Posted on 12/04/2011 6:58:26 PM PST by parksstp
BCS Selection:
NCG: LSU v Alabama Orange: WVU v Clemson Fiesta: Okie St v Stanford Rose: Oregon v Wisconisn Sugar: Michigan v Va Tech??????????????/
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I want government to be as small as possible and stay out of affairs best handled by the marketplace. A case in point was the hearings on steroid use in baseball. I see nothing, even in the most liberal reading of the Constitution, that explains why that was any concern of the government.
Equally absurd was Joe Barton's H. R. 390 calling for a college football playoff. And this was from a congressman with an ACU rating of 96% in 2010!
Fans can rant all they want on this team or that team, this conference or that one, but lets be honest.
When Michigan humiliated Notre Dame in that pre-conference Big Ten game this fall, well it was beautiful!
Life is but a poor player
That struts and frets its hour on the stage
Until it is heard from no more.
Out, out brief .. ooh eee, ooh ah ah
Ding dang walla walla bing bang\
Ooh eee ooh ah ah sing walla walla walla
Ding dang!
That’s the problem with hiring chimps, computer footbal experts* and Democrats: work product.
Boise got hosed. I hope they hang 100 on ASU, not because I dislike the Sun Devils but because they’re ticked at how they got passed over by mediocre teams. Go Smurfs!
FRegards,
PrairieDawg
The BCS championship game will probably be the lowest rated one ever. Nobody gives a darn outside of Alabama and Louisiana, and those are 2 tiny television markets.
WAAAH! Six in a row for the mighty SEC!
Looking at some of the choices for bowl games, why even have rankings if they mean nada?
I’ll give you Kansas State, but I don’t think Michigan’s schedule was as weak as Boise State’s.
You act like the other SEC teams give a rat's Azz about who wins that game.
So we have 2 teams nobody outside their market cares about, in a rematch of a game that was a snoozefest decided by bad field goal kickers. That has all the makings of a classic everybody will want to watch, right?
OK - VTech is a joke. They would be 4th or 5th best team in a top conference (SEC - easy to list. PAC-12 - Stanford Oregon, USC, Arizona State - hello?) But - they are just playing Michigan - Big 10 has been a weak sister for a decade.
The interesting matchups - OKState vs Stanford, and Oregon vs Wiconsin - the slow teams agains the fast teams. Would have been more “balanced” Stanford vs Wisconsin and Ok and Oregon.
Stanford has already played USC and Oregon - OKState speed won’t be a surprise. But - will oregon score 50 points against Wisconsin?
Couple years ago when ND played USC, ND got their first - first down - on the last play of the third quarter. USC played subs for majority of 4th quarter.
Oh really????
Hey! I live in Arizona. Our household will be watching! And I know a whole bunch of other folks here who will be watching. I sure wouldn’t watch if Ok State had been in the game. Why would I have? Pathetic defense and offense that would have been dismantled by LSU and Bama. No doubt about it.
On November 30, 1974, the USC Trojans were down 24-0 to Notre Dame late in the second quarter, but rallied to beat the Domers 55-24. Word got out that Woody Hayes, the coach of Ohio State, our upcoming opponent in the 1975 Rose Bowl game, was in the press booth giving commentary on the televised broadcast of the game. Late in the fourth quarter, after the Trojans had scored their final point, USC's Yell King had the Trojan fans yell, "Woody, you're next!" I swear that was the loudest yell I had ever heard in the Coliseum.
As it turned out, on New Years Day, Woody's Buckeyes proved to be scrappier than Ara Parseghian's Domers and led the Trojans through most of the game until Troy made a two-point conversion that powered them over the Buckeyes 18-17. This would be the last time Woody Hayes and John McKay would face one another.
Thank You, your spot on.
I would love to see them try and explain the computer polls and the algorithms that they use. They have never been published, so their is no way to even check if they are using their own systems correctly.
Some of the results have been downright ridiculous.
In other words, Alabama would have gone 1-1 against LSU, while losing the game it played at home, yet be crowned the winner of a tie. And LSU wins on every other measure:
LSU would have beaten the winner of the PAC 12 (Oregon) and the Big East (West Virginia), one Division champion (SEC East, Georgia) and the National Champion (Alabama). Alabama would have split games with the SEC Champion that's it.
So if Alabama wins? LSU's quality wins: One major conference division champion (Georgia), two major conference champions (PAC 12 and Big East), and the National Champion. Alabama's quality wins: One major conference champion (SEC).
LSU would have played Oregon and West Virginia (and some schmo) out of conference. Alabama would have played Penn State and given up 21 points to . . . Georgia Southern (at least they shut out North Texas).
LSU would have beaten Georgia, which is probably one of the ten best teams in the country right now. (Look at their nine-game winning streak and the defensive stats during that streak; look at the way they held LSU to no first downs in the first half.) This Georgia team would likely have beaten the Georgia team that opened the season by forty or more (teams sometimes strangely gel). Alabama never played Georgia.
LSU would have one additional win (a quality win in the SEC championship) and a higher winning percentage. Alabama would have one win and a lower winning percentage.
In fact, LSU would be superior to Alabama in every single respect except that Alabama would have won the last game. That's it. And on that single note, Alabama would be crowned the National Champion. That's why Alabama shouldn't be in the championship game. But it's too late now.
LSU should already be awarded the AP Poll; what else is there for it to prove?
And, BTW, I'm not an LSU fan.
Why would you do that to my eyes? Dear Lord, someone get her a sammich’...stat!
Forget “occupy” (nor do I want to attach any legitimacy to that meme). Just ignore the BCS bowls. Don’t watch ‘em.
The system is broken, and has been from day 1. It’s never been about deciding a championship, but rather how to feather the nests of the “big 6” conferences (and how the ACC and Big East managed to get on that list has everything to do with money and nothing to do with merit).
This will be a “tainted” BCS title game with the inclusion of Alabama over Oklahoma State. After the drubbing they took in the ACC championship. Virginia Tech has no business being allowed to watch a BCS bowl, let alone play in one.
The only good that can come out of this mess is for the NCAA to step in and say, “the system doesn’t work, we need to fix it”. Of course, hoping the NCAA rides in to the rescue is not exactly an encouraging state of mind to be in...
Imagine what it will look like if Alabama wins by 3 in OT due to a missed fg by LSU
So if a team beats a team in the Super Bowl, they lost to in the regular season, they shouldn’t be Super Bowl Champions?
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