Only 18 teams remain on the Shortlist to South Beach in 2012 and they rank by order of worthiness for one of the two national title game invites as such:
Notre Dame, Florida, Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon State, Oregon, Ohio State, Louisville, Rutgers, Mississippi State, Ohio, LSU, FSU, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Clemson, Georgia and Southern Cal.
Just a single team won last week to avoid their Shortlist to South Beach elimination call for at least another seven days:
1) Texas Tech goes on the road to Fort Worth and escapes with an overtime 56-53 win over TCU. Tommy Tuberville is too old to get the job done at a high level? Sure, that's why yet again he's a winner everywhere he's been a head coach. It must be because he saves wasting time over worrying if his tie is on straight and his hair looks good on camera. It's definitely not because he has the sharpest AD in all of college football overseeing his program, that's for sure.
On the other hand you have this trio of Shortlist unforeseen knockouts finding themselves exiting the chase as October works its way to a close:
1) West Virginia laps up the home cooking and gets blown out even worse than the week before as they go two in a row and off the Shortlist at the hands of Kansas State 55-14. Geno Smith's Heisman chances appear as finished as the Mountaineers national championship hopes this year but there's plenty of opportunity left on the schedule to revive the former, the latter however is out of play until next season, no matter what.
2) TCU has its 11 win season streak pushed to the breaking point by Texas Tech, their former South West Conference rival. Just where did Mike Leach spend that off week last Saturday exactly after-all? Did anybody see a man with an eye-patch, parrot on his shoulder and cutlass on his belt in the play-calling booth in Fort Worth last week getting a jump on Halloween costuming?
3) Cincinatti gets ejected out of the Shortlist orbit in Toledo as they lose for the first time ever in the Glass Bowl 29-23. Now with a three game overall losing streak against the Rockets, the Bearcats must refocus on plotting a course through what's left of the Big East obstacles on the schedule the rest of the year to salvage what had been shaping up as yet another great Butch Jones salvage job to a Brain Kelly exit.
I expect a pair of Big 12 teams to fall by the wayside on the Shortlist to South Beach this week, one each from the opposite ends of their traditional conference pecking order: Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
Enjoy the games this week and join me back here next week as the Shortlist to South Beach sets the table for the final sprint through the last month of the 2012 season right here on Canespace.
Copyright 2012 by Christopher Whelpton for Canespace.com
Notre Dame, Florida, Alabama, Kansas State, Oregon State, Oregon, Ohio State, Louisville, Rutgers, Mississippi State, Ohio, LSU, FSU, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Clemson, Georgia and Southern Cal.
Just a single team won last week to avoid their Shortlist to South Beach elimination call for at least another seven days:
1) Texas Tech goes on the road to Fort Worth and escapes with an overtime 56-53 win over TCU. Tommy Tuberville is too old to get the job done at a high level? Sure, that's why yet again he's a winner everywhere he's been a head coach. It must be because he saves wasting time over worrying if his tie is on straight and his hair looks good on camera. It's definitely not because he has the sharpest AD in all of college football overseeing his program, that's for sure.
On the other hand you have this trio of Shortlist unforeseen knockouts finding themselves exiting the chase as October works its way to a close:
1) West Virginia laps up the home cooking and gets blown out even worse than the week before as they go two in a row and off the Shortlist at the hands of Kansas State 55-14. Geno Smith's Heisman chances appear as finished as the Mountaineers national championship hopes this year but there's plenty of opportunity left on the schedule to revive the former, the latter however is out of play until next season, no matter what.
2) TCU has its 11 win season streak pushed to the breaking point by Texas Tech, their former South West Conference rival. Just where did Mike Leach spend that off week last Saturday exactly after-all? Did anybody see a man with an eye-patch, parrot on his shoulder and cutlass on his belt in the play-calling booth in Fort Worth last week getting a jump on Halloween costuming?
3) Cincinatti gets ejected out of the Shortlist orbit in Toledo as they lose for the first time ever in the Glass Bowl 29-23. Now with a three game overall losing streak against the Rockets, the Bearcats must refocus on plotting a course through what's left of the Big East obstacles on the schedule the rest of the year to salvage what had been shaping up as yet another great Butch Jones salvage job to a Brain Kelly exit.
I expect a pair of Big 12 teams to fall by the wayside on the Shortlist to South Beach this week, one each from the opposite ends of their traditional conference pecking order: Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
Enjoy the games this week and join me back here next week as the Shortlist to South Beach sets the table for the final sprint through the last month of the 2012 season right here on Canespace.
Copyright 2012 by Christopher Whelpton for Canespace.com
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Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 07:22 PM
Watching this Wake game.....I remember the canes game there on Halloween when we had that 4th down play I want to say it was a pass to AJ 4th and 16.
Oh glue hands what happened to you!
Posted by: pbcfrcane13 | October 25, 2012 at 07:28 PM
Oh glue hands what happened to you!
Posted by: pbcfrcane13 | October 25, 2012 at 07:28 PM
He ran out of stickum?
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 08:01 PM
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8552111/tyrann-mathieu-former-lsu-tigers-cornerback-arrested-drug-charges
How to throw away millions of dollars.
Posted by: pbcfrcane13 | October 25, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Quite unfortunate. How many college careers never reach their full potential because of things like this?
Posted by: TonyCane | October 25, 2012 at 08:30 PM
Oh glue hands what happened to you!
