College Football - week 10 - in just two years Nick Saban is the Crimson Tide # 1 in the nation

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Goodbye Texas. Hello Alabama. It is now the Crimson Tide that have become the No. 1 coveted target in the nation for big-time college football programs in America.

The Texas Longhorns, who were No. 1, took on their 4th top-ranked team in consecutive weeks and came up short on the road Saturday (11-1-08) in Lubbock to No. 6 Texas Tech 39-33 on a scoring play that never should have happened with 1 second left.

In a Texas-style shootout, the Longhorns trailed 19-0 and rallied to take a 33-32 lead on Vondrell McGee's 4-yard touchdown run with only 1:29 to play. That gave just a little too much time left for the Red Raiders' Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree, two gifted athletes on a mission few others would dare to take.

With virtually no time left and 28 yards from pay dirt, Harrell found himself surrounded by nasty Longhorns and out of time with Crabtree in double coverage and no room to even turn around. So what does a great quarterback do? He throws high into double coverage, hoping his All-American wide receiver is as great as Harrell thinks he is.

Michael Crabtree does not disappoint either his teammates or himself. He rises to the challenge, grabs the rock with sure hands, breaks the wannabe arm tackle of a sophomore cover back trying to strip the ball, and takes a couple of steps into the end zone and the game clock shows 1 second left.

Amazingly, Crabtree stays in bounds as thousands and thousands of screaming, delirious fans pour onto the field of play. It is sheer bedlam as fans begin to rip down the goal post at one end of the field, and the officials on the field try to restore order for the extra-point attempt and final kickoff to Texas to eliminate the one second left on the clock.

This is college football in America on a Saturday afternoon. A major university with thousands of fans who have suffered through the dominance of Texas and Oklahoma teams for too many years. This is their moment of glory and they will not be denied. It is the competitive spirit of America in its finest hour, their years of hardship and agony are over and their 15 minutes of fame and glory have arrived.

All of the Texas Tech fans, players and coaches need to party down big-time because Texas Tech's season is not over. The Red Raiders will now run a gauntlet somewhat similar to the one that the Longhorns faced as 8-1 Oklahoma State and 8-1 Oklahoma lie ahead and a lesser-light Baylor team lurks in the background.

The drama of this game could not have been higher. Texas Tech only needed a field goal to win the game, but could not rely on its kicker to convert from some 40 yards out. Not only was Harrell's pass into double coverage over the top, and even though Crabtree made a great catch, had he been tackled short of the end zone or gone out of bounds, it is unlikely in the moment that the Red Raiders could have called a time out and still had enough time to set up for a game-winning field goal try.

"All we needed was a field goal, but a touchdown's even sweeter," said Raider quarterback Graham Harrell after the game. "If you're a quarterback and don't want to be in that situation, you should change positions." Harrell finished with 474 yards passing and 2 touchdowns while completing 36 of 53 attempts.

Was this really THAT big of a win for Texas Tech? Yes it was. The Red Raider win over Texas was the biggest win in Texas Tech history and its first win against a No. 1-ranked team. The victory gave them command of the Big 12 South and put them smack in the middle of the race for a spot in the national championship game.

And just how close was Texas to winning? How about 1 second among 60 minutes of play? Or the fact that on the play prior to Crabtree's winning 28-yard TD catch, freshman safety Blake Gideon dropped what would have been a game-ending interception on a tipped pass. That single drop meant Harrell could make the dangerous decision to throw into double coverage to Crabtree. The rest is now history.

The win vaulted No. 6 Texas Tech past Penn State, Florida and Oklahoma into the No. 2 spot in this week's AP Top 25 Poll. For Texas Tech fans around the world, this rise to prominence came none too soon.

The reason Alabama vaulted from No. 2 in the AP rankings to the top spot is because the Crimson Tide shut out Arkansas State Saturday 35-0, scoring in every quarter and looking every bit as if they should be No. 1.

Coach Nick Saban has quickly become better than the gold standard in Alabama. Saban has taken the Crimson Tide to the No. 1 ranking in the nation in only his second year at Tuscaloosa.

Saban is the highest paid coach in college football ($32 million for 8 years). Many fans and boosters at Alabama believe Saban is worth every penny of it and now you know why.

Saban turned around Michigan State's program in one year and went to 3 bowl games in his first 3 years. He turned around Louisiana State's program in one year, won or shared 3 SEC titles, went to bowl games all 5 years and won the National Championship in 2003. He turned around Alabama in his first season last year and went to a bowl game. Now his Crimson Tide players are 9-0 and in the hunt for a spot in this year's national championship game.

No. 5 Florida recorded a huge win on the road at No. 8 Georgia, putting some major hurt on the Bulldogs, 49-10. Since their unexpected lack of focus and 31-30 loss to Mississippi, Coach Urban Meyer's Gators have gone ballistic croc hunting, ripping apart Arkansas 38-7, LSU 51-21 and Kentucky 63-5 before hosting Georgia.

