(01-01-2015 11:05 PM)RedWolf_Marine Wrote:  

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(12-30-2014 09:09 PM)RedWolf_Marine Wrote:  I'm voting for Florida St, at the end of the day until they get beat they're the best option. They've found a way to win all year.

Well, Oregon found a way...that was an arse whoopin'.....59-20

Yes they did, when the wheels came off they rolled right out of the Rose Bowl.

So that's why all those FSU players ran for the locker room when the game ended . . . . . They were looking for their wheels . . . .

Well yeah, you didn't think it was because they were pissed Ore put their foot to the floor and were determined to score 70 on them do you? Or they could have been mildly upset that their shot of NC Title and 28 or 29 game win streak was over.

Should they have walked off NO I'm not defending it, but I can understand it.

Defense had the chance to stop it.

Did our players walk off the field after Navy whipped us? Nope.

We get FSU on Sept 5th. I can guarantee if we lose by 70 the team will shake hands after the game. If they don't Fran will rip each and every player a new one.


The other side was Oregon's uncalled for taunt of Winston, after the game. That, too, was classless.

After the last few hours of tv, I'll request one thing: As we express our opinions over the next few months, may we all remember that over 75% of us picked either FSU or Alabama to win it all.

Disclosure: I was one of the 75%.

SEC SEC SEC SEC

(01-02-2015 12:47 AM)jim121256 Wrote:  After the last few hours of tv, I'll request one thing: As we express our opinions over the next few months, may we all remember that over 75% of us picked either FSU or Alabama to win it all.

Disclosure: I was one of the 75%.

I have picked Arkansas State to win the title every year since 2003.

One of these days...

(01-02-2015 12:47 AM)jim121256 Wrote:  After the last few hours of tv, I'll request one thing: As we express our opinions over the next few months, may we all remember that over 75% of us picked either FSU or Alabama to win it all.

Disclosure: I was one of the 75%.

I didn't cast a vote. However, I was rooting for OSU and....OSU. Which in and of itself is usually bad mojo. I rarely get the bowl games right.

Criminoles and Cousin Lovers are both out. Unfortunately that leaves me nobody to strait up despise in the playoffs now.


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I couldn't *love* the results of our first ever FBS playoff semi-final any more than I do today. It just goes to help show the idiocy involved with subscribing to the B.S. "perception is reality" theory most people believe (i.e., the SEC is the best conference and the SEC West is better than the NFC West bull$$$$ so many idiots and idiotic sportswriters have been pushing for decades) is nothing but HOMERISM at its worst.

What happened on New Year Day is....

A) "Cinderella" isn't just a college BASKETBALL thing... it's a REALITY -

B) Davey can BEAT Goliath.. as proven again and again since B.C. and still up to this day -

C) Supremacy in FBS - slash D-I is ONLY proven on the gridiron, NOT by computers and sportswriting nerds who lift their little fingers from their shotglasses half full of grand mariner -

D) The D-I playoff needs to include EVERY D-I conference champion... "strength of schedule" BE DAMNED!!!!!

That is all... for now.

(01-02-2015 01:41 AM)bamaEagle Wrote:  Criminoles and Cousin Lovers are both out. Unfortunately that leaves me nobody to strait up despise in the playoffs now.


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Ohio St is still there. I still have a despicable team in play.

Is 'schadenfreude boner' a thing? Do I need to get a number for the patent office?

(01-02-2015 03:43 AM)airtroop Wrote:  I couldn't *love* the results of our first ever FBS playoff semi-final any more than I do today. It just goes to help show the idiocy involved with subscribing to the B.S. "perception is reality" theory most people believe (i.e., the SEC is the best conference and the SEC West is better than the NFC West bull$$$$ so many idiots and idiotic sportswriters have been pushing for decades) is nothing but HOMERISM at its worst.

What happened on New Year Day is....

A) "Cinderella" isn't just a college BASKETBALL thing... it's a REALITY -

B) Davey can BEAT Goliath.. as proven again and again since B.C. and still up to this day -

C) Supremacy in FBS - slash D-I is ONLY proven on the gridiron, NOT by computers and sportswriting nerds who lift their little fingers from their shotglasses half full of grand mariner -

D) The D-I playoff needs to include EVERY D-I conference champion... "strength of schedule" BE DAMNED!!!!!

That is all... for now.

For those not familiar, I-AA started with a 4-team playoff in 1978 and went to 8 in 1981, 12 in '82, and 16 in '86 which held until 2010 when it expanded to 20 and it's 24 now.

1986-2000 was the best system IMO where the entire bracket was seeded. After 9/11 in 2001, the NCAA decided to geographically seed the field and stuck with that format because it was cheaper forever eliminating 1st round match-ups of distant schools.

I think a 20-team format with 10 Auto Bids and 10 At-Large would be the most fair CFB championship system possible. Every school in FBS would have a legitimate opportunity to play for a NC every year.

20 team format means 4 or 5 games in the post season to win the NC. If every conference has a championship game, those 10 games and 20 teams can be the a pseudo 1st round with winners being auto bids and 6 At-Larges being picked to make 16. Seeding can be based on ranking and other factors with teams from the same conference NOT playing each other until at least the quarter finals. This format would mean 17 game seasons for 2 teams, 16 for 4, and 15 for 8. Because championship games take care of the first round, 15 games total take place in the rest. Home fields would be the best venues because of expense with Bowls being incorporated in the quarters, semis, and NC which is New years 6 plus the NC.

