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Florida > Utah... and much shorter than your post. |
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#752 |
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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Then you have teams like Ole Miss that put up their 2nd highest point total of the entire season when they played Texas Tech. The only team they scored more on was ULM.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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Which is why you can only use a single game to compare the two teams that played. For everything else, you have to look at the entire season, and then it is still an opinion. Otherwise, if it was that cut and dried, the Vegas bookies would go broke.
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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That might be an indication that TT simply has the second worst defense Ole Miss saw all season.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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Which is my point. Yet they were 1 of the higher rated defenses in the Big South 12 whose best team was rated 49th in overall defense. I'm thinking that the conference was overrated, particuarly with their collective lack of success in the post season and the soft OOC schedule that almost all of the teams played.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Florida without a key player beat 'Bama. 'Bama without a key player got beat by Utah. Give each of the respective teams their key guy and then see how close those games are. I am in no way saying 'Bama would have by default beaten Utah. It sure as hell would have been closer and the SEC title game would have only been worse. Oh, and I think Tebow has reached Chuck Norris levels last night after that announcing team couldn't stop fellatioing Tebow enough. |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cocoa Beach, FL
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Something that seems to have been lost in the shuffle is that Florida was held to their lowest point total of the season by that flag football OU defense. Congratulations to Florida. They made the big plays when they needed to. OU played their hearts out, and they have no reason to hang their heads. The offense didn't execute as well as they should have (especially in the red zone), but offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson deserves a lion's share of the blame for his horrible play calling. |
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cocoa Beach, FL
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I watched six of Utah's games this year, so I feel like I have a good handle on them. First, they have a damned good team, there's no question about that. However, I think that TCU was the best team in the Mountain West this year. They went into Salt Lake City on Nov. 6th, and absolutely dominated the game against Utah, outgaining the Utes 416-275. Utah won the game 13-10, due to TCU missing three chip shot field goals and dropping a wide open TD pass. It was as much as a gift win as you'll ever see. Then, Utah caught the perfect storm against an unmotivated Alabama team in the Sugar Bowl, and to their credit, they took full advantage of it. However, if you put this team up against a motivated USC, Florida or Texas in a championship scenerio, they wouldn't come close to winning the game. |
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Let's substitute a few names just to show how silly some of the previous things said are.
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Exactly. It's as I said earlier: Quote:
Well, there may be more of an emphasis on defense in the SEC. Or it could also be that there isn't as much offense in the conference as other conferences. The better players get picked up for D more. Quote:
We all know they like to schedule a soft OOC because they can always fall back on national talking heads to say "The SEC conference is the toughest in the country so they will get tested later". Florida, for once, played a good non-confence schedule so they deserve credit for that and deserved to be in the national title game. But for many of the other teams, that just wasn't true. Remember that post from a couple of weeks ago with records of non-con opponents and, yeah, the SEC does fall pretty short. Quote:
Sure, but it could also be the product of Oklahoma being the best team Florida played all year, too, as I stated before. Quote:
That seems like a real stretch to prove a point. Picking a select stat of an opponent and then finding another opponent and then saying what they did- what is this, six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Or, more simply, one or a select couple of games could be a giant blanket endictment on an entire conference but that negates looking at the whole body of work. Quote:
That seems like you're being awfully hard on the SEC- they had a good year. Florida did win the mythical national title and the conference did pretty well in bowls. But I know you guys love to think you always have the best football teams ever down there, so maybe anything less is disappointing. I guess it's like I was talking about before- you can't just look at a couple of games and extrapolate it when there's a whole other body of work to look at. Good, we're all in agreement now ![]() SI
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Miami
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I would hope so given they had about a month to prepare for Florida. I still think OU if they had any kind of short yardage success would have pulled off a major upset.
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#763 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Winner. TCU was probably the most underrated team in FCS Division I-A (or whatever they call it) this year. EDIT: And they still got hammered by Oklahoma. Last edited by RedKingGold : 01-10-2009 at 10:22 AM. |
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Wentzville, MO
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Agreed.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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Even after a couple of days, I still don't see Utah anywhere close to being a top 3, let alone a close 2. I would bet that any of the other teams in the top 10 would have a great chance of going undefeated playing Utah's schedule, adding in being motivated to play an unmotivated Alabama. Texas' one loss >>>> Utah's very lucky win against TCU.
