I do more than my fair share of complaining, especially with regards to college football–heck, I did some more of it last night on my Alabama friend’s Facebook status, which is never a good idea. I also read a lot of complaints (again, about college football) in the form of articles, tweets, blogposts, etcetera. And …
So I started writing this diatribe against the current college football system and all its dysfunction when I realized that maybe we’re all taking the wrong approach. One of the first things you learn in public speaking–a class I have taught numerous times in all my stuttering, rambling glory–is that you have to analyze your …
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Well here we are. The BCS has rendered the SEC championship game as useless as the Meineke Car Care Bowl. You see, if LSU beats Georgia this Saturday, they keep the #1 spot and go the national title game. On the other hand, if they LOSE…they go to to the national title game anyway. Mark …
Here are the projected playoff matchups that won’t actually be played because the BCS is a ridiculous system. Remember, top 6 seeds go to conference champs, and the top 4 champs host playoff games on December 17: (Seeding and overall ranking listed) #8(4) Alabama @ #1 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, OK #7(3) Oklahoma @ #2 …
I know we’re only 7 weeks into the college football season, but we’re more than halfway there. So let’s take a look at potential matchups for the 2011 College Football Playoffs* (which, by the way, don’t exist). *FYI, you can read about my playoff proposal [Part 1 and Part 2]–only change is that I now …
The conventional thinking is that spectator sports act as distractions from our day-to-day lives. But sometimes you have to live in the reality, like this past Saturday when my wife and daughter were in our friend’s wedding. Somehow Becky Li thought a celebration of love was more important than people mashing their heads together with …
Minor flaw in my rating system that slightly favors independent teams: because conference strength-of-schedule is part of the AI formula, I have to put in something there for independents, so I use their individual SOS. If an independent team has played a really tough schedule, they get rewarded twice. And so Notre Dame sits at …
Using my patented* AI Team Rating Formula, here are the three biggest college football games of the weekend (PGV=pre-game value): #7 Alabama @ #12 Florida – 7 pm central, CBS (81.5 PGV) #9 Texas @ #8 Iowa State – 6 pm central, FX (81.4 PGV) #6 Clemson @ #16 Virginia Tech – 5 pm central, …
(Scroll down for amazing defensive schemes.) UPDATE: I have officially applied for the position. December 13, 2010 Belmont Hall University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station Austin, TX 78712 Dear Director Dodds and search committee, It is with great enthusiasm that I apply for the position of Defensive Coordinator for football in the athletic …
Texas was so close this season! We would be in the hunt for the National Championship if we just won 7 more games. This close. In all seriousness, Auburn and Oregon deserve to have a shot at the national championship. And you know who else does? TCU. “Well then let’s just have a three-team playoff!” …
My rankings are below. Yesterday, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium–two professional baseball venues–played host to college football. The big story at Wrigley was that there wasn’t enough room around the east end zone, as you can see in the picture on the right. Big Ten conference officials were worried about player safety (and by “player …
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I texted a friend to come watch the Texas game on Saturday. His response: He might as well have said: “Texas is bad at football this season. Therefore I am no longer interested in them.” While some might call him a fairweather fan, I think this is actually rather efficient. Sometimes in sports we talk …
It’s November, so I feel like we’re close enough to start looking at prospective playoff matchups. The way I would seed playoffs goes like this: top 6 conference champions, then the next two highest-rated teams. If they are also conference champs, or if they’re championship game losers, or Notre Dame, or West Canaan, so be …
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UC Davis played University of South Alabama (USA) this past weekend. We lost on a last-second missed field goal. Did you know that this is only USA’s second football season? They just started playing last year, and they have not lost a game yet. USA have played all home games against community colleges and military …
There are 10 undefeated teams left, and one of them (LSU/Auburn) will lose this coming Saturday. Otherwise, the remaining 9 are from 6 different conferences. I hope we end the season with 6 undefeated teams and the BCS dies from shock.