College Football

[Krieg]

Still, I should be able to sell my orange bowl tickets for some decent cash

Ah the voice of a true fan.

Late night edit: Well the MSU/Hawaii game was arguably the worst officated I have EVER seen. I hope June Jones is taking the refs out to dinner tomorrow. sheesh

 

[Dimwhit]

Wow...Hawaii won. Even with blown calls, I'm surprised it was even close.

Hawaii was the New Orleans Saints of the NCAA this year. Talk about an odd team. You never knew if they were going to get blown out (like 69-3 against Boise) or if they would win a game the weren't supposed to (like Northwestern or Michigan State). What a weird team.

 

[Crothian]

ACtually from what I've heard they have trouble on the road and people have trouble playing them at home. TRaveling out and from there can be tough, and focusing might be hard.

 

[drothgery]

I wonder if a relatively cheap supersonic airliner (that could takeoff and land from Honolulu International Airport) would turn Hawaii into a "normal" team...

 

[drothgery]

I think we should have some great bowl matchups. Unless the polsters are complete morons, Cal should be good for the Rose with Michigan. That will be my New Year's Day bowl to watch. USC/OK should be a good matchup, too. Lot's of Heisman hopefuls and some good offense. The Fiesta will be a waste (too bad for Utah), but I'll watch it anyway, just to root for them. As for Auburn/VT...not a bad matchup. But, of course, the Liberty Bowl is the one to watch for me.

It looks like Texas probably picked up enough ground on Cal in the polls to get pushed ahead of them by the computers. Which means Texas is heading to the Rose Bowl. Ick. That makes 3 of the last 4 Rose Bowls something other than a Big 10 v. Pac 10 game -- and including the farce that was the Miami/Nebraska (rather than consensus #2 Oregon) national championship game.

So yet again the BCS Bowls are failing to preserve tradition or deliver a clear champion. I mean, I guess USC could trash Oklahoma, VT could knock off Auburn, Pitt could beat Utah, and L'Ville could beat Boise to give us an undisputed #1. Heck, in each individual case except VT v. Auburn, I think that's likely.

 

[Crothian]

We knew going into the BCS so many years back that the old bowl alliances would be messed up. It is no suprise and while its nice to have the tradition, I also like seeing other schoold get a chance to play in the grand daddy of all bowls. But silly stuff can happen with the computers and the picking of the teams, so we shall see soon.

 

[drothgery]

The only bowl matchup with any real tradition is the Big 10/Pac 10 Rose Bowl. Nothing else is even close. If we're not keeping that around, and we're not going to get a clear national champion (there's a very good chance Auburn and Utah will join the USC/Oklahoma winner as undefeated, and Boise might join the club too), why isn't there a real playoff, again?

 

[Crothian]

Becasue the Presidents of the Universities and Colleges do not want it. I also think that there is just so much money being generated by the BCS that the big schools do not want to give that up. But what the specific reasons are, I've never heard.

 

[drothgery]

I really don't buy the money argument, unless it's over control over money rather than the amount of money. The presidents know home much the basketball tournament brings in (most of it from CBS); if they don't think a football tournament would be at least as lucrative (and possibly more profitable, as you'd almost certainly have to stage the first-round games at campus sites), they're not paying attention.

 

[Crothian]

Well, perhaps they are thinking it will be diluted money, going to more of the small schools...I'm just guessing here