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for 2nd consective year, BIG TEN lose to SEC in national championship game
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Georgia president calls for playoff
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January 8, 2008 ATHENS, GEORGIA (TICKER) -- Once an ardent opponent of a playoff system to decide the nationalchampionship, Georgia president Michael Adams has changed his mind.
In a statement released Tuesday by the school, Adams said he will makea proposal to NCAA president Myles Brand that a playoff process be putinto place as soon as contractual arrangements allow.
The current Bowl Championship Series system runs through 2010, whilethe Big Ten Conference, Pac-10 Conference and ABC are under contractwith the Rose Bowl through the 2013 game.
"This year's experience with the BCS forces me to the conclusion thatthe current system has lost public confidence and simply does notwork," said Adams, the chairman of the NCAA's executive committee. "Itis undercutting the sportsmanship and integrity of the game."
Louisiana State (12-2) became the first team to win two BCS nationalchampionship games with Monday's 38-24 victory over Ohio State. The BCShas been in place since 1998.
One of the hottest teams in the country down the stretch, Georgia(11-2) finished third in the final BCS standings behind Ohio State(11-2) and LSU. It routed Hawaii, 41-10, in the Sugar Bowl.
However, the Bulldogs failed to even make the Southeastern Conferencechampionship game. Tennessee won the SEC East Division and lost to LSU,21-14, in the SEC title.
That did not stop Georgia coach Mark Richt from expressing anger thathis team was not chosen for the national championship game.
Adams admitted he had opposed a playoff for more than 20 years becauseof academic concerns. Now, however, he is proposing an eight-teamplayoff.
"The only equitable solution," he said, "is to have the NCAA selectioncommittee place the top eight teams in the four major BCS bowls.
"The winners of those four games will play in two playoff games on thefirst Saturday at least a week past the New Year's bowls, with thenational championship game between the two winners the followingSaturday."
Adams said he remains concerned about extending the season into thesecond semester and would also propose cutting the regular season backto 1l games.
"My concern about extending the season into the second semester stillexists, but this would involve only four teams, and only two in thesecond week," he said.
Two of this year's BCS games turned out to be mismatches. In additionto Georgia's rout of Hawaii, Southern California drubbed Illinois,49-17, in Rose Bowl.
The decision to put Illinois in the Rose Bowl as the Big Ten's No. 2team was widely criticized. Many observers also questioned Ohio State'spresence in the national championship game and its performance Mondaymay have added fuel to the argument that the Buckeyes were not worthyof their No. 1 ranking.
Ohio State played a favorable schedule during the regular season,beating Youngstown State, Akron and Kent State, and took advantage oflosses by Missouri and West Virginia to climb to the top spot in thefinal BCS bowl.
Ohio State also lost to Florida, 41-14, in last season's national championship game.
Credit: Yahoo Sports News at http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=txgeorgiaadams&prov=st&type=lgns |
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june jones is smu coach now ($10 mil for 5 years). hawaii warriors are looking for new coach now. rumors said that dick tomey will be the favorite but tomey already said that he will stay at san jose state.
pete carroll is talking to the falcons (atlanta hopes he'll agree to take over bobby petrino spot who left for arkansas) for head coach and gm positions. i think and i hope carroll will stay at usc as he has a chance to create his own legacy at ncaa level, which is already on its way.
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Pre-Spring Power Rankings
By Heather Dinich
February 29, 2008
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Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
1. Clemson Tigers
2. Virginia Tech Hokies
3. Wake Forest Demon Deacons
4. Florida State Seminoles
5. Miami Hurricanes
6. Maryland Terrapins
7. Boston College Eagles
8. Virginia Cavaliers
9. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
10. North Carolina State Wolfpack
11. North Carolina Tar Heels
12. Duke Blue Devils
Heather Dinich is a college football writer for ESPN.com. Send your questions and comments to Heather at [email protected].
By Tim Griffin
February 29, 2008
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Big 12 Conference
1. Missouri Tigers
2. Oklahoma Sooners
3. Texas Longhorns
4. Texas Tech Red Raiders
5. Kansas Jayhawks
6. Texas A&M Aggies
7. Nebraska Cornhuskers
8. Colorado Buffaloes
9. Oklahoma State Cowboys
10. Kansas State Wildcats
11. Iowa State Cyclones
12. Baylor Bears
Tim Griffin is a college football writer for ESPN.com. Send your questions and comments to Tim at [email protected].
