Posted on 01/07/2006 8:32:13 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Today on ABC, the first matches of the Wild Card Round will be played!
At 4:30 PM...
Washington (10-6) at Tampa Bay (11-5)
And at 8:00 PM...
Jacksonville (12-4) at New England (10-6)
WHO SHALL WIN?
Same thing with the Super Bowl(R)(C)(TM). Most of the ads for things like televisions and comestibles only mention "The Big Game".
Denver is my team....they have 3 Okla. State players! They will win the Super Bowl. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Great, go Pats!
Cold night at Foxboro; this explains why we may never see a Super Bowl held there (unless Kraft puts a roof on, LOL):
from Weather Channel site:
Foxboro, MA (02035)
Clear
25°F
Feels Like
18°F
Friend of mine is at game and told me earlier he's bundled up tight. (And in case you're wondering, he's a teetotaller
so I don't think he's using booze to help keep warm!)
I pay attention to the politics surrounding college football, especially on the playoff issue since that's one of the major reasons I don't like their version of the game. The coaches don't matter, the BCS doesn't matter, what matters is the benjamins. The bowl game system brings in the benjamins and they'll never interupt that flow. If they were going to change it would have been the year LSU and USC both "won" the championship.
The school presidents are the only problem and they'll never be muted. The BCS and the 1/2 matchup didn't change anything except how the 1 and 2 teams were picked and what they called the game.
They won't go post bowl, it would replace at least 1 bowl game by putting two teams in multiple bowl games, so then somebody loses money. If they do go "post bowl" they'll just do it by taking a bowl game and moving it to after the regular bowls, much like having the Rose Bowl on January 4th.
Hey, thanks! I hadn't got to see it before. What a hoot!
That NCAA rule isn't just for television they've dragged people into court for having a tree (regular looking tree) in one of their window posters. It's a lot bigger than not letting people who didn't pay mention the Super Bowl. No trees, no basketballs. I could see not allowing "March Madness" or any of the round titles ("Final Four" etc), but no trees?!
I was so happy Gibbs came back to coaching last year.
I am still a bit shocked they beat Dallas twice this season. The win in Dallas was sweeeeet.
You're right: what I was was an overreaction. Washington was going to win regardless of whether or not the game went into OT.
FUMBLE!!!
FUMMMMMBLLLLLE! Patriots ball!
2nd Quarter/8:56 left
yep
this game is over.
Jacksonville isn't doing crap on offense.
Typo correction in my last reply: meant to say "What I said was an overreaction," not "what I was was an overreaction." Sorry about that.
hey, like you said earlier, its a long game.
That's great. Strange, from that angle, it looks like he almost punts it through the uprights, must not take much of hop before he kicks it.
I used to have a crush on Mike Shanahan.
I know.
But you can tell things after about a Quarter and a half.
These teams are playing at different speeds, especially when Jacksonville has the ball....
Ya. that's why I taped it off of Sportscenter - but if you freeze frame on the side view, you can see the tip of the ball change direction (by the other end hitting the ground) b4 Doug's foot hits the ball
Don't get me wrong, I hope you are right.
I'm not ready to call it just yet.
Obviously you don't know what you are talking about. There was no guarantee of the #1 and #2 ranked teams meeting until after the BCS. And here the refutation of your entire last paragraph:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2280592
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The new Bowl Championship Series coordinator is open to changes in college football's postseason. That doesn't mean fans should expect anything like a playoff anytime soon.
Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive is taking over for Kevin Weiberg of the Big 12. Next season, the BCS will play five games, with the final one being designated the national championship game.
Speaking on Wednesday to the Football Writers Association of America, Slive said he wants to examine ways to improve college football's postseason, including the "plus-one" arrangement. In that format, the top-ranked teams after the four major bowls would advance to the national title game.
But he cautioned that any changes would be made with the blessing of the university presidents, who have never supported anything resembling a playoff.
Slive also said postseason changes would be made within the bowl system.
"We have to think long and hard when we start to talk about expanding the postseason about what impact it will have on the regular season," he said.
No. 1 Southern California and No. 2 Texas played in the Rose Bowl for the national title on Wednesday night.
Starting next season, there will be five BCS games instead of four. The Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange bowls will be played on Jan. 1-3. The BCS championship game, which has yet to be named by Fox, will be played on Jan. 8 at the site of the Fiesta Bowl.
The championship game will continue to rotate between the four sites. ABC will continue to hold the broadcast rights to the Rose Bowl while Fox has the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls.
The fifth game was added to allow greater access and revenue to teams from conferences without automatic bids to the BCS. The Southeastern Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East, Big 12, Big Ten, Pacific-10 and Notre Dame formed the BCS eight years ago as a way to match the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in the country in a bowl game.
During Weiberg's two years leading the system that determines college football's national champion, the BCS signed a new television contract with Fox that runs from 2007 to 2010 and developed a new format.
Slive replaced Roy Kramer, who is considered the founding father of the BCS, as SEC commissioner in 2002 after serving as Conference USA commissioner for seven years.
In the five-bowl format to be used next season, the championship game matchup is set after the regular season. No teams advance from the first four games, but it does create the framework for a plus-one.
"It creates a situation that would tolerate that format," Slive said.
Slive also said Sugar Bowl officials expect the game to be played in New Orleans at the Superdome next season.
Hurricane Katrina forced the Sugar Bowl to be played in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta this year.
hehe
that's the beauty of being a fan of a 6-10 team...
I don't gotta worry :)
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