I know, woman with a football question... OMG right? Well, did anyone think about how much stronger recruiting has been in the past five years across all divisions? Think about it. Before all the good players flocked to one school making them predominately the school to beat. Now, the players are going just about everywhere... could it be the teams are just now finding out their strengths and weaknesses and building on that? That teams are really becoming more equal in players' abilities? Coaching has changed alot in the past few years too. Don't you think that has had its effect on teams too?

Hell, I love SEC football, pull for Georgia. We had a 9-2 season. Not perfect, but still we finished the year 9-2. Heck, we had alot of freshmen on both sides of the field. Yet everyone is still complaining.

Georgia is playing Michigan State in a bowl game. Who will win, its debatable on both sides. Me, regardless of all the playoff talk, the bcc bowl hype, the trash talk, will still be sitting on the sidelines pulling for my team.

cinncy and va tech in the orange bowl..

whoa...big matchup there...cant wait f0r that game!!!!

booooring......

the only way someone watches this game is if
1. you went to one of the schools
2. you put money on the game

The SEC is dead in the water :D always has been, we all know the southern midwest is were football has always ruled.

After watching Brett Favre and the Jet's play today and kick the Fooking Titans A$$

should he just retire already????


HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

I need another BEER!!!!!!!!!

Swofford: We 'welcome dialogue on what's best for college football'

President-elect Barack Obama would like a college football playoff. The BCS' response? We'll listen, but ...

BCS coordinator John Swofford responded to a stepped-up playoff push by Obama that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday. President-elect Obama also lobbied for a college football playoff in an interview with ESPN that was broadcast the night before the presidential election during halftime of Monday Night Football.

"First of all I want to congratulate newly elected President Obama and I am glad he has a passion for college football like so many other Americans," Swofford said in a statement. "For now, our constituencies -- and I know he understands constituencies -- have settled on the current BCS system, which the majority believe is the best system yet to determine a national champion while also maintaining the college football regular season as the best and most meaningful in sports."

Swofford added: "We certainly respect the opinions of president-elect Obama and welcome dialogue on what's best for college football."

Obama said he will use his influence to create such a system.

"If you've got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there's no clear decisive winner. We should be creating a playoff system," he told reporter Steve Kroft.

According to Obama's proposed system, eight teams would play over three rounds to settle the national champion.

"It would add three extra weeks to the season," he said at the conclusion of a wide-ranging interview. "You could trim back on the regular season. I don't know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this. So, I'm going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it's the right thing to do."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

The US economy is in the toilet. This step by NASCAR isn't going to help much in the long run. If the economy gets better,it will be business as usual.If it doesn't,everyone will have even bigger problems to worry about

How do millionaires and major sports stars help the economy?

They stop spending money.

That makes sense, right?

Random perhaps,along with a lil Mag humor,but NASCAR is looking into other car manufact. coming in........Thanks to TOYOTA being such a success!!

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- NASCAR will implement a no-testing policy next season in order to save millions of dollars during a massive downturn in the U.S. economy.


NASCAR officials met with teams' crew chiefs Friday morning at Homestead-Miami Speedway to inform them of the change.



All tracks that have NASCAR events in the top three series -- Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Craftsman Trucks, which will be renamed Camping World Trucks next season -- are included in the testing ban.

The change also is included Daytona International Speedway and the traditional two weeks of test sessions in January before the '09 season begins.

"It has pluses and minuses," said Pat Tryson, crew chief for the No. 2 Dodge driven by Kurt Busch. "Times are tough right now, so it's probably not that bad a thing for most people. It's the same for everybody. It may make the racing better with nobody having the opportunity to test."

A test of the new NASCAR
It's hard to figure how much money -- or maybe if any money -- will be saved with
NASCAR's new testing ban at league-sanctioned tracks announced Friday. But there was one clear winner; take a bow, Rockingham Speedway, writes David Newton. Story


This is a dramatic change from the idea NASCAR officials proposed to the teams two months ago, when the plan was to increase testing to 24 sessions per team, with every Cup track included. But the faltering economy caused NASCAR to rethink that idea and take a major step to limit costs.


Many teams spend more than $3 million a season on testing. Each test day can run more than $100,000 per car in expenses.

Cup teams had lobbied for more testing at Cup tracks to gain valuable data on the new car at each Cup facility. Only a few tracks had open test sessions this year, so teams were forced to test at tracks where NASCAR doesn't have Cup races.

The new policy will not keep teams from testing at non-NASCAR tracks.

