Now the next question is: Did enough teams in front of us lose to get us into either of the Top 25 polls?
In other news, the Ducks are doing what we need them to do to set up a game against a Top 25 team in two weeks to give us that opportunity if we aren't ranked tomorrow.
No. My prediction is that we move to around 5th in other receiving votes and then I think we get ranked after the BYE, as a few other teams ahead of us lose to set up the Oregon game between two ranked teams.
Here is my thought. The USA Today Coaches poll has us at 12 in "others receiving votes." I say we jump the following teams, all of whom lost or are losing, this week:
Tulsa
Vandy
WVU
Oklahoma
UW (losing 21-7 to Minnesota right now)
Missouri
A&M
Michigan
Louisville
That would put us at third in others receiving votes, or #28 (#29 if UW comes back).
I agree! At present, it seems that the B1G is sort of a cluster what with the usual "powerhouses" pulling double secret probation clock tricks to eke out a win versus one of their set-up stiffs. Also, Oregon beat the Toe Jams tonight which will drop the latter a little. But seems [to me] that the top 25 is not solid concrete but rather dwelling on the San Andreas fault at present!
..tangential opinion: from what saw, the Jams' defense secondary ain't that great. But they're two months away!
Add, that we have not played a strong team yet, I love the wins but we will know just how good we are in 2 weeks. I'm hoping as good as I think we are. Go Bruins!
The Terps don't have a good HC or team, but it still was an impressive beatdown delivered by the Bruins. Nice bounce back game for the pass defense--it's so refreshing to see the team making continual improvements each week so far. The Bruins running game is elite and OC Kennedy isn't lacking in creativity. Getting a caravan of hometown fans of HC Chesney to make the 3-hour drive to the stadium from central Pennsylvania despite the inclement weather was awesome. Congrats to HC Chesney and staff on securing their first conference road victory and remaining unbeaten!
Dirty toejams. #8 just knocked Dante Moore out of the game with a ugly targeting hit, as Moore was clearly sliding down. Moore looked unconscious and he eventually had to be carted off. #8 was jumping around taunting and celebrating, resulting in a scrum and both teams getting unsportsmanlike penalties.
On the sideline, the trogans were laughing and high fiving each other. NBC reporters tried to excuse the targeting by saying Dante slid late, but they couldn't come up with an excuse for the trogan behavior.
Halftime talking heads did not like the celebration all at. I'm thinking, this is who they are: a bunch of classless Trogan (mispelling intentional--IYKYK) cheaters.
Agree. The Trojan targeting hit on Dante was horrible and their team celebration afterwards was classless and shameful. Hope he is OK and we crush those crosstown losers at the end of the season.
Moore was taken in an ambulance to the hospital. SUC players were laughing after it happened. Their team is garbage, their coaches are garbage, their school is garbage.
Moore could have permanent brain damage. A hit like that can cause bleeding in the brain. I am completely disgusted by the whole thing,
I’ve never seen the college football world so united in calling out SC’s dirty hit and classless celebration afterwards. Suspensions should be handed out, and the B10 should starting thinking about fining players since they’re making millions of dollars now.
With the targeting rule change, it wasn't required that Stephens leave the field but after the follow up taunting, Riley should have demanded it, but he doubled-down in the post game presser with "He's on the team" when asked why he was allowed to remain on the sidelines. The whole thing was egregious. One of the announcers actually tried to downplay the hit, saying Moore slid late, and later walked it back, probably after getting a ration from others. As Chenalex posted, they is a lot of unified outrage over this. It is USC and the rot runs rampant which was exhibited by the viral post of one of their fans yelling "See you at Kaiser!" as Dante was being loaded onto a stretcher. Truly pathetic.
I think the one-game suspension and public apology falls short of addressing the underlying lack of player discipline and accountability being reflected by their irresponsible coaching staff. U$C deserved the loss, as the dirty hit and ensuing bad behavior only fired up Oregon, and the questionable call to go for it on 4th-and-7 put the final nails in the Mausoleum coffin. They have a pretty tough schedule remaining, so hopefully more losses are upcoming (including the game at the Rose Bowl!). If so, the good thing is that HC Lincoln's buyout is estimated to be more than $60M, so they're stuck with their underperforming and overpaid HC, unless they secure enough funds to tow their used Lincoln to the junkyard and replace it with something else.
Best UCLA performance in recent memory. Leigber my favorite Bruin of the game because I had the over and I thought we'd just run out the clock. All in for HC BC.
"Maryland quarterback Malik Washington finally threw two touchdown passes in the third quarter. Unfortunately for the Terrapins, both of those passes were interceptions..."
