2011 College Football

[Abagadro]

Wooooo, Utah still mathematically possible to play in the Rose Bowl. 

[ghost]

Would you like to wager on that?   

[Abagadro]

If I can get 5000-1 odds, then yes.

[ghost]

Oh, Tennessee......

[Outlawedprod]

Louisville preparation for Pitt hurt by Call of Duty release
http://louisville.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1293603

[Montague]

The internet is going on about Urban Meyer and Ohio State. Eleven Warriors blog says its 99.7% (?) a done deal. Mike Freeman from CBS tweeted a contract of 7 years, $35 million, then deleted it and said its false.

Lots of smoke but nothing concrete, though I think it's just a matter of time as long as Meyer really wants to coach again. He could probably name his salary at this point because Fickell is in over his head and there's really no other elite coaching candidate out there with Midwest ties.

[ghost]

BCS is proposing radical changes. 

The most radical of those ideas is also the least complicated: the BCS would be responsible only for creating a national championship between the two top teams in the country.

Under this format, the champions of the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12, Big East and Big 12 conferences would no longer receive automatic entry into the bowls that currently make up the BCS rotation: Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange. That's because the BCS would no longer be required to provide teams for those four games.

I think this is a really great idea.  Get rid of AQ, focus on 1 versus 2 and be done with it.  And it would be the best step towards getting to a playoff if that is what you want.  I personally don't want a playoff, but if you want it getting rid of the AQ stuff is absolutely essential. 

[Chimpy]

BCS just needs to go away and die. A playoff is what is needed and fuck the stupid bowl system. It has turned into nothing but bad corporate marketing.

[ghost]

I love the bowl system.  I hope it never goes away.  I love the controversy and discussion that inevitably comes out of it.  And I hope you're aware that a playoff would also be home to greedy corporate marketing.  That won't be going away.

[Paelos]

I used to be a bigger proponent of a playoff. I'm less now, simply because of all the bullshit scheduling people do in the regular season, and all the bad conferences that want to try to play for a national title. Go away Houston and Boise. You can play a game and win, we know. You can't play 4 tough games a year and do the same thing. Boise wouldn't survive LSU's schedule this year, for example.

[01101010]

I used to be a bigger proponent of a playoff. I'm less now, simply because of all the bullshit scheduling people do in the regular season, and all the bad conferences that want to try to play for a national title. Go away Houston and Boise. You can play a game and win, we know. You can't play 4 tough games a year and do the same thing. Boise wouldn't survive LSU's schedule this year, for example.

My guess is not a lot of teams would survive LSU's schedule this year...

[ghost]

Except for LSU.

[Paelos]

Except for LSU.

It's the grass.

[Chimpy]

Oklahoma State looked bad tonight.

[01101010]

Oklahoma State looked bad tonight.

And now so does the BCS title game. If it is a rematch between LSU and anyone they played already, I will be sad. I doubt they can beat Bama a second time and well, we already seen how well Oregon handles a fast SEC defense... twice. So that leaves me pulling for OK and . Of course that is all predicated on the fact that LSU doesn't do their patented roll over in the Golden Boot game.

[Chimpy]

Oregon is a much better team than they were the first game of the season, so I wouldn't be so sure that they would be beaten by LSU this time. Their Defense has gelled and gotten better and better and true-freshman who coughed up the ball 3 times against LSU has lost a lot of his fumbleitis.

Of course, LSU still has games to play as well. No one thought the Cyclones had any chance against the Cowboys (28 point underdogs) and look what happened there.

[ghost]

I'm predicting an Oregon-Oklahoma BCS game.  I think the BCS people will rig it to not have an SEC team this year.  Also, I think LSU loses to UGA in the SEC title game. 

[01101010]

I'm predicting an Oregon-Oklahoma BCS game.  I think the BCS people will rig it to not have an SEC team this year.  Also, I think LSU loses to UGA in the SEC title game. 

  Arkansas first mate...

[ghost]

I may have cursed Paelos, it seems.  UGA isn't looking too sharp against Kentucky.

Edit:  Yeah, UGA is going down today.   

[Paelos]

We won. I was there. We played like shit on offense and our D bailed us out over and over and over and over.

And over.

We are not a good match for LSU due to our bad turnovers. That being said, we ARE a good match for Alabama if LSU loses to Arkansas. Reason being is that Bama relies entirely on the run, which we stop well.

I'm not sold on Oregon beating USC. They can have a brain fart. So can Oklahoma against OK State. Then things get really fucked up.

Also, way to step up with your conference on the line Big East. Good god, everyone has two losses.

[Paelos]

Oh and Clemson is cocking it up.

I'm just going to say UGA in the national championship! Why not? We can fall assbackwards into titles better than anyone this year!

[ghost]

Why is Adam Sandler Ohio State's football coach?

Also, look for a possible upset tonight with Boise State at San Diego State.  SDSU has a good squad.

[Abagadro]

Why is Adam Sandler Ohio State's football coach?

Also, look for a possible upset tonight with Boise State at San Diego State.  SDSU has a good squad.

Heh, as Boise goes up 21-7 in the first quarter.

[ghost]

Why is Adam Sandler Ohio State's football coach?

Also, look for a possible upset tonight with Boise State at San Diego State.  SDSU has a good squad.

Heh, as Boise goes up 21-7 in the first quarter.

 

Not my strongest work.

[Paelos]

Oregon's on upset alert right now. If OU pulls a major boner and Stanford falls over...

UGA!

[Paelos]

And Virginia takes down FSU in one of the most bizarre finishes of the season.

EDIT: And down goes Oregon on a missed FG!

[Abagadro]

I guess this is why the SEC uses this week for its pseudo-byes.

[Chimpy]

My god what a weird weekend.

At least the classic flameout of Zook continued.


Also, how many more years is USC on probation? Because my god they are good right now and they are starting like a dozen true freshmen.

[Abagadro]

This is the last year of post-season probation. They will still have some scholarship restrictions for a while.  Barkley may be leaving for the NFL though.

[Paelos]

Any team stupid enough to take Barkley in the NFL is due for years of misery.

EDIT: And down goes OU! 

[Abagadro]

Oklahoma goes down.  Mass hysteria!

[sigil]

1.LSU
2.Bama
3.Arkansas


SEC west baby.

[01101010]

Jeezus christ, I guess everyone in the NCAA wanted to see the Bama/LSU rematch that badly. Unless LSU shits the bed against Arkansas, looks like it just might happen. Ugh.

[Paelos]

1.LSU
2.Bama
3.Arkansas


SEC west baby.

Also here comes Georgia!

[sigil]

I actualy snickered at that. But it's true. You're right there.