Texas Tech hosts Oklahoma State tonight in the biggest game in Tech's history. That's because Tech beat Mack Brown and his Longhorns last week in Lubbock.
Many are picking Tech to lose tonight, but if Tech does lose a game this year, it will probably be to Baylor.
Unfortunately, Cranky Greg will not be able to watch tonight's game, which may be a good thing.
In other games, it's too bad that TCU lost to Utah, and that Fresno State was hammered by Nevada last night.
Listening to "Dog Talk" last nght in Fresno after the loss to Nevada, participants were almost unanimous in their calls for Pat Hill to leave Fresno State. These callers may be right - Fresno State hasn't won the WAC outright during Hill's reign. It's frustrating every year to watch the Bulldogs team knock off a BCS team and then do something stupid like losing to Louisiana Tech. Or Nevada. Or Hawaii. Happens every damn year.
USC plays Cal, and Cal is always overrated, but there are a lot of folks in California who are praying for a Bear victory in light of coach Pete Carroll's comments that the BCS just isn't fair because he can't figure out how Texas Tech went up in the polls after beating #1 Texas and USC dropped after beating the hell out of Washington, which any local high school team could do.
Cranky Greg agrees, and so do the fine folks at Utah and TCU and Boise State. But it seems unseemly coming from Carroll who's teams have lost twice to Oregon State in the last 3 years and once to Stanford last year at the Coliseum.
Trying to apply logic to the college football polls and the BCS is like trying herd cats, but Cranky Greg tries to anyway. USC hardly has an argument for being #1 or #2 as long as there are undefeated teams out there like Alabama, Penn State and Texas Tech. Regarding strength of schedule, Alabama is in the SEC and Texas Tech is in the Big XII. Can anyone argue with a straight face that the Pac 10 is better or even equal to the Big XII or the SEC?
Penn State is kinda out there, but they're kinda out there undefeated.
USC lost to a lower tier team in their own conference. Cranky Greg thinks that every team ranked ahead of SC deserves to be there, based on the results so far this season.
But what does Cranky Greg know? The only way to figure this out properly is to have a playoff system. Let's have USC as PAC 10 champs play the Big XII champs. Or the SEC champs. Let's see who survives a playoff system.
The current system is just silly.
Let's kill it and kill it now!!!
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Posted by: Term papers | November 10, 2009 at 09:25 PM