Bowl viewership declines
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.
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Playoff talk
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 [...]
Posted in BCS | No Comments »Another what-if moment
Even CFN, which which ripped us all year, has us winning their fictional playoff. *sigh* So can we get shirts made saying we won the title from “XXXX” and list everyone who said we would win a playoff? I mean, Auburn made rings for basically an even weaker premise …
Posted in BCS, Ohio State, USC | No Comments »More plus-one stuff
Do we have a Delaney or Hansen playing the role of “the black cloud” on record yet?
Posted in BCS | No Comments »Future of the BCS
Okay, so we’ve all spent untold hours ranting about the college football postseason and the future of the BCS. SI’s Stewart Mandel has put together what I think is a detailed, well-researched piece about the future of the BCS and the plus-one model that looks increasingly likely. My personal belief is that a plus-one is [...]
Posted in BCS | No Comments »Biased local columnist agrees
This time from the LA Daily News: Want to know how otherworldly USC’s football program has become? That USC team that just pushed Illinois around all over the Rose Bowl on Tuesday might be the best team in the country. And the worst USC team in the past six years. Also, I like how this [...]
Posted in BCS, Illinois, USC | 2 Comments »Another rousing start for the BCS
It’s a good thing the Rose Bowl was more interested in preserving its “tradition,” because USC-Georgia wouldn’t have been nearly as fun to watch or as relevant as USC-Illinois and Hawaii-Georgia. I hope those bowl ratings Gordon Gee was hiding behind are absolutely soaring with this slate.
Posted in BCS, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, USC | No Comments »Cotton Bowl makes play to join BCS
ESPN has the story: The Dallas Cowboys’ new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, Texas might be just the key to unlock the Cotton Bowl’s inclusion in one of college football’s most exclusive clubs: The BCS. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who has a special place in his heart for the Cotton Bowl after helping Arkansas win the [...]
Posted in BCS, The Bigs | No Comments »December Madness
Turns out the folks behind the Kansas City Star’s playoff bracket have done a little simulation of their own, which they call December Madness. Currently they’ve settled on the Final Four: OSU vs. OU and Va Tech vs. SC (who beat LSU to get there, by the way). Also, they’ve predicted each of the bowl [...]
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