Rooting Guide Week 11

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The goals are:



1. To win the National Championship (On to 2014!!!)

2. To go to a BCS game (possible, but a Lloyd Christmas chance)

3. To achieve the highest ranking possible

4. To win as many games as possible

5. To be bowl eligible and play the best bowl team possible

6. To be better than Utah



A. Cheer for BYU. Duh.



BYU over Wisconsin



B. Cheer for the team playing Utah. If we need help from Utah in any way then it is not worth having.



ASU over Utah



C. Cheer for BYU’s opponents. This helps SOS.



MTSU (5-4) over Florida International

Houston (7-1) over UCF

Virginia (2-7) over North Carolina

Notre Dame (7-2) over Pitt

Nevada (3-6) over Colorado St.

Texas (6-2) over West Virginia

Utah St. (5-4) over UNLV

Idaho St. doesn’t matter



D. Cheer for teams playing teams ranked ahead of BYU. If both teams are ranked cheer for the lower ranked team (Of course rules A-C trump rule D).



#13 LSU over #1 Alabama

Wake Forest over #2 Florida St.

#3 Oregon over #5 Stanford (to hold onto our slim BCS hopes Stanford needs to lose to both Oregon and ND. It also improves our FH bowl opponent prospects if the Pac-12 doesn’t get an at-large berth in the BCS)

Kentucky over #8 Missouri

#10 Oklahoma over #6 Baylor

Tennessee over #9 Auburn

Virginia Tech over #11 Miami

Kansas over #14 Oklahoma State

Mississippi St. over #15 Texas A&M

Wyoming over #16 Fresno St.

Arizona over #19 UCLA

Uconn over #20 Louisville

Kansas St. over #25 Texas Tech



E. Cheer for our Opponents’ opponents unless they are playing our opponents. This helps our SOS. The more connected a team is to our opponents the more you should cheer for them (unless it violates rules A-D). Air Force is the most connected team to our opponents as they play 4 games against them. The number by the team indicates how connected they are. If two connected teams play each other take the underdog.



Air Force 4 over New Mexico

USC 3 over Cal

SDSU 2 over SJSU

Southern Miss 2 over Louisiana Tech

Duke 2 over North Carolina St.

Memphis 2 over Tennessee Martin

Hawaii 2 over Navy

UTSA over Tulane

SMU over Cincinnati

Syracuse over Maryland

East Carolina over Tulsa

UAB over Marshall

Florida International

UTEP over North Texas

Michigan over Nebraska

Illinois over Indiana

Iowa over Purdue

Penn St. over Minnesota

Washington over Colorado

Ball St. over Central Michigan

Ole Miss over Arkansas

New Mexico State over Boston College

TCU over Iowa St. (we want the Big 12 to fill as many bowl slots as possible just in case the Utes get bowl eligible. The Pac-12 isn’t going to have enough slots so we want to make sure the Utes are going elsewhere)

Georgia over Appalachian St.



F. Cheer for the FCS team. Because it is fun (unless it violates rules A-E)

None.



G. Cheer for the little guy

None.



H. Games that do not matter.

Bowling Green vs. Miami

Ohio vs. Buffalo

Troy vs. Louisiana Lafayette

Vanderbilt vs. Florida

Western Kentucky vs. Army

Western Michigan vs. Eastern Michigan

Old Dominion vs. Idaho

Arkansas St. vs. Louisiana Monroe

Stanford and Baylor both winners tonight.

Please by all means cheer for poor Illinois to get a W...

Actually, I wanted Stanford to win because Oregon was higher, and if Stanford loses the conference championship, then that would be the two best teams in the Pac-12 North that won't be top 2. Also, I would like Notre Dame to win a couple more games before we play them so that they can stay ranked until we play them.