Apparently the Gators have become so savage that they will rip apart their victims but also drink their blood in their quest to get into the national championship game. The next victim to visit Gainsville this coming Saturday is the Vanderbilt Commodores, who had better order up tons of anti-crocodile spray. The Gators mean business.

Both Texas and Georgia lost to top-ranked teams. Texas Tech, Alabama and Florida were among 13 of the 20 AP Poll teams to win this week, 7 others-including Texas and Georgia which played top-ranked teams--lost and 5 teams were idle. No. 3 Penn State, No. 13 Ohio State, No. 18 Ball State, No. 21 North Carolina and No. 25 Maryland were all idle.

The other ranked teams which won big and made a statement included:

No. 4 Oklahoma at home in a waltz over Nebraska 62-28 (the Sooners led 62-21 after 3 quarters), No. 7 Southern Cal on the road shut out Washington 56-0 (the Huskies are dead and waiting for fired head coach Tyrone Willingham to get on down the road), No. 9 Oklahoma State at home over Iowa State 59-17 (the Cowboys scored in every quarter), No. 11 Boise State at home shut out New Mexico State 49-0 (the Broncos scored in every quarter against what we think is a team in the southwest), No. 12 TCU on the road over UNLV 44-14, and No. 15 LSU at home over Tulane 35-10.

Four other ranked teams won but were hardly impressive. They included:

No. 10 Utah on the road over weak, unranked New Mexico 13-10 (the 9-0 unbeaten Utah Utes are overrated big-time and may find that out this week when they clash with 9-1 TCU), No. 14 Missouri on the road over unranked Baylor 31-28 (the now toothless Tigers take down a 3-win Baylor team), No. 17 BYU on the road over weak, unranked Colorado State 45-42 (the Cougars are hardly ferocious, they gave up 32 points to TCU, 35 to UNLV and now 42 to Colorado State after beating a winless 0-8 Washington team 28-27 earlier in the season), and No. 22 Michigan State at home over Wisconsin 25-24 (it's true that Wisconsin may well be the best 4-5 team in the country, but the Spartans should have won by two touchdowns).

Five other ranked teams committed the unpardonable sin of losing to an unranked team. They included:

No. 16 Florida State lost on the road to Georgia Tech 31-28, No. 19 and unbeaten Tulsa lost on the road to Arkansas 30-23 (Tulsa is the newest most overrated team in 1-A football, Illinois lost that title by promptly losing 4 games), No. 20 Minnesota lost at home to Northwestern 24-17, No. 23 Oregon lost on the road to California 26-16, and No. 24 South Florida lost on the road to Cincinnati 24-10.

Dropping out of the AP Top 25 Poll on Sunday (11-2-08) were Minnesota (the Golden Gophers are 7-2 and a real surprise in the Big Ten), South Florida (overrated all season), Oregon (overrated all season) and Tulsa (grossly overrated all season). Good luck to all on your way out the door.

Playing their way back into the AP Poll this week were the No. 20 West Virginia Mountaineers (they beat Connecticut), the No. 21 California Bears (they beat Oregon), the No. 22 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (they beat Florida State) and the No. 25 Pittsburgh Panthers (they beat Notre Dame 36-33 in the 4th overtime).

The only 6 unbeaten teams remaining include Alabama, Texas Tech, Penn State, Utah, Boise State and Ball State. In other games of note this week:

Oregon State barely beat Arizona State 27-25 in a really nasty, tough, sometimes dirty Pac 10 encounter. A 2-8 Idaho team put 24 points on the board and only lost by 6 points to a 6-3 San Jose State team. The Idaho Vandals are not the worst team in America, that title belongs to the 0-9 winless, hopeless Washington Huskies followed closely by the hapless, beyond hopeless 1-8 Washington State Cougars.

Also formerly winless North Texas posted its first win of the season on the road over 1-AA Western Kentucky 51-40. The Purdue Boilermakers did the entire Midwest a favor by whipping Michigan 48-42, ensuring that Michigan will have to suffer through its first losing season in 40 years and an end to its streak of 33 consecutive bowl game appearances.

From my perspective as a Michigan State graduate, any week that Michigan State wins and Michigan loses is a glorious week, thus far that glorious occurrence has happened 5 times this season and could happen twice more "Lord willing and the creek don't rise".

Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley

Read my other detailed, knowledgeable, interesting articles on college football, including:

"College Football - Week 9 - Texas Handles Unbeaten Oklahoma State, and Penn State Whips Ohio State"

"College Football - Week 8 - Top 6 Teams Remain on Top, Led by Unbeaten Texas, Alabama & Penn State"

"College Football - Week 7 - Only 10 Undefeated Teams Remain - Oklahoma, Missouri and LSU All Lose"

"College Football - Week 6 - AP's Top 25 Welcomes North Carolina, Michigan State, Pittsburgh and Ball State"

"College Football - Week 5 - 9 AP Top 25 Teams Lose, 6 to Unranked Teams, No. 1 USC, No. 3 Georgia & No. 4 Florida All Lose"

"College Football - Week 4 - 14 Teams Suffer Their First Defeat - Auburn, East Carolina, Oregon & Florida State All Lose"

"College Football - Week 3 - Let There Be No Doubt: USC Crushes Ohio State 35-3 and Is Clearly No. 1"

"College Football - Week 2 - East Carolina Smacks West Virginia, Upsets Its 3rd Straight Ranked Team"

"College Football - Week 1 - No. 24 Alabama Stuns No. 9 Clemson, East Carolina Upsets No. 17 Virginia Tech"

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A brief history of Alabama football

Alabama Crimson Tide football is tied with Notre Dame, as well as the University of Southern California for more College record national championships with a dozen. Needless to say, many of these titles under the leadership of the legendary coach of Crimson Tide "bear" Bryant have been collected.

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Alabama Crimson Tide football is simply the best in the history of SEC footballThey have SEC football more than anything else (21) securities (4 others before they formed SEC) .Alabama has provided more than Super Bowl winning quarterbacks that every other University football program. They are the following:

Bart Starr (Green Bay Packers) won the Super Bowls I and II, Joe Namath (New York Jets) captured Super Bowl III and Ken Stabler with the Oakland Raiders who had Super Bowl XI.It is the only team to win five consecutive titles (1971-1975) SEC football sec.

In terms of players, Alabama had 92 the primera.Hasta team all-Americans now nineteen players and coaches tidal above to become a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.They are halfback, Johnny Mack Brown (1923-25) and linebacker, Cornelius Bennett (1983-86) players .Muchos previous Alabama proceeded to have great career of the NFL.En reality, most of the University of Alabama quarterbacks have won the Super Bowl than any other school quarterbacks.

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Penn State Football 2010 list has many great match UPS

2010 Soccer program Penn State has been released, which means that the Nittany Lion football fans can begin comprehensive assessment of where WINS and losses come procedure and also begin to organize their gameday travels to Happy Valley too as road trips. Schedule this season is characterized by its normal amount of time big Big 10 Conference match ups, some poor Conference match-ups and a clash of single absolute Monster.

Penn State plays 10 standard Big opponents.This year will find Big 10 games at home State College vs. Illinois, Northwestern and Michigan State (which continue to pose a threat power supply) .Illinois will be on October 9, the homecoming game which should be the perfect time of year to be in Happy Valley.

Power supply gets away from games in the Conference against Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Ohio State.Uno could claim that stricter games are on their way in big 10 this year.Lions ignored Wisconsin this year is a leap.

About great development programming is the game of Indiana, who was going to get on the road, will now play at FedEx Field in Landover, MD (outside of Washington, DC) .in essence, Indiana took a significant pay day to allow 80,000 fans of Penn State to see the game closer to home, in the DC region.

September 11 is undoubtedly vs. Alabama game signature in the season. Penn State vs. Alabama football ticketswill be one of college football tickets more difficult to obtain at the beginning of the season as these double-decker football programs coincide in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Game Center vs power supply ensures that you one of the prestigious matchups principles of college football season. Is obviously likely to be a game really complicated for the State of Pennsylvania, Alabama will be national returning champion and guarantees to be extremely good next year.

The rest of the programming of Penn State 2010 could say that it is incredibly weak.You can find out-of-Conference games versus State of Youngstown State, in the County of Kent and the temple, all at home.Granted was a last year Bowl team, but none of those matchups guarantee to become contests.

Obviously with all the Big Ten Conference on expansion, the conversations happening, listed futures football power supply programmes could start to look incredibly, very diverse.The possibility of rival teams of inside of the State of Syracuse, Rutgers, questioned and power past Pitt suddenly can return as opponents of Conferencia.Que certainly shake things and for one create an unbalanced schedule that would mean additional computer programming one year rotation to another.

All round, is a good programming to 2010.Tienen Alabama game power to get through several difficult road games 10 Big and controllable property in the Big games 10. game in the Fed Ex field is intriguing and make for fun for fan base, and will probably be good for the engagement in a region that has been beneficial for them.

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Alabama football

Alabama football has a rich history that dates back nearly 70 years. They have been dominant program in college football during that time. They have won the most of any football NCAA Team Championships in the history of the game with 12. Football is a religion in Alabama and the "roll tide" is in the Centre of attention in any given Saturday.

