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Happy Mullet Wednesday
Posted by Hiphopopotamus on September 30th, 2009 under Football
Yep, two mullets. That’s how much I value you, dear reader.
A couple links for you today, though none on our Jayhawks, since everyone seems to be taking a bye week with the team.
The first, from Barking Carnival, Henry James reports that Christian Scott and Brandon Collins are out for the year for failing to be on track to graduate. Where in the world will they find athletes to replace these two? But while they may not be short on guys, these are both significant losses, especially if there are any injuries down the road. All I can say is, thank goodness this kind of stuff would NEVER happen under Mangino or Self. Just one more reason to be thankful.
Also from BC, TaylorTRoom with a great piece about why Big 12 TV contract suck out load. I’ll give you a clue…
“This week, the most marketable Big 12 game is New Mexico at Texas Tech.”
Those bastards over at Atomic Teeth tell us that Phil Steele has updated his proections and through four games, he now has the Big 12 North breaking out thusly:
1. Nebraska, 7-1. Only loss to OU.
2. Mizzou, 5-3. Losses in its first three conference games.
3. Colorado, 4-4. Computer obviously infected with the Scipio Tex virus.
4. Kansas, 2-6. Only wins are against ISU and K-State. The computer goes out on a limb to predict that CU and KU will both lose the CU/KU game.
5. Kansas State, 1-7. Win at Farmaggedon.
6. Iowa State, 0-8. Computer is not as impressed as the Harris Poll voters.
Far as I can tell, that looks about right. I mean, who wouldn’t draw those same conclusions at this point?
Building there, both K-State and Iowa State received votes in the Harris Poll. Yep, the Cats got two and the Clones netted one. Yep, KSU is tied for 43rd with Florida State, Minnesota and Pitt, while ISU is tied with Texas Tech for 47th. Nope, the madness doesn’t end there with Cal ahead of Oregon and Penn State ahead of Iowa. Yep, this poll counts toward the sport’s national champion.
From Boomer Sooner, Stoopstroops setting the stage for the trip to Miami. And with slightly less history and much more emphasis on the present, Tilting at Windmills weighs in on the game that could ultimately make or break the season for OU.
Also, if you’ve yet to check out dedfischer’s post-mortem on the Tech loss in Houston last week, you can find it here. Obviously he’s a little biased and I’m still bent over by last year’s game, but I’m inclined to side with him that this team is nowhere near being done. Their ceiling is lower than last year’s team, but they’re still plenty dangerous…especially for us…in Lubbock…on Halloween. That place is fucked up enough as it is. Please let that be an 11:00am game…
And finally, this week’s BlogPoll submission. It changed very little from our opening draft (you all need to start calling me out on my bullshit), with Oregon dropping some, Cal dropping a little more and a couple teams moving up as a result.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Florida | |
| 4 | Houston |  2 |
| 5 | Boise State | 4 |
| 6 | Cincinnati | 2 |
| 7 | TCU | 3 |
| 8 | Virginia Tech | 9 |
| 9 | Iowa | |
| 10 | LSU |  3 |
| 11 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 12 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 13 | Nebraska | 5 |
| 14 | Miami (Florida) | 10 |
| 15 | South Florida | |
| 16 | Georgia Tech | |
| 17 | Auburn | |
| 18 | Kansas | 1 |
| 19 | Missouri | |
| 20 | Oregon | |
| 21 | Oklahoma State | 1 |
| 22 | UCLA | |
| 23 | Georgia | |
| 24 | California | 19 |
| 25 | South Carolina | |
| Last week’s ballot | ||
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RoboBoogie said:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Wow Rod Stewart and George Michael in one post. Nice work…
Triston27 said:
September 30th, 2009 at 10:28 am
The computer goes out on a limb to predict that CU and KU will both lose the CU/KU game.
We all lose when it comes to having to watch the Buffs play.
Chet said:
September 30th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Phil Steele’s conference win projection numbers haven’t changed. They have been exactly the same for the last several weeks.
Hiphopopotamus said:
September 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Well then I guess I should say they were updated this week – whether or not they’ve changed when updated, I can neither confirm nor deny. Apologies.
Phenomenal Smith said:
September 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Hiphop, Phil Steele himself says he runs his computer projections every week, so no need to apologize.
Neon Boudreaux said:
September 30th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
It would be statistically impossible that he runs it every week with new data and the results don’t change (check the cache, he’s not running it every week regardless of what he says)…
Chet said:
September 30th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
he updates the FBS Power Rankings weekly but the 2009 Projected Standings, which is where the projected conference records come from, hasn’t been updated. The only reason I know this is b/c I have been trying to find a stats-based projection of conference wins for a college f-ball pool we do, therefore have been checking his site frequently to see when its updated. Also, he would really have to have a bad model in order to project KU w/ 2 conf wins at this point since he has them as the 5th best team in his power rankings.