Terry Blount covers motorsports for ESPN.com. He can be reached at terry@blountspeak.com.

if pulse is back, i'm staying here too. great timing with the chase about over, huh?

cause if favre makes it to the playoffs, he will have another performance like he did last year against the giants....couple td's, couple bad interceptions, and then the excuse machine will begin

Notre Dame makes it to a bowl game and continues their losing streak

Duke wins an ACC game

Penn Satte beats Michigan for the first time in a decade

WVU losses twice

I really don't believe BYU can go undefeated. I mean they play Washington, UCLA, Utah, and I even believe TCU can beat them.

If Hamlin were any kind of sportsman, he would have raced Jimmie harder and taken him out on that final lap when he got loose. What kind of pansy just gives up track position like that at the end of the race? You wouldn't see Carl just sit back and let that happen. Why I bet he'd even smash into a wall just trying to finish one position higher!

I didn't realize how much power my words would have. At the start of the Chase I had said I'd rather see JJ win than Kyle,

Posted By: pulsemeddle on 8/8/2007 401 PM
Subject: Nascar Chase - Who will Win
Message: Hello all.
I haven't watched any nascar in the past month or so.

Gump4Heisman's 10 Things To Look Forward To This College Football Season

10) Getting into it with 'The Greatest Generation'

‘Sit down.’ ‘We can’t see the game.’ ‘I pay money for these seats.’ ‘I like Ike.’

You’re bound to hear it. You’re at a game. You stand up. You cheer. And, mostly, it goes by unnoticed.

Then, at some point, the grey-hairs in the back start ****ing. And rightfully so. The way they see it, they didn’t see their buddies die face down in the Battle of Antietam so young whippersnappers in zoot suits could stand up and act all uppity.

You pay it no mind. You glance back. Finally, the smuggled sock-bourbon forces it out of you:

‘Listen old man, it’s 4th and 1. Either stand up and watch, or just imagine the shit like you did during the golden era of radio.’

And before you know it, you have General Longstreet’s superior officer coming at you with an AARP seat cushion like he’s Sonny Corleone by an open fire hydrant.

The fight will rage on for eternity.

You’ll never see eye-to-eye. And not just because he’s bent over like an on-duty prostitute. Because you’re from two entirely different worlds.

When you were in college, 50 Cent was a rapper. When he was in college, 50 Cent was a damn good salary.


9) Going back to campus and exaggerating how much ass you'd re-get in college

If you were still in college, you would get so much ****.

You would smash ass at such an record-shattering pace that it would lead to televised Senate hearings. See that hot girl? You would tap it. That blonde? You would crush it. The curly-headed one? Your id just ****ed the shit out of her id. Doggystyle.

‘Man, do you know what I would do if I were still in college?’

If you were still in college, parents would send their daughters to school with ****ing wrought-iron panties. Dads would order their daughter's va-jay-jays to retreat to Helm's Deep to avoid being ransacked by the massive armies of your****

Never mind real life, and all the times you went home empty-handed and jerked it to Windows-Media-Player-porn.

Nevermind all the times you got shot down in front of the entire ****ing bar, took home the fatty, or got too drunk to spit game and was turned down by an army of 3 A.M. Plan B’s.

Because if you could do it again, you would be ****ing Pierce-Brosnan-with-the-cameras-rolling. Your****would be so active, it would have a resume. You would **** until '1-UP's starting popping up over your head. You would would **** like Star Power.

Oh, and all the girls now are hotter than they were when you were there.

All of them. You have to say it. It's a rule. It has nothing to do with the fact that you’re used to working in an office all day with 35-year old women with tank asses and titties that look like Zip-loc bags full of water.

21 year-old girls now are hotter than 21 year-old girls were in the ancient bygone era of 1998-2002.

Uh huh. And you could bag them all.


8) Your girlfriend/wife questioning your sanity

Somewhere between the broken remote control and you shouting repeated obscenities at a 37”-inch Samsung LCD TV, it’s bound to happen.

‘You’re crazy.’

She’s right. You are ****ing crazy. You’re bat-shit. And you know it. Then again, it’s the fall. 90,000 other people in hundreds of American cities go bat-shit every Saturday.

She just doesn’t understand. She’s a woman. And women are irrational. Women are so irrational they don’t understand why you spend 15% of your salary on season tickets and love your starting quarterback and hate your starting quarterback and love your starting quarterback and let the actions of 19 year-old strangers dictate your mood for one-fourth of the Caesarian calendar.

