{"id":21,"date":"2012-10-01T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-10-01T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T20:21:24","slug":"2012-e-systems-college-football-pool-week-5-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/2012-e-systems-college-football-pool-week-5-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5 is badgerTime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5\" title=\"e-systems_football_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/e-systems_football_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"108\" \/>To borrow a song from the 60&#8217;s, where has all the defense gone? ESPN researchers noted the past football weekend as the second-highest scoring weekend in college football history. I don&#8217;t know exactly what benchmark they&#8217;re using, but their research budget (time and money) is much higher than mine, so let&#8217;s just leave it at that.\u00a0 Continuing an all-offense trend, this weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every BCS conference had at least one game with over 75 points combined between the opponents.<\/li>\n<li>Baylor scored 63 points in regulation and lost, only the third time that&#8217;s ever happened. There were 1,507 yards of offense between Baylor and its opponent, West Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>There were more games featuring ACC teams that had more than 80 points (2; Miami 44-37 over NC State, and Louisiana Tech 44-38 over Virginia) than under 50 (1; Florida State&#8217;s 30-17 win over South Florida).<\/li>\n<li>Once considered the last bastion of defense, the SEC was not immune: in the Georgia-Tennessee game, the teams combined for 1,038 yards and 95 points, both high-water marks in a series that has 42 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So is scoring a lot of points a cure-all? Well, not necessarily. The top two teams in scoring offense (Oklahoma State and Baylor) have three losses between them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still useful to keep the other guys out of your end zone every now and then.<\/p>\n<p>LSU had an interesting scheduling quirk this year. LSU, of course, are the Tigers. Last week they played Towson (also the Tigers) a week after playing Auburn (ditto). Part of me really wishes LSU was playing Missouri this weekend. I&#8217;m pretty sure that would be one of those once-in-a-lifetime sort of things.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s featured team: a team that hasn&#8217;t won a share of its conference title since 2000, and hasn&#8217;t won it outright since 1995. But currently, it finds itself as the only bowl-eligible undefeated team in its conference.\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, your Northwestern Wildcats! The Big Ten is down this year, and the only currently-ranked team left on their schedule is Nebraska; could Pat Fitzgerald do as a coach what he managed as a player in 1995 &#8211; take &#8220;the Purple to Pasadena&#8221;? Given that the teams they have played so far this year have a combined record of 6-14 with one I-A win between them, perhaps we&#8217;ll reserve judgment until a later date. The Wildcats go to Penn State this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>badgerTime<\/strong>, who won this week in a tie-breaker over <strong>Allison<\/strong><strong><\/strong> with 147 points. <strong>Mark<\/strong> finished third with 145 points.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders after week 5 (Dropping &#8220;worst two&#8221; weeks):<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<sup>st<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>MarylandTwerp<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">767<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>Allison<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">752<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>gatorbamalover<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">752<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>Rocky Tide<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">752<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>AUBrian<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-6<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>Crimson Gator<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">749<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-6<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>The Tradition<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">749<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-8<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>CUtigers<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">747<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-8<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>jagrag<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">747<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-10<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>AggieMom<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">745<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-10<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>BEVO<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">745<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>T-10<sup>th<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>maestro<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">745<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hoo boy. This weekend features some <strong>toughies<\/strong>. Three games feature top-11 teams facing each other. Every pick&#8217;s going to be important! The first game is Southern California at Utah, <strong>Thursday, October 4 @ 9 PM ET<\/strong>, so make sure to get your picks in by then!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Brandon German<br \/>\ne-Systems.net, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To borrow a song from the 60&#8217;s, where has all the defense gone? ESPN researchers noted the past football weekend as the second-highest scoring weekend in college football history. I don&#8217;t know exactly what benchmark they&#8217;re using, but their research budget (time and money) is much higher than mine, so let&#8217;s just leave it at [&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-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}