Well, this is a nice consolation prize
Nice to know that the two teams playing for the national title aren’t even deemed finals-worthy by SI readers…
Posted in BCS, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC | No Comments »BCS Archive
More fake playoffs
In addition to the aforementioned fake playoffs, now we can have instant gratification/dissatisfaction with the current system: just run the College Football Playoffs Simulations from ESPN. CommishRob’s first simulation? SC wins it all. CommishPhil’s didn’t go so well, as Hawaii thrashed USC in the first round (using the BCS seeding). Mine (using the ESPN Power [...]
Posted in BCS, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, USC | 1 Comment »Fake playoffs
As you probably know, it took SI.com about two days to put up a fake 16-team playoff (using the BcS standings and seeding them 1-16), based on votes from the fans. Unsurprisingly, three huge state schools made the semis. (We actually were a bit surprised that the fans picked USC over LSU.) Now the WWL [...]
Posted in BCS, LSU, USC | 1 Comment »2007 Post Mortem: College Football and USC
December 1, 2007 has come and gone, which means that this wild and crazy season is over. No one was great, everyone claimed to be good, and we are left with a system that is designed to give us a 1 vs. 2 game—based on the opinions of 167 people who don’t watch every game [...]
Posted in Appalachian State, BCS, Big 12, Big Eleven, Boston College, Coaches, Georgia, Hawaii, I-AA (we refuse to call it "FCS"), Kansas, LSU, Michigan, Mizzou, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pac-10, Polls, Stanford, Student Body Right, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia | 4 Comments »Week 12 TV/Announcer Line-up
As always we thank Awful Announcing for this week’s listing. Ok I am sorry to everyone for not posting in the past 12 days. After my visit to LA for the yawnfest that was the Homecoming win, I had a business trip then family in town so yeah I forgot to post about week 11. [...]
Posted in Arizona, Arizona State, BCS, BYU, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas Tech, USC, Utah, West Virginia | No Comments »Notre Dame-UCLA a bigger upset than USC-Stanford?
We’re already on record as doubting whether Stanford’s upset of USC was the biggest ever. Now it looks like maybe it wasn’t even the biggest upset this season: According to a spokesman for BetUS.com, an online gaming website, if Stanford were playing Notre Dame this week at Palo Alto — the teams are scheduled to [...]
Posted in BCS, Notre Dame, Stanford, USC | No Comments »Experts weigh in on college football parity
Yesterday on the Mike Tirico Show on ESPN Radio, they discussed College Football parity and why this year it’s greater than ever before. First, Brent Musburger claimed that the evening out of the coaching is the #1 reason for the mid-major improvement. College Football now pays coaches over $1 million at smaller programs and coaches [...]
Posted in BCS, NCAA | No Comments »No shot for SC in the BCS?
Currently our Trojans are at #14 in the first 2007 BcS Standings. Looking at the first nine years of the BCS ,only three teams have ever come from outside of the initial BcS Top 5 to make the championship game—and the lowest ever was LSU at #12 in 2003. So if this team magically turns [...]
Posted in BCS, USC | No Comments »Some media members still believe
Each week ESPN.com has 2 CF writers pick the bowl games. Until SC lost to Stanford, they had all picked the Trojans for the title game; now, after the close call against Arizona, Ivan Maisel has SC against OU in the Fiesta Bowl and Mark Schlabach has SC going down I-5 to San Diego to [...]
Posted in BCS, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, USC | No Comments »Weekend Prep
Okay, so here are the 3 most interesting things that I saw this morning: It’s official: the “Dwarf from Shreveport” will not start. SI.com’s Austin Murphy declares the Trojan Dynasty dead: Yes, USC could scratch and claw its way back up the rankings and into the national title game. More likely, what we saw at [...]
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