4,000 flushes
One more decent weekend of college football games until the bowl season starts in a few weeks. This has been an unusual season, with many upsets and unlikely conquerers who are then conquered by someone else. It makes for a great regular season, but not a great bowl season.
Since every team has proven itself undeserving of this year’s title, there’s only one truly fitting way to end the season, by calling off the BCS title game. Vacate the title as they do in boxing, give everyone a trophy as they do in youth soccer-but don’t make anyone national champion.
This won’t happen, of course, but he’s right. Everybody’s been so equalized by losses that it doesn’t matter who wins. When I competed in BMX racing (my rad summers of 1983 and 1984), we would have these bicycle pile-ups, and the last kid to keep his bike on two wheels would win. Frequently, it was the dufus in the back who wandered onto the track with his Huffy. And that may be the kid who wins the BCS game. No matter who it is.




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We referred to the hockey season and playoffs as the Battaan Death March of Sports.
The champion isn’t necessarily the best team, but rather the last team still functioning.
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The fact that the first two posts on a college football topic are going to be about hockey has significantly brightened my day.
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The season has been good and parity is the name of the game. I am an Ohio State fan and yes they deserve a shot. They just lost to late in the season and ran out of games to play.
Go Bucks!!!
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Actually, this season is another one that proves Division 1-A needs a playoff like every other sport in every level of collegiate sports. Use the “who cares” bowls (Humanitarian, Aloha, etc) and the older, non-major bowls (Liberty, Peach, etc) for the elimination round(s), and the current BCS bowls for quarter and semi-final rounds, with one of them as the championship on a rotating basis as it is now. Certainly, something could be worked out. Also, instead of teams waiting between now and January to play, (and getting out-of-sync) they would be playing and keeping on their games the whole time.
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I can’t recall a season that has been this crazy as far as teams getting into the Top 10 and then getting knocked off.
Certainly the SEC has had a wild year. Usually the teams playing for the SEC championship have no league losses or maybe 1 loss. This year both LSU and TN have 2 losses each. There is definitely more parity this year than before. I think a lot of leagues are experiencing that.
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At the beginning of the season I thought USC would be undefeatable.
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This season typifies what competition is all about. It’s great to have a year when one or two teams don’t stand head and shoulders above the rest, and it’s wonderful to have schools such as Missouri and West Virginia with a shot at the title [especially b/c only a handful of schools typically get the top recruits].
I totally agree with Peter – let’s have a playoff system! Tradition is okay, but rather than playing out the string with a bunch of meaningless bowl games, why not use them toward determining the national champ on the playing field?
Another thing: Every major conference should have a conference championship game. Why should a school like Missouri have to risk losing the Big 12 championship game and possibly miss out on playing in the national championship game while a school like Ohio State sits back and could possibly slip in through the back door to the title game? [Sorry, Doug]
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I have long favored a 1-A playoff system, using the existing bowl games as part of it.
Yes, the conference championship games are a risk. But when a conference is as large as the SEC, I don’t know what else can be done.
By the way, if you want to play in the final “College Football Saturday” Contest, it’s over on today’s “Whirled Views”. This is your last chance to win a hot-off-the-campfire *digital* S’more for football.
Coming in January…college basketball (mens and womens).
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No, no, no, no, year-round sports from Anlir? No, no, no, no . . .
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I doubt it will stop me.
Next to college football, I really like college basketball. Can’t think of anything more fun than “March Madness!”
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Anlir – I emailed you per your request on another thread. Did you get it ok?
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VS – got it. Sent a reply.
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Harrison,
You are so wrong and so is this guy.
The national champion will be crowned exactly like all the rest since the BCS went into effect. Nothing has changed and there will be a worthy champion crowned – and nothing will have changed. IF anything, this years champion will have survived heartbreaking losses and benefited from them to still be the best of the best.
Success usually requires failing many times. FOr once we might actualluy get a real champion int end.
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Time for my next (or maybe next-to-next)-to last SEC football rant of the year.
I loved this season!
There will never be a playoff, because an SEC team would win at least 50% of the time. Let there be no doubt, the SEC is the best football conference, top to bottom, in the nation..by far.
9 out of 12 teams are bowl eligible.
You can’t even get a week off when you play Vandy, or Ol’ Miss anymore.
Now next year, will be an interesting year in the conference.
Houston Nutt at Ol’ Miss..Tommy Tuberville (from my home-town)coming to Arkansas..Les Miles gone to Michigan…Who knows who will go to LSU, or Auburn…The west is going to be wild next year.
I’m pulling for the Mizzou Tigers this year.
and I still think D-Mac can win the Heisman.
