Last night I watched as the #5 ranked Louisville Cardinals systematically broke down the #3 West Virginia Mountaineers.
I watched as the Louisville fans marked this game as a "blackout." This meant that every fan supporting Louisville would wear black. To be honest with you, it did look really cool! But then out of no where, half of the stadium lighting just turned off.
You know what, it was actually kind of freaky. Reminded me of the WCW (World Championship Wrestling) in the mid 90's when all of the lights turned off and Sting appeared from the rafters for the first time dressed in black and white imitating "the Crow." It just seems a little bit too coincidental that last night .. the lights decided not to work .....
I am sure everyone living within 40 miles of Morgantown West Virginia is not thinking this was more than mere coincidence!
But honestly, the "darkness" in Louisville did not play a factor in this game. They could have played this game on the flippin' sun and WVU still would have lost. WVU is about 2 players and both were banged up and Slaton's left hand prevented him from holding onto the ball. Behind Brian Brohm's 354 yards passing, Louisville played a great game, on every side of the ball.
Obviously, this game has BCS implication. But I am still not sold on this whole idea! As everyone should know, November 18, #1 Ohio State will play #2 Michigan. Let's play this game out in our heads shall we. Lets say, Heisman winner Troy Smith leads Ohio State 90 yards in the final 1 minute to lead OSU to a 1 point t victory. This will leave Michigan at 9-1. Why wouldn't Michigan be good enough to play for the BCS Championship despite the loss? Or why wouldn't Florida be under consideration seeing that they also would only have 1 loss, while playing in arguably the toughest conference in football? If we are going to allow records to be our BCS thermometer should each team's temperature be taken by the quality of their opponents?
Let's break down the schedules of the teams still in the hunt.
Louisville :
Kentucky
@ Temple
Miami
@ Kansas State
@ Middle Tennessee State
Cincinnati
@ Syracuse
West Virginia
@ Rutgers
Southern Florida
@ Pittsburgh
UConn
Florida:
Southern Miss
Central Florida
@Tennesse
Kentucky
Alabama
LSU
@Auburn
Georgia
@Vanderbilt
South Carolina
West Carolina
@Florida State
Michigan:
Vanderbilt
Central Michigan
@Notre Dame
Wisconsin
@Minnesota
Michigan State
@Penn State
Iowa
Northwestern
Ball State
@Indiana
@Ohio State
So who should be playing for the National Title? Honestly I am not sure! I am going to let you all tell me who you think. Should it be any of these 3 teams or do you have a "darkhorse?" (No pun intended WVU fans)
All I know is that I am glad the following teams WILL NOT be playing for a title:
The "U" and Florida State
I have 2 thoughts about the National Championship:
1. There should be a playoff. However even with a playoff format, how will you determine seeds and homefields?
and
2. It would be hard to keep a 9-1 team, who won the SEC, out of a National Championship game!
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I think if Florida wins out they are #2
I can say as a D-1 AA fan, playoffs are the way to go. Don't give me the "purist" answer that bowls are steeped in tradition and that 'everygame counts' all the more because of it. Thats what we might end up with this year. two undeafeted teams, one lopsided game. 16 team bracket with conference championships determining seeds. We can figure out details on who gets what homegame later, but bowls are garbage. Money making cash cows for big time football programs that already get booster cash through the roof. I know, make the quarter final games the precious bowl games to keep the tradition alive... but it ain't no storied tradition when you got garbage like the Generic-Company.com Bowl. You win 6 games and you make a bowl? How bout we keep that and anyone who doesn't make the playoffs can still participate in a bowl. sorta like the loser bracket. I'm everywhere on this comment post. friday'll do that to you. enjoy the weekend Dub
There are too many bowls. For example
December 26th is the Whogivesacrap.com Bowl in Podunk, Kentucky. Its going to be an intense match up between 5-5 University of SouthEastern Central Ohio Polytechnic Runnin Rainmen and the 5-5 Bananna Slugs Of the University of California - Santa Cruz.
On ESPN 8 "The Ocho"
I agree college football needs a playoff system, but unlike D-1 AA they could use the bowl games as the last few playoff games. Also, the SEC, the BIG TEN, and the BIG 12 are all much harder conferences in football than the BIG EAST. Hey, why do you think VA TECH and Miami left the big east. Miami did not leave for more thug life, they had that before they left. I want like everyone else wants a CLEAR NATIONAL CHAMPION not like these oher years where teams share the title. No offense to the USC fans!
Doyle posted 3 times!
Yeah, I guess he is passionate about that comment!
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