College Football Kickoff!

[Flynbyu]

Where did you find that?



~Brian

[Colorado700R]

I got as an Email from a U of T fan 

[Colorado700R]

So Brian........









I think I figured out Tressels defensive play calling methodology...






I think he's using Techmo Bowl 

"Dude, you should used the Prevent"  <After the UT touchdown>

[Flynbyu]

It was the sweater vest.

C'mon. Do you need to wear a sweater vest in ARIZONA?

That's probably the best game Ohio State played all year, and the second worst game Texas played. Hats off to Ohio State for coming in prepared to play. They just gave up big plays at the end and Texas got a great spot on the fourth down play.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

I don't know how much longer they'll keep him around now.  He's a great coach, but the bottomline is they haven't got it done in quite awhile.  OSU has more pride in there football team than any school I've ever seen, but they also refuse to suffer mediocrity.  And especially since they spend the most $$ on sports than any other school in the NCAA. 

Aaron

[Flynbyu]

The Big Ten is lacking in the spread type offense. There's not a team in the Big Ten that runs a fast paced offense like teams in the Pac-10, SEC, Big East, ACC, Big-12, WAC, etc..

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

They have a traditional mindset, ground and pound.  I really wish there was a way to get these teams to play more non-confrence games.  that way they'd get exp[osed to diffrent styles more often, and not be rooted in style of there confrence.  If they could, I think College football would be better off.

[Krandall]

who won our wager? 

go georgia :

[Flynbyu]

They have a traditional mindset, ground and pound.  I really wish there was a way to get these teams to play more non-confrence games.  that way they'd get exp[osed to diffrent styles more often, and not be rooted in style of there confrence.  If they could, I think College football would be better off.

They got exposed when they played outside of their confrence for the last four years.

We were talking about a playoff system yesterday since someone in Utah is suing the BCS since UTah is 13-0 and has no shot at a title.

In fairness, my theory: Force independent schools to join a conference to equal schools to at least a 12 school conference. Play everone in your conference. In the event of a tie, the tie breaker is the AP and Coaches Poll average. Conference champion goes to playoff bracket. WAC, SunBelt, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, SEC, Big 12, and Pac-10 enter a bracket, winner advances. This wouldn't prolong the season much longer. Winner plays on New Years Day or second week of New Year.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

who won our wager? 

go georgia :

If no one picked Florida, I did.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

I say if OU gets ass raped by more than 14 points no one wins 

[Colorado700R]

They have a traditional mindset, ground and pound.  I really wish there was a way to get these teams to play more non-confrence games.  that way they'd get exp[osed to diffrent styles more often, and not be rooted in style of there confrence.  If they could, I think College football would be better off.

They got exposed when they played outside of their confrence for the last four years.

We were talking about a playoff system yesterday since someone in Utah is suing the BCS since UTah is 13-0 and has no shot at a title.

In fairness, my theory: Force independent schools to join a conference to equal schools to at least a 12 school conference. Play everone in your conference. In the event of a tie, the tie breaker is the AP and Coaches Poll average. Conference champion goes to playoff bracket. WAC, SunBelt, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, SEC, Big 12, and Pac-10 enter a bracket, winner advances. This wouldn't prolong the season much longer. Winner plays on New Years Day or second week of New Year.

~Brian

vert similar to my concept, except for the forcing to confrences.  I think the confrences need to broke down smaller so teams have more schedule time out of confrence.  more like the NFL, but I would say 6-8 teams max with a 12 or 13 game season

[Flynbyu]

If I did win, I donate the proceeds to the beer/pizza fund the next time we all get together.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

 

You gonna make it to LS this year douche bag?

[Colorado700R]

Some gifts people give are pointless: Styling mousse to Dick Vitale. An all-you-can-eat card to Kate Moss. The BCS Championship given to Oklahoma or Florida.

It means nothing because the BCS has no credibility. Florida? Oklahoma? Who cares? Utah is the national champion.

The End. Roll credits.

Argue with this, please. I beg you. Find me anybody else that went undefeated. Thirteen-and-zero. Beat four ranked teams. Went to the Deep South and seal-clubbed Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. The same Alabama that was ranked No. 1 for five weeks. The same Alabama that went undefeated in the regular season. The same Alabama that Florida beat in order to get INTO the BCS Championship game in the first place.

