CURIOUS INDEX, 11/5/2008

For the record: USC can eat a dick.

The JoePa video was nice, but the reality is that ABC and E$PN have been downing PSU and the Big 10 as much as anyone. Other than Herbstreit, who is considered one of the best if not THE best CFB analyst in the country by most people, they have all been putting down PSU. Rivals, Sporting News, Fox – really just about everyone – have been pleading the cause for a one-loss Big 12 team to jump PSU. If there are 3 unbeatens I can see PSU staying at #3. But if Penn State is one of only two unbeatens, they certainly deserve a shot at the MNC…

ESPECIALLY if they win their conference championship…..oh.

Was that whole thing really an ESPN video? Because it looks like a really well done REALLY homer Youtube montage.

That said, it kind of worked on me…

By NCAA regulation a conference must have 12 teams in order to hold a conference championship game. PSU can’t control that.

Dear ACC, SEC, Big XII,

You money grabbers decided to have 12 teams and play a CCG FOR THE MONEY! Any advantages or disadvantages you get from that game are solely your responsibility in the risk/reward spectrum. Don’t bitch and cry like pussies when you lose.

Fuck you very much,

The rest of CFB

Dear rest of CFB,

Fair enough… don’t piss and moan when your national title contender gets jumped in the final weekend of football.

Sincerely,
the ACC, BigXII, and SEC.

Does anyone remeber the 60 Minutes piece that aired just days before PSU met Bama in the Sugar Bowl in the late 70s?

They licked his butthole clean and treated him as if the NC trophy was already on his mantle.

But Coach Bryant had other plans.

Joe Pa is a dick. Why would there be sentiment for him?

Dear ACC, SEC, Big XII,

If your teams want to improve their chances, go unbeaten. If you lose one, don’t blame PSU for winning all of their games. Your inability to win them all isn’t the fault of the rest of CFB.

BTW, any team that loses to Ole Miss at home should wait their turn behind last second losses on the road to top 5 ranked teams.

If all 3 are undefeated, PSU is #3. But under any other scenario, they belong in Miami for the crystal.

Signed,
The rest of CFB

Do you people not remember last year and have you not been paying attention to this year? Getting your panties in a bunch over this now is silly. The chances of the 3 remaining unbeatens running the table from here are tiny. I think it is more likely that all 3 drop at least one game than all three win out. PSU has the best chance of pulling it off, but Michigan State has a legitimate chance to knock them off.

I don’t know why you’re harshing on Pete Carroll now – I mean the plan works most seasons.

Funny how Carroll didn’t like the BCS in 2003, but thought it worked great in 2004 and 2005. No complaints there. Oh, but now it’s broken again. How convenient.

Pete is upset now that he is not being fellated every week by the bobbleheads at ESPN. Boo fucking hoo.

Jesus god, have I been written into fanfic? This counts, right?

I feel like the top 4 teams in the country are currently ranked 4-7 (Florida, Oklahoma, USC, and Texas).

I wouldn’t take Bama, Texas Tech, or Penn State over any of those teams on a NEUTRAL field.

That being said, Texas Tech will probably lose another game or 2 (most definitely to Oklahoma) and Bama will lose either this weekend or in Atlanta to Florida.

Then you have PSU and an assortment of 1 loss teams…which will most likely include USC, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and maybe Bama or Texas Tech. Clusterfuck.

Can we just stop the season now and start the 8 team playoff between Bama, Tech, PSU, USC, Fla, Okla, Tex, and Oklahoma State???

FWIW, if I was a betting man, my wager on how the BCS shakes out is (Fiesta, Sugar, Orange is the order this year after replacements for title participants):

National Title: PSU (#1/Big Ten) vs Florida (#2/SEC)

Rose Bowl: USC (Pac 10) vs Ohio State (#1 At-Large Selection)

Sugar Bowl: Alabama (#2 At-Large Selection) vs West Virginia (Big East/Selection #4)

Fiesta Bowl: Texas (Big 12) vs Oklahoma (At-Large Selection #3)

Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech (ACC) vs Boise State/Utah/TCU (Automatic based on top 12)

Ideal scenario: Ohio State loses again and can’t go to a BCS game and the Rose has to take a real team to face USC (Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida)

Wait, so USC is ranked 7th in the AP, 6th in the coaches, and 7th in the BCS – and it’s the BCS that sucks? The unanimous top three right now are all undefeated, and they’re going to stay there as long as they’re undefeated, regardless of how many shutouts USC posts against teams with lame duck coaches.

Dear Ohio State SEC-haters:

Don’t blame the rest of the world for moving on while Notre Dame refuses to join your league so that your team’s conference can also grab the cash it would so desperately grab if only it could find a 12th partner “worthy” of inclusion.

Hope to see you soon,

The Rest of CFB

P.S.: How do you figure out a conference champ w/o a championship game when each team can’t play all the others? Or, how does Minnesota feel when they don’t get to play the two best teams in the league? They won’t be good prep for Orlando.

@ND article

Who the hell is Jeremy Crabtree?

Bama will lose 2 games this year. Maybe 3. Book it.