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• Weis Watch. Another sign of Charlie Weis' impending demise: Notre Dame has blocked the university plane from appearing on flightaware.com (see for yourself), a proactive effort at cutting off the breathless surfers intent on tracking its path to Cincinnati or Gainesville or Vatican City or wherever ND's next coach is waiting. That comes on the heels of the...
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How distrustful are Southeastern Conference coaches of league officials? At the moment, it's off the chart. Tennessee's Lane Kiffin acknowledged that he decided against running another play before his team set up for a field goal that would have beaten Alabama because he was fearful officials would have found another way to penalize his team. Tennessee was one of...
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From the mouth of an SEC fan (Everyday Should Be Saturday and SB Nation's Spencer Hall), a little respect for the Pac-10:
Q is for Quorum. The minimum number of people needed to seat a body of oversight, or what is lacked across the board in the SEC right now in terms of quality teams. Talent abounds, but turnover has taken a hard bite out of the coaching ranks and talent pool, leaving the SEC in a state of flux. Even Alabama and Florida, the titans of the league right now, clearly have serious issues resulting from the loss of offensive players to the draft and graduation. I am as blatant an SEC homer as exists, but this year there are other conferences putting together a more complete menu in terms of teams with depth and cohesion. That conference, for the moment, is the Pac-10. Now I'm going to hide in a bombproof bunker and wait for a while until I hear the bombshells stop landing.
The gravity of those words cannot be understated, especially when you consider that he may get banished from the South permanently for committing such words to paper/screen. People who actually watch football know what's up -- after a rough 2008, the Pac-10 is where it's at in 2009.
Except, of course, for lowly Wazzu and UCLA. Those guys are still terrible.
The Alphabetical, Week 8: Admitting That The Pac-10 Is Better Is The First Step [SB Nation]
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It's truly one of the most remarkable inventions of the past 20 years. It costs nothing to operate, runs 24-7 without a hitch and never requires maintenance.It’s the one, the only Southeastern Conference hype machine.Many a college football fan — and bettor — has been swallowed in the annual hype surrounding the league. But this year is different. With...
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Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller The backup quarterback is just a bruised shoulder or broken jaw away from taking over the most critical position on the field -- just ask USC or UCLA. There's already been plenty of quarterback movement in the conference -- injuries, depth chart changes, etc. -- so it seemed like a good time to see...
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Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller Lining up this week's action. No. 3 USC (2-0) at Washington (1-1) USC beat the Huskies 56-0 last year ... USC leads the all-time series 49-26-4 ... USC is riding a 12-game winning streak ... Washington ended a 15-game losing streak vs. Idaho last weekend ... Washington coach Steve Sarkisian spent seven years on...
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Since everyone knows that the media never engages in stereotypes of the conferences and actually tells it like it is, I thought I’d provide a round up of all the stories extolling the Pac-10 for its toughness as two of its teams out-slugged and out-physicaled teams from the Big Ten and SEC. You see, when the Pac-10 loses one...
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Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller I apologize I forgot to tell you last week to watch the post-game at Boise State. I talked to more than a few folks who clicked their TVs off either late in the fourth or at the final bell and missed all the, er, fun. As for this week, we've got three marquee nonconference...
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Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller How long are you willing to wait for USC and the SEC to hook up? Is 12 years too long? While it's more than likely that neither Pete Carroll nor Lane Kiffin will be the coaches, SEC blogger Chris Low reported that the Volunteers and Trojans also have "a verbal agreement in place to face Southern...
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by Brian GrummellFiled under: NC State, South Carolina, ACC, SECThe dead ball era came to college football, at least for a night as South Carolina played ball control just a little bit better than North Carolina State. Both contributed woeful offensive performances, South Carolina finishing with 255 yards and North Carolina State just 133 in an ugly, sleepy affair.A...
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Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller The games are finally here, and the first one is a doozy, with Oregon squaring off with Boise State on the Smurf Turf. The other big ones include a conference game -- Stanford at Washington State -- LSU paying a visit to Washington (giving new coach Steve Sarkisian a serious challenge for his debut),...
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It's not often a fan from the SEC shows the University of Southern California some respect. It is even less often that the Florida media gives credence to the Trojan football machine. That is why it so poignant that Gatorbait.net, Rivals' source for Florida football has posted an article christening the Trojans as the team of the decade.
Seriously, though, USC is the team of the decade. The Trojans are 93-22 to Florida's 87-31 through the first nine years of the 21st century, a sizable difference. You can point out the weakness of the Pac-10 all you want, but it is much harder to explain away the slew of top-rated recruiting classes and constant supply of high NFL draft picks USC has produced to back up its record...
The Trojans have finished fourth or higher in the final Associated Press poll for seven consecutive seasons. The Gators have finished among the top 10 only four times in the decade...The Trojans have won six of their last seven bowl games and are 6-2 overall for the decade. The Gators have won three of four bowl games under Meyer but were 1-4 from 2000 to 2004. The Trojans won 34 in a row from 2003 to 2005, a streak that ended with a BCS title loss to Texas in one of the most exciting games ever played. The Gators' longest winning streak is 11...
Now to throw some respect back, Florida has not been doing too bad itself with its 2006 & 2008 National Championships and holier-than-heisman Tim Tebow. But until USC and Florida meet on the field, I guess the debate will rage on.
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