Alabama came into national prominence when the program was taken by coach in Chief Wallace Wade. Wade was a Brown, who took charge of a programme which had struggled in recent years alum. However, with dexterity as coach Wade and the help of his sports director, school brought athletes across the country and not only of Alabama. It's a trend that became very popular with schools throughout the country and a trend that continues today. Wade brought to school to two national championships during his eight years as head coach head in Alabama, however, was the first championship in 1926 that put your computer into the map and they have remained ever since.After stop Wade, was almost a revolving door of coaches; however, managed to win four national championships more with Athletic Director George Denny, for whom the Alabama stadium is named, at the helm on the football program.

Alabama fought in the early fifties and they were beginning to lose credibility as a power of college football, however, that all changed in 1958. In 1958, Paul "bear" Bryant took charge of this program of struggle and made them in arguably the most successful football team in the history of the NCAA football program. Bryant would be the coach for 24 years before retiring in January 1983. During his time as head coach of the Alabama football seemed almost unbeatable. Won 6 National Championship and Conference 13 Championships during his time as coach head. Alabama teams won 232 games during his 24 years as a coach in Chief. Bryant retired after the 1982 liberty Bowl as it could be said that the greatest all-time college football coach. Ironically enough when asked what he would do now that he was removed;He said that he would probably croak in a weeks semana.Cuatro more Bryant later died of a heart attack. However, the legacy of Bryant still lives today and all Alabama coaches have been compared with him.

From Bryant left the Crimson Tide there have been many coaches who have tried to create the greatness that brought the programme of Alabama, however in the 27 years since his departure have only won a national championship and two Conference Championship, with no national titles since 1992. However, with the hiring of Nick Saban in 2007, the school has new unseen confidence since the days of Bryant.The Crimson Tide is still one of the most respected teams in all of college football and will probably due to the impact that Bryant was in the program.

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Alabama Crimson Tide football - players of fans who idealize them

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Some are passed players bear and seem to always sit in the sights, or in other places last once when they step inside of Bryant Denny Stadium even if played in the field of the Legion. The only thing that matters is where the tide calls home. Today, is that named the legendary Paul w. Bryant-Denny Stadium Bear Bryant whose name which can be found in various places throughout the city and Denny Chimes, who also has his legacy throughout the campus. Honoring them before were even museums, monuments and street names, but having coined after stadium was an honour for the respective families.All you have to do with the Alabama football has a serious than defender.Con reputation more national championships, SEC Championships, Bowl appearances Bowl win, win the Conference at the SEC and most consecutive Conference SEC Championship that any computer of the NCAA, the Crimson Tide and its players are seen by fans to continue this tradition and the team to beat in the coming years.

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2007-6 Top 25 college football teams lose and Nosedive, 4 others to join the Top 25 poll

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As predicted, no less than 6 AP Top 25 teams lost in college football's third week, two of them-Louisville and Nebraska-dropped in the rankings and four others-UCLA, Georgia Tech, Arkansas and Tennessee-dropped right out of the poll. Life in big time college football can be a little unsettling.

Four more-Alabama, Kentucky, South Florida and Missouri-moved into the Top 25 for the first time.

No. 9 Louisville finds itself now No. 18 after being upset by Kentucky 40-34. Kentucky is now 3-0 and No. 21 after its victory, the Wildcats' first win against a top-10 team since 1977, 30 years ago. The loss by Louisville should come as no surprise. The Cardinals beat up on AA Murray State 73-10 (as they should have) and then gave up a whopping 42 points to Middle Tennessee before winning 58-42 (that is a porous defense).

Louisville is still overrated. If you do not think so, check this out: Middle Tennessee was rated No. 141 among 119 Division 1-A schools by Sagarin going into its game with Louisville. Good grief, talk about beating a lousy team. It makes you wonder, how good is Kentucky?

No. 14 Nebraska is now No. 24 after being dominated by USC on the Cornhuskers' turf, 49-31. USC gained 313 yards rushing and held Nebraska to 31. USC remains No. 1 in all polls from here to parts unknown.

No. 15 Georgia Tech was upset by No. 21 Boston College 24-10 and fell out of the poll.

No. 22 Tennessee was swamped by No. 5 Florida 59-20 and dropped out of the poll.

Moving into the AP Top 25 this week was No. 16 Alabama which tuned back then No. 16 Arkansas, 41-38, after twice blowing 21-point leads. It was a dramatic win for the Crimson Tide, who put on a defensive stand and a last-minute drive culminating in a final, 4-yard, game-winning touchdown pass with 8 seconds left.

I have said to keep your eyes peeled for Nick Saban, a quality coach in his first year at Alabama. Saban led LSU to the 2003 BCS National Championship while competing in the same SEC conference. Moving into the Top 25 was the No. 24 South Florida Bulls who were idle this week after beating AA Elon 28-13 and upsetting then No. 17 Auburn on the road, 26-23, in overtime.

