The Wiz of Odds: Guru: No Penalty for Playing Pushovers

November 21, 2009

Guru: No Penalty for Playing Pushovers

Nothing like having a scrimmage or two in Week 11 to work out the kinks.

Florida, Alabama and Texas squashed three hapless opponents by a combined 158-23 on Saturday. What are teams like Florida International and Chattanooga doing on schedules of big-time opponents to begin with, especially at this point in the season?

A dispirited Kansas looked like a formidable opponent for Texas long ago, but the Jayhawks have lost six in a row and the players have turned on coach Mark Mangino, whose days in Lawrence appear numbered.

It adds up to more of the same from the Bowl Championship Series when the standings are released Sunday, according to projections by Sam Chi, the BCS Guru.

Here are the remaining games for the six unbeaten teams:

Florida: Florida State (Saturday), Alabama in the SEC title game in Atlanta (Dec. 5)

Alabama: at Auburn (Friday), Florida in the SEC title game in Atlanta (Dec. 5).

Texas: at Texas A&M (Thursday), Nebraska in the Big 12 title game in Arlington (Dec. 5).

Texas Christian: New Mexico (Saturday).

Cincinnati: Illinois (Friday); at Pittsburgh (Dec. 5).

Boise State: Nevada (Friday); New Mexico State (Dec. 5).

Posted at 10:44 PM in BCS | Permalink

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The difference between Texas and Alabama and Florida is that the Longhorns were playing a conference team. The people who talk about every week in November being a playoff haven't seen these schedules in recent years. Alabama and Florida were not playing a playoff, they were playing a payoff!

Posted by: Todd | November 22, 2009 at 05:42 AM

If these little teams would stop being such eager whores, Alabama and Florida would have to schedule a lesser team from a BCS conference. Notre Dame perhaps?

Posted by: Mike | November 22, 2009 at 07:42 AM

I'll wait for upir post on December 6th, castigating the PAC-10 and Big-10 champions for sitting on their asses while the SEC pits the nation's number 1 team against the number 2 team.

Seems to me that should make up for FIU and Chattanooga.

Posted by: Floridan | November 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Hmmm . . .upir = your

Posted by: Floridan | November 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Really? Lumping Texas in there for playing a 'pushover' conference opponent? So somehow it's Texas's fault that Kansas, who started 5-0, imploded mid-season? So Texas should have somehow scheduled a tougher conference opponent? Or, better yet, had some sort of crystal ball to see the future and asked the Big 12 Conference if pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top could Texas swap KU for Nebraska this season?

Or maybe you didn't really mean it and just had your panties in a bunch after your alma mater's decision to schedule two FCS teams finally proved fatal to its bowl "hopes." It's all good. Texas versus Nebraska is how the Big 12 championship game should be anyway.

Posted by: AnotherLawyer | November 23, 2009 at 08:43 AM