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P.S.R. 1-124: Week 5 Re-Ranking
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 24, 2012
With the weekend in the books, here’s a look at how the country ranks — using the original rankings as the starting point, with the season’s results as rationale for any movement. The top 25 teams land a one-sentence breakdown. The rest? Not so much. Part of the perks of being one of the best. Think your team is too low? Feel another team deserves more credit, less credit? Let’s hear it below. It’s a delicate ranking process, even if we’re now four weeks into the year. As promised, everything will become clearer by the end of the month.
Tags: Air Force, Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida State, Georgia, Kansas State, L.S.U., Miami (Fla.), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Oregon State, Rutgers, South Florida, Stanford, Texas, U.C.L.A., U.N.L.V., Utah, Vanderbilt, West Virginia
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P.S.R. 1-124: Week 4 Re-Ranking
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 18, 2012
With the weekend in the books, here’s a look at how the country ranks — using the original rankings as the starting point, with the season’s results as rationale for any movement. The top 25 teams land a one-sentence breakdown. The rest? Not so much. Part of the perks of being one of the best. Think your team is too low? Feel another team deserves more credit, less credit? Let’s hear it below. It’s a delicate ranking process, particularly with only two weeks in the books, so you may see one team ranked below a team it just beat — see Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech, for example. Don’t be alarmed. Everything will become clearer by the end of the month.
Tags: Alabama, Arizona, B.Y.U., Florida, Florida State, Fresno State, Georgia, L.S.U., Louisville, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia Tech, West Virginia
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P.S.R. 1-124: Week 3 Re-Ranking
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 10, 2012
With the weekend in the books, here’s a look at how the country ranks — using the original rankings as the starting point, with the season’s results as rationale for any movement. The top 25 teams land a one-sentence breakdown. The rest? Not so much. Part of the perks of being one of the best. Think your team is too low? Feel another team deserves more credit, less credit? Let’s hear it below. It’s a delicate ranking process, particularly with only two weeks in the books, so you may see one team ranked below a team it just beat — see Louisiana-Monroe and Arkansas, for example. Don’t be alarmed. Everything will become clearer by the end of the month.
Tags: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, L.S.U., Louisiana-Monroe, Michigan State, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Okahoma, Oregon, Penn State, Stanford, Texas, U.C.L.A., U.S.C., Utah, Utah State, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Pick 10, F.B.S. Notebook: Week 2 (Sept. 8)
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 8, 2012
Let’s not beat around the bush: this isn’t a great week. I mean, it’s great – better than what we’re used to, better than any non-football weekend – but it’s not great, all things considered. There’s no Michigan and Alabama to end the night; there’s no prime-time game on ABC at all, in fact. Instead, we’ll close our night with Nebraska and U.C.L.A., Georgia and Missouri and, later on, Arizona and Oklahoma State. Very, very intriguing games. But with perhaps the exception of Georgia, depending on how highly you think of the Bulldogs, these games don’t carry any title implications. That doesn’t make the games any less interesting – or change the fact that every game, especially while teams find their footing, carries some level of importance. Let’s run down the entire weekend’s action.
Tags: Alec Lemon, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Bill O'Brien, Caleb TerBush, Colorado, Colorado State, Corey Robinson, Dan Mullen, Danny Hope, Duke, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Florida State, George O'Leary, Georgia, Iowa, Iowa State, James Franklin, Jim Mora, Jon Embree, Ka'Deem Carey, Kansas State, Kent State, Kentucky, Louisiana-Lafayette, Maryland, Matt Barkley, Matt Scott, Miami (Fla.), Michael Rocco, Middle Tennessee State, Mike London, Mississippi State, Missouri, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Oregon State, Penn State, Phillip Sims, Purdue, Rich Rodriguez, San Diego State, Savannah State, Shawn Southward, Syracuse, T.C.U., Taylor Martinez, Terrance Broadway, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, Texas-San Antonio, Troy, U.C.F., U.C.L.A., U.S.C., UTEP, Virginia, Wake Forest
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P.S.R. 1-124: Week 2 Re-Ranking
By Paul Myerberg // Sep 4, 2012
With the weekend in the books, here’s a look at how the country ranks — using the original rankings as the starting point, with the season’s results as rationale for any movement. The top 25 teams land a one-sentence breakdown. The rest? Not so much. Part of the perks of being one of the best. Think your team is too low? Feel another team deserves more credit, less credit? Let’s hear it below. It’s a delicate ranking process, particularly with only one week in the books, so you may see one team ranked below a team it just beat — see Texas State and Houston, for example. Don’t be alarmed. Everything will become clearer by the end of the month.
