THE NECESSITY OF LOCAL POLITICS AND THE BCS

…except that if you’re in the Big XII South, this is of no consolation whatever since the same madness came to govern that race.

Is there contact information for Pat Quinn, that I may learn the secret of how he erased the PSU-Iowa game from his memory? I will pay dearly for this knowledge.

I gave up on the MNC a long long time ago, so you can bet I’ve been enjoying watching SC’s defense at work. In fact, there was a happy little taste of the future when Malcolm Smith stood up an Irish player on a return.

I for one am glad the computers are in the BCS. They don’t have to sit and listen to Butterteeth get on ESPN every night and politick. The computers also realize that beating a ranked team on the road is much better than beating an unranked team at home. Even without taking margin of victory into account.

As for the tiebreakers, the fairest thing to do (aside from Leach’s graduation rates idea) is to poll those who SVP calls “the experts in the desert”: Who would be the biggest favorite over Missouri?

I suspect the answer would be the same as the BCS standings.

As for Mr. Crabtree, he should have surgery on that ankle of his and not do any running on it until August, when he will report for fall camp.

Yes, Red Raider. No need for Crabtree to play in the Cotton Bowl at all. I agree.

Signed,

Georgia Fan.

#4

Mikey see will some great big dollar signs in 2009 (and well deserved, of course). Does Tech think he will stick around?

Just curious…

Of course, if you were a Ball State fan, you’d’ve just watched your team finish running the table to the best season in school history and crack the top 12 in the BCS standings only to find out that not only is there no soup for you but that your reward is a minimum-payout bowl game in Detroit on which no MAC school has ever made a net profit.

I guess they’ll have to take their comfort from the inevitable Letterman episode featuring Brady Hoke and Jason Whitlock.

There is alot to be said for worrying exclusively about those things that you can control…but it makes one an incredibly boring individual. No impassioned conversations attempting to convince others of the flaws in their logic/beliefs, no screaming fits at the television when a referee blows a call, or fails to call that frickin’ obvious hold, no crying yourself to sleep when that absolute-lock wager unwinds into an absolute fiasco…although I am trying…honest.

I’m glad to see that Big XII folk are as much in denial as I am. Or maybe he’s just stuck in 1978 -

I drink, therefore I am. – Rene Descartes’ lesser known brother, Jean Bubba

I think I understand why that Harris Poll voter is a FORMER sports info director.

Cotton Bowl? Did someone say Cotton Bowl? Do not toy with my emotions. Is there even an outside chance?

I believe this penguin knew exactly what DFW and Pascal went through…possibly a UT fan, also.

Damn, Orson, Jim Delaney would approve of this message. Conference championships matter – regardless if they are won by using tie breakers that everyone is aware before the season starts or if your conference decides to split up into two groups of teams that use very similar tie breakers and play an extra game for extra money.

The bottom line is that conference championships and conference play matters – and so do the traditional bowl games.

We should go back to the traditional bowl tie-ins and if there are two teams at the end of the season that are undefeated who are conference champions who won their bowl games, have them play it off in one final game – have the two coaches meet for a coin toss to determine where the last game is played. The winner of the coin toss gets the game at home.

Word on the capital M in MNC. I’m already starting to have withdraws as my favorite season, the only sport in the universe worthy of all my passion and interest is winding down. And my team tied their best ever mark at 11-1 and has a chance to make it 12-1. So line the Patron shots up, I’m buying a round for the house, here’s to the 2008 College Football season, here’s to “Harrell to Crabtree, Touchdown Red Raiders!” What a ride!

Wreck’em Texas Tech

One dude forgot Penn State lost by one on the road at Iowa.

The entire universe has forgotten that Florida lost at home to Ole Miss.

Conclusion?

Also, see, USC, forgetting the existence of Oregon State and such.

@16 Must be that ESS EEE SEE speed that got that Ole Miss game right out of their memory.

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No, not a UT fan – a totally disorientated Tommy Bowden, wandering aimlessly around the Antarctic searching for answers.

Bobby: a chance, yes. Ole Miss finished strong and has a top notch win over UF. The Citrus could opt to take them vs. Michigan State. That would leave the Outback with the choice of Georgia or S. Carolina and the Cotton with LSU. It doesn’t take a lot to imagine S. Carolina in Tampa, Georgia in Dallas and LSU in ATL. Or it does. Who knows.

