NEW YORK — The NIT Season Tip-Off had a rather pedestrian look to it when the four host schools were announced last year. Syracuse was the class of the event, while the other three hosts were hardly locks to even reach New York. Seeing Virginia Tech upset by George Mason, Stanford by Colorado State and Oklahoma State by Texas-San Antonio wouldn’t have been far-fetched possibilities. Tech never faced Mason as Florida International took down the Patriots before falling to the injury-riddled Hokies.
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NIT Season Tip-Off preview
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Everyone expects the SEC to eventually expand to 14 schools, but that time doesn’t appear to be now. SEC presidents and chancellors met Monday for their fall meeting, but no expansion action was taken and we don’t know when it will. “The Presidents and Chancellors of the Southeastern Conference met on Monday for its regularly-scheduled fall meeting,” the league said in a statement. “While they discussed a wide range of issues dealing with the changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics, no actions were taken with regards to expansion.” This comes after even more speculation arose after Missouri curators gave chancellor Brady Deaton the authority to explore a move to another conference rather than immediately commit to the Big 12. Word quickly spread that Missouri had real interest in joining the SEC , but only after the Big Ten showed no interest in the school. Last week, The Birmingham News reported that a majority of SEC presidents and chancellors would support Missouri’s application , but that majority falls short of the nine votes required to add a new member. While the SEC says it isn’t taking steps toward growing at the moment, don’t expect that sort of talk to quell any of the expansion chatter. Even after the SEC officially announced Texas A&M as its 13th member, all the talk surrounded what school was going to be the 14th team and if there was a possibility of three more joining. It seems as if Texas A&M is a mere afterthought at this point. Missouri’s name will continue to come up, as the St. Louis and Kansas City markets figure to be attractive to the SEC and so does the school’s AAU membership. Remember, this isn’t just about football. There are a lot of other factors that go into expansion other than football games. Don’t be surprised if West Virginia continues to come up again. Maybe Louisville will get thrown into the mix. And don’t count the Virginia Tech and Florida State talk either. It should be fun with all the speculation and rumors sure to come.
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The SEC puts a hault on expansion
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Virginia Tech Hokies: Georgia Tech , Nov. 10 20. Baylor Bears: Texas A&M, Oct. 15 21. Texas Longhorns: Oklahoma State, Oct. 15 22. Texas A&M Aggies: Oklahoma, Nov. 5 23. Michigan State Spartans: Wisconsin , Oct. 22 24. Auburn… Source: Bleacher Report
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College Football Rankings 2011: Predicting the Next Loss of Every Top 25 Team
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Clemson picked up a win at Virginia Tech a week after knocking off Florida State at home. The Texas Longhorns round out the latest batch of power rankings with their season debut, replacing South Carolina after the Gamecocks took… Source: Examiner.com
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Examiner.com College Football Power Rankings – Week 6
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As is always the case every week, any omission below is not on purpose, it’s merely intentional. Except this time, it’s also unintentional. Winners Clemson? That Clemson? Yes, that Clemson. When Kirk Herbstreit picked Clemson to beat Virginia Tech at L Source: MSNBC
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They were lost in the quarterback position with no real threat to score points.  Now Texas has turned their offense over to Case McCoy who has directed them in a new explosive direction. Take the Horns to cover today… Source: Bleacher Report
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Picking Against the Spread: Virginia Tech and Texas Tough Games but Sure Fire Covers
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TexasâThis is not the Texas Longhorns team that looked like absolute garbage last year when they lost a heartbreaker against Iowa State , but the same kind of… Source: Bleacher Report
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College Football Scores: Virginia Tech, Texas and 3 Teams on Upset Alert
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I watched them play against Texas , and they had opportunities to beat them, but failed to make plays. Texas opened the season with a 34-9 win against Rice, defeated BYU 17-16 and dismantled UCLA 49-20. Case McCoy has shown some promise… Source: Bleacher Report
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College Football Rankings Week 5: Virginia Tech and 4 Teams Still Overrated
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1. Are you ready to get excited about No. 13 Clemson? The Tigers knocked off Auburn and Florida State, both of them ranked, in consecutive weeks and made it to 4-0. Are you ready? No, I’m not either. Those are impressive wins but they are each easily explained. Auburn is young. Florida State had to play on the road one week after a bruising battle against Oklahoma. If Clemson can maintain its focus after two emotional wins and go on the road to beat No. 11 Virginia Tech, then I’ll be impressed. 2. No college head coach is more old school than Chris Ault of Nevada. The Hall of Famer has given fifth-year walk-on quarterback Tyler Lantrip every opportunity to be the Wolf Pack starter — until now. Redshirt freshman Cody Fajardo , who split time with Lantrip, rushed for 139 yards and a touchdown and threw for two more scores in the 35-34 loss at Texas Tech
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3-point stance: Not impressed by Clemson
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Is the Big East about to suffer a deathblow from which it cannot recover? ACC blogger Heather Dinich is reporting that Syracuse and Pitt have applied for membership into the ACC , a bit of deja vu for a league that already has been decimated by the ACC once before. The Big East has no comment today, but news that two flagship programs are ready to jump ship has made this a very bad morning for commissioner John Marinatto and anybody associated with the league. The popular thought was Oklahoma and Texas could key what happens in the next wave of expansion. But the ACC clearly is being proactive in an attempt to bolster itself. The ACC has increased its buyout for teams to $20 million. Meanwhile, the Big East buyout remains at $5 million with 27 months notice. The fact that Syracuse and Pitt are ready to jump ship clearly signals they do not believe in the future of the league, which has been on shaky ground since conference realignment began last year. The Big East made the move to add TCU but has been silent since then, perhaps waiting on other moves before increasing its ranks. That appears to be backward thinking right now. Syracuse and Pitt are two of the rock-solid programs in the Big East. Their departure would be tough to swallow. The Big East survived after Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech bolted for the ACC. But losing Syracuse and Pitt could be devastating. Sure the possibility exists that the Big 12 implodes and the Big East can add Kansas and Kansas State. Maybe even Missouri. Word is that Baylor and Iowa State have already reached out to the Big East as a backup in case the Big 12 falls apart. But that is no sure thing. And what happens to the rest of the league schools? Do they begin the application process somewhere else? The fact that the Big East is not commenting is disappointing, considering this story is so skewed to the ACC perspective right now. But a nondenial means this is a very real situation that the Big East is trying to get a grip on as it tries to save itself.
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