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College Football – Biggest Games Left for National Championship Contenders
Six weeks into the 2012 College Football season and a week before the first BCS rankings, there are still plenty of undefeated teams, but only 7 teams look like legitimate contenders for the national title, with Alabama standing way above the rest: Oregon, West Virginia, Kansas State, Florida, South Carolina and Notre Dame.
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College Football – Undefeated Teams Dropping Like Flies
The first week of October in the college football season always means more upsets and losses to high ranked & undefeated teams. Who’s left with no losses after week 6? 2 in the Big 12 (West Virginia, Kansas State), 3 in the Big East (Rutgers, Cincinnati, Louisville), 1 in the Big Ten (Ohio State), 1 in the MAC (Ohio), 2 in the Pac-12 (Oregon, Oregon State), 4 in the SEC (Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi State), 2 in the WAC (Louisiana Tech, UTSA) and Notre Dame.
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College Football – Week 6 Predictions
October means that top 25 teams are going to start clashing, with the focus on the SEC this week, with two top 10 games: LSU, slipping to fourth in the nation, take their struggling offense to play number 10 Florida at the Swamp. Georgia and South Carolina meet in Columbia in the battle of the SEC leaders, while number 2 in the nation Oregon get ready for another blowout win against Washington.
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College Football – Week 5 Rankings
Grabbing a quite comfortable SEC win, Alabama are now a unanimous number one team, for the first time this season, while LSU’s unimpressive win over Towson dropped them another spot. Florida State are number 3 for the first time in almost a decade while Northwestern make the rankings for the first time since 2008.
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New York Red Bulls – The Never Ending Quality of Thierry Henry
Being the best player in the MLS doesn’t mean a lot in bigger, global terms, but for Thierry Henry, 35, with his glory days in the English Premier League and La Liga behind him, it’s still an affirmation of his class and quality, that will never leave him despite the diminishing physical attributes.
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College Football – Staying Undefeated Till the Very End
With week 5 of the 2012 College Football season behind us, we have undefeated teams: 1 of the ACC (Florida State), 5 from the Big 12 (Kansas State, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, West Virginia), 3 from the Big East (Rutgers, Cincinnati, Louisville), 2 in the Big Ten (Ohio State, Northwestern), 1 in the MAC (Ohio), 2 in the Pac-12 (Oregon, Oregon State), 6 in the SEC (Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, LSU, Mississippi State), 2 in the WAC (UTSA, Louisiana Tech) and Notre Dame.
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West Virginia Mountaineers – Geno Smith, Best Quarterback in the Nation
Numbers sometimes lie, but five weeks into the 2012 College Football season and after getting his first taste of Big 12 football (not defense when it’s Baylor), Geno Smith is well on his way to become the first Heisman trophy winner for the West Virginia Mountaineers.
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College Football – Week 5 Predictions
The national champions and number 1 team in the nation, Alabama, should continue their perfect start hosting a worse than their record team in Ole Miss, while Oregon have a tricky visit to Seattle against Washington State and LSU play another FCS team. West Virginia make their Big 12 debut hosting Baylor, while Ohio State facing Michigan State is another interesting ranked teams matchup.
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Keith Price Makes One Play More than Jose Nunes (Stanford vs Washington)
If the Stanford Cardinal had any hopes of contending for anything more than the Pac-12, Washington squashed them. Two teams without a lot of offense and some great defense, and a quarterback that pulled off that one big play (Keith Price) facing Josh Nunes, who just didn’t get that kind of support from his receivers.
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Georgia Bulldogs – Todd Gurley is the Best Freshman in College Football
The Georgia Bulldogs football team is off to a great start in 2012, going 4-0 through the first weeks, mostly thanks to their three-headed monster rushing attack, led by true freshman Todd Gurley, who has been the best running back in the SEC so far.