I’m back for another trip through the Top 25 matchups. Who knew at the start of the season that the Penn State vs Michigan State game would be a much more interesting game to watch than Michigan and Ohio State.? Wait, we all knew that Michigan would suck. Is this the first week in the history of ESPN that there was zero hype entering that game? Rightfully so. Boring. But the pic after the jump is not boring. (I guess it kinda sorta could be NSFW)
I agree ladies, I agree.
Anyway, onto the Top 25 Action for this weekend…
2. Texas Tech @ 5. Oklahoma- I just can’t take Tech on the road in Norman. I just can’t do it. I think that I would take the home team in this game everytime.
4. Florida vs Citadel – really, this is who the Gators are playing in November?
7. Utah vs 14. BYU – The Cougars can stop the one team from crashing to the BCS party, but they won’t.
8. Penn State vs 15 Michigan State – I love my boys, but we haven’t won in Happy Valley since 1965. This isn’t the year that we do.
9. Boise State @ Nevada – Trap game for the Broncos. They have Fresno State next week, so they may struggle agaist Nevada. They still win, but ugly.
10. OSU vs Michigan – This has the makings of being one of the ugliest blowouts this series has ever seen.
16. TCU vs Air Force – Horned Frogs, what a great mascot.
18. LSU vs Ole Miss – LSU needs to right the ship, or they might find themselves playing closer to Christmas, rather than New Years.
19. Cincinnati vs 20 Pittsburgh – the Mustache has been pissing me off all year. He probably does it again.
21. Oregon State vs Arizona – the Beavers are going to be in the Rose Bowl, just weird.
22. UNC vs NC St- Tennessee faithful will have an eye on this game, why? Because Butch doesn’t really want to stay at a basketball school.
25. Maryland vs FSU – The turtles are ranked, that means they lose.
No major upsets this week. Just not feeling that vibe. Is this also the last week of college pick’em? If so, I need to hold onto that 10 pt margin I have on Patphish.
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both pictures should be NSFW mizerle06(Quote)
what’s that say?
/looks closer
“fuck michigan?”
that’s the sexiest thing i’ve ever seen. spencer096(Quote)
I hope all those girls names are Michigan. rekcalsa(Quote)
waiting for knightwhosaysni…. sparty(Quote)
But UT is a basketball school too…girl’s basketball, but basketball nonetheless. rekcalsa(Quote)
wait wait wait, all this talk about Sparty pulling the upset and you don’t even pick it?
But you are correct there’s too much at stake for Penn State to lose at home.
By the way the 2002 MSU – PSU game was the only one I ever painted my chest for. I have never been colder in my life Johnny(Quote)
/buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrn sparty(Quote)
Johnny- i want the upset to happen more than anything, but we just don’t have the talent yet. sparty(Quote)
PSU has AIDS…sparty by three scores. spencer096(Quote)
Those girls should get raped. Tampa Bo(Quote)
I’m going to be at the Terps game Saturday night. Should be good.
I like how the Terps are playing Michigan in the ACC/Big 10 (non)Challenge and I was dissapointed because Michigan isn’t supposed to be good this year. Then they beat UCLA. guyinthecorner(Quote)
Gary Williams is a cock. Tampa Bo(Quote)
I hate you, rek. mizerle06(Quote)
Tampa, you know the one on the far left his a total whore. sparty(Quote)
miz–At least your school isn’t knowing for just plain sucking…well, historically at least. rekcalsa(Quote)
rek-you guys beat Army tomorrow, you become bowl eligible. pretty sweet considering the horrid start you guys had. sparty(Quote)
Sparty hell yea she is. I think Im gonna try to
rapenail some co-ed tail tonight. Tampa Bo(Quote)tampa-
Watch it. He won a national title. guyinthecorner(Quote)
sparty–I’m gonna be there cheering my ass off…if we don’t beat Army, I’ll be so pissed cuz then it comes down to Louisville who, even though they lost to Syracuse, still doesn’t assure me a win…after starting 1-5, if we can become bowl-eligible by having ripped off 5 wins in a row against all Big East teams, that’s consolation at least…it’s nice to see what the team can do when they stop making stupid mistakes. rekcalsa(Quote)
guy-So did Roy Williams so what. Tampa Bo(Quote)
Gary Williams built his team, Roy did not. sparty(Quote)
Gary Williams cant Recruit. He let guys like Beasley and Jeff Green out of state. He is supposed to get those guys but hes such an asshole no one wants to play for him.
