College Football starts this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[President]

Upset pick of the week is Oregon State over TCU.

[Taluvill]

Go CU = )

[eqdruid76]

Get your cocksuck out of our Nerdragesanctum.

[Loke]

Wisconsin will go to a BCS bowl game this year. CALLING IT NOW.

Also favorite memory from last year. Me and a friend got hooked up with tickets to the Kraft Food's private box. Tons of food, comfortable seats, and best of all... all you can drink beer (note the bottles of spotted cow). Definitely was a different experience than my normal student tickets.

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[Eternal-Elf]

Football is over-rated.

[...Raren]

Notre Dame!

[Rejuvenation]

Garrett Gilbert = Jesus Incarnate?

I think so...

[Cyrano]

Garrett Gilbert? Pfft watch out for Mike Davis that dude is going to be full beast mode by mid-season. I haven't seen a WR dominate for Texas like he did in the All-Star games.

[Charyz]

http://media.wsbt.com/images/Notre+Dame+Football1.jpg

Thats all I have to say.

[...Raren]

http://media.wsbt.com/images/Notre+Dame+Football1.jpg

Thats all I have to say.

Ok WTF Charyz you cant like the same college team as me

[Charyz]

Sorry bro, family full of golden domer fans if I cheered elsewhere I'd likely be disowned.

[Metric Ton]

TEXAS!

[President]

Good to see we got some Texas fans here, HOOK`EM!

Depth chart was released today if yall didn't see.

Notable Things:

Cody Johnson starting tailback.
Case McCoy is backup QB, Connor will redshirt assuming nothing crazy happens.
Calvin Howell is 3rd string at DT, Okafor was moved in, apparently fighting off his 3rd concussion.
Christian Scott will line up with Blake Gideon, Vacarro is backing up AJ at Nickel and Scott at safety. (I don't root for injuries, but I'm expecting to Scott to send at least 1 person off in a stretcher this year.)
O-Line looks promising but two deep is poor, really have to hope for few injuries, same goes for DT.
Curtis Brown and AJ will be returning punts, both speedsters are returning kickoffs.

Ridiculously stacked at DE, LB, and DB... Brown may be right when he says this could be the best defense he has had at Texas.

[MeldrathRN]

Wisconsin will go to a BCS bowl game this year. CALLING IT NOW.

Also favorite memory from last year. Me and a friend got hooked up with tickets to the Kraft Food's private box. Tons of food, comfortable seats, and best of all... all you can drink beer (note the bottles of spotted cow). Definitely was a different experience than my normal student tickets.

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Dude, I said the same thing to my badger college buddies and they all laughed at me (maybe it's because we always seem to fuck up at least a couple games every year). Seriously though, the schedule really doesn't look that bad. Iowa on the road and OSU at home will be tough, but I have high hopes for this team. I plan on flying back to Madtown for one of the September games, can't fucking wait!

[Loke]

Yea, your buddies are dead wrong. We'll for sure finish in the top 3 in the big ten - and I personally think we'll win either the home Ohio St. game OR the away Iowa game, which would ensure us at a minimum the #2 slot in the big ten - which should earn us a BCS bowl game.

This is like one of the first years since the Alvarez glory days that we've had such a strong offense. Clay is going to destroy on the ground, Tolizen looked great last year and he should bring that plus some added confidence to the field this year. In the air we have Toon and Anderson, with Kendricks stepping up as a replacement for Graham.

Honestly I'm more worried about our defense, but Wisconsin always has a strong defense so I'm confident they have the line and secondary working well - and know that our returning linebackers should continue to dominate.

How anyone could say we aren't a big contender in the big ten this year is beyond me. Maybe if we had a QB with a mediocre arm who ran the option every other play we'd get more respect (yea that's right Ohio State - Pryor is an overhyped clown, money says Tolizen puts up more respectable PASSING numbers this season)

[eqdruid76]

The problem is the lack of containment out of the pocket during play action, typical of the shotgun offense of the Big 10. If only the safeties could provide screen coverage, it would allow most, if not all of the receivers to penetrate their opponents' no-huddle defenses for more yards, more big plays, and more 2nd-down conversions.

[Loke]

Yea, but then it wouldn't be Big Ten football. I know most people hate the grinding, slow, unexciting, defense dominated football that the Big Ten is known for - but I think it makes the conference more interesting. I won't argue that the Big Ten is the best conference in college football, since I think the SEC probably is (although with Nebraska joining us next year, we do have a lot of powerhouse teams) - but Big Ten football in my opinion is the most competitive. Even the weaker teams in the conference have a tendency to show up and play huge games and it seems every season some team just surprises everyone (Iowa last year).

I had way more written out pretty much talking about every team in the conference and then realized I'm probably just listing a bunch of common knowledge that anyone who cares about college football already knows - so yea.. Big Ten football has its weaknesses, but I personally love it.

[President]

Yea, but then it wouldn't be Big Ten football. I know most people hate the grinding, slow, unexciting, defense dominated football that the Big Ten is known for - but I think it makes the conference more interesting. I won't argue that the Big Ten is the best conference in college football, since I think the SEC probably is (although with Nebraska joining us next year, we do have a lot of powerhouse teams) - but Big Ten football in my opinion is the most competitive. Even the weaker teams in the conference have a tendency to show up and play huge games and it seems every season some team just surprises everyone (Iowa last year).

