BCS: 13-0, and no Tebow?

[+ glutes]

What a great day of football!

Alabama cleans up heavily favored Florida, Texas squeaks by in the last second over Nebraska.

Another glutes prediction, Alabama wins Jan 7 in Pasadena...

[+ purplekow]

What a great day of football!

Alabama cleans up heavily favored Florida, Texas squeaks by in the last second over Nebraska.

Another glutes prediction, Alabama wins Jan 7 in Pasadena...

 

Would rather have seen Nebraska win. Have been a Cornhusker fan for years but have never been to Nebraska. Would prefer to have seen either Cincinnati or more likely TCU in the National game. Now it looks as though you get two undefeated teams in one or two games.

Alabama ekes by Texas TCU crushes Cincinnati and the nonsense continues with no national championship game

[MsGuy]

Fair disclosure. I'm an SEC guy.

 

If you watched the Alabama/Florida game, you've already seen the national championship game.

 

This mess may all still work out for the best.

 

Assume Texas squeaks past TCU et al in the polls and gets shellacked by Alabama in the Rose Bowl, thereby showing that it didn't belong in a championship game. Cincinnati, TCU & Boise play in separate bowls against decent opponents and all win out convincingly. The resulting national uproar might be just the thing to trigger moving to a playoff system. The sole plausible justification I've heard for the BCS system is that it was the only way to get the major conferences to give up their guaranteed major bowl appearances.

 

In other words the only reason we don't have a playoff now is the power conferences are colluding to hog the revenue from the major bowl slots.

[justaguy]

What happened to Florida? Bama's good, that's a given, but it seemed to me that Fla. just wasn't on their game. Is that just my perception or did anyone else have the same feeling?

[KMEM]

Justaguy-

 

There is no doubt that FL was not on their game but the question is why? AL fans will say it is because AL wouldn't LET them be on their game.

 

MsGuy-

 

I don't doubt your comments about the attitude of the various conferences but the college season now goes from August until after the first of the year. When and how do you envision having the time to have even a single game elimination? I don't think it is feasible to have less than a week between games. Shall we start in July and end in February?

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[justaguy]

KHEM-

I didn't mean to slight Bama in the least. They shut down Tebow's running game from the get go. I just wasn't prepared for the slow crumble that followed. This didn't feel like the team I've been following all season.

 

MsGuy--

KHEM is right. It's an argument that's been going on for years, with no end in sight. Considering the millions that are poured into school coffers, I doubt that we'll see a resolution any time soon.

[TruthBTold]

Angela Lansbury

 

I saw her in Sweeny Todd and she was so . . . I'm sorry, wrong post.

[+ glutes]

http://portal.aolcdn.com/p/images4/1-tim-tebow-200la-120609

 

This wasn't the only Floridian crying yesterday...

[KMEM]

KHEM-

I didn't mean to slight Bama in the least. They shut down Tebow's running game from the get go. I just wasn't prepared for the slow crumble that followed. This didn't feel like the team I've been following all season.

 

MsGuy--

KHEM is right. It's an argument that's been going on for years, with no end in sight. Considering the millions that are poured into school coffers, I doubt that we'll see a resolution any time soon.

 

I took no offense. Thanks for the reply.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[MsGuy]

KMEM: An eight team playoff takes 3 weeks & 7 bowl games. I don't see an insurmountable time problem there. IMO it's all about the money.

[+ purplekow]

Well there are problems with a playoff in that, should you have a 4 team playoff, you would still be leaving out an undefeated team and Florida would be on the outside looking in despite being considered the best team all year. If you stretch it to 8 teams, you need three rounds of games to decide it, but that would only add three more games to the already monstrous college football schedule. There would only one additional game needed for a 4 team playoff and since a twelfth game was added a few years ago, you could legitimately add on more game to be played prior to the NFL playoffs. You already have teams playing in bowl games so the top four team would have those games as elimination games and then a final. The bowls may say that it takes some luster off the bowl games but it actually gives one game more panache and other than the title game, most of the bowl games are for football fans who are die hard or brain dead and the alumni. There would still be controversy but less. it all comes down to money. Not to move this to political forum, but didnt candidate Obama or maybe President Elect Obama mention pushing for a national playoff in football. He is probably a bit busy now.

[GoodFella69]

Roll Tide. Alabama #1 in NCAA & USA Today Rankings...

