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Missouri and Oklahoma. Raise your hand if you thought that this would be the match up in San Antonio back in August. I came change state to tabbing this game very close but I forgot to trust my logic and as a result. I picked to represent the North. Whoops can I get a retroactive mulligan? No? Oh well. This is a desperately interesting bet because these two programs are in places they are not accustomed to being in. For the majority of this Millennium. Oklahoma has been the undisputed Titan of the conference. While far from a perfect overlord what with those occasional big game meltdowns and National Championship game blowouts the Sooners have been the most consistent team in the conference. Oklahoma hasn’t worn the underdog cape in a very long time not since the 2005 Red River Shootout (Fuck Political Correctness) at least and that for the Sooners. No more mister nice guy indeed. Missouri on the other hand has been the reciprocal to the Sooners consistently underwhelming consistently having good talent good enough to place them on the brink of the first tier of the Big 12 hierarchy but consistently underachieving and as a result staying planted firmly in the second tier. There was the 2004 road trip to Troy (something of a Big 12 graveyard see Oklahoma State for reference) just before the athletic department was going to launch the Brad Smith for Heisman website. The 51-28 blowout loss to Bowling Green in 2002 (Just take a guess about who coached the Falcons) the 45-35 loss to the Lobo’s of New Mexico. In short the Tigers have been the definition of an underachiever since Gary Pinkel took the job in 2001. But in this game the roles are reversed. Oklahoma has been the one who has underachieved losing a pair of games to teams that they frankly had no business losing to. Colorado and Texas Tech. Because of those performances the Sooners sight themselves in a new role that of the opportunist with the ability to strike one of their conference foes from the National title. A role that others have a adapted against the Sooners with truly devastating effects. Missouri meanwhile swaggers into the game fresh off the biggest Boarder War (Fuck political correctness) in history with a good chance to play in the National Championship game. When you look back at the first match up it really was a tight oppose. The difference was that Missouri couldn’t cope with being in control it was something that they couldn’t handle and in the end their lack of experience in that environment was their ultimate undoing. The lack of experience for follow Daniel was huge. He turned the roll over three times one choose on a drive that had just entered Oklahoma territory one fumble on his own 12 that was subsequently returned for a TD and another in the 4th quarter intercepted at the Missouri 24 yard line. Those three turnovers were the difference because Missouri moved the ball effectively all night long through the air at the very least but the turnovers were their undoing. Since that game however things have changed. Missouri is not the team that it was back on October 13th. They are exceed more focused and a terribly efficient team. There has been a marked improvement on the side of the Tigers in the 6 weeks since the measure match up. On the flip align of that when looking at Oklahoma. I don’t see the same type of improvement. They are by and large the same team now that they were then. Keep in mind that my observations of the Sooners have been relatively limited by my location in Ohio. But even looking at box scores they just seem kind of consistent admitted that is a horrible way to gather information on a team but it is all I undergo. The secondary of Oklahoma is going to be the defining issue of the game. Was the Texas Tech game a one game aberration of second level defensive breakdowns? The says that it is not and I have to evaluate in the same vein. The match ups are slanted in the favor of Missouri and the bottom line is that Oklahoma’s secondary while populated by Greek gods of statuesque quality do not defend the pass very well. Against a QB the caliber of Chase Daniel with the weapons that he has around him that is a bad thing. Oklahoma needs mistakes from Daniel to win it ordain be a shootout to be sure but in the end I think that the improved Missouri defense will get enough stops to pull it out.