Well, lets see if I can make soem sense of this through a social proof…

While we can all relate to Pascals happiness when hanging with friends, his fun time was “unproductive”. Only in his misery did he show his real value to society. Like Pascal we all must be miserable for society to advance. Therefore, the BCS is agood thing.

What all you premiere programs really need to be politicking for is something that does last: The 2009 Preaseason National Championship. The Preseason National Championship never tarnishes or fades, and keeps giving forever and ever. Just ask Georgia fans!

Mike Leach defined infinity over a long weekend. He’s still pissed about the tiebreaker.

So where does this leave Georgia fans? I’ll tell you where. Stuck with the realization that, actually, none of this is in our control, and speaking of control, the actions of 18 to 20-year-old men are among those things that are LEAST predictable in life, and no there is not any cosmic force, or God, or law that requires the pendulum will eventually swing your way, or at the very least prevents the NFL collective bargaining agreement from expiring at the precise moment when Stafford and Moreno contemplate leaving or staying, no matter how many war orphans Richt adopts. Can I PLEASE BUY A FUCKING TACKLE? JUST ONE?!!

/not even paying lip-service to “it’s just a game;” we just wasted Stafford and Moreno; sob, arp, sob

Not likely, but wouldn’t you love to see UF and USC have it out?

Pascal is my homeboy…

Mine too, now.

Once again, writing like this is the reason I check this site every single day, in season and out.

The BCS is exactly what a guy like Pascal would want. What better thing to bitch about with your buddies, drink beer, and waste the fall away? And, the money spent on beer contributes to the economy-which (last I checked) is a good thing.

Ruminations on scenarios that would prompt me to postulate that certain Pac 10 teams can eat a dick, but it would be Missouri’s fault:

http://www.popcesspool.net/2008/12/football.html

Pascal was a Jansenist predestinarian, much like the commissioners of the Pac-10 and Big 10.

Your opening paragraph reminds me of this Strindberg and Helium episode.

Silly Orson, every other organized sport on Earth and every other division besides 1-A is wrong. Playoffs are the devil.

Can you imagine if Basketball was run like D1-A?

popcesspool @ 28: Why do you want that? It seems like a boring matchup to me. You must be a Penn State fan.

The Wall Street Journal had an article today floating the theory that BCS voters have moved up conference champions in recent years in the final votes. It is possible, (but I don’t think it is likely) that the voters might jump USC over Texas. But it could happen.

From the USC perspective a game against Florida, Alabama or Texas would be top of the wish list. Penn State or Choklahoma, not so much, but still better than Utah or tOSU.

oc phil: You’re right about the Penn State fan in me. But here’s the rub: If Missouri actually beats Oklahoma, I’ll metaphorically eat a dick.

@ pop

If Missouri was to somehow beat OK (don’t ask me how, but I’m sure aliens would be involved) and USC was to jump Texas into the BCSCG, then PSU wouldn’t play some Pac 10 dreg team. They would play some other school which qualified for the BCS. My guess would be Texas.

So what did they expect when the Big 12 wrote it’s rules so that BCS standings are part of the tiebreaker?

If they didn’t like the way the BCS rankings were calculated, they should have picked a more reasonable tie-breaker…like a paper-rock-scissors tournament, or a funny mustache growing competition.

The biggest out of conference victories that the Big 12 has are TCU and Cincinatti…and that’s it for the top 25. Talk about a whiny bunch of cupcake scheduling ninnies…

Maybe next time Mack won’t be so quick to schedule hardcore teams like UTEP, Rice, or Florida Atlantic…If he had left lowly UNC on the schedule for this year, they would probably go to the NC.

PS…LONG LIVE THE NERDBONE!!!

Pascal was cool and all, but i like Nietzsche.
According to his Theory Of Eternal Recurrence, the universe is a finite number of particles, infinitely scattered. BUT, since it’s a finite number of particles, given enough time, those particles will eventually rearrange themselves into the exact same combination that brought us to our current reality. Me typing this, you reading it, Knowshon Moreno becoming Brandon Spikes’ bitch at the 14-yard line over and over again.
It’s a sort of immortality, really.