Joe, you are a scream! Another example of why TMB is the best site for UCLA athletics reporting.
Tom Fornelli thinks we could be 9-1 heading into our last 2 games against Michigan and USC and thinks we should beat them both based upon what he has seen........
Joe, I wrote two days ago that this was an obituary with a kickoff time, and the Bruins buried them 54-3. Two pick-sixes in one quarter — first time since Adams and Kendricks in 2014 — and Malik Washington threw for more yards to our defenders than to his own receivers. That is a stat line that gets coordinators fired and head coaches escorted out. Maryland managed 39 rushing yards all day against a defense that supposedly could not stop the run in September. Polls come out tomorrow. The Ducks in Eugene on the 10th will tell us if this is a team or a September fever dream. Go Bruins.
Agreed NFA that Oregon will be the "acid test" for our team, including our run defense. Maryland, missing their starters and most of their other running backs due to injury.......(literally, they had 3 active backs our of 9 on their roster)......cannot serve as any type of barometer for how good our run defense is.
Perceptive, fair point and I will meet you halfway. Maryland down to three healthy backs means you cannot read a damn thing into 39 rushing yards — that is not a defense getting fixed, that is a defense getting lucky with the injury report. But here is the other half: Washington threw for more yards to our defenders than his own receivers, and pick-sixes do not care how banged up the backfield is. Turnovers travel. Oregon in Eugene on the 10th is the whole exam. Go Bruins.
Hard to argue with 4-0 at this point.
And two conference wins.
Now the next question is: Did enough teams in front of us lose to get us into either of the Top 25 polls?
In other news, the Ducks are doing what we need them to do to set up a game against a Top 25 team in two weeks to give us that opportunity if we aren't ranked tomorrow.
No. My prediction is that we move to around 5th in other receiving votes and then I think we get ranked after the BYE, as a few other teams ahead of us lose to set up the Oregon game between two ranked teams.
Here is my thought. The USA Today Coaches poll has us at 12 in "others receiving votes." I say we jump the following teams, all of whom lost or are losing, this week:
Tulsa
Vandy
WVU
Oklahoma
UW (losing 21-7 to Minnesota right now)
Missouri
A&M
Michigan
Louisville
That would put us at third in others receiving votes, or #28 (#29 if UW comes back).
Natty within 5 years
Why wait five years? ;) Coach Chez refuses to put limitations on what the Bruins can do and I love that mindset.
I agree! At present, it seems that the B1G is sort of a cluster what with the usual "powerhouses" pulling double secret probation clock tricks to eke out a win versus one of their set-up stiffs. Also, Oregon beat the Toe Jams tonight which will drop the latter a little. But seems [to me] that the top 25 is not solid concrete but rather dwelling on the San Andreas fault at present!
..tangential opinion: from what saw, the Jams' defense secondary ain't that great. But they're two months away!
I said WITHIN 5 years, it could be this year (maybe) or next, but definitely by 5 years.
Add, that we have not played a strong team yet, I love the wins but we will know just how good we are in 2 weeks. I'm hoping as good as I think we are. Go Bruins!
Yawn. $c 0 of 1 on FGs - Ducks 1 of 1 on FGs.
The Terps don't have a good HC or team, but it still was an impressive beatdown delivered by the Bruins. Nice bounce back game for the pass defense--it's so refreshing to see the team making continual improvements each week so far. The Bruins running game is elite and OC Kennedy isn't lacking in creativity. Getting a caravan of hometown fans of HC Chesney to make the 3-hour drive to the stadium from central Pennsylvania despite the inclement weather was awesome. Congrats to HC Chesney and staff on securing their first conference road victory and remaining unbeaten!
Go (JMUcla) Bruins!
Our Quarterback play continues to be concerning.
Postgame comment from Maryland HC Locksley: "I still have a lot of confidence in myself and the staff to get this thing fixed."
LOL
I would be shocked if he is still coaching at the end of the season. His team is/was awful.
I will be shocked if he is still coaching next week!
Seems his only hope is that their AD is just as lazy and content with preserving mediocrity as our former AD was.
Dirty toejams. #8 just knocked Dante Moore out of the game with a ugly targeting hit, as Moore was clearly sliding down. Moore looked unconscious and he eventually had to be carted off. #8 was jumping around taunting and celebrating, resulting in a scrum and both teams getting unsportsmanlike penalties.
On the sideline, the trogans were laughing and high fiving each other. NBC reporters tried to excuse the targeting by saying Dante slid late, but they couldn't come up with an excuse for the trogan behavior.
I could not disdain suc more.
