Screwed
It looks like the BCS isn't going to have the two best teams playing in the National Championship again this year. They chose a pretty good Florida team to play Ohio State instead of rematching Michigan and Ohio State, the two best teams in the country.I think this all goes back to when they put Oklahoma in the Championship game against LSU instead of Southern Cal and Oklahoma clearly wasn't the best team. Last year they got it right with Texas and Southern Cal but this year they could have really gone for a classic matchup with the two bitter rivals replaying a classic game but instead they put in Florida who will get beat by 21 points by Ohio State.
Now Michigan is going to have to go to the Rose Bowl and prove they were the better choice by destroying Southern California. If Michigan doesn't win out there then all my arguments will have been for nought. I personally think Michigan could beat Florida 8 out of 10 times if they played.
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The ribbon is an excellent example of how my week-end of Poker went playing at
Bodog and Poker.com. It seemed like every good hand I played was 2nd best to another hand. I tried tighten up and play only the best hands but even those had trouble holding up. I lost once when my full house was 2nd to a better full house. The worse part of losing with the 2nd best hand is that you put a lot of money in the pot thinking you have the best hand. Especially when you have the best hand all the way to the river and you are raising and betting in hopes the donkey's won't stay in until they hit their flush or gutshot straight on the river.
The absolute worse is when the river card makes your hand better but, also, improves your opponents hand so that it is now best hand. You almost always have to make the crying call to ensure you are not being bluffed off the pot or to try and gain more information about your opponent.
Still, when everything was done, I almost broke even for the week-end and I acquired a lot of points to help clear my bonus at Poker Source Online so the week-end wasn't an entire bust.
posted by Wolverine Fan | Monday, December 04, 2006
5 Comments:
The BCS is a total farce! I would love to see this happen:
At the end of the regular season, take a look at all top 128 teams in the country and then select the top 16 teams to go at it in a competition similar to the NCAA basketball tourney. Then take the final four teams to a major indoor arena and have them fight it out for top spot. It would be 4 rounds of the most intense College Football you'd ever see in your life. Forget polls, it's time to make this a 4-week end of season tournament and stretch this out to the end of January. Have the NCAA final the weekend before the SuperBowl.
This way, you just have to pick the top 16 teams instead of just 2. All the other bowl games mean crap anyway.
While you're right and it sure looks like Michigan and OSU are the two best teams and that's supposed to be the point of the BCS, I also see a few different reasons why it went the way it did.
1. Michigan had their chance and lost - Granted, it would be probably the best argument for a rematch in College Football in my lifetime, but...
2. A rematch would prove nothing - If Michigan wins, then who's *really* the best, and if OSU wins, then could Florida or LSU maybe have been better but didn't get their shot?
3. Apart from the rematch in general, if it was Big 10 vs. Big 10, then it would be a tainted title, because the SEC is known for being a conference that is really good, but doesn't look good because the teams are beating each other. Throw in the fact that its a rematch, and you've got a pretty pissed off SEC for not getting a chance at the title.
I actually think that LSU is a more viable candidate to beat OSU than Florida, but I guess we'll see how things stack up on gameday. It sure looks like OSU is the best team in the country, but it all could mean nothing if Florida is playing in a tougher conference.
As a Michigan fan, of course you feel like you got screwed, but I think in order to truly crown a national champ, things had to be done this way.
And as for the other comment, I'm all for a playoff system, too, but it would never fly with the universities and athletic departments. They just added a 12th game to the schedule so that they can make another $500,000 on a season. Imagine if the NCAA told them they had to have a 9 game schedule with a possible additional 4 games toward an NC. No f'n way. So somehow we're gonna have to learn to like this damn BCS.
Sorry for the disgustingly long comment. :-)
While you're right and it sure looks like Michigan and OSU are the two best teams and that's supposed to be the point of the BCS, I also see a few different reasons why it went the way it did.
1. Michigan had their chance and lost - Granted, it would be probably the best argument for a rematch in College Football in my lifetime, but...
2. A rematch would prove nothing - If Michigan wins, then who's *really* the best, and if OSU wins, then could Florida or LSU maybe have been better but didn't get their shot?
3. Apart from the rematch in general, if it was Big 10 vs. Big 10, then it would be a tainted title, because the SEC is known for being a conference that is really good, but doesn't look good because the teams are beating each other. Throw in the fact that its a rematch, and you've got a pretty pissed off SEC for not getting a chance at the title.
I actually think that LSU is a more viable candidate to beat OSU than Florida, but I guess we'll see how things stack up on gameday. It sure looks like OSU is the best team in the country, but it all could mean nothing if Florida is playing in a tougher conference.
As a Michigan fan, of course you feel like you got screwed, but I think in order to truly crown a national champ, things had to be done this way.
And as for the other comment, I'm all for a playoff system, too, but it would never fly with the universities and athletic departments. They just added a 12th game to the schedule so that they can make another $500,000 on a season. Imagine if the NCAA told them they had to have a 9 game schedule with a possible additional 4 games toward an NC. No f'n way. So somehow we're gonna have to learn to like this damn BCS.
Sorry for the disgustingly long comment. :-)
I think the best thing you said Windbreak is that Michigan had their chance, albeit on Ohio's home field. We win there, we are in, period. No arugment.
SEC is suppose to be tough and Florida, Tennessee and LSU are the real deal but Arkansas let up 62 points to Southern Cal in the opening game of the year.
Lets see how the SEC does in bowls. I'd put Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin up against the Top 3 of the SEC any day.
What a joke that Florida makes it in. Unbelieveable.
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