They just don't get it. Crazy ****es.


7) Deciphering incoherent message board code

'RTR.' 'WDE.' 'JFK.' 'FDR.'

WTF does any of this mean?

What in the name of monogrammed towels is going on?

No one knows, but in the midst of logging on to your team’s message board and trying to find legit info, you’ll want to find out. Because entering a message board as an abbreviation-virgin can be like the real thing: painful and confusing.

It starts out innocently enough. You log on in search of inside info on USC’s new 13-star quarterback signee. You click on a thread that catches your interest, and – boom – it’s like you’re playing scrabble with Gary Busey.

'LMAO.' 'ROTFL.' 'IMHO.' 'STFU.' If these aren’t the caps-lock ramblings of a deranged lunatic, well then just what in the **** are they?

They’re message board abbreviations. And it’s college football season. So make like Nicholas Cage and decipher that shit ASAP.

What does all of this mean?

DLAMJFTSOFY.

(Don’t Look At Me Just Figure That Shit Out For Yourself.)


6) Breaking the spirit of the irritating small-school fan

You know that guy in your office, who invariably went to some non-BCS school, that’s more of an annoying****than Gilbert Gottfried in a full vagina outfit? You know, the guy who cheers for the impossibly mediocre program yet has unbearably high expectations at the start of every season?

“Man, I don’t know, I just have this feeling this year. If our transfer JUCO QB can come around and the 12 freshmen on our offensive line can step up, I think our brand-new inexperienced coordinator will have a lot to work with and it won't really matter than our only scholarship running back runs a 23-minute 40. Shoot, we might surprise some folks in the [insert conference of choice].”

No, you aren’t surprising anyone. Your team's mascot should be Danny Devito. Your favorite team is a legalized midget. And yet every year you display the same ****-me-in-the-brain hope syndrome.

And last year only made things worse. Giving these ***holes the parity-driven ‘07 season was like handing a homeless guy the keys to a non-existant Jaguar. False hope abounds.

South Florida. Boston College. Appalachian State. Kansas.

Thanks Football Gods. Now, dumb ***holes everywhere think teams like the Tulane Green Wave are going to pull a BCS six-peat.

At the start of the season, these small-time dreamers are more annoying than big-school blowhards.

But, come October, when their team is sporting a fat 3-loss lip, the bounce in their step has been replaced by cold, hard, satisfying reality.

If you have a state university coffee mug, this is the time to bring it to work.


5) Making hung-over Fantasy Football decisions

If you’re a true college football fan, you don’t give a proper **** about the NFL. You watch it, you like it, you follow it. But you don’t really give a **** about it. To true college fans, the NFL is like the show that came on HBO after a really good episode of The Sopranos. Just because it’s on your TV screen, doesn’t mean you care what happens.

And so, in the choice between Saturday night and Sunday morning, Sunday morning gets run over like a fleet-footed possum.

The after-effect of this concrete fact? Fantasy football shame.

Should you go with Marshawn Lynch against the Patriots D or go to the bathroom and puke straight vodka?

Did you sleep in? Did you get lucky last night? Were you two up until sunrise playing 'Tag, you're it' with your pants down? Good for you. Hope you enjoyed it. Because while she might have been the one getting pounded last night, once 12:00 P.M. strikes, it’s your turn Cinderella.

And in your sad state, you're ****ed. Your clothes smell like the Zoo. Your hair smells like Afghanistan. You aren't fit to lead a group of men onto the football field. You aren't fit to lead a group of men to Waffle House.

And when you come around to your senses at 8:34 P.M. with your fantasy team down 42-116, you have only your college fanaticism to blame.

What were you thinking sitting Edgerrin James against the SF D/ST? Why did you think Eli Manning was a must-start against the BYE?

Because you didn’t know what the **** you were doing, that’s why.

Because your left eye was shut like the door to George Wallace’s guest house.

Because you couldn’t see straight. Because you couldn’t see at all. Because your face looked like Rocky Balboa's at the end of Rocky IV.

Because you needed a bald sweaty black guy over your shoulder yelling “Start the one in the middle!” to even have a ****ing chance.

Because either set your ****ing fantasy line-ups during the week, or get Clubber-Langed. Fool.


4) Mooching the tailgate HD

There are some things that are just meant to be mooched. WiFi. Cigarettes. Domestic fridge beer. And campus-tailgate HDTVs.

You know. You’re tailgating it up in a grass field full of tents as far as the eye can see. You were too lazy to get into town early, but you know a buddy who knows a guy who knows a guy who has a tailgate. And an hour after you roll into to town, you roll by the tent.

