redraiders.com - 11/25/2008
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By Don Williams | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Texas Tech took a big loss on Saturday, but Tech coach Mike Leach says his team’s three big wins over the past month should count at least as much with poll voters.
Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and Southern Cal - all one-loss teams - moved ahead of Tech ...
rivals.yahoo.com - 11/24/2008
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rivals.yahoo.com —
Before we get started, a quick primer on
James Madison, from the unlikely, dramatic finishes of its...
wins over Villanova and Richmond: Now: On Sunday, I noted some of the indefensible results spit out by the BCS computers this week, most notably ...
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Either James Madison is a lot better than you think, or ...
FanIQ.com - 11/25/2008
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FanIQ.com —
All right, I've officially had it with the
BCS. And so should all of you after you...
hear this news. It seems this week that James Madison, a I-AA school that is having a fine season (they're 10-1) somehow wound up in the nation's top 25 rankings in ...
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James Madison Ranked In The Top 25 Of The Sagarin ...
sportingnews.com - 11/25/2008
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sportingnews.com —
Outrage is cheap and plentiful, and like most
cheap and plentiful things it is useless when you...
need to get something done. Any and all outrage over the BCS is functionally useless, and like a customer stuck bellowing at the mute face of an off-bank ...
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The BCS, or Why You're Worrying About Nothing
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The Wiz of Odds —
... on Thanksgiving Day. The Longhorns are going to do everything in their power to run up a big number on the Aggies in the nationally televised game. Stoops brought a third team into this love triangle. "If you can’t put us in front of Texas [because of the head-to-head result], if that’s your logic, then you have to keep Texas Tech in front of Texas," he said. "If it’s logical for one, it has to be logical for the other." Stoops has a friend in Crazy Mike Leach, his former offensive coordinator. "We think quite a bit of Oklahoma ...
Texas Tech Tuesday Morning Notes - We Should Be The Top-Rated One Loss Team Edition
Double-T Nation —
... nice.
One of my weekly favorites, Rock M Nation's The Boy's Beyond The Boxscore's Rankings and Projections. One thing to note, is that The Boy's computer projections are currently 19-0, which means that the computers are predicting Oklahoma State to upset Oklahoma. I'm just sayin'.
EDSBS with Captain Leach's inner monologue during the Oklahoma game.
Texas Tech Football:
However, that doesn't stop Captain Leach from voicing his opinion, per the LAJ's ...
Headlinin': Leach votes Oklahoma, but he's not really a poll man
Dr. Saturday —
• A pirate never discriminates. Not surprisingly, Mike Leach used his platform Monday to endorse Oklahoma as the top team in the country ("Our experience with that is Oklahoma beat us, Texas did not, so Oklahoma goes above [Texas]"), but the reall news in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal's account is how the good Cap'n proposes to solve this mess if handed the wheel:
Leach has espoused a plan for a 10-game regular season and a 64-team national tournament. Teams not making the field would ...
Tasty Tuesday (before Turducken Day) Daily "Linkin' Logs" (11/25/08)
The Bad News Bloggers —
... Mike Leach says TT should be the top ranked 1-loss team in NCAA Football. As opposed to other teams who didn't just lose (by 44 fuckin' points!) to other 1 loss teams. Plus you can toss in Florida who lost by just 1 to an unranked (but talented opponent). Its hard to come back from being soundly whipped and in this case Leach is just really off. ...
Tasty Leftover Daily Linkin Logs
Walker Sports —
... Mike Leach says TT should be the top ranked 1-loss team in NCAA Football. As opposed to other teams who didn't just lose (by 44 fuckin' points!) to other 1 loss teams. Plus you can toss in Florida who lost by just 1 to an unranked (but talented opponent). Its hard to come back from being soundly whipped and in this case Leach is just really off. ...
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thebullgator.blogspot.com 12/10/2008 — If you learn anything about coaching rumors it’s: don’t believe what you read (even on this site). Now you can add: don’t believe what Graham Harrell says. Just last week, the Texas Tech quarterback said he believed Mike Leach would leave the school for another challenge...
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redraiders.com 11/21/2008 — By Don Williams | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
The matchup between No. 2 Texas Tech and No. 5 Oklahoma offers more than just Big 12 South Division and BCS national championship implications. It promises to turn over some more cards at the Heisman Trophy ...
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Bleacher Report - College Football 11/25/2008
So what does a 45-14 beatdown on the heels of an embarrassing loss to Stanford get you? Well, thanks to the wonderful BCS, it gets you a rematch. After dropping to 0-2, an upset over USC has put Oregon State in line for a rematch with ...