Roy Williams can’t Coach. Tampa Bo(Quote)
God Damn Sparty, this blog is the anti-tbl rick(Quote)
Tom Izzo is the only good coach in college basketball.
/science sparty(Quote)
I know a Guy didn’t want to play for Izzo I don’t know why, Izzo is a great coach. Tampa Bo(Quote)
Gary is a great talent evaluator, bad recruiter, and great coach. guyinthecorner(Quote)
Sparty-
Are we going to do the dual live blog on thankgiving night Terps/Spartans on ESPN? guyinthecorner(Quote)
guy-i am at the mother in laws that night. that will be a no go. sparty(Quote)
boo guyinthecorner(Quote)
it is going to be a fight just to get the game on the TV. sparty(Quote)
The Gators are playing the CItadel because USF moved their game with us to 2010. gatortrey(Quote)
Miz will be live blogging from Ye Olde Spice Classic Friday. gatortrey(Quote)
don’t waste all the bball talk here. another post coming up in 10 mins. we have a lot today. sparty(Quote)
Hahah sorry! This weekend ROCKS for college football. So wmuch that wew sold our tickets to the game in Gainesville in favor of watching all the game…what’s that. A trey commenting Saturday? Of course. gatortrey(Quote)
(that’s what we call a teaser in the biz) mizerle06(Quote)
the treo-fat-fingers strike trey yet again… mizerle06(Quote)
Sadly I’m on a computer. It’s just my poor typing skills. gatortrey(Quote)
florida education system…. sparty(Quote)
by the way…just bothered to read the picks and sparty’s crazy. BYU > Utah. mizerle06(Quote)
I have two TVs ready to go for Turkey Day, one in the family room and one in the living room. Football galore, and the two three year old gastapos have NO say in the matter. They can watch “Cars” back in the bedroom.
Hey, you little TV guru nuggets, I FINALLY got an HD cable box with DVR! (whoo-hoo) Anyhoo, why do the HD channels look no different from the regular?? I mean no better. My husband was grumbling about a movie he watched last night on HBO HD. Jen(Quote)
Really, I can notice it night and day. gatortrey(Quote)
Either the channels aren’t working, or I have a sweet TV- ha! Jen(Quote)
I think by now we all probably know where I stand on that picture. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
Hey Sparty, are you going to be rooting for scUM staturday on the slim hope of a Rose Bowl appearance? Johnny(Quote)
yeah, jen; it’s pretty noticeable on our tv. when we first got the HD stuff, I used to flip back-and-forth between the same sporting event on the regular and HD channels and be fascinated by the clarity difference. mrs. mizerle wasn’t nearly as fascinated as me…she just wanted me to pick a channel. mizerle06(Quote)
Jen you are doing it wrong. Tampa Bo(Quote)
no way in hell am i rooting for UM. sparty(Quote)
No one else noticed “The Penthouse” in the background. Get used to having Penthouse in the background ladies. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
Purdue Pete is on board with S&F and is rocking the pink hat. He agrees with you Sparty. Muck Fichigan. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
love the new gravatar, knight. sparty(Quote)
Could it be the absence of the HDMI cable? I have one, but it’s not compatible, whatever the heck that means, so I have to go back to the office anyhow for a new remote and the service guy told me to ask for an HDMI cable there. Jen(Quote)
That’s what I like to hear Sparty
Oh I work with a Michigan grad (not including myself) and an Ohio State grad and today’s whiteboard list was the top ten reasons Ohio State sucks
I personally think they both suck though and am eagerly awaiting the reasons why Michigan sucks Johnny(Quote)
The idea was mine, the photoshop was Mikey. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
That would do it, jen. Component can only get you up to 480p (I think). HDMI will get you 1080i or 720p. HawkEye19(Quote)
