Five Football Games to Watch: Week 11
Sorry this is getting posted on a Friday evening, but hey, better late than never (busy week, real life, etc.)...
We've hit that part of the season where I'm pretty much on edge. We're 9-0 and have three games left before the SEC Championship Game. One of those games (Chattanooga) should be a win you can bank on. The other two games are against divisional rivals. We'll be favored in both of them, but we still have to go out and win them. Both of those games are on the road. Since the SEC title game is locked down in both east and west, I don't really care what goes on from here on out in the conference except for our games, Florida's games and Auburn's games. With that in mind, here's the five non Alabama games I'll be watching this weekend. Rankings are BCS rankings and all times are central:
WEST VIRGINIA (25) at CINCINNATI (5)
Friday, November 13th - 7:00 p.m. - ESPN2
Everybody's zeroed in on the Cincinnati vs. Pitt game on December 5th as the de facto Big East Championship Game. Fact of the matter is though that West Virginia, statistically, isn't eliminated from the race to be Big East champs. They've only lost one conference game and have Cincinnati and Pitt both on the schedule. If WVU wins out, they're BCS bound. It's highly unlikely, but hey, this is the Big East where weird stuff can and does happen.
FLORIDA (1) at SOUTH CAROLINA
Saturday, November 14th - 2:30 p.m. - CBS
I'm sure we'll here about 12 trillion comments about the return of Brandon Spikes, Tebow, Urban Meyer getting fined and the fact that Steve Spurrier is coaching against his old team. Oh well, turn the sound down and enjoy.
AUBURN at GEORGIA
Saturday, November 14th - 6:00 p.m. - ESPN2
Set your DVRs for Barn vs. Dawg on the deuce. As many others have noted, this one should be worth watching for the Malzahn vs. Martinez coordinator match-up.
UTAH (16) at TCU (4)
Saturday, November 14th - 6:30 p.m. - CBSC
Truthfully, this is the game of the week, or at least the one that has the most riding on it for several different teams. This game likely decides the conference winner and will either propel TCU into the BCS (their two remaining games are against hapless New Mexico and Wyoming, who have a combined record of 4-15 so far) or will pave the way for Boise to make their 2nd BCS appearance. Either way, a BCS bid is getting locked down for someone after this game.
ARIZONA STATE at OREGON (14)
Saturday, November 14th - 9:20 p.m. - ESPN
With our game starting at 6:00 p.m., you can't help but think the beginning of this one is going to be preempted. Anyway, the Ducks are back in Autzen and need to regroup after their up and down past two weeks. Please Ducks, for the love of all things good, get it together and win the Pac-10.
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ASU vs. Oregon...
I’m most interested in this game because my dad is a USC season ticket holder. Since Oregon lost last weekend (I didn’t think that’d happen), Oregon has to lose out and USC has to win out, and if USC wins out, I get to go watch football games at the Rose Bowl twice (USC Rose Bowl, Alabama national championship).
It should be a good weekend. I don’t think Georgia is going to stop Auburn on offense. The reasoning is that if Tennessee could run all over Georgia, Auburn is going to have a field day.
Florida vs. South Carolina..
I have to see how those experimental uniforms turn out.
At the end of the day
I hope....
…the conspiracy theorists are on a Big East witch hunt this week, because there’s no frackin’ way Cincinnati’s 2nd TD was a TD.
That's one that could have gone either way...
….but I definitely don’t think they should have overturned it. Still a great game, though.
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Love how they don't mention...
…any controversy in this article.
Pead fumbled while diving over the pile and stretching the ball toward the goal line, with West Virginia recovering. The call was overturned on review, which indicated the ball crossed the goal line before he lost it.
They spent a big chunk of halftime talking about what a horrible call it was.
They spent a big chunk of halftime talking about what a horrible call it was.
that right there is a huge part of the problem.
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I think only one cripple shows up there...
the Dawgs. However, Auburn’s defense can keep any game interestingly. I think the Boogs roll this one. 41-28
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by Stuck in the Plains on Nov 14, 2009 9:49 AM CST up reply actions
Can this site please please please add a favicon?
I find articles on this site through RSS feeds. In my feed list, the sites and articles all get little icons next to the articles, and that little icon is the favicon. This site however gets a default ugly icon by it, and I sometimes end up skipping the articles.
It’s really really easy to do. You can use a gif or jpg image for it. And if would make the site look alot better, as it also adds the favicon to any bookmarks I may do.
We have one...
….but I think the problem is we can’t insert the code into individual posts for your RSS reader to pick it up. Its in one of the sidebar widgets that loads on the main page so it loads when the full blog is loaded, but the widget isn’t loaded in individual posts. let me fiddle with it a little and see if I can’t get it to work.
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Ok...
….the code is now in the twitter widget, which is now attached to individual pages as well, so you should get it now.
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it works
I’m using firefox as the reader, and firefox didn’t show the favicon in the toolbar before either, but now it’s working.
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