Tags: Alabama, Clemson, Florida International, Florida State, Georgia, Houston, Iowa State, L.S.U., Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Texas State, U.S.C., West Virginia
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No. 6: Georgia
By Paul Myerberg // Aug 28, 2012
If football games were 15 minutes long, Georgia would have been the best team in the country. If football games were 30 minutes long, Georgia would have worn the SEC crown for the first time since 2005. The Bulldogs allowed only 27 points in the first quarter all season: Boise State, Florida and Auburn scored one touchdown apiece; Mississippi State and Kentucky added a field goal; and the rest, the other nine teams, were held scoreless. In the first half of games, Georgia outscored its 14 opponents by a score of 275-111. Against Auburn on Nov. 12, the Bulldogs put together the program’s most dominating first half of SEC play since… when? But it was a different story in the second half, with this fact illustrated no better than in the two biggest games of Georgia’s season. In the opener, Boise State left Georgia in the dust with back-to-back touchdowns to open the second half. In the SEC title game, Georgia’s 10-0 second-quarter lead was followed by 42 unanswered L.S.U. points, 35 of which came over the game’s final 30 minutes. Georgia has already proved it can play with anyone for 30 minutes. But to be the best in the SEC, the Bulldogs need to round into 60-minute form.
Tags: Aaron Murray, Abry Jones, Alec Ogletree, Arthur Lynch, Bacarri Rambo, Branden Smith, Chris Burnette, Chris Conley, Cornelius Washington, Dallas Lee, Georgia, Jarvis Jones, John Jenkins, John Theus, Keith Marshall, Kenarious Gates, Malcolm Mitchell, Mark Richt, Marlon Brown, Marshall Morgan, Michael Bennett, Sanders Commings, SEC, Shawn Williams, Taverres King, Todd Grantham, Todd Gurley
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It’s Open Season on Penn State’s Roster
By Paul Myerberg // Jul 24, 2012
It’s open season on Penn State’s roster. We’ve seen this before, in the early days of the sanctions assessed on U.S.C. three years ago and, if you can think back far enough, in the weeks following the penalties levied onto S.M.U. in 1987. There’s something different about this raid, however. One reason may be the fact that everything will be done in the open: Jim Delany, the Big Ten and the N.C.A.A. have essentially turned Penn State’s players into recruits, turning back the clock to those days when, as high school recruits, these same players were available to any school that would have their services.
Tags: Big Ten, Bill O'Brien, Boston College, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Jordan Hill, Mark Richt, Maryland, Matt Stankiewitch, Michigan, N.C. State, N.C.A.A. violations, Penn State, Pete Massaro, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Sean Stanley, Silas Redd, Syracuse, Virginia, West Virginia
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SEC Approves 6-1-1 Conference Schedule
By Paul Myerberg // Jun 1, 2012
Following a brief, closed-door discussion at the league’s spring meetings in Destin, Fla., SEC athletic directors approved a proposal for running the conference schedule along a 6-1-1 split: six games against divisional opponents, one game against a rotating opponent from the opposite division and one game against a permanent cross-divisional rival.
The plan will take effect in this coming season, helping the league accommodate the arrival of Missouri and Texas A&M. For the league, unpalatable alternatives included a 5-2-1 split — which would have caused each team to miss one divisional opponent, creating the opportunity for a multiple-team tie — or moving to a nine-game conference schedule; the latter option would have maintained the SEC’s prior practice of having each team play two opponents from the opposite division.
Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Joe Alleva, Kentucky, L.S.U., Mississippi, Mississippi State, Missouri, SEC, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
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