Posted on 11/18/2012 7:35:21 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Coming into Saturday, Oregon and Kansas State had the inside track to college football’s national championship and the Southeastern Conference’s run of six straight BCS titles was in jeopardy.
Then No. 2 K-State got thumped 52-24 by unranked Baylor and top-ranked Oregon fell in overtime to No. 14 Stanford, 17-14.
Now the SEC is alive and well.
And how’s this for a possible national title game: Alabama vs. Notre Dame.
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Oh, I forgot Wofford.
LSU beat up Bama and A&M finished them off. But.. They will be well rested and Sabam is great at bowl preparation.
SEC Championship IS the NC. No way ND hangs with either team. Or Oregon or K State.
The dawgs will have to play flawless football to beat bama....something they rarely do under Richt.
But anyway...GOOOOOOO Dawgs!
Here’s hoping for Univ of Spoiled Children spoiling Notre Shame’s perfect season and Iowa finding an offense and Defense to take out Nebraska and Michigan whooping those suckeye bastards in ColumbASS.
That would mean Michigan would go to the Big10 championship game and hopefully to the Rose Bowl.
GO BLUE!
I thought Richt was under the gun last year early. Be an amazing rebound. I’m expecting Bama will be 3 1/2 point favorite at least.
While I am not sure how I feel about Notre Dame being back near the top, I do like the idea of a Notre Dame-Alabama title game. That is some serious nostalgia going on!
If Stanford did not get the call at Oregon, it would have been 2nd and 10 from the Oregon 15. Stanford would have had 3 more chances to score.
No, they should be ignored.
There is no national champion without a playoff. Division 1 college football can go pound sand. Every other sport has a playoff, but football continues to sell out for the television dollar. Just ignore the scam until D1 straightens itself out.
The appropriate playoff format almost writes itself. Take eight teams, with no more than one per conference. Four is too few; one would have to leave out major conference champions and quality independents; the selection would depend too much on polls, and teams would be penalized for scheduling tough non-conference opponents and risking a September loss. Sixteen is too many; we would have conference runners-up and three loss teams in the mix. So take eight: one per conference, period, with automatic bids for the top five or six conferences and at least two, preferably three, at large bids for the best of the rest. But no conference runners-up; win your league, or stay at home.
Don't seed it. Draw the names out of a hat. No neutral fields; this is college football, so flip a coin and play the game on one of the contestants home fields. If neutral fields are demanded, then be ecumenical about it; northern tier states should get their fair share of sites, and if that means the SEC has to learn how to play football at Michigan, Nebraska, or Notre Dame in January, so be it.
It was a mistake in the first place for college football and basketball to turn their games into imitations of the pros. The colleges had the superior game. Now they're just NBA/NFL-lite. A shame.
I’m a Gator, but I just don’t see that happening, and frankly the Gators have not played well since the Georgia game, barely beat a bad Mizzou team, needed a miracle to beat Louisiana-Lafayette, and looked pretty bad against Jacksonville State.
Now their defense can keep them close, but their offense is stinko right now. And the only way they beat FSU is if they are about +3 in turnovers. And FSU with a convincing win could vault right back into the NC picture, if USC beats Notre Dame.
Mind you, I’m thrilled that they’ve won 10 games this year, I think they are a year or two away, what they lack is a Harvin-like threat on offense, and they need to improve their offensive line.
You system would have to have ND, Louisiana Tech and Louisville in the playoffs because every other team is in a power conference.
I think you need Big 10, ACC, Pac 12, SEC, big 12, champions, plus 1 from a not power conference and two runner ups.
This year would yield Wisconsin (OSU if not on probation), Florida St., Stanford, K State, Alabama plus ND, Oregon, and Florida.
FSU needs a another loss by Oregon, K state and ND to get in.
Look at the schedule of any team in the SEC. Heck -- just look at all the SEC teams crowded in the Top few spots in the college rankings. They spend most of the season playing against each other.
My South Alabama farmer's daughter mother taught me that if you couldn't say something nice about someone, don't say anything.
That has served me well.
Was your son asked to play at Alabama?
Unless you can point out references to that remark, I will assume you have been greatly misinformed. I live and breath Alabama and have Crimson blood in my veins, and have never heard one single comment that was negative about this great coach until your remark. Would you care to elaborate on your claim?
What a shock!
But to be fair Dooley was in a no-win situation because of how Lame Kitten destroyed that program......I suppose it's small consolation to Tennessee fans to see him failing at USCw.
Playing in a weak conference kills FSU. Remember when both FSU and Miami were indepedents, that was when they were the most successful.
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