FIND ME ANYBODY ELSE THAT WENT UNDEFEATED. THIRTEEN-AND-ZERO. BEAT FOUR RANKED TEAMS. WENT TO THE DEEP SOUTH AND SEAL-CLUBBED ALABAMA IN THE SUGAR BOWL.   

Yeah, that's how it is now in the shameful, money-grubbing world of college football. If you're Florida and you beat Alabama, you get a seat in the title game. If you're Utah, you get a seat on your sofa.

Hey, remind me: What do they give out for one of those BCS things anyway? It's been so long since I cared. Something from Sears? This is the sixth year in the past 10 that the title has been in dispute under this cash-grab, fan-dis, monopoly that the BCS has created. Which is why the title game just doesn't matter anymore. It's like being named Miss Ogallala. Or Best Amish Electrician.

Just take a look at the teams that think they're worthy of being called national champs:

USC? Great year. Wonderful. Let's all go to SkyBar and celebrate. But it lost to Oregon State, a team Utah beat.

Texas? You think beating Ohio State by a nubby three points gets you the title? The Big Ten was 1-6 in bowl games! That's like pinning David Spade!

Florida and Oklahoma? They lost. Utah never did.

So that's it. Utah is the national champion. The Utes should probably have two now, actually. They went undefeated in 2004, too, and their coach still thinks they were the best team in the land. Smart fella named Urban Meyer. Coaches Florida now.

By the way, we're calling our title the "national" championship because it actually includes the whole nation­—all 119 Division I schools—unlike the BCS, which includes 66. Yeah, the BCS somehow eliminated the middleman—the NCAA. The conferences these schools play in take their dump trucks full of cash straight from the TV networks and fairness can go suck a lemon.


Nettie Tien

The Utes won't get the trophy they really deserve, so we gave them one of our own design.

Do me a favor. Call Ohio State president Gordon Gee and ask him why he won't support a playoff. He's one of the most powerful presidents in the NCAA. He could get it done. If he says anything other than, "We don't want to share the loot" then you know he's lying his bow tie off.

"This is not how we normally do things in America," says Utah president Michael Young. "In America, quality usually wins, not conspiracy. And there's a reason people usually enter into a conspiracy. It's money. You make money doing it. And those that are in on the conspiracy want to stay in and keep everybody else out."

Sure, BCS blowhards will hand you schlock about how the college football season is like a playoff, how it's an elimination tournament every week. Really? Well, how come Florida and Oklahoma weren't eliminated with their losses? Utah ran the table, beat everybody set in front of them, including Ala-damn-bama in no less than the Sugar Bowl, and gets the bagel.

Oh, by the way? It was Utah's eighth straight bowl win, the nation's longest streak. Among the losers during that run? Let's see USC, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh, and now the legendary Houndstooth Hats.

"What else do we have to prove?" asks Utah's magical quarterback, Brian Johnson. Good question. He and the Utes essentially whipped Alabama at home. Handed Nick Saban a garlic necklace to wear the entire off-season. Stepped on his team's neck 21-0 in the first three possessions and never looked back. Let's see. Who was it that was losing to Alabama until nearly six minutes into the fourth quarter? Oh, yeah. Florida.

What, you want the Utes to win a spelling bee? Make a prize-winning souffle? Knock up Angelina Jolie? What?

It just slays me. It really does.

Call Myles Brand, president of the asleep-at-the-wheel NCAA, and ask him if he and his greedy presidents are going to stand in defiance of president-elect Barack Obama, who wants a playoff and wants it yesterday.

Ask Brand what he's going to do if Obama starts asking the Justice Department to look into anti-trust hearings against the BCS. The Utah Attorney General has already launched an investigation into that very thing. Or ask him what he'll do if Obama asks the Department of Education to consider withholding federal funds from these schools that have entered into this secret club called the BCS. You don't think playing in the title game means millions in general-fund donations for a school? That's as unfair as anything Title IX fought against.

Until all these people do the right thing, I'll be celebrating with the true national champions—the undefeated, untied Utah Utes. (Our new slogan: Utahk about a team!)

Lemonades for everybody!