By Heather Dinich
February 29, 2008
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Big East Conference
1. West Virginia Mountaineers
2. University of South Florida Bulls
3. Louisville Cardinals
4. Rutgers Scarlet Knights
5. Cincinnati Bearcats
6. Pittsburgh Panthers
7. Connecticut Huskies
8. Syracuse Orange
Heather Dinich is a college football writer for ESPN.com. Send your questions and comments to Heather at [email protected].
By Adam Rittenberg
February 29, 2008
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Big Ten Conference
1. Ohio State Buckeyes
2. Wisconsin Badgers
3. Penn State Nittany Lions
4. Illinois Fighting Illini
5. Michigan Wolverines
6. Purdue Boilermakers
7. Michigan State Spartans
8. Northwestern Wildcats
9. Indiana Hoosiers
10. Iowa Hawkeyes
11. Minnesota Golden Gophers
Adam Rittenberg covers college football and college basketball for ESPN.com. He can be reached at [email protected].
By Tim Griffin
February 29, 2008
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Big 12 Conference
1. USC Trojans
2. Arizona State Sun Devils
3. Oregon Ducks
4. Oregon State Beavers
5. UCLA Bruins
6. California Golden Bears
7. Arizona Wildcats
8. Washington Huskies
9. Stanford Cardinals
10. Washington State Cougars
Tim Griffin is a college football writer for ESPN.com. Send your questions and comments to Tim at [email protected].
By Chris Low
February 29, 2008
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Southeastern Conference
1. Georgia Bulldogs
2. Florida Gators
3. LSU Tigers
4. Tennessee Volunteers
5. Auburn Tigers
6. South Carolina Gamecocks
7. Alabama Crimson Tide
8. Mississippi State Bulldogs
9. Ole Miss Rebels
10. Arkansas Razorbacks
11. Kentucky Wildcats
12. Vanderbilt Commodores
Chris Low is a college football writer for ESPN.com. Send your questions and comments to Chris at [email protected].
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so for overall ranking, does USC still sits on top? |
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last available ranking, lsu tigers still on top - usc trojans were 2nd and 3rd in those polls. the next one won't come out until 2-3 weeks before the start of the season.
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NCAA Football: Rivals.com |
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2008's 12 embarrassing games
Mike Huguenin
College Football Editor
Rivals.com
April 15, 2008
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Monday, we took a broad look at the schedules for the Division I-A conferences. Now, we're getting more specific, with a list of the 12 most embarrassing games of the season. On Wednesday, we'll look at the 12 best non-conference games of the season.
A couple of things before we start:
* First, we do not care about the back story of why some of these games came about. We're fully aware that some "Big Six" league schools had to scramble to find an opponent when another school pulled out. We also know this: Less than two weeks ago, two Division I-A teams coming off bowl wins
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NCAA Football Update - BCS Commissioners Discuss a Playoff System. |
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By Dan Wetzel
Yahoo! Sports
12 hours, 49 minutes ago
Mike Slive, the genteel commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, has heard the rage from college football fans seeking a new postseason system. He抯 been stopped at airports, been grilled by the media and had endless proposals mailed to him.
He understands the frustration. He抯 aware of the impatience. He feels the pain.
Monday, he is going to do something about it. While not the dramatic act playoff backers would dream of or even anything that ensures so much as a modest format change will be adopted by 2010, when the BCS television contract ends, Slive will at least take some action at BCS meetings in South Florida.
For the first time he will put forth for discussion a viable, detailed and intelligent plan for a seeded 損lus-one
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NCAA Football Update - BCS Rejects Plan for 4-Team Playoff |
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By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
2 hours, 34 minutes ago
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP)桾here will be no playoff for the BCS anytime soon.
Bowl Championship Series officials rejected a plan Wednesday to turn the controversiol system for deciding a national champ into a four-team playoff, starting in the 2010 season.
