Nov 1, 2013
3:13:28pm
The Better Late than Never Rooting Guide for Week 10
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.

Avoid 7 peaks, Betos, Vegas, and any other situation that can lead to injury or HC violation.

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

Utes, let’s go get a burrito at Betos after we go to 7 peaks.

C. Cheer for BYU’s opponents. This helps SOS.
MTSU (4-4) over UAB
Houston (7-1) 35 South Florida 23
Virginia (2-6) over Clemson
Notre Dame (6-2) over Navy
Nevada (3-5) over Fresno St.
Texas (5-2) over Kansas
Utah St. (4-4) over Hawaii
Georgia Tech (5-3) over Pitt
Boise St. (5-3) over Colorado St.
Idaho St. doesn’t matter
Wisconsin (5-2) over Iowa

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).

#7 Miami over #3 Florida St.
Purdue over #4 Ohio State
Tennessee over #9 Missouri
Arkansas over #11 Auburn
Mississippi St. over #14 South Carolina
UTEP over #12 Texas A&M
UMass over #17 Northern Illinois
#15 Texas Tech over #18 Oklahoma St. (Tech has a slightly harder schedule down the stretch)
Colorado over #20 UCLA
#21 Michigan over #22 Michigan St. (Michigan has the harder schedule down the stretch)

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 Army
North Carolina 3 over North Carolina St.
USC 3 over Oregon St.
New Mexico 2 over SDSU
Southern Miss 2 over Marshall
Boston College over VT* 2 (We are too close in the rankings with VT)
Temple 2 over Rutgers
UTSA over Tulsa
Syracuse over Wake Forest
Georgia over Florida
Florida Atlantic over Tulane
Florida International over East Carolina
Northwestern over Nebraska
Indiana over Minnesota
Penn St. over Illinois
Arizona over Cal
New Mexico State over Louisiana Lafayette
Iowa St. over Kansas St.
TCU over West Virginia

F. Cheer for the FCS team. Because it is fun (unless it violates rules A-E)
Rhode Island over Old Dominion
Alabama St. over Kentucky

G. Cheer for the little guy
None.

H. Games that do not matter.
Western Kentucky vs. Georgia St.
Texas St. vs. Idaho
Akron vs. Kent St.
Eastern Michigan vs. Toledo
Arkansas St. vs. South Alabama

Games Already Played:
Arizona State 55 Washington St. 21 (Boooo we wanted Washington St. to win for the ranking)
North Texas 28 Rice 16 (Acceptable result)
Cincinnati 34 Memphis 21 (We wanted Memphis)
Louisiana Monroe 49 Troy 37 (That game didn’t matter)
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