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2012 College Football Season – Week 8 Rankings
No change at the top of the college football world according to the AP Poll, as the top 16 teams from last week won or simply didn’t play. Alabama keeps on cruising (vs Tennesee) while Florida continue to pick up the most impressive wins, this time enhailiting the South Carolina Gamecocks, finding themselves out of the SEC race for good.
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College Football – Same Undefeated Teams, Same BCS Contenders
Week 8 offered no change and no real mix in what will be the polls later on and the BCS standings, as Alabama, Oregon, Kansas State, Florida, Notre Dame and Oregon State kept on winning.
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish – The Value of a BCS Bowl
Being an independent football program, unlike the rest of their athletics departments, gives Notre Dame a special status in College Football. It usually means quite a difficult schedule to plow through, but it also means a lot more money to keep once your reach a bowl game, especially a BCS bowl game.
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2012 College Football Season – Week 7 BCS Standings
The BCS belongs to the SEC, everyone knows that. The first published standings of the season coming out, following week 7 of the 2012 College Football Season gives us the first controversial issue, as Florida rank second behind Alabama at number one, leaving Oregon, number 2 in the AP Poll, a spot behind the Gators.
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College Football – Week 7 Rankings
A lot of movers up and down for yet another week, as South Carolina and West Virginia (huge fall) fell out of the top 5 after their losses to LSU and Texas Tech, while Alabama just keeps on winning, Florida are now in the top 3, Notre Dame and Kansas State keep climbing the rankings while Texas fell out of the AP Poll after a humiliating Red River Rivalry loss to Oklahoma.
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Red River Rivalry – Oklahoma Keep Crushing Texas
A good rivalry needs a fair fight, and the way the Oklahoma – Texas rivalry has been played on the field the last two years means it’s not at that point right now. Both teams came in with one loss going into the game in Dallas, but the Longhorns came out of the Cotton Bowl with one of the more humiliating defeats in the Red Rivalry history.
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LSU Tigers – Still National Title Contenders
Les Miles knows he doesn’t have the best team he’s had in Baton Rouge in 2012, but they’re still good enough to remain undefeated at home over the last 22 games, as LSU made a huge dent in the aspiration of South Carolina to finish higher than ever before this season, beating the Gamecocks 23-21.
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College Football – Undefeated Pool Shrinking in 1st BCS Week
Until Alabama faces LSU, it’s hard to take anyone with one loss as legitimate national title contender, but things are getting quite interesting on the eve of the release of the first BCS rankings, as LSU got back on the horse, running South Carolina’s perfect start, Florida keeps on impressing and the West Virginia-Geno Smith show came to an end in Lubbock against Texas Tech.
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College Football – Week 7 Predictions
The biggest game in terms of national attention, no matter their place in the rankings? The Red River Shootout, Texas against Oklahoma in Dallas. The actual big game will be South Carolina in a huge test for their title aspirations in Baton Rouge against an angry, one-loss LSU Tigers. The number one team in the nation, Alabama, travel to Columbia to play Missouri.
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Ohio State Buckeyes – Best Team in a Conference They Can’t Win
The Big Ten this season? Just short of terrible, not even close to serving up a national title contender or anyone actually worthy of a BCS Bowl, except for Ohio State. Problem? The Buckeyes aren’t eligible to win or contend for anything this season.