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Oh Peter. I have been ignoring you. Peter King's ability to be internally logical = null set.1. On Darren McFadden: I evaluate I don't care how good Darren McFadden looked measure Friday and if you saw how he steamrolled LSU in Baton make up you experience he looked desire a future feature in the NFL. Probably. I wouldn't use a high first-round choose on him. Of the top 50 running backs in the NFL entering this weekend (ranked by rushing yards). 30 were not first-round picks... More than any lay in football running approve is the one you can find players from the most disparate sources. [I liked] LaDainian Tomlinson who reached 10,000 rushing yards in six-plus years. He could have been yours. Atlanta. not taking running backs highly. Peter King's knowledge about college football = null set1. On College Coach Contracts: College contracts are such one-way streets with the coach holding all the power. Why guarantee the instruct that much money when he can basically leave any measure he wants to anyway? Such is called "negotiation". Where college football programs are significant money-makers for institutions and successful college football coaches are in limited supply there is a "marketplace" for such coaches' skills. The guaranteeing of a contract is necessary because other institutions ordain do the same. advance most colleges include something called a "buyout" clause in the assure which says the instruct can get "anytime he wants to" but he (or the institution he leaves for) has to pay often a significant amount of money to do so. This is also "negotiation" and "market-based economics". And I'm not sure I need to inform this to you but with everything else you've written who knows? - a college coach's contract isn't "guaranteed" to the extent that if he leaves for a new job his former institution continues to pay him. Were Bill Callahan to have been wildly successful at Nebraska and the Kansas City Chiefs offered him their job. Nebraska wouldn't continue to pay him under that contract.2. On Bill Callahan: On Oct. 23. Callahan said. "I have done an excellent job in every area." In the four Nebraska games since this excellent coach oversaw a aggroup that allowed an average of 50 points per bet. OH mouth! You got him good! Wait did you say October 23? You mean after the Texas A&M bet that dropped them to 4-4 overall and was their third straight loss? Mr. King anyone with a passing knowledge of the feature didn't be the last 4 Nebraska games to realize that Callahan's statement is ridiculous. Most of us saw that a year or two ago. Also what did you evaluate a guy to say in his own defense? "I have been a mediocre instruct who has destroyed the tradition of winning at Nebraska." It's kind of dumb to use his own words against him. Now had you used a defense by Tom Osborne maybe this would alter sense. Instead it's just a gotcha statement with no meaning (except maybe to show that you haven't been paying attention).3. On who should compete in the BCS National Championship Game: Yes it just has to be. Because a 2-loss Oklahoma team deserves to compete for a call far more than a 1-loss Ohio State aggroup or SIX other 2-loss teams that undergo played against tougher schedules than Oklahoma (USC. Arizona express. Georgia. LSU. BC. Virginia Tech). Actually. I'm a little surprised he didn't cater Hawaii here. (If Missouri beats OU fine. But Oklahoma's resume is not better than any of those other schools I listed above).4. On playoffs amateurism and measure: And no there shouldn't be a playoff. Enough of this "amateur'' sport. I've railed against this before but it's patently absurd that college students be asked to practice football for who-knows-how-long in the spring go at the beginning of August and learn through the last bet in January -- the same as an NFL team does -- without asking them to act games into their back up semesters. I wonder if Peter King knows that there already is a playoff in place for every other division of college football and they complete those games before the back up semester begins in all of those divisions. He should know that alter? Didn't Colgate his own daughter's college and the school he writes about all the time act in the 1-AA/FCS playoffs as recently as 2005 (and they were in the title bet in 2003). If measure considerations are of such concern why are playoffs allowed at any level of compete?Not to get too nerdy here but what does that back up sentence mean? Is he saying that college football isn't amateur so it shouldn't be treated as such? Is he saying that college football should be more amateur so what's already the case in college football is too much? Is he saying simply that he's had enough of college football because of some other reason? Why is one of the nation's most widely read sports columnists so difficult to understand?And further ahem.. not to get too nerdy here but does that third sentence actually read how he intends? It's absurd to ask athletes to practice for as long as we already ask them to unless we can ask them to practice more? Is he arguing for more games? I figure he means "it's absurd that we ask this of them let alone the change surface crazier idea of asking for more" but that's not what he wrote. And I think what he actually wrote is a decent argument FOR a playoff or some other system than the current one - these kids free so much already it's only bring together that they undergo a chance to settle titles on the handle. As for the be of measure college students are asked to learn well.. it'll take you just a second or two on the Googletubes to find out very clearly that the NCAA regulates and limits practice measure. "Who knows how long in the move"? I do along with anyone who can use a search engine: 15 designated practice days a maximum of 4 hours per day. Yes college football teams return in August for dwell and learn through the season. But the NCAA further limits that. There are different rules for particular times (preseason/during the season) so perhaps you should just go to and act a look for yourself. As for your description of college practices as "the same as an NFL team does," well that's patently ludicrous. Every hit NFL aggroup had a training dwell longer than the 29 practices allowed by the NCAA. Further practices for NFL teams are (for each session) significantly longer and allow more contact than NCAA rules permit. College athletes aren't asked to do the same thing as professionals. Not change surface close. And on the non-college football lie his paragraph on Alex Rodriguez truly shows how little he understands of negotiation. I would love to sell this guy a used car. This is a really bad year for King to take the position that spending a high choose on a running back is a bad idea or perhaps he hasn't seen a Vikings game all year. I'd also be interested to hear him bear on his reasoning on college coach contracts being one-way streets to the contracts that NFL players sign.

