Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX 1/9/08

By: Georgia Dept. of Ed.

Georgia Dept. of Ed. — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:16:12 +0000

SpartanDan,

Those out-of-conference victories you cite are merely disputed theories, much like evolution.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:05:42 +0000

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

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:53:44 +0000

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

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:06:06 +0000

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.

By: Last Dragon

Last Dragon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:41:03 +0000

#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.

By: You Are Tebows' Lunch

You Are Tebows' Lunch — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:15:48 +0000

#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.

By: beckett929

beckett929 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:47:20 +0000

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!

By: beckett929

beckett929 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:44:59 +0000

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…

By: Edsall is God

Edsall is God — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:34:00 +0000

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?

By: Last Dragon

Last Dragon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:11:35 +0000

#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.

By: Futbawl Fan

Futbawl Fan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:25:59 +0000

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

By: beckett929

beckett929 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:05:00 +0000

If ‘ifs’ and ‘but’ were candy and nuts….

Look man, Illinois wouldve just found another way to blow it… I hate that shit.. ‘If we did THIS on one play’… its part of the game that everything doesnt go according to plan..

And most MNF games are over by 11:30, and theyre once a week… secondly I mentioned that it was a short *work week*… so asking a professional, who had monday and tuesday off, to show up and try to cram a week’s worth of work into 3 days while also staying up late to watch 2 non-contests and a game with two teams that dont exactly spark a tingle in your naughty football parts, is a bit much…

By: Edsall is God

Edsall is God — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:59:00 +0000

73 – If that Illinois WR doesn’t fumble and the Illini make it 21-17…none of this Rose Bowl bashing happens.

By: PorTrojan

PorTrojan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:29:16 +0000

A plus one would be great, even if one or two teams get left out every other year. If you do an 8 team playoff, the first round would have to be at the higher seed’s home. The only issue I have with an 8 team playoff is that it will make so much money that it will be expanded to a 16 team playoff thus truly diluting the regular season.

I’ve been to five Rose Bowls and I love it, but fuck’em if they don’t want to join the 21st century.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:26:01 +0000

Apparently Scout.com (slurp!) and Rivals.com (slurp!) agree with Lemming.