<p>OK TheDad you can rub it in. USC played like they didn’t care. Their penalty–the Rose Bowl–not too bad. Hope they show more energy against UM (where I actually am as I write this and will be for the rest of the week) than they did against UCLA.</p>
<p>“When you line up the Florida wins against the Michigan wins, except for Notre Dame Florida’s opponents were definitely superior.”</p>
<p>You forget that Michigan also beat Wisconsin, which, if they did not beat them, they (Wisconsin) would be going to Arizona in a battle of unbeatens for the national championship. Michigan’s only loss was by 3 points to the number 1 ranked team with no losses; Florida’s was by 10 points to a 10th ranked team with 2 losses.</p>
<p>“Florida is a much bigger television market than Michigan”</p>
<p>Where are you getting that from? Michigan has a far more avid, national following than Florida.</p>
<p>And University of Cincinnati Bearcats beat Rutgers!</p>
<p>(Not that any of you people care.)</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’d want to coach the team playing USC after a humiliating defeat like theirs.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’d want to coach the team playing Michigan after they feel like they were cheated out of a national title shot.</p>
<p>I’ll bring the tortilla chips and chili-cheese dip – you bring the drinks.</p>
<p>I think that Michigan is the better team than Florida but that they already had one chance at Ohio State. </p>
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<p>I was pulling for Rutgers, the gutty little…ummm…Scarlet Knights?</p>
<p>TS, they cared. They just thought they could mail it in. Pete Carroll is one of the biggest scum bags and sleazes coaching in major college football and had it coming to him. He has no class whatsoever. </p>
<p>SC would be a much better college if they didn’t have a football team; they define themselves too much by it. Compare and contrast: UCLA excels in basketball and yet doesn’t wrap up its identity in it.</p>
<p>Harsh. (ten chars).</p>
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<p>They used to – back when they were winning lots of national championships. They’d probably be happy to resume doing so again if they could somehow get consistently great at basketball again.</p>
<p>Once Florida beats OSU, then we can have the REAL national championship game:</p>
<p>Boise State v. Williams College.</p>
<p>(“Yard by yard we’ll fight our way…”)</p>
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<p>Are you a CCer? When you think of Boise State do think:</p>
<p>a) Great football program in previously-unknown school.
b) Full-ride scholarships for National Merit Finalists.
c) What?</p>
<p>If you chose “b,” pick up your CC pocket protector after lunch.</p>
<p>In the case of both Boise State and Williams College, I think “brrrhhh”.</p>
<p>(The athletes at those other schools are a bunch of pansies. ;))</p>
<p>Boise State can be distinguished from Williams by its surfeit of jack rabbits.</p>
<p>I am happy with U of M v. USC.</p>
<p>But…</p>
<p>I thought the point of the BCS was to identify the top two teams in college football, not to (i) avoid a rematch or (ii) reward one league over another. The politics are incredible. Check out the regional bias in the actual voting. How does a team lose position without playing?</p>
<p>Just keep in mind that pre-BCS, when the big bowls had mostly automatic invites, Ohio State would be playing USC in the Rose Bowl and Florida would be playing in the Orange Bowl against an invited team, most likely Michigan.</p>
<p>I have finally concluded that we need to go to an 8 team playoff to settle things on the field, as they do in D2 and D3. </p>
<p>I never thought I would say this, but Go Bucks - kick their behinds all the way back to the Sunshine State.</p>
<p>“Boise State can be distinguished from Williams by its surfeit of jack rabbits.”</p>
<p>But Williams has frozen purple cows!</p>
<p>Both student bodies depend heavily for their survival on imbibing absurdly large amounts of human antifreeze.</p>
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<p>I’m with you on that! If there is any justice in this world, the final score will be 35-0 OSU. The Rose Bowl will be 35-0 Michigan. The Citrus Bowl will be 35-0 Wisconsin and the final AP poll will be OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin. Then we’ll know which conference is the best.</p>