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Ed Bagley’s Top 25 Poll – Week 7

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

It was a good week to be Florida, Alabama, Texas, Cincinnati, Boise State, Iowa and TCU—all won, and all are the only unbeaten major teams left in the nation. Every one of them are beatable, the only monster thing about any of them are the college publicity departments that promote them. Here’s my Top 25 for the 7th week:

1) Alabama (7-0) – Hosted and beat a really game 5-1 South Carolina team 20-6, and is on track for a head-on collision with Florida for the SEC championship and a shot at the national title. Guess who has the best total defense in the nation? Answer: Alabama.

2) Florida (6-0) – Needed a 27-yard field goal at home with 9 seconds left to beat a 3-2 Arkansas team, 23-20, and keep the Razorbacks from pulling off the biggest upset of the year. Florida can be beat. Gators are still the defending national champions. Alabama beat Arkansas 35-7 at home. Guess who has the second best total defense in the nation?

Ed Bagley’s Top 25 Poll – Week 11 – All Unbeaten Teams Win Again

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

Stanford, North Carolina, Central Florida, California and Rutgers all recorded upset wins over ranked opponents in college football’s 11th week of play. These events caused changes in my Top 25 Poll. Here is how I see it this week:

1) Alabama (10-0) – The Crimson Tide followed up their signature victory over Louisiana State last week and continued to remain 1 of 6 unbeaten teams with a dominating 31-3 win at Mississippi State. The Tide hosts 163rd-ranked Chattanooga (6-4) this week. Chattanooga is a 1-AA team; if the Crimson Tide want to keep their national image intact, they had better kick Chattanooga back home as a big loser. A potential national championship team SHOULD NOT be playing a 1-AA team this late in the season, if at all.

2) Florida (10-0) – Acting very much like a national championship team, the Gators remained unbeaten by traveling to South Carolina and beating the Gamecocks, 24-14, completing their first

Everglades National Park: A Lazy Flowing River

Words cannot adequately describe the experiences you will have spending a week at The Everglades National Park. You are definitely strangers in a strange land: a very fragile ecosystem for all of Southern Florida and the entire nation. The Everglades has two seasons: wet and dry. This is the dry season, until May or June.

Camp at Lone Pine. The pinelands region is an important ecosystem in the everglades, being the home to many different animals: panthers, bobcats, deer, black bear, raccoons, alligators, and an assortment of snakes, etc. These animals like their privacy. Even though you might not see many during your stay, they most probably were looking at you. What you will see is an abundance of alligators doing what they do best during the day: working on their sun tan. They feed at night and will eat almost anything that moves. Go to one trail at night to see them in action and you will not be disappointed.

One day we actually saw an

College Football Program of the Single Digit Years

Before the first college football season of the two thousand teens kicks off in a few weeks, I think a review of the single digit years is appropriate. In the process of determining the rankings for programs, I decided, for the sake of brevity, to consider only those teams, which had advanced to the mythical national title game at least once. However, given the hopelessly rigged system of determining who plays in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title game, I am including the programs that also experienced one or more undefeated seasons. A total of thirteen teams won a BCS title, finished undefeated or both during the past ten seasons. I ranked each of them after reviewing the following criteria:

Record versus Division 1-A opponents:
Number of winning seasons:
Number of shared conference/divisional titles:
Number of outright conference titles:
Record in bowl games:
Record in BCS bowl games:
Number of BCS title game

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College Football – Last Season’s Final Statistics Show How the Nation’s Top Five Teams Can Be Beat

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

It is not often when the coaches and the media agree on their opinion of who should be in the preseason Top 25 college football polls, but this year at least their Top 5 picks are mirror images—Florida (1), Texas (2), Oklahoma (3), Southern California (4) and Alabama (5).

Of a possible 60 first-place votes in the media’s AP Top 25 Poll, Florida collected 58 votes and Texas 2, setting a record (96+%) for the most first-place votes since the poll was first started in 1950, long before there were ever Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games.

Florida is such an overwhelming favorite that one might think there is no need to play the games this year, since the Gators will probably run the table (go unbeaten). This, of course, is sheer nonsense.

