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More Poll Results No.______ Team____ S&S_____ Athlon___ CBS_____ TSN_____ Lindy's___ Coll. FB News_______ Phil Steele Avg. 1._______ So Cal___ 1________1________ 1________1________1________ 1_________________ 1________ 1.000 2._______ LSU_____ 4________ 3________ 2________ 2________ 2________ 2_________________ 2________ 2.428 3._______ W. Virginia 2________ 5________ 4________ 4________ 4________ 10________________ 4________ 4.714 4._______ Michigan__ 5________ 8________ 3________ 3________ 3________ 9________ _________5________ 5.143 5._______ Texas____ 8________ 2________ 8________ 6________ 5________ 3________ _________6________ 5.428 6._______ Wisconsin_ 3________ 4________ 6________ 8________ 6________ 6_________________ 16_______ 7.000 7._______ Florida___ 6________ 6________ 5________ 5________ 11_______ 4________ _________14_______ 7.286 8._______ Oklahoma 7________ 7________ 9________ 13_______ 10_______ 8_________________ 3________ 8.143 9._______ VA Tech__ 9________ 9________ 10_______ 7________ 8________ 5________ _________9________ 8.143 10.______ Louisville_ 10_______ 13_______ 7________ 9________ 9________ 19_______ _________7________ 10.571 11.______ Ohio State 15_______ 12_______ 15_______ 17_______ 13_______ 13_______ _________15_______ 14.286 12.______ California_ 11_______ 11_______ 14_______ 12_______ 12_______ 15________________ --_______ 14.428 13.______ UCLA____ 17_______ 15_______ 12_______ 10_______ 22_______ 7_________________ 21_______ 14.857 14.______ Georgia__ 16_______ 16_______ 20_______ 14_______ 17_______ 12_______ _________11_______ 15.143 15.______ Penn State 13_______ 17_______ 22_______ 15_______ --_______ 16_______ _________10_______ 17.000 16.______ Rutgers__ 19_______ 10_______ 18_______ 19_______ 16_______ 17________________ --_______ 17.857 17.______ Tennessee 21_______ 20_______ 16_______ 18_______ 7________ 18________________ 25_______ 17.857 18.______ Auburn___ 14_______ 21_______ 11_______ 16_______ 23_______ 22_______ _________--_______ 19.000 19.______ Arkansas_ 12_______ --_______ 13_______ --_______ 14_______ --________________ --_______ 20.428 20.______ Nebraska_ 20_______ 18_______ 24_______ 23_______ 25_______ 14_______ _________22_______ 20.857 21.______ TCU_____ 23_______ 25_______ 17_______ 20_______ 15_______ --________________ 23_______ 21.286 22.______ Hawaii___ --_______ 19_______ 25_______ --_______ 19_______ --________________12_______ 21.857 23.______ Texas A&M --_______ 23_______ 21_______ --_______ 18_______ --________________ 20_______ 22.857 24.______ Missouri__ 18_______ --_______ --_______ --_______ --_______ 20_______ _________19_______ 23.000 25.______ Boise St__ 25_______ --_______ 19_______ 22_______ --_______ --________________ --_______ 24.286

Countdown Continues 8. Wisconsin 7. Louisville 6. Texas 5. Florida

For those of you that may not know, Yahoo Sports is doing a preseason top 50 countdown. They have gone through 9. I have listed them below. It is their list. Enjoy. Let's see what you think of their choices. 50. Central Michigan 49. Kansas State 48. Arizona 47. Cincinnati 46. Michigan State 45. BYU 44. Texas Tech 43. Iowa 42. Georgia Tech 41. Wake Forest 40. Purdue 39. Maryland 38. Kentucky 37. Alabama 36. Missouri 35. Oklahoma State 34. Oregon State 32. Oregon 33. TCU 31. Notre Dame 30. South Florida 29. South Carolina 28. Arizona State 27. Boise State 26. Clemson 25. UCLA 24. Arkansas 23. Florida State 22. Texas A&M 21. Hawaii 20. Miami 19. Rutgers 18. Nebraska 17. Tennessee 16. Boston College 15. Penn State 14. Georgia 13. California 12. Auburn 11. Virginia Tech 10. Ohio State 9. Oklahoma

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Richy, Thanks for the information on Dgreco's abreviations. I had mentioned Tennessee vs California earlier. I didn't want to sound like a homer by mentioning it again. SEC East 2nd or 3rd vs PAC 10 1st or 2nd sounds like a good game to watch. I wasn't certain about Oklahoma State vs Georgia. I know that they are both in BCS Conferences, but I saw OSU as being 4th or 5th in the B12 South vs 1st or 2nd in the SEC East. I could be wrong and it could be a big, close game. Utah and the WAC are still not on my radar fully. 3rd Place WAC team vs 5th or 6th place Pac 10 team didn't draw me in. Idaho vs Southern Cal. I'll let your statement stand. I knew that LSU was opening it off on Thursday night vs Mississippi State, but 1st or 2nd in the SEC West vs 6th in the SEC West didn't set off any thoughts of a good game. I was thinking about saving each week for the games that are most interesting in those weeks, but we can hit them early too.

