Topic: Teams to root for in week 9 ...

[ThunderDent]

Home teams in ALL CAPS
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Rutgers over 16-NEBRASKA (doubtful)

COLORADO over 25-Ucla (possible)

OKLA ST over 22-wvu (possible)

WAZZU over 15-Arizona (possible/doubtful)

Syracuse over 21-CLEMSON (doubtful)

3-Ole Miss over 24-LSU (possible/likely)

PENN ST over 13-Ohio St. (doubtful)

WASHINGTON over 14-Ariz St. (Possible)

19-UTAH vs. 20-Usc (prob neither hurts or helps)

[_sturt_]

And just as, if not more importantly, these results will help us...

Likely
Auburn (-19) over South Carolina in Auburn (So Car = ECU loss) / 7:30 eastern

UCLA (-14) over Colorado in Boulder (Col = CSU win) / 2 pm eastern

La Tech (-9) over Southern Miss in Hattiesburg (La Tech only has 3 losses, and probably has the "least bad" record among CUSA West teams that might face us in the CUSA Championship) / 3:30 eastern

Virginia (-7) over North Carolina in Charlottesville (No Car = ECU win) / Noon eastern

Toss-Up
Arizona (-2.5?... curious, but that's what ESPN shows) over Washington State in Pullman (Wash St = CSU win) / 6 pm eastern

LSU (+2.5) over Ole Miss in Baton Rouge (Ole Miss = BSU loss) / 7:30 eastern

Unlikely
Wyoming (+19) over Colorado State in Ft. Collins / 7 pm eastern

UNLV (+17.5) over Utah State in Logan (Reduces any bounce Boise might otherwise receive if they defeat Utah St in their last game) / 4 pm eastern

Wake Forest (+13.5) over Boston College in Winston-Salem (Boston College = CSU win) / 3:30 eastern

Temple (+7) over UCF in Orlando (Eliminates UCF entirely, plus reduces any bounce ECU might otherwise receive if they were to defeat UCF in their last game) / 5 pm eastern

[herdadreh]

If I were a bettin man I'd be tempted to take home UCF -7 vs. road Temple.

Anybody else see that?

But I'm not a bettin man.

Rootin for the Owls of course.

[_sturt_]

hmmmm... wish I could join you, but I feel like any team is susceptible to looking past a bad opponent sometimes, and I feel like that happened to UCF last week  (...hope I'm wrong about that, of course)... I think they're a legitimately strong team, and with a smarter schedule, they'd be in the chase right now.

[_sturt_]

The day's re-cap... 5 good, 5 bad.


Likely
Auburn (-19) over South Carolina in Auburn (So Car = ECU loss) / 7:30 eastern
YESSSSS

UCLA (-14) over Colorado in Boulder (Col = CSU win) / 2 pm eastern
YESSSSS

La Tech (-9) over Southern Miss in Hattiesburg (La Tech only has 3 losses, and probably has the "least bad" record among CUSA West teams that might face us in the CUSA Championship) / 3:30 eastern
YESSSSS

Virginia (-7) over North Carolina in Charlottesville (No Car = ECU win) / Noon eastern
DANG-IT

Toss-Up
Arizona (-2.5?... curious, but that's what ESPN shows) over Washington State in Pullman (Wash St = CSU win) / 6 pm eastern
YESSSSS

LSU (+2.5) over Ole Miss in Baton Rouge (Ole Miss = BSU loss) / 7:30 eastern
YESSSSS

Unlikely
Wyoming (+19) over Colorado State in Ft. Collins / 7 pm eastern
DANG-IT

UNLV (+17.5) over Utah State in Logan (Reduces any bounce Boise might otherwise receive if they defeat Utah St in their last game) / 4 pm eastern
DANG-IT

Wake Forest (+13.5) over Boston College in Winston-Salem (Boston College = CSU win) / 3:30 eastern
DANG-IT

Temple (+7) over UCF in Orlando (Eliminates UCF entirely, plus reduces any bounce ECU might otherwise receive if they were to defeat UCF in their last game) / 5 pm eastern
DANG-IT

[JeremyBlake]

LSU hurt as much as it helped. They'll pass us in all of the polls now.

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If one assigns any meaning to the polls at this stage, that would be true.

I submit that, short of events that flip-flop us outright with ECU, moving up or back 1 or 2 slots really won't have any consequence to how we come out in the real poll.