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Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
Published 8/28/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... is one of those games that I’m picking differently from the way I otherwise would have because of when it occurs. Does anybody else remember Jim Donnan’s debut game against Southern Miss in 1996, when the Bulldogs appeared utterly bewildered about what they were trying to do offensively? I think you’re looking at a replay of that game in Ann Arbor on Saturday. Utah will carry a winged scalp back to the Beehive State. Oklahoma State at Washington State: C.W. already called this one and he called it correctly; ...

Big 12 Football Report, v 1.1
Published 9/1/2008 by PB @ BON at Burnt Orange Nation
... he won the 400m hurdles--no fluke for the high school state record holder in both the 110 and 200m hurdle events. If Griffin's athletic prowess wasn't enough, he enters Baylor having graduated from Copperas Cove with a 4.71 GPA, good for seventh in his class. All told, it's enough to make you forget Thursday night's debacle against the Demon Deacons and optimistic about the future. Oklahoma State 39  Washington State 13 [Box / Recap / Blog Coverage] The Cowboys took on one of the BCS' weaker teams in Seattle this Saturday, ...

Questions And (AND!) Answers With CougCenter
Published 9/4/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... It's CougCenter Week ALL WEEK LONG HERE at the California Golden Blogs.  If you want to learn about Cougars or Centers, you need look no further than CougCenter.  They have everything you'd ever need to know.  So, it made little sense when we contacted  ...

9.5.08 Pre-WSU Game Open Thread Plus Brandon Morrow Run-In
Published 9/6/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... And if you've Tokyo Drifted away for a moment, you might have missed something. Yesterday, we have the internet first, landscaping liveblog, Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Chainsaws, Part I, Part II, and Part III. We also had a second look at the MSU game, Will Ta'ufo'ou highlights, a discussion of the Appeals Court ruling, YouTube Thursday, Alex Mack Highlights, Q+A with our beloved CougCenter, Eating The Enemy, and the Pac10 Roundtable.  ...

BlogPoll Ballot, Week 2: From an Alternate Universe Known as Our Own
Published 9/8/2008 by cocknfire at Garnet And Black Attack
... California??? At No. 11??? Again, look at what they've done: Two solid wins against BCS teams with allegedly functioning motor skills. And not only did they defeat Michigan State, but they smashed Washington State, 66-3, the kind of margins most teams ring up against FCS or bad midmajor teams. ...

Week Two BlogPoll Ballot Submitted
Published 9/8/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... likewise leapt up, claiming a spot in the top ten after going on the road and manhandling Washington State. The Cougars are a team of questionable quality, but, when you’re up on a conference opponent in his house by a 42-3 margin after two quarters, you’ve done something substantial. ...

Pac-10 Power Poll
Published 9/12/2008 by jtlight at Addicted To Quack
Pac-10 Power Poll SBNation affiliate CougCenter is putting together a "Super" Pac-10 Power Poll. They have done this on their own for a few weeks, but have started to incorporate the votes of other SBNation blogs. ...

BlogPoll Ballot, Week 3: I am an idiot
Published 9/15/2008 by cocknfire at Garnet And Black Attack
... First of all, a note of caution: I look at Southern Cal and I see them as the best team in the country so far. I do not see them as an unstoppable juggernaut, mostly because Virginia might be the worst BCS-league team in the country. [Washington State protests.--ed Washington State could beat Richmond by more than 16.--C&F Are you sure of that?--ed No, not really.--C&F] Ohio State might be no more than the fourth-best team in the Big Televen when the season is over. ...

Big 12 Football Report, v 1.3
Published 9/17/2008 by PB @ BON at Burnt Orange Nation
... it all up and you get 7.0 yards per play on offense so far this year. Gaudy? Oh, yes, but we have to note that the Sooners haven't faced anything resembling a real defense yet. They will this week when TCU comes to Norman. The Horned Frogs are second nationally in total defense through three games--all wins (at New Mexico, versus Stephen F Austin, vs Stanford). Something's gotta give. Baylor 45  Washington St 17 [Box / Recap / Blog Coverage] PB's favorite non-Longhorn player Robert Griffin exploded Friday night in ...

