CURIOUS INDEX, 12/3/07
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Bumper crops! On the heels of the extremely absurd setup of the extremely absurd final countdown to the extremely absurd conclusion of the college football season, what better time could you find to stop by the BCS’s website, an ode to propaganda with headlines like these: • The BCS Works It’s just what you’ll need to get into the key of bullshit this morning, especially if you’re a Georgia or Hawaii fan. The long list of people Sir Sweatervest needs to thank includes Steve Spurrier: if you’ll recall from deep within the early Cretaceous period of this season, South Carolina beat Georgia 16-12, giving the Bulldogs an early loss and setting up the Buckeyes’ return to the title game. What’s still got us pouring shots at 9 in the morning is the fact that this entire controversy hinges on a certain eight minute span in the Illinois/Ohio State game and an upset of the Buckeyes engineered by [NAME REDACTED], along with contributions from Jim Harbaugh, the Kentucky defense, and Blake Mitchell. With Miles staying at LSU, something it only took him an entire press conference and an interview with Tracy Wolfson to say, Michigan now has…Jim Grobe fever, motherfuckers! He’s just one possibility, of course, but he’s an amusing one especially when he’s got Tom Dienhart typing things like “it’ll be hard to get him out of Wake Forest.” Very much ungood yah things not happy good for Michigan right now yes yes. Yarr. Mike Leach in UCLA would be the best thing imaginable: Leach, a large media presence, the Pac-10, and public faceoffs with apparent Breathatarian, Humanitarian, and all-around freak Pete Carroll. Life, open the chutes to the silos of crazy and let them pour forth, because Mike Leach needs to hang out with Viggo Mortensen and Charlie Kaufman to make the cycle complete. He just does. Lloyd Carr will coach his final game in the Capitol One Bowl versus Florida. This game will not come down to a double reverse heave thrown by a backup cornerback. It will not. It will not. It will not.
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L-train @ 101, that’s a fair point, but you don’t have to have all 119 teams play one another to reach a championship - if only on the grounds of time required.
Blog Goliard @ 106, perhaps we could auction off the right to sit in a machine gun nest for the monkey dancing competition. Can you imagine the money you could raise from Texas fans to take aim at the Sooners, for instance? We could pay off the national debt in a matter of minutes.
BTW, it’s not that I’m in favor of specifically over-hauling college football. It’s a bit like the imperial versus metric argument for measurement: you can’t claim that imperial is remotely rationalized, but it gets the job done.
Comment by DC Trojan — December 4, 2007 @ 3:54 pm
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SpartanDan, ASU was still 7-2 in the PAC 10, and that win over Oregon State is probably more impressive than anything Kansas did this year. Is there a worse 11-1 record in the BCS conferences? Also, going by opponent record alone is probably not indicative of much - Illinois beat Penn State, but 4 of PSU wins were against Buffalo, Temple, FIU and ND.
We’ll see how things shake out in the bowl games I guess.
Comment by Brian O'Blivion — December 4, 2007 @ 11:40 am
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Modern gal- feel free to take that as a loan on the next decade because the only SEC main team that hasn’t been really keeping up in recruiting is Tennessee. Every other team is going to get far better. UT is only going to get worse.
Comment by meg — December 4, 2007 @ 1:36 am
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oc phil @ 100: I’d vote for that. Anything that brings promotion and relegation to major sports in ‘Merica must be presumed to be a Good Thing. Why not add a humongous amount of drama to sucky teams’ seasons by making them play for their lives. Dance, monkeys, dance!
If we *have* to radically revamp college football, let’s make it more unique, not less!
Comment by Blog Goliard — December 4, 2007 @ 1:02 am
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I find it hilarious that Tennessee found a way to beat Georgia not once, not twice, but three times this year.
Comment by the modern gal — December 4, 2007 @ 12:38 am
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#4 Rival- Duke would be lucky to have a rebuilding year.
Todd Gavorcik needs to be killed.
Comment by Jorgé the Bass Player — December 3, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
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You know, if they do go to playoffs just like the 1-AA playoffs, I won’t really like it, but on the other hand the potential hilarity of one of the warm weather teams coming up to Ann Arbor, Madison, Columbus, South Bend, etc. in the middle of December and taking the field to the lovely discovery that it’s 30 degrees and freezing rain/sleet is falling with a 25 mph wind would be worth something. Or conditions like the Raiders/Pats “tuck rule” game with it snowing so hard they can barely keep the yard lines visible.
Yet another reason why the 1-AA style playoffs just ain’t happening in 1-A.
Comment by Yinka Double Dare — December 3, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
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Brian @ 83:
Yes, Missouri got shafted. But I’m not sure I’d argue that Arizona State did. They finished the season with exactly one win over a winning team (Oregon State).
Comment by SpartanDan — December 3, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
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DC Trojan: conference champions are crowned the way they are because an entire conference can play each other, or, barring that, come pretty darn close to determining who the best team is in that given year. That does not transitively apply to the entire field of 119, nor should it.
And the sport being played is the same, but I don’t feel like those saying “its the same” have really been to alot of 1-AA games (I don’t want to hear about the top-tier Georgia Southern game you went to once…).
College football occupies a unique historical niche, you have plenty of other options if you want closure to the end of your season.
Comment by Ltrain — December 3, 2007 @ 5:15 pm