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Pettytheft wrote:How on earth Ohio State deserves to play Texas this year is beyond me.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Notre Dame always gets preferential treatment. They're still a terrible team.
PRIME1 wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:Notre Dame always gets preferential treatment. They're still a terrible team.
Yeah they may as well give the Detroit Lions a wild card spot. They sucked far too much to get a bowl game.
I think Penn State will do well against USC, although Ohio State will get a new hole drilled by Texas.
danny e. wrote:PRIME1 wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:Notre Dame always gets preferential treatment. They're still a terrible team.
Yeah they may as well give the Detroit Lions a wild card spot. They sucked far too much to get a bowl game.
I think Penn State will do well against USC, although Ohio State will get a new hole drilled by Texas.
hmm I almost think the opposite. .... IF Texas doesnt get over the disappointment of not making the national championship, they could underprepare and play sloppy. I dont really expect that to happen either.. but I expect USC will also dominate Penn St.
I expect Texas to trounce Ohio St, for the record. .. just saying that I'd think it more likely for Texas to have a let-down then for USC to have one.
I suppose it is hard to tell how good USC really is though..
It's also a little hard to tell how good the Big 12 South really is.. so, in that regard the bowl games will be a little fun just to see if it was all a facade or if they're really as good as they seemed.
CampinCarl wrote:
Please continue to **** talk OSU so that when we kick the crap out of Texas we all win a ton of money in betting
CampinCarl wrote:
Please continue to **** talk OSU so that when we kick the crap out of Texas we all win a ton of money in betting
Pettytheft wrote:Since the 2000 season, OU is 4-4 in bowl games. I wouldn't exactly use that as a reason to say they'll "lose another big game like they always do."OK will lose another big game like they always do.
themattman wrote:Will there be a TR College Bowl Game Pool this year on yahoo?
themattman wrote:Would anyone else be interested in joining a college bowl league? Am I "allowed" to create a TR fantasy league?
themattman wrote:League set up. PM me for the league # and password.
It's likely that a Texas fan wrote:BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."
Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States, the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event."
German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces."
The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented "France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."
Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.
idchafee wrote:yes, nothing says "big game" like the Doobie Brothers playing the halftime show
danny e. wrote:this is possibly going to be one of the worst bowl seasons ever.
Oklahoma vs Florida - this one ain't so bad.
USC vs Penn St. - crazy. no one in the big 10 deserves any bowl game. they all suck.
Texas Tech vs Mississippi - uhh Mississippi is improving but not enough.
Texas vs Ohio St. - Ohio St. is worse than Penn St. and they're playing the 2nd or 3rd best team in the country?!??! hahaha
Alabama vs Utah - yes, I've said Alabama was overrated, but they're better than Utah.
danny e. wrote:danny e. wrote:this is possibly going to be one of the worst bowl seasons ever.
Oklahoma vs Florida - this one ain't so bad.
USC vs Penn St. - crazy. no one in the big 10 deserves any bowl game. they all suck.
Texas Tech vs Mississippi - uhh Mississippi is improving but not enough.
Texas vs Ohio St. - Ohio St. is worse than Penn St. and they're playing the 2nd or 3rd best team in the country?!??! hahaha
Alabama vs Utah - yes, I've said Alabama was overrated, but they're better than Utah.
hmmm TT got exposed more. should have seen that based on what Nebraska did to them.
Utah is looking good so far also.. I'd love to see them take down the overrated Alabama however it's still early.
danny e. wrote:I wish people would stop hanging their hopes on a playoff like it would actually resolve anything. The BCS sucks, but they should just go back to the old system. You realize if there had been a playoff this year Utah wouldn't even be in it?Utah has an arguement now.. moreso than Texas. Utah beat Alabama more soundly than did Florida.
A playoff is needed.
UberGerbil wrote:Nick Saban's bug just hit Utah's windshield. Doesn't help the SEC live up to its self-generated hype, does it?danny e. wrote:I wish people would stop hanging their hopes on a playoff like it would actually resolve anything. The BCS sucks, but they should just go back to the old system. You realize if there had been a playoff this year Utah wouldn't even be in it?Utah has an arguement now.. moreso than Texas. Utah beat Alabama more soundly than did Florida.
A playoff is needed.
danny e. wrote:what is much more annoying are those who think it should be Big 10 vs Pac 10 in the Rose bowl all the time.
danny e. wrote:No, they wouldn't.and Utah was ranked 6th, so they would be in a playoff.
tfp wrote:Other then the media, I don't think many people want a playoff system. I would have liked them to leave the bowl games they way they were before. There are a number of teams that would never make the playoffs that would be in bowl games and that's a lot more fun for the fans of those teams and teams like them.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Everyone that I know IRL wants a play-off. The thing is, you could still have the meaningless bowls that you have now, they just wouldn't be part of the playoffs. Just like for college basketball, there is still a postseason for most decent teams in the form of the NIT.
UberGerbil wrote:I like the old system, where the bowls (mostly) tried for interesting match-ups and the "national champion" was determined the right way: by bar-stool arguments all over the country.