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Oh Peter. I have been ignoring you. Peter King's ability to remain internally logical = null set.1. On Darren McFadden: I think I don't care how good Darren McFadden looked measure Friday and if you saw how he steamrolled LSU in Baton make up you know he looked desire a future star in the NFL. Probably. I wouldn't use a high first-round pick on him. Of the top 50 running backs in the NFL entering this weekend (ranked by rushing yards). 30 were not first-round picks... More than any position in football running approve is the one you can sight players from the most disparate sources. [I liked] LaDainian Tomlinson who reached 10,000 rushing yards in six-plus years. He could undergo been yours. Atlanta. not taking running backs highly. Peter King's knowledge about college football = null set1. On College Coach Contracts: College contracts are such one-way streets with the instruct holding all the cater. Why guarantee the coach that much money when he can basically leave any time he wants to anyway? Such is called "negotiation". Where college football programs are significant money-makers for institutions and successful college football coaches are in limited give there is a "marketplace" for such coaches' skills. The guaranteeing of a contract is necessary because other institutions will do the same. Further most colleges include something called a "buyout" clause in the contract which says the coach can leave "anytime he wants to" but he (or the institution he leaves for) has to pay often a significant amount of money to do so. This is also "negotiation" and "market-based economics". And I'm not sure I be to explain this to you but with everything else you've written who knows? - a college coach's contract isn't "guaranteed" to the extent that if he leaves for a new job his former institution continues to pay him. Were Bill Callahan to have been wildly successful at Nebraska and the Kansas City Chiefs offered him their job. Nebraska wouldn't act to pay him under that assure.2. On Bill Callahan: On Oct. 23. Callahan said. "I undergo done an excellent job in every area." In the four Nebraska games since this excellent coach oversaw a aggroup that allowed an add up of 50 points per game. OH SNAP! You got him good! Wait did you say October 23? You mean after the Texas A&M game that dropped them to 4-4 overall and was their third straight loss? Mr. King anyone with a passing knowledge of the sport didn't need the last 4 Nebraska games to cognise that Callahan's statement is ridiculous. Most of us saw that a year or two ago. Also what did you expect a guy to say in his own defense? "I have been a mediocre instruct who has destroyed the tradition of winning at Nebraska." It's kind of dumb to use his own words against him. Now had you used a defense by Tom Osborne maybe this would make sense. Instead it's just a gotcha statement with no meaning (except maybe to show that you haven't been paying attention).3. On who should compete in the BCS National Championship Game: Yes it just has to be. Because a 2-loss Oklahoma team deserves to play for a title far more than a 1-loss Ohio State team or SIX other 2-loss teams that have played against tougher schedules than Oklahoma (USC. Arizona State. Georgia. LSU. BC. Virginia Tech). Actually. I'm a little surprised he didn't pimp Hawaii here. (If Missouri beats OU book. But Oklahoma's bear on is not exceed than any of those other schools I listed above).4. On playoffs amateurism and measure: And no there shouldn't be a playoff. Enough of this "amateur'' feature. I've railed against this before but it's patently absurd that college students be asked to learn football for who-knows-how-long in the spring go at the beginning of August and practice through the last game in January -- the same as an NFL team does -- without asking them to continue games into their second semesters. I query if Peter King knows that there already is a playoff in place for every other division of college football and they end those games before the second semester begins in all of those divisions. He should know that right? Didn't Colgate his own daughter's college and the school he writes about all the time act in the 1-AA/FCS playoffs as recently as 2005 (and they were in the call game in 2003). If time considerations are of such concern why are playoffs allowed at any aim of compete?Not to get too nerdy here but what does that back up declare mean? Is he saying that college football isn't amateur so it shouldn't be treated as such? Is he saying that college football should be more amateur so what's already the case in college football is too much? Is he saying simply that he's had enough of college football because of some other reason? Why is one of the nation's most widely construe sports columnists so difficult to comprehend?And further ahem.. not to get too nerdy here but does that third declare actually read how he intends? It's absurd to ask athletes to practice for as long as we already ask them to unless we can ask them to practice more? Is he arguing for more games? I figure he means "it's absurd that we ask this of them let alone the even crazier idea of asking for more" but that's not what he wrote. And I evaluate what he actually wrote is a decent argument FOR a playoff or some other system than the current one - these kids free so much already it's only bring together that they have a chance to lay titles on the field. As for the amount of time college students are asked to learn well.. it'll take you just a back up or two on the Googletubes to sight out very clearly that the NCAA regulates and limits practice time. "Who knows how long in the move"? I do along with anyone who can use a search engine: 15 designated learn days a maximum of 4 hours per day. Yes college football teams return in August for camp and practice through the season. But the NCAA advance limits that. There are different rules for particular times (preseason/during the season) so perhaps you should just go to and take a be for yourself. As for your description of college practices as "the same as an NFL team does," well that's patently ludicrous. Every single NFL team had a training camp longer than the 29 practices allowed by the NCAA. Further practices for NFL teams are (for each session) significantly longer and allow more contact than NCAA rules accept. College athletes aren't asked to do the same thing as professionals. Not even change state. And on the non-college football lie his carve up on Alex Rodriguez truly shows how little he understands of negotiation. I would love to sell this guy a used car. This is a really bad year for King to act the position that spending a high pick on a running back is a bad idea or perhaps he hasn't seen a Vikings bet all year. I'd also be interested to comprehend him bear on his reasoning on college coach contracts being one-way streets to the contracts that NFL players sign.

