Crunchy Numbers

A few quick thoughts as the clock moves a lot faster than I want it to...

- With Penn State out of the national title picture, it's time to root for BCS chaos. Imagine what would happen if Missouri won the Big 12, Oregon State the Pac-10, Cincinnati the Big East and Utah an automatic at-large bid. Think that would make the conference commissioners sit up straight for once?

- Philly.com's office gets ESPNU on the big TV near my desk. This is a very good thing.

- ESPN.com's Pat Forde allows some

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to get into this week's Forde-Yard Dash, while Awful Announcing brings us the week's college

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and

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TV schedules. This renders the 1,200-plus-game spreadsheet of nationally televised basketball games I just imported my Outlook calendar almost completely moot. At least my version can be used offline.

- In addition to the national TV schedule spreadsheet, I do spreadsheets for my calendar every season for all City Six men's and women's basketball games. They include dates, times and broadcast information, and are formatted for easy use in a range of email clients and PDA sync progarms.

If you would like copies of any of those files,

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and I'll be happy to send them to you as soon as the only local school that has not yet released its radio schedule does so.

All I ask in exchange is that you promote my blog in your travels across the basketball landscape this season.

Off we go with the stats...

Road loss vs. No. 36/23 Iowa, 24-23

11/15 vs. No. 100 Indiana, 12:00 p.m., Big Ten Network

Home win vs. No. 103/107 Syracuse, 35-17

11/15 at No. 49 South Florida, 12:00 p.m., WPVI-6/ESPN360.com

Home win vs. No. 104/104 New Hampshire, 24-13

11/15 vs. No. 188 Towson, 1:00 p.m.

I-A teams ranked below the Wildcats include Arizona State, Auburn, Michigan and Tennessee (and the Volunteers are the lowest-ranked of those four)

Off

11/11 at No. 130 Kent State, ESPN360.com

Home win vs. No. 189/188 Towson, 31-21

11/15 at No. 62 Richmond, 3:30 p.m., CN8

Home win vs. No. 206/206 Bucknell, 38-21

11/15 vs. No. 152 Holy Cross, 1:00 p.m., WBPH

Road win vs. No. 178/181 Princeton, 14-9

11/15 vs. No. 135 Harvard, 12:00 p.m., CN8

Home loss vs. No. 151/150 Colgate, 34-33

11/15 vs. No. 206 Bucknell, 2:30 p.m., WFMZ

Home loss vs. No. 237/227 Winston-Salem State, 27-26

11/15 at No. 203 Norfolk State, 1:00 p.m., ESPNU

Now for the Top 10 chart, and two questions to ponder:

- Would you rank Alabama or Texas Tech No. 1?

- Which team would you rank No. 3?