Posted by: pbcfrcane13 | October 25, 2012 at 07:28 PM
Hopefully he can hook up with an AFL team in the coming months and get some playing time and then develop. He had the physical tools but it will be a long road to the NFL for him.
Posted by: TonyCane | October 25, 2012 at 08:32 PM
CANES BEAT FSU!!!
She did it again.
Almost a year after advancing the Hurricanes into the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a game-winning overtime goal, sophomore forward Ashley Flinn connected in the 89th minute to send Miami past No. 1 Florida State and into the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship.
Her confident finish in the game’s final stages, which came on a perfect through ball played by Tara Schwitter, clinched the Hurricanes’ first Championship berth since 2008. Miami (9-6-3, 4-4-2 ACC), which could only advance to the eight-team tournament with a win over the first-ranked Seminoles (15-2-0, 8-2-0 ACC), used Flinn’s third goal of the year to earn their first win over Florida State since joining the ACC in 2004.
“The kids were fabulous,“ head coach Tom Anagnost said. “They executed it exactly as they’re supposed to. The effort was extraordinary. I’m as proud as I have been since I’ve been here.”
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 08:36 PM
CHECK
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Willie will, I did a cursory check while at lunch and nothing I could find. Not going to devote too much time to temple stuff...lol.
Posted by: Tonycane | October 25, 2012 at 05:56 PM
Aw man, you have to channel the inner Golden in you lol.
Also, you did realize that 4* & 5* players bring luggage with them and its filled with ENTITLEMENT??
Posted by: Willie Will in Nashville | October 25, 2012 at 10:06 PM
Hi Willie, that's true. But I think I'd rather take the risk of the 4* and 5* baggage. If Al Golden is a Bill Snyder, Nick Saban, Jim Harbaugh or Bill Belichek then it doesn't matter what star the recruit is...in a few years he'll have a cohesive unit that dominates. But that caliber of mastermind coach is rare.
I'd prefer the higher overall talent base - greater margin for error in coaching and in talent of players. And if Golden turns out to be a Harbaugh, how much more dominant will the Hurricanes be? Hopefully that is the case.
Posted by: TonyCane | October 25, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Tony,
Stars are not always true, look at EJ and Perryman. So just because a player is labeled as a 3* player doesn't mean that he's not just as good as a 5* player or has less talent. Duke was ranked the #10 rb in his class, can you name 9 freshmen rb's better than him??
Posted by: Willie Will in Nashville | October 25, 2012 at 10:48 PM
Duke was ranked the #10 rb in his class, can you name 9 freshmen rb's better than him??
Posted by: Willie Will in Nashville | October 25, 2012 at 10:48 PM
RB Danny Dillard?
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 11:06 PM
Actually, there are several (at least 9) FR RBs that have more rushing yards than Duke.
In All-Purpose yards he is behind only one FR player: Stefon Diggs at MD who is #11 and Duke is #28. The next FR is at #41.
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 11:25 PM
CoCane...did U email me?
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 11:28 PM
NCAA Rushing yards 2012:
Kenneth Dixon #22 LA Tech
Johnny Manziel #29 TAMU
Todd Gurley #47 GA
#60, #67, #77, #74 and #79 are all FR.
Posted by: 86Cane | October 25, 2012 at 11:33 PM
86,
I said better, not most yards lol.
Posted by: Willie Will in Nashville | October 25, 2012 at 11:51 PM
Danny Dilliard has been forgot about
Posted by: WWIN | October 25, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Yeah I did Soup
Posted by: CoCane | October 26, 2012 at 12:16 AM
Soup,
Did you get my email??
Posted by: WWIN | October 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Dillard came in late soooo yeahh
Posted by: LaQuinton | October 26, 2012 at 01:50 AM
Golden will win big if he understands the biggest rule of college football: TALENT. You gotta have horses. You get horses by developing the talent you recruit whether they be 2 stars or 5. Boise State develops top notch players out of nothing. That's what we used to do. We'd find a kid no one was recruiting like Santana Moss and make him a stud. We would also get a high ranked kid like Sean Taylor and make him a stud. Golden unfortunately needs time. That doesn't make me happy because The U has completely come undone and I want my Canes back now damnit! I think if the right, proven coach is available (Butch) we should go for it. If not, we stick with Al and give his "process" another year. In college football, you don't get 5 year plans anymore. Year 3 is the most important because it sets the standard for year 4 or if it is a failure then its time to start over.
Posted by: Dude on a Pale Horse | October 26, 2012 at 02:45 AM
.......he gets 3-4 with the Miami fan base and their impatient need for immediate results. He has gotta play whoever he can to win and win soon or now.
Garbage. This chest thumping mentality is ancient history. Golden will get all time he needs. 5 to 7 years, but it wont take that long.
Sanctions on the horizon have made this Goldens job. Period. Any coaching changes berfore or during sanctions wold be a disaster.
Posted by: Dan | October 26, 2012 at 04:27 AM
Dan, I pretty much agree. And for everyone calling for butch, it took him years to assemble a championship roster. Being butch in tomorrow and nothing changes. Coaches will still recruit against us by using the NCAA issue. And butch will need two more years to add to the roster.
It seems too early to say that there would be a marked change if you replaced golden with Davis.
Now if you get could get bill belichek to try his hand at college football, that might be a different story.
Posted by: Tonycane | October 26, 2012 at 09:15 AM