New BCS Projections: SEC, Big Ten get two teams in
It’s Tuesday, we’re tired of talking about Cam Newton, and the new BCS standings are out. So let’s update our projections.
BCS Championship: No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 2 Auburn.
Update: Just about every team that plays for the BCS national championship dodges at least one bullet along the way. For Oregon that was last Saturday night against California. Cal missed a 29-yard field goal that would have given the Bears the lead. Auburn (11-0) still has to win at Alabama and has to beat South Carolina for the second time this season when they meet in the SEC championship game on Dec. 4.
Rose: Wisconsin vs. Boise State.
Update: If Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Michigan State all finish at 11-1 the tiebreaker will go to the highest ranked team in the BCS Standings. That will be Wisconsin after the Badgers hung 83 on Indiana last Saturday. Boise State (9-0) still has three games left (Fresno State, Nevada, Utah State) but if the Broncos win out I beleive they will jump over TCU (which has one game left with 1-9 New Mexico) into the No. 3 spot. If Oregon goes to the big game, the Rose has to take Boise.
Sugar: LSU vs. Ohio State.
Update: LSU has to beat Ole Miss on Saturday, which it will do. But then the Tigers have a very interesting trip to Little Rock to face Arkansas on Nov. 27. Win both games and the Tigers are close to a lock for New Orleans if Auburn is in the big game. The Sugar will look at 12-0 TCU but I believe they will pass and take 11-1 Ohio State for the television ratings.
Orange: Virginia Tech vs. TCU.
Update: If the Sugar takes Ohio State, the Orange will basically have a choice between undefeated TCU and 11-1 Stanford. Michigan State can’t go at 11-1 because two Big Ten teams have already been picked. A two-loss SEC team can’t go because two SEC teams have been chosen.
Fiesta: Nebraska vs. West Virginia.
Update: The Fiesta gets the Big 12 champ and right now I’m leaning towards Nebraska. The Big East champions gets an automatic bid regardless of its record or ranking and so the Fiesta is praying that West Virginia wins that league. Looks like it will come down to the Backyard Brawl between Pittsburgh (5-4) and West Virginia (6-3) on Nov. 26. With West Virginia on the other side the Fiesta has a chance to sell some tickets. Don’t forget South Florida (6-3) which controls its destiny in the Big East.
Stanford (9-1) has games remaining with Oregon State and California. The Cardinal could finish 11-1 and be left out of the BCS unless Auburn stumbles down the stretch. Because if Auburn loses and either Boise or TCU moves into the BCS championship game, the Rose doesn’t have to take a non-automatic qualifier. The Rose would then be free to take Stanford to play Wisconsin, which is the game they want if Oregon is not available.
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391 comments Add your comment
JB
November 16th, 2010
10:57 am
AU folks….real question…….does Cam come back next year?
Silver Britches, Red Panties
November 16th, 2010
10:58 am
Our Beloved Dawgs are now Bowel Eligible!
Patrick Romano WAR DAMN EAGLE
November 16th, 2010
10:59 am
ATL Tiger, great 2 pts. & of course they don’t mention the cheap ass chopblocks that UGA was called for & 2 they ggot away with. IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER. Also, if you watched the game without any kind of bias, Fairly got blocked into Murray more than he dove at his knnee.
DC
November 16th, 2010
10:59 am
thats what i said too atltiger..if the truth comes out and we were in the wrong..i would accept it 100% and support AU during this mess b/c it wont be pretty…Hey dawg, makes some valid sports points or troll somewhere else..
HeyDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:01 am
See inbred comment above
DC
November 16th, 2010
11:01 am
JB, no. Absolutely not. Even if he isn’t in the wrong and is cleared. Who would put up with that for another year. I would rather get paid and move on. But, I guess another issue might be the NFL lockout as well…
Karma
November 16th, 2010
11:01 am
Cam Newton, Cecil Newton, Nick Fairley, Gene Chizik & Auburn fanbase. you’re all on notice. It’s going to be time to pay the piper and a lot sooner than you think. Hope you all have enjoyed the ride, because my other side is a b*tch!
Richard Nixon
November 16th, 2010
11:05 am
I can sympathize with the Auburn Family. I too thought that I could put the Genie back into the bottle — right up to the bitter end.
HeyDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:06 am
The supposed “chop block” was laughable. Go look at the replay, esteemed property manager. It’s hilarious. And you keep pointing to that as your response? What a toilette plunger.
anotherdawg
November 16th, 2010
11:06 am
LSU lobbying for BCS title game even if they don’t win SEC. Sorry, Charlie. UGA was there a few years back, they got leap-frogged. Can’t go if you don’t win your conference was the glowing sentiment.
HeyDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:08 am
Yep anotherdawg. How easily they forget about that.
DC
November 16th, 2010
11:08 am
chop block wasn’t laughable..the announcers even stated that it was a dangerous move…UGA FANS have stated it was bad..but also stated he deserved it…also, there is a difference between a janitor and a property manager. what else you got?
RussDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:09 am
This is funny
Last week Cam Newton stories were at fever pitch.
This week nothing.
Was it CMR and UGA stirring the pot in hopes he would be benched and the Dawgs have a chance?
HeyDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:12 am
If you haven’t seen a replay of the chop block, which it’s obvious you haven’t, please go see what this sheet-rock hanger and tiolette plunger, DC, is talking about. I fall on the ground laughing everytime I see it. It’s a nonevent.
GeneralNeyland96
November 16th, 2010
11:14 am
I don’t have a dog (or Dawg) in this hunt…but if you’re a property manager there, you should know that it’s spelled Vinings (one “n”).
HeyDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:16 am
I hope AU football gets the death penalty. Those inbreds don’t deserve a football team. They need to go find a job instead, and forget about all this college football. Go make your life better DC, instead of resigning yourself to plunging tiolettes, and you don’t even do that, obviously, cause you’re here night and day, everytime I look at these blogs.
HeyDawg
November 16th, 2010
11:17 am
Bye DC. But I’ll be back and I’m sure you’ll be here.
how2fish
November 16th, 2010
11:19 am
Patrick Romano WAR DAMN EAGLE I’ll give you he may have been blocked into Murray..however he then went to the sidelines and proceed to celebrate knocking Murray out of the game by parading up and down the sidelines acting like he was putting on “the belt” that classless act will come back to haunt him…the entire O-line for Bama has that to study for 2 weeks….let him get a little frisky with the Bama QB and it won’t wait till the 4th quarter to blow up in his face. And do you think that the Dawgs will forget this just because the gasbag goes to the NFL this year…I don’t think so.
DC
November 16th, 2010
11:20 am
So I had a typo…people are so quick to harp these days..forgive me for my ignorance or mispelling..
DC
November 16th, 2010
11:21 am
waits for it…waits for it..
LR Hog
November 16th, 2010
11:23 am
Auburn wins out, LSU beats Ole Miss but loses to my Hogs in LR: So, Hogs 10-2, LSU 10-2, Bama 9-3. Who does the Sugar take? Hope it’s my Hogs. Hey, Ole Miss – help us out this weekend!
atltiger15
November 16th, 2010
11:24 am
Absolutely Cam should go pro if he is a sure fire first rounder. Earlier in the year people were saying that he was just a runner. My how people’s perspective changes. Unknown to going pro. Good for him. The death penalty comment was comical. I can assure you that wont happen.. And yes we could easily lose to Bama, we’ll be underdogs going into that game..
ARdawg
November 16th, 2010
11:37 am
MURPH
I picked the old ball sack for the FL game. I expected he would put an a$$ waxing on his old team for no other reason than just “he could” and thats all the motivation he needs.
ATL Gator
Yeah me too. I have a few friends who are AU Alum and rabid. I actually like AU myself unless we’re playing them. Couple of local kids over the years played there. I see AU headed for a major clusterfluck over Camgate and still in denial. Oh well, what can ya do?
3rdN8
November 16th, 2010
11:38 am
Is it official? Is the AU-UGA “feel good” rivalry now dead?
Thought so. Sad to see it go.
Bama and UT used to have a similar rivalry….it met a similar fate. An historical rivalry that spans generations becoming a hate-fest.
Wonder what the common thread is.
