U.S. COLLEGE FOOTBALL: it's upon us

[DesertPirate]

So my LSU Tigers were playing at home this week against another team from Alabama, only this time it was Troy from the Sunbelt Conference instead of the #1 ranked, Un of Alabama. And while the Tigers and the Tide were tied at half-time, LSU trailed Troy 24-3. When the score hit 31-3 in the third, the stadium started to empty.

LSU then scored 37 straight points (five TD's with a missed PAT and a FG) in less than 20 minutes to win 40-31. Piece of cake.

Bayou Bill

Sounds like the college version of my Panthers, known far and wide as the "Cardiac Cats".

 

[JagFarlane]

Notre Dame 27 Navy 21
Notre Dame goes to 6-4 with two games left, at home with Syracuse and at USC.
Well...at least we're bowl eligible this year

 

[Katyusha]

Notre Dame 27 Navy 21
Notre Dame goes to 6-4 with two games left, at home with Syracuse and at USC.
Well...at least we're bowl eligible this year

Heh, us too. We'll probably lose to Oregon State as well but I'll be very, very surprised if we also lose to ASU.

Speaking of which, it's about time for me to start heckling the guy with the ASU hat at work. *snicker*

 

[Boxlicker101]

I notice that the rankings are almost unchanged since last week. Four teams dropped out of the top 25 and were replaced, but the top 15 or so remained the same. After that, there was a bit of shuffling around, but no major changes.

 

[DesertPirate]

Ohio State has handled Michigan roughly

Go Wake!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Ohio State has handled Michigan roughly

Go Wake!

Thereby eliminating Mich. State from Rose Bowl contention. Even if they beat Penn State, which seems unlikely now, they will only be Big Ten co-champs, and OSU will win the tie-breaker by virtue of their victory over MSU.

 

[DesertPirate]

Boston College 24
Wake Forrest 21


Texas Tech 7
Oklahoma 28


Syracuse 24
Notre Dame 23

 

[GratefulFred]

All I can say is...

It's great to be a Florida Gator!

Next week vs. FSU they win by at least 30

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm really interested in seeing who will be ranked in the top five today. Alabama Nr. 1, and Florida and Texas and TT and Oklahoma, but in what order? And where will Pann State be, after drubbing MSU?

Most likely, FL and AL will play for the SEC championship, with the winner going to the BCS championship and the loser going somewhere else. The othe BCS championship team will be from the Big 12, but who knows which one.

 

[Katyusha]

So we lost by two last night. That was painful...they kicked a last-second field goal.

 

[DesertPirate]

1. Bama
2. Texass
3. OK
4. FLA
5. USC
6. Utah
7. TxTech
8. Penn St.
9. Boise St.
10. Ohio St.

 

[Boxlicker101]

1. Bama
2. Texass
3. OK
4. FLA
5. USC
6. Utah
7. TxTech
8. Penn St.
9. Boise St.
10. Ohio St.

That's interesting. FLA beat the snot out of a weak opponent, but is now ranked lower than they were. Penn State did the same to a strong opponent, and also lost ground. TX was idle, and leapfrogged fom 4 to 2 over Oklahoma who decisively defeated a a high ranking opponent but stayed in third place. I guess they figured they had to rank TX higher because they beat OK earlier this year.

Even more interesting: TX and OK might play each other in the BCS championship. They would both have to win next week, and the division championship against MO. Bama would have to lose one of their remaining games, against Auburn and the SEC title game against FL, a distinct possibility. That would mean the BCS title game would match two teams from the same conference for the first time. There are quite a few "ifs" there, but no major upsets would have to occur.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Box, I doubt both OU and Texas can make it to the BCS championship game. All the dominos would have to fall in perfect order. (OU and Texas win this weekend while 'Bama and Florida lose, then the two-loss Gators hand the Tide a second loss in the SEC championship game and Oregon State wins the Pac-10 title)

Even then, Penn State, with one loss, a conference championship to its credit, and the "Joe Pa" sentimental factor, would have the inside track over a one-loss Big-12 team that couldn't even win its division.

Strange things can happen, of course. But whether its Oklahoma or Texas that doesn't make it to the Big-12 title game, I can't see either one beating out Penn State for a trip to the BCS championship.

Rumple Foreskin

ETA: None of that has anything to do with who I think SHOULD go to the game.

 

[DesertPirate]

Until there is a playoff, figuring who the Champ is will continue to be a cluster fuck.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Until there is a playoff, figuring who the Champ is will continue to be a cluster fuck.

DP, even if a playoff system was set-up, there'd still be cluster fucks. The difference would be instead of the media gnashing its collective teeth about which two teams should be in the championship game, there'd be pious weeping and lamentations over which deserving teams got screwed out of the playoffs and/or how a second-rate school or two somehow managed, against all laws of common sense and fairness, to get in.

We hear it every year when the field of 64 teams is picked for NCAA basketball tourney. No way will it be any different in football.

Here's the bottom-line: MONEY. The NCAA does not control major (BCS) college football. Those schools went to court and won the right to run their own show many years ago. It took serious pressure from the mid-major conferences before non-BCS teams got even a long-shot at the big bowl money.

A playoff system would threaten the BCS cash cow. Hence, no playoffs.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Weird Harold]

DP, even if a playoff system was set-up, there'd still be cluster fucks. The difference would be instead of the media gnashing its collective teeth about which two teams should be in the championship game, there'd be pious weeping and lamentations over which deserving teams got screwed out of the playoffs and/or how a second-rate school or two somehow managed, against all laws of common sense and fairness, to get in.