dgreco, Not sure what those are. I was hoping that someone would answer and explain them. I have some other games from the Opening week. Colorado State - Colorado; these two hate each other and that always means a good game even if the teams are down that year. Wake Forest - Boston College; See if last year was a figment of the imagination. Georgia Tech - Notre Dame; GT should be improved. It was close last year and I'm not sure that ND will have improved. Arizona - BYU; teams that want respect and have a chance to stand up for their leagues. On Monday, Florida State - Clemson; the Daddy - Son Bowl. Son could be gone if he doesn't win.

I would think that if Southwest increased the number of flights out of Birmingham that they would be able to draw a number of fliers from the Atlanta market. People who are looking not to have to deal with Atlanta's airport and by price point.

September 1, 2007 is coming up quickly. I am starting to get that little bit of excitement. Aside from the Tennessee - California Game on the 1st, what are the other big games that day?

I think that fans of any team would want to see their team in the Championship Game. I know that I would like to see my team in the Championship Game. I am not expecting it, but I would like to see it. I think that I would like to see my team Win the SEC East. If they do that, they stand a good chance of getting the SEC Championship and the National Championship. One step at a time. I do agree that LSU vs USC looks like a good matchup and it may happen. That is why we play the games.

I know what your saying. I did the same thing with Rutgers because I really liked the way that they played all of last year, even though West Virginia is going to be on most peoples lists. I think that Virginia Tech stands a good chance, but I partly put them in over the shooting. I'm not thinking that Florida will be there, because I don't know that Tebow will be able to recognize everything that other teams will throw at him.

I'll give it a spin: ACC: Virginia Tech Big East: Rutgers Big 10: Michigan Big 12: Texas Pac 10: USC SEC: LSU

I agree, but unless LSU can get another SEC team to flip the home years it is here to stay. I could be possible, after all Vandy was able to get Kentucky and Tennessee to flip game dates. In that case neither UK or UT had a problem and it didn't involve changing the years in which you had someone at home. Alabama might agree to flip with LSU and Vandy for home/away years because it would be fairly even LSU and Tennessee at home or LSU and Auburn. Auburn is another possibility, since they have a similar problem with home vs away years.

Here are Rival's 25 most difficult schedules. Breakdown SEC -----8 Pac 10 --5 Big 10 ---4 ACC -----3 Big 12----2 Big East -2 Ind-------1 http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=Aj...s&type=lgns

USC is certainly playing more hard games away than LSU, but the SEC does work on the teams and LSU will have to play in a Championship Game. LSU only has 5 games away from Baton Rouge and one of those (Tulane) will be a Home Game in all but name. The only major games that LSU has away are Kentucky and Alabama. I would like to say that Ole Miss is because of the rivalry, but neither Ole Miss or Mississippi State have the players to give LSU much trouble. LSU is going to play 7 teams that should go to Bowl Games and has stretch of 4 games were they play Florida followed by Kentucky, Auburn, and Alabama. USC has 6 away games with Nebraska and California as major away teams. Not certain what Notre Dame will look like against USC, but it does lead off the final 6 games in their schedule in which 4 are away and contains all of their tough games except for the Nebraska game. USC looks to be playing about the same number of Bowl Teams as LSU. It is far easier to see LSU losing a game with their schedules than USC, but you can never see what can happen until the games have been played.

