We have 16 contestants this year (the most in our 5-year history). Out of the 16 we have five different #1 picks, 10 of the 16 have at least one wild card team (not showing in the pre-season top 20) and we all rank BYU in the top 20, anywhere from #5 to #16.
A breakdown of the AP pre-season 25:
SEC (6 teams)
Big 12 (5 teams)
Big 10 (4 teams)
Pac 10, Big East, ACC (3 teams each)
Mountain West (1 team)
Conf USA, Mid America, Sun Belt, WAC and Independents had 0 teams in the AP top 25.
An analysis of 10 different top 25 pre-season polls:
-40 different teams are ranked at least once
-Georgia is ranked anywhere from #1 to #9
-USC and OSU rank between #1 and #4
-BYU's highest rank is #12, lowest is #25
-Utah shows up in four polls
-Rutgers, South Carolina, New Mexico, Notre Dame, Cincinatti and Tulsa show up once in one of the ten polls (none of us picked any of these)
31 August 2008
30 August 2008
New This Year...
Just a few new things to note...
1. The weekly results are now a web-based Excel spreadsheet (just click on the link titled "Challenge 2008" and navigate through the tabs for the details).
2. Helmet schedule, quizzes and history are found on the "Helmet Fun Stuff" tab.
3. Due to the regulations that tend to govern this little contest we will not be "betting" any money this year. The winner will have to be happy with claiming the title for a year (well...maybe the rest of us will get together and build him/her a cake or something).
As always, I'm open to suggestions for improvements to the blog and spreadsheet(layout, colors, better / more links, etc.) and, of course, your weekly comments are welcome.
Good luck to everyone!
1. The weekly results are now a web-based Excel spreadsheet (just click on the link titled "Challenge 2008" and navigate through the tabs for the details).
2. Helmet schedule, quizzes and history are found on the "Helmet Fun Stuff" tab.
3. Due to the regulations that tend to govern this little contest we will not be "betting" any money this year. The winner will have to be happy with claiming the title for a year (well...maybe the rest of us will get together and build him/her a cake or something).
As always, I'm open to suggestions for improvements to the blog and spreadsheet(layout, colors, better / more links, etc.) and, of course, your weekly comments are welcome.
Good luck to everyone!
02 August 2008
Meyer Seeking Revenge?
Apparently, Urban Meyer is still reeling about the UGA celebration penalty last October.
When asked about it (again) at the recent SEC medai days Richt said he did indeed tell his team to "celebrate so hard that the referees throw the flag". But he went on to explain: "in my mind, my little pea brain, 11 guys in the game score a touchdown, 11 guys jump up and down and celebrate...In hindsight, I asked the team to do an unsportsmanlike act...I shouldn't have done it. I won't do anything like that again."
From Meyer's book to be released in September:
"That wasn't right. It was a bad deal. It will forever be in the mind of Urban Meyer and in the mind of our football team. We'll handle it, and it's going to be a big deal."
(You want some cheese with that whine?) Is that a threat? Didn't he learn in kindergarten that two wrongs don't make a right? Does he think seeking revenge is not unsportsmanlike? What is he "asking" of his players when he makes a comment like that?
C'mon, Meyer (and Richt), don't turn the world's largest cocktail party and one of college footballs annual highlights into an ugly, mean-spirited, revenge-seeking, "I'll get you for that" brawl. Be the example and the school representative you expect your players to be.
See full article here. See replay of penalty here.
When asked about it (again) at the recent SEC medai days Richt said he did indeed tell his team to "celebrate so hard that the referees throw the flag". But he went on to explain: "in my mind, my little pea brain, 11 guys in the game score a touchdown, 11 guys jump up and down and celebrate...In hindsight, I asked the team to do an unsportsmanlike act...I shouldn't have done it. I won't do anything like that again."
From Meyer's book to be released in September:
"That wasn't right. It was a bad deal. It will forever be in the mind of Urban Meyer and in the mind of our football team. We'll handle it, and it's going to be a big deal."
(You want some cheese with that whine?) Is that a threat? Didn't he learn in kindergarten that two wrongs don't make a right? Does he think seeking revenge is not unsportsmanlike? What is he "asking" of his players when he makes a comment like that?
C'mon, Meyer (and Richt), don't turn the world's largest cocktail party and one of college footballs annual highlights into an ugly, mean-spirited, revenge-seeking, "I'll get you for that" brawl. Be the example and the school representative you expect your players to be.
See full article here. See replay of penalty here.
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