I have been paying a little more attention to results nationally this season since our situation has been so dour.
Here's a few items that I thought were interesting:
Here's a few items that I thought were interesting:
- TCU followed up their 1pt loss to Oklahoma with an OT win at Baylor. They have a big game against Kansas this weekend.
- Texas Tech actually won AT Kansas yesterday. Pomeroy now has TTU as #5 (unreal) and potentially winning the B12. I predicted Chris Beard would win there, but I'm surprised at where they are this fast. Kansas has won a share of the conference for like 20 years. TTU ending that run would be one of the wildest things ever.
- WVU started 2-0 with wins against the bottom half of the B12. They have a big home game against Oklahoma this weekend.
- Howland and MSU beat a good Arkansas team. Their OOC SOS was absolutely dreadful (345), but that's a positive opener in the SEC and they are 13-1 now. I usually regard the SEC is a garbage conference, but they are pretty deep this year. The top end talent is down (A&M is now 0-2) but the usual dregs like LSU are much better (172 last year, 79 this year).
- Duquesne beat Dayton to start A10 play. They are favored by 1 over GWU tonight. They cracked the top-200 in Pomeroy, so that's a pretty strong first year for Dambrot. Pomeroy has them predicted at 8-10, which would be the 2nd most conference wins there in 15+ years.
- RMU is favored in their next 3 home games. They are off to a 2-0 start and have a chance to win the NEC. Maybe Andy Toole isn't dead quite yet.
- PSU lost to Maryland and are 1-2 in the mediocre B10. They are still predicted 19-12 (9-9) but they are getting more into bubble territory at this point. I don't think they have many big time upset opportunities in that down conference, so they can't afford any bad losses.
- UConn plays at Tulsa tonight as the underdog. This would be their 4th straight loss en route to 7-7. Yikes.
- DePaul lost to Georgetown. They are now 0-3 after 5-31 in Dave Leitao's first two seasons. It's almost incomprehensible that DePaul was 9-7 in their second season in the Big East with wins over Nova, UConn, ND, and Marquette. That season they even beat Kansas!