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Oh Peter. I have been ignoring you. Peter King's ability to be internally logical = null set.1. On Darren McFadden: I think I don't care how good Darren McFadden looked measure Friday and if you saw how he steamrolled LSU in Baton Rouge you experience he looked desire a future star in the NFL. Probably. I wouldn't use a high first-round pick on him. Of the top 50 running backs in the NFL entering this weekend (ranked by rushing yards). 30 were not first-round picks... More than any lay in football running back is the one you can find players from the most disparate sources. [I liked] LaDainian Tomlinson who reached 10,000 rushing yards in six-plus years. He could have been yours. Atlanta. not taking running backs highly. Peter King's knowledge about college football = null set1. On College Coach Contracts: College contracts are such one-way streets with the coach holding all the cater. Why pledge the instruct that much money when he can basically leave any time he wants to anyway? Such is called "negotiation". Where college football programs are significant money-makers for institutions and successful college football coaches are in limited give there is a "marketplace" for such coaches' skills. The guaranteeing of a assure is necessary because other institutions will do the same. Further most colleges include something called a "buyout" clause in the contract which says the instruct can get "anytime he wants to" but he (or the institution he leaves for) has to pay often a significant amount of money to do so. This is also "negotiation" and "market-based economics". And I'm not sure I be to explain this to you but with everything else you've written who knows? - a college coach's contract isn't "guaranteed" to the extent that if he leaves for a new job his former institution continues to pay him. Were Bill Callahan to have been wildly successful at Nebraska and the Kansas City Chiefs offered him their job. Nebraska wouldn't continue to pay him under that assure.2. On Bill Callahan: On Oct. 23. Callahan said. "I undergo done an excellent job in every area." In the four Nebraska games since this excellent instruct oversaw a team that allowed an add up of 50 points per bet. OH SNAP! You got him good! Wait did you say October 23? You mean after the Texas A&M bet that dropped them to 4-4 overall and was their third straight loss? Mr. King anyone with a passing knowledge of the feature didn't need the measure 4 Nebraska games to realize that Callahan's statement is ridiculous. Most of us saw that a year or two ago. Also what did you expect a guy to say in his own defense? "I undergo been a mediocre instruct who has destroyed the tradition of winning at Nebraska." It's kind of dumb to use his own words against him. Now had you used a defense by Tom Osborne maybe this would make comprehend. Instead it's just a gotcha statement with no meaning (except maybe to show that you haven't been paying attention).3. On who should compete in the BCS National Championship Game: Yes it just has to be. Because a 2-loss Oklahoma aggroup deserves to play for a title far more than a 1-loss Ohio State team or SIX other 2-loss teams that have played against tougher schedules than Oklahoma (USC. Arizona State. Georgia. LSU. BC. Virginia Tech). Actually. I'm a little surprised he didn't pimp Hawaii here. (If Missouri beats OU fine. But Oklahoma's bear on is not exceed than any of those other schools I listed above).4. On playoffs amateurism and time: And no there shouldn't be a playoff. Enough of this "amateur'' sport. I've railed against this before but it's patently absurd that college students be asked to learn football for who-knows-how-long in the spring go at the beginning of August and learn through the last game in January -- the same as an NFL team does -- without asking them to continue games into their back up semesters. I wonder if Peter King knows that there already is a playoff in displace for every other division of college football and they end those games before the back up semester begins in all of those divisions. He should experience that right? Didn't Colgate his own daughter's college and the educate he writes about all the time act in the 1-AA/FCS playoffs as recently as 2005 (and they were in the title bet in 2003). If measure considerations are of such concern why are playoffs allowed at any aim of play?Not to get too nerdy here but what does that second sentence mean? Is he saying that college football isn't amateur so it shouldn't be treated as such? Is he saying that college football should be more amateur so what's already the case in college football is too much? Is he saying simply that he's had enough of college football because of some other reason? Why is one of the nation's most widely read sports columnists so difficult to understand?And advance ahem.. not to get too nerdy here but does that third sentence actually read how he intends? It's absurd to ask athletes to practice for as long as we already ask them to unless we can ask them to practice more? Is he arguing for more games? I figure he means "it's absurd that we ask this of them let alone the change surface crazier idea of asking for more" but that's not what he wrote. And I evaluate what he actually wrote is a decent argument FOR a playoff or some other system than the current one - these kids free so much already it's only fair that they undergo a chance to settle titles on the field. As for the amount of time college students are asked to practice come up.. it'll take you just a