3rdN8
November 16th, 2010
11:41 am
atltiger15
My perspective has certainly changed. I thought early in the year that he was a mediocre passer at best. I still think he was (emphasis on “was”). Give Malzahn his due…..Newton is developing into a great passer. Just hope his development slows a bit between now and November 26.
how2fish
November 16th, 2010
11:42 am
atltiger15 I agree I don’t see the death penalty being give to Auburn and hope its not.
MikeP
November 16th, 2010
11:43 am
Where do you guys get the “Cecil Newton admitted asking for money” crap? Another unnamed source heard from yet another unnamed source that Cecil said that. Same as the totally disproven claims of academic troubles at Florida, it’s all bogus. Check yesterday’s Houston Chronicle article by Joseph Duarte if you might be interested in truth, which I doubt you are. This story has actual, you know SOURCES that state their names and position titles, unlike all the anonymous liars. Link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/7294741.html
Here’s part:
“Before Newton could enroll at Blinn, however, Franchione and school officials conducted their own inquiry into the situation at Florida.
“We have a (National Junior College Athletic Association) policy that you can’t take a student-athlete that is not eligible to go back to the institution he was at,” Rehr said. “So, upon him leaving Florida, he was still in good standing as a student, and he was still in good standing with the (football) program.”
As for Lattimore running all over Auburn, he won’t be running on the limp Dawg defense. Two weeks after Lattimore junked the Dawgs Auburn held him to 33 yards on 16 carries. Almost identical to the beatdown Auburn laid on last year’s Heisman winner in the Iron Bowl.
Cam gets the Heisman, Auburn goes straight ahead to a 14-0 Championship year and Dawgs and bamzos fight over the Birmingham bowl, if Dawgs can beat Tech.
jumbeauxtiger
November 16th, 2010
11:45 am
DC
“jumbeaux..we are talking about these next two games not the entire year…auburn has a national title chance..lsu has a sugar bowl chance…dont get caught up in the hype..LSU will not jump boise or TCU..TCU has one game left..and its a cupcake…”
I never said anything about LSU playing for the national title. Perhaps I misunderstood that you were talking about the last 2 games. Obviously I was referring to the whole season. The only “hype” I have been caught up in is LSU winning the next 2 games.
Chris
November 16th, 2010
11:45 am
Hey Tony….I think your predictions are pretty solid but it’s sad a team as good as Stanford gets left out or even Michigan St and a team like West Va or Pitt get in. Your pick of Ohio St also assumes they beat Iowa. I know the Hawkeyes have stubbed their toe a couple times but Iowa is still a good team and they are at home.
I do have a question…..I heard reports this morning that if Auburn were to lose to Alabama & S. Carolina that LSU would go to the National Title game. Can that really happen? Remember in 2007 that UGA and USC were the two hottest teams in College football and everyone argued Georgia couldn’t go to the title game because they didn’t even make their conference championship game. Well I ask you, What is different with LSU because they aren’t going to the conference championship game either.
We need a PLAYOFF, PLAYOFF, PLAYOFF
Shut It Down
November 16th, 2010
11:47 am
Half of the Georgia starters have been arrested or suspended this year. Up to 13 now I believe. How can any UGA fan run their mouths about how any Auburn players. Richt has a bunch of thugs and no control over his team and Georgia has the biggest whiny, cry baby fans. You are 5-6, so shut it down and deal with your own issues.
SEC Analyst
November 16th, 2010
11:50 am
@3rdN8
Cam Newton developed into a “great passer” in junior high. You may not have noticed this, but others certainly did. He may not have any morals, but he was born with athletic ability.
@how2fish
Auburn doesn’t qualify for the NCAA “Death Penalty”. They do, however qualify for various other sanctions, including scholarship reductions, bowl bans and suspension from television. In addition, they stand to forfeit all wins accrued while playing an ineligible athlete.
jumbeauxtiger
November 16th, 2010
11:51 am
Chris, I doubt if Auburn lost to Bama and SC that LSU would go to the national title game. LSU is tied for 3rd in the computer polls currently but the pollsters would not jump them over TCU and or Boise St. Thus the human polls portion of the BCS formula, or two-thirds, would keep them out.
LSU hasn’t finshed 11-1 yet so it’s all premature.
