SCS.com ARCHIVES NOVEMBER 2004
TUNE THE TUBE - THE WEEK'S TOP GAMES
Week of November 29 - December 5, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Sure, the conference championship games are this week, but the game with the best matchup takes place in south Florida. Virginia Tech and Miami get together in a battle for ACC supremacy, which is ironic since both are newcomers to the ACC after many years together in the Big East. SCS.com also takes a look at this week's big hoops matchups, including Wake Forest's trip to Illinois on Wednesday....[MORE]
THE WEEKEND'S BEST
Weekend of November 27, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Southern Cal again showed why they are the nation's top-ranked team and why QB Matt Leinart is one of the leading candidates for the Heisman Trophy. The junior QB threw five TD passes in USC's win over Notre Dame Saturday. Meanwhile back east, Syracuse trounced over Boston College, ending the Eagles' BCS hopes and making the Orange bowl eligible. Arizona pulled the week's biggest upset....[MORE]
OFD41 CROWNED PICK 'EM CHAMP FOR 2004
November 28, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Ofd41 contiuned his dominance in the 2004 SCS.com Pick 'Em Contest and edged out two close competitors for the top spot. Ofd41 ended the season with a total of 1944 points, while Gray Hound's 1940 and The Legend Killer's 1938 point totals came up just short. Two contestants, DOGS73 and Gator Babe, had Week Thirteen's best marks. Out of a possible 78 points, both accumulated 64 in the final week....[MORE]
TUNE THE TUBE - THE WEEK'S TOP GAMES
Week of November 27, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
SCS.com takes a look at the week's best hoops matchups and projects the winners of all the big games. Meanwhile on the gridiron, two in-state rivals get together on Saturday. Though the game is always intense, that will especially be the case this week with so much on the line for both teams. A win on Saturday for Virginia Tech would be their seventh in a row since losing to NC State in late September....[MORE]
THE WEEKEND'S BEST
Weekend of November 20, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Kyle Orton had a career day in his final home game as a Purdue Boilermaker. The senior from Iowa threw six touchdown passes in the team's win over in-state rival Indiana. Iowa State earns the honor as the nation's top team from last week. The Cyclones won at Kansas State and are in position to represent the North in the Big XII Championship Game if they can knock off Missouri this weekend....[MORE]
AROUND THE COLLEGE NATION
November 18, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Where will Urban Meyer be coaching next fall, you ask? Utah. Everyone knows that Meyer is a Big Ten/Midwest guy. Meyer graduated from the University of Cincinnati and held assistant coaching jobs at Ohio State, Illinois State, Colorado State, and Notre Dame before grabbing his first head coaching job at Bowling Green in 2001. After two extremely successful seasons at BGSU, Meyer was hired by Utah.....[MORE]
TUNE THE TUBE - THE WEEK'S TOP GAMES
Weekend of November 20, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
This is Auburn's last obstacle to a perfect regular season, but what an obstacle it is. One of the biggest rivalries in the country, perhaps the biggest, resumes on Saturday when the Auburn Tigers pay a visit to Tuscaloosa to take on Alabama. The Tigers are just one win away from taking an 11-0 record into the Georgia Dome for the SEC Championship Game on December 4. The latest victory for AU....[MORE]
THE WEEKEND'S BEST
Weekend of November 6, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Pittsburgh's big win on Saturday over Notre Dame was in part due to the five touchdown passes of Panther QB Tyler Palko. Meanwhile down south, Auburn RBs Ronnie Brown and Cadillac Williams continued to torture opponents as the Tigers make a move towards the second spot in the BCS. The biggest upset of the weekend took place in Durham, NC where Duke knocked off Clemson....[MORE]
AROUND THE COLLEGE NATION
November 11, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
The big discussion about the BCS continues to be the ranking of the nation's top three teams. USC has been in the top spot since the first BCS ranking came out, and no one has really disputed that. The controversy seems to come in the crucial number two spot. That's where Oklahoma currently resides, but Auburn is banging on the door at number three. So if these three teams were to all go unbeaten....[MORE]
HOOPS PREVIEW - PRESEASON FAB 15
November 9, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
The 2004 - 2005 college basketball season is now just two days away as SCS.com concludes its preview of the upcoming season. With that comes the SCS.com Preseason Fab 15 poll. The poll's top five includes a trio of teams from the ACC as well as one each from Conference USA and the Big XII. Eight members of the '04-'05 Preseason Fab 15 were unranked in the final regular season poll last year....[MORE]
TUNE THE TUBE - THE WEEK'S TOP GAMES
Weekend of November 13, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
The Auburn Tigers have survived their SEC slate to date, but it's yet another tough test for Tuberville, Cadillac, Campbell, and Co. this weekend. The Georgia Bulldogs roll into Auburn in a game that if lost, would eliminate AU as a national title contender. With a win, Auburn would move to within two victories of an undefeated regular season. The Bulldogs have not lost since early last month....[MORE]
THE WEEKEND'S BEST
Weekend of November 6, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
In a Saturday full of shootouts and offensive explosions, there were plenty of stars on offense across the country. Arizona State's Andrew Walter was busy throwing for four touchdowns on Saturday, while Eastern Michigan's Eric Deslauriers was on the receiving end of four scores himself. Iowa State, after knocking off Nebraska on Saturday, is now in a tie atop the standings in the Big XII North....[MORE]
HOOPS PREVIEW - ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
November 5, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
The 2004 - 2005 college basketball season is now just six days away as SCS.com continues to preview the upcoming action. Today we unveil the Preseason All-America Teams. The first, second, and third teams are made up of fifteen of the nation's top college players from fourteen different schools. Seven conferences were represented by players on at least one of the three teams, led by the ACC with four....[MORE]
AROUND THE COLLEGE NATION
November 4, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
Some say that because Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson is a freshman, he should not win this year's Heisman Trophy. However, if the award is truely to be given out to the nation's best college football player, that player at this point in the season is Peterson himself. He has led his team to an unbeaten record so far this season and has rushed for at least 100 yards in each of OU's eight games....[MORE]
HOOPS PREVIEW - CONFERENCE SELECTIONS
November 3, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
The 2004 - 2005 college basketball season is now just eight days away as SCS.com continues to preview the upcoming action. Even though we are nearly two full months before the first league play begins around the country, SCS.com takes this time to preview the top teams in each of the thirty-one Division I conferences as well as give you the preseason player of the year in a dozen of those leagues....[MORE]
TUNE THE TUBE - THE WEEK'S TOP GAMES
Weekend of November 6, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
For the second straight week, the unbeaten Sooners go on the road in the Big XII South. After knocking off in-state rival Oklahoma State in Stillwater last Saturday when the Cowboys missed a last-second field goal, OU heads to Texas A&M and is again involved in college football's best game of the weekend. The Sooners continue to be led by the nation's best freshman, RB Adrian Peterson....[MORE]
HOOPS PREVIEW - ULTIMATE OOC SCHEDULE
November 1, 2004
By Jonathan, SCS.com Editor
College hoops season is just a week and half away, but before the conference matchups get underway in January, there are tons of great non-conference battles you will not want to miss. SCS.com takes a look at nearly one hundred games between now and January 2 that should catch your attention. A few of those included? Try Wake Forest/Illinois, Georgia Tech/Kansas, Miss. State/Arizona....[MORE]
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