I have already taken Alabama and South Florida off my list of teams that will be in the Top 25 before the season is over. Last week I predicted that Alabama, South Florida, Washington, Arizona State and Michigan State will crack the AP Top 25.

Missouri beat Western Michigan 52-24 for its 3rd straight win and moved into No. 25 in the poll. The Tigers have also beaten Illinois 40-34 and Ole Miss 38-25. After this weekend's games, Sagarin rated Illinois No. 63, Ole Miss No. 75 and Western Michigan No. 111. I will let you know if Missouri is any good after they play and beat a team worth beating. Washington, still unranked, led No. 10 Ohio State 7-3 at the half and had the momentum to pull off an upset for the second straight week (the Huskies upset No. 22 Boise State a week earlier).

Unfortunately, a 39-second stretch in the 3rd quarter cost Washington dearly. First, the Buckeyes' Brian Robiskie beat freshman cornerback Vonzell McDowell down the sideline for a 68-yard touchdown.

Then another freshman, Curtis Shaw, fumbled on the ensuing kickoff return trying to get more yardage after the initial hit. Ohio State scored on the turnover, taking a 17-7 lead and eventually winning 33-14 in a game that was much closer than the score. I believe Washington is still a team on the rise and will bounce back this week as it starts Pac 10 play with a road game at UCLA. UCLA was ranked No. 11 before playing Utah over the weekend and getting the snot kicked out of it, 44-6, and falling out of the poll.

Arizona State, still unranked, won its 3rd straight by moving by San Diego State 34-13 (rated No. 106). First year Coach Dennis Erickson has also topped San Jose State 45-3 (rated No. 147) and Colorado 33-14 (rated No. 67). Arizona State starts its Pac 10 campaign this weekend at home against Oregon State.

Another first year coach, Mark Dantonio at Michigan State, won his 3rd straight game in hand-to-hand combat with Pittsburgh 17-13 (ranked No. 53). The Spartans led 14-7 at the half but frankly underwhelmed me with their performance.

After watching Michigan State sprint to a 42-0 lead in their opener midway through the second quarter in a 55-18 thrashing of UAB (ranked No. 125), scoring touchdowns in their first 6 possessions, I expected more against Pittsburgh. They got by Bowling Green 28-17 (ranked No. 65) in a not-so-impressive showing, but should have done more.

Pittsburgh brought some defense to the game. Remember that the Panthers' Head Coach Dave Wannstedt was an offensive tackle at Pitt and former NFL Head Coach of the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins, both known for their defensive teams. For Michigan State to remain on the rise, the Spartans needed to best Pitt by two touchdowns and to be impressive they needed to beat them by four touchdowns. Neither happened.

MSU travels to Notre Dame on Saturday (9-22-07). The Irish are winless in 3 games and currently one of the worst teams in the nation. They have yet to score an offensive touchdown this season, have allowed 23 sacks (46 teams did not allow 23 sacks in all of last season), and rank dead last (119th) in 3 categories among Division 1-A teams--rushing, total offense and scoring offense.

The Lord will have to help Michigan State more than Notre Dame should the Irish upset the Spartans. So who is moving up impressively this week? Try Steve Spurrier's South Carolina Gamecocks, from No. 17 to No. 12 by leveling AA South Carolina State 38-3; and the Oregon Ducks, from No. 19 to No. 13 by ripping Fresno State 52-21.

So who remains vastly overrated? Try No. 7 Texas. The Longhorns topped Arkansas State 21-13 (rated No. 74) at home, defeated TCU 34-13 (rated No. 39) at home and then barely got by UCF (University of Central Florida, rated No. 64) 35-32 on the road. Texas spotted UCF 32 points (this is defense?) and won by a field goal.

Another overrated team is No. 9 Wisconsin. The undefeated 3-0 Badgers' big time wins came against Washington State 42-21 (rated No. 48), UNLV 20-13 (rated No. 96) and AA The Citadel 45-31 (rated No. 129). They gave up 31 points to a AA team going nowhere.

Wisconsin is going down, it is just a matter of time. Soon the Badgers will be playing Michigan State, No. 10 Penn State at Penn State and No. 8 Ohio State at Ohio State. I want to see this ferocious Wisconsin offense against the Buckeye defense, ranked No. 3 nationally in total defense and No. 5 in scoring defense.

For the record, No. 1 USC is currently ranked No. 41 in total defense and No. 45 in scoring defense. This helps explain why the Trojans handled Idaho 38-10 (rated No. 116) and No. 24-ranked Nebraska 49-31 (rated No. 18). No. 2 LSU is ranked No. 1 in total defense and No. 1 in scoring defense. This helps explain why LSU has stomped Mississippi State 45-0 (rated No. 46), then No. 9 Virginia Tech 48-7 (now rated No. 31) and Middle Tennessee 44-0 (rated No. 109).