The HD is just sitting there. Big, bright, shiny. Go ahead. Mooch it. Ask the score. Squint. Lurk. Who gives a **** if you don't know the tent owner from Adam? That's not what's important here.

What's important here is that it's 6:48 left in the 4th and Ole Miss is about to go up on Georgia.

'Hey, does anyone know the Ole Miss-Georgia score?'

Yea, the guy with the giant ****ing TV knows it. Now quit asking questions and go mooch the HD.

The owner of the HD wants you to mooch it. The HD itself wants you to mooch it.

It’s like a girl in a hoochie skirt at a nightclub. Do you think she spent all that time picking out her slut-gear and putting on her slut-gear and hiking-up her slut-gear and setting up her slut-gear... so that guys WOULDN’T stare at it?

Of course not. She wants you to stare at it. And not just one or two guys. Every guy who walks by it. She brought it out in public for that exact reason.

Sure, you stare at it long enough and she’ll turn around and give you a look. Don’t be fooled. She loves it. She loves the attention.

It’s the same way with tailgate HD. Mooch and mooch hard.

And before you start to feel guilty, remember, there’s nothing wrong with just lookin’.

The best way to HD-mooch is to just glance at a TV screen that’s naturally within your view/conversation. So long as you’re not stealing chairs, no one should give a ****.

And if they do, **** them. Keep staring. Or, just go find another one to stare at. There are plenty of fish in the HD-tailgating sea.

If a 37-incher wants to play hard-to-get, **** that ****. Go find a 40-inch.

But don’t just go for one just because you’re desperate. If there’s some box with ****ing rabbit ears sitting under a near-empty tent, don’t just make a beeline for it, no matter how desperate you are for the Ohio State score. Use your ****ing cellphone if you want it that bad. Or, just pound a few beers and say ‘**** it. TV’s TV.’ We’ve all been there.

Haven't found one yet? Relax. There’s bound to be a 47-inch HD beauty nestled somewhere in this grassy Saturday paradise.

Remember, alumni are rich as shit. How else do you think college football players make so much? Now go find you some damn HD.

Walk by. Look. Stare. Mooch. Mooch the HD. Hell, if you’re close enough, mooch the Fritos.


3) Dreaming about being Kirk Herbstreit

Don’t sit here and ****ing lie. Don’t even act, for one second, like you’ve never gazed into the handsome wonder that is Kirk Herbstreit’s face and thought ‘That guy gets more skirt-warmth during one commercial break than I got my Freshmen-to-Junior years.’

Go ahead. Stare. It isn’t gay. It’s actually quite the opposite.

Imagine showing up for work and your boss saying:

“OK (your name), what we need you to do today is to go to a college campus full of hot **** and be good-looking on national television. Oh, and be sure to watch plenty of football, talk about plenty of football, and hang out with plenty of uber-famous football coaches. Anyway, here’s your hotel key and a few extra copies for any big busty sluts that happen to throw themselves in the general vicinity of your****during the upcoming Thursday-Sunday time frame.”

You love you some Herbstreit. And please, no comments about the gelled hair. You aren’t fooling anyone. You’re jealous. You’d gel your pubes with hot kitchen grease if it meant taking Kirk Herbstreit’s job for 15 minutes.

Why do you think your girlfriend lets you watch College Gameday, you dense ****? Because while you’re busy geeking out over which cartoon-animal-face Lee Corso is going to put on top of his head, she’s going for an imaginary ride on Kirk Herbsteit’s pelvis.

You think you’re jealous? How do you think other former mediocre Ohio State quarterbacks feel? How ****ing pissed would you be if you were Craig Krenzel? While Herbstreit is out smashing on hot Big-12 puss, you’re sitting at home jerking it to the 2002 calendar year and having wet dreams about phantom pass interference calls.

Coming to movie theatres this fall: Being Kirk Herbstreit. ‘Three college-football fanatics find a secret portal to Kirk Herbstreit’s head and discover an endless world of fame, college football, and hot sex as they embark on a spiritual journey of vaj-pounding across ACC/SEC/PAC-10 country.’


2) Chastising Wal-Mart jerseys

Much like sixteenth-century Britain, in the world of college football, there are social classes. Hierarchies, if you will.

And grown men in Wal-Mart jerseys are the ****ing indentured servants of college football fandom. Everyone looks down on them. And for good reason.