I don’t have HD yet, but I believe you need either an HDMI cable or component cables to get the HD picture…although I still have analog cable and my TV has a digital tuner so it brings in some of the HD channels. rekcalsa(Quote)
Component gets me to 1080p on my Xbox…I think the only real difference is the number of cables to plug in…component has separate feeds for audio and video…hdmi has audio and video all in one cable. rekcalsa(Quote)
that is exactly your problem Jen. i am surprised your tv even lets you view the HD channels. sparty(Quote)
Yes, with the 5000 cables (red and white for audio and green red and blue for input) they come in but not any different than the standard. I noticed on the front of the box that it was giving the 480p, 720p, 1080p as I changed each channel. Stations like HGTV looked great and read at 1080, but some weren’t. I noticed on TBS, the Seinfeld rerun actually looked like crap on HD so it probably wasn’t coming in correctly.
The spouse thinks it’s all b.s. I need to prove him wrong! ha
Thanks for your tech support, boys. I will be so happy to watch OSU/UM and PSU/MSU in HD. Jen(Quote)
A lot of the old re-runs still look kinda crappy on the HD channels because they haven’t been redone in HD…they’re just digitalized which wind up looking still kinda crappy on a big TV…check the primetime shows and sports and you should see a difference. rekcalsa(Quote)
Do you guys know why my HDMI cable I got wouldn’t work?? I thought that was weird. When I turned my TV on, a message said “your TV does not support the DVI, please choose another input” ????
This is why the cable guy is supposed to do this job I guess. Jen(Quote)
Right Rek, since Peyton tells us that most sports are now shot on a Sony HD camera in his commercial! LOL Jen(Quote)
the Chicken cracks me up, mascots always make me laugh. sparty(Quote)
Can’t help you with that problem jen…I Googled the error, but couldn’t find any direct solutions…could be an issue with your cable box or just try another cable. rekcalsa(Quote)
DO you have more than one HDMI port, jen? HawkEye19(Quote)
the hell are you talking about?
/chickens are funny…monkeys are funny too.
//is there and school with a monkey mascot!? mizerle06(Quote)
He’s talking about the San Diego Chicken in the Sony commercial with Peyton Manning and Dale Whinehart Jr. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
miz- the sony commercial with Peyton and the san diego chicken. sparty(Quote)
HawkEye~ I do, but the connection was supposed to go into port 1 directly from the cable box.
I’m leaving now to see if those goofs in the office can help me. Jen(Quote)
Jen, to view a high definition station, you need to make sure that first of all, your cable box is putting out a high definition signal. If a show like Seinfeld wasn’t shot in high def, it will never be high def.
As someone said, you need to use HDMI or component video cables from you box to TV. HDMI is a digital format and is much better than component video cables. Component video cables are analog and have to be resampled.
TVs suport different formats. Typically the number is how many pixels per horizontal scan line. 1080 means 1080 pixels on each line. Regular DVDs are 720. The i or p is for interlaced or progressive. Interlaced means that each update they either give you the odd or even lines. Progressive means that they give you all the lines at once for each frame.
Even on the little 32″ LCD Vizio I got for my father, the difference between HD and regular signals is very noticeable.
My cable company (Cablevision) has all their HD stations in the 700 range. If you look at CBS on channel 2 for example, it is regular definition. However 702 is the HD version and if the show is an HD show (which nearly all new prime time shows are these days) it is noticeable.
Don’t know if that helps. cycledan(Quote)