Create a playoff system NCAA! With that said, I pick LSU to win the National Championship. I also hope that Hawaii defeats Georgia, so that they will finish 13-0 and yet be nowhere near getting the National Championship.
S.....D......S......U
S-D-S-U Aztecs Fight!
Ooooops. Maybe next decade.
LOL - *Illinois* - LOL
That’s all I have to say about that.
It isn’t going to happen, but if Hawaii were to blow out Georgia, and the Annointed Teams in the Championship game play lackluster, could Hawaii get a few first place votes from the AP?
Somehow UConn ends up in vehicle related bowls. First it was the Motor City Bowl and now the Meineke Car Care Bowl Against Wake Forest. Oh well, Go UCONN!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bowl games start tomorrow. You ought to at least post the first few matchups.
San Diego County Credit Union Bowl
Navy vs. Utah
December 20
R+L Carriers Bowl
Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic
December 21
Papajohns.com Bowl
USM v. Cincinatti
December 22
New Mexico (too insignificant to obtain a title sponsor) Bowl
Nevada v. NM
December 22
Pioneer (Are they still in business? Used to be known for record players and reel to reel tape decks.) Bowl
UCLA v. BYU
December 22
Good luck to your Utes and go LSU!
Michael Crabtree's List of honors getting longer
Go Red Raiders!
Also if Michigan can get healthy (they've been banged up for most of the season) maybe they can beat Florida. Especially if Tebow gets fat and happy in his post-Heisman tour. If that doesn't work we'll have to send Jessica Simpson to the game. LOL!
Go UConn Huskies, beat the Wake Forest Demon Deacons!
It would be wonderful, if college had a freaking playoff like just about every other sport known to man.
Which is why I pray Hawaii beats Georgia. No offense to Georiga; I’d hope Hawaii would beat any BCS team. Not that I’m expecting it, but every time a non-BCS team beats a BCS team in a major bowl it gets harder and harder for the arrogant BCS conferences to keep the little guys out of the national championship picture.
Go UConn! Beat Wake Forest this Saturday. What a great way for the Huskies to close out the year 2007 by winning the Meneke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC. :)
Hi GOP_Raider, is wondering if we have any college football games season/bowl games season posters who are the fans of UWV Mountaineer fans? Want to wish them all the best for sucess in the Festia Bowl after I found out that another poster, Bosco is an OSU fan, his team going into the Bowl Championship. Thanks for your response and happy new year 2008. :)
How about those Horns last night??????
Go Penn State! Beat Aggy!!
Except for IU football and Tim Tebow, the rest of college football belongs under ‘women’s sports’.
Here’s an interesting tidbit I picked up this morning that might explain some of the reluctance on the part of college presidents for a college playoff system.
Most of the speculation here has been on using the current line up of bowls to host the playoffs and just how lucrative this would be for the teams involved. According to this article, bowls aren’t that lucrative and usually the participating teams lose money. Now why would a college president support a playoff, when each game his team participates in loses money. IOW, the higher up the ladder you go, the more games you’ve played, and the more money you’ve lost.
Oh, I know, some will say but that doesn’t include the revenue from TV which would be huge for a playoff. I’m not convinced that is the case for two reasons.
First, the TV revenue would not be constant for each game. The earlier ladder games would not be as financial lucretive as the final four.
Second, the TV revenue would be dependent upon how a playoff were structured. If it were an NCAA playoff, meaning it was sponsored by the NCAA and that is what most people are demanding, then the NCAA would decide how to split the money. Consequently, the revenue to each team would be ‘taxed’ by the NCAA. The last time the NCAA had the TV contract, the NCAA tax was 50%. So much for TV revenue.
But, then, there are those who say the basketball play offs make money so would football. Well, basketball ain’t football. The costs associated with moving a football team around along with the band, etc., simply aren’t comparable. Also, there would be a bunch more travel involved in the football playoffs.
Once again, I’m not deadset against a playoff. I thnk it would be great fun. I’m only posting this because I’ve not seen anything other than this that addresses the financial aspects.
Anyway, something to think about.
Go OU.
For you guys who can’t follow the link below, I’ve cut the relevent portion of the article:
“It’s a well-kept secret that amid all the festivity, bowl games rarely pay for cost of the schools attending them. According to a recent Orange County Register article, Florida and Ohio State each finished more than $600,000 in the red last year from travel expenses to the national title game. The PetroSun Independence Bowl’s $1.1 million payout to each school might sound immense, but with the average program expenditure for a non-BCS bowl game sitting at $937,834, Alabama and Colorado will be fortunate to break even on games.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=shreveportthegrandaddyof&prov=tsn&type=lgns
Thanks for all that you do, GOP_Raider! :)