So what else is noteworthy? Indiana, Connecticut, Purdue, Penn State, Texas A&M, Rutgers, Florida, Kansas, Arizona State and Hawaii have all gone 3-0 against either cupcake teams or weak competition. The jury is out of these teams until they actually play a decent or worthy opponent.

In other results, the Duke Blue Devils ended their 22-game losing streak, longest active in Division 1-A, by edging Northwestern 20-14. Florida International now has the longest losing streak with 14 after losing to Miami (FL) 23-9.Boise State hosted Wyoming and won by 10, 24-14. Good for Wyoming, losing by only 10 in an away game to the mighty, high-scoring Boise State Broncos.

Mike Price's UTEP team was outscored in the 4th quarter and lost to New Mexico State 29-24 to go 1-2 on the year. It is a real blessing that we will be getting into conference play this weekend so we can really begin to access who has it going on and who does not.

AA games may be interesting at times (like Appalachian State's 34-32 upset of Michigan in their Big House), but it tells you little about a team. Now the nonsense slows to a trickle and we get down to business.

Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley

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Notebook College football (11/10)

I have always believed that the number zero is the definition extremely! In the world of sport, as in real estate, it is "location, location and location!" A zero in the right column of the classification of the loss of livestock is that a very good thing, while one in the left column is not so good!

As college football enters its stretch run, anyone remotely associated with the game is very aware that the USC, Texas and Alabama (listed in order of BCS rankings team), remain solitary unbeaten teams in the nation. However, there are some other computers with a zero in that column on the right, when it comes to positions of the Conference.

West Virginia in the big East, easily cared for Cincinnati on Wednesday night, turning to 5-0 in League play.Mountaineers still have remaining games from November 24 to Pittsburgh in Morgantown) and December 3 in the South of the mountaineering Florida.Los had the title of this great effort last year, but lost at home to Boston College 36-17 and in Pittsburgh (16-13), to finish the year. Team this year shows no signs of implosion, but one never knows

TCU has already obtained the title of the CTM, in his first year in the League.Horned Frogs easily sent from Colorado State Saturday past (33-6), obtaining his first open Conference school since he won the SWC Crown in 1958.En 7-0 at the MWC, frogs with horns (29-point Favorites!) only need to beat UNLV in Fort Worth on Saturday to end at 10-1 overall and 8-0 in League play. Ironically, the only defeat of the team in 2005 came against a former rival SWC, SMU. Just a week after the opening of the season by winning 17-10 Norman versus the Sooners (as almost four-TD ylos), 21-10 lost TCU in SMU, a computer that is only 3-6 year.

At least one of the seven College football remaining Conference unbeatens HAS lost the end of this State and Fresno State (both 5-0), WAC semana.Boise gather Thursday night on ESPN. Boise State entered the WAC in 2001 and in that first year, ended 17-game home streak of Fresno with a victory for 35-30 as a point of 16 underdog.después losing in the Tech later that year, Boise started a Conference winning streak that has reached 31 games! During the running, the Broncos are an ATS impressive 21-10.

While Boise owns that long Conference win streak and Fresno beaten all four meetings since its incorporation to the Conference (an average score of 41-21-goings of ATS 4 - 0 win), the Bulldogs are solid favorite (rather than a TD) the jueves.Fresno game State is not surely slouch as the Bulldogs are its 38-5 at home since 1998 and enter in its confrontation with the Broncos 7-1 (only loss in Oregon 8-1, 37-34) and ranked number 20 in the access point (the current ranking of BCS is 22).

The winner of Thursday's confrontation will probably win - out the rest of the way in the work of the Conference, but it is not 'block'. Boise Gets an easy game at home to Idaho, but must play in the Tech (7-1 SU at home since 2004). In Fresno, after traveling to USC, December 19, for a non-conference game the Bulldogs should go to Reno, Nevada, where has gone SU and ATS 9-2 in their last 11 games.Fresno ends the season with a match against the technology in the home.

Turning to the three best teams in the nation, USC faces the one school that has given them most problems for years. USC takes a streak of your Cal game 31-game as well as a 14-game road winning streak and a streak of PAC-10 21-game this Saturday.CAL was the last team to defeating USC, 34-31 in triple OT in 2003.Cal almost defeated Trojans in Los Angeles last year losing 23-17, and in 2003, lost 30-28. Add some more drama to the mix, a victory of USC ATE Pac-10 record streak straight set from 1947-50 22 CAL. USC is a favorite of 18 1/2 point and closes year with matches against Fresno State and UCLA (Trojans have earned 25 directly in the Colosseum).

