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I spent all day Saturday tweeting about college football, and I got some great, thoughtful responses to my tweets from the population of college football Twitter nation. We conversed, 140 characters at a time, about the BYU-Oklahoma and Alabama-Virginia Tech games, and about the woeful performance of my alma mater, Illinois.Some of the best replies, and my replies to the replies, are in our college football Twitter mailbag below.
SI_JoshGross: Nice win by BYU. But it's hard to make much of it when Oklahoma still has a better shot of advancing to the BCS.
I agree with this. It's one of the real flaws of college football that if Oklahoma finishes 12-1 and BYU finishes 12-0, Oklahoma will be higher in the BCS rankings. I don't expect either Oklahoma or BYU to run the table the rest of the way, but if somehow both do, we're in for another college football postseason in which we talk more about problems with the BCS than about the games on the field.
injuryrate: I should have gone to the NFL, that's what he's thinking.
I tweetedthat I couldn't imagine what was going through Sam Bradford's mind as he stood on the sidelines and watched his teammates lose on Saturday night, and I'm sure injuryrate is right: Although Bradford would never say so, I'm betting that on Saturday night, he was thinking to himself that he shouldn't have returned to Oklahoma. It's impossible to say whether the Detroit Lions would have chosen Sam Bradford first overall in this year's draft, but I do believe Bradford would have gone higher in 2009 than he ultimately will in 2010.
basskater91289 Cody Grimm made an excellent play.
As I tweeted on Saturday, I thought Virginia Tech's Cody Grimm made one of the plays of the day when he caught Alabama's Roy Upchurch from behind and stripped the ball. Grimm, the son of former Redskins offensive lineman Russ Grimm, is a lot smaller and a lot faster than his dad.
jamesmthomson: Coached against him for several years when he was in HS...he's a monster.
This came in response to my tweet saying, "USC sophomore NT Jurrell Casey is an absolute stud. He's 19 years old and already has an NFL body." Thanks for the insight.
DamonMartin: Everybody was saying Illinois would be the third best team in the Big 10 this year. Guess not!
Based on the way the Illini played Saturday, they might not be the 10th best team in the Big Ten. The Illini were the only Big Ten team to lose on Saturday, and they looked absolutely awful against Missouri. Heading into the season I thought Illinois would play in a bowl game, but now I'm having a hard time seeing four wins on the Illini schedule, let alone six.
The_OG_JLo: I predict USC -7.5 for next week's point spread. What do you think?
The point spreads I've seen have USC as a six- or seven-point favorite at Ohio State on Saturday. Not that I would ever advise anyone to place bets based on my predictions, but I think USC will cover that spread easily.
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