Tar Heel Top Ten, Week 2
1. East Carolina, 2-0 (No. 2 last week)
2. Wake Forest, 2-0 (1)
3. Carolina, 1-0 (3)
4. Appalachian, 1-1 (4)
5. N.C. A&T, 2-0 (6)
6. Duke, 1-1 (5)
7. State, 1-1 (7)
8. Elon, 1-1 (8)
9. Winston-Salem State, 0-1 (not ranked)
10. Lenoir-Rhyne, 2-0 (10)
No doubt East Carolina deserves to move up after an impressive win over nationally eighth-ranked West Virginia in Greenville while Wake Forest needed a last-minute drive and long field goal to beat unranked Ole Miss at home.
A&T gains a spot with its second win of the season while opponent WSSU looks good enough in defeat to join the Top Ten.
App, State and Elon get their first wins to solidify their rankings. Duke loses, but the Blue Devils still look like a better team than Big Four rival State. At least this season, on Nov. 8, the question will be settled on the field as the overinflated, football-weak ACC finally allows them to play each other.
Western Carolina drops from the Top Ten after a drubbing by Florida State.
Little Lenoir-Rhyne holds the 10th spot by whipping Concord.
Carolina was idle, contributing to a good start for the Tar Heels. Their seasons gets tougher at Rutgers Thursday night.
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*No doubt East Carolina deserves to move up after an impressive win over nationally eighth-ranked West Virginia in Greenville while Wake Forest needed a last-minute drive and long field goal to overcome shady officiating.*
Fixed your paragraph.
Posted on September 7, 2008 9:04 AM
ACC football is a joke - only one ACC team in the top 25 and that took a last second field goal over an unranked team - if you are serious about your silly "Tar Heel Top Ten" you should remove one of those you have listed and put Reidsville High School in its' place -
Posted on September 7, 2008 11:10 AM
Your Tar Heel Top Ten is some kind of joke, right?
Just like ACC football is a joke. Only one ACC team is in the top 25 and that only came about as the result of a last minute field goal against an unranked team. I'd venture to say that Reidsville High could give a couple of your Tar Heel Top Ten team a run for their money - I bet you will be glad when football season is over and you can talk basketball -
Posted on September 7, 2008 11:32 AM
The first comment was me, FYI.
Thinking that ANY high school team can beat any of those college teams is unbelievably silly.
Posted on September 7, 2008 2:52 PM
Anyway, it would be Dudley.
I agree it was a bogus pass interference call that allowed Old Miss to go ahead. But it was a questionable pass interference call that put Wake in position to win.
In any case, officiating was even worse at the end of the Washington-BYU game.
I agree, basketball season can't come soon enough.
Posted on September 7, 2008 3:43 PM
Carolina was idle, contributing to a good start for the Tar Heels. Their seasons gets tougher at Rutgers Thursday night.* Doug
I understand the whole Rutgers marching Red Devils Band will parachute into their own Stadium by the Flying Republican Nun Sara Palin?
Posted on September 7, 2008 5:53 PM
I am fast becoming a great believer of East Carolina. Pain will be shooting Caribou, she got her limit on news people last week. I think she only wounded them however, they are crying in every paper this morning.
Posted on September 7, 2008 7:31 PM
Ouch Palin,
Posted on September 7, 2008 7:33 PM