Don't Bet On It!: National Game of Disinterest
Published 9/17/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... The Bears, on the other hand, were driven into the dirt by Wake Forest in their own building, took out their frustrations on a Northwestern State squad that has demonstrated its willingness to be a rent-a-win for any Division I-A program that schedules the Demons on more than 24 hours’ notice, and manhandled a Washington State squad that won the title "Worst Performance by a Pac-10 Team on a Weekend on Which the Pac-10 Turned in the Worst Performance Ever by a Major Conference Other Than the A.C.C. or the ...

ATQ Week 4 Pac 10 Power Poll and BlogPoll
Published 9/22/2008 by jtlight at Addicted To Quack
... and have won a game they probably shouldn't. They're a bit better than anticipated, but still not that great. UCLA: Holy crap. UCLA is absolutely terrible. How did they pull of a win against Tennessee. That now seems like a very long time ago. Washington: They almost beat a team non-Big Sky team. And they have a QB. Those are the only things keeping them from #10. Washington State: Poor Wazzu. Hang in there CougCenter. The Blogpoll ballot this week is not very exciting, with only USC ...

SBN Pac-10 Collaborative Power Rankings, Week 4
Published 9/24/2008 by Jake at Building The Dam
... I posted my ballot on Monday, as did the rest of our SBN College ensemble. Since that time, CougCenter has totaled 'em up, and here are the final results: ...

Pac10 SBN Power Poll Week 4
Published 9/24/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... (UW) 10) UCLA/WSU Ultimately, after all the points were tallied and the judges were recused, the final poll emerged: 1. USC - 70 2. Cal - 62 3. Oregon - 57 4. ASU - 44 5(t) Arizona - 41 5(t) OSU - 41 7. Stanford - 27 8. UCLA - 19 9. Washington - 14 10. WSU - 11 We're Number Two!  We're Number Two!  Inside the jump, find each blog's individual ballots. Indiv. ballots: CougCenter 1. USC 2. Cal 3. ...

5 Questions: Washington State Cougars
Published 9/25/2008 by jtlight at Addicted To Quack
With the Washginton State game coming up this weekend, we asked 5 questions to Nuss from CougCenter. Our questions, and his answers are below. Their questions and our answers are posted at their site. WSU had a bout of Oregon-itis this last weekend, losing their top 2 QBs. However, 3rd string QB Marshall Lobbestael stepped up and won Pac-10 player of the week honors, bringing some light to a very dark season. With his only performance against Portland State, how do you feel he will adjust to Pac-10 defenses? Your guess is as good as ours. We ...

Week Five BlogPoll Ballot Submitted
Published 9/29/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... or Tennessee (1-3) is supposed to impress me at this point? The Ducks might have beaten out the Saurians for the penultimate placement in the top 20---Oregon’s close loss to unbeaten Boise State counts as something of a quality loss, while a road win over Purdue (2-2), even in overtime, probably counts for more than any of Florida’s wins so far---but the squad from the Pacific Northwest was dragged down by low-value wins over Washington (0-4), Utah State (1-3), and Washington State (1-4). The final fifth of my BlogPoll ballot begins with Texas ...

Pac-10 Roundtable - Week #5 coming back to the pack edition
Published 9/29/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
Its that time of the week again...The Pac-10 Roundtable Here are the participants: Building the Dam. UW Dawg Pound.  What's Bruin, Dawg?  Pitchfork Nation Coug Center Addicted to Quack The California Golden Blogs The particulars after the jump! 1. Let's start off with a conference wide question. With USC's loss to Oregon St. on Thursday, is the myth (which I never believed) of USC and the 9 Dwarves finally shattered? Does this game help give the ...

Wazzu Week: No Time For Bruins To Get Comfortable
Published 10/1/2008 by Nestor at Bruins Nation
... Dwight Tardy is back as he is looking to make a comeback from a major knee surgery from this past season.  He leads the team in rushing (250 yards in 66 carries, averaging 3.8 yards per carry). You can bet Tardy and the Cougar OL will be closely looking at the game film from this year’s UCLA defense which has posted some disconcerting numbers to date. More on that below. ...

Pac-10 Power Poll
Published 10/1/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
... I have been remiss in not doing this but the guys over at Coug Center startred up at Pac-10 Power poll that a number of us participate in. ...