Halftime talking heads did not like the celebration all at. I'm thinking, this is who they are: a bunch of classless Trogan (mispelling intentional--IYKYK) cheaters.
This should be discussed at a different thread. Let’s enjoy our win today. The Trojans have their issues. Bruins are above USC issues.
Where can we discuss? There's no other thread.
Right here. That's where! We always celebrate Bruin wins and Southern Cal losses!
Agree. The Trojan targeting hit on Dante was horrible and their team celebration afterwards was classless and shameful. Hope he is OK and we crush those crosstown losers at the end of the season.
Moore was taken in an ambulance to the hospital. SUC players were laughing after it happened. Their team is garbage, their coaches are garbage, their school is garbage.
Moore could have permanent brain damage. A hit like that can cause bleeding in the brain. I am completely disgusted by the whole thing,
Vicious and dirty hit indeed, but a well-deserved defeat for overrated #12 U$C that caps a perfect weekend for UCLA.
Go Bruins!
I’ve never seen the college football world so united in calling out SC’s dirty hit and classless celebration afterwards. Suspensions should be handed out, and the B10 should starting thinking about fining players since they’re making millions of dollars now.
And, now, add in Riley’s dismissive press comments about the player being allowed to return to the sidelines for another layer of outrage.
With the targeting rule change, it wasn't required that Stephens leave the field but after the follow up taunting, Riley should have demanded it, but he doubled-down in the post game presser with "He's on the team" when asked why he was allowed to remain on the sidelines. The whole thing was egregious. One of the announcers actually tried to downplay the hit, saying Moore slid late, and later walked it back, probably after getting a ration from others. As Chenalex posted, they is a lot of unified outrage over this. It is USC and the rot runs rampant which was exhibited by the viral post of one of their fans yelling "See you at Kaiser!" as Dante was being loaded onto a stretcher. Truly pathetic.
I think the one-game suspension and public apology falls short of addressing the underlying lack of player discipline and accountability being reflected by their irresponsible coaching staff. U$C deserved the loss, as the dirty hit and ensuing bad behavior only fired up Oregon, and the questionable call to go for it on 4th-and-7 put the final nails in the Mausoleum coffin. They have a pretty tough schedule remaining, so hopefully more losses are upcoming (including the game at the Rose Bowl!). If so, the good thing is that HC Lincoln's buyout is estimated to be more than $60M, so they're stuck with their underperforming and overpaid HC, unless they secure enough funds to tow their used Lincoln to the junkyard and replace it with something else.
Regardless of how Oregon does in tonight's game, we will have the better record entering our game with the Ducks.
UCLA hired an excellent and classy coach. SC is paying $11 million a year for a used Lincoln.
Best UCLA performance in recent memory. Leigber my favorite Bruin of the game because I had the over and I thought we'd just run out the clock. All in for HC BC.
"Maryland quarterback Malik Washington finally threw two touchdown passes in the third quarter. Unfortunately for the Terrapins, both of those passes were interceptions..."
Joe, you are a scream! Another example of why TMB is the best site for UCLA athletics reporting.
Well......the bandwagon has now caught on Nationally.......a CBS Sports writer just said UCLA may be the next Indiana................https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/collegefootballplayoff-vibes-ucla-next-indiana-big-ten-bids/
Tom Fornelli thinks we could be 9-1 heading into our last 2 games against Michigan and USC and thinks we should beat them both based upon what he has seen........
Joe, I wrote two days ago that this was an obituary with a kickoff time, and the Bruins buried them 54-3. Two pick-sixes in one quarter — first time since Adams and Kendricks in 2014 — and Malik Washington threw for more yards to our defenders than to his own receivers. That is a stat line that gets coordinators fired and head coaches escorted out. Maryland managed 39 rushing yards all day against a defense that supposedly could not stop the run in September. Polls come out tomorrow. The Ducks in Eugene on the 10th will tell us if this is a team or a September fever dream. Go Bruins.
Agreed NFA that Oregon will be the "acid test" for our team, including our run defense. Maryland, missing their starters and most of their other running backs due to injury.......(literally, they had 3 active backs our of 9 on their roster)......cannot serve as any type of barometer for how good our run defense is.
Perceptive, fair point and I will meet you halfway. Maryland down to three healthy backs means you cannot read a damn thing into 39 rushing yards — that is not a defense getting fixed, that is a defense getting lucky with the injury report. But here is the other half: Washington threw for more yards to our defenders than his own receivers, and pick-sixes do not care how banged up the backfield is. Turnovers travel. Oregon in Eugene on the 10th is the whole exam. Go Bruins.