ND vs Bama Who you got? (Page 6)

Those would be shepherds... There's a word for that... Shepherds... now you learned something...

Farmers was funnier.....I spit coffee. 

Why not?

Ranchers is more accurate than farmers.  

But yeah, I snerked at Pitt's version too.  He's on a roll today.  

I'd love to see an eight team playoff.  Seed the six conference champions of the current automatic qualifying conferences, along with the two best conference champions from the mid-majors.  Or maybe one mid-major champion and one at-large bid.  Since all of the major programs schedule cream puffs for their out of conference games, you got to let each conference champion play it out at the end.

Obviously there would be some years (probably most years) where the mid-major teams are nothing more than warmup games for the two highest seeds.  But there are some years where they can legitimately compete with the best.  The TCU victory over the Badgers in the Rose Bowl was heartbreaking to watch, but TCU was a great team that year and they deserved a shot to win the national championship.  

I got no sympathy for a team that can't win their own conference being left out of the playoffs. Or for Notre Dame if they stay independent.  Pick a conference and have a chance to get in the playoffs, or don't and not be eligible.  But the NCAA doesn't have the balls to stand up to ND, and there's no way ND is giving up their fat tv contract.

In that case, ND, you have to win all your games to get one of the two spots.  

That's not a terrible idea.

What I dislike is that you have situations like Oregon where Stanford lost a non-conference game and then beat Oregon and then lost a conference game but is crowned Conference Champ so they would be in while Oregon is out having lost only one game. 

In other words, Conference Champ, Out of Conference Chump.

I know, I know, Don't lose to Stanford... Don't lose to South Carolina, etc, etc.

Did you watch that game?  Add in their #33 strength of schedule and it's pretty clear to me they were not the #1 (or #2) team in the country. 

Well the computers thought they were and computers are never wrong...

Is that what you call Georgians then

Yes I watched it.  Painful as it was.

And Alabama's SOS was #31, was it not?  So why did Alabama deserve to be there?  They weren't #2.  If you go by SOS.  But that is NOT how it is decided.  So in fact they did deserve to be there.  How they played last night is irrelevant.  How many times have we seen a blowout in the NC game.  Remember USC v OU? 

What it all boils down to is that there does indeed need to be a true playoff.  And to me 4 teams ain't gonna cut it.

ETA: beated? 

No, they are pig sheperds.

The argument against a playoff has always been that it devalues the regular season.  And based on the regular season, ND deserved to play for the championship.  Nobody beat them all year. How can you justify not having an undefeated team play for the championship? And if Terrelle Pryor had bought his own tattoos, the SEC would have been left out entirely, despite clearly being the best conference in the nation.

Based on the season, the BCS got the two right teams.  Based on the actual teams that got in, it's just proof that there needs to be a playoff. 

Funny story about that game, my coworkers son was BSU's TE and he went down to Atlanta for the game. He said he stopped by a bakery and had his BSU gear on and they all were laughing at him and making fun of him. He said they practically convinced him he shouldn't even go to the game.

After the game he went back to the same place and they had a BSU cookie for him and told him how impressed they were with BSU.

This doesn't bother me because it's up to each conference to determine how they crown their champion.  A couple seasons back three teams from the Big 12 south all had one loss, to each other.  The Big 12 rules was the team with the highest BCS ranking got to represent the south in the championship game.  So Oklahoma got in despite losing to Texas that year.  Sucks to be a longhorn I guess, but that's how the Big 12 wanted it done.

I'd say another improvement would be that the NCAA gets to decide 2 non-conference games for each team.  Sorry Alabama, no playing Troy State this year.  You get to play Ohio State.  Sorry Oregon, no Hawaii for you, instead you'll play Texas.

That would virtually guarantee marquee games every weekend and there'd be no hideouts like Ohio State did this year.  

The "competition committee" is supposed to help this. We'll see how it plays out though.

In fairness, 'Bama did play Michigan to open the season this year, and PSU in '10 and '11.  They played Va Tech the year before that.  It's not like they've been hiding in the SEC every year.  

Oh, I'm aware - I just know that most people get tired of SEC homers pointing out that the league is the strongest.  I'm from Tennessee, went to Vandy, and grad school at Florida.  My brother went to UGA, and my step dad is a huge gamecocks fan (his son was even an assistant baseball coach there).  Most of my family are huge UT fans, save for the people who married in that are from Kentucky.  Until Mizzou joined the east, we had the entire SECe represented at Christmas.  

I'm known here in MD as the guy who won't shut up about the SEC.