Week 5 Pac-10 Power Poll Is Out: Oregon #2
Published 10/1/2008 by jtlight at Addicted To Quack
Week 5 Pac-10 Power Poll Is Out: Oregon #2 The weekly Pac-10 Power Poll is out, hosted by our friends over at CougCenter. Oregon jumped ahead of Cal to claim the #2 position. However, things are sure to shake up ...

More Notes On Cougars
Published 10/2/2008 by Nestor at Bruins Nation
... Let’s keep building our files Cougars with an important note from Nuss at CougCenter. In my last post I had assumed that Brandon Gibson and Mike Lobbestael had piled up some of their stats against Portland State (Cougars’ only victory this season). That is ...

Pac10 Roundtable Week 5
Published 10/2/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... Here is the overall blogger composite ranking and behind the fold are the the other individual votes: Blog Composite Rankings: 1. USC (7) - 70 2. Oregon - 59 3. Cal - 56 4. OSU - 50 5. ASU - 41 6. Arizona - 38 7. Stanford - 29 8. UCLA - 21 9. Washington - 11 10. WSU - 10 CougCenter 1. USC 2. Oregon 3. Oregon St. 4. Cal 5. ASU 6. Stanford 7. Ariz 8. UCLA 9. Washington 10. WSU ...

Any Given Saturday: A Plea To Our Players
Published 10/3/2008 by Nestor at Bruins Nation
... So Tuesday night with help from Grady at CougCenter one of the key reasons Cougar fans have been keeping faith in this football season: Marshall Lobbestael. The Wazzu redshirt freshman QB who started the season number at 3 on their depth chart has emerged has emerged as the Cougar’s starter (and possibly the future) after their top 2 QBs went down with injuries in early part of the season. The way Cougar fans are buzzing about this kind of reminds me of the excitement we all experienced around a certain true freshman QB in Westwood more than a decade ago (who also ...

Week Six BlogPoll Ballot Submitted
Published 10/6/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... (2-3), Wyoming (2-4), and Division I-AA Northern Iowa---but the Cowboys get a smidgen more credit for going on the road and winning handily over one-win Washington State than the Cougars get for going on the road and winning narrowly over winless Washington. ...

Week Six BlogPoll Ballot Revised
Published 10/7/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... Accordingly, it comes down to the fact that the Pokes went on the road and beat Washington State (1-5) by 26 points, whereas the Cougars went on the road and beat ...

Pac-10 Roundtable Week #6
Published 10/8/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
It's time for another roundtable! This weeks Pac-10 Roundtable is hosted by Jason over at What's Bruin, Dawg. Here are the participants: Building the Dam. UW Dawg Pound.  What's Bruin, Dawg?  Pitchfork Nation Coug Center Addicted to Quack The California Golden Blogs The particulars after the jump!   1. Every week we take a look at the Pac-10 scoreboard, and every week it just seems to get worse for the teams at the bottom of the ...

Pac-10 Power Poll
Published 10/8/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
Polls, Polls, Polls....Time for another Pac-10 Power Poll. Here are the tallied results... 1. USC - 70 2. Cal - 63 3. Oregon - 51 4. Arizona - 47 5. Oregon State - 45 6. ASU - 38 7. Stanford - 27 8. UCLA - 23 9. Washington - 11 10. WSU - 10 Individual results after the jump. Individual votes: CougCenter 1. USC 2. Cal 3. Oregon 4. ASU 5. Oregon St 6. Arizona 7. Stanford 8. UCLA 9. WSU 10. ...

Pac10 Roundtable Week 6 with Top10 Rankings
Published 10/8/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... - 47 5. Oregon State - 45 6. ASU - 38 7. Stanford - 27 8. UCLA - 23 9. Washington - 11 10. WSU - 10 Note that at one point, Oregon fans made a rather large deal about how the amount of points between USC and Oregon was less than the amount of points between Oregon and Cal.  Let that be a lesson for those who might look to this for hubris. Individual votes.  The blogs are all SBN Pac10 blogs, save for one.  Try to guess which one! CougCenter 1. USC 2. Cal 3. ...

