College Football Week 13, in which LSU and Arkansas put a boot in your ...

The thing about missing class really makes me laugh. A typical D1 football player will take one "real" class in season, maybe another one that isn't more than 3 units and then a pass/fail or two and the rest are all related to his football participation. They load up in the winter, spring and summer terms.

 

"Oh, that's very good sir!"

 

OSU making a BCS bowl screwed MSU. Wisconsin being there screwed MSU as well. Two screws in one year!!! Maybe Saturday will be retribution. But I do tend to agree with you on USC in regards to the players not being the ones who did the most wrong, where as OSU last season was a 50/50 deal.

 

I find your opinions on SEC football silly, but your integrity unblemished.

 

...And after I post it on B/R, I'll whine on the message board when I'm taken to task for it.

Seriously, if Freeze doesn't get the Ole Miss job, he could be a candidate in Memphis, where he was a high school coach (Oher's coach) before taking his boy with him to Ole Miss.

 

KU isn't killing the rivalry. That would be Mizzou.

Say there are 10 business partners in a company. One doesn't fulfill his obligation, decides to strike out on his/her own and becomes a business partner with another, competing company. The nine left behind don't have any obligations to continue doing business with the one that left the company.

KU makes $600,000 playing random mid-major opponents at the Sprint Center because it keeps the gate and doesn't split it with, say, UMass. If it plays Mizzou that game, the gate's split 50-50 and KU makes only $300,000. That's a $300,000 loss. Bad business decision. Same applies to football, where it would lose one home non-conference game.

Then there's recruiting. By not playing Mizzou, the KC market will be marginalized for Mizzou, which has already has a rash of players decommit because they want to play in the Big 12. For those players, KU and K-State would now become preferred options if they want to stay close to home.

Same applies to Texas A&M and its "100-year decision." If the rivalry meant that much to the Tigers and Aggies, they could've stayed in the conference, but they made a decision that they felt was best for their schools, both short- and long-term. Likewise, the Big 12 schools are making similar business decisions in not playing Mizzou and Texas A&M.

 

Plus KU would have to cancel a non-conference opponent it might actually beat.

 

Northern Illinois (9-3, 7-1 MAC) must look back at that Week 2 loss in Lawrence and wonder, "How the heck did we ever let KU beat us?"

That win against Georgia Tech in Week 2 a year ago seems like decades ago.

 

Just for fun, if we had a 20-team playoff like in FCS, it would look something like this:

First/second round
TCU at Michigan, winner at LSU
Oregon at Arkansas
South Carolina at Virginia Tech
Arkansas State at Michigan State, winner at Stanford
MAC champ at Georgia, winner at Oklahoma State
Kansas State at Houston
Oklahoma at Boise State
Big East champ at Wisconsin, winner at Alabama

I really wouldn't ever see a need for more than a 16-team tourney with 11 champs and five at-larges. The five at-larges right now would be Alabama, Stanford, Boise State, Arkansas and Oklahoma. ... K-State, the B10 runner-up, Georgia, South Carolina don't really have much of an argument to be in ahead of those five. Not like it would ever happen, but I think LSU would rather open against Arky State than potentially TCU or Michigan at home. One of the allures of finishing top 3 would be to get a "bye" into the next round against one of the weak conference champs.

Again, not like it's going to happen, but fun to think about anyway.

 

Remember when modeling your school after Penn State was a good thing?

Not directly related to football but:
http://www.kgw.com/sports/Group-vandalizes-house-to-protest-UO-firing-134607763.html

The response to the guy's dismissal is exactly why he had to be shown the door. Oregon is another Penn State in the making (they even want to have their own cops, better to hush up athlete transgressions) if it isn't already there.

 

Based on the latest BCS standings, why couldn't OK State get to No. 2 and pass Alabama? They are only .0200 behind them in the computer rankings. A win against Oklahoma would probably help close that gap. Then in the human polls, they are currently #5 behind Stanford and Va Tech. If Va Tech loses to Clemson, couldn't OK state easily slip past idle Stanford into 3? There also might be enough Harris voters who dislike a rematch to steal some votes from Alabama to OK state.

I don't think it's going to happen, but I don't think it's locked in stone either, especially the way the computers seem to love OK State.

 

The SEC's computers will not let that happen. Ever since Auburn got left out in 2004, that conference NEVER loses a numerical showdown.