Utah is #1, I don’t know who the hell Reilly is to be honest, but I read the article and he’s right. Nor do I hold how much money the guy makes against him, that’s what happens when you get to the top, you make more money. The guy may live like an elitist, but maybe that’s why he doesn’t feel the need to write like one (*cough *cough.)

I can’t believe how seriously you took what he wrote, half that article was just quib, if you analyzed my sarcasm I’d look pretty retarded too (well one of us would.)

Hows that hand me down coach working out for you guys? Too bad he couldn’t pull off with your program what he pulled off with ours in 2004. Maybe he’ll turn tail on you guys like he did to us in the postseason and try to come back now that we are national champions. We won’t want him though.

In general, Americans have been sold a bill of goods that the only way to get closure is with an end-of-season tournament. It has made literally every sport’s regular season unwatchable to me except for college football. The last thing I want to see is a sport where 85% of the programs are reduced to the status of Joe Palooka. It’ll be a sad day when the highlight of a given school’s season is either (a) a close loss that knocked USC or Alabama’s seeding down from # 3 to #5 or (b) a castrated rivalry game like Harvard – Yale. Cheer for a Purdue, an Ole Miss, or a UCLA? Good luck. Rest assured, a tourney would eventually kill off the bowls, and that’s a bad thing for most 1-A programs. Incidentally, I have zero problem with letting the invisible hand kill off bottom-tier bowls. That’s the nature of the bowl system. What I like to see, though, is good teams rewarded for good seasons with a meaningful bowl game.

IMO, a tourney is a good thing for
- the 800-lb gorilla type programs, and there are only a handful of those.
- casual fans who only pay attention to a sport for one week out of the year.
- front-runner fans who cheer for the 800-lb gorilla programs. And, no, not all of those programs’ fans are front runners (see Distant_Gator, who’d probably be, for example, a passionate and knowledgeable Pitt fan if he or she had gone there for school).
- jackasses like Reilly who pay attention to college football for one week out of the year, and then only to bitch about it.

I’d rather see a sport more like college football was pre-BCS and pre-Bowl Alliance. The crazy emphasis on the MNC is actually a pretty new thing and is adding a ton of negativity to the sport..

The BCS as constituted is indeed a cartel most foul, the OPEC cancer on college football’s soul. Hell, it oughta be the subject of RICO prosecution since it’s really just an organized crime syndicate dedicated to enriching the family. (Sorry, end of metaphors.)

Feinstein merely recognizes this and calls out the dorks who vote for this travesty. The BCS needs to die, and I’m glad he said so. Bring on the playoffs.

#12 is right on when he says that college football has over 100 teams and only 12-13 games in a season.But that is only more reason to have a playoff in college football. Its regular season isn’t long enough to determine its best teams the way other leagues do (for example, the MLB shouldn’t have an 8 team playoff, 165 games between 30 teams should be able to determine 2 deserving teams to play for the title)

In college football, there is every year 3 to 8 teams that can claim they are capable of winning the national title at sesons end. This year, there were 7, with only texas tech, Alabama, and the loser of tonights game now out of the picture. There needs to be a playoff to determine who is the best amongst these teams, not sportswriters, coaches and computers.

LSU lost to Florida in 2003 19-7 at home. This was a far worse loss than UF’s. And while it wasn’t at home, Miami got trounced by Florida 28-3 in 1983, yet still won the MNC. This should have disqualified the Canes from the MNC, yet it was conveniently forgotten in the excitement of the OB.

I feel bad for them but Utah has no case. After tonight either Florida will have beaten OU or OU will have beaten Florida. Utah doesn’t have a win that can compare to this. I guess they could make a case for #2 perhaps.

Signed,
Eddie Robinson

Penn State was flat out beaten last week and we all know it. See how retarded the ‘Bama was unmotivated’ excuse looks when we use it on another team?

thanks for making my point. While it is true that they wouldn’t want to see Utah in the Championship game (whatever the hell that means), they would much rather see Utah than each other, or Texas, or USC, because they, and most people, believe them to be the better teams.

11:19 am and Utah still isn’t national champion.
Congratulations on your undefeated season.

Since Fozzie opened up the sagarin can of worms in ‘defense’ of the Utes’ schedule, of the teams ranked in the Sagarin top 40 (before bowls), name the teams with the worst SOS:
#40 James Madison – SOS 119
#39 Navy – SOS 74
#36 Ball State – SOS 116
#23 BYU – SOS 83
#11 Boise State – SOS 113
#9 TCU – SOS 76
#8 Utah – SOS 70
Notice something?
Next comes Rutgers, Northwestern, Cincy, PennSt & Bama – all above #57 but and only slightly tougher than 70.

Conversely:
OU’s SOS comes in at 8 (plus the extra game)
UF at 19 (plus the extra game)
Tx at 10
SC at 38, for comparison

The Utes had a great year and have a great team, but come on… As stated above, their toughest games were at home & spread out & the ‘weaker/filler’ opponents are much worse than OU & UF.

However, I do agree that they deserve recognition as being one of the better teams not to get a shot this year, which puts them in the top 5. Since they went undefeated, give them an honorary slice of the MNC if you like, but more along the lines of 10%. But if you do that, then Tx deserves at least the same, especially if OU wins tonight.

As for a playoff, right or wrong, I don’t expect to see one anytime soon, and definitely not as a result of any perceived grievances to any non- big football factories.

How is a healthy Utah’s neutral site win over an Alabama team missing their best player more impressive than Florida, minus their most explosive player on offense, defeating a full strength Alabama on a neutral site?

Teams in the SEC that “would give Utah trouble”: everyone but Mississippi State and first half Arkansas. Second half Arkansas, Auburn, Vandy, Kentucky, and South Carolina might need HFA to take down the Utes, but every road game would be tougher than their most impressive road win (at Wyoming?).