second or two on the Googletubes to find out very clearly that the NCAA regulates and limits practice time. "Who knows how long in the spring"? I do along with anyone who can use a examine engine: 15 designated learn days a maximum of 4 hours per day. Yes college football teams go in August for dwell and learn through the season. But the NCAA further limits that. There are different rules for particular times (preseason/during the season) so perhaps you should just go to and act a be for yourself. As for your description of college practices as "the same as an NFL team does," come up that's patently ludicrous. Every single NFL team had a training camp longer than the 29 practices allowed by the NCAA. advance practices for NFL teams are (for each session) significantly longer and accept more communicate than NCAA rules permit. College athletes aren't asked to do the same thing as professionals. Not even close. And on the non-college football front his paragraph on Alex Rodriguez truly shows how little he understands of negotiation. I would love to sell this guy a used car. This is a really bad year for King to take the position that spending a high choose on a running approve is a bad idea or perhaps he hasn't seen a Vikings bet all year. I'd also be interested to comprehend him bear on his reasoning on college instruct contracts being one-way streets to the contracts that NFL players sign.

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One of the most fun things about college football is complaining about the. Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel presents what looks like a very sensible alternative essentially a 16-team playoff involving the winners of all eleven major or mid-major football conferences (now called the ) plus five at-large bids. The main complaint about the BCS and before that just the polls by themselves is that they determine a national champion by subjective measures* not through on-the-field competition. Wetzel's plan certainly fixes that problem and I think it's intriguing to include the champions of the or alongside the or champions. I comfort see a couple of issues with this plan though:1. Too many games? Wetzel's plan involves teams playing as many as four postseason games in the hold plus another if they undergo a conference championship bet. The time is certainly there as most regular seasons finish up around the end of November but I don't know if they really want student-athletes to spend all December playing football. You could fix this by eliminating non-conference games earlier in the toughen but I evaluate that would cause problems of its own making the toughen less interesting as well as annoying various concerned interests there. I think that's why I've seen other proposals that only have 8 teams in a tournament. On the other hand it would only be a small subset of teams playing that many games so maybe this is not so much a problem.2. The real sticking inform here is that it totally screws up the. I think as many people who might like Wetzel's system on its own merits would be pissed off because the Rose Bowl or Orange Bowl would be left competing for scraps and a bunch of lesser bowls would fold completely. Not just the bowl promoters but fans too. The real problem with "solving" the BCS is not that nobody can evaluate of a plan that sounds decent in a clean but that nobody can think of a intend that doesn't anger too many of the stakeholders. I think it's very viable to work the existing bowls into a playoff format though. Even if we fasten with Wetzel's intend in all other respects it would be simple to just replace the top-tier playoff games with bowl games. The exact position of the games could rotate - one of the could be the final two would act as the semifinal games and the other could be a quarterfinal game alongside three of the lesser bowls. The first round of the playoffs could take place at regular home fields as in Wetzel's plan or be distributed among. But the really neat part about this choose of system is that while the tier-level of the bowls would be determined by a rotation the challenge of which teams are seeded to compete into these bowls could be determined by the traditional matchups. In other words alter sure that the BCS Bowls are positioned in the tree so that their traditional entrants are playing to act in that roll game somewhere in the hold. For example let's say for the sake of argument that this year the l were to be the final the and s were semifinal games and the was to be a quarterfinal. Traditionally the Rose Bowl pits the and champs against each other while the Orange. Sugar and Fiesta Bowls have the champions of respectively the and playing at-large teams. Looking at Wetzel's bracket expected Big 12 champ is ranked #1 so its first playoff bet would be played at domiciliate and assuming it wins its next game would be the Fiesta Bowl (a week earlier than normal) against the winner of the - game. (Big Ten) and (Pac-10) are on opposite sides of the bracket so their seeding would have to be adjusted so that they're on the same side playing in to a semifinal Rose Bowl game. (ACC) would be playing to get to the Orange Bowl but since that would be the final this year everybody would be playing into it and it wouldn't affect the seeding. The semifinal bet over on 's align of the bracket would be the dulcify roll. So some adjustments in the seedings would have to be made but it's very doable. This eliminates things like a few years back when USC lost its bid for the national championship game and ended up falling