CRIER'S CORNER - THE CRIER’S BCS ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT - THE CRIER AND THE SR CREW - OCTOBER 6, 2010

THE CRIER’S BCS ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT

Written by: The Crier and the SR Crew
Date posted: 10/6/2010

It seems everybody has their own BCS rankings and so does the Crier. The purpose of these rankings is to determine the last two standing as of December 4. Hopefully, the BCS people will have the same two teams as "The Crier" for their championship game when all is said and done.

Right now, there are 28 teams in the hunt with Alabama and Oregon currently in the lead. Boise State trails Oregon by a very small margin due to the fact that they have only played four games vs. Oregon’s five games.Obviously many of these teams listed below are pretenders. The pretenders will be eliminated in the coming weeks in elimination games, as will some of the more legitimate claimants to the BCS throne.

Below are the rankings as of today, as well as this week’s schedule of games for the suitors to the BCS throne. There are several head-on elimination games this week, which are written about below.

When any of these "tournament" teams lose, that team is automatically eliminated, so there is no margin for error for anybody. The Crier will show no mercy from this point on.

Good luck to all the entrants in the Crier’s BCS Elimination Tournament. May the best two teams come out on top.

Rank -Team - Record -This Week’s Game:

1 Alabama 5-0 at South Carolina

2 Oregon 5-0 at Washington State

3 Boise State 4-0 vs. Toledo

4 Florida 4-1 vs. LSU

5 Oklahoma 5-0 DNP

6 Ohio State 5-0 vs. Indiana

7 LSU 5-0 at Florida

8 TCU 5-0 vs. Wyoming

9 Arizona 4-0 vs. Oregon State

10 Miami FL 3-1 vs. Florida State

11 Florida State 4-1 at Miami FL

12 Stanford 4-1 vs. USC

13 Utah 4-0 at Iowa State

14 Auburn 5-0 at Kentucky

15 Iowa 4-1 DNP

16 Nebraska 4-0 at Kansas State

17 Oklahoma State 4-0 at Louisiana - Lafayette

18 Arkansas 3-1 vs. Texas A&M (in Arlington, TX)

19 Michigan 5-0 vs. Michigan State

20 South Carolina 3-1 vs. Alabama

21 West Virginia 3-1 vs. UNLV

22 Missouri 4-0 vs. Colorado

23 Michigan State 5-0 at Michigan

24 NC State 4-1 vs. Boston College

25 Wisconsin 4-1 vs. Minnesota

26 Northwestern 5-0 vs. Purdue

27 Kansas State 4-0 vs. Nebraska

28 Baylor 4-1 at Texas Tech


THIS WEEK'S HEAD-TO-HEAD ELIMINATION GAMES (FOR READING PURPOSES ONLY):

THURSDAY NIGHT'S GAME

NEBRASKA at KANSAS STATE*

Might see more running than a Border Patrol Agent in the Little Apple. Both clubs run it, and run it well. In this clock churning affair, Nebraska defends the run better by a full yard per carry (3.6 vs. 4.6) and they have more of a passing game when needed. Husker QB Martinez will hit one big pass in this one that breaks the home team’s back. NEBRASKA, 24-14.


SATURDAY'S GAMES

MICHIGAN STATE at MICHIGAN*

Michigan State’s offense can take it to Michigan the opposite way Indiana did – via the run, in a “shorter” game. But the problem with road dog Michigan State is that with an ordinary defense very capable of allowing the sudden, big play to a Michigan offense that excels in scoring on sudden, big plays, the plodding, power offense of Sparty will invariably bog down with a penalty, a third-and-long, a field goal instead of a touchdown, or an interception. You get big yardage on a drive, nothing to show for it, and at best you eke out a point-spread win, you don’t dominate the spread. MICHIGAN, 34-27.


ALABAMA at SOUTH CAROLINA*

Great situation for the Gamecocks here: Bama played heated games with Arkansas and Florida the last two weeks and South Carolina is off of a bye playing at home. So why isn’t Spurrier’s team boxed here? Two words – Stephen Garcia. The home team QB has yet to play a good game when facing a good defense. This year’s Tide D doesn’t pressure as much as past issues, but their secondary schemes are complex and will give Garcia trouble. Spurrier will “dumb down” the offense by running it with Lattimore, and throwing to big WR Jeffrey, but Alabama has proven time and time again that it can take a team’s best punch and come right back for the knockout blow. ALABAMA, 27-21.

LSU at FLORIDA*
LSU may be 5-0, but the offense is a train wreck. QB Jefferson was pulled at home last week for the veteran Lee, but neither is that effective. If the Tigers cannot run, they will get run. Not easy to move it on the Gators in the Swamp. Last week in T-Town, if you take away a 30-yard run by Bama RB Richardson and a 17-yard QB scamper, Florida held the mighty Tide under 4 yards per carry. Once they make LSU put the ball in the air, the Gator secondary is super-opportunistic, nabbing 12 picks so far this season. That defense will put their offense in good spots, where the coaching staff can put their dynamic offense to use. That wasn’t at all the case last week when Florida fell behind early to Alabama. FLORIDA, 30-10.


FLORIDA STATE at MIAMI-FL*

Final scores in this match-up’s most recent October games from 2007 and 2008: 41-39, 37-29. (In 2005 and 2006, the scores had been 10-7 and 13-10). Last year, the game was moved back to Week 1 when defenses normally have an edge against offenses finding their way, but each team was (and still is) so loaded offensively that the final score was 38-34. Therefore, this is one instance where it may pay to “over”-think a situation. FLORIDA STATE, 39-38.

 
THE CRIER/SR CREW

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