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That's true. Hawaii should've scheduled someone like Michigan. Oh wait....
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12-01-2007, 10:27 PM | #202 |
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My 3 thoughts -
1) Wannstadt graduated from the same HS as me...15 years earlier. I am pretty sure his parents still live here (Baldwin for anyone curious, about 7 miles outside of city) 2) I have no real connection to Pitt, other than my wife works for a University hospital. But I do have 2 annoying douches at work who are WVU grads, who hopefully will shut up now 3) I posted this is last weeks thread as well. I really am not a college football fan. I like football, and watch for that, as well as seeing which guys will be prop prospects. But I have no rooting interest. COLLEGE FOOTBALL IZ STOOPID!1!1!1! Ohio State hasn't played for what, 3 weeks now? But they are pretty much the only guarantee we have at this point to be in the Championship game. How? Because the other 2 teams were bad? Georgia is ranked 4th, higher than either team playing in it's conference title game. Doesn't that tell you the voters are fucking clueless? Kansas, same as OSU, hasn't played for 2 weeks...and lost last time! Fuck, put Hawaii in....
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Hey, did you happen to see where CNN & FNC are looking to bid on the BCS title game when the current TV contract runs out? In all seriousness though, that's what makes tonight so interesting. Put today into one of the silly playoff scenarios that's been proposed and I can't imagine I'd even bother watching the rest of the day once Tennessee's game ended.
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12-01-2007, 10:28 PM | #204 |
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I would love to see the Harris Poll vote Hawaii #1 if they beat Washington.
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12-01-2007, 10:28 PM | #205 |
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The key for LSU is the coaches poll. Last week Georgia was 4th and LSU 7th. Reducing that deficit will be important to getting the #2 spot.
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12-01-2007, 10:30 PM | #206 |
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Ohio State and LSU will play in the title game.
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12-01-2007, 10:30 PM | #207 | |
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12-01-2007, 10:30 PM | #208 | |
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Yeah, same here. What the hell do those playoffs proponents think has been happening the last 3 weeks??? I would say most of the games have been playoffs and they would propose to do it all over again??? That's stupid and redundant. |
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12-01-2007, 10:31 PM | #209 |
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Yep...due to that, I don't think we deserve to be there over LSU...but at the same time, at least VT didn't lose to an unranked team like some of the others in the conversation did. Our losses were to two teams who were ranked #2 at the time (and both ranked in the top 11 as of this morning)
Either way, I'm giddy. The way I see it, the WVU loss sets us up with a game against them in the Orange Bowl. Playing them in a BCS bowl would be the game of the decade for VT fans. |
12-01-2007, 10:32 PM | #210 | |
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So who do the other SEC coaches like more? Les Miles or Mark Richt.
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12-01-2007, 10:33 PM | #211 |
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Please tell me that it will Illinois in the Rose and not Michigan. Please?
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12-01-2007, 10:33 PM | #212 |
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I don't know, but you guys have to realize that the way this season has gone down makes it a good argument AGAINST the playoff system.
Proponents of the BCS can now point to this season as proof that every single team in the top ten had a chance to make it to the championship game. They'll say that this was the most exciting college season ever w/o a playoff. They'll say that if every team plays from start to finish in a season, that they'll be rewarded. If you really want a playoff, hope for 3 11-0 teams; not 12 10-2 teams. Last edited by RedKingGold : 12-01-2007 at 10:34 PM. |
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The three components are:
Harris Poll - 114 panelists that includes former coaches, players, administrators and current and former media randomly chosen from over 300 nominatons USA Today Coaches Poll - 60 current Football Bowl Subdivision coaches Computer Polls - Comprised of 6 computer rankings, with the high and low for each team thrown out: Peter Wolfe, Wes Colley, Sagarin, Seattle Times, Richard Billingsley, Kenneth Massey These are what will determine the two teams that play for the BCS Championship.
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12-01-2007, 10:34 PM | #215 | |
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The way this has kind of evolved is, fans hope their team gets to a BCS bowl - not necessarily getting bent out of shape if the team doesn't play in the "championship" game. I think that's a very healthy attitude, and I think it counts as a positive in the BCS system. |
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12-01-2007, 10:34 PM | #216 | |
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Why is that? I didn't realize there were any rivalry between them, at least in a while. |
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It'll be whoever the Rose Bowl selects from the pool of at-large teams (Big 10 or not).
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12-01-2007, 10:35 PM | #220 |
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I don't think the Big Ten gets anyone in the BCS but Ohio State.
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12-01-2007, 10:35 PM | #221 |
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I bet there are a lot of phone calls, money exchanging and arm-twisting going on right now.
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12-01-2007, 10:36 PM | #222 | |
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Unless, of course, Hawaii does indeed lose tonight. In that case, I figure Illinois goes from the bubble to a lock.
