College football 2016 Week 14/championship week running thread

That was a joke. I meant to include a second quoted post that listed some more teams.

 

USC would beat the Browns. And the Cubs. And LeBron.

 

If Michigan, with losses in two of their last three and a pissy pants cry baby of a coach, make the playoff I'll watch a fucking Bar Rescue marathon before I watch the playoffs. If you want to say conference championship games don't matter I'll play with that. But these fucking dickslaps were third in their division. Come on, man. At least pretend like you have some objectivity.

 

Sorry 'bout that. I lost track of who was advocating for USC in the playoff. And, as an LSU alum, the 2003 "championship" that they won because the AP voters decided they wanted to try to blow up the BCS still pisses me off.

 

This is a highly silly metric. With schedules the way they are, it's another way to say they're 10-2, but to discount 2/3s of the schedule to do it.

It's also kinda pointless to rate wins based on what the ranking was at the time. Texas has a top-10 win for beating a 4-8 team, Cal a top-11 win for beating a 5-7 team.

 

As a fellow alum, I think UW fans are by and large happy with a high floor. Let's be honest, the state isn't going to attract a ton of non-region talent. It's fucking cold. The fact that you can set your watch by 8-plus wins and a trip to the dance, that's just goddamn excellent (Shoot, they've had fewer than 8 wins once since 2004, a 7-win team that had Bert on the hot seat. The only other time they missed 9 wins in the run, they went to the Rose Bowl).

 

That gets your coach fired in the SEC.

 

Yep. It's warm there.

On that subject, the Tech TD to send Kirby Smart's UGA team to 7-5. Beauty.

 

You're dead to me.

 

Someone posted a link about how Navy winning (and Western Michigan losing) could throw a wrench into the whole bowl selection process, because a "group of 5" team has to go to the Cotton Bowl and they'll need to wait to see if the Middies beat Army.

While that's probably true, imagine the following scenario: Western Michigan loses tonight, then Navy loses Saturday. Who goes to the Cotton Bowl? The Mountain West champ, who could have three losses? A Boise State team that couldn't win its own division? Houston or Temple?

 

Simple. USC sends half its team to the Cotton, half its team to the other bowl, wins both by 30 and is voted the Best Team Evah!

 

If the flight I'm about to board out of LAX is any indication, we are looking at a heavily pro-Washington crowd tonight in Santa Clara. I've heard speculation about a surprisingly full stadium too.