Florida won the National Championship for the 2006 and 2008 seasons and, if it repeats during 2009, the Gators would become only the second team to do so since Nebraska won the

Five Reasons Oklahoma Sooners Win Bcs Title Game

1. Sam Bradford: Heisman trophy winner for this year in college football will pose a huge problem for the very fast Florida defense. He has led this offense to more than 50 points for there last 6 straight games. Bradford and this offense have been unstoppable and led by there passing attack. Florida’s first goal is to put pressure on Bradford and to not allow this passing offense to get long pass plays.

2. Chris Brown: Rushing the ball this year he split time with now injured Demarco Murray. Both rushed for over 1,000 yards and were unstoppable combination. To keep the pass rush off of Bradford it will be very important for Brown to carry the load by himself. If they can’t establish the run it will allow Florida’s pass rush to pin there ears back and put a ton of pressure on the offensive line and Tebow.

3. Defense: Hard to say how good this defense is because in the Big 12 those great offenses can make the stats look ridiculous. Oklahoma

Vegas’ Preseason College Football Top Ten, Buckeyes edge out Tide for top spot

Nearly every college football preseason poll has the defending BCS champion Alabama Crimson Tide ranked at the top spot except for this one. More often than not, Vegas gets it right, so why not use the odds they come with to construct the most accurate preseason college football poll. By using the BCS National Championship odds supplied by online gambling outfits, the Ohio State Buckeyes have the best shot at hoisting the BCS trophy on January 10, 2011.

1. Ohio State (+450)

The Buckeyes have owned the Big Ten over recent years, winning five straight titles. Despite this dominance, they do not have a national title to show for it. Quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Terrelle Pryor is back to lead a Buckeye offense that returns ten starters. The defense also returns plenty of starters from a unit that ranked fifth in the nation in 2009. Add the fact that they play eight games in front of the home crowd and

And You Thought Baseball Was Boring?

When a baseball game ends 11-10, there has got to be a lot of energy involved – some good and some bad – depending on which team you’re rooting for.

This was the case when the Gators took on Bethune-Cookman on Wednesday night. By the sixth inning, the Gators led 11-1, a commanding, if not, impossible lead. Starting pitcher, Kyle Mullaney had basically shut down the opposing hitters. That was the last part of Florida’s easy ride to what seemed like it would be an overwhelmingly easy win.

Enter the bullpen. This is where the game got even more, well, exciting in a nerve wracking kind of way. The Gators were trying to use some of the players that don’t always play and rest some of the others. With a good lead, that shouldn’t have been a problem. But it turned out to be one.

By the 7th inning, things were going wrong for the Gator bullpen. By the eighth inning, when the Gators should have been breathing

Spring Training Over ? Next is the Real Thing!

Spring Training Over – Next is the Real Thing!

The Gators football team concluded its 2008 spring training with the annual Orange and Blue Debut Saturday afternoon in front of a record crowd of 61,000 fans. Blue defeated Orange, 28-14, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium before the highest-attended spring game. The previous record of 58,500 was established in head coach Urban Meyer’s 2005 debut. Blue won its second straight spring contest on Saturday, and has won three out of the last five Orange and Blue Debuts.

Saturday’s contest featured several events on the day before a national television audience on ESPN and with ESPN College GameDay in attendance. Junior quarterback Tim Tebow (Jacksonville, Fla.) led the Blue team and finished 13-of-21 for 200 yards and two passing touchdowns. Sophomore quarterback Cameron Newton (College Park, Ga.) of the Orange team was 6-of-18 for 53 yards. Sophomore running back Emmanuel Moody (Coppell, Tex.)

How Would A possible Favre Comeback Impact Harvin?

By now, I’m sure all of you have heard that Brett Favre is mulling yet another return to the NFL. It seems like this has become a yearly event, and frankly, I’m sick of hearing about it. But with all the stories about Favre surfacing, it’s clear that he still commands a lot of interest and respect from the media and fans.

The latest rumors have the 39-year-old quarterback contemplating a comeback with the Minnesota Vikings, a huge rival of Favre’s old team, the Green Bay Packers. I wonder if Favre is just trying to stick it to his old bosses, or if the fire to compete is really there.
Anyway, for Gator fans who like to keep tabs on players who make it to the next level, the question is, would having Favre in a Viking uniform benefit or hurt rookie receiver Percy Harvin?

On the surface, it would seem pretty evident that the veteran quarterback’s presence could only help Harvin along. Minnesota’s quarterback situation is not very rosy