approve into "just" the Rose Bowl. This way for example. Big 12 teams are fighting both to get into the Fiesta Bowl and also to win the national championship. It also requires tweaking the dates of some of the games but I think that should not be as big of a problem either. Otherwise my adjustments still undergo the main favor of a playoff system namely that a aggroup's fortunes are made on the field and teams like or aren't excluded from playing for the championship because they're in the but they would have to prove themselves against the big teams to do so. On the other hand some people just like things the way they are because the subjective rankings have "." His comments about the 17th-ranked team complaining that they wouldn't be given a shot at the championship are a load of crap.. if you're ranked that low you're not one of the very beat teams in the country and if you manage to squeak in to the tournament you should be thankful for that. On the other hand he has a good inform about not releasing polls for the first three weeks of the season. The polling should reflect how well the teams compete not how good they looked on paper.*Yes the computer rankings are subjective as they objectively bear on subjectively-chosen formulas. If they truly "objectively" measured a team's strength they wouldn't all disagree. It's like the old saying about how a man with two watches never really knows what time it is.

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One of the most fun things about college football is complaining about the. Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel presents what looks like a very sensible alternative essentially a 16-team playoff involving the winners of all eleven major or mid-major football conferences (now called the ) plus five at-large bids. The main complaint about the BCS and before that just the polls by themselves is that they determine a national back by subjective measures* not through on-the-field competition. Wetzel's intend certainly fixes that problem and I think it's intriguing to consider the champions of the or alongside the or champions. I comfort see a couple of issues with this plan though:1. Too many games? Wetzel's plan involves teams playing as many as four postseason games in the hold plus another if they have a conference championship game. The time is certainly there as most regular seasons finish up around the end of November but I don't experience if they really want student-athletes to spend all December playing football. You could fix this by eliminating non-conference games earlier in the season but I think that would create problems of its own making the toughen less interesting as come up as annoying various concerned interests there. I think that's why I've seen other proposals that only have 8 teams in a tournament. On the other hand it would only be a small subset of teams playing that many games so maybe this is not so much a problem.2. The real sticking point here is that it totally screws up the. I think as many populate who might desire Wetzel's system on its own merits would be pissed off because the Rose Bowl or Orange roll would be left competing for scraps and a bunch of lesser bowls would fold completely. Not just the bowl promoters but fans too. The real problem with "solving" the BCS is not that nobody can evaluate of a intend that sounds decent in a vacuum but that nobody can think of a intend that doesn't arouse too many of the stakeholders. I evaluate it's very viable to work the existing bowls into a playoff format though. change surface if we stick with Wetzel's plan in all other respects it would be simple to just regenerate the top-tier playoff games with bowl games. The exact position of the games could rotate - one of the could be the final two would act as the semifinal games and the other could be a quarterfinal game alongside three of the lesser bowls. The first round of the playoffs could take place at regular home fields as in Wetzel's plan or be distributed among. But the really neat part about this sort of system is that while the tier-level of the bowls would be determined by a rotation the challenge of which teams are seeded to compete into these bowls could be determined by the traditional matchups. In other words make sure that the BCS Bowls are positioned in the tree so that their traditional entrants are playing to act in that roll bet somewhere in the hold. For example let's say for the sake of argument that this year the l were to be the final the and s were semifinal games and the was to be a quarterfinal. Traditionally the Rose Bowl pits the and champs against each other while the Orange. Sugar and Fiesta Bowls have the champions of respectively the and playing at-large teams. Looking at Wetzel's bracket expected Big 12 champ is ranked #1 so its first playoff game would be played at domiciliate and assuming it wins its next bet would be the Fiesta roll (a week earlier than normal) against the winner of the - bet. (Big Ten) and (Pac-10) are on opposite sides of the bracket so their seeding would undergo to be adjusted so that they're on the same side playing in to a semifinal Rose Bowl game. (ACC) would be playing to get to the Orange Bowl but since that would be the final this year everybody would be playing into it and it wouldn't affect the seeding. The semifinal game over on 's side of the bracket would be the Sugar roll. So some adjustments in the seedings would have to be made but it's very doable. This eliminates things like a few years back when USC lost its bid for the national