I doubt it would happen. Oregon and OSU being in the game is great for ESPN because they get to say the B1G and PAC 12 are awesome conferences which also happen to have the largest media markets.

(01-02-2015 09:54 AM)CC Eagle Wrote:  Is 'schadenfreude boner' a thing? Do I need to get a number for the patent office?

Better hurry. There are about 100,000,000 of those in the US this morning.

I doubt it would happen. Oregon and OSU being in the game is great for ESPN because they get to say the B1G and PAC 12 are awesome conferences which also happen to have the largest media markets.
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I think ESPN is crying today. They have pushed the SEC all year til a lot of us are sicker of those teams than usual. Now if the BIG school can get trashed this playoff can be a success.

(01-02-2015 03:43 AM)airtroop Wrote:  I couldn't *love* the results of our first ever FBS playoff semi-final any more than I do today. It just goes to help show the idiocy involved with subscribing to the B.S. "perception is reality" theory most people believe (i.e., the SEC is the best conference and the SEC West is better than the NFC West bull$$$$ so many idiots and idiotic sportswriters have been pushing for decades) is nothing but HOMERISM at its worst.

I am not an SEC guy, but the recent SEC Coverage is warranted. No matter how much we hate it. In the past 6 years, the SEC has beat BCS opponents 87 times to 55 losses, almost 2/3rds wins over losses. In the past 6 years, they haven't had a losing bowl record. Even this year, it is 5-5 with 2 games to play. You have 16 BCS championship games that the SEC has sent 11 teams into, and won 9. In BCS bowls they have the best winning percentage of BCS Conferences at .630. Take the head to head rivalries of Clemson/SC. SC in the past 9 years have dominated 6-3, including 5 in a row. Florida/FSU, 6-4 the past 10 seasons, and had a 6 in a row run from 04-09. GT/UGA, UGA is 8-2, including a stretch of 5 in a row.

It isn't homerism to acknowledge the most dominating conference of the past decade has been the SEC. It is homerism not to. Just like the Yankees, Packers, & Patriots, you always talk about them, and you never count them out, because more often then not in recent history they figure out how to win. The numbers are there, and it will stay until the SEC is consistently beaten.

I hope this season is a trend. It is better for college football to have the SEC's reign stopped, but if next season the SEC gets 2 teams in the playoff or worse, in the championship game, the results of this year will vanish like a fart in the wind. It is a tough pill to swallow, but the other conferences will have an easier time removing the "SEC Bias" by winning than complaining about it.

(01-02-2015 09:59 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote:  For those not familiar, I-AA started with a 4-team playoff in 1978 and went to 8 in 1981, 12 in '82, and 16 in '86 which held until 2010 when it expanded to 20 and it's 24 now.

1986-2000 was the best system IMO where the entire bracket was seeded. After 9/11 in 2001, the NCAA decided to geographically seed the field and stuck with that format because it was cheaper forever eliminating 1st round match-ups of distant schools.

I think a 20-team format with 10 Auto Bids and 10 At-Large would be the most fair CFB championship system possible. Every school in FBS would have a legitimate opportunity to play for a NC every year.

20 team format means 4 or 5 games in the post season to win the NC. If every conference has a championship game, those 10 games and 20 teams can be the a pseudo 1st round with winners being auto bids and 6 At-Larges being picked to make 16. Seeding can be based on ranking and other factors with teams from the same conference NOT playing each other until at least the quarter finals. This format would mean 17 game seasons for 2 teams, 16 for 4, and 15 for 8. Because championship games take care of the first round, 15 games total take place in the rest. Home fields would be the best venues because of expense with Bowls being incorporated in the quarters, semis, and NC which is New years 6 plus the NC.

I doubt it would happen. Oregon and OSU being in the game is great for ESPN because they get to say the B1G and PAC 12 are awesome conferences which also happen to have the largest media markets.

Could work if you took the 1st round or two of losing teams and put them in bowl games. Otherwise the bowls would never go for that, because the pool of teams with winning records would be much too shallow.

But expanding the playoffs is determental to the student athlete! They need time to prepare for finals and the risk of injury is greater with more games.

(01-02-2015 12:31 PM)el gato Wrote:  But expanding the playoffs is determental to the student athlete! They need time to prepare for finals and the risk of injury is greater with more games.

I guess the division I hockey athletes don't count. Only October to April.

For College Hockey Teams, Season is a Marathon

(01-02-2015 12:31 PM)el gato Wrote:  But expanding the playoffs is determental to the student athlete! They need time to prepare for finals and the risk of injury is greater with more games.

I sense that you're being sarcastic, but PLLLL EASE

There's no way for anyone to discount the SEC dominance over the last few years.

College football is changing though ........ The strongest division may not be in the SEC in a few years. Big10 East is stacked like no other in traditional, money, prestige programs.

Michigan
Penn State
Michigan State
Ohio State
Rutgers
Maryland

Michigan and Ohio State now have amazing coaches. Penn State sanctions and scholarships restrictions are no longer. Rutgers has 18 million people with in 65 miles from their campus. The hype around the state is becoming unreal.

Fianlly the SEC west was exposed for how overrated they are. Top five all lost their bowls. Only wins over WVU with a backup QB and Texas a dumpster fire.