 

What a difference a day makes in college football! Back in August, would anyone have predicted these Top 5 ranked teams, in this particular order, at the end of week 15? http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings

[+ glutes]

Now even Congress wants to take action!

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126015017177679427.html

[KMEM]

What a great day of football!

Alabama cleans up heavily favored Florida, Texas squeaks by in the last second over Nebraska.

Another glutes prediction, Alabama wins Jan 7 in Pasadena...

 

For at least once, we agree.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[+ glutes]

Another reason Alabama will win, Mark Ingram.

His heart felt speech during the Heisman presentation yesterday was something.

[KMEM]

KMEM: An eight team playoff takes 3 weeks & 7 bowl games. I don't see an insurmountable time problem there. IMO it's all about the money.

 

I suppose the logical extension of that argument is to go ahead and formally declare colleges as the minor league or development league for the NFL which so many seem to think is true. While there is some truth to that argument, the NFL, by the laws of Mother Nature, needs fully developed young men. You will notice that most are 22 or older when they apply to the NFL. To some extent the NCAA (I never thought I would have much good to say about the NCAA) does protect younger athletes by limiting the number of games, etc., at least in FB. The NBA and NCAA apparently have a pact with the devil in this regard.

 

I suppose if they instituted about 4 conference games and no others; then started the playoffs, it could be done with the current allotted time for college football. Remember, the weeks without a game are designated to let guys recover and at the end of the season, perhaps have a little fun. According to what I have outlined, the SEC is pushing it as it is.

 

Bear Bryant was famous for letting his players have fun after the season which is probably part of the reason he won no more bowl games then he did. Still, he managed to do OK.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

PS- Of course, it is all about the money but for the schools, not the athletes.

[+ glutes]

Tears in Texas...

 

and the Tide is Crimsom!

 

http://thischicksviewonesports.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/crimson_tide.jpg

[GoodFella69]

Congratulations Alabama...

 

Congrats Glutes and all Bama fans!

As a native Texan, I was hoping for a more competitive match-up.

Too bad, McCoy is injured. Regardless, Alabama is a terrific team, is playing on all cylinders tonight and certainly deserves the title of National Champion.

 

 

"You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team."

-Bear Bryant

[MsGuy]

Agree that it kinda took the shine off Bama's victory when Texas had to play with a true freshman quarteback.

[+ glutes]

Muckelroy, McElroy, McCoy... what about AJ McCarron?

 

http://blog.al.com/tidecorner/2008/08/medium_aj-pose.jpg

[MsGuy]

How about Garrett Gilbert?

 

The kid did himself and Texas proud.

 

http://www.garrettgilbert.org/images/recruiting_gilbert_200.jpg

[GoodFella69]

Can you imagine the enormous pressure Garrett Gilbert felt last night, being unexpectedly thrust into the BCS National Championship game against such a formidable opponent? This time last year he was a high school senior. Let's cut the boy some slack, MsGuy.

 

Again, Congratulations to Alabama Fans on a hard earned and well-deserved National Championship.

[MsGuy]

Consider also, GF, that Garrett almost certainly got little to no practice time with the first team players this year. And had several perfectly adequate passes dropped by receivers who weren't playing their best.

 

I thought that once he settled in he did a very credible job of working an offense that had little to offer in the way of power on the ground against that incredible Alabama defense. If Garret had driven down for a TD instead getting blindsided by that sack/fumble, Texas would have won by forfeit [game called on account of Nick Saban's head exploding].

----

When I said the kid did himself and Texas proud, I meant just exactly that. Give him a couple of years and he may be vying for a Heisman himself.

http://www.garrettgilbert.org/

[GoodFella69]

Lol!

 

MsGuy, You made me laugh out loud with that "Saban's head exploding" comment! Admittedly, I misinterpreted your original Gilbert comment as abrasive sarcasm. My BAD. Perhaps I jumped to that earlier conclusion because a number of pundits (and posters on other MC's) are deriding young Garrett Gilbert's skills today.

 

It sounds like you and I agree on Gilbert's future potential.

Cheers,

Goodfella

[MsGuy]

Let's see. A true freshman is called in to replace a Heisman nominee on the first series of downs of the BCS championship game. His team is the underdog even with the Heisman guy playing. After a shaky first half, he claws back to within 3 points of the favorite late in the 4th quarter.

 

And nitwit analysts have nothing better to do than deride his skills? I'm glad my Comcast screwed up both ESPN channels today. I hate listening to that kind of nonsense.