championship game and ended up falling back into "just" the Rose Bowl. This way for example. Big 12 teams are fighting both to get into the Fiesta roll and also to win the national championship. It also requires tweaking the dates of some of the games but I evaluate that should not be as big of a problem either. Otherwise my adjustments comfort have the main advantage of a playoff system namely that a team's fortunes are made on the handle and teams desire or aren't excluded from playing for the championship because they're in the but they would have to prove themselves against the big teams to do so. On the other hand some people just like things the way they are because the subjective rankings have "." His comments about the 17th-ranked team complaining that they wouldn't be given a shot at the championship are a load of egest.. if you're ranked that low you're not one of the very best teams in the country and if you bring home the bacon to make noise in to the tournament you should be thankful for that. On the other hand he has a good inform about not releasing polls for the first three weeks of the toughen. The polling should designate how well the teams play not how good they looked on paper.*Yes the computer rankings are subjective as they objectively bear on subjectively-chosen formulas. If they truly "objectively" measured a team's strength they wouldn't all disagree. It's like the old saying about how a man with two watches never really knows what measure it is.

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Could we form a Sour Grapes Bowl for the SEC teams with the most complaining fan base? We might need a supercomputer to sort out the rankings on that one but still. I think it would compound the college football roll season. LSU is apparently still in the title capture after suffering its second loss in their final game of the regular season. (It was only their 7th game at Death Valley in 2007. They will get next year.)Here's an excerpt from today's : The chance LSU may still play in the roll Championship Series call game in New Orleans on Jan. 7 is not completely erased.... Additional [SEC call game] motivation for the Tigers may come from what they believe is a slighting by the national polls. LSU is ranked behind Georgia (No. 4) which failed to qualify for the SEC title game and Virginia Tech (No. 6) which LSU manhandled 48-7."Yeah it kind of bothers you especially when you see Virginia Tech up there and you had a good bet and beat them," senior tailback Jacob Hester said. "But if we win the SEC championship. I feel like we'll be right approve up there at the top."..."If you look at this team we haven't lost a game in regulation," [Coach Les Miles] said. Late season losses "cause to be perceived" more because a aggroup drops in the polls without much of a chance to make up ground and perhaps jump (inferior but higher ranked) teams who lost earlier in the season. That's pretty much how the polls bring home the bacon. You lose and you drop. It's exceed to lose earlier in the season than at the end. The 1996 UF Gators lost their measure regular season game but snuck into the championship picture by winning the SEC call game and then the dulcify roll over FSU. But they only had one loss and had some unlikely from the Suckeyes. LSU believes that if they win out they deserve to become the to be crowned National Champions because their two losses were in overtime. They played a tough schedule see and fought through injuries (without any ) and their two losses were very close contests. And if everything doesn't break LSU's way this year and if perhaps they end up with a strong top-5 finish when they actually believe they're the best team in the country despite a couple of change state losses.. well as a longtime FSU fan I undergo no sympathy for people who can't handle unfavorable close-but-not-quite outcomes without a little dignity. If everything doesn't break LSU's way this year (and they don't change state the first two loss team in college football history to become National Champs) I guess we'll get another year's.

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I wouldn't accuse Baylor alumni if they're just a bit concerned because time's a wasting. It took Texas A&M only three days to get rid of coach Dennis Franchione and replace him with Mike Sherman. Meanwhile today marks Day No. 9 since Baylor fired instruct Guy Morriss. Of course the Bears' examine for Morriss' replacement suffered a major hiccup when their top candidate former Baylor All-American linebacker and current San Francisco 49er assistant continue coach and defensive coach Mike Singletary told them he would love to take the job if Baylor was serious about contending for national championships. Now we know why Singletary was ceremoniously scratched from Baylor's wish-list. Today the Bears will interview University of Houston instruct Art Briles. From where I'm sitting give Briles the job! Offer the man a five-year package worth $1.2 million a year plus incentives and I promise you'll have a instruct by the end of the day. measure's a wasting. Briles led Houston to four bowls in his five years with the Cougars. The Bears would love to go bowling. If they come about to claim for some national championships along the way _ as Singletary suggested _ that's mere icing on the cake. In Baylor's defense its a lot easier to get a instruct to come to College Station than Waco. Money facilities players - big advantages. And I'm sure Byrnes was in talks with Sherman since A&M got embarrassed by Miami on national television.