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This system is totally screwed up. It’s so complicated, I don’t think any one person really understands how the whole thing works. A playoff system would make so much more sense. No more arguing over who gets to go to the championship. Two teams, no dispute.
Go Bucks!
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Hey, don’t knock kids on Huffys! I had one as a kid.
It was great. It had a headlight, a tank and a battery powered horn in the tank. I think it was a 24″ version. Got it the Christmas of 1951!
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Mr M: To claim that the SEC is by far the best football conference is a stretch – I would gladly take the Big 12 against the SEC head-to-head. And even if a given conference is overall the most dominating, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the national champ would come from that conference. Even this season, the Big 12 still has two teams in the running for the national title, while the SEC has…none.
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The BCS proves the old adage: To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.
Is Mizzou truly the best team in college football? On the computer, yes. On the field, perhaps. (As a fan, I hope they win.) In NCAA basketball, the number 1 seed sometimes wins the tourney, sometimes not. In football, the number 1 seed is not always the best on the field (witness last year when #1 Ohio State was demolished by the number 2 Florida). Had there been a playoff in place, Ohio State would have been knocked out of the running sooner, and the championship would have been played with the two best teams (or at least, the two with the most stamina).
Give a playoff, and eliminate the guessing game!
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“while the SEC has…none.”
Yep.
That’s why we’re the best conference in football.
Our 5th or 6th best team could win most conferences outright.
I’ll give the Big 12 credit, though.
I think they are the second best conference.
But, lets take LSU as an example.
They’ve lost two. Both in 3 OTs.
Virginia Tech is slightly ahead of LSU in the BCS
Yet LSU beat them by 41 already this year.
If Mizzou and Kansas had a realistic chance of being beaten every week, like SEC teams do, I dare say neither of them would have the record they have.
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Of course I meant West Virginia
Virginia Tech, Virginia,..West Virginia..it’s all the same.
Watching this WV / Pitt. game. I can say that unless WV wins by over seven, they were given this game.
Pittsburgh was ripped out of a touch-down. It was apparent to everyone watching, but one lone referee.
If I was Wanstadt, they would be carrying me out in hand-cuffs.
If I were the NCAA,I would definitely investigate the refs involved in this game.
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Heh…Heh,heh…BWAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA…WHEW!
(cough,cough)
What happened Big 12?…Oh no! You don’t mean…Big 12?..No Big 12?
Uhhh…I guess there won’t be any Big 12 representatives in the Nat. Championship.
On the other hand, Now…there are two SEC teams still alive…wow!
What a difference a day makes!
(sorry, but I’ve been polite all day, and I’m all “pent up”)
Boomer Soon-er, Boomer Soon-errr,
dah dah dah dahhhh!
dah dah dahhhhh!
sorry Mizzou..I feel your pain.
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Wow, what a mess. I guess it’s fitting that the SEC still has a chance given how bizarre this season has been. I wouldn’t say the Big 12 doesn’t have a chance – OU just smoked the #1 team [none of the other top six in the rankings defeated the #1] and look like they could beat anyone, and Kansas still has only one loss [if one argues that Kansas doesn't deserve to be in the title game, then neither does OSU]. However, I have a feeling that LSU will get in there, and if so, they will handle OSU quite easily.
There needs to be a playoff system involving all the conference champions. Eliminate the controversy [for the most part] and determine the champion on the field.
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Bowl games — you play one game and that’s it?
I’m with KRM — nothing proves you and your team’s athleticism than the NHL hockey play-offs.
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Virginia Tech is slightly ahead of LSU in the BCS
Yet LSU beat them by 41 already this year.
Actually, you were correct the first time, Meaner, that it was Va Tech that was defeated by 41 points by LSU earlier this season.
HOWEVER, the reason the Hokies were ranked ahead of LSU in last week’s poll was because LSU’s two losses this season were to UNRANKED teams, while the Hokie’s only two losses were to teams ranked #2 in the nation at the time!
Strength of schedule is a major factor.
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Except the NBA playoffs – and they are a better guage of which team is actually the best.
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Sorry, that was for # 23.
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I’m hearing word of Missouri and Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl.
1 1/2 hours to go!
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Yeah, I get my Virgina schools mixed up.
It’s going to be close between Oklahoma and LSU for the final #2 spot.
You have to say, even with the obvious need of a play-off system, this season has been the most entertaining one in a long time.
College Basketball already looks to be shaping up a wacky season, too.
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Cool, VA Tech (I lived in Blacksburg when my dad was working on his PhD) got #3 as I was predicting. If only LSU hadn’t blown us away . . .
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