University Soccer – Full Week Seven – Only Ten Undefeated Groups Continue Being – Oklahoma, Missouri And LSU All Get Rid Of
Posted by: steve in Texas FootballUniversity soccer’s 7th full week commenced with fifteen groups left undefeated and ended with only ten as No. one Oklahoma, No. three Missouri, No. four Louisiana State, No. thirteen Vanderbilt and No. twenty Auburn all have been upset.
Some followers would point out that you could possibly hardly name the Oklahoma and LSU losses as upsets because the No. 1 Sooners had been taking thing in No. 5 Texas Longhorns and then the No. 4 LSU Tigers had been taking thing in the No. 11 Florida Gators.
The Texas-Oklahoma contest was a shoot out that Longhorn Coach Mack Brown called “amongst the greatest football game titles I’ve ever seen.” Texas was behind by 11 points twice in the initial 50 % and by eight during the third quarter right before profitable forty five-35 in your possess home.
Longhorn Chris Ogbannaya, a senior getting his 2nd get started in, rushed fifteen moments for 127 yards, none additional important than his 62-yard gain on a play headed nowhere that helped put Texas on top to stay.
Texas’ junior quarterback Colt McCoy went 28-of-35 for 277 yards with 1 TD pass and no turnovers. Oklahoma’s sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford was not to be outdone, going 28-of-39 for 387 yards and 5 TDs. Bradford found Jordan Shipley for 11 passes, 112 yards along with a TD. Shipley also had an electrifying 96-garden return for just a TD.
No. 3 Missouri isn’t really as perfect as its pre-recreation 5-0 file warrants and No. 17 Oklahoma State proved it by traveling to Missouri and beating the Tigers in your possess home, 28-23, pushing its unbeaten file to 6-0. The decline was the fairly first for Missouri.
No. eleven Florida just took it to No. four LSU, foremost twenty-three on the fifty percent and finishing off the Tigers 51-21 in your individual home. We not have to guess which staff is best.
No. thirteen Vanderbilt’s minor fifteen-moment brush with fame is about because the Commodores traveled to unranked Mississippi State and promptly misplaced 17-14 with the Bulldogs. Mississippi lifted its file to 2-4 using the win in excess of Vanderbilt. There are no terms to describe the No. 20 Auburn Tigers who lost in your unique home to unranked Arkansas 25-22. Auburn fell accurate out of the AP Very Best 25 Poll having a thud.
Somewhere Between Missouri, Louisiana State and Auburn, it was not an excellent week to become the Tigers. Kudos to Texas, Florida and Oklahoma State which defended their rankings.
Among the other best 13 ranked teams which won were No. 6 Penn State around the road more than Wisconsin 48-7, No. 7 Texas Tech in your personal home more than Nebraska 37-31 in overtime, No. 8 Southern California in your personal home 28-0 more than Arizona State, No. 9 BYU in your personal home 21-3 over New Mexico, No, 10 Georgia in your own home 26-14 over Tennessee, No. 12 Ohio State in your own home 16-2 over Purdue, and No. 14 Utah on the road 40-7 over Wyoming.
Also No. 15 Boise State on the road 24-7 over Southern Mississippi, No. 16 Kansas in your personal home 30-14 more than Colorado, No. 21 Wake Forest in your personal home 12-7 more than Clemson (an additional Tiger team), No. 22 North Carolina in your personal home 29-24 more than Notre Dame, No. 23 Michigan State around the road 37-20 more than unbeaten and unranked Northwestern, and No. 25 Ball State around the street 24-seven about one-AA Western Kentucky.
The ten remaining unbeaten groups (in no distinct buy) contain Alabama, Penn State, Texas, Boise State, Texas Tech, Utah, BYU, Ball State, Oklahoma State and Tulsa.
should you consider the Sagarin Ratings for timetable strength that is how the 10 unbeaten teams are ranked from very best schedule strength to worst:
Alabama (38th), Texas (43rd), Utah (72nd), Penn State (74th), Oklahoma State (94th), Texas Tech (105th), Ball State (107th), Boise State (111th), Brigham Young (121st) and Tulsa (141st). This would go a long way in explaining why a few of these teams are unbeaten. you will find 119 Division 1-A schools so it is straightforward to think of how robust the groups ended up that played the past five of such unbeaten groups.
Tulsa performs utterly no-one truly worth speaking about and could go unbeaten whenever they defeat three-3 Arkansas. Tulsa’s last victory was over a 1-6 Southern Methodist team and then the Golden Hurricane (that’s Tulsa) won 37-31. Brigham Young thankfully faces off against Utah in the last game in the yr for each universities. Boise State virtually gets a zero cost trip till Fresno State. Ball State certainly faces no one.
Alabama, Texas, Penn State, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech will make their way by dealing with significantly tougher opposition.
Alabama, Virginia Tech, South Florida and Pittsburgh had been all idle this week.
Other notable performances merit some focus. Penn State’s Nittany Lions traveled to Wisconsin and beat the Badgers in your house 48-7. It is not easy to beat Wisconsin in your house, and for Joe Paterno’s team to rip the Badgers apart was impressive.
Michigan is actually underwhelming this yr, dropping once again in your house inside the Massive Home to Toledo 13-10. The reduction marked the initial time in its storied background that Michigan has lost to some Mid-American Conference group. Toledo came into the contest having a 1-4 mark and an earlier loss to Florida International.
Oregon State has to be the nastiest 3-3 team in the nation. The Beavers thumped Washington State 66-13, topped Hawaii 45-7, upset Southern Cal 27-21, and is in no mood to explain its losses to Stanford, Penn State and Utah (all within the road). They journey to Washington this week and I would not need to be a Husky once they arrive.
Right After these kinds of an amazing start to its time, East Carolina now appears pretty common, dropping once again on the road to Virginia 35-20.
the brand new AP Top 25 Poll has the top 10 within this order-Texas, Alabama, Penn State, Oklahoma, Florida, Southern Cal, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Brigham Young and Georgia.
Some game titles of interest this week include points like No. 12 Ohio State at No. 20 Michigan State, No. 13 LSU at unranked but harmful South Carolina, No. 22 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Georgia (the Commodores may well shed their ranking), No. 16 Kansas at No. 4 Oklahoma (beware, Jayhawks), No. eleven Missouri at No. one Texas, unranked Michigan at No. three Penn State (Joe Paterno’s eyes get even bigger and even bigger just about every full week, only exceeded by his urge for food for victories), and Hawaii at No. fifteen Boise State (could the Warriors do the not possible?).
Copyright &replicate; 2008 Ed Bagley
Entries (RSS)