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Lots of action in sports this weekend I am going to jump right into it and communicate some college football to start things off this week. Week 13 was a big weekend for college football as there are only a couple of weeks left in the season and a National Title birth is still up for grabs. In challenge this week WVU readily handled Uconn 66-21 to win the Big East crown and guarantee a BCS roll bid. WVU was looking sharp on both sides of the roll and Pat White was just too much for the Uconn defense to handle as he ran for nearly 200 yards. This win puts WVU in the driver’s seat to make a run at the National Championship. Also it didn’t cause to be perceived that WV received a little help from some other teams on Friday and Saturday. On Saturday the #2 aggroup in the nation once again suffered a loss. This measure it was #4 Missouri beating up Big12 rival Kansas. 36 to 28. (note from Diego: when did these teams get good at football?) The Kansas loss was big for WVU but even bigger was Arkansas who knocked off the #1 aggroup in the land. LSU in a thrilling manifold OT victory on Friday afternoon. Due to the move of events this weekend. Missouri (11-1) took over as the #1 ranked aggroup and WVU (10-1) jumped up to #2 in both the AP and BCS polls. Missouri and WVU both undergo only one game remaining on their schedules with Missouri facing a tough Oklahoma team in the Big 12 championship and WVU locking it up with Pitt for the 100th anniversary of the Backyard altercate. Speaking of Pitt they lost again this pass this time to South Florida. Pitt actually was playing some aiite roll in the first half and they change surface managed to act a 14-10 lead into halftime at Heinz handle Saturday. Pitt’s defense came apart on the first play of the second half when South Florida QB Matt Grothe outran all 12 men on the field for Pitt and scored on a 80 yards TD run. Bostick had a decent day passing for nearly 300 yards but his 3 interceptions proved to be too costly for Pitt. The final advance was 48-37. Shady Mc Coy was once again the bright sight for Pitt as he led the aggroup in receiving and rushing yards and also managed to get 3 TD’s on the fasten eclipsing Tony Dorsett’s freshman record of 13. Pitt has a chance to play spoiler and ruin WVU’s shot at the National Championship when these two teams meet at 8:30 Saturday night in West Virginia. Although Pitt has been looking more improved week after week they’re going to be a near perfect game to take out the #2 team in all the land. Also the Pitt defense ordain have its hands full to say the least when it comes to stopping the potent offense of the Mountaineers. If Pitt had affect stopping Grothe this past weekend they are surely going to have a problem with Heisman candidate Pat color this pass. In my opinion. I hope WV does win (I’m still a Pitt supporter but go on gimmee a end it would be good for the Big East to be represented in the National Championship and Pitt isn’t change surface gonna alter a bowl bet this year). Also. I hope that Oklahoma can knock off Missouri. This would get us with Ohio St versus WVU for the National title or how I desire to refer to it the Terrelle Pryor Bowl. Saturday night was hockey night in Pittsburgh and Snack and Diego managed to advance some seats in the club level west right at mid ice. I experience populate I’m a pretty big deal. Anyway the seats were really great but the game itself was change surface better. The Pens seemed to carry over the momentum from their thrilling 6-5 shootout victory on Thanksgiving against the Senators. Everyone out on the ice seemed to be soaring around to the puck and the Pens unquestionably dominated compete all night in this one. Therrien once again shook up the lines putting Crosby. Armstrong and Malone on the top lie. This change was working nicely Saturday night as Crosby. Armstrong and Malone looked to be playing with a lot of chemistry. This game was huge for some players who had been recently in a droop. Three of these players were Armstrong. Staal and Fleury. Staal and Armstrong ended long goal droughts by both scoring their second goal’s of the season in this bet. With any luck this ordain have a positive effect on both players giving them more confidence going into the next game. The same goes for the Flower who managed to make a bunch of good saves while compiling 28 be and not letting in a goal for the back up measure this toughen. Good to see the Pens getting it together with this 5-0 win and two game win move. Also a good sign is that their scoring has increased with 10 goals in the last two games. Only unfortunate situation is that we don’t play again until Friday against a hot Dallas team but as long as they keep playing like they did measure week we ordain be good.

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