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Week Nine in college football, can two months be gone already?
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Benjamin Ernst

College football is my passion, plain and simple. Still new to it if you ask me, so bear with me on this thing. Any ideas or comments are welcome. My blogs are normally posted on my myspace, so look me up. GEAUX TIGERS!!

 
By Benjamin Ernst
Published on 10/23/2006
 
College Football Picks

Here they are...

Well week 9 is here, and not too many changes. Be sure you guys check out Jeremys solution to the current BCS National Championship problems. Other than that, lets get started...

Last Weeks Picks: 16 of 20, for 80%. Not bad at all. And for the four swing games between myself and the self proclaimed "football Genious" Worm, im 3 of 4, with the Rutgers game being the difference. 9 of 14 for 64% man? come on!! Rutgers surprised me, but Pitt has struggled to stop the run for the past few years, and they are a couple more away from true Big East contention. Clemson over Ga Tech was no surprise for me, i was never sold on Reggie Ball and the offensive line for Clemson is nasty. Nebraska just couldnt put it away, the football or the game. Callahan will have another shot this year in the Big 12 championship game, but i dont think it will be as close in a  neutral stadium. And again, Mike Hart powers Michigan to another victory. Take your time and get healthy Manningham, this team can win one way or the other. Notre Dame pulled another one out of their ass, and who knows how many more times they will do it. Hopefully USC loses to Oregon and Cal, and then they defeat the Irish at home to end the season. Perfect way to keep both of these teams out of the BCS automatic bid picture.

Pick of the Week: Again, going with Michigan here. Make it 18-1 with Hart going for over 90 yards. They can coast until that big matchup in the Horseshoe. And for early thoughts on that game, its no secret Carr struggles against Ohio St. That is the only thing giving me doubts of a Michigan victory.

Missed Pick: Nebraska over Texas. Losing the ball with two minutes left, frosh QB takes the ball and drives the team down the field, and then the walk-on kicker boots the winning field goal? Well, maybe in December...

Play of the Week: Ashton Henderson returning a blocked punt for a touchdown, sparking a comeback of the ages for the Spartans, after trailing at one point, 38-3. Never before in Div 1A history had a team come from 35 down to win a game before Michigan State.

Catch of the Week: Could easily be the play of the week, when Jeff Samardzija caught a pass from Brady Quinn and took it 45 yards for a touchdown and the lead over upset-minded UCLA.

Hit of the Week: Can we go with about 6 of them in the 4th quarter alone by Steltz and Landry? They made hit after bone-crushing hit to stop a drive by the Bulldogs late in the game.

Quote of the Week: if you can read lips, and if you watched the Texas-Nebraska game, you could see Callahans reaction to a Zac Taylor pass. Feel free to substitute any word for "heck" here. "What the HECK was that!?" Taylor threw the ball in the middle of three longhorns, with NO husker players in sight.

Heisman Watch: Does Troy Smith have his ticket to New York yet? How about the spot on his mantle? This is his to lose, and i dont think he will, even with a poor performance against Michigan. Too many other players are struggling, other that Johnson of Boise St, but i just dont think the voters will give it to him. Troy Smith, barring injury, is the winner here.

Stat of the Week: 16-2, the number of INTs to TDs that LSU has allowed on defense at home. Also, 141, for Alabama and Tennessee, with nearly 141 game-time minutes, since the second qt of 2004, that a team had scored a touchdown, broken when Bamas Castille scored in the 3rd on a two-yard TD run.

Now for this week. And im disappointed with this week, in actually off for a Saturday, LSU isnt playing, and there just arent as many big games this week...to the picks

Top 25 Picks:

#10 Clemson over Virginia Tech

#2 Michigan over Northwestern

#17 Wisconsin over the Illini

#18 Boston College over Buffalo

#1 Ohio St over Minnesota

#3 USC struggles in a win over the O St Beavers.

#20 Nebraska rebounds over Oklahoma St.

#24 Wake Forest over North Carolina

#5 Texas over Texas Tech. I know someone is going to call the upset here. HAHA

#25 Oregon gets a little confidence back over Portland St.

#22 Texas A&M over Baylor

#16 Rutgers continues to roll over UCONN

SEC Picks:

#7 Auburn over Ole Miss

Vandy over Duke

Kentucky over Miss St.