Because if you could afford season tickets, Miller Lite, a wife, and the gas money to get to your favorite college town, you can afford a real ****ing jersey.

Not a ****ing Wal-Mart jersey.

We all know Wal-Mart jerseys. Those hideous team-oriented nylon beasts ugly enough to double as a future throwback for the 2046 Cincinnati Bengals.

We all know them. And we all hate them.

For instance, there is perhaps no jersey in college football as simple and elegant as the white-on-red home uni of the Alabama Crimson Tide. And what better way to show your home-game allegiance to an old-school masterpiece than by trashing it up with white zebra stripes, 3D numbers, grey shoulder squares and D-cup-sized elephant logos?

No matter what your education-level, job-status, career, salary, athletic ability, talent, house-size,****size, primary-TV-size, or ass-getting ability, you may forever look down on anyone in a jersey purchased from the king of Everyday Low Prices.

You could be a janitor with a two-inch**** a GED and a publicly visible STD, and so long as you’re a college football fan, you have total social permission to chastise any man in a Wal-Mart football jersey.

It doesn’t matter if he’s the CEO of the ****ing Northern Hemisphere. His jersey looks like something a Chinese Rugby team would wear. To practice.

You could put the King of England in a Wal-Mart jersey and he’d immediately be labeled a redneck douche of epic proportions.

Wal-Mart jerseys. The college football equivalent of a fanny-pack.


1) ESPN will be out to get you.

ESPN hates you.

And more importantly, ESPN hates your team.

ESPN will go to any length to diss your team. Any length. You know that LSU coozie you used to have but can’t seem to find? ESPN took it. Because ESPN hates LSU. That is, if LSU is your team.

It has nothing to do with you being too passionately involved in both liking your team and hating other teams. ESPN just likes to **** with your head. That's why when Mark May says something like 'LSU has question marks at quarterback. Watch out for Florida in this one' you get pissed. Sure, you just read the same thing in the Times Picayune. But the Times Picayune isn't ESPN - who clearly is having a love affair with Urban Meyer and the Gators while simultaneously throwing the LSU Bengal Tigers under the bus every chance they get.

Unless you're a Florida fan. In which case the time that Chris Fowler made that dig about Urban Meyer's 28-point loss to Alabama is clear evidence of an ESPN-wide plan to, in fact, shut the UF football program down.

Remember that time ESPN ran a story about your favorite player getting arrested? Nevermind that he actually did get arrested. That's bullshit. ESPN is bullshit. And it is obvious that, by running timely stories about factual events, ESPN is biased against your team.

It doesn't matter who you pull for.

Whoever your favorite team is, ESPN hates it. ESPN hates anything you love, and loves anything you hate.

ESPN hates your dad. Unless you hate your dad. In which case ESPN loves your dad.

If you love bread, ESPN is 'anti-sandwich.' If you hate end-pieces, ESPN will run a special about end pieces. Mark May will hold up two hard, crusty-ass end pieces and hype the shit out of them all year long. Bob Ley will run a special called ‘Outside The Loaf.’ Ivan Maisel will write a column with a pun-filled headline like 'The piece to the end puzzle' and mind-force you to read it and then email him in anger about it.

If you were for the Union, ESPN was for the Confederacy.

If you had a Sega Genesis, ESPN had a Super Nintendo. If you had a Super Nintendo, ESPN had Sega Genesis.

If you liked like Tombstone, ESPN liked Wyatt Earp.

If you preferred Use Your Illusion I, ESPN preferred Use Your Illusion II.

If you pulled for Dan, ESPN pulled for Dave.

If you think OJ is guilty, ESPN is black.

ESPN hates everything you stand for. Unless you stand for something else. Then ESPN hates that too.

Welcome to the New World Order of PC, where everything has to be lowered to the standards of mediocrity for the sake of making everyone equal.

After a sixteen year career as John Madden's personal deity / ESPN's cover boy and the complete immersion in coverage of his comeback that's occurred over the past month, I suspect even illiterate Chinese farmers know it's spelled FAVRE.

I will predict that this year will be the year of my alma mater the University of Southern California Trojans baby! Make all the condom jokes you want Ohio State, Virginia, UCLA, ND, and the rest are going down this year. Sure we QB Mark Sanchez but Arkansas transfer Mitch Mustain is very capable. USC has probably the best defense in the country and the most electrifying back in Joe McKnight. Ohio State is going to get smaked early at our house.

Fight on!!!

At least our players don't end up in prison like the Georgia Jailbirds. It will be USC vs Georgia for the NC game.