Three top-ten teams tumble (although one of them was to North Carolina, so it doesn’t quite count), three SEC teams pay out appearance bonuses to FCS teams next week, two teams remain ranked despite falling to 4-4, two teams which actually deserve it don’t get ranked, one FCS game draws over 60,000 in paid attendance, and one conference champion is crowned. All that, and partially-surprising conference realignment news, after the jump.
Late Saturday, the second conference title of 2010 got wrapped up, as Northwest Oklahoma State snagged the CSFL crown. The top 10 remains unchanged, but there was a lot of movement at the bottom of the rankings.
The top 14 spots in the poll remained the same, and that’s only because a team which won inexplicably dropped two spots. Only four teams in the top 25 lost, three to higher-ranked teams and the fourth to the team which replaced them in this week’s poll. The first conference title of the 2010 season has finally been decided, as DePauw has clinched the SCAC.
North Alabama loses their second in a row, the South Atlantic race becomes a traffic jam, and two top-six teams stumble.
With the exception of the FCS recap, which I had done before a bunch of real-life stuff went all pear-shaped this week, the remainder of the recaps are going to be sort of lacking on the “recap” end, although my discussion of the relevance of the upcoming weekend’s games is intact. Sorry about that.
It was a fairly uneventful weekend in the rankings, as only two top-25 teams lost to lower or unranked teams. A top-five showdown ends on a wide left, a team wins despite not gaining a single passing yard, an entire conference schedule is decided by a total of 12 points, and lots of other fun stuff follows the jump.
Yeah, I know this blog is intended specifically not to cover FBS or D-I basketball, but sometimes I just have to get something off my chest and my potential audiences in other venues aren’t the appropriate ones. At least this audience is, even if the venue may not be.
What am I irked about this morning? Well, I’m still irked about the fact that Bill Snyder didn’t leave Chris Cosh standing on the runway in Waco, but this is something of more national interest. Generally, “The Narrative” as crammed down our throats by the Worldwide Leader; specifically, the fact that I think that if they were going to stick us with one for the season, they picked the wrong one.
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Oct 25
The problem with this series, quite simply, is that it sucks. The first one, I’m okay with; I think I did a very good job on the Big Sky writeup. Compare it (specifically) to the Colonial writeup, and I think you can clearly see all the problems I’m about to outline after the jump.
Two teams combine for 128 points, another team scores 90, and someone passes for over 600 yards — and loses. All this and more after the jump.
A top-10 team goes down, and another player goes down with a spinal injury. All the details after the jump.
An athlete is killed by police, after which the rest of this news is secondary. Two top-five upsets, one of which involved a baseball score, heartbreak induced by three placekicking failures (the first of which was with four seconds left on the clock), a bunch of realignment news I forgot to tell you about last week, a major format change and more after the jump.
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