Posted on 01/02/2016 8:36:44 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
Remember the excitement on Dec. 6? Not only did the College Football Playoff selection committee spit out two appetizing semifinal matchups, it delivered a New Year's Six slate seemingly packed with steak and sizzle.
The games turned out to be empty calories. New Year's Six? Try the New Year's Snooze, a series of blowouts that left us bloated and unsatisfied. All six contests were decided by 14 points or more. Average margin of victory: 24.2 points.
Alabama fans and Clemson fans are thrilled. The same holds for those who support Stanford, Ohio State, Houston and Ole Miss. They watched their teams win without having their blood pressure spike. Oh, and the S-E-C chant is back. You know you missed it.
The New Year's Six had less tension than a vat of Jell-O (or a Big 12 defense). But the games, as always, provided some takeaways.
Here are six from the New Year's Six:
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They still have football on New Year’s Day?
Happens a lot. Major bowl blowouts.
Best contests are usually the “minor” bowl games.
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Given that they are, the damage can be somewhat mitigated by expanding the field to an 8-team playoff.
You are dead on. College athletics is very big business. Even the minor bowls have huge multi-million dollar payouts.
I've heard that it won't work. It messes with final exams or something. Not enough time.
As if the “scholar/athletes” have much in the way of exams to worry about. That aside, they could extend the season by a couple of weeks.
They still make the players take exams? I thought they sorted that out decades ago.
Do they still vote for a winner?
How are they going to know teams like the Hawkeyes are going to sleep through 3 quarters of the game against Stanford, or that the Seminoles would have no defense at all against Houston?
Only good thing I can say is daughters fiance is going to the Championship game in AZ with the band. She got to go with the band to Pasadena for 2014 Championship, they lost.
All the games were so lopsided.
I remember a weekend a month or so ago with the NFL, every game I flipped to on a Sunday in last two minutes were tied and won in last seconds or overtime. That is more exciting that lopsided victories.
War Eagle~!
That interview was ridiculous and too long. However, at first I thought he was calling a female reporter an "attention seeking boob", and then I remembered the boorish nut behind McCaffrey. IMHO,"attention seeking boob" fairly could be applied to the guy behind McCaffrey AND the reporter.
True enough. Even the division playoff games after Thanksgiving weekend mess with finals week. Nothing like a last minute game out of town on a bus for two days and then finals when you get back starting on Monday morning.
Let’s do away with playoffs and National Championship games altogether and have sportswriters and coaches vote as to who should be the national champion, the way they used to.
Another example of ‘careful what you wish for’.
In the old Big 10, Hog Eyes would have taken losses from Ohio St, Michigan and Michigan St., and maybe another loss instead of the Maryland game. No one would be talking about them coming close to being a Top Four team. More like a realistic top 12.
College Football Playoffs 2016 -
“we make sure all our games are decided in the first 15 minutes, so you won’t be forced to endure 3 hours of football, because you’ve got more important things to do”
There are an unbelievable 42 bowl games.
So the “top 84” teams make it - some with losing records!
What a joke! What saps the fans are!
The new opiate of the masses.
Except for people like my dad. He’s 78 and sports is his life. He could watch football all day, have no human interaction (except with me), and he’d be happy as a clam.
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