揂fter a very thorough very good discussion among the group, we have decided that because we feel at this time the BCS is in an unprecedented state of health, we feel it抯 never been healthier during its first decade,
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Figure of Speech
By Mark Schlabach
ESPN.com
[email protected]
May 5, 2008, 4:39 PM ET
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida quarterback Tim Tebow took the microphone, scanned the 14 rows of grim-faced men sitting in folding metal chairs and recognized the familiar hue of blue.
"How many Gator fans do we have in the house today?" Tebow asked.
After more than half the men raised their hands, Tebow added, "All right, those who didn't raise their hands, that's who I'm preaching to today."
According to warden Buddy Roberts, Tim Tebow's message will have an impact on the inmates because he is in their age group.
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On a balmy Saturday morning in mid-April -- the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback's first weekend away from the bright spotlight of Florida football -- Tebow had never seemed more comfortable.
His playing field was a concrete basketball court in the middle of Gainesville Correctional Institute, a minimum-medium security state prison where banished major league baseball stars Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry once served hard time. His sideline was a 15-foot metal fence topped by razor wire and guarded by a correctional officer carrying a shotgun and driving a small pickup truck. His audience no longer was tens of thousands of Gator fans cheering his every move, but rather more than 150 inmates, many of whom are serving at least three-year prison sentences for drug-related offenses and still trying to kick the habit that put them in there.
Moving from the gridiron to the gospel is no big leap for Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow.
(Scott A. Miller/US Presswire)
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Still, Tebow seemed as confident as when he lowers his broad shoulders into SEC defenders. He delivered his message loud and clear, as if he were barking orders in the Gators' huddle.
"Everybody is telling me I've made it," Tebow told the inmates. "They tell me, 'Tim, you have success and you've made it.' I've won the Heisman Trophy, so I've got it made, right? One day, people are going to forget about me. One day, people are going to forget about the Heisman Trophy, the jump pass and the national championship. One day, this [championship] ring is going to rust. There are only four things that are going to last forever: God, his word, people and rewards.
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Team Record Pts Pvs
1 LSU (60) 12-2 1620 2 bye
2 Georgia (3) 11-2 1515 4 bye
3 USC (1) 11-2 1500 6 bye
4 Missouri 12-2 1347 7 bye
5 Ohio State 11-2 1346 1 bye
6 West Virginia 11-2 1342 11 bye
7 Kansas (1) 12-1 1303 8 bye
8 Oklahoma 11-3 1139 3 bye
9 Virginia Tech 11-3 1096 5 bye
10 Boston College 11-3 962 14 bye
10 Texas 10-3 962 17 bye
12 Tennessee 10-4 904 16 bye
13 Florida 9-4 685 9 bye
14 Brigham Young 11-2 654 19 bye
15 Auburn 9-4 648 22 bye
16 Arizona State 10-3 587 12 bye
17 Cincinnati 10-3 566 20 bye
18 Michigan 9-4 508 31 bye
19 Hawaii 12-1 460 10 bye
20 Illinois 9-4 443 13 bye
21 Clemson 9-4 353 15 bye
22 Texas Tech 9-4 308 26 bye
23 Oregon 9-4 253 29 bye
24 Wisconsin 9-4 202 18 bye
25 Oregon State 9-4 110 29 bye |
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Florida International faces four more years of probation because it used 45 ineligible student-athletes in 15 different sports, the NCAA announced Wednesday. The Golden Panthers must vacate any of the wins they collected while using ineligible players.
Florida International president Modesto A. Maidique says new compliance procedures have been implemented.
The school already was serving a probationary period that was scheduled to end May 20. Florida International's probation now will last through May 19, 2012. The NCAA cited Florida International for using ineligible athletes from the 2002-03 school year to 2006-07.
Florida International's violations occurred as the school was making the move from the Division I-AA level to the Division I-A rankings. The Golden Panthers made the move to Division I-A within four years after the school launched its football program.
NCAA officials said Florida International didn't expand its compliance department as its athletic program grew. The NCAA also indicated that the personnel making eligibility certification decisions at Florida International weren't properly educated on NCAAA rules and were basing their choices on a software system that didn't always contain all the relevant information.
"Upon discovering these violations, we put in place new compliance procedures that are much more suited to the university FIU has become in the last 10 years," FIU president Modesto A. Maidique said. "We now have the level of staffing and the redundancies that will prevent these types of infractions from occurring again in the future."
