ESPN's BOTTOM TEN

[RowdyZip]

The inaugural edition of ESPNs BOTTOM TEN is out. On the one hand, there's only one MAC team listed (NIU at #6).The list also features one Zip opponent (Syracuse at #9)There are TWO MAC schools on the waiting list, and unfortunately one of em is us.I know, I know . It's espn, but just a little more fodder to discuss seeing as we have 3 more weeks to go.

[ZachTheZip]

There are TWO MAC schools on the waiting list, and unfortunately one of em is us.

Yeah, but the other one is Can't, so it's all good. I guess whoever wins gets to come off the list.

[Zipsrifle]

Should there be a bottom 10 at the beginning of the year? At least let each team play a down first. On the other hand, we do have a top 25 picked months ahead of time.

[Valpo Zip]

There are TWO MAC schools on the waiting list, and unfortunately one of em is us.

Yeah, but the other one is Can't, so it's all good. I guess whoever wins gets to come off the list.

So let me get this straight... it won't bother you if the zips are terrible as long as Can't is equally terrible??will you be happy with a 1-11 if the one is Can't State?

[ZachTheZip]

There are TWO MAC schools on the waiting list, and unfortunately one of em is us.

Yeah, but the other one is Can't, so it's all good. I guess whoever wins gets to come off the list.

So let me get this straight... it won't bother you if the zips are terrible as long as Can't is equally terrible??will you be happy with a 1-11 if the one is Can't State?

Of course not. We should beat Syracuse, too, if you go by that list. What I really meant is that the flushers can't say anything about it, because they're on it too. Just like they can't say anything about Devoe Torrence because they want to sign Tyree Evans in basketball.

[MDZip]

I have a bad feeling about the "pillow fight of the week" game against the Cuse.

[bigham78]

The SBC who just got a bowl deal for more teams. The same SBC has four teams on the bottom 10 FIU (One of college football worst Div 1A teams) glorified tune-ups La-Monroe and La-Fayette. UNT is in waiting.That's half the teams in the SBC. I'm sorry if I'm still scratching my head over how this glorified tune-ups for real BCS teams with delusions of grandeur conference rates extra bowl bids. A 6-6 team blows out the conference champion of this weak conference.Example A: 6-6 Oklahoma St 42 SBC Champion Florida Atlantic 6 Now they're starting the season with 4 bottom ten teams or over half their conference. But, they have the potential for 3 Bowl bids.

[bigham78]

I have a bad feeling about the "pillow fight of the week" game against the Cuse.

The Cuse are not that good.They lost to Miami of OH last year 17-14 and just barely knocked off Buffalo 20-12. There only other win was the upset win over Lville. They were bad last year. They were shut out 35-0 by a medicore Iowa and blown out in back to back weeks Vs WVU 55-14 and Rutgers 38-14.At 2-10 The Cuse is very beatable by UofA. I have doubts the Cuse will improve all that much this season

[Ryno aka Menace]

The SBC who just got a bowl deal for more teams. The same SBC has four teams on the bottom 10 FIU (One of college football worst Div 1A teams) glorified tune-ups La-Monroe and La-Fayette. UNT is in waiting.That's half the teams in the SBC. I'm sorry if I'm still scratching my head over how this glorified tune-ups for real BCS teams with delusions of grandeur conference rates extra bowl bids. A 6-6 team blows out the conference champion of this weak conference.Example A: 6-6 Oklahoma St 42 SBC Champion Florida Atlantic 6 Now they're starting the season with 4 bottom ten teams or over half their conference. But, they have the potential for 3 Bowl bids.

Don't forget it is also about money, those bowls are within traveling distance for SBC fans, so they would have a better turn out most likely, than say a 6-6 Ohio U traveling that far south.

[MDZip]

I have a bad feeling about the "pillow fight of the week" game against the Cuse.

The Cuse are not that good.They lost to Miami of OH last year 17-14 and just barely knocked off Buffalo 20-12. There only other win was the upset win over Lville. They were bad last year. They were shut out 35-0 by a medicore Iowa and blown out in back to back weeks Vs WVU 55-14 and Rutgers 38-14.At 2-10 The Cuse is very beatable by UofA. I have doubts the Cuse will improve all that much this season

Exactly why I'm "worried" about our game with them getting the pillow fight of the week designation that ESPN's Bottom Ten designates every week of the season. If we both lose our first game (which is quite possible) we may get that "honor". Oh well, at least as you said, we could still beat them.

[bigham78]

The SBC who just got a bowl deal for more teams. The same SBC has four teams on the bottom 10 FIU (One of college football worst Div 1A teams) glorified tune-ups La-Monroe and La-Fayette. UNT is in waiting.That's half the teams in the SBC. I'm sorry if I'm still scratching my head over how this glorified tune-ups for real BCS teams with delusions of grandeur conference rates extra bowl bids. A 6-6 team blows out the conference champion of this weak conference.Example A: 6-6 Oklahoma St 42 SBC Champion Florida Atlantic 6 Now they're starting the season with 4 bottom ten teams or over half their conference. But, they have the potential for 3 Bowl bids.

Don't forget it is also about money, those bowls are within traveling distance for SBC fans, so they would have a better turn out most likely, than say a 6-6 Ohio U traveling that far south.

SBC just barely meet NCAA attendance requirement on home games and 15,000 guidelines to be a Div 1A conference. Things like Arkansas letting La-Monroe be the home team in Little Rock getting credit for 53,000 fans 99% of them Arkansas fans is how the SBC inflates their attendance numbers over the years.The New Orleans Bowl was headed to the extiction list until Memphis brought in a boatload of fans in 2003 and Southern Miss again in 2004 took the bowl off the NCAA watch list. UNT who at the time was 4 time SBC champion never sold their full allotments of tickets for those years and always gave tickets back.The SBC had the nerve to complain about Cincy in 2002 when bowl attendance slipped to just over 15,000. They failed to mention Cincy sold their full allotments of tickets while UNT sent over 2500 of theirs back. I'm a BIG critic of this conference, because IMO, its Division 1A worst conference and even the MAC beats these teams head to head. (That's no knock on the MAC)It has delusions of gradeur and the upsets they've pulled over the past severals years over BCS teams are far fewer then the MAC and not near as impressive as the MAC.