2013-2014 NCAA Football Bowl-A-Rama: The End of the BCS

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Yikes. Let's hope they fix that on the final product.

 

I can't read all the small print but isn't that right? Aren't they the 2013 national champions, even though the game took place in 2014?

 

An awful lot of kids in Africa are going to be confused.

 

It says Tigers 34, Noles 31.

 

Let's just say, if that's the worst thing Tre Mason ever does, he will have been a beacon in society.

Frankly, I thought it was cool as shit. He had one perfect moment in life in which to do that, and he made it his own.

 

I attended a bowl game in person for the first time in many years this year. Had fantastic seats, top of the lower bowl in an NFL stadium, right in front of some empty luxury suites, had a TV monitor in front of me on the left that showed replays/stats, etc. About as good as I could get.

Of course, I had to stand in line to get food, go to the restroom, etc. All the stuff you don't have to deal with at home. The atmosphere was nice, being around other fans (most of whom were polite), etc. It was a fun once or twice a year thing. I think if I went every single week, it would get to be a chore rather than enjoyable. The broadcasts have improved so much in the past 20 years they may well have surpassed the stadium experience.

 

Duh. Missed that.

 

A lot has been made about college football going to this mini-playoff next year. I don't expect it will change very much. At the end of the day, you're going to have two teams battling it out on the field for the championship..... which was the very thing we've had for the past 16 years with the BCS.

It might be a classic game like this one. Or it might be a blowout like last year. No way to predict that. The only thing that changes even slightly is the process. And even that doesn't change very much. You're going to have someone picking four teams instead of two. There will still be the usual arguments over which teams should make it and why. That will never go away, short of a mathematical tie-breaking formula like the NFL has. That's fine. Maybe all the discussion is good for college football. But the point is that nothing much has or will change.

 

Wish we had the chance to watch the Film Room up here in frozen Canuckistan, instead we got the game and, on another channel, Title Talk which was horrific.

 

Title Talk was for people who don't have any friends and want to watch the game surrounded by people making stupid comments and interrupting the game.

FilmRoom is on ESPN3 if you can access it on the web.

Every time they showed Addazio I thought it was former NYPD commish Bernie Kerick.

 

Agreed. That was a grown-man run. After the way he showed out in likely the last two games of his college career, I don't blame him for having a little fun. Like he's supposed to apologize for finishing sixth in the Heisman voting.