BIG 12
Oklahoma 144
Texas 143
Nebraska 131
Texas Tech 125
Kansas 125
Ok. St 123
Missouri 121
Baylor 120
Texas A&M 117
Colorado 110
Iowa St 110
Kansas St 109
Chet said:
September 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
sorry, after a closer look it appears i am indeed wrong. some of the projections have changed, just not by very much. I can’t believe he is still predicting 2 wins for KU w/ how they’ve performed, guess I must have the crimson & blue glasses on in full effect. my bad.
Neon Boudreaux said:
September 30th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
The cached versions of the page are completely unchanged as far as I can tell, Chet. Either way, it seems he’s either not updating them every week at all or is weighing his preseason predictive numbers higher than the first 4 games of the season which would obviously be quite foolish.
Big Head said:
September 30th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
How shitfaced is Phil Steele? Am I missing something on Colorado?
I’ll take a stab at how the B12N finishes:
1). Mizzou- Easier schedule. Okie State hasn’t lived up to the unbeatable hype, and RGIII is done for the year. Texas should probably win, but that’s even in CoMo.
2). kU- Schedule sucks, but isn’t totally brutal. Depends on how the LBs and OL play, and it hasn’t been too pretty so far. Nubs @ Larryville helps.
3). Nubs- TT and Oklahoma (plus Baylor) from the South. Games in CoMo and Larryville. QB is godawful. Helu can win them some games, but the rest of that offense shouldn’t.
4). Colorado- Because they aren’t ISU or K-Snake.
5). Iowa State- Could surprise a team in the B12. Ames is never fun to play in.
6). K-State- Good lord they are terrible right now. Thought Coffman could be the 3rd best QB in the B12N. I was wrong.
hiphopopotamus said:
September 30th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
I think between the combination of those projections and him having OU at the top of the conference after losing to BYU and beating two nothings, we probably ought to discount Phil for a while.
Big Head: I think the Missouri/Nebraska hate is really growing – you all seem to be really resisting this Husker resurgence. It definitely hurts them that they have to go to Lawrence and Columbia, but their south schedule is leaps and bounds easier than both ours and yours.
gingerballs said:
September 30th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I just want Phenomenal and the guys at Atomic Teeth to know that the use of “those bastards” was Costanzian in nature…we won’t be calling you bastards until closer to Thanksgiving.
I don’t want to say that I’m hating Mizzou less than I have before, that just can’t happen, but I notice that I am finding more time to hate Nebraska now….if all that makes sense. A lot can be said for KU’s advantage of being able to sit at home this Saturday and get a glimpse of both MU/NU and get an idea of how all this will shake out. Should be a fun conference season.
gingerballs said:
September 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Meant to say, get a glimpse MU/NU next Friday….not that I thought the game was this Friday
Phenomenal Smith said:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
ginger, I just assumed you were referring to my being born without a father. No big deal.
Hiphopopotamus said:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Pretty sure the game is next Thursday, ginger. And don’t go making any assumptions about the reasoning behind my characterizations.
Big Head said:
September 30th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
@HipHop: Mizzou has Baylor and Texas at home, Okie State in Stoolwater. Nubs have Baylor in Waco, and Oklahoma and TT at home.
I could see both going 1-2, but I’d say Mizzou has the better shot at 2-1. Tech has played better this year than Okie State in my opinion. OSU has been beat up as well. Dez Bryant, Perrish Cox, and Kendall Hunter all missed last week, not that they were needed. Maybe I’m just drinking the Pirate Juice (is that Cap. Morgan?).
Nubs also have to come to CoMo and Lawrence. They could easily put themselves behind the 8-ball and go o’fer. Throw in a trip to Boulder in that “rivalry”.
And I fucking hate Nebraska. Living there for three years, my hate grew each day for those Kool-Aid drinking SOBs. I have taken my hatred for Colorado, ISU, and K-State (only because they’ve been irrelevant) and thrown it into the Nebraska ring. Not that I didn’t hate them before I moved there, but it was magnified ten-fold how big of a pile of shit most of their fan base is.
Hiphopopotamus said:
October 1st, 2009 at 5:56 am
Point taken on the hatred.
Agree to disagree on the schedule though. Apples to apples:
The Baylor game is now a win for both of you.
You both have a very tough home game. They get OU and you get Texas. To this point, I think we’d all agree Texas looks better.
And finally, you have to go to Stillwater to play a very talented OSU team while Nebraska welcomes Tech to Lincoln. Tech has certainly looked solid and OSU has yet to really impress, but you’d have a very hard time convincing me that a trip to Stillwater is easier than a visit from Tech – all else being equal.
That’s why I think Griffin’s injury changed everything. Prior to that, I wasn’t ready to concede that game to the Huskers…now, it seems all but guaranteed.
Big Head said:
October 1st, 2009 at 11:52 am
@HipHop: Even with the Huskers having trips to CoMo and Lawrence? I still stand by the thought that they could go 0-2 in those. I know it’s been a small sample size (one game), but they were rattled. Helu was good, but other than that??? They didn’t even score a TD!
Their schedule does no favors, and has to be the worst of the three obvious contenders. The Huskers haven’t won in CoMo since ‘01.