Redux

Boise State and TCU and Cincinati all found out in 2009 the regular season is not a playoff. They had to settle for Rose and Sugar bowls even though they went undefeated. Non had the opportunity to even play for a National Championship. The playoff at least remedies this should two or more teams go undefeated. If we have a year like 2013 where you pick from a bunch of one loss teams yes someone will get left out and cry foul. Thats when strength of conference and schedule come in to play. This is not the final resolution but its progress. The boWls are not sacred. The Belk bowl is not important to anyone. The teams that play in it dont even know what the point of the game is other than they get SWAG!. GOING 6-6 on the year isnt motivation to play in the Fight Hunger bowl. 6-7 , who cares? We got our swag. The University MAYBE broke even when its all said and done. The important bowls will still be important. If tOSU wins the Rose Bowl but loses to Alabam in the Championshio at least they won a Rose Bowl. So saying it isnt final enough is not a good argument. If you want to go back to the poll system you are stuck in the 70's and need to come back into the world.

History

Thats just awful. And what a horrid statistic. So sorry for your dillema, hope your friend can hattle through this. I can relate somewhat. When I was a Sophmore in high school a gal I knew died in a car wreck in March. My cousin two years my elder was close with her and I spent alo of time with him. More so than usual, to help him deal with it. That December as fate would have it, he was killed in a car accident as well. One minute your 16 getting ready for work at the local grocery store, the next your Dad is informing you that your best friend is gone. Life punches you in the gut, and then you grow up just like that. I spent the rest of the day consoling my friends who didnt understand how I was dealing with it better than them. Simple, he would have wanted me to. That was eleven years ago. This past fall I was a Paul Bearer for his Grandfather who raised him. My wife also lost her Uncle. From an incredibly close family. Guy got into some hazardous waste at work they supervisors didnt look up before having him clean it up. He spent the next several years slipping away. He passed away during the Big Ten Championship against Wisconsin after a long tiring battle. Point I want to make is that nobody knows when life is going to get detoured ans there is now way to prepare and theres no wrong way to react. The fact you can be strong for your friends and family is perhaps the best way of coping. Helping others through this difficult time may help you as well. I know I had my breakdowns over my cousin, but mostly I stayed strong for everyone. I hope you and everyone involved will be strong for your frie as well. Horrible thing to happen. Wishing you all some good will and luck through this.

Going to a bowl and winning does not garauntee riches for that university. All we are doing with the 4 team playoff is giving 3 and 4 a legitimate shot at a National Championship for a deserving season i stead of being left out in favor of the more popular team. It doesnt hurt anything. If 3 teams lose in the playoff do yoi really think a recruit is gonna say "Wow, you couldnt win a tournament, Im decommitting and going to Appalacian State now.

Fiddlestick Titties

Thats assinine. Do away with the divisions then. Nobody knows who is in Coastal or Atlantic anyway. Hell the teams probably dont even know.

This has gone too far. Settle time. Who actually prefers a one game "play off" or Championship? Who wants to see a real play off with multiplee seeds and not two a computer picked.

The SEC bias ultimately made the choice. It just pains me that winning a conference title left them out in the cold. Granted Bamas loss was to #1 but when comparing accolades OkieSt wins by comparison. By Leavi g a team out with a conference crown on the year was just robbery

Woah

So, Alabama loses to Auburn, but, Auburn ends up in the SEC championship and not Alabama? cool.... Ok Im an idiot. I see what your saying. I totally typed that out wrong. I didnt mean to say Texas A&M beats Alabama, that was meant to be Auburn. Auburn losing to Bama and still going to title game is unlikely but if it were their only loss compared to Bama's two losses it could still happen. But still I dont think A&M beats Bama, definitely now that Manziel is gone. I feel Auburn looked good enough this year to take some serious momentum into 2014 and compete and beat most if not all the SEC.

Less convoluted predictions: Oregon wins PAC 12 Nebraska wins Big Ten FSU wins ACC Cincinati wins American Tennessee wins SEC (total crapshoot prediction and HIGHLY unlikely but the East is WIDE open and the West could beat itself up) Oklahoma wins Big 12 A Double wins the Heisman Bo Pelini wins Coach of the Year Ok......I may have drank too much Kool Aide this morning.

I expect us to sweep our division this season, potentially our conference slate. The time has come. Loving our talent on Defense, and Ameer is gonna be huge as a Senior.

If we beat a division foe this year posters that are fans of that team should have to make their avatar a telletubby for a full month. Likewise We should be willing to do the same.

Wisconsin has earned our respect by slapping us around like its bitch twice while giving us all we could handle at home. If it hadnt already, they earned the rest the Big Tens respect by representing the league in the Rose Bowl 3 straight times. May be in everyones best interest to respect them this year as well since it will likely be our toughest division game.

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Nuchenschlakken

So, Alabama loses to Auburn, but, Auburn ends up in the SEC championship and not Alabama? cool.... Yes. Whats wrong with that? Auburn wins the division outright in this scenario.

I don't have the issue with that one that many had. The first game finished 9-6 (I think) in OT. For the cast majority of the history of college football, that would have been a tie. College overtime is such a ridiculous crapshoot it's not even funny (unless it's a MWC game that goes into OT at 63-63, then it's hilarious) so I didn't mind seeing that. Especially since OK State had a chance to be in it and sh#t the bed. I couldnt tell you if it went to OT because I fell asleep halfway through. Easily the most boring game I saw that year yet the commentators at CBS treated it like it was the Battle at the Alamo. You could see the fix was in considering Gameday was there for the game and it wasnt even on their network.that night. I didnt want to get into this argument but here goes. Alabama should have sh#t the bed with the loss to LSU. BUT because SEC perceived perception is so durn important they slid in without winning their division. Oklajoma State on the other hand had a rough week where a faculty .ember died and they lost a close actually exciti g game to an underrated ISU team that woulda been ranked 12th if their logo said SEC and not Big XII. Okie State won their conference. Alabama did not. Alabama got in. LSU earned their spot by going undefeated and winning the SEC. Alabama blew it. Okie State ended up knocking off Stanford. LSU didnt bother to show up for the Championship getti g shutout by Bama. This game proved perception is more important than the regular season.

MKII was out but I refused to get it until I finished the first one. Plus my dad had 2. I ended up skipping it and going straight to UltimateMK3. CHRIST that game made me irrate.

I could live with the recently deceased system being called a play off if not for one thing. 2011 Alabama vs LSU. That game alone proved the the regular season does not count as much as they told us it did. A regular season rematch in the top game of all college football? If its a playoff or not, it wasnt that year.

Unless 4 conference champions get selected Im not going to be impressed. Yes one conference from the major 5 gets snubbed in hat scenario but it still beats 2 champions getting snubbed in favor of a second SEC team.

Gonna be hard to top last years emotional game