Colin Cowherd this morning was describing ESPN’s big college football meeting, with Herbstreit, Corso, Saunders, Musberger, James, Flutie, etc., and they took a straw poll among their experts. 75% of them said USC would play in the national championship game.
Discuss.
The Sports Blawger has posted a list of the top ten college football coaches. Some interesting choices along the way (for example, Urban Meyer over Mack Brown), but he ends up in the right place:
1. Pete Carroll, Southern California
Yep. It’s Pete. If OSU dominates the Big-10, I don’t think they’ve invented a name for what [...]
Mark Mangino begins a rigorous pre-season fitness regimen.
OU cheerleaders scramble to memorize the words to Boomer Sooner.
Nerds across the country prepare for twelve weeks out of the shadows as they don Micheal Jackson-esque pseudo-military uniforms to march in the band.
A Northwest Florida cryogenics lab begins de-icing Bobby Bowden.
Joe Paterno starts sundowning.
BYU embraces its African-American [...]
As part of his “rage-inducing college football predictions,” Mark Bradley thinks that USC will make it to the title game:
Speaking of nonconference games … the winner of USC-Ohio State on Sept. 13 will play for the BCS title. It’ll be a Trojan conquest. That difference-in-speed thing again.
Haven’t we dealt with the speed myth before? Anyway, [...]
Posted in BCS, Georgia, USC | 3 Comments »It’s May, which means college football is in its dead period. Apparently, this also means that ESPN wants to get CommishPhil riled up.
Posted in BCS | No Comments »Apropos of the SEC’s recent playoff proposal (which was shot down, of course), I have to say that I find it interesting how much ABC clings to the Rose Bowl. Yes, it has great tradition. Yes, it’s in a pretty setting. Yes, the flowers are lovely. But you have an entire generation of fans that [...]
Posted in BCS, Pac-10, The Biz | 1 Comment »Right now on the front page of ESPN.com, their poll question asks, Which system would you prefer in college football? With just under 30,000 total votes so far, the tally is as follows:
Plus-one: 22%
Playoff (8 or 16 team): 71%
Current BCS system 7%
My math isn’t so hot, but I think that means 93% of voters [...]
Posted in BCS | No Comments »The Wizard of Odds breaks it down. The 2007 data show that either Florida and FSU were big for TV or Kentucky and Michigan fans didn’t travel.
Posted in BCS, Florida, Florida State, Kentucky, Michigan | No Comments »So, more and more the talk of a plus-one or playoff has exploded since the season ended. We have columnists pontificating on its merits and others trying to figure out why Gordon Gee and his buddies feel that the Bowls System and the BcS are worth protecting (besides the obvious reason: MONEY).
Apparently the 65 BcS [...]