There is a way to insure an undisputed, unbeaten NCAA football champion, but nobody's going to buy it:

Start the first week of college football with all 115 top rank teams plus the top 13 second rank teams from the previous year, for a total of 128 teams and 64 tournament games the first week. The four teams at the geographical corners of the US play the four teams closest tot he geographical corners -- eg Hawaii plays San Diego; South Florida plays Miami; etc. Each succeeding pair plays the team next closest to the geographic center of the US.

The second week, the 64 losers play out their normal schedule and the 64 winners pair up in the same outside in geographic pairings.

Week 3 is 32 games, 4 is 16 games, five is 8 games, 6 is 4 games, 7 is 2 games, and 8 is the championship game.

"wah-la," a guaranteed unbeaten, undisputed college football champion.

 

[ilikeitlikethat18]

Oklahoma and Texas tech.

the game. So surprising. And good.

 

[DesertPirate]

DP, even if a playoff system was set-up, there'd still be cluster fucks. The difference would be instead of the media gnashing its collective teeth about which two teams should be in the championship game, there'd be pious weeping and lamentations over which deserving teams got screwed out of the playoffs and/or how a second-rate school or two somehow managed, against all laws of common sense and fairness, to get in.

We hear it every year when the field of 64 teams is picked for NCAA basketball tourney. No way will it be any different in football.

Here's the bottom-line: MONEY. The NCAA does not control major (BCS) college football. Those schools went to court and won the right to run their own show many years ago. It took serious pressure from the mid-major conferences before non-BCS teams got even a long-shot at the big bowl money.

A playoff system would threaten the BCS cash cow. Hence, no playoffs.

Rumple Foreskin

Very true
Of course the NCAA is a joke itself
Have you ever seen the rulebook?
That sucker is a foot thick!
I would bet serious money that no school in the top 50 is clean

 

[Boxlicker101]

Box, I doubt both OU and Texas can make it to the BCS championship game. All the dominos would have to fall in perfect order. (OU and Texas win this weekend while 'Bama and Florida lose, then the two-loss Gators hand the Tide a second loss in the SEC championship game and Oregon State wins the Pac-10 title)

Even then, Penn State, with one loss, a conference championship to its credit, and the "Joe Pa" sentimental factor, would have the inside track over a one-loss Big-12 team that couldn't even win its division.

Strange things can happen, of course. But whether its Oklahoma or Texas that doesn't make it to the Big-12 title game, I can't see either one beating out Penn State for a trip to the BCS championship.

Rumple Foreskin

ETA: None of that has anything to do with who I think SHOULD go to the game.

The dominos have fallen so far. Today, OK has to beat OK State, no simple feat, but they will be favored. Then the division champ, TX, OK or Texas Tech has to beat Missou in the league championship next week. Whoever it is will be favored, and will be one of the teams in the BCS championsip game, assuming they win. I don't know for sure how their tiebreakers go, but TT will almost certainly not be the division winner after being blown out last week by OK.

Next week, FL will play Bama fir the SEC title. If FL wins, will they leapfrog over the Big 12 team that has finished their season? Maybe, which would make it Big 12 champ against SEC champ, which should be a good matchup. If not, or if FL loses today against FSU, it will be TX vs OK for all the marbles.

Of course, if Bama beats Auburn todasy and FL next week, they will be in the finals.

 

[Boxlicker101]

DP, even if a playoff system was set-up, there'd still be cluster fucks. The difference would be instead of the media gnashing its collective teeth about which two teams should be in the championship game, there'd be pious weeping and lamentations over which deserving teams got screwed out of the playoffs and/or how a second-rate school or two somehow managed, against all laws of common sense and fairness, to get in.

We hear it every year when the field of 64 teams is picked for NCAA basketball tourney. No way will it be any different in football.

Here's the bottom-line: MONEY. The NCAA does not control major (BCS) college football. Those schools went to court and won the right to run their own show many years ago. It took serious pressure from the mid-major conferences before non-BCS teams got even a long-shot at the big bowl money.

A playoff system would threaten the BCS cash cow. Hence, no playoffs.

Rumple Foreskin

It would be even worse in football. No way they could possibly have such a big tournament field. If they had eight teams, those outside that group would howl loudest. In the basketball tourney, if Podunk State gets left out and complains, nobody will take them too seriously, but if Penn State or USC or OK or TX or FL or other perennial power gets left out of the football tourney, they will have a certain point to their gripes.

 

[Guest]

Sonofabitch!

Sweating bullets, cheering the back and forth play for the past 3 1/2 hours -

We won! Damn it! The Miracle in the Snow!

Kansas over Mizzou, baby!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Sonofabitch!

Sweating bullets, cheering the back and forth play for the past 3 1/2 hours -

We won! Damn it! The Miracle in the Snow!

Kansas over Mizzou, baby!

WTG. This won't change the playoff picture. Missou is still the Big 12 division co-champ and will be the team to go to the league championship because they beat Nebraska. However, it will probably get KU a bowl game, while a loss would have kept them home for the rest of the year.

 

[jomar]

Baylor's giving Texas Tech a run. Early though.

 

[Guest]

Baylor's giving Texas Tech a run. Early though.

I'm loving football today.

 

[sr71plt]

UVa. lost to VaTech (17-14) but not by anything close to the expected, sending VaTech to the ACC championship game and wiping out UVa's bowl bid. Was to be expected. UVa did better than expected this year after losing its first and second quaterbacks just before the season started. (one to academics; one to the court system)