Second-ranked Oregon will watch scoreboard schedule problem stems from a game it was supposed to play against Kansas State. This is a big week for Oregon’s The Wildcats and Ducks had BCS title hopes. agreed to play a home-and-home And not because the No. 2 Ducks series in 2011 and ’12. Oregon play hapless Colorado. asked to reschedule when it got a The teams ahead of Oregon in shot to play LSU in Texas last year. the BCS standings (Alabama, With the Big 12 headed toward Florida and Kansas State), and the playing nine conferences games, one right behind (Notre Dame), all Kansas State suggested to cancel playing ranked foes today. the whole thing. The Ducks agreed. So the Ducks, fourth in the BCS That left the Ducks with standings, could get the help they Arkansas State, Fresno State and need to move up – or they could Tennessee Tech to tune up with slip further back in the race to the this season. Oregon easily disnational championship game. patched all three, but two months There are 11 undefeated teams in into the season the Ducks still don’t major college football, but you can have a marquee victory. whittle that down to four serious After Colorado, the Ducks get contenders for the BCS title game. into the teeth of their conference Ohio State is ineligible. Ohio Uni- schedule with Southern Cal, Stanversity doesn’t play a tough enough ford and Oregon State all coming schedule. The Big East champion up, plus a possible Pac-12 title probably won’t be able to climb game – and maybe a rematch over the top teams from the SEC, against USC. Win all those, and the Pac-12, Big 12 ... and Notre Dame. computers will spit out some difAmong the top five, Oregon ferent numbers on these Ducks. seems to be the most likely to get left out of the national title game if RUSSO’S PICKS there are more than two unbeatens. No. 1 Alabama 38, No. 13 Miss. State 17 Here’s an example of the Ducks’ No. 2 Oregon 50, Colorado 14 problem: If Notre Dame wins at No. 3 Florida 31, No. 12 Georgia 23 Oklahoma, there’s a chance the No. 4 K-State 41, No. 15 Texas Tech 31 Fighting Irish could jump the No. 8 Oklahoma 28, No. 5 Notre Dame 17 Ducks in the BCS standings the Washington 31, No. 7 Oregon State 28 way Kansas State did last week. If Penn State 35, No. 9 Ohio State 31 Oklahoma wins, it makes K-State’s No. 10 Southern Cal 42, Arizona 28 victory at Oklahoma look even bet- No. 11 Florida State 45, Duke 14 ter and could push the Wildcats No. 17 South Carolina 35, Tennessee 24 further ahead of the Ducks. No. 18 Rutgers 31, Kent State 14 The Ducks’ problems come No. 19 Stanford 43, Washington State 14 down to schedule – Oregon’s oppo- No. 20 Michigan 33, Nebraska 27 nents so far just haven’t been parNo. 21 Boise State 28, Wyoming 14 ticularly good. The Ducks are No. 22 Texas A&M 35, Auburn 24 second in both human polls used No. 23 Ohio 37, Miami of Ohio 33 in the BCS standings, but sixth in No. 24 La. Tech 66, New Mexico State 24 the computer rankings. Last week: 18-3 And part of Oregon’s strength of Season: 134-26 BY RALPH D. RUSSO ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2012
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TODAY’S NATIONAL SCHEDULE EAST
Temple (3-3) at Pittsburgh (3-4), 11 a.m. Ball St. (5-3) at Army (1-6), 11 a.m. St. Francis, Pa. (3-5) at CCSU (1-6), 11 a.m. New Hampshire (6-2) at Rhode Island (0-7), 11 a.m. Monmouth, N.J. (3-4) at Duquesne (5-2), 11:10 a.m. Yale (2-4) at Columbia (1-5), 11:30 a.m. Princeton (4-2) at Cornell (3-3), 11:30 a.m. Maryland (4-3) at Boston College (1-6), noon Colgate (4-3) at Bucknell (1-6), noon Fordham (4-3) at Holy Cross (1-6), noon Brown (4-2) at Penn (2-4), noon Albany, N.Y. (6-1) at Sacred Heart (2-5), noon Robert Morris (2-5) at Wagner (4-3), noon Toledo (7-1) at Buffalo (1-6), 2:30 p.m. Kent St. (6-1) at Rutgers (7-0), 2:30 p.m. Towson (3-4) at Villanova (6-2), 2:30 p.m. Harvard (5-1) at Dartmouth (4-2), 4 p.m. Ohio St. (8-0) at Penn St. (5-2), 4:30 p.m. Georgetown (3-5) at Lafayette (5-2), 5 p.m.
