College Football 2006

[drothgery]

Ohio is going to win tonight!!

Cool. My dad's an Ohio U alum.

BCS Bowl projections (assumptions: USC beats UCLA, WVU beats Rutgers, Louisville beats UConn, Arkansas beats Florida, Nebraska beats Oklahoma, Wake Forest beats Georgia Tech):

(note: 'Should be' selections still follow BCS rules; no thrid teams from any conference are allowed, 6 BCS champs, and #3 Michigan and #10/WAC champ Boise must get spots)

BCS Title: Should be - Ohio State vs. USC; Will be - Ohio State vs. USC

Rose: Should be - Michigan vs. Louisville; Will be - Michigan vs. LSU
Sugar: Should be - Arkansas vs. West Virginia; Will be - Arkansas vs. Notre Dame
Orange: Should be -Wake Forest vs. Florida; Will be - Wake Forest vs. Louisville
Fiesta: Should be - Nebraska vs. Boise State; Will be - Nebraska vs. Boise State

 

[Crothian]

There's a rule that three teams from one conference can't be in the BCS games? I didn't know that.

BCS Title will be OSU, USC

Rose I think wil be Michigan Notre Dame
Suger I think will be Florida Lousiville
Orange will be Wake Forest LSU
Fiesta will be Oklahoma Boise

But outside the first game I have little faith in my predictions.

 

[drothgery]

There's a rule that three teams from one conference can't be in the BCS games? I didn't know that.

Yup. Otherwise Wisconsin would have a very good shot at a BCS game; they're a one loss, top-ten team that draws gobs and gobs of fans.

BCS bids go out like so
BCS #1
BCS #2
6 BCS cofnerence champs
highest-ranked non-BCS conference champ, if in BCS top 12, or top 16 and above lowest-ranked BCS conference champ
Notre Dame, if they have 9 wins and are in BCS top 8
BCS #3, if from a BCS conference, not a conference champ, and not the third team from a conference
BCS #4, under the same circumstances as BCS #3, if BCS #3 was a conference champ or ND

If any spots are left, anyone with 9 wins in the BCS top 14 can be selected to fill them, except that no conference can have more than two teams in the BCS.

 

[Nightfall]

Crothy,

Hey I could have given up when they lose to L-ville. I didn't. I wouldn't have even given up if they lost this game against Rutgers. But the fact they got beat by an unranked nobody like Southern Florida didn't exactly help me feel all that good. So forgive me but I honestly don't see any BCS bids coming WVU way. Cotton Bowl, that's about it.

 

[Dimwhit]

I don't think Notre Dame deserves the BCS. They don't have an automatic bid, and I think it will be a shame if a bowl picks them. But ND gets a lot of fans to the games, and it's all about money, so they will.

On that note, Boise has sold 7000 of its 17000 tickets already and they haven't even been invited yet. I'm really hoping we get all 17000 sold and the seats filled. I'm tempted to go (I have a friend with an extra seat in his van), but I just can't justify the money.

 

[Crothian]

I agree that ND should not get in this year, but I think they will. Just as long as they stink it up again.

 

[Dimwhit]

I agree that ND should not get in this year, but I think they will. Just as long as they stink it up again.

At least it doesn't look like they'll be in the Rose Bowl with Michigan.

 

[drothgery]

Crothy,

Hey I could have given up when they lose to L-ville. I didn't. I wouldn't have even given up if they lost this game against Rutgers. But the fact they got beat by an unranked nobody like Southern Florida didn't exactly help me feel all that good.

It's South Florida (which actually isn't in South Florida; it's in Tampa), not Southern Florida. And Louisville got beat down badly by USF last year; I think it's becoming clear the Bulls are good for one crazy upset every year in the Big East.

FWIW, WVU isn't going to get a BCS bid, but a second Big East team probably should. There are normally four at-large bids. One's going to Boise, because they qualified by being in the top 12 and winning the WAC. One's almost certainly going to Michigan for finishing #3. That leaves two spots for Notre Dame or a second team from the ACC, Big East, Big 12, Pac 10, or SEC. No Big 12 or Pac 10 teams will be eligible; Oklahoma will fall more than two spots if they lose to Nebraska, and Cal cannot pick up 4 spots between beating Stanford and fortuitous upsets. So that leaves a second ACC team (Virginia Tech is the only one that qualifies), a second Big East team (Louisville if RU wins, WVU if they win -- they'll move up at least one spot with a victory), a second SEC team (LSU, the FLA/ARK loser, or Auburn), and Notre Dame. There's probably a fair amount of debate over who should be the second SEC team in the BCS, but even people like me who think the SEC is vastly overrated will concede they deserve a second team. So the final spot is up to Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, and the Big East #2. And given that, I can't see any reason with any correlation to play on the field to take ND or VT over either 11-1 Louisville or 10-2 WVU.

 

[Crothian]

Poor Ohio, they just couldn't cover all those recievers. It was just a really bad match up for them.

 

[fett527]

Hey guys, just chiming in. Been thrown for a loop with work and life over the last couple of months. Sorry I haven't been able to participate. But...


GO BUCKS!!!!!!!!!


What a year to be a Buckeye! Heisman trophy winner in the bag and playing for another National Championship. Awesome!


Oh, and I'll be watching the game on my new 65" Mitsubishi HDTV. Can't.Wait.