CURIOUS INDEX 1/9/08
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Plus one, minus two. In the wake of a self-esteem promoting finish to the college football season–you know, where everyone’s number one, and we all win and no one’s feelings are hurt–Pete Thamel’s piece reiterates what you already know, which is that a plus-one is as close as you can get the herd of cats to come, and even then you’ve got the mysterious powers of the Rose Bowl keeping the Big Ten and the Pac-10 in thrall. What the hell do they have? The Philosopher’s Stone? Hitler’s brain in a jar, pulling the strings behind the scenes? The Ark of the Covenant, where they invite Mike Slive, John Swofford, and Bernie Machen into a room before pulling the lid and melting off their faces and their will to have a proper championship game? Heah’s Missah Cahh-ville staying on message about the BCS. He hates the Rose Bowl. He hates the Rose Bowl. He hates the Rose Bowl. Carville, in case you did not know is an LSU grad and rabid Tiger fan. (Note: things we never hope to run into ever for any reason: a rabid Tiger.) Carville is also dangerously sexy, so if you just watched this and drove the passenger jet into the ground because you were so aroused, we’re deeply sorry. We’d apologize, but you’re dead now, and probably shouldn’t have been checking a blog while piloting a jet anyway. Ratings are down across the board for the BCS and for college football bowls in general. The lone exception is the Capital One Bowl. The strong national attention paid to Florida being set on fire only reinforces the theory that America loves to watch Florida disasters, as also evidenced by strong ratings for disasters like Hurricane Andrew, the 2000 elections, and Florida Gators’ football ratings from 2002-2004. Tom Lemming, ever the starlet to Notre Dame’s cigar-chomping producer. According to Tom Lemming, Notre Dame! (slurp) has the number one (slurp) recruiting class in the (slurp) country! According to Notre Dame officials, Lemming was young, he was innocent, and he was the best piece of ass they’ve ever had. And they’ve had ‘em all over the world!
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Filed under: Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 10 Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Blog Buddies, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Mid Major Conferences, Notre Dame, Pacific 10 Conference, Southeastern Conference by Orson Swindle
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SpartanDan,
Those out-of-conference victories you cite are merely disputed theories, much like evolution.
Comment by Georgia Dept. of Ed. — January 10, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
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Oh and Cah-ville goin off on Corso is a classic……is it me or did Lee Corso have plastic surgery to look MORE like a Cabbage Patch kid? I swear , looks like they purposely are trying to draw his eyes in ever closer together while making his cheeks larger and flatter…..
Plus, Carville looks like he should be some sort of half man/half reptile/fish/alien guy off of Star Trek or Deep Space Nine
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — January 10, 2008 @ 11:05 am
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Let Vegas seed the teams….should be done by point spreads anyway…..no more layoffs, just keep playing, like a tough man contest….the team with the most depth and talent will win out
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — January 10, 2008 @ 10:53 am
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Even with the potential controversies that might arise with a four team playoff, it would make sure that an Auburn-2004 situation would never happen again. Unless you were to have five undefeated major conference teams.
Comment by John — January 9, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
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#78 - I do follow college hoops. And every year when teams bitch about getting left out, most people don’t care. Because none of those teams were going to win it all anyways. That was my point. I’d rather be arguing over who’s #8 than who’s #3. #8 isn’t going to end up champion regardless.
Comment by Last Dragon — January 9, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
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#78
I’m with you…
Everyone relax…and if there is a split champion that’ll give an extra fan base braggin rights for a year.
Comment by You Are Tebows' Lunch — January 9, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
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And is an ‘NFL’ bracket system with conference and divisional winners playing for a championship really worse than what we have! I mean holy hell, at least then theres absolutely no subjectivity to it… you win or you dont… noone gives a shit that the Vikings were playing great down the stretch, they still didnt make the playoffs, because, OMG, september actually matters!
Comment by beckett929 — January 9, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
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I dont see any credence to a split championship if we move to a +1 and USC/Big Ten decide not to play… I mean really… I can start a magazine and give out a national title too, does it count for shit, no! I never understood the split title concept, especially when LSU got robbed a couple years ago. The NCAA put their horses in the BCS race… and THAT champion is the true national champion, no matter how its decided.
Fuck I hate the AP poll…
Comment by beckett929 — January 9, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
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77 - Appartently you don’t follow college basketball when the teams left out (66th and worse) throw hissy fits and Dick Vitale’s head explodes. Multiply that by a billion if there’s a four-team playoff.
I mean, you think the talk is bad now? Imagine a four-team playoff without USC, Georgia and West Virginia, as would have happened this year? I could see riots, I could see ESPN imploding, it just would not be good.
I just have to ask: how did college football exist for a century with just a mythical national champion? Is it a split championship REALLY the end of the world? Why can’t we just enjoy the games anymore?
Comment by Edsall is God — January 9, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
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#76 - I’ll take my chances considering the clusterfuck we had this year. Seed the 4 BCS games. Take the winners and move on. You’ll still have people arguing over who was left out. But how many times is #8 going to win anyways? I’d rather be bitching about who was #8 than who was #3.
Comment by Last Dragon — January 9, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
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let me just remind you what you end up with when you open the pandora’s box called “playoffs”
make it a “+1″ system and at least 4 teams protest they “was screwed”
make it a “4 team” contest and you get 8 teams saying they should have been there because they beat one of the teams that made it
make it an “8 team” playoff, and the next thing you know we will all be kissing words like “SEC” and “Big Televen” goodbye forever… and hello “Southeast Region”, “Northeast”, “Southwest” and “Northwest”… some ass clown may make up creative names(like ‘Microsoft Conference” and “Walmart Conference”), but we will all join in an NFL-like bracketing scheme.
Then comes regional playoffs and a final game rotating into a stadium willing to pay the most… as it should be… and when the Alaska Malamutes go to play the Havana Jefes in the national championship game there will STILL be at least 2-4 teams sayin “we wuz robbed” for some reason or another… only NCAA wins, they put kleenex boxes filled with 20’s in the bathroom to wipe their keisters with because when you make big money like they do it just don’t mean the same as it used to
Amen
Comment by Futbawl Fan — January 9, 2008 @ 3:25 pm