The Season So Far 11/26

[olympicoscar]

Top Tier: Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama
2nd Tier: Oregon, Texas AM, Florida, LSU
3rd Tier: Kansas State, Stanford, Oklahoma

Biggest Surprises: Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas AM, Kansas St, Oregon St, Northern Illinois, Kent St, Northwestern, Utah St, Penn State.

Biggest Disappointments: Iowa, Michigan St, South Florida, USC, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Arkansas, Auburn, Tennessee.

Heisman Trophy: Johnny Manziel and Manit Te'o. That's it. Collin Klein would need a monster week to pull himself back into contention.

NC Game: Notre Dame vs Georgia/Alabama. No other possible contenders.

Key Remaining Games

Northern Illinois vs Kent St Nov 30 (Could be for a BCS Bowl)
Kansas St vs Texas Dec 1
Oklahoma vs TCU Dec 1
Alabama vs Georgia Dec 1

National Championship setup seems clear. ND vs SEC winner. No other possible game. Ohio State is a likely number 2 in the AP poll, would need a lot of things to go right to wind up number 1. Kent St-Northern Illinois game could cost the Big 12 another BCS slot.

 

[Cane]

Oklahoma and Texas both guaranteed to lose

 

[romeo212000]

Oklahoma and Texas both guaranteed to lose

 

[olympicoscar]

There are no guarantees in this world.

 

[KansasSooner]

TCU has a better chance of beating OU than UT has beating K-State though.

 

[romeo212000]

As long as OU beats TCU all I care about is the niu beats kent state.

 

[olympicoscar]

As long as OU beats TCU all I care about is the niu beats kent state.

Northern Illinois could move up into the top 16 also. Just saying. Both are BCS rated.

 

[Gatorchip]

I think Florida's season is a big surprise. They barely finished above 500 last season (thanks Ohio State) and are now one of the best teams in the NCAA after a monster schedule.

If KSU hadn't done so good this year, Muschamp should win coach of the year.

 

[BigAppleBadger]

Wisconsin has got to be on the disappointments list no?

 

[olympicoscar]

Wisconsin has got to be on the disappointments list no?

I thought about it, but because they made the CCG, I left them off. However if no one was on probation they finish 3rd and for a team that was top 20 pre-season, that's disappointing.

 

[uncfan103]

Northern Illinois could, and should, but probably won't, move up into the top 16 also. Just saying. Both are BCS rated.

Fify

 

[BigAppleBadger]

I thought about it, but because they made the CCG, I left them off. However if no one was on probation they finish 3rd and for a team that was top 20 pre-season, that's disappointing.

I still think they're a disappointment. Sure they ended up in the CCG as expected, but at 7-5. If they lose that game, they're not going to the Capital One Bowl, they're going to some 3rd tier game against Miss State or Vandy.