Texas team nation not. 2, goes by his 17TH straight victory in Austin, Texas this Saturday against Kansas.Mientras both Texas and USC have won games by similar margins, Texas their opponents 48, 3-14, 3 with USC outscores beating his opponents by an average of 49, 9-20, 6, the Longhorns are 8-1 ATS Trojans are only 4-5! Texas is a favorite of 33 points over Kansas and ends its regular season with a visit to College Station, where the Longhorns face disappointing Aggies.Colorado, a team that defeated Austin in Austin 42-17 back on October 15 is the likely opponent of Texas in the Big 12 title game.

While few people think USC or Texas face in the leg, team no. 3 of the nation, Alabama (but only 3-6 ATS), finds a home 'dog' (más-3) this Saturday to no. 5 LSU.Desde lose WR Tyrone Protho, tide have scored only a TD in his latest SEC three juegos.Sin embargo, Alabama owns no. 1 has been classified as defense score nation (8.2 PPG) and should not be counted out of any game.If escapes from Alabama against LSU, tide play at the "Iron Bowl" Auburn December 19 in Auburn.Likely SEC title game opponent (if the computer does now) Alabama is Georgia or Florida.

SEC saw Auburn go 12-0 last year but get left out of play for the BCS title and it seems likely that Alabama could end 12-0 in 2005 and also get left out.USC has increased his lead over Texas in the latest BCS standings and lead Texas on Alabama is important! the story of the BCS says that both teams ranked first and second place in the initial BCS survey season (this year was USC and Texas), never happened in that year's BCS title game.However, USC and Texas have already made history BCS in 2005, as the same two teams have never before been either one or two in each of the classification of BCS first and four season.Maybe USC and Texas are destined to meet in Pasadena?

LOVABLE LOSERS

I can not close without list of teams from Victoria, that with zero in the wrong place! Temple is 0-10 (4-6 ATS) in 2005, but gets the week of closed his season December 19 in the Armada.Estado again Mexico is 0-9 (2-7 ATS) and is home to Nevada, where the Aggies are adversities of 9 1/2 punto.Buffalo, 0-9 (5-4 ATS) is also at Kent State and the Bulls can really have an oportunidad.Los flashes of are not gold-so only 1-8 in 2005, but are favored above a TD.Nota: Los Buffalo also has longest current streak road the nation with 22 straight losses.

Rice (0-8 SU and ATS 1-7) in 2005 and owners of nation's longest current losing streak at age 14, plays your game homecoming this week against Tulane 2-6. owls are truly a ONE-POINT favorite! is it possible?, incidentally, including Buffalo, the State of New Mexico and rice (Temple is playing this year in Independent), yet there are 13 schools are still a conference game going into action this weekend.

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Crimson Tide University of Alabama (Center) football players has made in the 2010 NFL Draft

There were a total of seven players of football for the University of Alabama (Center) Crimson Tide adopted draft NFL 2010 was held at the end of April 2010. The breakdown of the rounds the players were taken is as follows: two in the first round, two in the second round, one in the third round and two in the seventh round.

The first two players of Alabama adopted were linebacker Rolando McClain of Decatur, Al the was selected with the General number 8 elect by the Oakland Raiders and Kareem Jackson in Macon, Georgia, who arrived in the middle of the first round, like choosing general.Kareem 20th was chosen by the Houston Texans to carry their work cornerback for the secondary Texans.

Once the two first round players (McClain and Jackson) were taken on the first day of the NFL draft three additional players from the University of Alabama were selected in the course of the next two rounds of the2010. Players three through five selected by the NFL teams, the University of Alabama are as follows:

Javier Arenas is a defensive back who was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round with the General number 50 choose.Terrence Cody is a 6'5 "pound 365 defensive lineman Baltimore Ravens took 25 position in the second round (# 57 general) .Mike Pensacola, Florida, Johnson plays the offensive line and was picked up last drafted in the third round (98th in general)." On the last day of 2010 NBA Draft from the University of Alabama had two most selected players in the seventh and last round of the televised event. Seventh round who previously played college football at Alabama selections were:

Marquis Johnson was prepared by the Rams from St. Louis to play at cornerback.It was drafted 211o.Brandon Deaderick is a lineman defensive Kentucky which was taken in the seventh round with the 247th General by the players of the University of Alabama in 2010 seven New England Patriots.Con in NFL Draft the only school that had more players selected was the University of Florida, with a total of nine.Alabama tied ranked number two, behind Florida with the University of Oklahoma and the USC.Oklahoma and USC also had seven elected their lists players.

255 Players that were taken at the 2010 comes from 2.7% of the University of Alabama NFL draft and a total of 11.8 per cent of all selected players came from four schools in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, and USC.