The NCAA is recommending that the Sun Belt Conference conduct an audit of Florida International's compliance programs halfway through the school's probationary period.
Florida International misapplied rules pertaining to full-time enrollment, progress-toward-degree requirements, the "five-year" eligibility rule, squad lists and transfers, the NCAA said. Florida International also over-awarded scholarships in men's soccer, women's soccer and women's golf from 2004-05 through 2006-07.
The penalties include scholarship reductions in 11 sports. Florida International's self-imposed scholarship cuts include a loss of three grants-in-aid for football and one for men's basketball. Other programs losing scholarships include baseball, men's soccer, softball, women's golf, women's swimming and women's soccer.
These scholarship reductions are separate from any penalties the school might face in regard to its Academic Progress Rate, said Josephine Potuto, the chair of the NCAA infractions committee. The NCAA released the APRs of each school Tuesday and noted that Florida International lost three scholarships in football and one in basketball. |
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college football season is getting closer. can't wait...
USA TODAY Coaches Top 25 - Pre-Season |
RANK | TEAM (First Place Vote) | RECORD | POINTS | 1 | Georgia Bulldogs (22) | 0-0 | 1438 | 2 | USC Trojans (14) | 0-0 | 1430 | 3 | Ohio State Buckeyes (14) | 0-0 | 1392 | 4 | Oklahoma Sooners (3) | 0-0 | 1329 | 5 | Florida Gators (5) | 0-0 | 1293 | 6 | LSU Tigers (3) | 0-0 | 1163 | 7 | Missouri Tigers | 0-0 | 1143 | 8 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 0-0 | 1008 | 9 | Clemson Tigers | 0-0 | 999 | 10 | Texas Longhorns | 0-0 | 979 | 11 | Auburn Tigers | 0-0 | 888 | 12 | Wisconsin Badgers | 0-0 | 747 | 13 | Kansas Jayhawks | 0-0 | 714 | 14 | Texas Tech Red Raiders | 0-0 | 644 | 15 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 0-0 | 568 | 16 | Arizona State Sun Devils | 0-0 | 560 | 17 | Brigham Young Cougars | 0-0 | 547 | 18 | Tennessee Volunteers | 0-0 | 506 | 19 | Illinois Fighting Illini | 0-0 | 422 | 20 | Oregon Ducks | 0-0 | 399 | 21 | South Florida Bulls | 0-0 | 350 | 22 | Penn State Nittany Lions | 0-0 | 313 | 23 | Wake Forest Demon Deacons | 0-0 | 203 | 24 | Michigan Wolverines | 0-0 | 112 | 25 | Fresno State Bulldogs | 0-0 | 91 |
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mana college fan semua? sizen dah setat nih
All big names came out strong. But only OSU notches a shutout win - against a team I never know existed (little do I know they have football programl) - with a heavy price. I don't what kind of player Wells is. Does OSU's championship hope really lies on his feet?
Alabama and Mizzou completed 1st week with respectable win againts ranked teams. The season is still too early to tell who's the strongest but as usual, regular names will lead the ranking. |
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Reply #237 ai#eru's post
youngstown state was one of the best football schools in 1-AA, i think they still are. i used to follow almost all football programs; 1-A, 1-AA, II, III, naia, junior varsity, etc. now, don't have much time - just concentrate on 1-A and football programs around the place i live.
it's hard to measure performances of any 1-A teams against 1-AA teams, especially for football powerhouse like the buckeyes. we won't know how good ohio state is until they pay a visit to los angeles coliseum, to meet another college football powerhouse, usc trojans.
as for usc, we know they don't miss their 3 defensive players that went first round in last april draft; and certainly not anybody on the offense, including david booty and fred davis. everybody knows that usc will win against virginia in the opening game, but little do people know that the trojans were able to slice cavaliers defense on the road (they need more than just the present of chris long - their defensive stalwart a year ago).
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attee, wehh!!!
alamak!!!! virginia tech lost last saturday.... oh well!!! I hope they'll bounce right back up |
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Reply #239 spitfire007's post
Kalah upset pulak tu prof.
off-topic - brewers did unexpectedly well this season  |
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