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Twilight Flyer
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Never saw that one coming. :shock:
However, the good thing about it is that the National Champion should be Boise State. Don't give me any guff about their schedule...they are a division I team, went undefeated (beating 6 bowl teams in the process), and beat Oklahoma in a major bowl. By all rights, they ARE the #1 team in the country.
Jim Delaney can now go take a flying lesson off the Empire State Building, particuarly since his Big 10 got destroyed in the 2 biggest bowl games of the year. Do I hear the pitter-patter of a playoff system coming down the hall? |
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Jackrabbit379
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Man,some game,huh? :shock: Well,since I had to work last night,it looks like I missed an old fashion Florida Gator blow out. I was with my family on Sunday before I left for work,and my brother-in-law,and I talked about the game. He is from Michigan,and of course,he hates Ohio St,but he told me that Florida aint got a chance. I told him that I figured that the Gators would have pulled it off,but I didn't dream that it would have been 41-14. Ive been watching Sports Center,and as they say,anything can happen.
Yeah,Boise State should be top ranked. They are the only undefeated team in D-1. I just saw where the College Gameday guys made their Top 5 pre-season picks for '07. All of them were pretty much the same. None of them picked Boise State for the Top 5. I also think that they need a playoff system. High school does it,small NCAA schools do it,so can D-1. Urban Myer(spelling)at Florida used to coach at Utah. The last year that he was there,before moving to Florida,he went undefeated at Utah. He then said that they need playoffs. It would be interesting to see,if they had playoffs. They got the whole month of December. There is plenty of time for it. Well,what to do now,that football season is over. :P |
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Cripplecreek
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Combined W-L record of Florida's opponents=110-70. Gators beat 4 ranked teams. Combined W-L record of Boise Sts opponents 82-82, they beat 1 ranked team. Your theory don't hold water. Naysayers, GATORS ARE CHAMPS, get over it. |
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Midnight Flyer
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| :D I'm with Batman on this one. A playoff system is WAAAAY overdue and can't understand why the powers that be in college football don't see that! Yeah, I yelled and rooted for the Gators last night even though they beat my beloved Razorbacks this past season. We SEC teams may go at each other fast and furious when we play each other in the regular season but we stick by and support each other in the major bowl games, especially the BCS championship game last night. GREAT JOB, GATORS!! You guys brought a national championship to the SEC and did us proud! :rock: |
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Adam9315
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| SEC all the way! |
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Cripplecreek
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Midnight Flyer wrote: :D I'm with Batman on this one. A playoff system is WAAAAY overdue and can't understand why the powers that be in college football don't see that! Yeah, I yelled and rooted for the Gators last night even though they beat my beloved Razorbacks this past season. We SEC teams may go at each other fast and furious when we play each other in the regular season but we stick by and support each other in the major bowl games, especially the BCS championship game last night. GREAT JOB, GATORS!! You guys brought a national championship to the SEC and did us proud! :rock:
You got that right flyer, Florida's arch enemy is the Tennessee Vols, but me and alot of Gator fans I know would still root for them in a bowl game, to bad they lost to Penn St. they let it get away from them in the 4th quarter. The SEC all the way. |
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RaiderNation
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| There are certainly rumblings of a playoff system but i believe that the soonest it would be implemented would be 2010. |
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yoopr
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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"Rumblings" have been going on about the BCS forever and nothing ever gets done.
However, the good thing about it is that the National Champion should be Boise State
Agree 100% |
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Toothpick
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Yooper when a team gets beat 41 to 14 and gets owned like Ohio State did last night that’s not rust, that’s domination. It is obvious that Florida is a much better team top to bottom than Ohio State is. Moreover, the SEC is easily the strongest conference top to bottom in all of college football.
The Big 10 got exposed last night! I salute all those sportscasters who were nearly successful in forcing through an all Big 10 national championship, may those losers reap what they sow! |
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yoopr
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| no excuses for OSU but time between playing was 2 months and that's unexcuseable. |
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Toothpick
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: no excuses for OSU but time between playing was 2 months and that's unexcuseable.
I don’t agree with the long layoffs either because I’ve seen it work both ways, but the way OSU was owned last night was more than just rust, that was pure utter domination by a much better team, and a team that can’t get excited and motivated to play for the national championship doesn’t deserve to win. Nevertheless, I’ve been pushing for a playoff system for years.
I’d like to see the 117 division 1A teams divided up into 8 conferences with the 8 conference champions playing in a national championship tournament to start the week after the final conference championship is decided. At the same time we could keep the current bowl system we already have in place with the exception being that the 4 BCS bowls would become the semi-final championship games and a final championship collegiate super bowl would be added to be played the following week that would determine the eventual national champion.
As we have seen, the current BCS system is little more than a glorified popularity contest with the national press invariably always being biased in favor of teams from the north or the west coast. |
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Toothpick
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: the National Champion should be Boise State
If Boise State were in the SEC and had to play week in and week out the same difficult very tough schedule each SEC team has to play throughout the season, by the end of the season they would be so beat up that they would probably lose three games given the same caliber of opponents each SEC team must play. I agree that this season’s Boise State team was pretty good for not being a BCS team, but in no way are they a national championship caliber team given the level of their competition and the schedule that they play. |
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Twilight Flyer
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Quote: If Boise State were in the SEC and had to play week in and week out the same difficult very tough schedule each SEC team has to play throughout the season, by the end of the season they would be so beat up that they would probably lose three games given the same caliber of opponents each SEC team must play. I agree that this season’s Boise State team was pretty good for not being a BCS team, but in no way are they a national championship caliber team given the level of their competition and the schedule that they play.
Pure conjecture, nothing more. You have no idea how Boise State would have done in the SEC. They went undefeated (only undefeated team in division 1-A0, beat 6 bowl teams this year, went undefeated, then beat Oklahoma in what was probably the best bowl game in recent history. Yet they are not National Champions because the BCS is exactly what it was not supposed to be...a popularity contest. |
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Jackrabbit379
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Midnight Flyer wrote: We SEC teams may go at each other fast and furious when we play each other in the regular season but we stick by and support each other in the major bowl games
Maybe the SEC,but not the Big 12. :P |
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Toothpick
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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Twilight Flyer wrote: Quote: If Boise State were in the SEC and had to play week in and week out the same difficult very tough schedule each SEC team has to play throughout the season, by the end of the season they would be so beat up that they would probably lose three games given the same caliber of opponents each SEC team must play. I agree that this season’s Boise State team was pretty good for not being a BCS team, but in no way are they a national championship caliber team given the level of their competition and the schedule that they play.
Pure conjecture, nothing more. You have no idea how Boise State would have done in the SEC. They went undefeated (only undefeated team in division 1-A0, beat 6 bowl teams this year, went undefeated, then beat Oklahoma in what was probably the best bowl game in recent history. Yet they are not National Champions because the BCS is exactly what it was not supposed to be...a popularity contest.
Label it conjecture all you want, but apparently their number 5 ranking indicates that a hell of a lot more people agrees with me than agrees with you. |
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