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 »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 16 seeding) had [...]
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 »Let me tell you what college fantasy football has done for me. The Urban Poet is not necessarily a major college football fan. Like any good Trojan, he loves SC, hates UCLA, and talks trash about Notre Dame. Like any wise Trojan, he secretly hopes his future children will prefer UCLA, as the Urban Poet [...]
Posted in Bowling Green, Hawaii, Navy, Notre Dame, Student Body Right, Texas Tech, Toledo, UCLA, USC | 1 Comment »As we reported earlier, Jay Mohr likes to make jokes about USC being in a bad neighborhood and paying their players. Well, he’s at it again:
I am brand spanking new to the college game. I never went to college (I got rejected by a lot of them though) so I never had a team to [...]