{"id":209,"date":"2014-09-08T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/?p=209"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:01:11","slug":"2014-college-football-pool-week-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/2014-college-football-pool-week-2-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 College Football Pool &#8211; Week 2 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Power 5 conference members have no business playing anyone but each other.\u201d You might have heard a variant of this argument at some point during the college football off-season, and one could easily make this observation based on some of the results of this weekend\u2019s games.\u00a0 For example, just considering ranked teams (rankings were as of last week\u2019s games):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#2 Alabama rolled up 620 yards and gave up 145 against Florida Atlantic in a game stopped halfway through the fourth quarter due to lightning. Alabama won 41-0.<\/li>\n<li>#4 Oklahoma at least went to Tulsa to put up their outlandish numbers, as opposed to taking on the Golden Hurricane at home. They rolled up 580 yards and won 52-7.<\/li>\n<li>#5 Auburn had over 250 yards twenty minutes into their game against San Jose State. They could have had more, but they lost the chance to start a drive because they returned a Spartan punt for a touchdown.\u00a0 They ended up with 493, and won 59-13.<\/li>\n<li>#9 Texas A&amp;M ran 78 plays against Lamar. 30 of them went for first downs as the Aggies rolled up 630 total yards in a 73-3 win.<\/li>\n<li>#10 Baylor had 438 yards passing, 538 yards total, and 49 points against Northwestern State <i>at halftime<\/i>. They slowed down to end up with 720 yards in a 70-6 win.<\/li>\n<li>#12 LSU obliterated Sam Houston State 56-0 as the Tigers amassed 590 yards, and because Les Miles is Les Miles, also faked a punt.<\/li>\n<li>#23 Clemson outgained South Carolina State by almost <i>700 yards<\/i>. They had 735, the third-largest total in school history, and only gave up 44. They won 73-7.<\/li>\n<li>#25 Louisville led their game against Murray State 45-7 at halftime. They won 66-21 and rolled up 603 total yards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t have to end up that way. Ask Nevada, which beat Washington State 24-13. Or Central Michigan, who beat Purdue 38-17. Or Northern Illinois, who knocked off Northwestern 23-15. And there were several close calls: McNeese State, San Diego State, Eastern Washington, and Ball State almost pulled off big upsets over #19 Nebraska, #21 North Carolina, Washington, and Iowa respectively.\u00a0 Or ask North Dakota State.\u00a0 The three-time defending champion of FCS currently hold a five-game winning streak against the big boys, with wins over Kansas State, Minnesota, and most recently Iowa State in week 1 of this year.\u00a0 Sometimes the little guy takes home more than a paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>Two amazing streaks were snapped Saturday night in the Big Ten.\u00a0 With a 31-0 loss to Notre Dame, Michigan\u2019s streak of scoring in games was snapped at 365, an NCAA record. The Wolverines had not been shut out since 1984, a 26-0 loss to Iowa. The longest active streak now belongs to Florida, at 323 games.\u00a0 Ohio State lost to Virginia Tech 35-21, which broke a string of 35 straight seasons in which the Buckeyes won their opening home game. The last Ohio State opening home loss was in 1978, 19-0 against Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Rudy Ruettiger<\/strong>, who wins week 2 with 251 points, missing just one game! \u00a0Second place for the week was a tie between <strong>gatorbamalover<\/strong>, <strong>Bronson<\/strong>, and <strong>Bamagirl25<\/strong>, who scored 249 points.<\/p>\n<p>Overall standings after 2 weeks:<\/p>\n<table class=\"rankingsTable\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">1<sup>st<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>gatorbamalover<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">501<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>Bamagirl25<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">3<sup>rd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>JHutto<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">498<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-4<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>JagRag<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-4<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>Ross<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-4<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>War Ralphie<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-4<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>Crimson Gator<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-8<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>AUBrian<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">496<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-8<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>pachyderm<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">496<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">T-8<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td><strong>AUTiger<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\">496<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Once again, this week\u2019s games do not feature many matchups between top-25 teams.\u00a0 However, it is a pretty good week as far as intersectional \u201cPower 5\u201d games are concerned.\u00a0 Three good examples: Purdue plays Notre Dame, Tennessee travels to Oklahoma, and UCLA heads to Austin to take on Texas.\u00a0 The first game this week is Houston at BYU, <strong>Thursday, September 11 @ 9 ET<\/strong>, so make sure to get your picks in by then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Power 5 conference members have no business playing anyone but each other.\u201d You might have heard a variant of this argument at some point during the college football off-season, and one could easily make this observation based on some of the results of this weekend\u2019s games.\u00a0 For example, just considering ranked teams (rankings were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}