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I get what you're saying..but I dunno. I think that if we had an 8-team playoff, things would still be as compelling. Especially if the playoffs began in two weeks and teams were say, preparing for the playoffs, versus the Kraft Norwegian Chocolate (tm) Bowl presented by GoDaddy. You can still let "unworthy" teams go to the bowls, but...I can't imagine that eight coaches would turn down a shot to play for all of the marbles, versus ending the season as the "champion" of a meaningless exhibition. Especially in a year like this one, where there is no clear-cut #1, a playoff would provide the right amount of buildup for what's been a zany season. But maybe I'm wrong and hearing Bob Davey on ESPN2 talk about how the Fiesta Bowl selections will come down to which team's fans will spend more money...is the sort of must-see TV that I love to wash down a great college football season with. So the bottom line is, just because I get it and understand the reasons for why there is no real compelling reason to change the way the system works, it doesn't make any less vociferous about the idea that a different season would be better. And given that before the BCS, people said we'd never get anything quite like it....I do hold out hope that eventually, there will be some semblance of a playoff. It won't be NCAA sanctioned, nor should it be, but it'll be something different than what we see now, grafted onto the current system. Things always change and I don't doubt this eventually will either. It just probably won't be anytime soon and there will need to be someone who steps up to the plate as a visionary -- and with the sort of dollars to get folks to listen -- before it'll change.
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12-01-2007, 10:37 PM | #225 |
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Does BYU (10-2) have a chance to get to a BCS bowl?
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Damn, but if Illinois does get a BCS bid, that likely puts Wisconsin in Capital One, and Michigan in Outback.
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It would not be Michigan. Illinois would go IF the Rose Bowl chooses to be traditional. They do have the option of choosing one an at-large team such as Georgia. That is if Georgia is not in the title game.
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The whole conference champion argument is silly. If UCLA had won today they wouldn't be more deserving of playing in the national title game than Kansas or Georgia. Especially when factors other than head-to-head play decide who the champion is (which is not the case for those two this year.)
Also, Mike Stoops (Arizona) just made a ridiculous decision. Goes for it on 4th and goal down 10 points with 2 minutes left. You need 2 scores buddy. They do have the ball down to the 11 now, still down 10, 53 sec left. |
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12-01-2007, 10:39 PM | #230 |
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Just in case anybody needs/wants a refresher
http://www.bcsfootball.org/bcsfb/eligibility
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No, they changed it two weeks ago because no more than 2 teams from a conference can go to a BCS game. So they expanded to 18 retroactively to ensure they'd have enough teams. http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegefoo...story/10486038
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We've now had both. 2004 with the 3 undefeated teams (Auburn, USC, Oklahoma), and this season with the current clusterfuck. Meanwhile, I-AA (excuse me, Football Playoff Subdivision) happily continues their 16 team playoff schedule with no scheduling or logistical issues.
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Arizona gets their TD... with 26 seconds left. 20-17 ASU.
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I mentioned redundancy about a playoffs. I suppose there could have been a chance that, in a playoffs, OU and MO would play for the 3rd time. Certainly there would be a number of two-timers. Regular bowl matchups would give us all unique matchups, something different for the fans, despite that there are WAY too many bowl games and too many mediocre teams playing.
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Buckeyes will choke, when Georgia wins this years NC game. Last edited by tucker rocky : 12-01-2007 at 10:52 PM. |
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I thought the BCS was only supposed to guarantee that the #1 plays the #2? That will happen. But how the hell are those 2 teams determined? You can make a case, using your example, for about 12 teams.
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And ESPN misses the fucking onside kick attempt during commercial. ASU recovered, kneeling down for the win.
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Oh, I'm definitely in the "for-a-playoff" group. It's nonsensical that literally every other NCAA sport (whether Division, I, II, or III) has an end-season tournament to defend its championship. There's definitely a lot more arguments for a tournament than the system we have now, but it's just my argument that this kind of season actually "helps" the BCS supporters b/c they can simply say that it is settled on the field (b/c each team at the top had at least a chance to make it). Now, the 3 13-0 teams is a much worse argument for the BCS as there is no way to say that it is settled on the field when three teams from major conferences make it through the college season unscathed. |
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I know at least the SWAC has a conference championship game.
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12-01-2007, 10:48 PM | #243 |
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And they don't participate in the 1-AA playoffs.
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Hell DC, I doubt you could find 8 coaches in the current top 25 (just picking a number) that would favor an 8 team system. Just heard Mark Richt talking earlier this week -- a coach who would certainly have seemed likely to benefit from such a system at that point -- saying he couldn't really support anything more than a +1 format if that,and that to be honest he thought the current system was just fine. Like a number of coaches I've heard in the past, he strongly believes that making the season any longer simply isn't feasible for the players at this level. And I think there's a lot of reality in that point of view. I mean I spent the afternoon watching LSU playing a backup QB versus Tennessee with only one regular RB healthy enough to play. Roll the regular season back to 10 games, eliminate the conference title games,and then maybe you eliminate that argument ... but if you do the math then you know they aren't going to eliminate over 100 regular season games + conference championships in order to add a playoff for 8 teams.
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Either way, despite the schools not playing anymore (and not in the forseeable future), the rivalry remains pretty heated...so playing them in a bowl game is going to be a hell of an experience. |
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All good points.
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They do, but only as at-large teams. Their conference champion doesn't receive an automatic berth. hxxp://www.i-aa.org/article.asp?articleid=37174
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WTF?
The media has been blowing Missouri all week, then they interview Pinkel instead of Stoops after they get demolished. |
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