FBC week 13 running thread

So one-third of the BCS will be Cincinnati, Utah/Boise, and the 8-4 or 9-3 survivor of the ACC wars? Ye gods. Executives at Fox are on the phone trying to see if they can convince their counterparts at ESPN that the Orange Bowl is actually the Humanitarian Bowl, and ESPN is the one contractually obligated to cover it.

 

So Rice, UTEP, Florida Atlantic and Arkansas plus a Big 12 sched is better than Cinci and TCU (plus Chatanooga and UW) and a Big 12 sched?

 

Isn't NDU on the hook for something like $20 million if it fires him? Or is that a misread on my part?

 

Hopefully they will have to convert to Judaism.

 

The highest-ranked-team-in-the-BCS tiebreaker in the Big 12 makes for more voter controversy, because when voters know how their ranking would affect a tiebreaker, they can vote for an intended championship outcome rather than the way a poll should be voted on.

When you know how your vote will affect a process beyond simply a Top 25, there's the possibility of the appearance of voting-to-ensure-a-tiebreaker outcome rather than purely ranking the best teams in order.

Has this been discussed much?

 

Like I said, I could be wrong. But I can almost swear in the rankings, Texas has a stronger SOS.

I'm still of the opinion Texas and Oklahoma are the two best teams in the country.

 

I was thinking this same thing in the first half.

 

I'm sure the fact the Horns had played both Tech and Okie State had something to do with that, while OU hadn't.

 

Shirley MacLaine is laying down the karmic smackdown on him for calling "Terms of Endearment" the most overrated movie ever. She's got quite the posse when it comes to karma, you know.

 

I just think Oklahoma should be better rewarded for buttfucking the team that beat Texas. Texas shouldn't move because their only loss got blown out.

And my opinion is that Florida would probably beat either one.

 

I don't remember who all the voters are in the Harris poll, but that and the coaches poll are the ones factored into the BCS poll. That's why the AP poll took itself out a couple years back.

 

ESPN2's crawl would really really really like you to know that despite the Cincy-Pitt game coming down to the final possession, you could switch to ABC and catch OU-TT 52-7 in the 3rd quarter.