FIU, with many players suspended, hold open tryouts, dress a high school football team, and beats out a beat up, under-achieving Bama football team, then Big Al dies.

#9 Florida rolls over Georgia. What happened Bulldogs?

#13 Arkansas continues to roll over La-Monroe

And #8 Tennessee, in a game i will be attending in the USC student section, will roll over South Carolina, right before being destroyed at home to a well-rested Tiger squad next week!!

Upset Pick of the week: #23 Mizzou over #19 Oklahoma, in the Sooners first real test without Adrian Peterson.

Random Thoughts: My friend Jeremy Wells shows us the way to crown an undisputed national champion in CFB.

-Make ten 12-team Conferences
-Drop Sun Belt Conference
-Drop Independent status( if they do not want to, fine them and anyone who schudules to play them big time. hint hint:Notre Dame)

Keep ACC, Big XII, SEC, and MAC the same
Drop Temple to Division 1-AA status and bring Northern
Colorado and Portland St up to D1-A( or subsitute 2
teams into those spots)
Add Notre Dame to Big 10, Add Nevada and UNLV to
PAC-10
rearrange CON USA, WAC, MWC, and Big East to more
geographic regions


What I think the conference should be like:
ACC Big XII
Atlantic division North division
Boston College Colorado
Clemson Iowa St.
Florida St. Kansas
Maryland Kansas St
N.C. St. Missouri
Wake Forest Nebraska

Coastal division South Division
Duke Baylor
Georgia Tech Oklahoma
Miami(FL) Oklahoma St.
North Carolina Texas
Virginia Texas A&M
Virginia Tech Texas Tech

Big 10 Big East
Midwest division North Division
Illinois Cincinnati
Indiana UCONN
Iowa Navy
Michigan Pittsburgh
Notre Dame Rutgers
Purdue Syracuse

Great Lakes division South division
Michigan St Army
Minnesota Central Florida
Northwestern Louisville
Ohio St Memphis
Penn St South Florida
Wisconsin West Virginia

Conference USA Mid-American
East division East division
Alabama-Birmingham Arkon
East Carolina Bowling Green
Florida Atlantic Buffalo
Florida International Kent St
Marshall Miam(OH)
Troy Ohio

West division West Division
Arkansas St Ball St
Louisiana-Lafayette Central Michigan
Louisiana-Monroe Eastern Michigan
Middle Tenn St. Northern Illinois
Southern Miss Toledo
Tulane Western Michigan

Mountain West Pac-10
North division North division
Air Force Nevada
Boise St Nevada-Las Vegas(UNLV)
Colorado St Oregon
Idaho Oregon St.
Northern Colorado Washington
Wyoming Washington St.

South division South division
Brigham Young(BYU) Arizona
New Mexico Arizona St.
New Mexico St. California
Texas-Christian(TCU) California-Los Angeles(UCLA)
Utah Southern California
Utah St Stanford

Southeastern(SEC) WAC
East division Southwestern division
Florida Houston
Georgia Louisiana Tech
Kentucky North Texas
South Carolina Rice
Tennessee Southern Methodist(SMU)
Vanderbilt Texas-El Paso(UTEP)

West division West Coast division
Alabama Hawaii
Arkansas Fresno St
Auburn Portland St.
Louisiana St. San Diego St.
Mississippi San Jose St.
Mississippi St. Tulsa

that would be my idea of the ten conference and how the could split them. also every conference would have a championship game from the two teams that won the respective division and the team who won the conference would automatically get into the playoffs.


Now the playoffs system
-Keep BCS system
-Take the ten conference champions
-Take the next 6 teams according to BCS rankings
- rank teams 1 though 16 according to BCS rankings
-have a 4-week playoff system with your 15 biggest bowls
-Take the Orange, Rose, and Sugar Bowl and rotate like the do now for you NC game and have the other two not playing for the NC game that year and have them for the Semi-finals games.


now for the other teams not in the playoffs that year, you still have 17 other bowls games that they could play in, have them spread out over the course of those 4 weeks

and that my friends is how i think we can have an undisputed national champion in college football that isfair where we still keep bowl games, the bcs, and have the playoff system all the fans want.


This is Jeremy Wells and what i think can solve College Football problems, most of this is my original thought but some is some stuff ive heard from other people

And this is Ben, these are my picks, these are my thoughts, rest this week Tigers, and get ready for the Vols. GEAUX TIGERS!!