Here are the major Preseason Polls for the upcoming 2007 Season. It is time for people to start their inputs on who is overrated, underrated, or just plain debated. Lindy's 1. USC 2. LSU 3. Michigan 4. West Virginia 5. Texas 6. Wisconsin 7. Tennessee 8. Virginia Tech 9. Louisville 10. Oklahoma 11. Florida 12. Cal 13. Ohio State 14. Arkansas 15. TCU 16. Rutgers 17. Georgia 18. Texas A&M 19. Hawaii 20. Wake Forest 21. Florida State 22. UCLA 23. Auburn 24. Boston College 25. Nebraska Athlon 1. USC 2. Texas 3. LSU 4. Wisconsin 5. West Virginia 6. Florida 7. Oklahoma 8. Michigan 9. Virginia Tech 10. Rutgers 11. Cal 12. Ohio State 13. Louisville 14. Georgia Tech 15. UCLA 16. Georgia 17. Penn State 18. Nebraska 19. Hawaii 20. Tennessee 21. Auburn 22. Oregon State 23. Texas A&M 24. Miami 25. TCU FoxSports 1. USC 2. LSU 3. Texas 4. Florida 5. Wisconsin 6. Ohio State 7. Oklahoma 8. Arkansas 9. UCLA 10. Michigan 11. West Virginia 12. Georgia 13. Virginia Tech 14. Auburn 15. Nebraska 16. Tennessee 17. Florida State 18. Cal 19. Boston College 20. Texas A&M 21. Rutgers 22. Georgia Tech 23. TCU 24. Penn State 25. Oregon State Rivals.com 1. USC 2. Michigan 3. LSU 4. West Virginia 5. Florida 6. Ohio State 7. Virginia Tech 8. Oklahoma 9. Texas 10. Wisconsin 11. Louisville 12. Georgia 13. Nebraska 14. Auburn 15. Cal 16. Arkansas 17. Tennessee 18. Penn State 19. Rutgers 20. Florida State 21. Texas A&M 22. Notre Dame 23. Hawaii 24. Boston College 25. Clemson AJC 1. USC 2. West Virginia 3. Oklahoma 4. Ohio State 5. Florida 6. LSU 7. Texas 8. Michigan 9. Arkansas 10. Virginia Tech 11. Louisville 12. Wake Forest 13. Wisconsin 14. Auburn 15. Nebraska 16. Georgia 17. Tennessee 18. Rutgers 19. South Carolina 20. Florida State 21. Notre Dame 22. Texas A&M 23. TCU 24. Boise State 25. Oklahoma St.

Waccamatt, The Arkansas side is very flat and the levees are several miles back. Once in the spring of 73 prior to Mud Island being built up as a residential area and there was a downtown airport on it, the airport was flooded over and people in boats were fishing above the runway. The Arkansas side was totally flooded out and only the tops of trees, the rail lines, and highways showed above the water. Riverside Drive, which is about a third of the way up the Bluff had sand bags on it. That if the only time that I ever remember sandbags in the city at all. It often floods on the Arkansas side in the spring from the spring run off. It only rises slightly above the river on that side and there is nothing to hold back the river until the water hits the levies. Besides, I always thought it was neat that there was cotton growing right across the river and it is interesting that the city just rises out of no where. Drive across the river and come back on I-40. It is a neat view of the city. Another place to visit that I don't know that anyone has mentioned is the Ornimental Metal Museum. There are several reasons. 1) the museum is interesting, 2) it allows you to see what the bluffs looked like prior to having them cut back to allow the wagons to go up and down to the river, 3) it lets you see the port which is in a dammed section of the river between the city and President's Island, and 4) there are Indian Mounds just outside of the entrance to the museum. Don't be thrown off by the brickwork. That was from when they were excavated.

SouthJersey, A couple of points. It doesn't look crazy to me. If you have followed some of the information on this, there is a study for the Green line to go to BWI through Laurel. I thought that the idea of an extension to Bowie was an interesting one. I know that 50 is a mess. Maybe if it was cost effective, it could go to Annapolis

Here is a better map of the extension to Dulles. http://www.dullesmetro.com/pdfs/route_map_large_mar06.pdf

I am not completely certain, but I think that since the lines are used by the rail lines for freight they have limitations for the number of passenger trains that can travel on the lines. They also wanted to make certain that they had a stop for the NSA and Ft Meade. I'm certain that they could do it if they created a commuter bus from the stations in Odenton and either Jessup or Dorsey to Ft Meade.

Urbannomad, If it has improved that is great. I still would not go there. Call it a combination of bias based on the past and that it doesn't have anything that I couldn't find elsewhere. The only time that I go near Weaton Plaza these days is when I go to Kennsington. In answer, I haven't been there lately.

"The Columbia Flier" had an article on this in yesterday's paper. A major reason that the extension is being proposed is the 5,361 new personnel from the BRAC expansion of Fort Meade. State Senator John Giannetti has proposed a bill to spend $1M to do a feasibility study. The 20-mile extension would cost >$3B. The $3B cost would be roughly equal to the cost of the Inter-County Connector.

I received an e-mail to today from someone who lives in Laurel. He mentioned that the Laurel Leader Newspaper had an article about extending the Green Line to BWI with stations at Konterra/Muirkirk, Columbia, Dorsey, Odenton ...and a few others. Has anyone else heard any information on this? If this came about , it would be great news. People could commute to Fort Meade via Metro, could commute to DC from Columbia and tourists using BWI could take Metro into DC. No idea on the costs. I'm certain that it would be very expensive. I know that there are talks about extending service on Metro to Fort Belvoir, now that the BRAC has called for the movement of everyone and their brother to Fort Belvoir even though you cannot get in there now because of the lack of transportation alternatives. That's why they are Generals. That was set at $1B. Of course there is the extension to Dulles. I can't recall how much that is. And let's not forget that there is no programed funding for Metro.

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