Sean
November 16th, 2010
11:53 am
UConn is going to win the Big East. If USF beats Pitt this weekend, UConn also controls its own destiny since it’s already beat West Virginia & Pitt.
http://thebubblescreen.blogspot.com
how2fish
November 16th, 2010
11:55 am
SEC Analyst no disagreement here I merely stated they shouldn’t and I hope wont get the death penalty. The rest is due and just.
Rick
November 16th, 2010
11:55 am
Ralistic Fan,
I am a Bama fan and we are gonna kick The Tigers butt in Bryant-Denny next Friday. You will be the one having nightmares for a long time to come. You had them when Bama hired Saban. You fired Tubbs and fired up the Pat Dye machine. You restarted the pay for play schemes and hired a token coach with no power to do anything about it. Now, you are within reach of an SEC and BCS Championship and the house starts to crumble with the Cam Newton revelations. Don’t worry, the NCAA won’t prevent you dreams from coming true. They will die on the turf of Bryant-Denny Stadium next Friday afternoon. Whine on that! Roll Tide!
Reality
November 16th, 2010
11:57 am
49-31 Bawahahahahahaha
Kettle
November 16th, 2010
11:59 am
Thuga Fans calling Auburn Dirty… Well thats like the Pot calling me black
AJ Green
November 16th, 2010
12:00 pm
Has left the group “We gon shock da world yo”
Aaron Murray
November 16th, 2010
12:01 pm
Please lord let Fairly got to the NFL draft this year… I only have one good knee left.
how2fish
November 16th, 2010
12:02 pm
Kettle newsflash moron it makes them no less dirty.
Thuga
November 16th, 2010
12:02 pm
How dem Auburn boys gon be showin us up yo.. Dey aints got no street cred.
Kettle
November 16th, 2010
12:03 pm
How2fish… I dont care if you think Auburn is dirty.. just admit that the thugs at Thuga U have been dirty for a long time…
Mark Richt
November 16th, 2010
12:05 pm
I took the high road and told the team to take a knee at the end of the game…. BAWAHAHAHAHAH after you sicked your pathetic offensive linemen on Fairley 3 on 1 and tried to chop block him a few plays before that… Oh yeah Mark you are such a saint!!!! bawahahahahahaha
5-6
November 16th, 2010
12:06 pm
Guess Richt ran out of tricks….. Who yall gonna get to replace him??? bawahahahahahha
SEC Analyst
November 16th, 2010
12:06 pm
@how2fish
Auburn would have had to have been on probation for NCAA infractions within the past five years in order to qualify for the “Death Penalty”. Tubby used questionable tactics to put together his 2004 squad, but they failed to achieve the desired goal and the NCAA was content to sweep that unsightly mess under the rug. Auburn won’t be so fortunate this time.
43-31
November 16th, 2010
12:08 pm
Thuga is lucky that AU came out asleep in the first quarter… They got raped the rest of the game. 42-10 after that. Just think if AU had been on the entire game… Score should have been something like 65-10
SEC Analyst
November 16th, 2010
12:10 pm
Are Auburn fans really bragging about defeating Georgia? The same Georgia team that lost to Colorado?
BCSstinks
November 16th, 2010
12:10 pm
Well Tony,
I hate to say it but the SEC will only get one team in this season and that is going to be a decent South Carolina team. To start with Auburn will lose and big to Alabama and then in the SEC title game as well.
Justice will be served as the Best Team in the Country will finally have its chance to shut the big boys up as it will beat Oregon for the third time in 3 years. It is what it is but it is time that Boise gets the respect that it deserves. I am from the South and love Southern football both SEC as well as ACC but at the same time I do not mind admitting when a team is the best around.
how2fish
November 16th, 2010
12:13 pm
Kettle yep almost as long as Auburn has…see we can do this all day.
atltiger15
November 16th, 2010
12:13 pm
Obviuosly I’m an AU fan, with that said, we have have good fortune this year.I dont know one AU fan that thinks were a dominant team. We could easily lose every game left. But the guys have made some plays at critical times. Our defense is suspect at best. Roof has chosen to try and stop the run first. Our secondary is terrible, obviously. Green, Alshon, Childs, Adams, Cobb killed us and no reason to beleive that Julio wont do the same. Ingram will be running angry because of the game last year. This will be a battle just like every sec game this year. Good luck to Bama fans, this should be a great game