I had way more written out pretty much talking about every team in the conference and then realized I'm probably just listing a bunch of common knowledge that anyone who cares about college football already knows - so yea.. Big Ten football has its weaknesses, but I personally love it.

Penn State and Ohio State have been the only notable teams from the Big 10 in recent years, and Ohio State has pissed away plenty of championship chances. The Big 10 is not even remotely close to as good as the SEC, even with the addition of Nebraska. You would have a better chance arguing that it is better than the Big 12 (minus CU/NEB), or the PAC-10, but even that is debatable.

In fact, in the last 3 years, the Big 10 has only won ONE bowl game against Big 12 opponents:

2009

Iowa St over Minnesota 14-13
Texas Tech over Michigan State 41-31

2008 (shows top to bottom Big 12 better than Big 10)

Missouri over Northwestern 30-23
Kansas over Minnesota 42-21
Texas over Ohio State 24-12

2007

Penn State over A&M 24-17
OSU over Indiana 49-33

[Cyrano]

Hah we got an Orangebloods.com fan on our hands.

[President]

Not orangebloods... Shaggybevo, burnt orange nation, mackbrown-texasfootball, bevobeat, and 24/7texas.

[Loke]

I won't argue that the Big Ten is the best conference in college football, since I think the SEC probably is... but Big Ten football in my opinion is the most competitive.

Pretty sure I conceded that the SEC is probably the best conference in college football right now President :)

[President]

Pretty sure I conceded that the SEC is probably the best conference in college football right now President :)

Aye you did, but you added a quotation about getting Nebraska in, hinting you might challenge the SEC. And no mention of other conferences makes me think you assume Big 10 is the second best conference. Though, I am pretty sure on my first read through I misread something there, because my response wasn't really necessary for your statement haha.

[Cyrano]

Nebraska has had one decent season in the past 11, hardly think they're going to put you guys over the top.

However he's right about the Big 10 being the most competitive BCS conference within it's own league, once they go up against outside competition though it's a different story.

[Cyrano]

Not orangebloods... Shaggybevo, burnt orange nation, mackbrown-texasfootball, bevobeat, and 24/7texas.

Pfft you read webpages that literally steal their info from the OB message boards.

Well aside from MB but that's cheating but they don't do shit besides post pictures and the schedule.

[President]

Pfft you read webpages that literally steal their info from the OB message boards.

Well aside from MB but that's cheating but they don't do shit besides post pictures and the schedule.

I wouldn't call shaggybevo much of a football discussion board. It's more of a talk a bunch of shit about each other with the occasional thing taken from ESPN/OB/ETC. I would recommend checking out their MS paint threads.. heres a few gems from the most recent one:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/thujone/predict3.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/thujone/predict12e.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/thujone/predict14.jpg


I would hardly say Burnt Orange Nation steals anything, its mostly opinionated articles. Texas24/7 is a new board with two insiders, mostly has to do with recruiting. Bevobeat is also the Longhorn section of the Austin American Statesman... so.. not really man!

[Charyz]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/thujone/predict3.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/thujone/predict12e.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a380/thujone/predict14.jpg




hahahaa

[Messianic]

Oh gosh. College football has to be all around me, now it's on the forums for the friggin game i play :P

Background: I'm full-time staff at Florida State University, and as you might know, football is pretty big around here (despite our mediocre seasons the past like 7-8 years)...I use gamedays as a time to do shopping I would otherwise not be inclined to do.

I might flip channels and glance at the score every now and then, but I'm just not that into it.

[President]

Oh gosh. College football has to be all around me, now it's on the forums for the friggin game i play :P

Background: I'm full-time staff at Florida State University, and as you might know, football is pretty big around here (despite our mediocre seasons the past like 7-8 years)...I use gamedays as a time to do shopping I would otherwise not be inclined to do.

I might flip channels and glance at the score every now and then, but I'm just not that into it.

Gee thanks buzz killington.

[Cyrano]

It's been well documented that the "insiders" of nearly all the other recruiting websites traffic much of their information from the OB message boards which isn't always posted by Ketchum and co.

[President]

It's been well documented that the "insiders" of nearly all the other recruiting websites traffic much of their information from the OB message boards which isn't always posted by Ketchum and co.

As I stated earlier, the only thing site which I would consider even having "insiders" is http://texas.247sports.com/. Have you even looked at it? The majority of what I read is opinionated articles, I'd rather not pay to talk horns football. I've also always been under the impression Ketch was a joke as an insider from what I've seen posted around.

[vincin]

wierd, people that play EQ dont usually watch football. I asked a couple people if they liked brett favre and they didnt know who he was

[President]

wierd, people that play EQ dont usually watch football. I asked a couple people if they liked brett favre and they didnt know who he was

Definition of a poopsocker?

[girth]

Yeah I had a guy in class ask me who Tom Brady was when I said his name in a conversation. This was during the almost perfect season they had, I believe it was like 3 or 4 weeks before the superbowl.

Wanted to just punch the guy.

[Kuizzat]

Roll Tide Roll

Enough said