Pac10 RoundTable Week 7
Published 10/15/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... we will host your roundtable, even though you never invited us over for a cup of coffee and our wife is your daughter's godmother." via basetta.pupazzo.org So, there we go.  Everything is under control!  The California Golden Blogs have it!  Now, please, hand us those orange slices.  Nothing bad can come of this.  Oregon State will be represented by Building the Dam.  The Washington schools chime in with CougCenter and our newest SBN blog, UW Dawg Pound.  Conquest Chronicles ...

Pac10 Top10 Blog Rankings
Published 10/17/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... solid victory over UCLA pushed it up a bit in the minds of the voters.  And OSU's slaughtering of WSU didn't hurt. 1. USC (6) - 60 2. Cal - 54 3t. Oregon - 45 3t. OSU - 45 5. Stan - 34 6. Ariz - 28 7. ASU - 27 8. UCLA - 19 9. Wash - 10 10. WSU - 8 Inside are the individual ballots from each blog.  Where do you think the Pac10 teams should be ranked?  Discuss!  Or don't.  Losers! Individual votes: CougCenter 1. USC 2. Cal 3. Oregon ...

GameDay Open Thread - USC @ Washington State
Published 10/18/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
... USC Trojans Conquest Chronicles @ Washington St. Cougars CougCenter Saturday, Oct 18, 2008, 12:30 PM PDT Martin Stadium ...

Week Eight BlogPoll Ballot Submitted
Published 10/20/2008 by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... (5-2). Southern California did not receive extra credit from me for scoring 60+ on Washington State (1-7), because, honestly, who hasn’t scored 60+ on the Cougars? ...

Pac10 Roundtable Week 8
Published 10/23/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
Well, Addicted To Quack is organizing this whole Pac10 Roundtable thing.  8 out of 10 of the Pac10 teams (Boo Stanford and Arizona!!) have blogs that get together to discuss the news of the day. Oregon State will be represented by Building the Dam.  The Washington schools chime in with CougCenter and our newest SBN blog, UW Dawg Pound.  Conquest Chronicles and What's Bruin, Dawg? corner the SoCal market.  Finally, Pitchfork Nation comes to us from the hot state of Arizona. ...

Q and A with G L and B
Published 10/24/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... CougCenter 1. USC 2. OSU 3. Arizona 4. Oregon 5. Cal 6. Stanford 7. ASU 8. UCLA 9. Washington 10. WSU UW Dawg Pound -no ballot this week ...

Pac-10 Power Poll
Published 10/30/2008 by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
Many thanks to the guys over at CougCenter for putting this together. USC - 50 Oregon  - 44 OSU - 40 Cal  - 35 Ariz - 31 Stan - 25 ASU - 18 UCLA - 17 UW - 10 WSU - 5 Individual votes after the jump: CougCenter 1. USC 2. Oregon 3. Oregon St 4. Arizona 5. Cal 6. Stanford 7. UCLA 8. Arizona St. 9. Washington 10. WSU UW ...

Roundtable Week 9 - The Quack Is Dead. Long Live The Quack
Published 10/30/2008 by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... of TwistNHook's ascension to power via roolily.files.wordpress.com We're so wacky!  Being the generous and kind overlords that we are, we have decided to allow Addicted To Quack to stay in the Roundtable.  For now.  8 out of 10 of the Pac10 teams (Boo Stanford and Arizona!!) have blogs that get together to discuss the news of the day. Oregon State will be represented by Building the Dam.  The Washington schools chime in with CougCenter and our newest SBN blog, UW Dawg Pound.  Conquest Chronicles ...

Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
Published 26 days ago by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... and Washington State are so awful---between them, the Huskies and the Cougars are 1-16 overall and 0-11 in conference play---but parity seems to reign supreme atop the Pac-10, where no teams are undefeated yet six teams have two or fewer conference losses. At the apex of the league, of course, are the Trojans, with the Golden Bears only a half-game behind in the Pac-10 standings. Is this the year Cal does what it has not done since 2003’s triple-overtime win over U.S.C. in Berkeley and beats Southern California? It seems that, the longer the national news media treat this as ...

Pac-10 Roundtable
Published 26 days ago by Paragon SC at Conquest Chronicles
It's our turn to host the Pac-10 roundtable this week. As we head into the home stretch the question of wins the Pac-10 is the biggest question to be answered. Here are the participants: Building the Dam. UW Dawg Pound.  What's Bruin, Dawg?  Pitchfork Nation Coug Center Addicted to Quack The California Golden Blogs So lets get to it... 1. Things are starting to shake out in the conference with USC, Oregon St and Cal all in the hunt for the Pac-10 crown. ...