Jeff, the author of this article, imagine the transition from novice to intense will center players eager to obtain through trainings and back home where can fall into comfortable slippers of the University of Alabama .If anyone taken seven children no longer it has this essentially part of footwear is recommended to pick up a pair of slippers for Alabama Crimson Tide before training camp.

Top 3 SEC football teams for 2009 season College football

At present, the Florida Gators are winners insurance tomas sec with not a single team in view you can compare them.

There are, of course, LSU, Alabama and OLE Miss LSU and Alabama is the best team in the batch but Ole Miss might have a breakout season this year.The possibilities are not that great though for OLE Miss Georgia is another team care with Mark Richt guiding them enunciados.Sin embargo, it is highly unlikely that any of these teams would be able to exit with the title by defeating the Gators.

Therefore, it is now safe to predict the Gators will win the trophy in this time making it the second time in a row. what happens with the rest of the classifications is really what is interesting now.? Let's take a look at the Gators and two other teams in the top 3 for SEC this season.

The Florida Gators - there is nothing much to say about this computer except for how dominated completely to the Conference. Completely routed LSU, Georgia and Alabama on his way to dramatically defeating Oklahoma to win the national title.Those who think that this incredible performance may not be repeated must think nuevamente.Todo team 2009 is the same as 2008 with Percy Harvin, time being the only exception. That means Tim Tebow returns to the position of quarterback and all incoming Yes each and every one of them returning this season. Just a sudden change can stop them now.

LSU Tigers - will not be able to stand against the Gators but are many chances of winning the oeste.Suyo is a team that has weaknesses comparatively less than the rest of the teams below them in the Division.Its Jordan Jefferson quarterback has been a great last season and could do an output with the help of players like Brandon LaFell wideout season 2009 and tailback Charles Scott actually make things happen for the Tigers.The defensive part of the team is quite good with Harry Coleman on your computer yet.While improving their offensive, are very likely to go for the title of the West is currently in the hands of Alabama.

Alabama Crimson Tide - all completely in awe of Nick Saban and many now believe to the Crimson Tide is going to be a great team from now up to come from the Reino.Olvidan an important fact aquí.John Parker Wilson (quarterback), Andre Smith (offensive tackle) and coffee from Glen (tailback) have left this temporada.estos were major artists of the last year and Saban to replace the tres.A weigh that man has been big in recruiting in recent times, it is unclear whether Alabama will retrieve all the strength of the pérdida.puede win West SEC title but have to play much harder now.

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Alabama - The Crimson Tide "bear" Bryant

From playing her first college football game in 1892, Alabama Crimson Tide football program has become one of the of the College football more successful. With thirteen national titles and eight Championships consensus of coaches to your credit or access point, Alabama program has constantly remained among the elite of the NCAA football skills. Almost half of the National Championships in the program were obtained during the tenure of an Alabama - "Bear" Paul Bryant, legendary coach who led Alabama teams from 1957 until his retirement from the 1982 season.

Arrival of bear

When Bryant arrived in Alabama from Texas A & M, the program had been suffering for a period of four straight losing seasons. Arrival of bear seemed to spark the tide is necessary to activate the program around, and equipment that year the posted a record of five wins, four losses and a tie. Unique style Bryant as coach and masterly sporting discipline provides the foundation that the program needed to enable players begin to operate as a team and ascend towards its potential. In his fourth campaign with the program, Bryant had the Crimson Tide in national championship contention. In fact, went on to win the national title that year, on the first voyage of Bryant a bowl with its new computer game. It was a feat that team is often repeated during his tenure as coach, since the program became one of the most dominant in the NCAAs.From 1961 onwards and ending with the 1966 season the Crimson Tide was able to accumulate 60 total victories with only 5 losses.During that same period, won three national championships, SEC titles and were invited to six matches of Bowl. in two of those seasons, the team went undefeated. Alabama football was back!

1970S and beyond

The next decade belonged to Bryant marea.Equipos took the SEC Championship eight of those ten years, and won another three national titles as well.That period also saw another first for the Alabama team and happened during a rematch of the tide USC loss in 1970.During the game between the two schools next year, Bryant took the fateful decision to allow the American player John Mitchell to start your computer.Although Alabama won the game for a touchdown, is best known for being the first instance of a black player to start a game of Alabama.

The end of career Bryant came after more than two decades as coach of Alabama and was - in a timely manner, some would say - a victory for its tide 1982.Bryant Liberty Bowl game left the sport with a total of 323 WINS, which was at that time the most ever recorded by a College of 25 entrenador.Sus full seasons with the tide still represent the gold standard for training of college football, and many are coaches who since then have said bear as its source of inspiration. Bryant died in 1983, a mere month after his last game training.

Writer and editor, Freddie Brister, is a former secundaria.Compruebe school coach his Alabama Crimson Tide Watch or your Chicago Cubs Watch