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Cassidy's House: Priceless said 08/20, 05:30 AM
I am saying the Illinois-Missouri game is more intriguing because:

The Missouri Tigers, of the 4 teams, has the best shot @ a National Championship & it can all go way wrong right out of the gate as they r the #6 team in the nation going into this game.

Missouri's opponent is no pushover either at #20 in the nation, coming off
a huge victory over division rival Ohio State in the second to last game of 2007 regular season.

Reasons why I dont think that the Utah-Michigan game is all that intriguing:

Michigan is projected to have a terrible year, not even being ranked in the preseason Top 25 due to lots of new players, a new coach, and implementing his new system.

Utah is another team on the outside looking in at the Top 25, although they did get more AP votes than Michigan did. Some say if Utah can go undefeated they could get a BCS bowl invite. I say that dream dies right out of the gate here.

Utah will not pull a Appalachian St. here by shocking the college football world even if they were to upset Michigan who can easily use the new coach, new system, etc. excuses that they are just working the kinks out and will be fine. Win or lose neither story=compelling.

Cassidy's House: Priceless said 08/20, 04:40 PM
What does the Big 10 being weak have to do with which of these two matchups are better? Nowhere anywhere will you find that I have ever said that the Big 10 was the strongest anything.

"Easily, easily, easily the fourth strongest conference, at best."

Even if I agreed or disagreed with you on that one, what does that have to do with which of the two matchups in the title of this TD is more intriguing?

So Ilinois has no shot to beat Missouri, eh? At the end of last season I saw Illinois beat Ohio State, a team that ended up playing for the national championship, and dont think that was mostly because of departed RB Rashard Mendenhall. Last year was the stepping stone to this year for QB Juice Williams. This is the year their strong recruiting class of 2006 kicks in. Missouri is no USC, and they will be putting no beatdown on the Illini no matter how smoothly you think the Tigers 2007 campaign went.

Illinois is going to get more athletic at LB with Brit Miller moving to the middle and Martez Williams stepping into a starting role on the outside. The Illini will be flying uder the radar without a name RB and all the pressure/expectations r on Mizzou=upset in making

Cassidy's House: Priceless said 08/21, 03:54 PM
"No Big Ten team is going to beat any high ranking Big 12 team."

Says u, ur crystal ball, or as a product from a tarot card layout?

NOBODY predicted Appalachian St was going to go in the Big House in week 1 last yr & shock Michigan until after the fact when there were a million geniuses w/ 20/20 hindsight.

Dont think u wont see some serious upsets this yr, & now that Mizzou has a bulls eye target on its back almost as big as Florida, every team will be gunning to knock them off.

Illinois has a dynamic QB & tons of Ron Zook's recruits from 2006 who r going to blossom up into your face this yr. Ur speaking like a homer w/ comments that "No Big Ten team is going to beat any high ranking Big 12 team". Thats what fans say when they think they know it all or are speaking from team pride. Considering ur from NY & I havent looked @ your profile, I am going to assume ur not a Mizzou fan, just a guy who thinks what he thinks is ALWAYS translating to what happens on the field. Not the case.

OSU never shows up in bowl games lately, but they are regular season dominant, and for the Illinois to upset them was HUGE.

First of all, Mizzo-Illinos=no blowout. Utah=ZZzzzz