner of the Big 12).

one loss michgan st was in reference to the conference standings and how it would pertain to a 3 way tie in the big 10 should MSU beat PSU. the 2nd MSU loss is irrelevant to the conference title.

incase i recall colt mccoy did play against TT. missing players yes…depleted …NO …come on…its texas!

Ummmm… pitt isn’t in the top 25 in the only poll that matters. The AP isn’t even figured into the BCS equation. and you and Jim Rome can suck it! the Big ten may be down this year but it doesn’t suck. The Big east, the Acc… come on, those two conferences done’t deserve to get an automatic bid to the BCS. the mountain west conference would destroy the big east. so would the MAC. remember Bowling Green? pitt is a mediocre team in a less then mediocre conference. Mccoy is their only player. everyone else is a role player. and you got a great tackleing maching in Mckillop. Pitt won’t do shit untill wannstedt is gone. they have the same players every week but some weeks they are in the right positions other weeks they aren’t. look at Rutgers. pure coaching issue there.

PSU will be in the NC game and that is all that matters. they will take care of business, and TT will lose one of the next 2 games if not both. The texas game was their championship! they gave all their energy to just beat them and they are spent.
i love how in one breath Pitt fans say the big 10 is mud and PSU’s schedule was weak, then the next breath they say PSU is looking past Michigan State. but MSU is #18 in the BCS and if they keep winning, they should be in the #13-#14 range. that will be another quality win for PSU. WVU will be the BCS team out of the Bigeast, as bad as they are, they are better then Pitt.

Wow big nuts calm down…such a hater. All I did is give props to Pitt for a good win and hoped the keep climbing.

I never said the Big Ten sucked…but it is not that great at all. All I said with how PSU’s schedule is they probably don’t deserve to go to the NC game (look at the stats Cutty posted). Even if they win out (which they should), I still think there are some teams out there that are better…hell there are a couple of one loss teams that deserve a shot at the NC game before PSU. I understand how this can fire up a smug PSU grad like yourself…but it will be OK. Hell there is a side of me rooting for PSU to make it to the NC game…just so they would get blown out and prove they were just a bit overrated this season…or it may be just as nice to see them choke on one of their remaining game…or it would be nice to see them win it all to Joe Poopypants can finally retire and quit being a puppet.

How can a team that has been defeated deserve a chance at the NC game before a team that hasn’t? take Florida, they lost at home to a horrible 5-4 team… At home… USC lost to a team PSu beat by 31. the only time an undefeated team should not be in the NC is if there are 2 other undefeated teams ahead of them that are undefeated. Did Pitt deserve to be in the fiesta bowl a few years ago, well they won the big east, but they got tromped by UTAH. the whole college set-up is out of wack. if florida would of taken business, we wouldn’t be having this conversation cause they would be #1. if USC would of taken business we wouldn’t have this conversation. the thing is, they didn’t take care of business. and PSU has. Alabama has as well. and their schedule is as weak as PSU’s. but the next couple games will make or break Alabama. you have to take care of business all season in order to make it to the NC. PSU has and florida oklahoma texas USC Oklahoma St. all have not. it is that simple. none of them deserve a shot at the national championship unless there is only one undefeated team or none. I do think Florida is probably the best team in college football right now, but they don’t deserve a shot cause they didn’t take care of business.
You really think PSU is over rated, with their bowl wins the past few years, over tennessee, Texas A&M and FSU… they go down to the big 12 and the SEC and beat whom ever was second or third in their conference. I would love to see PSU Alabama NC. two of the most storied college football teams.
Who has Pitt beat in the past 5 years in a bowl game? oh wait they got blown out by a mid-major and haven’t been back to a bowl game. I know, I know the SMUGNESS…

pitt has no players? connor lee has mad 100 consecutive extra points and just hit 5 fg’s at ND stadium. andrew taglianetti has played his way on to the field because he’s blockin kicks and punts and making tackles on special teams as a freshman, jonathan baldwin is a freak, mick williams clogs shit up and doesnt get that recognition cause hes on the interior defensive live. up until this year i wasnt a huge fan but Larod stevens-howling does everything…

how can a team with 1 loss deserve a NC bid over an undefeated? i dunno ask boise state ask hawaii… STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE.

every time a team gets smoked in a bowl game they dont deserve to be there? the MAC and mountain west do not deserve auto bids. you gotta look at a conference top to bottom.

[QUOTE=foxrus14;734799]How can a team that has been defeated deserve a chance at the NC game before a team that hasn’t? …undefeated team should not be in the NC is if there are 2 other undefeated teams ahead of them that are undefeated.QUOTE]

So lets say Pitt wnet undefeated this season…and there was only one other team that did as well…so your saying Pitt would deserve a shot at the NC??? I am Pitt fan and I wouldn’t even say yes to that.