College football 2016 Week 14/championship week running thread

Is there a former Pittsburgh Steeler who played at USC and perhaps wore No. 6? I'm trying to construct the ultimate SJ.com crosscrosscrossthread.

 

I was really, really hoping it was Dick Shiner.
Sadly, he played at Maryland and wore Nos. 11, 14, 17 and 18, but not 6.

 

USC 1,734
Cumberland 0

 

I can already hear it.
USC would beat every other team in America right now except Alabama (and penn state).

 

So eight is not enough?

 

This will be a boring build up to the semi finals. The final 4 teams are not controversial, no matter what ESPN tries to portray. All 4 teams won their last game and all 4 teams were the same as the previous poll and they are 3 conference champions and the next best team.

There are many ways to provide more objective criteria, but this year's field was telegraphed weeks ago.

No one is looking forward to any particular game. UDub is about to go down like a UBoat. And Clemson OSU is a good game, but no natural rivalry, no history of animosity. No build up. And not even a conference war. ACC teams have some natural rivalries with the SEC and Big 10 and PAC 10 are historic rivals.

As a reality TV show, OSU v Michigan and Alabama v Penn State would have been the dream.

 

Sheesh, are you forgetting the Orange Bowl just three years ago? And how about this little historical nugget?

 

I knew Woody choked the Clemson kid, but it doesn't t register as a Clemson thing more like a Woody thing. But games in 1978 and 2014 just didnt register as the kind of historical grudge game that resonates with College Football fans

 

I don't think that the final four teams are necessarily controversial, but some of the old ways of thinking should be re-evaluated, and I think that is what ESPN and others - myself included - are getting at with discussing Washington's inclusion. They scheduled absolutely nobody in the pre-conference season. Nobody. Maybe Rutgers was decent when the game was scheduled, I don't know. But I think people are frustrated that they got to schedule their way into the final four by not playing anyone, just because we think there is some real distinction between "one loss" and "two loss" teams. In basketball, you hardly pay attention to how many losses a team had. But in a 12-game, short sample size season, we act like it's definitive when a team loses an extra game on the road three months ago.

 

If not UW, the next best team is Michigan not Penn State. Might as well just call them NFL-lite
North Division aka Big10
South Division aka SEC
West Division aka Pac10 Big12
Central Division aka ACC plus NotreDame

Division champs plus wild cards

 

Does it really matter how many teams are in the playoff? There will always be controversy over the last team in/first team out. We'll always have this discussion.