SOUTH
Tennessee (3-4) at South Carolina (6-2), 11 a.m. Butler (6-2) at Davidson (1-6), 11 a.m. Eastern Illinois (4-3) at Eastern Kentucky (6-2), 11 a.m. Delaware (5-2) at Old Dominion (6-1), 11 a.m. N.C. State (5-2) at North Carolina (5-3), 11:30 a.m. Campbell (1-6) at Morehead St. (1-6), noon Stony Brook (7-1) at Presbyterian (2-6), noon Edward Waters (4-4) at Charleston So. (3-4), 12:30 p.m. VMI (2-5) at Gardner-Webb (1-6), 12:30 p.m. Norfolk St. (2-6) at N.C. A&T (3-4), 12:30 p.m. Howard (5-2) at S.C. State (3-5), 12:30 p.m. The Citadel (4-3) at Wofford (6-1), 12:30 p.m. Savannah St. (1-6) at Hampton (1-5), 1 p.m. Tennessee Tech (2-5) at Tennessee St. (7-1), 1 p.m. Furman (2-6) at Elon (3-4), 2 p.m. BYU (4-4) at Georgia Tech (3-4), 2 p.m. Ala. A&M (6-1) vs. Alabama St. (4-3) at B’ham, 2:30 p.m. Liberty (3-4) at Coastal Carolina (3-4), 2:30 p.m. Navy (4-3) at East Carolina (5-3), 2:30 p.m. Duke (6-2) at Florida St. (7-1), 2:30 p.m. Florida (7-0) vs. Georgia (6-1) at Jacksonville, 2:30 p.m. Georgia St. (1-7) at James Madison (5-2), 2:30 p.m. North Texas (3-4) at Middle Tennessee (4-3), 2:30 p.m. UAB (1-6) at Tulane (1-6), 2:30 p.m. Appalachian St. (5-3) at W. Carolina (1-7), 2:30 p.m. Maine (2-5) at William & Mary (2-5), 2:30 p.m. N.C. Central (5-2) at Bethune-Cookman (5-2), 3 p.m. Murray St. (3-4) at Jacksonville St. (4-3), 3 p.m. SE Missouri (2-5) at Austin Peay (0-7), 4 p.m. Troy (4-3) at FAU (1-6), 4 p.m. Prairie View (2-5) vs. Southern (3-4) at Shreveport, 4 p.m. Georgia Southern (6-1) at Chattanooga (4-3), 5 p.m. Western Kentucky (5-2) at FIU (1-7), 5 p.m. Texas A&M (5-2) at Auburn (1-6), 6 p.m. South Alabama (2-5) at Louisiana-Monroe (5-2), 6 p.m. Nicholls St. (1-5) at Northwestern St. (3-4), 6 p.m. Syracuse (3-4) at South Florida (2-5), 6 p.m. UMass (0-7) at Vanderbilt (3-4), 6 p.m. UCF (5-2) at Marshall (3-4), 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin (3-4) at McNeese St. (4-3), 7 p.m.
Central Arkansas (6-2) at SE Louisiana (3-4), 7 p.m. Mississippi St. (7-0) at Alabama (7-0), 7:30 p.m.
MIDWEST
Indiana (2-5) at Illinois (2-5), 11 a.m. Texas (5-2) at Kansas (1-6), 11 a.m. Kentucky (1-7) at Missouri (3-4), 11 a.m. Northern Illinois (7-1) at Western Michigan (3-5), 11 a.m. Iowa (4-3) at Northwestern (6-2), 11 a.m. South Dakota (1-6) at Indiana St. (6-2), 1 p.m. Western Illinois (3-4) at Missouri St. (2-6), 1 p.m. Marist (2-5) at Valparaiso (0-7), 1 p.m. Youngstown St. (4-3) at South Dakota St. (5-2), 2 p.m. Eastern Michigan (1-6) at Bowling Green (5-3), 2:30 p.m. Akron (1-7) at Central Michigan (2-5), 2:30 p.m. Texas Tech (6-1) at Kansas St. (7-0), 2:30 p.m. Ohio (7-0) at Miami, Ohio (3-4), 2:30 p.m. Purdue (3-4) at Minnesota (4-3), 2:30 p.m. Michigan St. (4-4) at Wisconsin (6-2), 2:30 p.m. Southern Illinois (5-3) at North Dakota St. (6-1), 2:37 p.m. Illinois St. (6-2) at Northern Iowa (2-5), 4 p.m. Baylor (3-3) at Iowa St. (4-3), 6 p.m. Michigan (5-2) at Nebraska (5-2), 7 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
Ole Miss (4-3) at Arkansas (3-4), 11:21 a.m. Southern Miss (0-7) at Rice (2-6), noon Utah St. (6-2) at UTSA (5-2), 1 p.m. Memphis (1-6) at SMU (3-4), 2 p.m. MVSU (2-5) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (5-2), 2:30 p.m. TCU (5-2) at Oklahoma St. (4-2), 2:30 p.m. Sam Houston St. (5-2) at Lamar (3-5), 3 p.m. UTEP (2-6) at Houston (3-4), 3:30 p.m. Grambling St. (1-6) at Texas Southern (1-6), 4 p.m. Notre Dame (7-0) at Oklahoma (5-1), 7 p.m.
FAR WEST
UCLA (5-2) at Arizona St. (5-2), 2 p.m. Colorado (1-6) at Oregon (7-0), 2 p.m. Eastern Wash. (6-1) at Southern Utah (3-5), 2:05 p.m. Southern Cal (6-1) at Arizona (4-3), 2:30 p.m. Idaho St. (1-6) at Montana (3-5), 2:30 p.m. Fresno St. (5-3) at New Mexico (4-4), 2:30 p.m. Boise St. (6-1) at Wyoming (1-6), 2:30 p.m. Northern Arizona (6-1) at Northern Colo. (2-5), 2:35 p.m. Texas St. (3-3) at San Jose St. (5-2), 3 p.m. North Dakota (4-4) at Montana St. (6-1), 3:05 p.m. Portland St. (2-5) at UC Davis (3-5), 4 p.m. Washington St. (2-5) at Stanford (5-2), 5:15 p.m. Hawaii (1-5) at Colorado St. (1-6), 6 p.m. Louisiana Tech (6-1) at New Mexico St. (1-6), 7 p.m. UNLV (1-7) at San Diego St. (5-3), 7 p.m. California (3-5) at Utah (2-5), 7:45 p.m. Dayton (4-4) at San Diego (4-3), 8 p.m. Cal Poly (7-0) at Sacramento St. (5-3), 8:05 p.m. Oregon St. (6-0) at Washington (3-4), 9:15 p.m. Times converted to Central
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