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#766 |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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College basketball >>>>>>> College football
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Location: Annapolis, Md
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#769 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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And what a month it is.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Neptune Beach, Florida
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Interesting, this site shows Utah at the #1 spot in the Combined Computer Polls to end the season. This is the first time the team ranked #1 in the Computer Poll did not agree with the final Human Poll in the history of the BCS.
http://www.utah2008champs.com/press-release
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Tell me how the regular season is important in college basketball when you can win every game the whole season...then lose a game in your conference tourney and not get an invite to the big dance? For many of those smaller conferences this could be the case...so why play any regular season games, just play the tournament and be done with it. |
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The computers are too emotional and not objective enough... we should just let people vote who have no bias, like coaches and ex-players |
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#773 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Those teams get automatic bids to the NIT. Still post-season play. And it doesn't happen that often that a team runs the table, loses 1 game and doesn't make the Big Dance. If St. Joseph's from a few years ago was a football team, people would've derided them as a team that didn't play in a strong enough conference and how much they sucked? Instead? They made it to the Elite 8. NCAA tournament still favors the big conferences, but lets conferences like the Missouri Valley prove themselves against the big boys when it counts. I'll take a George Mason in the Final Four over Boise State's meaningless Fiesta Bowl victory anyday. Or Utah going undefeated and not having it matter at all, other than fans of that school |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA
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You mean like a meaning-less bowl game? ![]() My argument about running the table is a bit absurd, I know. But there are quite a few times where teams with a .500 record win their conference tourney and knock out a deserving team. I love the NCAA tournament for its excitement but I think it really de-values the regular season. |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Some interesting numbers in the just-released TV ratings. Alamo Bowl ends up 2nd in TV ratings, while the Orange Bowl is way down the list along with the Cotton Bowl.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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The BCS title game's ratings were up considerably, though. People can bitch about the BCS as much as they want, but as long as it pulls in ratings its not going anywhere. EDIT: Actually, ratings for the Fiesta, Orange, Rose, and Sugar bowls were up from last year if those numbers are correct. Last edited by Atocep : 01-15-2009 at 10:19 AM. |
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Neptune Beach, Florida
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Neptune Beach, Florida
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Dola.
The Alamo Bowl was played on a Monday (December 29th) Evening, between Missouri and Northwestern. What's the deal with the high rating? Folks having Monday Night Football withdrawl?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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The computer polls as they're utilized now are pretty worthless, according to Jeff Sagarin. When they took out margin of victory, they neutered the algorithm's ability to assess the actual strength of the teams, and hence that's why you'll sometimes see the absurdity of a I-AA team ranked in the top 10. In the Sagarin Predictor Ratings (that used to be used by the BCS), Utah is 10th. |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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That Alamo Bowl rating looks like either a misprint or a local Missouri market number. The national overnights had the game doing quite well, well above it's usual (and was notable because of that) with a 4.6 household rating. Here's one linked story of several that are out there. Alamo Bowl continues to draw in national audiences - San Antonio Business Journal:
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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I was thinking that too... no way the Missouri/Northwestern Alamo Bowl outdrew Ohio State-Texas nationally.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Tennessee
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No surprise on the cotton bowl. It was played on a Friday at 2pm. It was a work day after new years day. The ratings were low because a lot of people were at work. It was a stupid time to play the game.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA
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You forgot to add in the fudge factor that MBBF uses when talking about Missouri related games.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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I'm shocked that a Clemson Nebaska Gator Bowl was #5...
And a New Years Eve LSU GT battle not in the top 15? Must not count bars and restaraunts |
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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NCAA College Football Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Fiesta, BCS Championship Bowl Nielsen TV Ratings, 2008-9 Very bad year for most of the BCS bowls (could be the beginning of the end for the extra fifth game model, it's really hurt their numbers) better numbers for some of the secondary bowls. GT vs LSU was 14th in total viewers by my count, a little better than the Poinsettia & a little worse than the Meineke Car Care. But anything had to be better than the Texas Bowl. I think the live attendance was about 50k, the TV audience was only 186,000, less than 1/4 what even the Insight Bowl managed to draw on the same NFL Network. To put how bad having a deal with NFLN is into some perspective, the 730,000 who watched Minnesota & Northwestern was the second lowest figure, next in line from the bottom was 1.11 million for the Southern Miss-Troy New Orleans Bowl
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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So, are we going to hear from MBBF where he got his numbers?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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That's Kansas-Minnesota- thank you very much ![]() SI
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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Graham Harrell has looked bad tonight in the Senior Bowl. Pat White has had some nice moments, I hope he manages to convince a team to give him a real shot at QB.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Puyallup, WA
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Based on his practices this week: One of the analysts for NFL.com (can't remember the name) said he should be a 2nd round pick as a QB/Athlete. Basically said he doesn't see him as a starter at QB in the NFL, but would definitely be a solid backup and provide a lot of versatility for a creative OC. Mel Kiper has moved him up to his 5th rated qb in this draft class and has him as a late 2nd-3rd round pick. Said he's been impressive. Todd McShay must be blind because he's been ripping him most of the week at the senior bowl while everything else I've seen has been positive. |
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