Pac10 Roundtable Week 10
Published 26 days ago by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... "HydroTech reads "Yes, Virginia, there is a Nate Longshore" to Jake at Building The Dam via www.grpl.org" That works on everybody except for HydroTech.  Since I can't sic him on himself, getting him to do what I want is markedly more difficult.  Luckily for me, I'm Nate Longshore.  So, yknow, it works out. Oregon State will be represented by Building the Dam.  The Washington schools chime in with CougCenter and our newest SBN blog, UW Dawg Pound.  Conquest Chronicles ...

Pac10 Roundtable Week 11
Published 19 days ago by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... It'll be easy for Berkeley when Obama makes us all socialists, because we are there already via www.tbray.org Also, we've been doing that whole posting thing again.  Check it:  A look back at USC, Top25, USC Observations.  Inside The Numbers for OSU.  Fantasy Recap. Oregon State will be represented by Building the Dam.  The Washington schools chime in with CougCenter and our newest SBN blog, UW Dawg Pound.  Conquest Chronicles ...

2008-09 Preseason Blogpoll
Published 17 days ago by Norlander at College Hoops Journal
... 9. Tennessee 8. Texas 7. Notre Dame 6. Michigan State 5. Pittsburgh 4. Louisville 3. Connecticut 2. UCLA 1. North Carolina Saint Mary’s, Kansas and Syracuse just missed the cut. Biggest discrepancies between blog and AP: They’ve got USC at 18 and Duke at 8. Otherwise, it’s all nit-picky. And the blogs that voted: March to Madness, Rush the Court, A Sea of Blue, Storming the Floor, Coug Center, George Mason Basketball, The Daily Gopher, ...

Week Twelve BlogPoll Ballot Revised
Published 14 days ago by T Kyle King at Dawg Sports
... Unlike O.S., which lost to Stanford (5-6), those three teams do not have losses to teams below .500---although Pitt admittedly came close---and the second-best wins registered by the Spartans (over Iowa), the Panthers (take your pick: at Navy, at Notre Dame, or at South Florida), and the Bearcats (over South Florida) all are as good as or better than the second-best win claimed by the Beavers (over Cal) . . . and Oregon State’s resume is dragged down by wins over Washington State (1-10) and Washington (0-10). ...

Pac10 Roundtable Week 12
Published 12 days ago by TwistNHook at California Golden Blogs
... third game.  Except that it won't be in Pasadena. That might be the scariest fact of them all right there. Either way, we are ramping up basketball coverage.  We have all worked together to get some basketball related questions in there.  I am sure as football season winds up and basketball season continues forward, the focus will shift. Oregon State will be represented by Building the Dam.  The Washington schools chime in with CougCenter and our newest SBN blog, UW Dawg Pound.  Conquest ...

can anyone get their hands on this and scan? more on the issue
Published 10 days ago by moni at SLC Dunk
... Crimson And Cream Machine - Oklahoma Rock M Nation - Missouri Bring On The Cats - Kansas St. Big East Card Chronicle - Louisville Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - Syracuse Big 10 Around the Oval - Ohio St. The Daily Gopher - Minnesota Black Heart Gold Pants - Iowa Black Shoe Diaries - Penn St. Maize n Brew - Michigan PAC 10 Building The Dam - Oregon St. Bruins Nation - UCLA CougCenter - Washington St. Addicted To Quack - Oregon California Golden ...

Post-Game Breakdown: We Should Send Romeo Crennel A Nice Note
Published 8 days ago by Tim at Battle Red Blog
... five (5) times in a single game. It's even rarer for the Houston Texans to be on the receiving end of that kind of generosity. As is his custom, Sage Rosenfels did his best to swing the turnover margin back in favor of the opposition. Yet even Sage, in all of his nine-picks-in-five-games glory, couldn't overcome the hopelessness of Romeo Crennel's crew. Truly, yesterday was a battle of the titans, if the titans were the professional versions of the Washington and Washington State football teams. Despite the complete lack of aesthetic value in the ...